The Long Journey to Immortality

An almost instinctive impulse made her unsure whether this thing, which violated traditional common sense about cultivation, was true.

Han Lu seemed to hear the cries of phoenixes again, reminding her that she should no longer stick to the old ways and try to walk her own path.

"Why not give it a try?" Han Lu murmured to herself.

Fang Lin's story gave her the motivation to make up her mind, while the divine intervention that was yet to come gave her the confidence to continue forward with the remaining 25% of her spiritual power.

Although she had never seen this scene before, Han Lu knew that the other "fake pills" would not last long in a similar resonance.

After spending three breaths to recover her spiritual power, Han Lu selected the highest quality of the remaining fake cores as the embryo for her next golden core.

Now that we have the embryo, what's the trigger that will lead to the formation of the false core and the explosion of the final core?

The spiritual energy sword obtained from cultivating the Seven Kill Sword Technique has been integrated into the sword pellet.

The catalyst used in the formation of the elixir in the "Great Zhou Heavenly Water Condensation Technique" is a herbal medicine, which Han Lu did not prepare in advance.

At this moment, combined with the seemingly hallucinatory phoenix cries in her ears, Han Lu only had one path to choose from.

"Then let's form a beast core!"

Having made up her mind, Han Lu transformed into the form of a three-winged phoenix in the wooden house.

The phoenix, in its meditative state, looked pained, as if a knife was twisting inside its heart.

A moment later, a drop of phoenix blood essence was sent into Han Lu's dantian through her spiritual meridians.

Under Han Lu's control, this drop of essence blood was quickly dispersed into mist, completely covering the fake pill that had luckily passed the "resurrection test".

The brown fake pill suddenly seemed to be ignited, violently shaking in Han Lu's dantian, dissipating all the dark color on its surface.

A blood-red fake beast core appeared in Han Lu's dantian.

Activating the "True Phoenix Manual," the fake core, which had already been painted with color, received the command and began to devour the spiritual energy offered to it from the surroundings, becoming the material for Han Lu's second core formation.

Chapter 653 Divine Intervention

Based on her assessment of the situation, Han Lu chose to activate the "True Phoenix Manual" in the wooden house, transforming into the true spirit form of a three-winged true phoenix. She attempted to condense a sword pill golden core using the methods in the "Seven Kill Sword Technique" and refine a beast core using the methods in the "True Phoenix Manual" as a hybrid.

Han Lu, who was still busy with the matter of forming her own core, did not know what the effects of having two Golden Cores in one body would be, nor had she found any similar cases in ancient books for reference.

However, considering the current situation and her personal experience, based on her understanding of cultivation, she felt that this was definitely not a bad thing.

Han Lu walked down an unexpected path, and the change in the aura emanating from the wooden house startled Xianyu Ji, who had already formed his core twenty years ago.

Golden Core cultivators have keen senses and sharp spiritual awareness; they cannot hide the changes in spiritual energy in the air.

As a Golden Core cultivator, he was naturally able to perceive the changes in the surrounding environment when Han Lu successfully formed her Golden Core for the first time.

At first, Xianyu Ji was very happy and had prepared two sets of congratulatory messages. He was waiting for Han Lu to emerge from the wooden house after recovering her spiritual power for a while so that he could offer his blessings as her senior brother from the sect.

But after waiting for a long time without seeing it, he noticed that the spiritual energy near the wooden house was surging again, just like when he was forming his core.

Having never witnessed such a scene before, he couldn't help but feel a sense of foreboding, thinking to himself, "What's going on? Could it be that Junior Sister Han had an accident? Why is this Core Formation process being stopped and started again?"

While Nian Haoge, who was idly gazing at the sky and eagerly anticipating the sunrise over the sea, was standing aside, Xianyu Ji remained unmoved, keeping his worries to himself.

Telling Nian Haoge about this will only cause him more trouble.

Of course, Xianyu Ji had already prepared to activate the formation and engage in battle.

The matter of being possessed by a demon was also among the many bad things he suspected.

The thought of possibly facing Han Lu, the inner demon who had advanced to the Golden Core realm, filled Xianyu Ji with trepidation. He sighed inwardly, "If the inner demon in Junior Sister Han's sea of ​​consciousness can unleash its full power, I, a cultivator who has been at the Golden Core realm for twenty years, will probably have no choice but to flee with Nian Haoge."

All he could do while he was there was to pray silently for Han Lu.

Praying that something good was happening in the cabin, that Han Lu was experiencing a tremendous opportunity.

They prayed that even if something bad happened, a genius like Han Lu could turn misfortune into good fortune.

She prayed that even if it was something bad, Han Lu, who had accumulated a lot of good karma in her daily life, would receive divine help to protect herself and overcome the difficulties.

He prayed that even if something terrible happened, it wouldn't cause him, a Golden Core cultivator who was an outsider, to be in such a sorry state.

Han Lu, who was focused on refining the beast core inside the wooden house, was unaware of what the Great Protector Xianyu Ji was thinking about this matter outside. If she knew, she would probably be both amused and exasperated, marveling that even someone like Xianyu Ji could be so sentimental at times like this.

A cultivator's golden core is formed by condensing spiritual energy. The more spiritual energy condensed in the golden core, the higher its grade.

The beast cores of true spirits, demonic beasts, and spirit beasts are the so-called core formation process of these cultivators who attempt to advance from non-human cultivators to human form. This process involves repeatedly refining the beast cores, which are stained with essence blood, with spiritual power to remove impurities from the bloodline.

The fewer impurities, the higher the quality of the beast pill.

Naturally, the higher the bloodline of a true spirit, the shorter the process will be, and the easier it will be to pass this low threshold.

Lower-level demonic beasts and spirit beasts need to undergo rigorous training before they can advance to a higher level and take human form.

However, what is a simple matter for other true spirits is not so simple for Han Lu now.

With the bloodlines of three phoenix spirits mixed within her body, the effort she needed to cultivate and advance was naturally three times that of other phoenixes with a single bloodline.

However, she currently has very little spiritual energy left in her body.

Initially, she could barely maintain the spiritual energy consumed when repeatedly hammering with a small hammer, but later, when she needed to wield a large hammer and use a large amount of spiritual energy for hammering, Han Lu would obviously find herself in a situation where she was willing but unable to do so.

Having cultivated the "True Phoenix Manual" for over thirty years, Han Lu could naturally foresee this.

Her response was to restore the spiritual energy in her dantian as much as possible when the initial spiritual energy consumption was minimal, and to make good use of the space freed up when condensing the first golden core.

This will restore the amount of spiritual energy in your dantian to 40% or even 50% of its normal level.

As for the later stages, when she needed to expend a lot of spiritual energy to force out the last impurities in her bloodline, she did her best and hoped that fate would lend a hand.

"If all else fails, even if we can't form a high-grade beast core, a mid-grade one will be barely acceptable."

After focusing her attention on the azure-colored sword pellet floating at the top of her dantian for a moment, Han Lu then devoted herself entirely to the process of forming her core for the second time.

In the blink of an eye, another sunrise and sunset have occurred.

Three days have passed since Han Lu began to form her core, and the "spiritual energy burst" weather on Ma Island has almost come to an end.

This time, even if Xianyu Ji didn't say a word, Nian Haoge could tell that something was wrong.

"Senior Brother Xianyu, why hasn't Sister Han come out yet? Could something have happened to her?"

Xianyu Ji wasn't the kind of person to lie, so he simply told half the truth to avoid making Nian Haoge worry.

"I don't know the specifics, but I can tell you that Junior Sister Han is still in the Core Formation stage."

Unable to use his divine sense to probe the situation inside the wooden house, Nian Haoge could only accept this statement and continue to wait patiently and anxiously.

Less than fifteen minutes after he finished speaking, the weather over Madagascar suddenly changed again.

"What's wrong?" Nian Haoge stared at the small patch of sky that had suddenly become as bright as day, at a loss for what to do.

Observing the changing colors of the clouds in the sky, Xianyu Ji's eyes lit up and he exclaimed excitedly, "Haoge, this is the will of Heaven to lend Junior Sister Han a helping hand."

"God willing?"

Nian Haoge couldn't help but fix her gaze on the auspicious clouds that had appeared out of nowhere above her head. Feeling the overwhelming power descending from the sky, she felt that this feeling was both familiar and strange, and her confusion deepened.

Xianyu Ji was right. Just as Han Lu was refining the beast core and was about to exhaust all the spiritual energy in her dantian, the karma created by her good deeds moved the heavens, and in accordance with the will of heaven, a great opportunity descended.

A beam of light, seemingly tangible, descended from the auspicious clouds, completely enveloping the wooden house where Han Lu lived.

Upon seeing this scene, Han Lu naturally knew what had happened. She couldn't help but think to herself, "Good!" Filled with joy, she vowed to make good use of the good karma gained from helping countless people.

Chapter 654 Beast Core Completed

The good karma accumulated from writing books and educating millions of ordinary people has yielded far greater positive results than Han Lu had imagined.

The light that fell from the auspicious clouds in the sky shone on the wooden house for only three or four seconds, but it instantly made Han Lu, who had been at her wit's end, "full of energy".

The spiritual energy in Han Lu's dantian increased rapidly at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Having reached a dead end, Han Lu suddenly discovered that seemingly endless spiritual energy was entering her dantian in a way she did not know, becoming the tool for her to once again wield the spiritual energy hammer to refine beast pills.

When the beam of light that descended from the sky dissipated, Han Lu's dantian was once again filled with spiritual energy, much of which existed in liquid form.

In terms of both quantity and quality, this spiritual energy is about 60% of Han Lu's peak strength.

At this crucial moment of refining the beast core, this spiritual energy was like a timely gift, relieving Han Lu's immediate crisis.

Opportunity knocks but once, and Han Lu had no idea whether this spiritual energy would remain in her dantian for long.

She quickly mobilized her spiritual power, channeling nearly 30% of it into her dantian to form a "hammer," which she then smashed fiercely at the beast core, which had transformed into a translucent crimson color and contained few impurities.

The spiritual energy formed a "virtual" hammer, which looked no different from an ordinary iron hammer, but its momentum as it rose and fell was comparable to that of a high-grade magic weapon using supernatural powers.

With three light and one heavy points, combined with her previous experience in refining beast cores, Han Lu used her naked eye to search for flaws on the beast cores and tried to place the spiritual energy hammer where it should land.

With the first three hammer blows, the dust on the surface of the beast core was forced to the surface by the hammering.

As the fourth heavy hammer fell, the spirit hammer disintegrated, and at the same time, it also knocked out the scattered dark dust from the beast core.

Impurities entered the dantian, but Han Lu captured them immediately and expelled them from the body through the spiritual meridians connecting the dantian.

As the last trace of impurity was expelled from her body, a pure, flawless crimson beast core, just like the previous sword pellet, slowly rose and floated in Han Lu's dantian.

The remaining spiritual energy, which had not been put to use, seemed to receive an order. Regardless of its form within Han Lu's dantian, it all rushed madly toward the location of the two golden cores.

This is a benefit that only cultivators who have formed a first-grade golden core can enjoy. Han Lu already knew about this from the ancient books, so she did not stop it, but let it be, enjoying the comfortable feeling that the spiritual power brought to her body by infusing the two golden cores.

Once a Golden Core cultivator advances to the first rank, there will be no more bottlenecks or upper limits.

The process Han Lu is currently going through will further increase the spiritual power stored in her golden core, which will be of great benefit to her future cultivation and combat.

Fortunately, fate intervened and gave Han Lu a timely boost; otherwise, Han Lu, who had already formed two Grade One Golden Cores, would not have had any "surplus" to feed them at this crucial moment.

Han Lu fully exploited the good fortune bestowed by Heaven.

However, after the spiritual energy in Han Lu's dantian was completely swept away by the two golden pills, the two golden pills, which were already half the size of a fist, became even larger, giving people a sense of "stability" and "security".

The spiritual energy was exhausted, but the process of forming the core was not completely over.

From Foundation Establishment to Golden Elixir, it is a process of leaping from human to "immortal".

The moment a cultivator obtains a Golden Core, the purer and higher-level spiritual energy within it will transform their body, clearing away accumulated ailments and, to a certain extent, allowing them to autonomously adjust their physical "parts" to suit their aesthetic preferences.

This is why cultivators who advance to the Golden Core stage are never too ugly.

In particular, the many female cultivators who cared about their appearance were all fairies, each with an outstanding figure.

Follow your heart.