Celestial Sea Realm.

Su Qing had returned.

The moment he entered, he could feel that everything was completely different.

He took a relaxing stroll along the shore.

Afterward, he took a Teleportation Array to an island at the very edge of the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sect’s territory.

This area of the sea was jointly managed by the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sect and the Moon God Palace.

This vicinity could be considered a no-man’s-land.

Once you went a certain distance out to sea, you were no longer in the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sect’s domain.

The Moon God Palace was one of the Orthodox Sects.

On land, it was quite far from the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sect, but here in the Celestial Sea Realm, with the support of Teleportation Arrays, it wasn’t far at all.

He was still a long way from the unclaimed regions of the Celestial Sea Realm.

Su Qing used his Flying Escape technique.

His profound True Essence meant he didn’t have to worry too much about consumption.

He just had to keep flying toward the unclaimed territories, and he still had a long way to go.

Su Qing estimated it would take him at least a month to arrive.

A month passed.

Su Qing’s estimate had been spot on.

He reached the unclaimed territories.

There were actually quite a few Cultivators around.

When Su Qing passed by an island, he saw many Cultivators there.

Furthermore, the Spiritual Qi was rich everywhere in the Celestial Sea Realm.

Some islands even seemed to have denser Spiritual Qi, though Su Qing didn’t understand why.

Su Qing found a stretch of water with no islands for fifty kilometers in any direction.

He dove to the bottom of the sea.

It was quite deep, over a thousand meters down.

Once he reached the seabed, Su Qing used the Earth Vein Resonance Technique to burrow into the rock layer.

He carved out a small cave within the rock and sat down cross-legged.

’Finally, I can break through.’

’I brought enough Spirit Stones, too.’

’If I run out, I can just keep synthesizing more.’

The only thing Su Qing truly feared was rejection by the heavens and earth.

Fortunately, his Life and Death Reincarnation Dao Foundation could resurrect him.

That was the only reason he dared to practice such a Core Formation Technique.

[Unknown Spirit Stone: Contains a colossal amount of Spiritual Qi, enough to fill 1,000 Great Worlds with Solid Spiritual Qi]

’I refuse to believe I’ll run out of True Essence with this.’

Su Qing gazed at the Unknown Spirit Stone inside the Synthesizer.

’If my Spiritual Qi really isn’t enough, I’ll just use this Spirit Stone to supplement it.’

’Time to begin Core Formation.’

Core Formation didn’t have a Skill Level or anything similar; after all, you could only do it once.

Silently following the Core Formation Technique, Su Qing directed his True Essence to continuously converge upon his Life and Death Reincarnation Dao Foundation.

Then, he activated the True Essence and power from his 365 Acupoint Worlds, setting them in motion.

All the God Demon True Essence in his body surged like a tide onto the Dao Foundation in his Dantian.

The vortex formed by the immense God Demon True Essence was so powerful it ravaged the Great World within his Dantian.

Su Qing lost all track of time.

The vortex slowly began to solidify.

Although he still had a lot of God Demon True Essence, Su Qing knew his Spiritual Qi was insufficient.

’Use,’ he recited inwardly.

The Unknown Spirit Stone from the Synthesizer appeared in the Great World of the Shanzhong Acupoint.

It supplied Su Qing with a vast amount of Spiritual Qi, which he converted into God Demon True Essence.

The process was excruciating for Su Qing.

This was because after a tiny Golden Core appeared, he had to use his True Essence to continuously inscribe it with incredibly complex patterns that he didn’t understand at all.

He had to build the entire surface of the Golden Core with these patterns.

If not for the steadily increasing Skill Level of his Visualization Technique, Su Qing would have had no idea how much time had passed during the construction.

Finally, the last step arrived.

After Su Qing finally finished inscribing all the patterns, the Golden Core atop his Life and Death Reincarnation Dao Foundation began to slowly turn invisible and colorless after emitting faint wisps of light from his Dantian.

If he couldn’t still perceive the Golden Core above his Dao Foundation, Su Qing would have thought it had vanished.

Immediately after,

The Golden Core began to produce an aura.

This aura seeped into everything, flowing along his meridians and cleansing his entire body.

It even cleansed his very soul.

The feeling was like ascending to immortality, making Su Qing feel it had all been worth it.

As the saying goes: "A single Golden Core consumed, my fate is mine, not decided by the heavens."

His essence, qi, and spirit were all sublimated. This was the Golden Core Realm, indeed.

Suddenly, a message from the Golden Core appeared in his soul.

Or rather, the method for using a Divine Technique.

The Devouring Divine Technique.

It could absorb the essence, qi, and spirit of all things, converting them into the purest Life Force and bestowing it upon Su Qing.

’It’s not an Attacking Divine Technique.’

’Instead, it’s a Divine Technique for preserving life? Granting me Life Force... this truly is a God Demon Golden Core.’

’An exclusive Divine Technique. Could it have manifested based on my Quasi-Star River Visualization Map?’

Su Qing could feel that his strength was on a completely different level now.

Even the Spiritual Qi continuously supplied by his Acupoint Worlds now followed his meridians back to his Dantian, where it clung to the Golden Core.

This breakthrough hadn’t been too painful, and there were no signs of rejection from the heavens and earth. ’Is it because of the Synthesizer?’

Golden Core, First Layer [God Demon Inference Heaven Skill: Perfection]

Clarity Perfection [Quasi-Star River Visualization Map: Mastery (172.4897/1000)]

Based on his Visualization Map’s progress, he figured the breakthrough had taken over three months.

"So long... It actually took more than three months," Su Qing lamented.

He did not choose to leave.

There was another Cultivation Technique he needed to practice.

The God Demon Transformation Skill.

The God Demon Transformation Skill was exceptionally easy to cultivate. As a result, Su Qing spent the next six months bringing it to the Perfection realm.

Now, his Cultivation was completely concealed.

He seemed just like a mortal.

...

’Time to leave.’

He had been in this cave for almost a year.

Su Qing stood up, left the rock layer, and tunneled his way back to the water’s surface.

The water’s surface had actually frozen over.

And heavy snow covered a vast expanse of the sea.

The cold wind felt rather pleasant against his skin.

’It’s been a long time since I got some fresh air.’

If he couldn’t perform internal respiration after reaching Foundation Establishment, he would have suffocated in that rock cave long ago.

’I’ve been out here for more than a year now.’

Su Qing didn’t want to go back so soon.

’After cultivating for so long, I want to relax a bit.’

’Now that I’m in a mortal-like state, I can put on a cloak, wander around, and hunt for some treasures.’

’The God Demon Inference Heaven Skill is gone.’

’And it’s impossible to replicate.’

’I might as well forge a new, powerful Golden Core Cultivation Technique myself.’

After lingering over the sea for a while, Su Qing returned to the rock cave where he had been cultivating.

Su Qing had the Golden Core and Nascent Soul Chapters of the Sea-covering True Profound Skill.

Applying God Demon Transformation to it would be no problem at all.

However, the Sea-covering True Profound Skill seemed too focused on the Water Attribute.

Su Qing wasn’t particularly fond of that.

Therefore, he could only replicate the individual Five Elements Foundation Establishment Techniques from before.

Like the Flaming Sun Skill and others.

Then, he would use them all to synthesize with the Sea-covering True Profound Skill.

Su Qing decided not to activate his Talent.

By synthesizing this way, the weighting of the Golden Core Technique wouldn’t be too high.

"Synthesize."

[Synthesis Successful: Forced Synthesis] 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

[Unknown Technique: A Golden Core Technique dominated by the Water Attribute with a small amount of Five Elements Attributes. The mixed attributes reduce the technique’s effectiveness by fifty percent.]

[Synthesis Successful: Forced Synthesis]

[Unknown Technique: A Golden Core Technique dominated by the Water Attribute, with the ability to absorb Five Elements Attributes and convert them to the Water Attribute. Pill Fire Tempering is enhanced by fifty percent.]

[Synthesis Successful: Forced Synthesis]

[Unknown Technique: A Golden Core Technique dominated by the Five Elements Attributes. The Five Elements are Primordial and unified. Pill Fire Tempering is enhanced by fifty percent.]

Having synthesized up to this point, Su Qing could now start triggering his God Demon Transformation Talent.

He then performed seven more syntheses. Among them, he applied God Demon Transformation twice, and then Evolution three times.

In the end, Su Qing obtained:

[God Demon Quenching Pill Technique +3: Condense God Demon True Essence into Pill Fire to temper the God Demon Golden Core. Tempering the God Demon Golden Core to 36,000 Pill Patterns will result in a Forbidden Level flawless God Demon Golden Core ten times more powerful.]

’This is good enough. No more synthesizing.’

Su Qing had a feeling that he would be cultivating this Quenching Pill Technique for a very, very long time.

"Extract."

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