Chapter 82

Hua Xiajiu did not stop his cultivation at this point. He was preparing to successfully form a core and then leave his seclusion.

Although the Core Formation realm was not high, it was an extremely important stage in the cultivation journey. The methods and procedures for forming a core were largely similar, but the small differences often determined the success rate of core formation.

Therefore, over tens of thousands of years, various cultivation sects in the cultivation world had studied and summarized many methods for core formation. As one of the three major sects and nine major schools, the Ziyou Sect naturally had its unique method for core formation. Even the seven branches of the Ziyou Sect had different methods based on their respective cultivation techniques.

Although Yougui was somewhat unconventional and somewhat negligent in teaching his disciples, he did not forget the method of core formation. Not only did he pass on the method of core formation for the "Yuming Divine Technique" to Hua Xiajiu, but he also taught three secret techniques to increase the success rate of core formation.

Hua Xiajiu recalled the method of core formation and the three secret techniques in his mind, ensuring that he fully understood them before taking a deep breath and preparing to begin the core formation.

In the next moment, Hua Xiajiu casually waved his hand, and 200,000 spirit stones appeared around his body, almost filling the entire cave.

Hua Xiajiu slightly closed his eyes, regulated his breathing, and gradually entered a state of deep meditation.

After a day and a night, Hua Xiajiu's essence, energy, and spirit reached their peak.

Without opening his eyes, his soul consciousness slightly moved, and countless fine, needle-like metal spines condensed around his body, shooting towards the surrounding spirit stones.

A rumbling sound echoed as a powerful suction force emanated from Hua Xiajiu's body. The countless spirit stones swirled around him like a vortex, being absorbed as they rotated.

Countless purple true essence surged into the true essence lake.

The true essence lake had already reached its maximum capacity. With the continuous influx of newly transformed purple true essence, it burst, causing a collapse.

Hua Xiajiu did not dare to be negligent. The soul consciousness he had prepared for a long time instantly spread out, enveloping all the true essence. Following the method of core formation, he controlled it to contract and collapse inward.

Feeling the speed of the true essence's contraction and collapse, Hua Xiajiu frowned and took a deep breath. A figure formed by his soul consciousness appeared in his dantian, and this figure rapidly changed its hand seals, sending several spells into the true essence that was contracting and collapsing. This was one of the three secret techniques Yougui had taught to increase the success rate of core formation.

As Hua Xiajiu's soul figure's spells merged, the purple liquid true essence, which was contracting and collapsing, began to oscillate in a regular pattern, starting to contract and slowly rotate, with the rotation speed gradually increasing. Soon, a violent true essence vortex formed, emitting a rumbling sound.

As the true essence rotated and contracted, it gradually became more solid.

Feeling the changes in his dantian, Hua Xiajiu felt a surge of joy in his heart and silently thanked his master, Yougui. The core formation process had three steps: the collapse of the true essence lake, the refinement of true essence, and the formation of the core.

Hua Xiajiu had already consumed over 100,000 spirit stones to collapse the true essence lake, completing the first step. With the help of the refinement method Yougui had taught him, he successfully carried out the second step.

Now, as long as he refined the true essence to a certain degree, he could begin the core formation.

Hua Xiajiu's face turned pale as snow, and the refinement of true essence in his dantian felt like a sharp knife continuously cutting. The absorption of external spiritual energy never stopped, and the newly transformed true essence continuously flowed into the dantian, joining the true essence vortex.

In this manner, the true essence vortex in Hua Xiajiu's dantian rotated for five days. The space in his dantian, with the continuous influx of newly transformed true essence, had reached its maximum capacity. The originally liquid true essence had solidified into a gel-like substance, emitting strong energy fluctuations.

The spiritual energy in the surrounding area of the cave also seemed to be affected, gradually converging into a vortex-shaped cloud of spiritual energy above the cave where Hua Xiajiu was.

At this point, the 200,000 spirit stones Hua Xiajiu had placed around his body had been completely consumed.

"Just one more step!"

Hua Xiajiu knew that although the true essence had solidified into a gel-like substance, it was still one step away from forming a core. This step was the most critical, as success would mean officially entering the cultivation world, while failure would require him to disperse the hard-earned true essence and start over from the beginning.

Core formation! The final step of core formation.

Soul into the dantian, guiding the true essence to form a core, and merging the soul into the core.

Core formation involved guiding a thread of soul from the soul sea into the dantian, using this thread to condense the true essence into a core, and then merging this thread of soul into the true essence core.

The amount of soul energy merged into the true essence core greatly determined the success rate of core formation. The more soul energy merged, the more spiritual energy could be absorbed and transformed into true essence when the core formation succeeded.

These thoughts flashed through Hua Xiajiu's mind, and he felt a sense of decisiveness and ruthlessness.

In the next moment, a scene similar to a few days ago reappeared in Hua Xiajiu's soul sea. A black knife appeared beside his soul form and, without hesitation, slashed at the soul form.

Rip!

A third of the soul form was severed, and Hua Xiajiu let out a piercing scream, his face turning almost transparently pale.

With a spurt of blood, Hua Xiajiu spat out several mouthfuls of fresh blood, his body trembling, almost affecting his core formation.

Hua Xiajiu let out a roar, using his extremely strong and cold-blooded will to control his nearly collapsing mind, then guided the severed third of his soul form towards the dantian.

The remaining two-thirds of the soul form, after writhing, reformed into a complete shape, but its volume had shrunk by a third, and it looked much more ethereal, with its face becoming somewhat blurred. Clearly, the two soul splits in such a short time had greatly damaged Hua Xiajiu's soul form, even with its special nature.

The third of the soul form that entered the dantian had also reformed into a complete human shape.

Buzz——

Without any hesitation, Hua Xiajiu controlled the third of the soul form to merge into the rotating true essence vortex.

In the next moment, the true essence vortex paused, then a lively aura spread out.

In the next moment, a faint light burst from the purple true essence vortex, instantly becoming bright, like a star exploding in the eternal darkness of the universe, radiating a dazzling light that could not be directly looked at.

"Rumble!"

A mysterious wave of sound rose, gradually becoming surging and tumultuous, wave after wave, endless.

In the dantian, the gel-like true essence finally began to change, contracting and converging towards the bright center. At the same time, an extremely powerful suction force emanated from the contracting true essence.

The spiritual energy mist ball surrounding Hua Xiajiu emitted a thunderous roar, and countless vortices appeared on its surface, followed by a疯狂的灵气疯狂地钻入Hua Xiajiu的体内。

Hua Xiajiu的石府上空突然波动大起，灰蒙蒙的阴霾化为了漩涡状，将方圆数里的灵气都吸收了过来，迅猛地向石府中灌输而去。

有点事耽误一下，第一更稍有些晚，抱歉，不过下午和晚上两更一定按时送上，只求月票，求收藏，求红票，求好评————

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In the dantian, the gel-like true essence finally began to change, contracting and converging towards the bright center. At the same time, an extremely powerful suction force emanated from the contracting true essence.

The spiritual energy mist ball surrounding Hua Xiajiu emitted a thunderous roar, and countless vortices appeared on its surface, followed by a疯狂的灵气疯狂地钻入Hua Xiajiu's body.

The sky above Hua Xiajiu's stone cave suddenly surged with fluctuations, the gray mist forming a vortex, absorbing the spiritual energy from a radius of several miles and rapidly pouring it into the stone cave.

There was a slight delay due to some matters, the first update is a bit late, sorry. However, the two updates in the afternoon and evening will definitely be on time. I only ask for monthly votes, collections, red votes, and good reviews.

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