The Spell Pellet auction went extremely smoothly. Apart from the fierce bidding, nearly everything sold at a high price without a hitch, and the Fengle Merchant Alliance took the opportunity to announce that it would offer Spell Pellets for sale from time to time.
As time passed and the cultivators who had attended the auction departed, the appearance of Spell Pellets gradually stirred faint ripples in Tianxing City. Word then began spreading quietly through the Inner Sea and even the Outer Sea. But Tianxing City was vast, and the Chaotic Star Sea vaster still; the ripples caused by the Spell Pellets had yet to swell into any great waves.
After receiving his share of the Spirit Stones, Lin Yun quietly returned with Xin Ruoyin to his cave abode on the forty-first level of the Sacred Mountain. Apart from a handful of people in the Fengle Merchant Alliance, no one outside knew that he was the remarkable man who had developed an entirely new use for Demon Cores.
After returning to his cave abode, Lin Yun continued refining his several magic treasures each day while waiting for the Fengle Merchant Alliance to deliver more Demon Cores of various kinds.
Over half a year later, after refining two batches of Spell Pellets for the Fengle Merchant Alliance, Lin Yun finally accumulated all the medicinal pills he needed for Core Formation.
The origin qi inner core Lin Yun intended to form differed from the cores others formed by compressing their true essence.
Instead, he would use his own life-origin qi as the foundation, guiding it with a wisp of his divine soul and using it to evolve a strand of life-origin primordial essence. In this way, the momentary minor unification of the three origins-essence, qi, and spirit-would emulate a trace of the