Chapter 66: Engraving of Pill Patterns, The Secret of the Nine Revolution Golden Core!
Su Xing felt joy in his heart upon seeing this.
According to the descriptions in the art of condensing cores, the Nine Revolution Golden Core was divided into nine rotations.
With each additional rotation, one more line would appear on the Golden Core in the Dantian, and the potential upper limit of the Spiritual Power would increase by ten percent over the previous state.
Finally, when all nine lines were inscribed simultaneously, the Nine Revolution Golden Core would be complete, and the bearer’s Spiritual Power would be more than double that of a superior cultivator at the Golden Core Stage!
Su Xing beheld his simulated self finally achieving the first revolution Golden Core and couldn’t help but sigh,
“The cultivation of the Nine Revolution Golden Core is indeed not easy! Even with my True Spiritual Root talent and possession of the secret art of core condensation, it still took nearly three years just to form one line.”
Su Xing sighed lightly with relief; fortunately, in the simulation he had abundant resources, otherwise, who knows how long it would take to condense the Nine Revolution Golden Core.
Su Xing continued the simulation.
[You carefully perceive the mysteries of the first revolution Golden Core, those ancient and mysterious patterns on the core, as captivating as the most exquisite design, draw in your mind and spirit.]
[You attempt to circulate the Spiritual Power within your body, only to be surprised to find that your Cultivation Level has actually fallen a realm, from the great perfection of the Golden Core Stage back to the ninth layer, yet the total amount of your Spiritual Power remains unchanged.]
[A thought strikes you, an enlightenment that perhaps the so-called Nine Revolution Golden Core is a secret method to enhance the quality of Spiritual Energy and compress Cultivation Level, a method where the realm falls but your strength does not weaken; and if you were to cultivate back to the great perfection of the Golden Core Stage, wouldn’t your power increase significantly?]
[Thus, you consume Essence-Nourishing Pills daily and begin to raise your Cultivation Level.]
[That same year, thanks to your contributions in alchemy each month, you were promoted by the Shadow Protector to become the eighteenth Elder of the Descending Sect, codenamed Elder Medicine.]
[After becoming an Elder, you have more time to enhance your Cultivation Level and inscribe your Nine Revolution Golden Core, which greatly speeds up the process of cultivating the Nine Revolution Golden Core.]
[In the fourth year, your Cultivation Level returns to the great perfection of the Golden Core Stage, and you feel your Spiritual Power and Cultivation have strengthened by about ten percent compared to what it was when you had a superior Golden Core, proving your theory.]
[Every day, you spend four hours inscribing patterns on your Golden Core, and refining the Spiritual Power within your body.]
[In the fifth year, you continue to refine your inner Spiritual Power and inscribe lines on the Golden Core, and with the experience you’ve gained in cultivating the Nine Revolution Golden Core, you’re much faster than before.]
[By the sixth year, a second line is engraved on your Golden Core, and you achieve the second revolution Golden Core; concurrently, your Cultivation Level falls again to the ninth layer of the Golden Core Stage.]
[In the seventh year, it takes one year for your Cultivation Level to return to the great perfection of the Golden Core Stage.]
Su Xing sighed slightly upon seeing this,
“So it is. To increase the capacity and quality of Spiritual Power, dropping a realm in Cultivation Level, then recultivating back to the realm, and repeating this nine times, is that what the Nine Revolution Golden Core is?”
Su Xing finally understood why the cultivation of the Nine Revolution Golden Core was so difficult and time-consuming.
Each inscription of a pattern and each recultivation after dispersing one’s progress required a great deal of time and effort.
“With my True Spiritual Root talent, I cultivate about thirty times faster than an average Cultivator, and even I need a year to recultivate from the ninth layer to the great perfection of the Golden Core Stage, then wouldn’t an average cultivator need thirty years?”
“In this repeated cycle, just recultivating the Cultivation Level, an average cultivator would spend close to three hundred years… plus the time needed to inscribe the patterns on the Golden Core, it could be nearly four hundred years, and yet, the lifespan of a Golden Core Stage Cultivator is only three hundred years!”
Su Xing shook his head slightly, murmuring, “Looking at it this way, at the very least, one must have a Dual-type Spiritual Root to qualify for condensing a Nine Revolution Golden Core, as the cultivation speed of a Pseudo Spirit Root of dual types is seven to eight times that of a Mixed Spirit Root of the Five Elements
“But even so, with the time it takes to engrave the patterns, it will still take a dual-type Pseudo Spirit Root Cultivator nearly a hundred years to refine a Nine Revolution Golden Core.”
“By that time, even Golden Core Cultivators will have aged significantly, possibly losing the potential for further advancement in Cultivation Level, thus making it a loss rather than a gain…”
Pausing, Su Xing pondered aloud.
“Therefore, only True Spiritual Root Cultivators may attempt to refine the Nine Revolution Golden Core, where each upgrade of the Golden Core increases its potential by ten percent. In the presence of ample Spiritual Medicine, it takes three to five years to engrave one pattern, and refining a Nine Revolution Golden Core also takes more than thirty years…”
With just a brief calculation, Su Xing knew the difficulties of refining the Nine Revolution Golden Core and the great cost involved.
If it weren’t for Su Xing’s future simulator, with thirty years for him being merely two to three weeks of simulation, he probably wouldn’t have easily attempted to refine the Nine Revolution Golden Core.
“However, the greater the cost, the greater the yield! Once a Nine Revolution Golden Core Cultivator succeeds, their true combat power will absolutely rival that of a Nascent Soul Cultivator, and being one step ahead means being ahead at every step. The Nine Revolution Golden Core is the true broad path of the Great Dao!”
Su Xing calmed his slightly excited emotions, then continued the simulation.
[In the eighth year, you continue to engrave patterns on the Golden Core, preparing to refine the third streak of Dan pattern.]
[In the ninth year, you successfully refine the third streak of Dan pattern, achieving a Three-Turn Golden Core, causing your Cultivation Level to fall back to the ninth layer of the Golden Core Stage.]
[In the tenth year, you toil for one year, and your Cultivation Level returns to the Great Perfection of the Golden Core Stage.]
[In the eleventh year, you begin to attempt the fourth turn of the Golden Core while seeking ways to enhance the strength of the Human Race to maintain longer Cultivation periods.]
[Within one year, you send Wang Qingxuan several times to the Sect’s treasury, and with all the contribution points you have accumulated over the years, you exchange for thousands of stalks of Yellow Immortal Essence.]
[Aside from Cultivation, you set aside four hours each day to refine Organ Refining Pills, and within one year, you have produced tens of thousands of them.]
[As you had planned in advance, you did not reveal the existence of Organ Refining Pill in this simulation, so when the Organ Refining Pill first appears before people, it is unlikely that anyone would associate it with you.]
[In the twelfth year, to be safe, you take a Disguise Pill and a Concealment Pill, changing your appearance and aura. Then, you locate Lu Yuanwu on your own, hand over the nearly thirty thousand Organ Refining Pills you have refined over the year, informing him of the method of consumption, and instructing him to claim they were produced by an Alchemist within the military.]
[After all is done, you silently return to the Descending Sect base, worrying whether the upper echelons within the Sect will discover your betrayal.]
[Fortunately, your fears are misplaced, the Sect continues as normal, and no one uncovers your betrayal.]
[The same year, you refine the fourth turn of the Nine Revolution Golden Core, causing your Cultivation Level to fall back to the ninth layer of the Golden Core Stage.]
Su Xing breathed a sigh of relief seeing this, recognizing that it was too rash to provide the Essence-Nourishing Pill directly to the Great Xia Military in the previous simulation as it made discovery all too easy.
Therefore, in this simulation, Su Xing changed his approach, introducing the never-before-seen Organ Refining Pill, which the Descending Sect wouldn’t easily suspect and even if they did, they would lack solid evidence.
Su Xing continued to read on.
[In the thirteenth year, your Cultivation Level is once again raised to the Great Perfection of the Golden Core Stage.]
[One day, the Shadow Protector approaches you unexpectedly, without prior notice. You are alone in your house, forgetting to wear your mask, and the Shadow Protector sees your face.]
[Seeing your strikingly handsome appearance, the Shadow Protector is evidently stunned, and you notice she seems somewhat shy.]