Chapter 702 - 410: Forging the Golden Core

’The Primordial Chaos Qi... it’s so dense it’s actually stirring up a tornado?’

As someone who had been through it, Ye Chenhua quickly figured out what was going on.

Zou Feng was finally undergoing Core Formation...

Although he had long since concluded that Zou Feng was extraordinary and believed the young man had the makings of a True Inheritor, witnessing the legendary Core Formation with his own eyes and comparing it to the disturbance he’d caused during his own...

Ye Chenhua couldn’t help but give a bitter smile. ’Comparisons are the death of you.’

Across from them, the vicious-looking Tribulation Cultivators had intended to deal with Ye Chenhua and Jiang Wanzhao first. But now, seeing that someone was on the verge of Core Formation, they had a bad feeling.

They knew full well that if it was just Ye Chenhua and Jiang Wanzhao, the battle would inevitably end in their victory if it dragged on.

But if their opponents gained another Golden Core Realm Cultivator, the outcome would become uncertain...

No wonder these two True Disciples from the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect hadn’t fled, even though they knew they were outmatched. They were blocking them here, fighting them head-on.

They were buying time for their fellow disciple’s Core Formation!

"Kong Yue, take some men and go!"

He was splitting their forces to stop Zou Feng’s Core Formation. They absolutely could not let the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect gain another Golden Core Realm Cultivator.

After all, an expert knows what to look for. A single glance at the tornado of Primordial Chaos Qi was enough to tell that it was far beyond the norm.

Who the hell’s Core Formation could cause such a terrifying surge of Primordial Chaos Qi? At least, no one present had ever seen anything like it.

The Judge named Kong Yue showed no hesitation. He immediately led three Impermanences and charged toward the tornado.

Seeing this, Ye Chenhua and Jiang Wanzhao wanted to intercept them, but they were stretched too thin.

At that moment, Zou Feng was indeed at the most critical stage of his Core Formation.

Within his Celestial Gate, the Primordial Chaos Qi was rotating and compressing so intensely that it had nearly formed a black hole.

The tornado outside was merely a result of the overflowing Primordial Chaos Qi.

And precisely because this overflowing Primordial Chaos Qi was so powerful, it had inadvertently created an incredibly formidable defensive barrier for Zou Feng.

When Kong Yue and his group got close, they found they had no way to even begin an attack.

No matter the Skill or Magical Treasure, whenever they touched the Primordial Chaos Qi, it was like a child facing a stern father—they had absolutely no effect.

However, as powerful as the Primordial Chaos Qi was, it could only display this passive might under these specific circumstances. Once Zou Feng succeeded in his Core Formation, he wouldn’t be able to wield it at all.

After a round of futile attacks, Kong Yue realized they were just wasting their energy.

But that didn’t mean they had no chance of killing this nascent Golden Core Realm Cultivator from the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect.

The moment the Primordial Chaos Qi fully dissipated and condensed into a Golden Core would be when the young man was at his most vulnerable.

As a Judge, Kong Yue had naturally undergone Core Formation himself. He knew that regardless of who it was, all of a cultivator’s power was consumed in the process. Once they succeeded, they were like a beetle that had just molted—incredibly fragile for a short period.

That would be the perfect opportunity to kill him with ease.

"Stop! Don’t waste your energy!"

"Wait for the tornado to scatter. Before he has time to adjust to the Golden Core Realm, we’ll hit him with a killing blow! One strike to end it!" Kong Yue commanded.

However, his attention was so fixated on the situation inside the tornado that he failed to notice something about the three Impermanences behind him. Though they had obeyed his order to stop, their expressions had turned rather strange...

Inside the tornado, Zou Feng had no idea what was happening outside.

The Primordial Chaos Qi was battering him, remolding his physical body and sea of consciousness to better accommodate the Golden Core.

However, Zou Feng felt that ’Golden Core’ wasn’t quite right. ’Poison Pill’ seemed a more fitting name for the Core he was about to form.

Of course, any Poison Cultivator’s Golden Core was bound to be poisonous, and it was usually a rule-based toxin.

’No wonder I could never completely finish the Refinement of those Golden Core Realm poisons—wolf poison, Dragon Poison, and clam poison. It seems the Dao Foundation Realm is incapable of assimilating rules.’

But now, with Core Formation at hand, none of that was a problem anymore.

The sphere within his Celestial Gate began to slow its rotation, indicating that the Golden Core was about to form and stabilize.

The Core Formation process had been remarkably smooth so far, and Zou Feng couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But in the very instant he sighed in relief, a chilling, probing gaze, filled with an ocean of negative emotions, suddenly appeared in his sea of consciousness.

In that moment, Zou Feng felt like prey targeted by a venomous snake, paralyzed by sheer terror.

He nearly lost the ability to even think.

After a long, stunned moment, Zou Feng finally managed to shake off the influence and immediately realized what he was facing.

The aura emanating from that gaze was actually quite familiar to him.

Who else could it be but the Queen Mother of the Ninefold Celestial Court?

’Before, my connection to the Queen Mother was just a series of random whispers. But now that I’m undergoing Core Formation, the whispers have turned into a direct gaze?’

’But then again,’ he thought, ’with Core Formation, my three Immortal Ascension Skills have all been greatly enhanced. To the Queen Mother, doesn’t that make me the perfect Three-in-One delicacy?’

She must have been drawn by the delectable meal, using the Nine Immortal Ascension Skills as a medium to gaze upon her "ingredient."

But that was all it was. After all, the Nine Immortal Ascension Skills were not Zou Feng’s primary cultivated Skill. As long as he kept his mind clear and wasn’t bewitched by her mental influence, it wouldn’t be a major issue.

Sure enough, after a moment of observation, the gaze vanished, seeing that Zou Feng showed no intention of voluntarily becoming a meal.