He Pingsheng spent some time enveloping the small building he had rented at the Immortal Guest House in third-grade formations.
A third-grade Defense Formation!
A third-grade Illusion Formation!
A third-grade Divine-Sense Sealing Formation!
And a third-grade Warning Formation.
Only after everything was ready did he begin taking stock.
He took out his possessions one by one.
One large chunk of extreme yin azure gold, unenhanced.
Over a dozen Phoenix Feathers, unenhanced.
Twenty-seven Sago Palm Sacred Fruits, all low-grade and unenhanced.
Twenty-one strands of ten-thousand-year ice marrow, unenhanced.
A large pile of fire crystals, unenhanced.
One Blood-Jade Purple-Skinned Jujube, unenhanced.
Those were the items he had yet to enhance.
Four Swift-Movement Talismans, enhanced.
Two sets of Heavenly Fire Condensed Armor, enhanced!
One Black-and-White Lotus Root, enhanced.
One Phoenix Egg, enhanced.
Four essence-splitting lightning fruits, enhanced.
Two poison-repelling treasure pearls of Magical Treasure rank, enhanced.
Two Jade Slips containing the Three Thousand Thunderbolt Technique and the Shrinking Earth Technique respectively, enhanced.
Those were the items he had already enhanced.
His trip to the Secret Realm in Five Dragon Ravines had truly filled his pots and bowls to overflowing.
What came next was simple.
Cultivate while enhancing his possessions.
Before he knew it, a year and a half had passed.
After He Pingsheng cultivated the Five Elements Unity Heaven Scripture, his Golden Core Dao Access was completed, and a Dao Root naturally emerged from his Dantian, extending all the way to his Sea of Consciousness.
Meanwhile, over the course of that year, he had also raised every aspect of his cultivation to the First-Level Golden Core Stage.
His Dantian now held five Golden Cores: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
He had also finished refining the final restriction on the Poison-Repelling Five Elements Treasure Pearl.
His Body Refining and Divine Refining had both