Chapter 189 – Condensing A Gold Core (2/2)
Inside Lei Yu’s room. Without waiting for Romon, Lei Yu first asked: “Lord Romon, have you mistaken me for someone else? How… how could I be your benefactor?”
Romon’s next move nearly made Lei Yu jump in shock. Romon kneeled on one knee; his right hand clasped to his chest and showed an extremely devout face. “Oh honorable Lord Lei Yu, you may not know recognize me but you will definitely recognize my father!”
“Your father? How… how could that be possible?” Lei Yu wanted to support Romon to make him stand up but was refused by him.
“That’s right; you’ll definitely recognize him especially when you were the one who saved my father’s life. Over a thousand years ago, father and mother got married and I was given birth. I then followed my mother’s surname Lycomedes. My father was worried if I had his surname, something bad may befall me so that’s how it came to this.”
Lei Yu vaguely felt something and then asked: “Then your father is…”
“Minotaur Linos!”
“What?!” Lei Yu almost lost his footing, “bull-head?!”
Romon nodded and smiled. “In my father’s entire life, only you can call him as such. If it were someone else, I’m afraid they would have already been chopped into pieces by his Thirty-six Lunar Stars!”
“It’s really him? How… how… how could he have such a handsome son like you? This is too incredible!” Lei Yu stared with wide eyes and couldn’t believe what his ears heard.
Romon scratched his head, “This was one of my fortunes because my mother was very beautiful. Even though I inherited her looks, I was destined to have a horn on my head making me a non-human. This is a fact that cannot be changed.”
Lei Yu gasped, “No wonder… quick! Get up!” While saying this, Lei Yu helped Romon get up.
While getting up, Romon continued: “I have always followed the teachings of father. Whenever there’s thunder and lightning, I would devoutly worship it in order to show my respects to you. Didn’t you use the pseudonym Lightning back then?”
Lei Yu nodded emotionally, “This I know because the Vatican’s Pope had mentioned it to me.”
What made Lei Yu filled with all sorts of emotions was that the people a thousand years ago still remembered his kindness. But the people in society nowadays were filled with deceit, immorality and treachery. In order to reach their goals, they were even willing to sacrifice their own daughters for it. Comparing people to the ones back then, the modern people were truly frightening.
“Benefactor, I feel that your abilities have been improving rapidly. I believe you will soon make a breakthrough and reach the same Gold Core stage as me.But what makes me impressed is that you’ve only cultivated for a few short years while my dull self has cultivated for almost a millennium!”
“Gold Core stage? What… what is that?” As if suddenly remembering something, Lei Yu then asked: “Previously you were conversing with Primus Hogue and mentioned condensing a gold core, what does that mean?”
“Well, it’s like this...” Romon then slowly explained: “In this world, everyone has their own way of cultivating. Some take the general route and ignore training one’s own powerful flesh. Some choose to follow the martial route, even though the progress is slow, their foundations become deep and stable. There’s also some that follow the devil or demonic paths. Oh yeah, Primus Hogue is a cultivator that follows the demonic path including my father. But my father didn’t want me to bear the consequences of demon cultivation and had me follow the most painful path, the ascetic cultivator.” Romon paused when he saw Lei Yu’s face filled with confusion, he then continued: “Before a cultivator condenses their Gold Core, there are six levels they need to break past. And it’s quite clear that benefactor has already broken through to the sixth level. In just a few decades or if quick, maybe only ten plus years, benefactor will be able to break through the bottleneck and condense his Gold Core leaving the Mortal Cultivation realm and becoming what we call an Immortal Cultivator.”
“Immortal Cultivator?”