The ultimate Valkyrie has fallen for me

Twenty hours passed in the blink of an eye...

Lu Yuan has cultivated for a total of sixty hours in the secret realm!

Relying on its tenth-grade martial vein, it frantically absorbed cosmic energy, and at this moment, it was a dark gray blob the size of a basketball located above the martial vein.

"That's enough!"

When the absorbed cosmic energy can no longer be integrated, it means that the limit has been reached, that is, it is time to condense a stellar core.

Lu Yuan kept his eyes closed, his eyebrows twitching slightly, and without the slightest delay, began to condense the star core!

Next, driven by the technique, the energy absorbed into the body began to spin wildly.

During the rotation, it's as if an invisible shield completely envelops it. In this way, not a single bit of energy is thrown out due to the rapid rotation.

As the rotation reaches a certain speed, the invisible shield begins to slowly close, the space gradually shrinks, and energy begins to accumulate.

Of course, it's not enough to simply shrink back; everything has its limits.

When it reaches the size of a tennis ball, no matter how much pressure is applied, the cosmic energy, which has already been highly compressed and even turned into a dark mass, will no longer continue to contract.

At this point, one needs to use techniques and follow a special path to extract this energy, like peeling silk from a cocoon, and then, like building a house, to build it up according to special rules.

Thus, the volume of cosmic energy continues to shrink and condense.

In the end, it turned into a single piece the size of a glass marble.

At this moment, the process of quantitative change leading to qualitative change has finally been completed. The original gaseous state has become a solid state, and the color has changed from black to crimson, just like the core of a star.

Therefore, it is called the star nucleus!

"Um?"

When the star core condensed, Lu Yuan was taken aback.

Above the martial vein, a star core, entirely golden in color, floats.

gold?

Boom!

Before Lu Yuan could investigate further, a massive burst of energy erupted from the star's core.

Like a spring, when compressed to its limit, it will inevitably unleash a violent rebound. Although the stellar core has stabilized, the energy accumulated during the compression and construction process has not disappeared and will be released at this moment.

This release of energy is not only harmless to the body, but is actually the key to becoming stronger.

Under the influence of energy, the body is greatly strengthened, just like a piece of metal that becomes purer and more resilient after being hammered and tempered.

In terms of ancient martial arts theory, it's like the I Ching's marrow cleansing! In simpler terms, it's called body tempering!

Each energy burst will trigger a body tempering process, and after the burst, a stripe will be left on the star core, which is called the core pattern.

Each time the body is tempered, it becomes stronger again; therefore, the number of core patterns can represent the quality of a warrior's aptitude.

Take Feng Qi for example, he has a six-patterned star core, which means he has been tempered six times.

"What happened?"

"He broke through!"

"He actually broke through!"

The deafening roar, like thunder, startled everyone else.

Whether it was Feng Qi, who was in charge of guarding, or the others, they all looked at Lu Yuan, who was still sitting there, with surprise in their eyes.

In such a short time, without the assistance of external forces like the Star Fruit, Lu Yuan has broken through to the Star Core Realm so quickly.

This is truly amazing.

It should be noted that even among them, Dugu Feiying and Liu Wuji, who made the fastest progress, are still some distance away from the Star Core Realm.

"Why was there such a loud noise just now?"

At the same time, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

Condensing a star core and tempering the body with energy is like opening up a martial meridian, which will produce "unusual phenomena", also known as "the body resounding like a drum".

But what Lu Yuan just heard wasn't the sound of drums, it was clearly thunder!

I've never heard of anyone condensing a star core with such a grand scale.

"It's stopped?"

"Why is it gone?"

Just as they were wondering, they suddenly realized something.

No more sounds came from Lu Yuan's body, meaning there was no more energy burst.

Just once?

A single star core!

In other words, Lu Yuan only tempered his body once and was only a one-pattern warrior with the lowest aptitude!

There's a saying in martial arts circles: "A single tattoo is worthless."

A warrior with a single tattoo is practically synonymous with trash and useless.

The grade of a Star Core is basically the same as that of a Martial Vein, with the vast majority of martial artists possessing a Grade One Martial Vein. However, very few Grade One Martial Veins can cultivate to the Star Core Realm.

After all, qualifications often represent the upper limit.

Even if a few first-grade martial veins cultivate to the Star Core Realm, it is often due to the accumulation of various resources. Their talent is poor to begin with, and their foundation is unstable, making them even weaker.

Therefore, saying that a single stripe is worthless is not an exaggeration or simply a sign of contempt.

"Could he really be a first-grade martial artist?"

Lu Yuan is actually only a single-patterned warrior? This is simply too unbelievable.

Recalling Lu Yuan's information, the group frowned secretly again.

The key point is that, regardless of cultivation speed or the strength Lu Yuan displayed in battle, let alone a first-grade martial vein, even those of them with sixth-grade extraordinary battle bodies are somewhat inferior.

"Something's definitely fishy!"

Seeing is not always believing, and as an elite, I understand this principle.

Moreover, Lu Yuan's body had just been 'roaring like thunder'.

She couldn't help but look at Lu Yuan again, wanting to see more.

"really……"

Lu Yuan looked inward and couldn't help but smile to himself.

As a tenth-grade martial vein that breaks through the limits, it is indeed different from ordinary martial artists.

Just like before when the pulse was opened, there was only one ripple; now there is only one hum.

but!

The tempering process under that screech was so intense that it was equivalent to ten ordinary temperings!

Although the entire star core has turned dark gold, seemingly without any patterns, it has actually been completely enveloped by textures!

Even after advancing to the tenth rank martial vein, it still has a ten-pattern star core!

"As expected of someone at the Star Core Realm."

Although the body's strength still needs to be further developed through cultivation after tempering, Lu Yuan could clearly feel at this moment that his physique had undergone earth-shattering changes.

The simplest point is that his punching power has already exceeded the 100-ton limit!

Moreover, with just a little practice, one can continue to rise in skill level.

Most importantly, its resilience and recovery ability are completely different from before.

Lu Yuan couldn't help but have the illusion that, although he was still human, he was not much different from a humanoid demon beast.

The strength of demonic beasts is mostly manifested through their physical bodies.

"True Qi..."

Moreover, after the star core condensed, something else underwent a dramatic change.

Made from martial veins, it also stores the true energy within martial veins. At this moment, it is connected and transported to the star core through invisible threads, and then stored.

At this moment, the star core, while strengthening the body, also took on the role of a container for true energy.

With this container, the amount of true energy that can be released per unit of time increases dramatically!

This makes water delivery much easier. Before, it could only be delivered through water pipes, but now we can fill a basin in advance and just pour it out.

In this way, even if the combat skills are the same above the Xuan rank, their power will naturally be greatly increased.

"I see."

Lu Yuan suddenly realized why battles between generals preferred to test their physical strength, appearing somewhat primitive. It turned out they hadn't abandoned true qi; on the contrary, it had become a trump card reserved for later use!

After all, once the true energy in the star core is exhausted, it takes time to recharge.

"This is the Star Core Realm!"

Having gained a fairly good understanding of the changes within himself, Lu Yuan couldn't help but feel excited once again.

powerful!

It's even stronger than he expected!

Boom!

Just then, another roar suddenly came from inside his body!