A Mortal's Start in the Spirit Beast Mountain

Chapter 181 Burning Spirit and Refining Body

Luo Ming continued to expand his divine sense and arrived outside the cave where the spiritual energy had been disturbed. At this moment, the place was already very lively, with a large number of divine senses probing around, trying to find out who the owner of this cave was.

However, when his powerful divine sense, comparable to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator, descended upon this place, everyone else immediately kept their distance and dared not investigate further.

"With my current level of spiritual power, I can occasionally impersonate a Nascent Soul cultivator." Luo Ming's heart stirred upon seeing the immense power of his spiritual power.

While sensing the strange fluctuations of the four types of spiritual energy around him, and silently calculating the time, Luo Ming raised an eyebrow and revealed a look of bewilderment.

"The four spiritual roots have formed their cores. While the intensity of this fluctuation isn't the absolute peak, it's exceptionally stable. Plus, this cave is located on the thirty-ninth floor. Could it be that Junior Brother Han has formed his core?"

Luo Ming was immediately filled with emotion. Back then, he had relied on the resources at his disposal to advance to the Core Formation stage early on, but unexpectedly, due to a series of unforeseen events, his cultivation level still lagged behind.

"Do you know this Core Formation cultivator?" Tianjing Sanren asked, sensing Luo Ming's unusual emotions.

"Yes, if I'm not mistaken, this Core Formation cultivator is a good friend I made in my early years. I didn't expect that after so many years, he would have also formed a Golden Core."

"The four spiritual roots have formed a golden core. It seems your friend has had quite a few fortuitous encounters!" Tianjing Sanren said meaningfully.

Normally, the cultivation progress of cultivators with four spiritual roots is extremely slow, and under normal circumstances, it is impossible for them to cultivate to the Core Formation stage.

"Indeed, my friend has always been quite lucky, and he's also a diligent cultivator. I'm not surprised at all that he was able to successfully form his core."

Having confirmed that it was Han Li who had advanced to the Golden Core stage, Luo Ming withdrew his divine sense and stopped paying attention to that area. Instead, he began preparing for his own Core Formation.

If he hadn't wanted to cultivate his body-refining technique to the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage, his magical power would have already reached the perfection of the Foundation Establishment stage twenty or thirty years ago, meeting the requirements for advancing to the Core Formation stage.

The reason for this delay is that the Body Refining Technique can increase the mana capacity of the dantian. If he breaks through to the physical body and mana at the same time, his mana accumulation will reach an extremely terrifying level.

"If you want to break through the physical and magical power levels at the same time, the difficulty is not simply the sum of the two. Why not break through the magical power level first, and then look for an opportunity to break through the physical refining technique later?" Tianjing Sanren advised Luo Ming.

In his view, Luo Ming's idea was too crazy. If he failed, he would most likely be seriously injured, and it would be much more difficult for him to condense a golden core in the future. After all, body refining techniques are not easy to break through. Even in the Great Jin Dynasty, no cultivator was confident that he could break through successfully.

"What you say is indeed more reliable, but in that case, the foundation of the Golden Core that is formed cannot be compared with the breakthrough of the Dharma Body."

The main reason Luo Ming did this was because he valued the expansion of the dantian volume and the massive amount of spiritual energy during the spiritual energy infusion stage after advancing the body refining technique to the core formation stage.

To know how strong a cultivator's foundation is after forming their core, one must rely entirely on the total amount of spiritual energy absorbed during the spiritual energy infusion stage. The stronger the foundation, the greater the difficulty of advancing, but once advanced, the benefits gained are also substantial.

Of course, Luo Ming wasn't being overly ambitious. He was quite confident that he could succeed. In addition to the continuous effects of the Heaven-Mending Pill over the years, his spiritual root aptitude had surpassed that of dual-spiritual-root cultivators, and he wasn't much different from cultivators with a single heavenly spiritual root.

Only in terms of body refining techniques, he was only 80% confident of successfully advancing. (Welcome to the fantasy continent of Xianxia novels, entrance here: [link]). Furthermore, after breaking through the body refining technique, he needed to immediately begin condensing his golden core, which would further lower the success rate. He didn't know what unexpected events might occur, which made him somewhat uneasy.

If some cultivators knew that Luo Ming was so anxious about having only an 80% chance of breaking through, they would probably be so angry that they couldn't help but curse him.

You should know that most cultivators would be very happy if they had a 20% or 30% chance.

"About 80%, that's not low."

Luo Ming then sat cross-legged, patted his storage bag, and four jade bottles appeared in his hand.

The four jade bottles contained the primordial blood of his four spirit beasts, which was one of his methods for breaking through in body refinement. He used the Spirit Burning Secret Technique from the Spirit Control Technique and the Blood Essence Stimulation Method from the Blood Fusion Technique to jointly drive his body refinement breakthrough.

This was the most feasible breakthrough method that Luo Ming had repeatedly demonstrated. After all, he had practiced both of these techniques for many years and understood them best.

As Luo Ming opened his mouth, four drops of essence blood, each radiating different spiritual energy fluctuations, entered Luo Ming's dantian.

Among them, the blood of the Fat Sun Bird is crimson, with scorching white flames occasionally emerging from its surface, and its spiritual energy fluctuations are the most explosive. The blood of the Wind Fox Beast is dark red, with a bluish-gold hue, and a faint aura of sharpness is surging within it.

After the four drops of essence blood entered Luo Ming's dantian, they transformed into the miniature images of four spirit beasts, which hovered and danced within Luo Ming's dantian, creating quite a lively scene.

Luo Ming then closed his eyes and cast an extremely complex spell. The four drops of essence blood strangely ignited, and a layer of seven-colored light immediately appeared on the surface of his body. Under the light, countless fine blood patterns slowly emerged, as if thousands of spiritual insects were wriggling under his skin, and a faint "sizzling" sound could be heard.

Once the Spirit Burning Secret Technique was activated, the flames burning from the four drops of essence blood intensified. The miniature phantoms of the four spirit beasts in the dantian let out clear howls, and their figures gradually blurred in the firelight, transforming into four extremely pure sources. These sources, carrying the violent power of essence blood, flowed along the meridians of the dantian like four rushing spiritual rivers, sweeping across the entire body.

The disturbance of spiritual energy caused by Han Li's Core Formation had already spread throughout most of Tianxing City. Everywhere in the city, whether it was Qi Refining cultivators on the streets or Foundation Establishment cultivators living in seclusion, everyone stopped what they were doing and stared intently at the west side of the city. Discussions rose and fell, each with their own thoughts.

In a teahouse on a street corner, several Foundation Establishment cultivators huddled together, their tone filled with envy and awe:

"The spiritual light over west of the city is a phenomenon indicating the formation of the Core Formation stage! Someone else is about to break through to the Core Formation realm; this must be the third such occurrence in the last twenty years!"

"Sigh, we cultivate diligently our whole lives, and it's still unknown whether we can even reach the late stage of Foundation Establishment, while others can break through to Core Formation. The difference between people is truly like heaven and earth."

At the highest point in the city, in a cave dwelling, two cultivators dressed in Star Palace attire sat cross-legged facing each other. They were Zhang Qinghan and Li Xuanfeng, two Core Formation deacons from the Star Palace Enforcement Hall.

The two people who were playing chess at the time both extended their divine senses outside the cave to observe the situation of the cave below.

A moment later, the spiritual energy vortex from the west of the city all flowed into the cave. Slowly, the spiritual light receded, and a calm and refined Core Formation aura slowly spread out, revealing the powerful aura of a Core Formation cultivator.

"It's done."

Li Xuanfeng slowly opened his eyes, a hint of admiration flashing in them. "Solid foundation, calm mind, and no setbacks during the breakthrough. This cultivator's future achievements may not be inferior to yours or mine."