[You ignored her and continued deeper. After walking 3,000 meters, you could go no farther.]
[You knew that you had reached your limit.]
[Before entering, the sect had informed you.]
[The deeper one went into the Origin Realm, the better the body-refining effects would be. However, everyone had their own limit, which was related to their compatibility with the Origin Realm. Once that limit was reached, it could not be forced.]
[Using an array disk, you set up a simple formation around yourself for warning and protection, then immediately began refining your body in the Origin Realm.]
[Half a month later, the Origin Realm closed.]
[You successfully refined your body. Your other two Origin Body Refining Techniques also broke through to perfection, and your origin greatly increased.]
[Given your current origin and foundation, you could at least form a second-grade Golden Core, and you had a strong chance of forming a first-grade Golden Core.]
[Yet you still did not choose to break through. What you wanted was certainty; it was a necessity.]
[Gu Changfeng also told you that you were still young and need not hurry. If you continued striving to strengthen your origin and foundation, perhaps you might one day form a Superior Golden Core like the Sect Master.]
"Damn, there's a Superior Golden Core above the first-grade Golden Core! Last time, I simulated more than nine hundred years, yet I still didn't know.
Did the system assume there was no need for me to know?"
Su Yang felt somewhat helpless.
It seemed he had been underestimated.
[You were extremely interested in the concept of a Superior Golden Core, and even more interested in Sect Master Venerable Moon Sword.]
[Of course, it was not because you coveted her body.]
[You merely felt that a Spirit Transformation Venerable who had formed a Superior Golden Core should be incredibly powerful.]
[If Venerable Moon Sword could survive the great calamity of the future, Qixia Island would certainly undergo different changes in the future, and those changes would most likely be positive.]
[Gu Changfeng told you that to cultivate a Superior Golden Core, not only did all nine primary cultivation techniques need to break their limits, but one also needed an Origin Artifact or an Origin Divine Ability to suppress it.]
[You asked him how one could obtain an Origin Artifact or an Origin Divine Ability.]
[He continued, saying that the sect possessed Origin Divine Abilities. At the Foundation Establishment stage, one only needed to cultivate an especially simplified version, but no one in the sect's history had ever succeeded in cultivating it at the Foundation Establishment Realm.]
[You gave up on the idea of cultivating an Origin Divine Ability.]
[He then spoke of Origin Artifacts.]
[There were two ways to obtain one. The first was to condense it using one's own origin, but throughout history, only the seventh-generation patriarch had succeeded.]
[The second was that Origin Artifacts could be born within the Origin Realm. As long as one ventured more than 10,000 meters deep into the Origin Realm, there was hope of obtaining one.]
[Only three people had ever succeeded in history. The most recent person to obtain one was Tianjian Sect's current Sect Master, Venerable Moon Sword.]
[You gave up on the immensely tempting idea of condensing a Superior Golden Core.]
[You knew it was impossible for you to travel more than 10,000 meters into the Origin Realm. Condensing an Origin Artifact on your own was even more hopeless, and there was no need to mention an Origin Divine Ability.]
[Yet Gu Changfeng still believed your talent was unmatched beneath heaven and earth, urging you to condense an Origin Artifact or cultivate an Origin Divine Ability over the next hundred-odd years.]
[You asked him about Venerable Moon Sword again, mainly regarding her strength and preferences.]
[Gu Changfeng told you that Venerable Moon Sword was unquestionably number one on Qixia Island, and few in history could compare to her.]
[As for her preferences, even he did not know.]
[You bade Gu Changfeng farewell.]
[You returned to your residence and began considering your cultivation path, with the Golden Core issue as the main concern.]
[You knew that although your cultivation speed was extremely fast, with your lifespan being acceleratedly burned away, you did not have much time left to form a Golden Core.]
[You had to achieve the Golden Core Realm by age fifty at the latest.]
[Within such a short time, it was impossible for your origin techniques to break their limits. If you wanted to form a first-grade Golden Core more reliably—]
[You could only work on your foundation.]
[Day and night, you comprehended and cultivated second-rank sword techniques.]
[Because you possessed the talent of the Clear Sword Heart, as time passed, your swordsmanship seemed to improve even faster than before.]
[At the same time, you also found ways to visit Venerable Moon Sword frequently.]
[As a sword heir, you had the qualifications to seek guidance from Venerable Moon Sword.]
[As your interactions increased, you learned that Venerable Moon Sword's name was Luo Yunxi.]
[You discovered that Venerable Moon Sword had a carefree, unruly personality, and sometimes even threw childish tantrums.]
[You thought of a special mental-state talent: Childlike Heart.]
[You let your true nature loose and interacted with her.]
[You gradually earned her trust.]
[At age thirty-five, another one of your sword techniques broke through its limit, strengthening your foundation.]
[At age forty-three, within a single year, your remaining two sword techniques also broke through their limits, and your foundation strengthened continuously.]
[From then on, among the twelve second-rank techniques you primarily cultivated, all six sword techniques had broken their limits, and all your origin techniques had reached perfection. Only the three elemental techniques remained stuck at major mastery.]
[You did not possess much talent in techniques other than sword techniques.]
[Thus, you decided to break through to the Golden Core Realm.]
[You applied to the sect for a breakthrough.]
[The sect issued spiritual materials for forming a core.]
[You entered seclusion at the sect's fifth-rank Spirit Vein Core.]
[One month later, you formed a first-grade core and successfully broke through realms.]
"Another Golden Core, and it's still a first-grade Golden Core."
Outside the simulation, Su Yang was also very satisfied with this result.
A first-grade Golden Core at forty-three—even counting the lifespan consumed by acceleration—meant he was only one hundred and twenty-four years old.
With such cultivation speed and such Golden Core quality, reaching the Nascent Soul Realm was truly within sight.
In the Chuyun Kingdom, a Nascent Soul True Lord was an absolute overlord.
Even within Tianjian Sect, one could become an elder of a major peak.
And after this simulation, as long as he could exchange for the cultivation realm—
He would become a sixteen-year-old Nascent Soul True Lord.
On Qixia Island, that would be an achievement unprecedented in history, perhaps never to be matched again.
However, Su Yang thought of another problem.
The ninth layer of the Golden Core Realm required 2,800 Simulation Points. Even if the Nascent Soul Realm only had one layer, it would still cost three or four thousand.
He might not be able to afford the exchange.
Besides, with the simulation system, Su Yang also wanted to pursue the perfect foundation of a Superior Golden Core.
Only a stronger foundation could lead to higher realms.
Although with the system, even if his foundation was a complete mess, he could still attain the Dao and become immortal in the future—it would merely be more troublesome and take longer.
But when there was a straight road, why take a detour?
"Then no matter how high my cultivation realm gets this time, I won't exchange for it." Su Yang hardened his resolve.
[You held a Golden Core celebration and received gifts until your hands went limp.]
[You met Tianjian Sect's other two sword heirs.]
[One of the sword heirs at the Golden Core Realm even invited you to spar, but you declined.]
[You searched the sect for simplified divine abilities and techniques suitable for your cultivation.]
[Gu Changfeng recommended many to you.]
[You accepted all of his suggestions regarding techniques.]
[As for divine abilities, you discovered that the Flame Burst Battle Body was unexpectedly suitable for you.]
[It matched well with your inferior Fire Burning Spiritual Root.]
[You came to admire Venerable Blazing Sun's discerning eye.]
[You collected from the sect the spiritual materials required to cultivate the Flame Burst Battle Body.]
[There was not much time left, so you began running about in preparation for Tianjian Sect's great calamity.]
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