"Could it really be... that I 'myself' don't want to use it?"

Telling Mo Wuy ya to "take his own life" was merely a verbal ploy.

You knew perfectly well that, with your current strength, you could not possibly kill a Golden Core Powerhouse.

The Golden Core realm cultivated "the imperishable nature of gold."

Cultivators inscribed their true spirits upon the fruit positions they had attained, establishing a profound link with the Heavenly Dao.

From then on, as long as their fruit positions did not fall and their true spirits did not disperse, their ranks remained fixed for Eternity.

Even if their bodies were annihilated and their souls shattered, their fruit positions would send down mighty power,

allowing them to reconstruct themselves and be reborn, their true spirits anchoring their unchanging "essence"—this was one proof, eternal proof.

Even a Golden Core Powerhouse of the same realm would find it extremely difficult to kill another for good, let alone someone in the Qi Refining realm like you.

There were three conventional methods of killing them:

First, overwhelming them from a higher level, such as a Nascent Soul True Lord, and directly erasing the link between their true spirits and fruit positions;

if one could slaughter at will, with a single thought, the true spirits of Golden Core Powerhouses attached to fruit positions, then naturally one could kill them.

Second, sealing their fruit positions and cutting off the source of their rebirth, which required special methods or the collapse of the fruit position system;

that was how it was described, but in practice, it meant finding a way to make the fruit positions crash so they could no longer freely unleash their mighty power,

much as when someone who had attained a Supreme Venerable fruit position fell, all the True Lords with derivative fruit positions attached to it would fall as well,

that entire