"You were rather lucky."
Chu Mo gave Di Yang a doubtful look. He was particularly sensitive to ruins from Eternal Night now, and immediately thought of that ruined Underworld Bureaucracy.
After a moment's contemplation, his expression shifted slightly. Then he smiled gently. "Your natural talent is excellent, too. To think you formed a core on your own in such a short time, with nothing more than the formula I casually passed on back then. Very good, very good."
Di Yang's expression turned solemn at those words, and he immediately bowed. "Without your kindness in teaching me that day, Senior, bestowing the Celestial Circuit Qi-Gathering Method and the path of Qi-Collecting Foundation Establishment, I would never have become what I am today.
"I would never dare forget that kindness."
Chu Mo nodded slightly. Grateful and mindful of old kindnesses-he liked good people like that.
He extended a wisp of divine thought and swept it over the golden core within Di Yang. This golden core, formed through [Qi-Collecting Foundation Establishment], was very different from the Dao Mansion's Golden Vault.
It was made by extracting a trace of imperishable golden nature from gold, combining it with the Dao Foundation in one's own sea of qi, and refining it into a perfectly rounded, brilliantly shining golden core.
Though it nurtured no life-bound divine ability, its magical power was pure and substantial, and its strength was quite impressive. It was more than a notch above [Yin-Nourishing Nether Gathering].
Moreover, this path had a clear way forward. Combining the soul with the golden core could nurture a nascent soul, followed even by Spirit Transformation... Chu Mo had heard of that as well, but cultivators who practiced Qi-Collecting Foundation Establishment generally did not live long enough to reach that point.
Chu Mo's expression suddenly shifted, and he