As the Corrupt Golden Core linked itself to every cultivator in Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan, a calamity was born.
From Qi Cultivators to Golden Core elders, the power within them was drained at lightning speed and funneled into the Corrupt Golden Core.
One demonic cultivator after another turned into mummified corpses and fell to the ground, all life gone from them.
Only their souls drifted up from their bodies, drawn by Su Yuan into the Myriad Soul Banner.
As for whether any residents of Ten Immortal City were among those demonic cultivators...
Su Yuan couldn't say for sure. But even if he accidentally killed someone, it didn't matter. As long as he won in the end, they would all awaken from their slumber.
Su Yuan didn't use the power stored in the Corrupt Golden Core for himself. Already at Golden Core Peak, all he lacked was more Primordial Dao Essence.
Simply absorbing other people's cultivation was meaningless. It would only make him unable to suppress his realm and force him to break through before he had enough reserves.
But some people desperately needed that power.
Zhu Qingqing, for one. Guiyuan, for another.
Setting Guiyuan aside, Zhu Qingqing, in the real world, had already broken through into the Nascent Soul Realm once. As long as she received enough power, breaking through into the Nascent Soul Realm again would be as easy as water flowing down a channel.
Su Yuan needed to force-feed her enough power to reach the Nascent Soul Realm in the shortest time possible, making her his ally.
The Corrupt Golden Core swiftly refined the gathered Flesh and Blood Power and cultivators' cultivation, turning it into the purest energy and pouring it into Zhu Qingqing.
Already at Golden Core Peak, she immediately began the countdown to her breakthrough,