Cultivation: But Not a Game
Chapter 442 - 13: Switching to Heart Skill, Mastering the Supreme Grade Golden Core Skill (Part 2)
Method of Spiritual Light Reflection (Dao Foundation): Reflection of circular light in water, projecting to the sky, capturing the breath and past of ground figures, all details manifest, maximum retrospective time of 3 hours, with each upgrade of First-Grade Dao Foundation +15 minutes to retrospective time, Mana consumption of 3000 points, cooldown time of 15 minutes.
Jade Clear Divine Thunder Net (Dao Foundation): Brief.
Nine Heavens Mysterious Astral (Dao Foundation): Nine Heavens’ mysterious astral strength, capable of myriad transformations, changes in size at will, infinite power. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
Method of Second Primordial Spirit (Dao Foundation): Brief.
All above-derived Dao skills have been augmented by the True Explanation of Nine Heavens Profound Scripture, instantly enhancing their power from originally being perfunctory to exceptionally useful, able to be effective even in battles against those of the same tier.
Thus, Su Yu’s transformation cultivation is complete, officially becoming a member of the ancient elucidation sect’s Dao lineage.
At this moment, he hears his master’s voice:
"You now possess a Ninth-grade Dao Foundation, just one grade away from crossing the second heavenly tribulation and forming a Golden Core. You have a Celestial Immortal-level True Dragon transformation; the tribulation is not difficult for you. However, the Golden Core has nine grades. I hope you can form a First-grade Golden Core."
Su Yu immediately responds:
"Disciple obeys!"
Ye Lingfeng waves his hand, saying with a serious face:
"You’re not obeying my command; this is for yourself. Without a First-grade Golden Core, you don’t even have the qualification to compete for the sect’s true inheritance, nor the chance to go to the ancestral court of Nine Immortal Mountains in Eastern Victory Divine Continent in the future."
Su Yu quickly replies:
"Disciple can definitely form a First-grade Golden Core."
"Mm!"
Ye Lingfeng’s expression softens, nodding:
"Work hard, now go back for cultivation. When you have time, you can communicate with the sect’s library to understand the Immortal Realm and cultivation information. There are many cultivation manuals left by our sect’s seniors in the library. Additionally, after the first day of each month, come to Dragon Turtle Peak to hear my Dao lecture."
"Disciple understands."
Leaving the palace, Su Yu returns to Red Jade Peak, opens the sect channel, and uses his disciple credential to enter the library to view some materials.
Yes, the sect’s library can be accessed through the player panel, just as long as one has the permission.
Additionally, the natives of the Cyan Immortal Domain all know of the players’ existence. In their eyes, players are a race awakened to destiny, whose cultivation speed with the panel’s destiny is extraordinarily fast, holding a significant advantage in early cultivation compared to natives, and the probability of achieving Celestial Immortal status is several times that of natives, which is why they are eager to accept players as disciples.
Moreover, above the Celestial Immortal realm, in the natives’ eyes, all destiny tribes vie for the protagonist of destiny. Thus, they do not reject accepting disciples from races other than the Human Race.
It is not just Profound Clarity Upper Sect; across the Cyan Immortal Domain and even all sects in the four major continents, they broadly accept disciples from all races.
As for whether the next generation of disciples will rise, belonging to different races causing internal strife and division, apparently no one cares.
Maybe this is part of the apocalyptic cycle, with the calamity’s presence clouding their minds, causing them to overlook these hidden crises.
Moreover, Su Yu discovers an interesting pattern: it seems all destiny tribes are humanoid races.
Whether it be Horned Demon People, Fire Race, Six-Eared People, Celestial Eye People, Thunder People, Stone Heart Race, etc., all destiny tribes he has seen or heard of are humanoid races resembling humans.
Initially, he assumed that because humans were the destiny protagonist of the previous cycle, all races replicate humans in creation to conveniently replace them.
But after Su Yu spends nearly half a month reading in the library, he discovers the truth: these destiny tribes do not model themselves after humans but after the creator of the prehistoric world—Pangu.
Because Pangu was the first humanoid god within chaos, all innate sacred beings derived in the prehistoric era and the demon race reshaped later by Nuwa, were modeled after Pangu.
And when humanity was created using Pangu as a model, they became the Heavenly Dao-appointed first-generation destiny protagonist without any competition.
With the end of humanity’s destiny cycle, the new destiny cycle commenced, with various tribes competing for the new destiny protagonist. Although tribes differ, their appearance must model after Pangu, thus naturally being humanoid.
It can be said that if one’s appearance deviates too far from humanoid form, they don’t even have a chance to pass through the Heavenly Dao’s selection, let alone gain destiny to vie for the protagonist of the new era.
Within the Red Jade Palace, Su Yu focuses his thoughts on the panel and gazes upon his Dao Foundation.
"Increase one more grade to trigger the heavenly tribulation and condense the Golden Core, but my preparation...."
He recollects the many cultivation manuals from sect ancestors he reviewed in the library, clearly explaining precautions regarding condensing different grades of Golden Core.
"If there’s no ambition, I can trigger the heavenly tribulation at any time with my current accumulation and my current strength assures handling even the toughest tribulation with certainty."
However, he is a core disciple of the upper sect, an Immortal’s direct disciple; how could there be no expectations?
Minimum, First-grade Golden Core.
Maximum, Immortal Golden Elixir, which is the Supreme Grade Golden Core.
Indeed, Dao Foundations can be super-grade, so there certainly is a Supreme Grade for Golden Cores.
The super-grade Dao Foundation is called Super-grade Immortal Foundation, and the supreme-grade Golden Core is called Immortal Golden Elixir.
A Super-grade Immortal Foundation is a prerequisite for a Supreme Grade Golden Core; without forming a Super-grade Immortal Foundation, no matter how strong your subsequent accumulation, it will never be possible to form an Immortal Golden Elixir.
However, the difficulty of forming an Immortal Golden Elixir greatly exceeds that of forming a Super-grade Immortal Foundation. It’s evident as the master didn’t require Su Yu to form a Supreme Grade Golden Core, only a First-grade Golden Core is needed.
But the master didn’t have requirements, doesn’t mean he has no ambitions.
To stand out, to forge a future path, one must strive for the pinnacle and push accumulation to its extreme.