Inside the cave dwelling.
Fang Qing sat cross-legged, looking inward at the pitch-black True Core in his dantian.
This core had not been formed through the Black Profound Scripture, but through the Devouring Sea Method.
He had spent some time learning the basics of the Devouring Sea Method, refining a trace of its power to serve as a catalyst.
Then, using the Dao-Born Pearl to transform it, he had turned the True Core formed through his Azure Sea Method into this pitch-black one!
"The Devouring Sea Method deserves its reputation as a supreme demonic art. The quality of its power is astonishing... When I transformed my True Core, the power I'd cultivated through the Qi Refinement Way wasn't enough. I had to draw on my reserves of Yuan and Jie from the Breath-Nourishing Dao..."
Fang Qing murmured to himself and examined the black True Core again. Its color was unfathomably deep, and it revolved slowly, like a black hole ceaselessly devouring everything around it...
"The Devouring Sea Method is called a demonic art because it can devour all manner of water-attributed pills, treasures, and Demon Pills... Its effects are almost unbelievable, somewhat like the Origin-Refining Cauldron of the Earth Virtue Dao Foundation..."
"Of course, it can also devour the power of water-attributed cultivators, even their True Cores... Those are especially nourishing!"
"With that, one's cultivation naturally advances at breathtaking speed... And the Core Formation chapters contain a special secret art that can purify the impurities in absorbed power and True Cores. It works far better than ordinary demonic arts and leaves fewer lingering problems."
"But when it comes to purification, how could that secret art compare with the Dao-Born Pearl? If it were me, I could swallow everything whole and leave no lingering problems... So long as I kept devouring