Chapter 536: Chapter 145: Late-Stage Core Formation!

Zhou Xun heard and laughed heartily:

"Brother Feng and I hit it off immediately, since you fancy this Ice Essence Pill, why not give it to you?"

Saying so, he took out the jade bottle containing the elixir and handed it over.

"This... thank you, Brother Wang!"

Marquis Feng Yu was overjoyed and accepted it promptly.

And then continued to speak,

"Brother Wang, wandering the world, I’ve collected some treasures. If you need anything, feel free to tell me!"

"All right!"

Seeing the middle-aged man’s enthusiasm, Zhou Xun no longer declined,

"My current cultivation is at the Core Formation Stage, my only wish is to form a Nascent Soul. Does Brother Feng have any ’Nine-Encompassing Purple Spirit Ginseng’, or Spirit Medicine above Tier Four Middle-Grade?"

The middle-aged man revealed a trace of embarrassment on his face upon hearing this,

"I truly don’t have such an item, but I do have two Tier Four Middle-Grade Spirit Medicines. Since Brother Wang needs them, I’ll exchange them for you!"

Saying so, he waved his hand, a flash of spirit light, and two spirit medicines appeared in front.

One was a coral of crimson color, and the other was a blue-purple seaweed over seven feet long,

"These are Blood Jade Coral and Heart-Connecting Algae!"

Zhou Xun was delighted at the sight,

Originally, Zhou Xun’s Tier Four Middle-Grade Spirit Medicines had been exhausted, and he was worried about where to obtain more,

Unexpectedly, he could actually acquire two Tier Four Middle-Grade Spirit Medicines, which meant two more points in Spirit Root Sensitivity.

"Truly, searching all around without finding, only to obtain effortlessly!"

"In this case, I won’t be modest!"

He waved his hand, and these two spirit medicines were stored into his storage bag.

However, this was not all.

The middle-aged man continued to take out two jade boxes from the storage bag and handed them to Zhou Xun:

"I see Brother Wang seems to have a Thunder Attribute Spiritual Root, and this Ice Essence Pill was refined using a Demon Beast Core. I happen to have two Thunder Attribute Tier Three High-Grade Demon Beast Cores in my hand,"

"Now I give them together, I hope Brother Wang doesn’t mind!"

"This is too much..." Zhou Xun hesitated a bit,

"This pill to me is quite ordinary, if I hadn’t run out of Tier Four Demon Pills, I wouldn’t have taken out such items. Quickly accept them, Brother Wang." The middle-aged man pretended to be angry.

"In this case, all right then!"

Zhou Xun could not resist the middle-aged man’s enthusiasm, so he had to accept these two cores.

At this moment, he found this Marquis Feng Yu truly adorable.

"Brother Wang, when you have time in the future, don’t forget to visit me!" Marquis Feng Yu reminded before leaving.

"I will surely visit then!"

...

Leaving the underwater cave mansion, Zhou Xun couldn’t help feeling a sense of fear.

Unexpectedly, this Marquis Feng Yu was a Tier Four Middle-Grade Peak Demon Beast. Fortunately, he wasn’t a fierce and wicked type, but rather elegant and dignified.

However, this struck a warning to Zhou Xun.

"Though my current cultivation is enough to be dominant among Core Formation cultivators, facing Middle-Stage Nascent Soul and above cultivators, I still lack the strength to retaliate,"

"I must seize the time to advance to Peak Core Formation as soon as possible!"

Thinking so, Zhou Xun jumped onto the back of the Earth Element Beast.

Speaking of which, they indeed benefitted from misfortune this time.

Zhou Xun not only obtained two Tier Four Middle-Grade Spirit Medicines, and also two Tier Three High-Grade Thunder Attribute Demon Pills,

It can be foreseen that once Zhou Xun refines them into elixirs, it will cut short his decades of hard cultivation.

And the Earth Element Beast is fortunate too,

Marquis Feng Yu is also a Wind Attribute Demon Beast, giving the Earth Element Beast considerable guidance. One can say it already has a direction on how to enter the Tier Four Demon Emperor realm.

...

Two days later, outside Celestial Talisman Island, a giant beast over ten feet large came from the horizon,

causing a stir among Celestial Talisman Sect disciples.

They all knew this giant beast was Master Wang’s mount.

Soon, Master Qianfu came to greet.

"Daoist Brother has returned, it seems you had some gains from this trip!"

He knew Zhou Xun occasionally left Celestial Talisman Island for outings.

"Indeed, I gained a little!" Looking at Master Qianfu in front of him, Zhou Xun couldn’t help but be a bit emotional,

At this moment, Master Qianfu was spirited and radiant, looking completely energetic,

It seems the position of Commander of Celestial Talisman Island Sea Region is restful for him,

With Zhou Xun behind him, no demon beasts have attacked, and other sects have taken him as a leader, naturally making him proud and satisfied.

However, his cultivation was still stuck at Early-Stage Core Formation, causing Zhou Xun some helplessness,

"We cultivators should prioritize cultivation, as it is the foundation of everything!"

Upon hearing this, Master Qianfu blushed; these days, he indeed indulged too much in the flattery of same-tier cultivators.

"Daoist Brother’s advice is correct, I ought to enter closed cultivation and improve!"

Seeing he accepted, Zhou Xun nodded slightly, refraining from saying more.

...

Returning to his cave mansion, Zhou Xun immediately started the Cave Mansion Array.

In the cultivation room, Zhou Xun was sitting on the cushion,

With a swipe of his hand at his waist, the Tier Four Middle-Grade Spirit Medicine Blood Jade Coral appeared on the ground,

This medicine grows in an underwater volcano, extremely rare indeed.

"Hai, after such idle time, I can now sacrificial refine a Tier Four Top-Grade Spirit Medicine!"

Zhou Xun smiled slightly and skillfully separated a trace of essence blood, striking it onto the Blood Jade Coral’s surface, beginning the refinement,

Before long, the essence blood slowly seeped into the Blood Jade Coral, forming imprints and establishing a connection with it.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Xun immediately changed spells and separated a wisp of divine sense, into the Blood Jade Coral, followed by prolonged sacrificial refining.

Based on Zhou Xun’s previous experience, in five more years, it could be raised to Tier Four Top-Grade, used to further enhance Spirit Root Talent.

After refining the Blood Jade Coral,

Zhou Xun took out the two Thunder Attribute Tier Three High-Grade Demon Pills, next step was to refine Thunder Element Pills,

As one treasured spirit medicine after another flew into the pill furnace,

The refining formally began,

Six days passed quickly,

"Hahaha!"

Looking at the two jade bottles in front of him, Zhou Xun was exceedingly pleased, twelve Thunder Element Pills, enough for him to use until the Middle-Stage Peak Core Formation.

Then Zhou Xun began closed cultivation,

As winter turned to spring, days passed by one after another, while the door to Zhou Xun’s cave mansion at the top of Celestial Talisman Island remained unopened.

A year!

Two years!

Five years!

Ten years!

...

Finally, in the twenty-first year, the long-sealed door finally opened, and out walked a handsome and graceful young man with a distinguished air,

This person was Zhou Xun.

"After twenty years of cultivation, I’ve finally reached Late-Stage Core Formation!"

Recalling the experiences over the years, Zhou Xun couldn’t help but smile.

During his closed cultivation in the second year,

Song Yiqing’s lifebound spirit beast, the Red Fire Simurgh, successfully ascended to Tier Three, achieving the Demon King Realm.

Song Yiqing also reached the Eighth-Layer Foundation Establishment.

By the fifth year of closed cultivation, the Blood Jade Coral refined by Zhou Xun reached Tier Four Top-Grade smoothly,

Yet his incarnation was at a crucial phase in cultivation, so he did not leave; instead, he took it out and stored it in a jade box,

In the tenth year of closed cultivation, the Heart-Connecting Algae reached Tier Four Top-Grade, Zhou Xun personally took the spirit medicine.

Thus in the eleventh year of his closed cultivation, his main body’s Spirit Root Talent reached eighty-seven points of Wood Spirit Root,

In the twelfth year, it reached eighty-eight points.

"So many years have passed, I wonder how the situation of South Sea is?" Zhou Xun then stepped out, arriving at Luo Yuancheng’s cave mansion.