Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

Chapter 258 Core Formation 1

Standing in the courtyard, Li Ping was full of vigor and ambition.

At the age of fourteen, under the guidance of Master Ji, he embarked on the path of immortality.

At the age of twenty-two, in order to take a further step and seek the opportunity to establish a foundation in the immortal realm, he traveled thousands of miles to Fenglan Immortal City to make his mark.

At forty years old, the foundation was successfully laid.

Seventy years old, mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.

One hundred years old, late stage of Foundation Establishment.

Now, at the age of one hundred and thirty, he has finally reached the edge of the Core Formation stage.

Once you cross this threshold, you become a true immortal and live to be five hundred years old!

With such a long lifespan, if it were on Earth in my previous life, I could have watched the rise and fall of mortal dynasties.

Originally, Li Ping did not aspire to reach the Golden Core realm.

He only hoped that after successfully establishing his foundation, he could live out the remaining two hundred years of his life in comfort.

But his unparalleled talent wouldn't allow it, and ultimately pushed him to the point of Core Formation.

"Unfortunately, I still haven't been able to cultivate the 'Myriad Spirits Divine Technique' to the fifth level." Li Ping pondered silently as he sensed the vast divine consciousness lingering in his sea of ​​consciousness.

In fact, after so many years of cultivation...

Although he was quite talented in spiritual cultivation techniques, his "Myriad Spirits Divine Technique" was still at the third level, a little short of the fourth level.

However, Li Ping was not going to wait any longer.

Nothing in this world is perfect.

Even if he cultivated the "Myriad Spirits Divine Technique" to the fifth level before forming his core, it would only increase his success rate by about 10%.

With the miraculous power of the health preservation technique, whether the success rate of forming the elixir is 85% or 95% makes no difference to him.

First of all, his success rate is already very high.

Apart from cultivators with Heavenly Spiritual Roots, even cultivators with Mutant Spiritual Roots have a low success rate of over 40% when they have a Core Formation artifact to assist them.

His 85% success rate is enough to make all cultivators except those with Heavenly Spiritual Roots envious and jealous.

Secondly, he has the protective power of the Nourishing Life Technique, so even if he fails to break through to the Core Formation stage, he can easily heal his injuries and restore his damaged essence.

After a short rest and adjustment of one's condition, one can attempt to break through to the Core Formation stage again.

So, after tidying up and putting all personal belongings into storage bags, he also put the wildfire sparrows and earth spirit rats that were playing in the courtyard into their respective spirit beast bags.

Li Ping pushed open the door and flew straight towards the location of the Flying Snow Sect in the city.

He was going to find Shi Yutong to borrow her third-tier spiritual energy to stimulate his Core Formation.

……

Li Ping lived in Flying Snow City for over forty years, during which time he repeatedly helped the Flying Snow Sect refine pills.

He had formed a deep friendship with Shi Yutong and had visited the Flying Snow Sect's territory many times, making him a familiar face to the sect.

Upon arriving outside the Flying Snow Sect, after being informed by the sect's guards, he quickly met Shi Yutong in the main hall.

Shi Yutong still looked like a young woman of sixteen with fair skin and silver hair. She was wearing a gold and silver robe and greeted Li Ping with a smile as he sat down.

While instructing the waiter to bring over some spiritual tea, Shi Yutong said, "Brother Li, what brings you here to see your little sister today?"

Li Ping scanned Shi Yutong with his divine sense and found that the aura emanating from her subtly revealed a sense of perfection.

Clearly, she is not far from reaching the peak of the late Foundation Establishment stage.

In fact, Shi Yutong's cultivation speed is already somewhat slow.

After all, she was a cultivator with a different spiritual root, and she was cultivating in a third-tier spiritual land. Moreover, she could take pills to enhance her cultivation.

Furthermore, since she advanced to the late Foundation Establishment stage earlier than Li Ping, she should have reached the late Foundation Establishment stage perfection earlier than Li Ping.

However, compared to Li Ping, who was indifferent to worldly affairs and devoted himself to ascetic cultivation.

Besides cultivation, Shi Yutong also had to spend a lot of time managing sect affairs, especially after Mu Yun Zhenren's death and Qianxue Zhenren's seclusion, all sect affairs were decided by her.

As a result, her cultivation was naturally delayed.

As a result, despite having a stronger spiritual root aptitude than Li Ping, her cultivation speed was not as fast as Li Ping's. It might take her several more years to reach the peak of Foundation Establishment and attempt to break through to Core Formation.

With many thoughts flashing through his mind, Li Ping smiled and said, "To be honest, the reason I've come to see Sect Leader Shi today is because I have other important matters to discuss."

Upon hearing this, Shi Yutong looked puzzled: "Oh? What is it, Brother Li? Please tell me directly."

Immediately, Li Ping explained that he had already reached the peak of Foundation Establishment and hoped to use the third-order spiritual energy of the Flying Snow Sect to stimulate his Core Formation.

After listening to Li Ping's description, Shi Yutong suddenly understood.

She smiled and said, "Congratulations, Brother Li, on your great progress in cultivation."

She readily agreed to what Li Ping said: "I promised you before, Brother Li, that I could use my Flying Snow Sect's Spirit Pulse to strike the Core Formation stage at any time, so there's no problem with that. I wonder when you plan to go into seclusion, Brother Li?"

Upon hearing Shi Yutong agree to lend him the third-tier spiritual vein, Li Ping smiled and said, "The sooner the better."

……

Soon, under Shi Yutong's arrangement, Li Ping successfully obtained the qualification to cultivate in seclusion on a third-order spiritual vein.

The secret chamber where he secluded himself was the one that Xiao Yunzhi had once used.

There were other secluded cultivation caves within the Flying Snow Sect, but Shi Yutong felt that Xiao Yunzhi's successful formation of her core in this secret room indicated that she possessed great fortune.

Under her blessing, this place can be considered a blessed land.

If other cultivators also attempt to form their core here, they might be able to share in Xiao Yunzhi's good fortune and increase their chances of success.

That's why Shi Yutong specially arranged for Li Ping to be in the same secret room as Xiao Yunzhi for seclusion.

Shi Yutong led Li Ping to the front of the secret chamber, smiling as she offered her blessings: "I wish Brother Li all the best in advance, and that you will achieve great success and attain the Golden Core stage!"

Upon hearing this, Li Ping nodded with a smile: "Thank you for your kind words, Sect Leader Shi."

Enter the secret chamber and deactivate the secret chamber's protective array.

Li Ping wandered around the secret room at will, and as he twitched his nostrils, he could almost smell the faint fragrance left by Xiao Yunzhi during her seclusion there.

But this was just his illusion. Xiao Yunzhi had already reached the Core Formation stage more than twenty years ago.

How could her presence still remain here?

"It's a good place, much better than the third-tier spiritual energy environment I created using the Spirit Eye Jade." Li Ping nodded in satisfaction.

He then took the Spirit Eye Jade out of his storage bag and placed it in the center of the secret room.

Then, he took out a jade-colored array plate and several array flags over ten feet long from his storage bag.

The array flags and array plates were both obtained by him from the secret cave in the Western Wilderness.

Prior to this, considering the possibility of using these array flags, he specifically asked Xiao Yunzhi to teach him some knowledge about array formations.

Although his talent in array formations was quite average, and Xiao Yunzhi repeatedly called him "stupid as hell," he ultimately failed to learn even the simplest first-order array formations.

However, his learning was enough for him to know how to set up array plates and array flags.

If you can't solve a problem, can't you at least copy the answer?

Whoosh!

Li Ping used his magic to control the Spirit Eye Jade, causing it to fall directly into the hole deliberately left in the Azure Jade Array Plate.

Then, using the jade array plate as the array's core, he patiently measured the dimensions and drove a array flag into the ground around the secret chamber.

Once everything was done, Li Ping activated the formation.

"Buzz~"

Inside the secret chamber, a protective light barrier appeared out of thin air, shielding Li Ping within it.

Seeing this scene and feeling the amazing spiritual energy emanating from the light barrier, Li Ping revealed a satisfied smile.

With the protection of a third-tier formation, even if a Core Formation cultivator tries to interfere with his Core Formation, they will be blocked for a moment.

Of course, this is the territory of the Flying Snow Sect, with True Person Qianxue in charge.

He had never offended a Core Formation cultivator.

It's unlikely that a Core Formation cultivator would come knocking on his door and disturb his seclusion.

Li Ping waved his hand.

brush!

Four for attack and two for defense; six second-tier high-grade puppets appeared in the secret chamber.

After cultivating the "Myriad Spirits Divine Technique" to the third level, Li Ping was able to divide his mind into thoughts, and could control up to twenty-seven puppets at the same time.

These six puppets can finally appear together.

After doing all this, Li Ping finally felt relieved and returned to the center of the secret room to sit cross-legged.

Although he was not afraid of getting injured during the process of forming his core, nor was he worried about failing to do so, given his cautious nature, he was used to doing everything to the best of his ability when conditions allowed.

Therefore, at this moment, Li Ping did not rush to break through the bottleneck, but continued to patiently hone his skills, adjusting his magic power, physical body, and spirit to their best state before making any moves.

……

Three years later, in a secret room.

Li Ping sat cross-legged with his eyes closed.

Suddenly—

Li Ping opened his eyes, and as he opened and closed them, two beams of lightning seemed to flash in them: "My condition is now at its best; I can attempt to break through to the Core Formation stage."

Immediately, he took out a spirit pill from his storage bag, which was the Qi Condensation Pill that he had prepared long ago.

Li Ping refined a total of three Qi Condensation Pills. He wouldn't consider just casually trying to break through a bottleneck first.

When he's going to try to pass a level, he'll do it in top form!

After taking the Condensing Essence Pill, Li Ping patiently refined the medicinal power within the pill. With the help of the medicinal power, he took the first step in his attempt to form his core.

Magic power condenses and crystallizes!

The source of a Core Formation cultivator's magical power is actually the golden core within their dantian.

The Golden Elixir is essentially magical power condensed into a solid form!

Qi Refining, Foundation Building, and Core Formation correspond to the states of magical power as gaseous, liquid, and solid, respectively.

With each breakthrough to a higher realm, the change in magical power is not merely a change in form; in fact, it is a change in the essence of magical power!

Within the Dantian.

Under the guidance of Li Ping's immense divine sense, comparable to that of a Core Formation cultivator, a magnet seemed to be at the center of the ocean of magical power, pulling the surrounding magical power to slowly begin to rotate.

The magic power was circulating faster and faster.

As Li Ping began to break through his bottleneck, the aura emanating from his body surged like an erupting volcano.

The surging magical energy emanated from him and spread outwards, causing ripples on the protective array.

As you get closer to him in a daze, you can see the emerald green water vapor swirling around him, and you can sometimes hear the sound of surging waves. In reality, it is the surge of the sea of ​​magic power within his body.

At this moment, Li Ping's magical power had reached the pinnacle of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

He endured the tearing sensation emanating from his dantian, using his divine sense to control his magical power to continue rotating at an accelerated pace.

At this moment, Li Ping's magical power had reached the pinnacle of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

He endured the tearing sensation emanating from his dantian, using his divine sense to control his magical power to continue rotating at an accelerated pace.

Gradually, tiny, almost invisible crystal particles began to form at the center of the ocean of magic.

The aura emanating from Li Ping also grew stronger...