Cultivation was difficult, and forming a core was harder still. Who knew how many Foundation Establishment cultivators had been barred outside the gates of Core Formation, left as withered bones?
It was said that the might of a Core Formation True Person lay far beyond the reach of Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Yet the cultivation world had always produced extraordinary talents and strange individuals. At some unknown point, the False Core Method began to spread.
This method involved a Foundation Establishment cultivator refining the inner core of a third-rank Great Demon, transforming it into a false core within their body and thereby obtaining Core Formation mana.
Although False Core cultivators stood at the very bottom among Core Formation cultivators, their strength was still beyond comparison with Foundation Establishment.
With Core Formation mana, they could unleash Core Formation magic treasures at full force, producing power that Foundation Establishment cultivators could only look up to.
Its sole flaw was that this False Core Method did not grant cultivators the lifespan proper to Core Formation. However long a Foundation Establishment cultivator could live before, that was how long they could live afterward. They were merely Foundation Establishment cultivators with a portion of Core Formation strength.
Though the False Core Method had its defects, it was still a marvelous method in the cultivation world. It had held up half the sky for countless lineages that had lost their pillar of support—their Core Formation cultivators.
And what Qingzhu was about to use was similar to this method.
Ordinary people refined demon cores. Qingzhu—or rather, Blood Sea True Lord—intended to refine a cultivator's Core Formation core.
This was the unique secret art of the Blood Sea Art, which he had created by blending an unknown blood art with portions of demonic techniques.
Not only could it be