What was a false core?
In cultivation, breaking through from the twelfth layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm to the Golden Core Stage did not necessarily require an [Origin-Reaching Pill].
You could use one!
Or you could go without.
Without one, cultivators had to rely on their cultivation, perseverance, fortune, and many other factors, condensing the energies of heaven and earth for thirty years before they could form a golden core.
The principle was the same as using an Origin-Reaching Pill.
However, cultivators who did not use an Origin-Reaching Pill and instead condensed a false core bit by bit on their own possessed greater combat strength once they attained a golden core.
Their golden cores could also store more spiritual power.
The so-called false core cultivators were those who sought to form their cores through their own efforts, without using an Origin-Reaching Pill.
When a golden core had yet to take complete shape, but its faint outline had already appeared, it was called a [false core].
A false core cultivator's combat strength lay between the early Golden Core Stage and the perfected Foundation Establishment Realm.
They were very strong.
Put it this way: any false core cultivator could easily crush an ordinary twelfth-layer Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Such cultivators were rarely encountered.
Even among a hundred cultivators at the perfected Foundation Establishment Realm, there might not be one who could step into the false core realm.
"Then..." He Pingsheng asked, "what pills would you like?"
The false core cultivator shook his head and smiled. "I'm not buying pills!"
"This exalted one's Daoist name is [Wuqiong], and I come from the Free and Carefree Immortal Sect!"
Having said that, Daoist Wuqiong stared at He Pingsheng with a broad smile.
He Pingsheng's expression changed as well.
The Free and Carefree Immortal Sect?
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