If this man's Golden Core does not shatter, I'm afraid we are in grave danger, Li Tianqing thought, his heart turning cold.
Zhao Yanliang was the youngest among the Yan-generation members of the Zhao family, only a few years older than the eldest young master, Zhao Ziyu, and far lower in cultivation than Zhao Yanlong and the others.
He had used his Golden Core to stabilize the black iron pellet, suffering a devastating blow as a result, making his death an utterly aggrieved one.
Experts of the Golden Core Realm like him had already begun to forge their Golden Cores, using the power of the core to temper their physical bodies and refine away the impurities of the flesh.
The physical body of a Golden Core Realm expert was bound to be extremely powerful, no longer as fragile as the four stages of the Qi Refining Stage.
Furthermore, cultivators of the Golden Core Realm would deliberately practice physical cultivation techniques to enhance their close-combat strength. For instance, among the cultivators of the Quanzhou Li Family, once they advanced to the Golden Core Realm, the lineage would provide eight kinds of body-refining methods for them to choose from.
The Xinxiang Zhao Family might not have had a foundation as profound as the Li family, but they should have possessed similar methods.
The power Zhao Yanliang's body could unleash was definitely not inferior to Chen Shi's!
The primary reason his skull was shattered by Chen Shi's strike was that his Golden Core had been blasted to pieces, leaving him grievously wounded, and when facing Chen Shi, he could not even exert his physical strength, which was why he was cut down by Chen Shi.
Had he not been injured, even without the Golden Core, in close-quarters combat it would remain unknown whose