The Golden Core Version of the Three Talents Sword Formation

Over the course of that year, Chen Changming refined all the Ghost Heart Grass into Ghost Heart Pills. After swallowing the pills, the combined strength of his eighty-one strands of divine sense reached the fourth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm!

Each individual strand of divine sense, meanwhile, reached the fourth layer of the Golden Core Realm!

Throughout that year, he made no breakthroughs in either cultivation or body refinement. Only the strength of his divine sense had advanced.

Chen Changming was quite satisfied with that.

After all, cultivation was a long road. Even after reaching the Golden Core Realm, it was impossible to break through a minor level in just one year.

Now that his divine sense had reached the fourth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, he could begin cultivating the Divine Sense Wave Ability.

That year, Chen Changming had also begun refining his lifebound Flying Swords under Bi Cang's guidance.

He had originally owned three Geng-Gold Swords, but they were all top-grade magical weapons, which were no longer enough for a second-layer Golden Core cultivator like him.

After all, Golden Core cultivators used magical treasures.

So Chen Changming needed to buy materials and start upgrading the Geng-Gold Swords.

Ordinary weapon refinement required the fires of heaven and earth, but refining a lifebound magical treasure required the participation of Golden Core fire. As a result, Chen Changming's progress was far from smooth when he first started refining weapons.

It took a full two months to upgrade the first Geng-Gold Sword to the level of a low-grade magical treasure.

The second and third Geng-Gold Swords took almost no time at all; he refined one per day, and the process was quick.

In Chen Changming's view, weapon refinement and alchemy followed the same principle. As long as he kept at