Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 235: Big Senior Sister’s Golden Core Formation Method

“Do you really want to know?”

“Yes, yes.” Lu Yang nodded vigorously like a small chick pecking at rice grains.

Yun Zhi mulled over it for a while and reckoned that there was no harm in telling him. I’ll just take it as satisfying Little Junior Brother’s curiosity. “Fine, since you want to know, I’ll tell you. Just listen; don’t try to learn from me.”

“I definitely won’t,” Lu Yang promised.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy was also very interested in the golden core Yun Zhi had formed. It can’t be stronger than my Unbeatable Golden Core, right?

Yun Zhi began to recall her past. “That was a few hundred years ago...”

Lu Yang blurted out in astonishment, “A few hundred years ago?!”

Yun Zhi was a peerless, icy beauty who appeared to be in her twenties. When she and Lu Yang walked together through the streets, they looked like siblings. Moreover, Yun Zhi treated Lu Yang more like a precocious peer rather than an elder, giving Lu Yang the impression that she was about the same age as him.

Now that Yun Zhi mentioned how her golden core formation was several hundreds of years ago, Lu Yang realized that she was the most senior among the disciples. Her actual age was far greater than what he had guessed.

Exactly how old is Big Senior Sister? A few hundreds years old? Could she be almost a thousand years old?

Lu Yang’s thought process might seem complicated, but all of it happened in merely a fraction of a second. He didn’t even have the time to think through these thoughts as he accidentally voiced them out.

As soon as the words left Lu Yang’s mouth, he could sense his impending demise.

Yun Zhi’s gaze slowly shifted to Lu Yang’s shoulder. For a split second, Lu Yang felt like there was a sharp, gleaming saber pressed against his neck, as though he was walking on the boundary between life and death, with only a single thought separating him from death. Fortunately, this sensation came quickly and faded as fast. Yun Zhi withdrew her gaze and didn’t dwell on Lu Yang’s excessive curiosity.

She continued, “A few hundred years ago, I had cultivated until the Advanced Foundation Establishment Stage and was preparing to form my golden core. At that time, Shifu saw that I possessed exceptional talent and had the potential to shoulder great responsibility in the future, so he shared with me some secrets to prepare me for what lay ahead. That included the matter of the Ancient Nameless One refining the stars into the continent and how most of the stars we see now are phantom images, while the real stars are beneath our feet.”

It was a consensus in the cultivation world that only those minimally at the Nascent Soul Stage were qualified to learn that the stars were false. The general populace and ordinary cultivators could just believe that the world was at peace; otherwise, they might wonder: if the Ancient Nameless One could refine the stars into the continent, could he once again refine the continent into the stars?

Since it would cause unnecessary worry, it was better not to inform the masses.

Yun Zhi reminded, “I should have told you before that I grew up in a secret domain when I was young. It was only later that I left and came to the Dao-Seeking Sect.”

Lu Yang nodded. Big Senior Sister did mention this before. She said she grew up in a secret domain and only interacted with cultivators. It was the same even after she came to the Dao-Seeking Sect. That’s why she doesn’t understand mortal habits and wasn’t aware that mortals can’t bathe in boiling water.

This was the explanation Yun Zhi provided when she applied medicine to Lu Yang’s skin after it became red and swollen from the boiling water bath.

Yun Zhi reminisced, “There was no night sky in the secret domain. After I left and arrived in the outside world, I saw the stars twinkling in the night sky and marveled at the mesmerizingly beautiful vista. In my spare time from cultivation, I often lay on the grass, gazing at the stars and counting them.

“When Shifu told me that the stars had actually long disappeared from the sky, I didn’t show it on the outside, but I was deeply disappointed inside. The stars I usually admired were just vestigial illusions from three hundred thousand years ago. As long as that thought stayed in my mind, I could no longer find the night sky enchanting.

“As I contemplated what kind of golden core I should form, I read in the Golden Core Treatise, ‘Gold is something tough, perpetual, and indestructible; Core is something complete, radiant, and flawless.’”

An absurd thought vaguely emerged in Lu Yang’s mind. Big Senior Sister, surely you wouldn’t have done something so outrageous...

He heard Yun Zhi say, “At that time, I thought, isn’t a flawless and indestructible golden core precisely the stars in my eyes?

“Since the stars are gone, why don’t I use golden cores to replace them and recreate the resplendent night sky of ancient times?”

Lu Yang remarked inwardly, Just as I thought, Big Senior Sister.

“Among golden cores, first grade is the best. Hence, I formed my golden core according to the stars in my heart and invented a new type of first-grade golden core called the Resplendent Stars Golden Core.

“In the beginning, I was a bit unfamiliar with the golden core formation technique, but the more golden cores I formed, the faster I became. Throughout my Golden Core Stage, I mainly devoted myself to continuously forming golden cores, striving to accumulate enough until their number matched the stars in the sky.”

Lu Yang inhaled sharply. Big Senior Sister, you really dare to dream and act on it.

“At the Golden Core Stage, it was difficult to replace the stars with golden cores. When I broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage, I shattered one of the golden cores to develop a nascent soul, while the rest remained inside me.

“Later, when I was more successful with my cultivation, I took out all the golden cores in me and used them to replace the illusions of stars in the sky. Unfortunately, there were too many of them in the sky. Even though I had tried my best to form golden cores, I still couldn’t make their number equivalent to the stars.

“However, having something is better than nothing. After all, the effort I had poured in to form golden cores was to replace the illusionary stars with them.”

“So, the stars in the sky now...a portion of them are your golden cores?” Lu Yang asked gingerly. Yun Zhi’s actions were so preposterous that Lu Yang couldn’t help but feel a sense of respect.

“Just a small portion.”

“...A small portion is already a lot.” Lu Yang didn’t know what else to say.

Yun Zhi was still worried about Lu Yang, so she exhorted him a few times, “My golden core formation method is different from ordinary people. Don’t try to imitate me just because you find it rare and interesting.”

“I definitely won’t.” If Lu Yang’s previous promise was perfunctory, his promise now stemmed from his true inner thoughts. It’d be too ridiculous if this could be imitated. It’s obvious that forming a golden core is anything but as simple as Big Senior Sister had made it sound.

What did she mean by the more golden cores she formed, the faster she became? Does that even make sense? No wonder she had written in her golden core experience, “My method of forming a Golden Core has no reference value. Please do not imitate. Those who learn from me will die, and those who resemble me will die.”

Sometimes, I feel that the disparity between people is even bigger than the gap between humans and dogs. We’re all cultivators, but why are you the only one so absurd?

“Immortal Fairy, can your Unbeatable Golden Core rival Big Senior Sister’s?” Lu Yang stealthily asked.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy scoffed. “It’s just a bunch of golden cores. No matter how many useless golden cores you have, they’re still trash. As the second-in-command of the Everlasting Lineage, you must remember that we value quality over quantity. This little lass has a high quantity of golden cores, but my golden core is of a high quality. These two are not comparable.”

“Do you dare repeat this in front of Big Senior Sister?”

“No, I don’t dare to,” she replied, full of self-assurance.

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Lu Yang was rendered speechless. I thought that by relying on the backing of Big Senior Sister and the Everlasting Immortal Fairy, my journey in cultivation should be smooth sailing. But from the looks of it now, none of them can be relied on.

Speaking of which, exactly how old is Big Senior Sister?