In truth, after reaching Core Formation...
Li Ping had already decided to abandon the Marsh Water Life-Nourishing Art, a cultivation method that excelled at healing, and switch to the Nine Tribulations True Spirit Sacred Canon.
After all, the Marsh Water Life-Nourishing Art prevented him from using pills to advance his cultivation. Coupled with the cultivation speed of his three-spirit root aptitude, even without bottlenecks between realms, he would probably struggle to achieve Nascent Soul Formation within his remaining three hundred-odd years of life.
That was naturally not an outcome Li Ping wanted. Thus, however reluctant he was to give up the miraculous healing effects of the Marsh Water Life-Nourishing Art, he could only grit his teeth and switch to a cultivation method that allowed him to gulp down pills to advance.
But the Great Purity Jade-Liquid Golden Core Method happened to solve this very problem.
With this Secret Art, he could refine a second Golden Core within his body.
That way...
He would only need to use his second golden core to cultivate the Nine Tribulations True Spirit Sacred Canon, without wasting time dispersing the magical power of the Marsh Water Life-Nourishing Art and cultivating anew.
Moreover, according to its creator...
The Great Purity Jade-Liquid Golden Core Method was entirely different from demonic path methods for external incarnations or corpse refining. The second golden core it produced was no different from one a cultivator formed normally.
Once he successfully cultivated it, he would effectively possess two golden cores.
Even if he exhausted the magical power in one golden core during battle, he could draw upon the power in the second to keep fighting.
Nominally, the two golden cores were divided into primary and secondary, but in practice, there was no difference between them for the cultivator himself.
Even if an