Chapter 20 - Krune Gets a Lightning Rainbow Candy (2/2)
On the way, he met with Ruik and Lakin.
”Master, you survived! That's great!”
Ruik also comented.
”Now then, you have finished your breakthrough, so our contract is over, I think a wisp's foundation is pretty good for cultivation too, so why don't you give yourself to me?”
Krune just laughed it out.
”Give myself to you? Does it mean you fell in love with my awesomeness? I'm sorry but I have a fiance already.”
Ruik went red from anger.
”Scram!”
He turned back and entered the cave again.
Both Lakin and Krune laughed even harder, Lakin looked back at Krune and asked.
”Master, is everything over? Is there something you need help with?”
Krune was happy with his concern.
”I'm okay, except for the fact that I feel like a pile of shit, I'm pretty much fine, let's go back to the spiritual vein lake, I need some time to recover.”
After returning to the spiritual vein lake, Krune went to find Ruik straight away, Lakin followed out of curiosity too, he then explained about his situation and how his future core looked like some rainbow candy with lightning around it.
Lakin didn't know much about it to start with so he just listened, as for Ruik, his eyes looked like he was seeing an anomaly.
”I know quite a few Foundation Establishment beasts, but all of us have the same type of golden core, the only difference is how much golden they are depending on our cultivation stages.”
Ruik pondered for a bit and then continued
”But you must remember that Katiu Forest isn't a big place to start with, there is way too many things out there that we don't know, there might be some other Foundation Establishment cultivators with a situation like yours. It was the first time I've heard about a Heavenly Tribulation falling before the Core Formation realm, but due to the lack of information we have here, it is very possible that it could have happened outside.”
Krune agreed with his train of thought, there is now one more reason for him to leave, he then went ahead with another question.
”So, how this 'nurturing the golden core' works? Do I need to simply cultivate normally or is there some secret to it?”
Lakin also paid attention to this question, thanks to his master, he really has a chance at the Foundation Establishment too, Ruik looked at him and answered.
”There is, in fact, this isn't a secret, you would find out about that sooner or later, the core in the center of the foundation can be nourished by sending spiritual energy directly into it, once it feels the presence of spiritual energy, it will absorb the energy by itself, you just need to keep applying more spiritual energy until it stops absorbing, that is when your future core is ready to breakthrough to the next stage of the Foundation Establishment. Of course, you can't neglect your foundation either, try to remember what I said about my island in the lake foundation.”
Krune pondered a little and found this memory, Ruik had said before that the lake holds the spiritual energy, it then is used to strengthen the island foundation, when the island gets sturdy enough, you can breakthrough to the next stage, he then waited for Ruik to continue.
”You can think about it as preparing the foundation for a natural calamity, the breakthrough of each stage will come followed by a huge explosion of spiritual energy, if you future core or your foundation can't resist it, it will break apart. Your planet foundation is definitely a top ranked foundation, so it should take even longer to improve it due to it's size.”
After hearing that, Krune asked again.
”So, which one should I nurture first, the foundation or the core?”
Ruik answered straight away
”The core should be first, the reason is because it is very fast, the planet will take a long time, but as far as I know, the future cores only absorb the necessary spiritual energy and they don't need you to stop to stabilize it, different from your foundation, which needs to be stabilized together with your cultivation. My future golden core for example, it kept absorbing spiritual energy for an entire week without stop, but after that, it never accepted spiritual energy again, if you want, you can do it even faster, you just need to gather more spirit stones and suck then dry, as long as the future core have enough space for spiritual energy, it will accept everything.”
”If I calculate the total spiritual energy that I used to fill up my golden core, I guess 200 to 300 Rank One spirit stones of middle or high quality should be enough.”
Krune mentally noted down all this information, it wasn't that complicated in the end, basically, nurture the core, then nurture the foundation, then breakthrough to the next stage.
After conversing for a little while more, Krune went to the side of the spiritual vein lake and started to recover himself, he decided to take a few days break to relax a little and think about his next steps.
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After a week, Krune was at peak condition again, he decided that he will first gather some spirit stones from the nearby spiritual veins and get over with the first stage of his rainbow core, Krune had completely given up the idea of using only the natural spiritual energy to feed his rainbow core or his planet foundation, he is a wisp, even thought he is at the Foundation Establishment now, he only got another ten years of life span. He is four years old at moment, which means that he only has another sixteen years to breakthrough the Core Formation realm bottleneck.
He also wanted to try out the differences of being in the next realm, exactly how stronger have he got? How better can he control his spiritual energy after the last tempering of his soul? His Divine Sense is out of the charts, no one at his level has a Divine Sense as powerful as his, so he wanted to test if beasts at the same cultivation level as himself can detect it. Finally, he has to stabilize his cultivation too, he can feel that the rainbow like spiritual energy in his 'universe' isn't flowing smoothly yet.
What else is better to achieve all of that other than battle?