The issue of Transcendent Cores had troubled Lin Yuan for some time.
The bone material and wood material in his current Explore the Sea were both C-rank. After being hammered in the Divine Artisan Forge during this time, its metal material was also about to reach C-rank.
According to Moge, Explore the Sea would only reveal its true power when its bone material, wood material, metal, and Transcendent Core were all at the same rank.
Yet Explore the Sea's Transcendent Core was only D-rank.
Although his Explore the Sea used the special Great King Puppet Octopus Core, which could advance in rank, doing so required three cores of the same rank.
That left him short of three D-Rank Transcendent Cores.
More importantly, there were the Lin Yuan's own needs.
Although he had nominally accepted the legacy of the path of the Lost Sanctum and modified the Transcendent Core Chamber with the Mysterious Little Box's help, the chamber had never truly been put into use because he lacked enough Transcendent Cores.
He was still using that Copy Penguin Core, an E-Rank Transcendent Core of the lowest rank.
The Transcendent Core's ability was decent, but it could only copy E-rank Transcendent Skills at best. Its ceiling was too low.
Most of the battles Lin Yuan encountered now could be won easily without using Copy.
The few things he could not beat, such as Senior Moge's blade, Moge, were also beyond his ability to copy.
That made it rather lackluster.
The best way to solve this problem was, of course, to truly activate the modified Transcendent Core Chamber, integrate transcendent power into himself, and take the plain, straightforward route of overwhelming opponents with raw stats.
But that route required an even more enormous quantity of Transcendent Cores.
Unfortunately, Transcendent Cores were the hardest