After completing this round of modifications,Xia Li still put a few more items on credit with Yagyu Chihaya: several sets of ancient-style clothing, so dicine, and a fresh stock of bullets and grenades.Bullets and grenades were not especially useful to him anymore, but it never hurt to be prepared."Chihaya, how much for a modification pod with dical and prosthetic-repair functions?"Before leaving, Xia Li rembered the bind he had been in before.Damaged prosthetics could be a problem too."You want to buy a repair pod? One with nanobots and relatively fast repair speed costs around a hundred thousand spirit stones.""Then get one. I'll pay you next ti.""I knew it... co on. I've got one ready-made here. Just take it. I was planning to order a newer model anyway."Yagyu Chihaya led Xia Li into the treatnt room and pointed at the modification pod he had used earlier."This one. As for power, are you going to recharge it yourself, or attach either a micro fusion unit or a spirit-energy converter?""Spirit-energy converter. I can't guarantee I'll still have enough strength left to activate it after getting injured.""How many nutrient canisters do you want? One canister is enough for ten uses.""Three for now.""Hold on. I'll load your prosthetic information into it... and fill the dicine chamber too. Can your phase ring still hold more?""It can. Right, do you have any prosthetics for pets to cultivate with?"Xia Li had suddenly thought of little Hu Ling.If there was one, he could bring it back along the way. That little fox really was pitiful."Actually, yes. I do treat demon pets too, just as a side thing, so I'm not exactly professional at it. I might not have a full range ready. Go have a look in the upstairs storeroom later.""All right."With that, Yagyu Chihaya went to the repair pod and began operating it, loading in the repair data sent over by the prosthetic manufacturers.After Xia Li stored the repair pod in his phase ring, Yagyu Chihaya led him to the rear of the treatnt room.There stood a huge water tank filled with pale blue liquid.It was a composite solution rich in nutrients, with sedative, painkilling, and regenerative properties.Beside the large tank sat several big canisters. After Yagyu Chihaya filled three of them with nutrient fluid, Xia Li stored them imdiately as well.At that point, Xia Li no longer had any lingering concerns."All right. Ti for to go.""Take care, then. Though what exactly are you doing every day? You keep cutting off your network and disappearing without a trace. It's all ridiculously mysterious.""That..."Xia Li really had no good way to explain why he kept going offline.There was simply no network signal on the other side. What exactly was he supposed to do about that?"If you don't want to say, then forget it. Next ti you co back, can you stay a little longer?"There was a faint reluctance in both her voice and her expression.At that, Xia Li nodded.This ti, he had been in a rush to form his golden core and truly had not had ti to linger."I didn't realize you were this starved for affection. Fine, next ti I co back, I'll spend more ti with you.""Get lost, get lost, get lost. Who's starved for affection? And even if I were, I wouldn't need yours.""Haven't I already given you so love?""Tch..."Yagyu Chihaya shot him a glare.Xia Li laughed twice and imdiately took off before she could say more.Taking the elevator back up to the Benzoin Clinic on the surface, Xia Li found a canine-use prosthetic heart in the storeroom and did not stay any longer.He headed straight for the edge of the safe zone, changed into ancient clothing down in the underground passage, and then activated the mysterious ring.The mysterious ring's cooldown period was two months,asured as one complete round trip.In other words, it only began cooling down after returning to Earth and then returning once again to the Profound World.That feature made it possible to use the ring to evade certain lethal dangers.But once back in the Profound World, for the next two months he would have lost one of his greatest life-saving cards.So after going back this ti,he could only win.Pure white radiance spread out around him.Xia Li closed his eyes.And when he opened them again, he was already standing beside the black iron doors in the Blackstone Ancient Hall.Even deep in the hall, he could still hear the flow of lava outside.The fla storm was still raging beyond.Xia Li stepped through the black iron doors and entered the hall where he had previously obtained the Golden Crow inner core.
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There, in the center of the hall, a gray tiger only a little larger than he was lay sleeping.Xia Li did not wake Qiu Fu.Instead, he simply sat down beside her and began cultivating, regulating his breath.The Golden Core stage was ordinarily for cultivating the divine powers within the golden core, and once that process reached completion, the core would shatter into Nascent Soul.But his golden core was not a false core.That ant what he cultivated now was no longer ordinary divine-power force.Instead, he had to further strengthen the stellar golden core itself, using all kinds of thods to complete matter accretion while also maintaining the balance between internal and external pressure, carefully increasing the mass of the core a little at a ti.Fortunately, all of that had already been arranged by the Heavenly Dao Computer.If he had needed to feel his way through it himself, he might very well have accidentally cultivated his stellar golden core into exploding one day.No one knew how much ti passed.Then the Blackstone Ancient Hall suddenly shuddered.The howling of fierce winds outside gradually began to subside.The fla storm was ending.Qiu Fu was jolted awake as well.She quickly raised her head and looked around in panic, but once she saw Xia Li right beside her, she let out a long breath and imdiately resud human form."You ca back and didn't even wake ?"She looked Xia Li up and down.The current Xia Li bore no trace of the miserable condition he had been in before he left. Not only were his clothes clean and his skin smooth and pale, even the hair that had been burned away earlier had grown back.His eye, nose, and the right arm that had once been missing had all been restored as well."You were sleeping so soundly I couldn't bear to disturb you.""But a great battle is about to start. If you'd woken sooner, I could've made so preparations too!""Exactly because a great battle is about to start, you needed the rest. As for preparations? What preparations? The fact that I ca back is preparation enough."With that, Xia Li stopped concealing his aura.A blazing wave of heat surged outward from his body.Qiu Fu was only standing a little too close, and the heat alone lightly scorched her.And that was only the aura Xia Li was releasing naturally.To Qiu Fu's senses, the Xia Li before her was terrifying.The pressure he gave off was greater even than what the xiao demon and Mo Ye had once given her."You ford your golden core? What grade is it? Upper three, right?""No... even an upper-three golden core wouldn't be this terrifying. The pressure you give is stronger than Nascent Soul. Could it be the legendary immortal-grade?"Qiu Fu asked at once.Golden cores were divided into nine grades:lower three,middle three,and upper three.But those with extrely poor talent could also form a no-grade golden core, one even worse than a low-grade one.And there were those peerless, heaven-shocking geniuses who forged unprecedented supre golden cores beyond the nine grades.Those were known as immortal-grade.Every immortal-grade golden core in history had been unique.And every person who forged one had left a glorious na behind in the annals of history.Every single one had founded a sect, beco an immortal, or risen as an ancestral patriarch."Does it matter?""At Golden Core, Mo Ye and the xiao demon both forged seventh-grade cores. In this declining age, a seventh-grade core is already enough to be called the mark of a genius. If yours is really immortal-grade...""Then I'd rather die than let you make a move."What Qiu Fu wanted to see was Xia Li surviving this crisis by other ans.The more he relied on external tools, the better.On the other hand, the more Xia Li relied on his own power to overco this danger, the more dangerous his future would beco.An immortal-grade golden core had not appeared for who knew how many years.The mont outsiders learned of it, the whole world would be stirred. All would grow greedy and seek to kill Xia Li and take the golden core for themselves."It's probably... beyond immortal-grade."Xia Li reached out and rubbed Qiu Fu's head.Perhaps the stellar golden core by itself would count as an immortal-grade golden core in the Profound World.But once combined with every modification specifically built to suit it...the sixth-generation fire-aspect Heaven Chip,the prosthetic arm Hestia,the Dyson Sphere A2 Spirit Core,and all the other embedded prosthetics...the power the stellar golden core could unleash would exceed imagination.
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