Consequences of a Ruined Reputation, Breaking Through to Golden Core

Both of them directly refused. They still wanted to rebuild the Tianjian Sect.

Seeing this, Venerable Tianliang analyzed the situation and persuaded them, "The Tianjian Sect of old was too powerful. More than a dozen Venerables lived in the world at once, and there was also Venerable Moon Sword, an existence who could be called the strongest, sweeping across heaven and earth.

They occupied far too many resources on Qixia Island and offended far too many factions.

The two Demon Venerables of the Black Demon Sect in the Northern Wasteland and the eight Demon Venerables of the Seven-Glow Mountain Range had all been beaten by the Tianjian Sect until they shut their doors, not daring to step even half a pace beyond their territories.

Now that they had finally waited for the Tianjian Sect to perish, they would never want to see it rebuilt.

If you possessed the power of Spirit Transformation, perhaps there would still be hope of stabilizing the Tianjian Sect. But right now, you are ultimately only a Nascent Soul Overlord."

True Monarch Mingyang was persuaded. He understood that relying only on his current strength to rebuild the Tianjian Sect was nothing more than a fool's dream. At the very least, he had to first attain Spirit Transformation.

At the same time, he knew that joining a Spirit Transformation faction would give him a greater chance of attaining Spirit Transformation.

He told Venerable Tianliang that he could join the Wuliang Sect for now, but if he one day broke through to Spirit Transformation, he would leave the Wuliang Sect and rebuild the Tianjian Sect.

Gu Changfeng said, "Me too."

Venerable Tianliang agreed to the conditions of both men.

You hurriedly asked Venerable Tianliang what would happen to you.

Venerable Tianliang said, "Cold noodles. The Wuliang Sect does not accept people who stir up trouble and have rotten morals. Go fend for yourself."

Helpless, you were fortunate that Venerable Mingyang and Gu Changfeng had not completely abandoned you. They left you tokens and said that if you encountered any trouble, you could go to the Wuliang Sect to find them.

You left Qijian Lake and arrived at a small city on the Central Plains, where you began cultivating alone.

Fortunately, you had not yet spent all three million spirit stones from the compensation you received back then. The resources you bought were enough to sustain you until the Golden Core Realm.

However, lacking connections, you could not buy supreme-grade pills free of impurities and could only use high-grade pills to assist your cultivation.

Pill impurities began accumulating in your body.

At fifty-three, you broke through to the seventh level of Foundation Establishment.

At sixty-eight, you broke through to the eighth level of Foundation Establishment.

Three years later, several Foundation Establishment cultivators in this small city noticed you.

They discovered that you never earned spirit stones, yet the spirit stones you used to buy cultivation resources seemed inexhaustible.

They developed evil intentions toward you.

Half a month later, they ambushed you along the road while you were out.

One eighth-level Foundation Establishment cultivator, two seventh-level Foundation Establishment cultivators, and five Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators attacked you at the same time.

But they had not expected that, because of your outstanding perception talent, the range of your divine sense exceeded theirs. You had long since discovered their ambush.

Before they could act, you simultaneously controlled five second-grade supreme flying swords and slew toward the five Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators.

In the blink of an eye, you killed all five.

The remaining three were terrified and desperately charged at you.

But they were still no match for you.

Though your cultivation was similar to theirs, you had once been a Tianjian Sect disciple. Your foundation and spells were as different from theirs as clouds from mud.

After rather easily killing the remaining three as well,

you looted storage bags from their bodies.

You found that all their resources combined were worth only around one hundred and forty thousand spirit stones.

You cursed them as paupers who still dared imitate robbery cultivators.

You knew that people had already noticed you in this place.

You decided to leave this small city and head elsewhere.

Three months later, you arrived at a large Market Town guarded by a Nascent Soul True Lord.

A tiny Foundation Establishment cultivator like you did not stand out here.

But to be safe, you still found yourself a disguise: an array master.

You possessed some talent for arrays and had studied them in your childhood. Combined with your Foundation Establishment cultivation, you looked down from a lofty height and picked them up extremely quickly.

In only a few months, some of the first-grade array disks you refined were already selling extremely well.

From time to time, some small Qi Refining clans also hired you to set up arrays for them.

You gained a steady stream of income. Although it was insignificant compared to your expenditures,

it successfully muddled others' attention.

At seventy-seven, you broke through to the ninth level of Foundation Establishment.

At ninety, your spiritual power at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment had accumulated to its peak, and you could attempt to form a core.

You did not take action.

Because you knew that your foundation was not deep enough and your origin was not strong enough. Though you could still attempt core formation, the risks were too great, and the quality of your Golden Core would not be high.

You set yourself a deadline of fifty-eight years.

Fifty-eight years later, no matter how much you had strengthened your origin, you would begin forming your core. Otherwise, it would affect your cultivation in the Golden Core Realm.

While searching and inquiring about the whereabouts of spiritual treasures for core formation, you began focusing on cultivating the three spells you had learned in the Tianjian Sect that strengthened the body's origin.

After all these years of cultivation, although you had cultivated the Origin Spells to minor success, they still lagged far behind your second-grade sword techniques, which you had practiced to major success or even perfection.

At one hundred and twelve, you spent one million two hundred and thirty thousand spirit stones to win a low-grade Golden Core Pill at auction.

This pill could raise the probability of a Foundation Establishment cultivator breaking through to Golden Core by twenty percent. Even if the breakthrough failed, it could preserve one's life through the pill's power.

You knew that with your foundation and the Golden Core Pill, breaking through to Golden Core was already as certain as ten out of ten. Yet you still chose not to break through.

At one hundred and nineteen, your first Origin Spell broke through to major success, slightly strengthening your origin.

At one hundred and twenty-eight, your second origin body-tempering spell broke through to major success, slightly strengthening your origin.

At one hundred and thirty-five, you encountered a second-grade spiritual treasure that strengthened the body's origin, the Stone Water Heart, at an auction. Unfortunately, its price was too high, exceeding one million five hundred thousand spirit stones, and your remaining spirit stones were insufficient.

But you discovered that the person auctioning the Stone Water Heart was a third-grade alchemist.

He announced on the spot that he would refine the Stone Water Heart into pills. If he produced more than three pills, he would sell the excess for one million spirit stones each.

You looked forward to it greatly, but you did not have enough spirit stones.

Please choose...

1. Sell the fourth-grade supreme magic treasure flying sword, the Star Sun Sword. (Extremely risky.)

2. Seek help from True Monarch Mingyang and Gu Changfeng. (The round-trip time might not be enough.)

3. Sell the second-grade supreme magic treasure robe and flying swords on your person. (Barely enough; if there is bidding, it will not be secure.)

You sold most of the treasures and magical artifacts on your person, barely gathering one million spirit stones.

Two months later, the third-grade alchemist produced five pills, and you successfully spent a fortune to purchase one.

You took the pill, strengthening your body's origin.

At one hundred and forty, one of your second-grade sword techniques successfully broke past its limit, condensing a second-grade Spell Seed and strengthening your foundation.

At one hundred and forty-five, your third Origin Spell broke through to major success, strengthening your origin.

After making a rough calculation, you found that it would be difficult to achieve any further breakthroughs in the remaining time.

You decided to begin breaking through to Golden Core now.

You rented a secure temporary cave abode and entered seclusion within it to break through.

Half a year later, you succeeded in your breakthrough and became a Golden Core True Person.