The Golden Core Appreciation Gathering

Inside the luxurious courtyard, dazzling golden light flashed intermittently.

The golden light dissipated, and a Golden Core pill exuding a faint, watery mist slowly rotated, attracting light Spiritual Qi from all directions.

"I've long heard that Fellow Daoist Yuan Zhi has formed a Moon-Gazing Golden Core Pill. It's no wonder it's Golden Core ranked among the top three. Seeing it today, it truly lives up to its reputation!" An old man stroked his white beard, his smile bringing wrinkles to his face.

"Not at all, not at all. It took me thirty years of arduous cultivation to produce this Grade Three Moon-Gazing Golden Core Pill. It is truly laughable. Moreover, with Elder Kang's knowledge, this Moon-Gazing Golden Core Pill is nothing special."

Mr. Kang was a learned scholar, devoted to learning, and a great scholar recognized by the Imperial Academy. He was highly respected in Qingzhou.

The others quickly said, "Fellow Daoist Yuan Zhi, you are mistaken. We struggle even to form a fourth or fifth grade Golden Core, let alone a third Golden Core one. Our greatest wish is to successfully break through to the Nascent Soul stage, but Fellow Daoist Yuan Zhi, you can break through to the Nascent Soul, become a Spirit Transformation stage cultivator, and even go further, becoming a Void Refinement stage cultivator that even the Body Integration Realm fears."

A mid-grade Golden Core cultivator has a chance to reach the Spirit Transformation stage, but that chance is too slim, and they dare not hope for too much; Nascent Soul would be good enough.

In contrast, Yuan Zhi, with his advanced third-grade Golden Core, is destined to shatter his core and form an Infant, with the potential to Spirit Transformation stage. Void Refinement and achieving Body Integration are also possible. His future is limitless, and his potential far surpasses theirs.

Yuan Zhi said it was ridiculous, but he was secretly overjoyed. A third-grade Golden Core cultivator was already more than 90% of the Golden Core stage. Although he was only at the early stage of Golden Core, even cultivators at the middle and late stages of Golden Core would not dare to underestimate him. On the contrary, they would treat him with great respect.

The Pleasant Courtyard is currently hosting Golden Core Elixir Appreciation Conference, where various Golden Core Elixirs are blooming in competition, frequently drawing gasps of amazement from the crowd.

Yuan Zhi's Moon-Embracing Golden Core stands out among all the Golden Core cultivators, as it is exceptional even among third-grade Golden Core cultivators.

Just as Yuan Zhi was feeling smug, a figure stumbled and ran into the courtyard.

"You guys go check out the arena, it's really lively there!"

Yuan Zhi was displeased. He recognized the person who had barged into the courtyard as a Golden Core cultivator at the lower third rank of Core Formation, who wasn't even qualified to participate in the Golden Core Appreciation Conference: "What's so interesting about the arena? It's nothing more than a few Foundation Establishment Early Stage vying for first place."

"No, it's disciples from the Five Great Immortal Sects fighting. They're all at the Golden Core stage. Apart from the Hanging Temple, all four other immortal sects have representatives participating!"

"What?!"

"Disciples of the Immortal Sect fighting?!" Everyone was shocked and overjoyed, as it was extremely rare for disciples of the Immortal Sect to take action.

Mr. Kang was the most excited and quickly asked, "Are there people from the Ask Dao Sect too?"

"Not only are there some, there are even two!"

Without saying a word, Mr. Kang, whose body was even more agile than that of a young man, got up and rushed towards the arena.

Seeing this, everyone rushed over, leaving Yuan Zhi standing there dumbfounded.

"I want to see for myself where these disciples of the immortal sects are superior to me!"

What about the disciples of the immortal sects? Aren't they like me, at the upper third-grade Golden Core stage?

When Yuan Zhi arrived at the scene, the arena was already completely blocked, making it difficult to even squeeze through.

The battle of the most outstanding disciples of the immortal sects is something that can't be matched even once in many years. Just for this one battle, everyone felt that participating in the Qingzhou Grand Ceremony was worthwhile.

Although they couldn't see the battle taking place in the ring.

Left with no other choice, Yuan Zhi used his Law Technique to quietly approach the front row and find the fellow Daoists at the Golden Core Elixir Appreciation Conference.

None of the Daoists at the Golden Core Elixir Appreciation Conference noticed Yuan Zhi's arrival. Their attention was entirely focused on the five people on the arena, their eyes glued to the screen, afraid of missing even the slightest detail.

Apart from Elder Kang, the rest of the people were all cultivators who had just formed their cores, at the early stage of the Golden Core.

They looked at the five people fighting on the arena and had a sense of absurdity, feeling that they had not yet formed their core and were still in the Foundation Establishment Realm.

"This is the power and speed that should be present in the early stage of the Golden Core?!"

Putting aside combat skills, the sheer power and speed displayed by Lu Yang and his group of five already overwhelmed them.

Yuan Zhi's newly emerging competitive spirit was also extinguished.

He doubted that he could last more than ten moves against any one of the five men.

Are there really such big differences between two top-tier Golden Core cultivators?

"Elder Kang, can you tell what kind of Golden Core these five disciples of the Immortal Sect are?" This isn't a Golden Core appreciation competition held on the arena, where the Golden Core Cores are displayed to everyone. They can only guess from the details of the battle.

Unfortunately, their limited experience prevented them from understanding the situation.

Old Master Kang frowned, not seeing much either. "What we can be certain of at present is that they have all formed first-grade Golden Core, and at least very high-ranking ones at that."

Everyone nodded; otherwise, there would be no way to explain why these five disciples of the immortal sect were so powerful.

"That Meng Jingzhou's yang energy soared to the heavens, overflowing and surging, like a great sun, causing all ghosts to flee. It was like a solar Golden Core, or even more like a pure Golden Core, but it seems that neither of these Golden Core could reach this level. Strange, could there be Golden Core with even stronger yang energy than the solar Golden Core or the pure Golden Core golden elixir?"

"That female disciple was as graceful as a fairy, exhaling white breath with a long and deep rhythm, possessing astonishing stamina. Her eyes were bright, like the morning sun, resembling the legendary Primordial Golden Core. Unfortunately, there are few historical records about the Primordial Golden Core Elixir, so this old man dares not make any definitive statements. The younger generation is truly formidable."

Mr. Kang felt that even if he were to call all the old scholars from the Imperial Academy to line up and look at it, they might not be able to figure it out.

On the arena, under the onslaught of Lan Ting and Bai Ming, Lu Yang was forced into a desperate struggle and suffered repeated defeats.

"Lu Yang, stop pretending. I know you have the ability to create clones." Seeing Lu Yang's fatigue, Bai Ming dared not be careless. Lu Yang's strength was far greater than what he was showing now.

It wasn't Lu Yang's main body that defeated him, but rather one of his clones!

"I didn't succeed in tricking him." Lu Yang was a little embarrassed. He had wanted to lure Bai Ming over, but suddenly used the Tree Planting Technique to separate the two of them and kill Bai Ming.

"The technique of creating clones?" Lan Ting looked at Lu Yang with curious eyes. Senior Brother Lu Yang had even learned such Law Technique. No wonder he was the most talented in Law Technique among all the people he had ever met.

Lu Yang took out the twin lotus seeds and used the <Tree Planting Technique>. The lotus blossomed, and Lu Yang and the lotus split off and stood on the lotus leaf.

"So what if you have a clone? Can your Divine Sense allow you to control two people at the same time?" Bai Ming knew the flaws of the clone technique. Last time they fought, Lu Yang's main body sat on the platform and could focus on controlling the wooden clone. This time was different; he needed to control two people, which required extremely high levels of Divine Sense.

"You'll know once you try," Lu Yang said with a smile. It wasn't possible before, but after he formed his core, his Divine Sense surged, and no one in the same realm could compare to him.

Lu Yang looked at the Qingfeng Sword in his hand, thought for a moment, and then tossed it to the lotus clone, letting the lotus clone fight Lan Ting.

"I should forge another sword, but never mind, I'll think about it later." Lu Yang prepared to fight Bai Ming with his bare hands.

"Warm-up complete, time to use the Invincibility Pill... How do we defeat these two?"

Invincible Pill responded quickly.

"Use the Arhat Fist on Bai Ming."

Lu Yang smiled.

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