Twin Golden Cores
In the clear lake water, a graceful figure glides through the water with light, delicate movements, her hands parting the surface like a fish leaping out of the water—a sight of exquisite beauty.
A beautiful figure lay in the lake, drifting with the current, enjoying this moment of tranquility.
On the shore, Lu Yang looked helpless. "Fairy, could you please not swim here?"
"You're interfering with my swimming too? I'll spit you out." The Immortal Fairy pouted, clasped her hands together, and a jet of water shot out from between her fingers, aiming at Lu Yang, who easily dodged it.
"I can't control how you swim, but please don't swim in my mental space. It makes it seem like my brain is full of water," Lu Yang said helplessly. He didn't know why, but ever since the fairy came back, she had especially liked playing in the water and even conjured up a lake in his mental space.
"Go away, go train, don't worry about me." The Immortal Fairy blasted Lu Yang out of the mental space, as if she were the master of this place.
Lu Yang is indeed in the process of training. He is currently being attacked by three Golden Core stage wild boars, while Meng Jingzhou and the Five Heroes of Eagle Mountain are watching the show from a tree.
The wild boars charged wildly, possessing immense strength. Lu Yang tried to avoid their attacks and strike from the side, but the three boars coordinated perfectly, giving Lu Yang no chance to attack from the side.
Boom--
Lu Yang was hit squarely by one of the wild boars and sent flying a long way, kicking up a cloud of dust.
"Go, wild boar! Charge him to death!" Meng Jingzhou shouted gleefully from the sidelines.
"Young Master Lu, are you alright? I saw that one of the three wild boars was at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, and the other two were at the peak of the early Golden Core." The Five Heroes of Eagle Mountain were the most conscientious and concerned about Lu Yang's safety.
"It's alright, it's alright. If he couldn't beat them, what would be the best in his class? I might as well be the one," Meng Jingzhou waved his hand dismissively.
Last time, Lu Yang kicked him off the tree to fight him; this time, it should be the other way around.
The three wild boars wanted to press their advantage, but when the smoke cleared, Lu Yang was nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly, the wild boar became alert and tried to dodge, but it was too late. A cold glint emerged from the ground, and a three-foot-long sword pierced through the wild boar's abdomen.
The wild boar tried to resist, but Lu Yang flicked his wrist, changed his sword technique, and uttered a soft "Slash!"
Simply split the wild boar in half lengthwise.
With a single sword strike, a mid-stage Golden Core Demon Beast died.
After several days of training in the dense forest, Lu Yang had already fought against more than a dozen Golden Core stage Demon Beast of different species.
His biggest feeling was that fighting against his senior brothers and sisters in the Ask Dao Sect was completely different from what he experienced there— Golden Core cultivators in the outside world were so easy to defeat.
In the future, if you want to gain confidence, you shouldn't look for it within the Ask Dao Sect; you should look for it outside.
"I already told you, you have the ability to challenge opponents of higher levels. It's just that the opponents you encountered before were too abnormal!" The Immortal Fairy protested for herself in the spiritual space.
When she was first resurrected, she wanted to use Lu Yang's body to show off her skills and demonstrate what it meant to challenge someone of a higher level.
Who would have Ask Dao Sect guys from the Dao Seeking Sect were all incredibly talented, ranking among the top even in the High Antiquity times when geniuses were abundant, and she was completely outmatched.
Fortunately, she later relied on her exceptional wisdom to use Lu Yang's body to challenge opponents of higher levels, defeating those in the Spirit Transformation stage and restoring her reputation.
The other two wild boars, seeing that their leader was dead, hurriedly fled.
"Chase them! We can't let them get away!" Lu Yang reminded Meng Jingzhou.
"I know, do you need to say more?" Meng Jingzhou jumped down from the tree and divided the work with Lu Yang, each of them chasing down a wild boar.
These three wild boars are roaming Demon Beast that ambush humans. Countless human cultivators have been killed by them, and Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou would never let them go.
The Five Heroes of Eagle Mountain waited in place. A few minutes later, they heard the sounds of battle coming from not far away. The sounds of battle came quickly and went quickly.
When the five came to their senses, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou had already returned, each dragging a wild boar.
"Dinner's taken care of tonight."
As night fell, the Samadhi Fire rose, casting a rosy glow on the faces of the seven men. A wild boar sat on the fire, slowly roasting, sizzling and dripping oil onto the flames, causing them to leap high.
"I never imagined we'd be able to eat food cooked with real fire in our lifetime. We have everything we have to do with Young Master Lu!" the five heroes exclaimed, amazed that Lu Yang, at such a young age, had already mastered a form of real fire.
While Lu Yang was grilling, the Five Heroes were dissecting two more wild boars.
Inner cores, leather, fangs, and even animal bones are all valuable items that could fetch a high price if kept at the Demon Suppression Pass.
Inner alchemy can be used as the main material for alchemy, leather can be used to make magical Law Artifact, fangs can be used as ornaments to represent status and position, and bones can be used to make bone broth.
"Look quickly, this wild boar demon has twin Golden Core!" one of the Five Heroes of Eagle Mountain exclaimed.
"What? Such a thing actually happened?" Upon hearing this, the hook-nosed leader immediately went over to check the situation.
Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou became interested and put down their work.
They had only ever seen twin Golden Core within the Ask Dao Sect, and had never heard of such a capable person outside the sect who could form two Golden Core.
There were two Golden Core on the ground, one golden and the other black, as if representing two extremes, one bright and one dark, with the charm of "Tao" in them.
The more Lu Yang pondered them, the more he felt that these two Golden Core were extraordinary, containing boundless wisdom.
This is good stuff.
"I never thought I'd be able to defeat Demon Beast with twin Golden Core one day," Lu Yang remarked, reflecting on his own growth.
Meng Jingzhou also found it amazing; he had never heard of anyone having a black Golden Core.
The Golden Core Elixir is divided into nine grades. The first grade is the brightest, shining golden, while the ninth grade is the lowest, dull and lacking luster, but it is still golden.
This wild boar, despite its unremarkable appearance, was able to produce a black Golden Core. Did it possess High Antiquity bloodline, or had some other extraordinary encounter?
"This wild boar is a descendant of the High Antiquity mountain-carrying boar. It can carry two mountains on its shoulders. As far as I know, the mountain-carrying boar is all courage, but it has no brains and doesn't have a high status among the Demon Race." The hook-nosed leader pondered. Having lived in the dense forest for a long time, he knew a lot about Demon Beast.
"So, there was another extraordinary encounter?"
Meng Jingzhou speculated. "I've heard that there's a rare and heavenly materials and earthly treasures in the dense forest called the Twin Lotus, with one seed bright and the other dark. Consuming it can reverse yin and yang and change one's constitution."
"Could it be that this wild boar accidentally found the twin lotus flowers before its death, and after consuming them, it produced these Golden Core, one black and one white?"
The hook-nosed leader nodded, agreeing with Meng Jingzhou's guess, "If that's the case, this wild boar is really lucky. So many people come to the dense forest to find the twin lotus flowers, only to find nothing and be eaten by this wild boar!"
Everyone was filled with excitement. Were there any more of the twin lotus flowers? Was it possible to find clues on this wild boar demon and follow the trail to find the twin lotus flowers?
"Fairy, what are your thoughts? Can you discern the origin of these two twin Golden Core?" Lu Yang secretly inquired of the Immortal Fairy.
"Twin Golden Core? Isn't that black one a gallstone?"
The Immortal Fairy was very puzzled. Wasn't it because this mountain-carrying boar was full of gallbladders, and that the bile had accumulated and solidified into gallstones over time?
She had seen this kind of situation many times in High Antiquity times.
What were these people talking about for so long?
Where did these twin Golden Core come from?
Lu Yang: "..."