Vol 2 Chapter 22.1 (2/2)

He Yiming was still sitting wordlessly, but Xie Mingjin involuntarily tensed up. He poked his head out and looked around a few times before his face turned delighted.

Xie Zhien heartily laughed and said, “Youngster, this old man has fortunately not disgraced himself and has succeeded in refining five gold cores.”

He Yiming deeply bowed at him and said, “Elder, may I ask how many times have you performed the refining process of gold cores”

Xie Zhien pondered for a bit, then sighed, “In my entire life, throughout my hundred years, I’ve refined gold cores three times.”

“If you’ve only refined three times, then how can you obtain eighty percent success rate?”

Xie Zhien faintly smiled and said, “Youngster, the dao of alchemy equals to the dao of acc.u.mulating experience. If you have performed ten thousand refinings of ordinary pills, you will naturally have eighty percent success rate while refining low level gold cores.”

He Yiming felt aghast, ten thousand times….

He deeply bowed before the old daoist. Although he didn’t say a word, his actions clearly ill.u.s.trated his heartfelt respect for the latter.

Refining of ordinary pills wouldn’t require seven days, but even if one refining process required one day, it would require about thirty years to complete ten thousand refinings.

He Yiming had nothing but admiration for such determination, such perseverance, and such will power.

Xie Zhien’s was quite satisfied with He Yiming’s behaviour. His vision s.h.i.+fted when he suddenly saw the papers in Xie Mingjin’s hands.

An embarra.s.sed expression suddenly covered the latter’s face before he quickly hid his hands behind his back and revealed an idiotic smile which only made the situation worse.

He Yiming’s face also turned slightly red. This kind of feeling of being caught wasn’t too good.

Xie Zhien bitterly smiled while shaking his head and said as if speaking to himself, “Those recipes in the Gold Core chamber should have been made public a lot earlier.”

He Yiming and Xie Mingjin relaxed, knowing that this old man was intending to turn a blind eye on this matter.

Sure enough, Xie Zhien s.h.i.+fted his vision onto He Yiming and unhurriedly spoke, “I heard from Grace that you wish to hunt a spiritual beast above five hundred years?”

He Yiming grimly said, “Yes.”

“Your age is quite modest and yet you have managed to attain the absolute peak of Houtian realm. Your desire to breakthrough is only natural. However, relying on your strength alone, you might not win against a five hundred year spiritual beast,” The old daoist lightly sighed and said, “For spiritual beasts, five hundred years is a threshold as well. If they managed to pa.s.s it, their inner core gains a miraculous effect of transforming Worldly Qi. Refining the inner core and using it to absorb Worldly Qi is the most simple method to enter the Xiantian realm. However, after five hundred years, spiritual beasts can also arouse Worldly Qi, gaining tremendous might. This is undoubtedly shedding their mortal body. If not for a Xiantian realm expert, they are extremely hard to kill.”

He Yiming’s complexion slightly changed. He naturally understood that this old man wouldn’t cheat him. So it turns out that five hundred year spiritual beasts were as strong as Xiantian cultivators. He seemed to have been thinking of these beasts too simply.

The old daoist hesitated for a bit before sighing, “Unfortunately, you are not a dual attributed cultivator. Otherwise, you could have directly entered the Xiantian realm without requiring to use a gold core at all.”

He Yiming’s eyes momentarily brightened before he respectfully asked, “Senior, please advise.”

The old man stroked his long beard and said, “According to the historical texts, the ancient human cultivators didn’t rely on gold cores to breakthrough at all. For most, the tenth layer’s peak was the absolute achievement. However, some Houtian cultivators who mastered two different attributes techniques, which further mutually engender each other, managed to breakthrough the boundaries of Houtian realm and enter the Xiantian realm.

“Houtian techniques that engender each other?” Suddenly, an idea flashed in He Yiming’s mind.

“Correct. Like this old man’s fire and wood techniques, or metal and water…and so on, mutually engendering techniques,” The old daoist solemnly said, “If some genius, talented in two engendering attributes, could also cultivate two peak level Houtian techniques, in that case, at the time when both of these two techniques would reach the tenth layer, he could force one of these techniques to transform such that it could engender the other. If the transformation succeeds, he could automatically absorb the Worldly Qi and make the breakthrough.”

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