526 The Best Cook (1/2)

The Best Cook1

The cultivation of immortal path should not be done in haste. If the foundation was not strong enough, then the future achievements would be limited. For most of the orthodox cultivators, this was basically the common sense the masters repeatedly taught their disciples at the beginning of the cultivation.

However, for someone, common sense is just something to be broken.

”... In regard to our current situation, I think I have made myself clear.”

In the main hall of the Dragon Palace, the voice of Ouyang Shang echoed lightly, but it was like a hammer in the hearts of everyone.

Black tide, sewage, three years deadline… Even if all the people present were elites, the heavy pressure could not be ignored.

”But we are far from hopeless. For us, three years is too much… From now on, everyone's first priority is to break through their current stage at all costs. In three years, I want all of you to reach Jindan Stage.”

”What?”

Before his voice even fell, there was already an uproar in the hall.

Ouyang Shang's prestige was beyond doubt, but because of his personality, his Junior Brothers and Sisters were not afraid of him. At this time, hearing that they would have to reach Jindan Stage within three years, they were inexplicably astonished.

”Senior Brother, you're funny. Jindan Stage in three years, o you think you're making instant noodles?”

”Jindan Stage in three years… We need help from the immortal world's panacea.”

”If it's Senior Brother Yang Fei, Senior Brother Zhang Sheng, and the others, then that's fine since they're already in Peak Xudan Stage, and it's not important to jump a stage ahead of time. But for us who are still in low-level Xudan… it is possible for us to advance to middle-level Xudan in three years if we double our effort. But if it's Jindan... that's simply a joke.”

”Alas, I haven't even reached Xudan Stage, am I not even more hopeless?”

This chaotic discussion continued for quite sometime before Ouyang Shang began to talk again.

As soon as he opened his mouth, the discussion immediately stopped.

”No one is asking you to condense a pure golden core, as long as you have a golden core, or even an 18 karat gold… even a lump of gold is enough!”

As a result, just as his voice fell, everyone began to quarrel again. ”A lump of gold? Then that's just a waste core!”

”Is golden generation going to become golden lump generation?”

Ouyang Shang sighed. ”Even if it's a waste core, it's still a kind of golden core… In short, in three years time, I want to see seventy-three Daoist Masters of Jindan Stage. If not, this place will be our burial ground.”

After listening to this, everyone immediately went silent.

That was true. Now was not the time to pick and choose. Outside the Dragon Palace, the huge black tide had completely polluted the Blessed Fountain, which had strong corrosion effect and sinister poison—without the body protection of Jindan Stage, it would be really hard to resist. When they were doing the cleaning, although everyone was on full alert, still, two of them were injured accidentally by the power contained in the sewage.

If they wanted to break away from the Dragon Palace, the pressure would increase by hundreds of times. Except for several people, this would be a dead end for everyone else.

For the elites present in the scene, they could indeed have great progress, comprehend the essence of the sword intent further, manage to greatly cultivate a method, or refine a powerful piece of original magical treasure… But in such a desperate situation like the present, those were just as fleeting as clouds… Logically, there was nothing more effective than having the golden core.

Even if it was just a lump of gold.

The title of Daoist Master was only granted in Jindan Stage. This custom had its own meaning.

In the cultivation of immortal path, such as body refinement, qi cultivating, and foundation establishment… in the earliest great desolation era, this kind of division in cultivation base didn't exist. At that time, everyone's path of cultivation was unique, so it was difficult to have a unified standard in the results of the cultivation. For the last few thousand years, it was gradually discovered that after practicing to a certain extent, cultivators would have special abilities that they had never had before, and this made the strength of the cultivators greatly differ from that of the previous ones, thus there was this division of stage.

Among which, Jindan Stage was an important watershed stage. Perhaps for the gifted cultivators from great sects, Jindan Stage was only a matter of time, so their goal was a long-term one. However, actually, for the vast majority of the cultivators, as long as they could have a golden core, even if it was just a lump of gold, they would die without regret.

Moreover, as for the present elites, they could make up for the lack of quality of the golden core in a variety of ways, at worst, under the care of their elders, they could break it and recast it. Although it would be very hard and difficult, it would be of great benefit in the end. In short, the seventy-three gold lump tactic was indeed feasible.