Chapter 1356: Farewell? It's Still Too Soon—Don't Give Up!
Under the effects of the medicine, Spirit Ghost, Heavenly Thunder Tempering, and various other forces, the ninth Immortal Bone inside Song Shuhang took shape. The nine Immortal Bones lodged themselves onto Fat Whale's Phantom Core, covering it in a full-body suit of armor. Fat Whale Warrior was armed to the teeth, looking mighty and imposing.
Once all nine Immortal Bones had gathered, only the final step remained—the Immortal-Bone Force would strengthen the Phantom Core, tempering it to the extreme before transforming the illusory into reality and condensing the supreme Golden Core Great Dao.
For a cultivator, this process was of immense importance. It concerned the second half of their life.
One Golden Core determined one's great path. The Golden Core had nine patterns in total, and this directly affected how high a cultivator could climb in the future. The higher the Golden Core's grade, the farther they could walk along the path of cultivation.
A Golden Core with one to three patterns would, barring a fortuitous encounter, only allow its owner to reach the Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperor Realm after a lifetime of cultivation.
As for cultivators with four- to six-pattern Golden Cores, so long as they did not fall midway, they would basically all have hope of ascending to the Sixth-Grade Spirit Lord Realm. Even the Seventh-Grade Spirit Venerable Realm would be within reach!
If one wanted to go a step further and ascend through Manifestation Before All to become an Eighth-Grade Profound Sage, one needed a Golden Core with at least seven patterns.
The Nine Provinces Number One Group had several Fourth-Grade Realm members who had been stuck at the peak of the Fourth-Grade Realm for a long time. Their goal was to gather their strength in one burst when