NOVGO.NET Chapter 800 - Chapter 800: Chapter 750: A Golden Core of the Lightning Attribute?
Chapter 800: Chapter 750: A Golden Core of the Lightning Attribute?
Golden Core is the only core where the essence, qi, and spirit of a cultivator on the Golden Core Dao fuse together; it is also the fundamental basis of all their cultivation. For many cultivators, the Golden Core is the most crucial thing, far more important than their physical bodies.
After all, even if the physical body is damaged, as long as the Golden Core remains intact, one can still recondense it at a high cost. However, if the Golden Core is damaged, it can lead to severe injury and decline in cultivation at best, and at worst, to death and the complete dissipation of their Dao.
Therefore, even if a cultivator has condensed a Golden Core, they cannot allow others to easily inspect it, to protect their own secrets.
Now, with Pang Hong releasing his Golden Core without any reservations, it shows the level of respect and trust he has for Pei Xuanjing.
Of course, what shocked Pei Xuanjing wasn’t something else but the unusual aspect of Pang Hong’s Golden Core that he had spoken about just moments earlier.
An intangible, ever-rotating Golden Core is very normal, but in addition to the strands of immortal aura surrounding this Golden Core, there is also the power of thunderbolt circling it, as if this thunderbolt had completely merged with the Golden Core.
“Is this… the power of Innate Divine Thunder?” Pei Xuanjing felt an oddly familiar sensation from the thunderbolt’s power, and asked with some uncertainty.
The Shenxiao Sect was an expert in the Thunder Path, and after Pei Xuanjing pioneered the Longevity World, he too had experienced Innate Divine Thunder during the process of Opening the Heavens and Splitting the Earth and had refined a strand of Innate Divine Thunder, naming it Nine Heavens Divine Thunder.
Feeling the power of the thunderbolt upon Pang Hong’s Golden Core, he recognized a familiar sensation, although it was different from the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder he controlled, the essence of Innate Divine Thunder could not be concealed.
However, with the expansion of the Longevity World, Innate Divine Thunder had already dispersed into the forces of Heaven and Earth, and even Pei Xuanjing, as the pioneer of the world, might not be able to capture Innate Divine Thunder again.
Now that Pang Hong had integrated a strand of Innate Divine Thunder power into his Golden Core, it indeed surprised Pei Xuanjing very much.
“This is the result of an unintentional encounter during my Thunder Tribulation…” Pang Hong recounted his experience in detail.
According to him, his Golden Core was initially quite normal, but during his Thunder Tribulation, he used some of the Shenxiao Sect’s Thunder Methods to counter the forces of thunderbolt, thus inadvertently infusing a thunderbolt force into his body. Subsequently, it merged with the Golden Core, resulting in this situation.
Moreover, after this thunderbolt force entered his body, not only did it cause him no harm, but it also continued to refine his Golden Core, speeding up its condensation and even starting to slowly remedy the imperfections resulting from using Pei Xuanjing’s immortal aura during their initial formation…
“So it could be said that the transformative power of thunderbolt might be one way to compensate for the shortcuts in the Golden Core’s formation?” Pei Xuanjing couldn’t help but think to himself.
Originally he was somewhat concerned that his own intervention in helping Pang Hong condense a Golden Core with immortal aura might lead to an unstable foundation and future cultivation obstacles.
But now, Pei Xuanjing couldn’t help but entertain some other ideas, especially if Pang Hong’s serendipitous use of Thunder Methods to counteract the imperfections in the Golden Core wasn’t just a fluke. It suggested that the potential of the Golden Core Dao might exceed his current understanding.
“Perhaps, besides my most traditional type of Golden Core, it’s also possible to condense Golden Cores with unique attributes. Although such Golden Cores may not be as pure as mine, their uniqueness could give a substantial boost to one’s cultivation in a certain Taoist Skill,” Pei Xuanjing thought.
He reflected on past life knowledge, where Golden Cores were differentiated into various types, each corresponding to different Taoist Skill attributes. If his own Golden Core was considered the most pure and accommodating, then there should be other types of Golden Cores that correspond to the Five Elements, Wind and Thunder, and other attribute Taoist Skills.
“If the mutation of a Golden Core or, say, the attributes of a Golden Core, are not uniform, then there could be another possibility—different attributes of Golden Cores could carry completely different effects,” Pei Xuanjing speculated in his heart.
Pei Xuanjing’s own Golden Core encompassed many things, so he had believed that all Golden Cores contained these elements, but now Pang Hong’s Golden Core showed Pei Xuanjing many differences.
Moreover, if such a conjecture proved true, it would also mean that the conditions required to condense a Golden Core would be fewer and the threshold correspondingly lowered.
Although the Golden Core Dao is powerful, not everyone can cultivate it, or to be precise, the barrier to entry is high. Even now, despite Pei Xuanjing creating a Dao from scratch and proving its viability, and even formulating a systematic approach, not everyone is capable of pursuing this path, as the implicit barrier has stopped countless individuals.
For Pei Xuanjing, this is not a desirable situation because what he wants is to propagate and glorify the Golden Core Dao, to give more cultivators more options.
If the Golden Core Dao becomes an elitist cultivation method, losing its universality, then it would somewhat contradict Pei Xuanjing’s original intention.
Pang Hong’s experience has given Pei Xuanjing some inspiration and ideas, making him wonder if he had overlooked something, perhaps treating the Golden Core as a tool and not something every cultivator must perfect. They may not need to encompass too much, but to specialize in their own systems, and perhaps this could open the Golden Core Dao to more cultivators.
“In the coming time, find some disciples within the sect willing to follow the Golden Core Dao from the batch you select. Tell them that their master is willing to assist in condensing their Golden Cores as an experiment,” Pei Xuanjing said after some thought to Pang Hong.
With these speculations in mind, Pei Xuanjing immediately had plans to verify them, so he prepared to send Pang Hong back to the Daming World to seek out disciples within the Shenxiao Sect for this experiment.
Similarly, Pei Xuanjing’s avatar within the Taoist Academy contacted Qingyang Zi, the vice dean, instructing him to select a group of disciples who had cultivated the Nine Revolutions Divine Sky Skill and to enter the Longevity World for the same experiment.
Even though Pei Xuanjing had previous success in assisting Pang Hong to condense a Golden Core, he still needed to conduct experiments to determine whether it was coincidence or inevitability. He needed more people to help him refine this idea further.
In the Longevity World, Pei Xuanjing had the assurance that even if these individuals failed to condense their Golden Cores, he could prevent them from sustaining significant harm. Whether they succeeded or failed, they would provide many insights to Pei Xuanjing, allowing him to search for the true answers using these cases as references.