Chapter 428

Chapter 428: Perfect Golden Elixir Method! Gold-Eating Beast!

“I’ve finally deduced the framework for the first three stages of the Golden Core Realm. This technique was much more difficult than I expected.”

Inside the Jade Cave, Lu Qing opened his eyes, a sigh in his eyes.

A month had passed since he slew the gray-robed man.

During this month, Lu Qing had accomplished a great deal.

For example, he rearranged the village’s formations, passed on the water-based technique he had learned from the white-robed youth to Xiaoyan,

and selected two suitable magical artifacts for his master to refine.

Of course, he devoted the majority of his time to creating a technique that best suited his own cultivation.

Lu Qing had originally thought that with the aid of supernatural powers, creating his own technique wouldn’t take too long.

However, his optimism proved overly optimistic.

Creating his own technique proved far more challenging than he had anticipated.

Even with the help of supernatural powers, and with references from the Dao chapters and numerous techniques,

it still took him a month to deduce the first three stages of the Golden Core Method that suited him.

And besides the first stage, which he had fully deduced, the remaining two stages were still just frameworks.

He would still need to slowly deduce and supplement the details in the days ahead.

“But at least I’ve figured it out. What should I name it?”

Lu Qing stroked his chin, pondering.

As his future primary cultivation method, he still wanted a catchy name.

However, after much thought, Lu Qing still couldn’t come up with a good name.

In the end, he could only sigh in compromise.

“Well, from now on, this method will be called the [Perfect Golden Elixir Method].”

Coincidentally, the name also suited the characteristics of his Golden Elixir.

After deciding on a name for the method, Lu Qing prepared to begin practicing it. No matter

how well a method was deduced, its effectiveness could only be determined after actual practice.

Immediately, Lu Qing focused his mind and breath, calming his emotions. He then entered a state of meditation, practicing the [Perfect Golden Elixir Method] he had deduced.

As a method he had personally deduced, every detail had been carefully considered and deduced countless times.

Even though it was his first time practicing formally, Lu Qing found the technique effortless and quickly entered a state of enlightenment.

As his mind flowed, the rich spiritual energy within the cavern suddenly surged, being continuously absorbed into his body.

Soon after, after completing a small cycle of circulation, Lu Qing felt a slight increase in his mana.

“It’s working!”

Lu Qing cheered up and immediately continued practicing.

With each small cycle of circulation, the spiritual energy within the cavern was absorbed in large quantities.

The formation within the Jade Cavern also began to operate, continuously gathering spiritual energy from the outside world to replenish it.

With this abundant supply of spiritual energy, the mana elixir within Lu Qing’s Dantian Qi Sea gradually grew stronger as he practiced.

However, half an hour later, Lu Qing frowned and opened his eyes.

He noticed that the spiritual energy within the cavern had become much thinner.

The speed at which the formation within the Jade Cavern could not even keep up with the spiritual energy he needed to practice.

Feeling the slowly recovering spiritual energy within the cave, Lu Qing suddenly grasped a crystalline, warm stone.

It was a low-grade spiritual stone.

There was no other way. According to the [Perfect Golden Elixir Method] he had deduced

, every thirty-six small cycles of cultivation completed a large cycle.

And only one large cycle of cultivation was considered a complete first-level cultivation.

Now, before he had even completed a single Grand Circulation, the cave’s spiritual energy supply was already depleted, forcing him to resort to using spirit stones for cultivation.

With the spirit stone in hand, Lu Qing immediately channeled the spiritual energy within through his mind.

The next moment, a surge of majestic spiritual energy erupted, rapidly absorbed by Lu Qing.

As expected of a treasure considered a strategic resource by the immortal sects of the ancient era of cultivation, even a low-grade spirit stone contained an incomparably rich spiritual energy.

Its purity far surpassed that of ordinary spiritual energy.

With the aid of the spirit stone, Lu Qing’s Small Circulations became much faster.

After completing round after round of Small Circulations, the thirty-sixth Small Circulation finally concluded,

Lu Qing felt a tremor in his body, and the mana elixir within him began to swirl slowly, like a millstone.

When the swirls ceased, he could clearly sense a slight increase in the power of his mana elixir.

Sensing these changes, Lu Qing’s face lit up with joy.

The increase in the magical elixir’s power proved that the first stage of the Golden Elixir Technique he had deduced was completely flawless.

However, after his elation, Lu Qing frowned again.

He sensed the low-grade spirit stone in his hand and discovered that its spiritual energy had been depleted by about one-fifth.

Just one Grand Circulation had consumed one-fifth of the spiritual energy of a low-grade spirit stone.

This didn’t even take into account the vast amount of spiritual energy stored in the Jade Transformation Cavern.

How many spirit stones would it take to fully cultivate this first stage?

Of course, besides spirit stones, elixirs could also boost cultivation.

The storage magic tools left behind by the gray-robed man and his fellow disciples contained some cultivation-boosting elixirs.

However, Lu Qing estimated that even if those elixirs were included, they wouldn’t sustain his cultivation for much longer.

After calculating the cost, Lu Qing’s expression suddenly darkened.

The perfect golden elixir he had condensed was indeed powerful, but the resources required to cultivate it were truly terrifying.

He had originally thought that with the resources left behind by the gray-robed man and his fellow disciples, he would never lack cultivation resources for a long time.

But now it seemed he was too optimistic.

This perfect golden elixir within him was a true gold-eating beast!

After pondering for a while, Lu Qing couldn’t come up with a good solution and had to put the matter aside for the time being.

He knew it was unavoidable.

The perfect golden elixir was of such a high grade and its power was so immense.

Improving the power of such a powerful elixir would naturally be extremely difficult.

Every subsequent leveling of his golden elixir would likely consume a vast amount of resources.

“I guess I need to explore more when I have time.

According to Senior Yan, spirit stones are generally only formed in places with intense spiritual pressure.

If we can find one or two spirit stone mines, perhaps we can solve our cultivation resource problem.”

Yan had once said that in the ancient era of immortal cultivation, the discovery of a spirit stone mine would trigger a massive conflict.

Spirit stones were a strategic resource, and no sect could afford to ignore them.

Even for powerful spirits, the more spirit stones the better, and they would never be dissatisfied.

Therefore, once an unowned spirit stone mine appears, it will inevitably be fought over by many parties, and blood and rain will flow.

Of course, Lu Qing doesn’t need to worry about such things now.

With his current strength, he doesn’t think there is anyone in the world who can snatch food from his hands.

“However, we can talk about traveling around the world later, but there are some grudges that can be settled now.”

Lu Qing’s eyes suddenly showed a hint of coldness.

(End of this chapter)