Chapter 175 - Zhou Donghuangs Self-Confidence (1/2)

The Capital of the Shenguang Empire.

Yuntai Inn.

“The third Primal Core has finally been successfully amassed… However, the Buddha’s lifeblood, has now already been completely exhausted.”

Zhou Donghuang sat on the bed inside his room. His eyes seemed to flash when he opened them, and at the same time, three misty white shapes of Primal Core energy seemed to form and float within the very core of his body.

Three Primal Cores.

Now, Zhou Donghuang was yet another step closer to entering the Primal Core stage required to achieve the Lord of the Four Supremes technique.

If he were just able to amass and concentrate the fourth core, he would then have formally entered the early Primal Core level of practice that would allow him to master the Lord of the Four Supremes and also have complete control of the power of the four cores.

And when that happened, with just the essential core alone, he would be able to easily crush his fellow adepts.

He would even be able to crush a mid Primal Core adept.

The core amassed by a mid Primal Core adept was usually twice as strong as that of the power that could be amassed by the everyday early Primal Core adept.

However, the power of the four cores that Zhou Donghuang could amass from the essential core within was, in fact, three whole times stronger compared to that of a regular early Primal Core adept!

So, of course, it went without saying that the three cores that Zhou Donghuang could currently amass, could quite easily crush all of his peers of the same level of practice.

Even if he had to depend on his essential core alone, he could very well be on par with that of a mid Primal Core adept.

Ziyun Era, the third month of the Year 1231.

A 20-year-old Zhou Donghuang could now readily amass the power of three cores and advance into another level of practice.

“With the strength I now possess, coupled with the superior spirit weapon… I can stop any Golden Essence adept of this age, in all of Ziyun!”

An overwhelming sense of self-confidence seemed to exude from Zhou Donghuang.

“Out of a thousand spirit stones, only a third of them have been consumed.”

Zhou Donghuang’s gaze quickly fell to the thousand spirit stones arranged in an energy-amassing formation and found that the stones were about a third dimmer than they were before.

Despite this, it meant that about two-thirds of spirit energy still resided in each of these spirit stones.

“If I were to continue practicing without the Buddha’s lifeblood… I would have no way of amassing the fourth primal core, even if I did consume the thousand spirit stones entirely.”

Shaking his head, Zhou Donghuang put away the thousand spirit stones that were on his bed and immediately got up and out of his room.

“Still, not bad… I’ve reached the late Connate stage.”

After leaving the room, Zhou Donghuang went to the other corner of the yard and looked at the golden-crowned eagle, Big Gold, and found that Big Gold seemed to have grown a little bigger from two months ago.

“This is thanks to your spirit stones and the Connate core, young master.”

With the help of the Connate core refined by Zhou Donghuang and the spirit stone that his master had given time ago, Big Gold’s progress during this time improved tremendously, even surpassing Su Mo.

There was more to be said of Big Gold’s training, whose beast training methods were taken from Zhou Donghuang himself. Although these training techniques were not, in Zhou Donghuang’s recollection, the finest, compared to the Thousand-Star Sword Technique, Fiery Thunder Training Regimen or Manual of Unruffled Sage—the top three methods of human cultivation in the universe—they did not fare much worse.

“At present, even Little Gold has just entered the Connate stage… in fact, he might not have even reached that level yet.”

Zhou Donghuang laughed as he shook his head, saying, “If Little Gold were to know about this, that you have already reached achieved the Connate stage… I’m afraid he would be driven mad with jealousy.”

“Haha…!”

At Zhou Donghuang’s words, Big Gold could almost imagine the look of defeat on Little Gold’s face, and to a certain extent, he really hoped to see it. “Young master, two months ago, you said that you had plans to return. When then, will we return?”

“After a few more days, maybe.”

There was a glint in Zhou Donghuang’s eye. “These few days, I am hoping to gather another batch of herbs and spirit stones from the capital of Shenguang Empire… We have so many people with us, and everyone needs a spirit stone to practice.”

As for the herbs, these were for Zhou Donghuang and needed to be used for the refinement of the core drugs.

Of course, the core drugs that Zhou Donghuang were able to refine up to this point were of no particular use to him; they were to be set aside for his family’s use.

“It won’t be long before we have to leave Ziyun.

“But before we leave… I want to do my best to help create the best environment for them to cultivate their powers.”

This was what Zhou Donghuang had decided to do.

Of course, it was clear to Zhou Donghuang that if he were to return this time, it would not be his last time.

He would not leave until he has solved every issue in Ziyun and until he could push Ziyun to the point of invincibility.

“Master.”

As Su Mo’s voice traveled across to him, Zhou Donghuang seemed to suddenly return to his senses and looked towards Su Mo. “What stage are you at now? Are you close to attaining mid Primal Core?”

“Not by a mile.”

Su Mo was a little embarrassed. “I feel that… after entering the Primal Core stage, that even with the spirit stone and the Buddha’s lifeblood that you have bestowed upon me to help, the speed of my cultivation has still been very slow.”

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Zhou Donghuang shook his head as he raised his hands, and out of nowhere, a space ring, wrapped in a faint white mist, seemed to shoot out from one of his fingers and fly in front of Su Mo.

“This space ring once belonged to the Divine Light Sect’s seventeenth elder, Liu Xuanyu… I have since re-cultivated it again, and the space it holds is now two square meters, up from just one square meter before.