The Long Journey to Immortality

For Han Lu, who had the help of the pink medicinal liquid and had advanced to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm by drawing her first Dan pattern on her own, it was not difficult.

Chapter 890 A Thousand Miles in a Day

He controlled two spheres of slightly different sizes with his divine sense.

Compared to other cultivators who control their golden cores, Han Lu's control over the sword pellet spirit sword, which is in sync with her mind, is much more precise.

In this way, manipulating the two small balls to make contact and cooperate is naturally easy, which will bring her a lot of convenience in the following series of actions.

Silently reciting the location and pattern of the pill pattern to be drawn, Han Lu attached a ball of gaseous spiritual energy to the surface of the Imperial Pill, completely activating the magical power contained within this golden pill.

Sensing the medicinal power overflowing and the Imperial Pill in her dantian gradually shrinking at a perceptible speed, Han Lu attached the pill to the Golden Pill and began to do the handicrafts she usually did during her daily cultivation, using a tool equipped with "abrasive discs".

As soon as the Golden Core and the Imperial Supreme Pill came into contact, the medicinal power surging outward from the Imperial Supreme Pill adhered to the surface of the Golden Core, forming a strange, viscous substance similar to spiritual energy.

The appearance and formation of these viscous substances are very regular. Han Lu had only witnessed these things before and knew only the general situation, but she understood how to use these good things produced by the Imperial Pill to assist in her cultivation.

Under her precise control, the Imperial Elixir slowly rolled on the surface of the golden elixir, following the pattern of the elixir's markings.

With every millimeter of movement, some visible golden viscous substance would be temporarily fixed on the surface of the golden core.

As the Imperial Pill rolled completely across the surface of the Golden Pill, the golden viscous substance naturally formed the pattern of the pill and temporarily became part of the Golden Pill.

Knowing the effects of the Imperial Extreme Pill, those who had been there had already inquired about all the steps required for the cultivator to cooperate with the pill after taking it.

Han Lu had a clear mind. Immediately after completing the first application of the pill pattern, she used her spiritual power to wrap the Imperial Pill again, trying to slow down the rate at which its medicinal power "evaporated".

At the same time, Han Lu, who had already drawn the cinnabar patterns no less than ten thousand times, used her spiritual power to transform into a "brush" and run it along the "track" formed by the viscous substance.

The moment the spiritual energy touched these viscous substances, it assimilated them at an extraordinary speed, turning them into a part of Han Lu's spiritual energy.

In this way, with just one stroke of the brush, a clear mark was formed in the blank space where the Golden Core was originally.

This is just the effect of a single drawing; it is a hundred times more effective than the results Han Lu achieves during her daily meditation and spiritual practice.

“Not bad,” Han Lu said, clearly seeing the changes in the Golden Core under her inner vision. She was delighted and compared it to her usual experience of practicing calligraphy. “It’s like tracing characters on a calligraphy template. Even if your skill level is a little lower, as long as you follow the pattern, you can still write beautiful characters.”

"Moreover, with the aid of the Imperial Extreme Pill, the improvement brought about by such a rudimentary act, which is similar to tracing characters, far surpasses that of daily cultivation."

Although in calligraphy, tracing is just one of the quick ways for beginners to get started.

However, by combining the Huangji Pill with the practice of applying red ink to the surface of the Golden Core, Han Lu's cultivation could progress by leaps and bounds.

After summarizing her experience from this first time using the Imperial Pill for cultivation, Han Lu quickly dispersed the spiritual energy surrounding the pill, allowing it to continue releasing its medicinal power for her use.

With proper operation, Huangji Dan did not waste too much of its medicinal power during this intermittent period, which increased Han Lu's chances of achieving her ambitious goal.

Using Huangji Dan as a brush once again, the same lines were drawn, and the same Dan patterns were painted.

Then he repeated the actions of drawing the cinnabar patterns using spiritual power, which he usually practiced on a daily basis.

The seventh pill pattern on the surface of Han Lu's sword pill had become clearly visible, and it was not far from being fully formed and solidified on the surface of the golden pill.

After roughly sensing the size of the Imperial Pill, Han Lu discovered that only one-tenth of the enormous pill had been consumed after these two cycles, and she was overjoyed once again.

"Keep it up." After encouraging herself, Han Lu repeated the previous action, continuing to manipulate the Golden Core and the Imperial Core to come into contact and create "sparks".

However, this time, despite having more experience, Han Lu did not achieve the same amazing results as the previous two times.

"Does this mean they've developed drug resistance?"

After completing the third drawing, Han Lu felt slightly unhappy. After "sealing" the Imperial Pill once again, she focused her attention on the surface of the Golden Pill during her internal observation, paying attention to the changes in the seventh pill pattern that had not yet fully formed compared to before.

Han Lu could clearly see that many of the thick substances containing the medicinal power of the Imperial Pill had penetrated into the shallow layer of the Golden Core.

Because of her connection with the sword pill, Han Lu could sense that these viscous substances would not harm the golden core and were harmless outsiders.

However, even these residual, harmless viscous substances caused some changes to the local surface environment of Han Lujindan.

These changes weakened the astonishing efficacy of the Imperial Elixir, preventing it from producing the exaggerated effects of rapid progress seen in the initial two applications.

“Looking at these viscous substances, they seem to be spreading to the entire surface of the Golden Core,” Han Lu observed carefully, noticing many details. “This is probably why a cultivator only experiences noticeable effects from the first Huangji Pill.”

Imagining these sticky substances appearing throughout her golden core, preventing the medicinal power of the Imperial Pill from penetrating into it and serving her, Han Lu couldn't help but feel that the difficulty of drawing two pill patterns in one go had increased considerably.

"Let's continue. Let's finish drawing the first Dan pattern first, and then we can think about the others."

Although these viscous substances will not disappear, they will gradually turn into transparent in the future and will not cause any hindrance to her daily work of drawing the Dan patterns. Therefore, Han Lu did not worry too much about this matter and only focused on the task at hand and quickly completed the drawing of the seventh Dan pattern.

With Han Lu's repeated attempts, and under the influence of these side effects, the completion rate of the seventh Dan rune increased, but the progress became slower and slower.

If the first two times it was "a thousand miles a day", then the fourth and fifth times it was "a hundred miles a day", but by the tenth and eleventh times, it was indeed only "thirty miles a day".

Finally, as Han Lu repeated the same action for the seventeenth time, the seventh Dan pattern was completely formed on the surface of her Golden Core.

Glancing at the newly formed pill patterns, and then at the Imperial Pill that was still half its original size, Han Lu thought to herself, "Good!"

“Then next…” Han Lu’s attention fell on another empty space on the gold sheet, which was where she was going to draw the eighth Dan pattern.

Suddenly, recalling her experience of using the Imperial Pill to depict the seventh pill pattern, Han Lu conceived an unprecedented idea.

"What would happen if that were the case?"

Chapter 891 A brilliant idea comparable to a top-grade spirit stone

In terms of cultivation, Han Lu is not the kind of cultivator who dares to innovate. The cultivation method she practices is one that was created and passed down by her predecessors.

However, when it comes to the details of her practice, she is bold in thinking and acting, and knows how to take advantage of the situation. After obtaining an idea, she analyzes all kinds of details and influencing factors to judge whether the so-called idea is beneficial or harmful.

Weigh the risks and make decisions decisively.

When forming a core, choosing to form another beast core is done in this way.

Back then, the two Core Formation pills gave Han Lu more options when cultivating the Golden Core stage, and the total amount of spiritual power in her body was also much greater than that of ordinary cultivators, giving her enough "pills" to unleash many of the sharp techniques in her mind.

Now, noticing the special characteristics of the Imperial Extreme Pill in cultivation, Han Lu also came up with a rather interesting idea, something that Mo Zhehan had never mentioned any cultivator who had obtained the Imperial Extreme Pill trying to do.

"if……"

Han Lu manipulated the golden core to slowly rotate within the sea of ​​clouds in her dantian, her inner divine sense acting like a pair of eyes, observing every part of the golden core's surface.

At this moment, phantom images of cinnabar patterns, drawn in a pre-planned sequence, appeared on the surface of the golden core.

At first glance, Han Lu's golden core appeared to have completed twelve core patterns, transforming into the full form of a human cultivator's golden core, as if it had advanced to the late stage of the golden core realm.

"If I were to..." Han Lu imagined, "instead of pouring all the medicinal power of this Imperial Extreme Pill into one pill pattern, but instead use it evenly to lay the foundation for the remaining five pill patterns that haven't even shown their shadow yet, wouldn't that allow me to make more complete use of this powerful pill?"

“First draw the grid and outline the strokes, then trace and color them in the future. No matter how you look at it, it’s much better than stubbornly sticking to a single cinnabar pattern, which yields little effect and wastes the medicinal power.”

The more Han Lu thought about it, the better it seemed.

After all, the thick substance produced by the side effects of these medicines is destined to fill the shallow surface of the entire Golden Core, and it has been confirmed by countless people that it will not harm future cultivation.

With the Danwen already secured as a safety net, Han Lu, being intelligent, naturally wouldn't miss the opportunity to use the won Huangji Dan for a deal that wouldn't lose money but could potentially make a fortune.

After thinking it through thoroughly, Han Lu mentally rehearsed the positions of the remaining five Dan patterns on the Golden Core, confirming that her calculations were correct and that she wouldn't make any basic mistakes due to haste.

Han Lu then reactivated the Imperial Pill, allowing it to continue the work that had been left unfinished.

As before, the first and second attempts to draw the eighth pill pattern with the help of the Huangji Pill went exceptionally smoothly.

With just two repetitions, the cinnabar pattern was completed to 40% completion, and it had taken on a clear initial shape.

If she stopped here, Han Lu estimated that with the Yellow Dragon Pill to assist her daily cultivation, she would only need to spend less than ten or even eight years to fully form the pill pattern and truly add it to her golden core.

“However, it’s still uncertain whether it will be effective,” Han Lu said, bringing the Golden Core and the Imperial Pill close together again, but this time the point of contact did not fall on the eighth pill pattern. “If it continues to perform like this and allows me to maintain my usual cultivation speed in the future, then this idea will be considered a good one, comparable to a top-grade spirit stone.”

Continue along the same line of thought.

Although the medicinal power of the Imperial Elixir permeated the Golden Elixir, causing many shallow areas on the surface of the Golden Elixir to become covered with a viscous substance.

However, the number was ultimately small and did not have a significant impact on Han Lu's depiction of the ninth cinnabar pattern.

This time, Han Lu repeated it three times before achieving a 40% success rate.

The drawn "red grid" was firmly fixed on the surface of the golden core. The scene that Han Lu had just imagined, where the phantom appeared on the surface of the golden core, was perfectly presented in this way, even more so than Han Lu had imagined.

"Not bad, it's a good omen." Secretly delighted, Han Lu's attention lingered on the Imperial Extreme Pill for a moment.

“If that’s the case,” Han Lu noticed that the Royal Extreme Pill had shrunk even more, and estimated, “this Royal Extreme Pill will probably be completely used up before I’ve finished drawing the twelfth pill pattern to forty percent.”

"But that's enough."

"I just hope that things will develop exactly as I expect in the end."

Han Lu is content with what she has and is not greedy.

At this point, the Imperial Elixir was only a little over one-third of its peak value. Considering the volume characteristics of a circle, Han Lu stopped daydreaming about the future and focused on taking action.

Han Lu used four separate attempts to depict the tenth Dan pattern to 40% of its complete form.

The eleventh Dan pattern was drawn to such an exaggerated degree that even after six attempts, Han Lu still felt it was not quite there yet.

However, noticing that most of the Royal Extreme Pills could only be used once, Han Lu still chose to leave it with regret and used the last bit of medicinal power on the twelfth Golden Pill.

It was drawn in one stroke.

The moment the faint trace of the twelfth dan pattern took shape on the golden elixir, the Imperial Elixir completed its historical mission and disappeared from Han Lu's dantian.

Before she could even sigh, Han Lu quickly circulated her spiritual power to help solidify the shallow mark.

After Han Lu used a brush made of spiritual energy to draw the pill pattern again, her cultivation using the Imperial Pill was finally completed.

However, Han Lu's conjecture has not been fully confirmed.

After a brief period of lucidity, I confirmed the time and took Huanglong Dan to aid my cultivation.

Having been in a meditative state for a full sixteen hours, Han Lu sat down again and began to use the techniques she had learned in her daily practice of drawing pill patterns to further improve upon the solid foundation laid by the Imperial Extreme Pill. She wanted to see if this would allow the pill to exert its miraculous effects, which had never been seen before, as she had hoped.

Following his usual posture, he continued to draw the patterns on the golden core, which had changed drastically from before.

Han Lu was completely unaware of the slightest obstacle.

On the contrary, thanks to the groundwork laid by Huangji Dan, Han Lu was much more fluent in using "pen strokes" than usual.

In the past, Han Lu could only draw fifteen to seventeen cinnabar patterns in a day and night.

Now, Han Lu, whose brushstrokes are "as if guided by a god," can even perform nearly twenty drawing operations of Danwen in the same amount of time, greatly improving the efficiency of her cultivation.

With excitement in her heart, Han Lu mentally solved a math problem.

"I have now completed seven Dan patterns, and I need a full twelve to advance to the late stage of the Golden Core realm."

"There are still five more Dan patterns. Four of them are about 40% complete, and the last one is at most 15% complete."