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Translator: AnubisTL
Because his advancement had proceeded so smoothly, Jieming didn't need to exert himself too much.
Without hesitation, he reached for the magic potion beside him, originally intended for his advancement. He uncorked the bottle and drained it in one gulp!
Boom!
The potion's immense medicinal power instantly erupted within his body, surging like a flood breaching a dam, crashing through his limbs and bones.
For an ordinary cultivator who had just advanced, this would have been a moment of frantic effort to guide and refine the energy, lest it overwhelm and shatter their meridians.
But Jieming simply allowed the torrent to flow unchecked, letting his lower dantianāa bottomless abyssādevour it with insatiable hunger!
The medicinal power was efficiently transformed into pure spiritual power, which was then relentlessly drawn into his dantian, fueling the slowly rotating golden core.
Through some mysterious process, this energy surged into his rapidly expanding internal space!
The process continued for a long time, until the medicinal power of the potionāenough to stabilize the realm of an ordinary golden core cultivator and leave plenty to spareāwas completely exhausted. Only then did the terrifying suction of his lower dantian gradually subside.
Jieming eagerly submerged his consciousness into his internal space.
"This is...!"
Even though he had mentally prepared himself, the sight before him left him utterly stunned.
The gray, misty space, originally no larger than a single room, had undergone a complete transformation!
The boundaries of the space expanded rapidly in all directions, its vastness now easily capable of accommodating a small village.
What delighted Jieming most was that the space's ceiling was no longer a chaotic void. Instead, faint signs of separation between clear and turbid elements had begun to emerge.
Though still empty, it now evoked the nascent feeling of "high skies and clear clouds."
The space below also possessed a newfound sense of solidity, something it had never exhibited before.
Without a doubt, if this evolution continued, this internal space would transform into a genuine world!
"I never imagined the space would expand so dramatically!" Jieming's face beamed with unrestrained joy.
This harvest far exceeded his initial expectations.
Moreover, the changes brought about by the golden core realm extended far beyond this.
Calming his mind, Jieming sensed a comprehensive enhancement of his essence, qi, and spirit. His five senses had become sharper, his thought processes accelerated, and the resilience and regenerative capabilities of his fleshly body had skyrocketed.
Furthermore, the true essence from his foundation establishment realm had completely transformed into a higher-level power, one that resonated more closely with the fundamental laws of heaven and earth.
Whether casting spells, refining magic treasures, or crafting talismans, both the effectiveness and efficiency of these arts would be significantly improved.
"At this stage, it can no longer be called true essence. It should now be referred to as spiritual power."
Of course, the most crucial change was the increase in his lifespan!
Under normal circumstances, Jieming wouldn't have paid much attention to changes in lifespan, thanks to the life-extending surgeries provided by the wizard system.
However, the lifespan increase at the golden core realm far exceeded his expectations.
The qi refining realm granted a lifespan of 180 years, while the foundation establishment realm extended it to 800 years.
But the golden core realm... According to records in the Great Dao Library Pavilion, the longest-lived golden core realm cultivator in recorded cultivation history had lived for an astonishing 1,120,000 years!
Their ultimate cause of death was the natural decay of their soul to its absolute limit, beyond the reach of any soul-prolonging treasures, rather than the deterioration of their fleshly body.
In other words, once one achieved the golden core, the fleshly body theoretically attained immortality.
The lifespan limit then shifted to the soul lifespan!
The length of the soul lifespan depended on the cultivator's willpower and the soul-strengthening treasures and medicinal pills they had consumed.
After thoroughly examining his rejuvenated state, Jieming rose to his full height, a sense of unprecedented power and control surging through him.
Suppressing his excitement, he dashed into the laboratory like a gust of wind.
For the next few months, the laboratory blazed with light, filled with the hum of energy fluctuations and strange buzzing sounds.
Jieming immersed himself in the ocean of knowledge and the passion of creation.
Combining his newfound understanding of energy control in the golden core realm, Jieming began refining and creating his rune-imbued magical artifacts.
These artifacts were originally his unique weapon system, blending the wizard's principle of "leveraging knowledge to amplify power" with the immortal cultivator's method of "drawing upon the power of heaven and earth through one's own strength."
During the Qi Training and foundation establishment realms, limited by the scale of external power he could draw upon, the rune-imbued magical artifacts primarily focused on firing speed and continuous output. This led to the "Great Light Phase" model, which relied on terrifying firing rates and sheer volume to create suppressive barrages.
However, the absolute destructive power of each individual attack remained limited, and the high energy consumption even required additional power sources.
But now, everything had changed!
In the golden core realm, Jieming's ability to sense and manipulate the energy of heaven and earth had undergone a qualitative leap.
He could finally integrate the "drawing upon external power" aspect more deeply into the core destructive power of his rune-imbued magical artifacts!
Months later, Jieming stood before a desolate mountain range in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, its peaks riddled with veins of hard metal ore. He held a newly refined rune-imbued magical artifact, no larger than his thumb but with a structure several times more complex, its entire body resembling pure crystal.
"First... let's test its effectiveness."
With a thought, he activated the artifact's basic functions.
Whoosh...
An unassuming energy bullet, no larger than a fist, shot forth from the tip of the talismanic seal.
Silently slicing through the air, it struck a distant peak nearly a kilometer high, composed of high-density metallic ore.
The next moment...
BOOM!!!
A deafening roar shook the heavens and earth, the world losing all color.
An indescribably terrifying sphere of incandescent light erupted, expanding explosively to engulf the entire upper half of the mountain peak.
Immediately following was a ground-shaking shockwave, radiating outward in a visible ring. The tangible air surged outward like a colossal tsunami.
This was no mere explosion or collapse.
Under Jieming's solemn gaze, the upper half of the struck peak vanished as if wiped away by an invisible giant hand, vaporizing into nothingness within the blinding white light.
Beneath the explosion's center, the rock strataācontaining over seventy percent metalāwere peeled back and shattered layer by layer, crumbling like brittle cookies.
The earth shattered into millions of tons of metallic fragments and molten magma, hurled thousands of meters into the air before crashing back down like a cataclysmic meteor shower.
Smoke and dust billowed, and thunderous roars shook the ground, as if the end of the world had arrived.
Jieming hovered in mid-air, a faint shield enveloping him, deflecting the shockwaves and debris.
He gazed at the utterly transformed landscape before himāthe massive crater, tens of meters deep and over a kilometer in diameterāand his eyes blazed with brilliant light.
"It worked!" he murmured, his voice barely audible, yet trembling with barely suppressed excitement.
Amplified by the channeled elemental power, the force of this strike had surpassed the capabilities of a second-tier wizard, firmly reaching the destructive level of a third-tier spell!
This meant that a single strike from him now possessed the terrifying power to obliterate an entire city!
(End of the Chapter)
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