Golden Core Cultivator!

"Asura God, how dare you!"

Just as Bo Saixi was about to perish, a clear, cold shout suddenly rang out, followed by a flash of golden light. Zhou Chen stood in front of Bo Saixi, and his blue- Golden Soul Ring rose up!

As the Soul Ring lit up, a set of armor, entirely purple-gold and engraved with mysterious and ancient patterns, suddenly protected Zhou Chen!

The next second, seven Star Power from the Big Dipper descended from the sky, shattering the spatial barrier and smashing the dome of the Sea God Hall, shining like spotlights onto the purple-gold armor!

Infused with Star Power, the mysterious runes on the armor suddenly lit up, connecting into silver starlight patterns that converged on the surface of the armor to form a Heavenly Star map!

This is the Violet Firmament Supreme Emperor Bright Light Armor of the Arctic Zenith Grand Emperor!

"Mere humans dare to block the Asura God Sword? Delusion!"

Seeing this, a deep sense of fear flashed in the eyes of the Asura God, but he refused to show any weakness and slashed down with the Asura God Sword in his hand even faster!

"Boom!!!"

A deafening roar, like thunder, shook the entire Sea God Hall. The massive Asura God Sword was blocked in mid-air by a pale blue starlight barrier. The blade rubbed against the starlight barrier, sparks flying, but it could not cut through it even slightly!

Above the starlight barrier, a Taiji Diagram was slowly rotating, its mysterious aura seemingly containing the ultimate truths of heaven and earth!

This starlight barrier, shimmering with the phantom of the Taiji Diagram, is the Violet Firmament Supreme Emperor Bright Light Armor inscribed on the armor by the Taishang Laojun, also known as the Taiqing Sage, Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning Venerable, with celestial talismans when the Purple Heaven Mysterious Vault Supreme Emperor Taiqing Yin Yang Glazed Wall was forged, referencing the innate supreme treasure Taiji Diagram.

This supernatural power is incredibly profound and mysterious. It can neutralize all attacks, quell the elements of earth, water, wind, and fire, transform yin and yang and the five elements, and unravel the mysteries of the heavenly way. It is almost indestructible!

Although the Asura God Sword is Super Divine Artifact specializing in the path of slaughter, it can only be blocked outside the Taiqing Yin Yang Glazed Wall and cannot advance an inch!

"Asura God, this is your attack, take it!!"

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Chen's hands moved swiftly to form hand seals. The illusory Taiji Diagram suddenly deflected the Asura God Sword, and the blood-red sword light that the Asura God Sword had unleashed when it struck down was also completely deflected back!

"How is that possible?!"

The Asura God's blood-red pupils suddenly contracted, and he was shocked. In a hurry, he swung the Asura God Sword to block the rebounding blood-red sword light.

Although the Asura God did not use his full strength in this attack, he still used 30% of his power. Even if the Dragon God, who dominated the Divine Realm hundreds of thousands of years ago, were to be reincarnated, he would only be able to parry and would have no power to fight back!

After all, the Asura God has not wasted these hundreds of thousands of years; his strength has greatly increased since the time of the Dragon God War!

However, facing this attack, Zhou Chen not only calmly blocked it, but also reflected the blood-red sword light full of killing intent back at the Asura God, causing the Asura God's blood to surge!

How is that possible?

Just as the Asura God was shocked, the former Sea God Poseidon did not hesitate at all. He seized the opportunity and punched Bo Saixi, who was being protected by Zhou Chen!

Poseidon's thinking was simple: while this young man from the Xuanyuan Family was defending against the attack of the Asura God, he would attack from behind, deal with the seriously injured Bo Saixi first, and take back the Sea God Trident, which was ranked among the Super Divine Artifact, just like the Asura God Sword!

With the Sea God Trident, Poseidon's strength will increase greatly. When he joins forces with the Asura God to attack, he will have no trouble defeating that kid!

Seeing Poseidon's sudden attack, the Asura God reacted and slashed down with his sword, joining forces with Poseidon to attack from both sides!

This time, the Asura God used seventy percent of his power!

"Clang! Clang!"

Two powerful impacts rang out simultaneously. Three feet in front of Zhou Chen, the Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram slowly rotated, still preventing the Asura God Sword from advancing an inch.

Behind Zhou Chen, a huge phantom of a tortoise and Black Tortoise intertwined was unleashing a powerful shockwave, so much so that the former Sea God Poseidon was forced to retreat repeatedly before he could even get close!

Immediately afterwards, the phantom of Black Tortoise transformed into a deity dressed in a black robe, golden armor and jade belt, wielding a sword and glaring angrily, standing on a tortoise and snake, with a halo above his head!

This majestic and awe-inspiring deity is none other than the True Martial Great Emperor, known in the Heavenly Court as the Righteous Saint True Lord and the Nine Heavens Demon Subduing Celestial Worthy, a divine thought imprinted within the Supreme Emperor Bright Light Armor!

In mythology, True Martial Great Emperor and the Arctic Zenith Grand Emperor were closely related. When the Great Emperor of the North Pole was forging a divine treasure, True Martial Great Emperor would naturally lend a helping hand.

"What kind of evil spirit dares to invade the Emperor's domain?"

A grand and majestic voice rang out, and as soon as the words fell, the phantom of the True Martial Great Emperor, wielding the Demon Slaying Immortal Sword, slashed down at Poseidon!

"Pfft!"

The Demon Slaying Immortal Sword was so powerful that Poseidon, who had lost the Super Divine Artifact Sea God Trident, could not withstand it with his bare hands and had one of his arms cut off by the sword!

If Poseidon hadn't dodged in time, the True Martial Great Emperor's sword would have been enough to sever the head of this former Sea God!

"Which Divine Realm's god-king is this?"

Poseidon looked terrified, stretching out his enormous hand to cover the huge wound on his shoulder, constantly urging his divine power to try to regenerate his severed arm!

However, what's terrible is that because of the Demon-Subduing Immortal Power of the True Martial Great Emperor that remained on the wound, Poseidon's Sea God Divine Power was completely ineffective and naturally could not cause the severed arm to regrow.

This made Poseidon even more frightened, and he retreated repeatedly, not daring to attack again.

Seeing this, the phantom of the True Martial Great Emperor nodded and then suddenly disappeared.

The sword strike aimed at Poseidon had already consumed most of the phantom's immortal power, forcing this phantom of the True Martial Great Emperor to return to the Supreme Emperor Armor to nurture its divine sense.

After all, no matter how strong the True Martial Great Emperor was, a mere phantom of his divine sense could not project much immortal power, and the immortal power of his divine sense could not be replenished in a short time. It could only lie dormant within his armor and slowly recover.

With Poseidon temporarily disabled, Zhou Chen was able to focus on dealing with the Asura God of Asura God, who finally became completely serious.

As a god-king who specializes in the path of slaughter and possesses the Super Divine Artifact, the Asura God Sword, the Asura God's strength is unparalleled in the Divine Realm. Even the other god-kings dare not contend with the Asura God Sword!

When the Asura God gets serious, his combat power immediately skyrockets!

The Asura God held a sword in one hand and extended two fingers of the other, forming a sword with his fingers together. Dark red killing power condensed at his fingertips and was then slowly smeared onto the Asura God Sword!

In an instant, all the demonic runes engraved on the Asura God Sword lit up, and this Super Divine Artifact seemed to come alive, full of spirituality!

The next moment, the Asura God Sword swelled in the wind and transformed into a giant sword thousands of feet long, easily piercing the dome of the Sea God Hall!

The already enormous body of the Asura God swelled once more, and the divine power it emitted was far stronger than before!

Compared to the current Asura God, Poseidon, Sea Giant, was like a child.

"You humans of Douluo Star possess Martial Soul Avatar; how could the gods not have similar methods? Humans, the last time I used this move was during the Dragon God War!"

Before he could finish speaking, the Asura God swung his sword down!

This sword strike had no fancy moves; it was simply an overwhelming display of absolute divine power!

"Boom!!"

The Asura God Sword slashed down, but the illusory Taiji Diagram easily blocked it. However, ripples like water spread across the surface of the Taiji Diagram.

These ripples startled Zhou Chen slightly.

You should know that before, the Asura God Sword couldn't even budge the Taiqing Yin Yang Glazed Wall!

"Boom!!"

The roar rang out again, and the Asura God slashed with his sword once more!

This time, the illusory Taiji Diagram emitted ripples, and the amplitude of the ripples was even greater!

Immediately afterwards, another sword slashed down...

In just a few breaths, the Asura God unleashed hundreds of sword strikes. The enormous Asura God Sword, due to its incredible speed, transformed into a massive dark red shadow, striking the illusory Taiji Diagram with lightning speed.

As the saying goes, quantitative change leads to qualitative change. The hundreds of blows of the Asura God Sword caused the Taiji Diagram to be constantly worn away, becoming more and more illusory, and its color to fade.

That's not the most crucial point. The most crucial point is that the so-called inexhaustible and endless source of Wu Earth Apricot Yellow Qi within Zhou Chen's body can no longer keep up with the consumption of his supernatural powers.

If you want a horse to run, you have to feed it grass.

Similarly, if you want the Taiqing Yin Yang Glazed Wall to block the enemy, you must continuously supply it with energy.

If the energy doesn't keep up, this illusory Taiji Diagram will eventually dissipate.

With Zhou Chen's level 87 Soul Power, he could keep up with the energy consumption even when fighting against First-Level God.

However, the opponent before them was the God King, a God King who had lived since the time of the Dragon God War and had accumulated countless divine powers!

Against an opponent with high health and mana, attrition warfare is not the best strategy.

Feeling the increasingly thinning Wu Earth Apricot Yellow Qi within his body, Zhou Chen closed his eyes and focused his consciousness into his dantian.

Within his dantian, a perfectly round Golden Core was continuously emitting golden flames.

The flames were the Samadhi True Fire that Zhou Chen had used when Mountain Burning Sea Boiling.

This Golden Core is the source of the Wu Earth Apricot Yellow Qi.

With the Golden Core elixir entering his belly and a lotus planted in the fire, Zhou Chen's strength reached level 70, and he cultivated the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic to the Nine Revolution Golden Core Elixir Realm.

In other words, Zhou Chen is currently a cultivator in the Golden Core Stage of Qi Refining Transforming into Spirit.

Cultivators at the Golden Core Stage have a lifespan of over three hundred years. They can summon wind and rain, and Soaring Cloud Riding Mist. They already possess considerable supernatural powers. In the eyes of ordinary humans, cultivators at this stage are already immortals.

Of course, it's simply impossible for an ordinary Golden Core Stage cultivator to do what Zhou Chen did— Mountain Burning Sea Boiling, and take the enemy's head from a thousand miles away.

Zhou Chen, who possesses the inheritance of the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, not only crushes the natives of the Douluo Plane in terms of combat power, but even cultivators in the cultivation world at the Golden Core Stage are no match for Zhou Chen.

Even powerful cultivators at the Nascent Soul or Spirit Transformation stages might not be a match for Zhou Chen.

To contend with Zhou Chen, one would need to be at least several levels higher.

For example, the Great Ascension stage powerhouses in the cultivation world, or the Asura God at the God-King level.

Of course, cultivators in the Nascent Soul Spirit Transformation stages are actually in the same realm as Zhou Chen, namely the Qi Refining Transforming into Spirit stage, which is why they can fight beyond their level.

Great Ascension cultivator who has almost become an immortal and reached the stage of Spirit Refining Returning to Emptiness is not someone to be trifled with.

In the ancient primordial era, the realms of cultivators were not divided into very fine categories, but were roughly divided into several stages: refining essence into qi, Qi Refining Transforming into Spirit, Spirit Refining Returning to Emptiness, and Refining Emptiness United with the Dao!

As cultivation civilization flourished, the realms became increasingly detailed.

For example, the initial stage of refining essence into qi is divided into the qi refining period and the Foundation Establishment period.

The Qi Refining Transforming into Spirit stage is divided into the Golden Core Stage, the Nascent Soul stage, and the Spirit Transformation stage.

The Spirit Refining Returning to Emptiness stage is divided into the Great Ascension stage, the True Immortal stage, and the Golden Immortal stage.

In many of Zhou Chen's previous life's fantasy novels, the terms Human Immortal, Earth Immortal, and Heavenly Immortal were often used as a classification system, but this is actually inaccurate.

Because the five categories of immortals—Heaven, Earth, Man, God, and Ghost—are actually all True Immortal!

Although these five types of immortals differ in combat strength, they are all in the same realm, only their cultivation techniques and origins are different.

For example, those who attain immortality through incense offerings are gods. Those who attain immortality through ghosts are ghost immortals.

The Golden Immortals above the True Immortal stage are also divided into Great Luo Golden Immortal and Taiyi Golden Immortals. These two types of immortals are in the same realm, but their origins are different.

For example, the Great Luo Golden Immortal are orthodox cultivators, often coming from the Three Pure Ones. For instance, the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect are actually twelve Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Taiyi Golden Immortals are often unorthodox cultivators, that is, rogue cultivators. For example, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong, is seen by the celestial beings of the Heavenly Court as a Taiyi Golden Immortal born from a rogue cultivator.

However, Sun Wukong was actually Great Luo Golden Immortal, because his teacher was Bodhi Patriarch, a cultivator with a great lineage. It's just that the immortals in Heavenly Court were unaware of this, or they were pretending not to know.

As for Refining Emptiness United with the Dao... those who are currently Refining Emptiness United with the Dao are probably earth immortal ancestors like Zhen Yuanzi, or Great Luo Golden Immortal like the Three Pure Ones.

It seems that there is only one true Daoist in the primordial cultivation world, and that is Dao Ancestor, Hong Jun.

A god-king like the Asura God is actually equivalent to True Immortal who has reached the Spirit Refining Returning to Emptiness stage, and should already be at the peak of the True Immortal stage, almost reaching the Golden Immortal level.

However, cultivators in the Douluo Plane generally have relatively low combat power. It is not surprising that a True Immortal -level expert cannot defeat a Great Ascension stage cultivator from the cultivation world.

In fact, a cultivator like Zhou Chen, who is blessed with great fortune and has obtained a super immortal inheritance, can be crushed even by the Asura God King as long as his Soul Power reaches level 90 and he breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage.

At this moment, Bo Saixi, behind Zhou Chen, after her expression changed continuously, suddenly exerted force and slammed the Sea God Trident into the ground. Then she placed her palms on Zhou Chen's back.

She understood that Zhou Chen needed a massive and continuous supply of energy right now!

"Palace Master Zhou, this is the pure divine power I have stored within my heart. Please keep it safe!"

Before he finished speaking, streams of golden Sea God Divine Power surged into Zhou Chen's body, flowing along his meridians and acupoints to his dantian, where they were completely absorbed by his Nine Revolution Golden Core!