"After falling down... can you still charge back up?"
Shouzhen stared blankly at Sword Saint Zhao and asked.
"Of course."
Sword Saint Zhao said, "At first, right after I fell, I thought I wouldn't be able to get back up either. But if I couldn't, then so be it. I'd consumed so much energy that I couldn't maintain it anyway. Later, though, someone broke through in Qingfeng's courtyard, causing an energy fluctuation... That should have been you, Old Man Shouzhen, right? I sensed it at the time. Wasn't the thing that triggered that energy fluctuation a special kind of energy? In that case, why couldn't I transform the energy inside my body into the same form? Once I thought of that, I suddenly understood something."
"Th... then what did you understand?"
Baili Changkong swallowed with difficulty.
"It's very simple. Little Brother Qingfeng once told me that after refining true qi, the next step was to condense a Golden Core. So I followed that theory and condensed the energy in my body into a Golden Core. This Golden Core was formed from true qi that had nearly solidified, and it contained an enormous amount of energy. If activated at a critical moment, it could provide an abundant source of power, allowing one to easily sustain the consumption of a Legendary Lifeform state. So I took some time to carefully search for an opportunity to break through. After a long while, I finally cultivated my way back into the Legendary realm..."
At this point, Sword Saint Zhao rubbed his aching head. "But although the Golden Core can sustain the Legendary Lifeform state, the energy within it also comes from true qi. And what is true qi? It's transformed from the body's vital essence. So I have to eat and drink like a