Chapter 163: Beaten Up! (1/2)

The Core Formation realm cultivator holding the abacus was stunned. Why did Jiang Li suddenly enter the fog?

Their initial plan was for him to make a move and throw Jiang Li into the fog, and then use the illusion formation to restrict Jiang Li's movements.

For this, they even specially found an excuse to apply for a few authority tokens for an illusion array from the sect's joint competition authorities.

The plan was to use the restriction of the illusion realm to control Jiang Li without any issues.

However, the elder did not expect that the strength of this Qi Refinement realm disciple would actually be so strong that he did not have the chance to succeed. After fighting for more than twenty times, he was actually unable to defeat his opponent.

On the contrary, three of his subordinates were killed by the other party. Fortunately, the envoy from the headquarters was smart enough to run away quickly.

Otherwise, if Huangfu Tai died, the elder would no longer be able to survive.

Now, when he saw Jiang Li run into the fog, he was stunned for a moment, thinking that Jiang Li was courting death.

But then, he realized the problem.

The authority token was taken away!

Damn it! Didn't this mean that he could come and go as he pleased in the illusion formation?

He could not let this lad escape!

The Core Formation cultivator could not stand the result of him failing to capture a mere Qi Refinement cultivator. He immediately grabbed his big, golden abacus and rushed into the fog.

Just one more hit! Just one more hit would end it!

The well-dressed cultivator rushed into the fog and searched everywhere for traces of Jiang Li. His vision was poor in the fog, so he used the profundity of the Core Formation realm to continuously sweep his spiritual qi around his surroundings and quickly searched everywhere.

However, after passing through the fog and sweeping through a large area, he still did not find any trace of Jiang Li.

”If you fight me in the jungle, aren't you just looking for trouble?”

At this moment, Jiang Li was hiding in an empty tree while listening to the sounds of the air being torn apart from outside.

The other party passed by his hiding spot several times but did not discover anything.

If Jiang Li's current cultivation method was still the Ghost Wood Art, then the method to conceal his tracks would definitely be unable to surmount two major realms to prevent his opponent from finding him. Only the Nine Nether Dao Scripture could allow him to achieve this.

However, hiding was not an option. He had to defeat his opponent.

Facing a Core Formation cultivator with just the Qi Refinement realm cultivation level, it was already something to be proud of if he could escape.

In the eyes of many people, wanting to cross the gap of two realms to defeat the other party was simply a fantasy.

However, with Jiang Li's style of doing things, how could he allow himself to easily take risks without sufficient certainty?

He took out the coffin and gave an order to the spiritual root clone in the coffin.

The statue mouth of the spiritual root clone gradually opened. A gentle spiritual light blossomed.

A moment later, the Yin Burial Coffin shook slightly. From within, a pill the size of a dragon's eye, black and white, flew out.

[Name: Heavenly Lightning Indestructible Zombie Core]

[Type: Cultivator's Golden Core]

[Spiritual Qi: 28%]

[Attributes: Ice, Yin]

[Formation: Core Refinement by Lightning Tribulation, Combination of Life and Death]

[Description: The Qi of Life and Death combines into Yin and Yang. The beautiful creation of a technique combining the powers of ghosts and deities.]

[Description: Contains the power of the Lightning Tribulation.]

Jiang Li looked at the ordinary pill in front of him and could not help but feel slightly excited.

This was the Golden Core that Elder Duan Shuang had risked his life to refine!

After Jiang Li joined the inner sect, he had also learned about this aspect.

He also knew how precious this special Golden Core was.

Using lightning tribulation to refine a Golden Core was not something that could succeed with just any Golden Core.

This sort of operation actually required one to use their own Golden Cores so that they could better fuse with each other.

How could a cultivator refine two Golden Cores? In fact, two Golden Cores that contained the attributes of life and death respectively.

Other than some cultivation methods that were powerful to the point of understanding the mysteries of the Golden Core, those who had succeeded in doing so in history were likely under two different situations.

First, resurrect through possession.

Second, reincarnate and recultivate.

In short, they would first cut off their previous life's physical body cultivation. Sometimes, they would really have to die again before walking down the cultivation path again. In the end, they would find their previous life's legacy and use the power of heaven and earth to merge them.

Although it was said that one would obtain an abnormally powerful Golden Core after succeeding, the risk and cost of this method made the quality-price ratio extremely low.

Generally speaking, no cultivator would take the initiative to be reborn for this Golden Core. Most of the time, they would only attempt to refine a fused core after being forced to be reborn.

Therefore, such successful examples were extremely rare in the current history of the cultivation world.

This was also the reason why Jiang Li placed so much importance on this Golden Core previously.

Fortunately, the Nine Nether Wood was sufficiently powerful. Under the condition that the spiritual root seed was damaged, it still protected the Heavenly Lightning Indestructible Zombie Core.

In other words, the Nine Nether clone was now a Golden Core expert.

However, because he had just created the Golden Core not long ago, he did not have time to replenish the empty spiritual qi inside.

This Golden Core was where Jiang Li's confidence lay!

Jiang Li did not hesitate to open his mouth and swallow the Golden Core. In the next moment, golden light shot out from his eyes, and a strange feeling surged incessantly in his heart.

[Consumed the Heavenly Lightning Indestructible Zombie Core. Added Status: Golden Core Dao Heart (Pseudo)]

[Golden Core Dao Heart (Pseudo): Mind+10, Enlightenment+10, Mental Resistance+100, Mental Reaction Speed increased by 50%. Duration: 7 days] (− +)

[Consumed the Heavenly Lightning Indestructible Zombie Core. Added Status: Golden Core Protection]

[Golden Core Protection: Increases all attribute resistances by 80 points. Increases the damage resistance of both ice and fire attributes by 50 points. Increases the resistance to spiritual qi reflection. Unification of the Mind, Qi, and Spirit within the Core Palace. Increases the spiritual qi density. Duration: 7 days] (− +)

[Consumed Heavenly Lightning Indestructible Zombie Core. Added Status: Heavenly Lightning Indestructible Zombie]

[Heavenly Lightning Indestructible Zombie: Supports fusion of flesh and spirit. Increased resistance to instant death effects. Increases lightning damage resistance by 150 points. Duration: 7 days] (− +)

After swallowing the Golden Core, three statuses immediately popped up.

Jiang Li clenched his fists. For a moment, he actually felt that he was omnipotent.

The Golden Core was indeed worthy of being called a Golden Core! Although he was still unable to use much of the power of the Golden Core, just swallowing the Golden Core had given him a huge protective effect.

Although the effects of consuming the Golden Core were not as he had imagined, the resistances gained were still very astonishing.

In terms of fire resistance, Jiang Li had already obtained a resistance status before. He had specially studied the meaning of this resistance number.

From 0 to 50 points, it was the power value of fire in the mortal world.

50 to 100 points was the power of the Qi Refinement realm spirit fire.

100 to 150 points was the power value of a Foundation Establishment realm spirit fire.

After that, Jiang Li did not test it anymore.

Now that his Golden Core had entered his stomach, he could resist all external methods. Jiang Li had obtained quite a bit of resistances, and he even had resistance to all attributes.

One had to know that if the power of attribute attacks did not exceed the resistance of attributes, then one would be completely immune.

Even if the power of the attribute exceeded the resistance, the damage received would be greatly reduced. It was a kind of buff that would always be beneficial.

Elder Duan Shuang was originally of the ice attribute, so it was understandable that this Golden Core could increase his resistance to both ice and fire attributes.

However, it could resist lightning damage too. This kind of domineering attribute that was completely unrelated to him was actually so high. It really made him feel a little shocked.

It seemed that the cause was still with the description of [Contains the power of the Lightning Tribulation].

Could it be that when the aura of life and death fused together, he even refined the power of tribulation lightning into it?

Looking at this, Jiang Li suddenly had a feeling that the elder had gone all out to refine this Golden Core for the sake of this lightning-attribute resistance.

Forget it. He was already dead, and the dust had already settled. What was the point of thinking so much? It was more important to deal with the Core Formation cultivator outside.

These three statuses could be maintained for seven days.

From the looks of it, the gap between the Golden Core realm and the Qi Refinement realm was indeed extremely huge.

Under the situation where he could not replenish the energy and with less than 30% of its internal spiritual qi, this Golden Core could still support Jiang Li for seven days.

Indeed, on the path of cultivation, the further one went, the greater the difference would be.

Of course, duration had never been an issue to Jiang Li.

After casually pressing the plus button for fifteen seconds, Jiang Li spat the Golden Core back into the coffin.

This was another reason why Jiang Li did not turn the spiritual root seed into an Earth Fruit to eat.

He could have gotten the buffs for free, so why waste a Golden Core?

Under this condition, Jiang Li waved his hand and opened the tree wall in front of him, no longer hiding it as he walked out.

Jiang Li's aura did not seem to have increased much. However, the feeling in his eyes was completely different from before.

As Jiang Li's spiritual qi fluctuation was exposed, the Core Formation elder who was anxiously searching for Jiang Li not far away immediately rushed over.

In his hand, he was still holding the golden magical abacus. His right arm was red and blue veins were bulging.

It seemed that holding back a powerful move for too long was not an easy thing for a Core Formation cultivator to endure.

”Kid, you're finally out! You're merely a Qi Refinement realm cultivator! Be obedient and go down!”

When that fellow saw Jiang Li, his eyes instantly turned red. He almost thought that Jiang Li had already fled elsewhere.

Now that he had done all the bad things, there was a high chance that the Scripture Storage Valley would hold him accountable.