I came alone, and I'm leaving alone.
On his return journey, Li Xingkong passed by the location where he had previously encountered the Chamber of Commerce again, but the enormous Chamber of Commerce spaceship had long since disappeared.
Using his Divine Sense to perceive the area where the merchant guild's starship had been, he found that the space was completely undisturbed, without even a trace of warp.
The spatial technology used by the Chamber of Commerce is undoubtedly far more advanced than the spatial warp technology that Li Xingkong currently uses for travel, to the point that he still cannot understand its principles.
After searching with his Divine Sense and finding nothing, Li Xingkong stopped worrying. With the Chamber of Commerce's business card, he could still find the location of the Chamber of Commerce's starship, but for him at the moment, there was no need to go there.
After only a brief stop here, Li Xingkong continued his journey back to Earth Star.
The return journey begins here, and we will once again step into the desolate star sector. Li Xingkong entrusted the operation to the Hexagram, and then his mind settled down, entering a state of cultivation.
The Heaven-Encircling Baleful Qi Refining Technique, which had not been activated for a long time, was opened once again. Apart from the Hexagram that automatically returned and dutifully carried out Li Xingkong's instructions, the other Hexagram began to engage in cultivation.
StarCraft Traversal is usually rather tedious and even somewhat risky, but after Li Xingkong actively activated his Golden Core cultivation technique, everything became interesting.
Just like the old-fashioned game where a little person on the ground holds a basin to catch gold ingots, after Li Xingkong set up the Spirit Cultivation Net, all the cosmic storms and stellar rays he encountered on his return journey became sustenance for Li Xingkong cultivation.
Only by traveling through this universe can one know how many treasures it holds.
Before completing his pill, Li Xingkong asked the system to check the available Baleful Qi for him. At that time, there were only two kinds of Baleful Qi available in the entire Solar System. In the end, Li Xingkong chose the Great Sun Gold-Tempering Baleful Qi as his pill-forming Baleful Qi.
But when he began collecting Baleful Qi during his journey, he was surprised to discover just how many types of Baleful Qi existed in the universe.
Although most of the Baleful Qi energy was not as good as the kind he used to make pills, the sheer number of Baleful Qi often brought Li Xingkong some unexpected surprises.
"This is a sixth-grade Screening Baleful Qi under the Mystic Gate system!"
In his spare time, Li Xingkong would check his harvest of evil energy every now and then, discarding the useless Baleful Qi and storing the useful ones separately.
The so-called "Screening Baleful Qi" is a type of Baleful Qi that is more defensive. Although it cannot resist physical attacks, it is very effective against light weapons.
Its shape looks like a cloud of mist, and you can't feel anything when you reach out to touch it. But if you hit its surface with a light-type attack, you will find that no matter how fast the light is originally, it will be dispersed and refracted by this small Baleful Qi at the moment of contact, thus deflecting all the incoming beams.
Such a Baleful Qi is not suitable for forming Core Formation, but it would be perfect for refining a Seven-Colored Cloud and Rosy Mist Robe.
This Seven-Colored Cloud and Rosy Mist Robe is no longer in the category of magic artifacts; it has reached the level of a magic treasure. Once refined, it is like a seamless celestial garment, invisible and colorless when worn, only adding a touch of immortal aura to the wearer.
The idea is good, but Li Xingkong's current abilities are not enough. He will need to cultivate for some more time before he can refine this magic weapon.
Anyway, now that we have the main materials, everything else is negotiable.
Gathering evil energy is merely an add-on in cultivation. After Core Formation, cultivation at the Golden Core Stage has already broken free from dependence on Baleful Qi, and subsequent cultivation has only one main direction.
Transforming the Golden Core begins with the initial formation of the Golden Core, proceeding through the first, second, and so on, until the ninth transformation is completed, achieving full utilization of energy and realizing the level described by the so-called mass-energy conversion equation.
Once this level is reached, the Golden Core realm is fully cultivated, and the cultivator will be able to access the power of creation from the void creatures.
Li Xingkong's main task in most of his current Hexagram is to make preliminary modifications to his Golden Core under the guidance of the cultivation technique, in order to reach the first transformation realm as soon as possible.
The transformation of the Golden Core is not something that can be accomplished overnight, and one should not be greedy for quick results or act rashly.
After all, there is only one of these things, and it is related to the life and death of a cultivator. If there is even the slightest mistake in cultivation, it can easily lead to damage to the Golden Core. In severe cases, it can directly cut off one's path to cultivation and make progress hopeless.
If one makes a mistake in cultivation and loses the will to progress, one will stagnate at this stage and live a carefree life as a Golden Core cultivator. If one still has the desire to Seeking the Dao, then one can only personally give up one's Golden Core, return to the Foundation Establishment stage, and start all over again.
Cultivation itself is a very time-consuming process. Even a Golden Core cultivator will inevitably experience a decline in their Dao heart and lose their ambition after several attempts at cultivation.
Just like the college entrance exam, those who pass the first year will definitely not repeat the year. The number of those who repeat the year and pass the exam again is far fewer than those who pass the first time.
While it's commendable to keep fighting despite repeated defeats, repeated defeats in themselves indicate that there's something wrong with him.
Li Xingkong naturally didn't intend to be someone who could achieve the Core Formation multiple times; he naturally wanted to seek stability.
Each time one cultivates, one must first perform thousands of calculations within one's own Hexagram until one is absolutely certain of success, before synchronizing the results into one's Golden Core.
The amount of calculation required for each hexagram reading was so great that even with Li Xingkong's full effort in activating the Hexagram, it would still take several days.
If there were a progress bar to display it, then each time Li Xingkong cultivated, the progress bar would probably only increase by less than 0.01%, to a degree that would be invisible to the naked eye.
Even if Golden Core cultivator secludes himself for hundreds or even thousands of years, he may not be able to advance his Golden Core to the next stage. This shows just how difficult this cultivation is.
It should be noted that Li Xingkong's computing power is far superior to that of ordinary Golden Core cultivators. Even with his computing power, it still takes him this long to ensure that there are no problems during each cultivation session. Other cultivators would take even longer to cultivate.
However, with the cultivation civilization having developed for so long and so many people cultivating, what it has in abundance is the so-called gambling addict.
Computing power? I can do that too, but there's no need to be 100% accurate at every step, right? If this step has already reached 95%, then I'll just proceed and gamble on my luck.
Some even dared to try despite having a success rate of less than 10%.
After all, in many cases, being slightly more powerful than one's opponent in the short term can be more beneficial than one's own future in cultivation.
Like many so-called protagonists, they often resort to last-minute breakthroughs, which are basically all gambling.
Faced with an imminent threat or being trapped in a dangerous situation, one has no choice but to abandon more prudent methods and take a gamble.
In a way, this kind of gamble can indeed win you the treatment of a protagonist.