Seven Golden Core cultivators were present, their cultivation ranging from early Golden Core stage to Peak Golden Core.
Each had an ancient wooden table before them, upon which sat spiritual tea and fruit brimming with qi, along with vast quantities of bamboo slips, Jade Slips, and books.
Volume after volume of scriptures had been piled into mountains, nearly swallowing the seven figures from sight.
The seven sat cross-legged on the ground. Some flipped through books and read bamboo slips; some held Jade Slips in their hands; others had their eyes tightly shut as they digested the insights and information within the Jade Slips.
Without exception, every one of them was utterly absorbed, their minds intensely focused.
It was as though they heard nothing of what happened around them.
Following the gaze of the long-bearded cultivator, Du Ziwén, Su Shi'er immediately locked onto one of them: a Golden Core cultivator clad in an azure robe, wearing a green fox mask, and radiating an understated yet extraordinary aura.
"This man... is Yin Qingxue? Judging from his aura alone, he far surpasses most Golden Pill Cultivators. He is no ordinary man indeed!!!"
"He can refine a quasi-fifth-grade Spiritual Pill while still at the Golden Core stage..."
"If that is truly the case, then his attainments in the Alchemy Dao may well surpass even my true body's!"
Though Du Ziwén did not spell it out, Su Shi'er was no novice to cultivation and made his own judgment at once.
Su Shi'er's expression remained calm and unruffled, yet inwardly, he could not help but marvel.
The path of the Dao was like sailing upon the vast sea—the farther one traveled, the more difficult the journey became.
Cultivation was so, and the Alchemy Dao was no exception.
With Foundation Establishment stage cultivation, it was still possible