Chapter 682: Chapter 682: Jade Slip
Every so often, the Evil Eye would erupt with a large concentration of Yin Sha Energy, and this would last for several days.
This was known as the Demon Tide.
However, unlike the predictable monthly cycle of an uncut red dragon for a female cultivator, the Demon Tide had no fixed timing nor any discernible pattern.
Fortunately, there were premonitions before its outbreak.
Sensing that the Demon Tide was imminent, Wang Chen imdiately retreated to the safety of Free Residence.
Then he activated the Defensive Array to its strongest state.
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Before long, the frenzied Demon Wind subrged the safehouse.
When constructing Free Residence, the impact of the Demon Tide was taken into consideration, so not only was the location carefully chosen, but various targeted defensive asures were also implented.
Thus, it was still very safe inside.
It was just that during this ti, Wang Chen could only stay inside the house and not step outside at all.
He also had ti to sit down and do so things unrelated to cultivation.
Like reading a book.
Setting up the small red clay stove, lighting so Golden Silk Smokeless Charcoal, and brewing Spirit Spring water in a Purple Clay Pot, Wang Chen sat next to a small table, sipping tea while reading the notes of his predecessors.
This “predecessor” referred to True Person Ye.
The scroll of notes he was holding ca from True Person Ye’s Suru Ring.
It contained the account of this Golden Core cultivator’s path of cultivation and experiences in life.
True Person Ye, real na Ye Shunping, was a Loose Cultivator. His life was full of hardships; after enduring countless tribulations, he solidified his Golden Core and went on to cultivate in Yongle Immortal City.
However, due to his limited talent, he had no hope of achieving a Nascent Soul at the eighth tier, and since he lacked a significant background, the esteed True Person could only oversee the Yongle Dungeon, accumulating rits and exchanging them for resources necessary for cultivation.
Clearly not an upright True Person, he always had the habit of keeping a diary, and as Wang Chen read through his notes seriously, he found them filled with grievances.
The heavens are unjust, human ways are inequitable, and the ways of the world are obscure. In summary, filled with negative energy!
Perhaps this was the reason why Ye Shunping coveted Wang Chen’s fortuitous opportunities and did not hesitate to take action against Wang Chen personally.
His mind and vision were not grand.
Most of the content in the notes were boring, and the writing was tedious—the Golden Core True Person clearly used them as an emotional rubbish bin.
But after reading through them, Wang Chen managed to sort out many things useful for himself.
For example, the entire process of Ye Shunping’s Golden Core condensation.
He began to gather resources for the Solidifying Pill when he entered the high tier of Purple Mansion, and after thirty years, he had collected enough to successfully break through to the Golden Core.
The hardships involved, while not every word was written in tears, were clearly not easy to endure.
No matter how high one’s talent is, the condensation of a Golden Core requires corresponding resources.
These resources refer mainly to various heavenly and earthly treasures, and they directly influence the quality of the Solidifying Pill.
Ye Shunping, being a Loose Cultivator without exceptional innate abilities, had exerted all his power to reach the peak of the Purple Mansion tier, and the resources he had accumulated could only just barely et the requirents.
Thus, in the end, he achieved the Golden Core at the eighth tier.
Perhaps harboring great resentnt in his heart, his handwriting was sowhat different from the norm when he described this period in his notes.
His emotions seed quite unstable.
This led Ye Shunping, after successfully solidifying his Golden Core, to vengefully hoard wealth and resources—one part went into his Lifebound Magic Treasure, and the other was to make up for his greatest regret.
As a result, in the end, all his years of accumulating treasures were for naught—they all cheaply fell into Wang Chen’s hands!
And this content served as a reminder to Wang Chen.
His progress in cultivation was very rapid, far surpassing that of an ordinary cultivator, comparable to those with deep backgrounds and regarded as prodigies.
If he did not start gathering resources for solidifying his pill now, then waiting until the peak of the Purple Mansion tier to do so might delay him for several years.
Because so of the heavenly and earthly treasures necessary for the Solidifying Pill are not readily available for purchase—so require a hefty deposit to pre-order, so depend on luck, and others involve competition with others.
Wang Chen, also a Loose Cultivator without the support of a family or a Sect, even though he was not short of Spirit Stones, found compiling these heavenly and earthly treasures, especially high-quality ones, exceedingly difficult.
So heavenly and earthly treasures are priceless and cannot be bought with money!
Although Wang Chen could cheat, the huge investnt needed to achieve a top-tier Golden Core was indispensable!
Ye Shunping had listed the heavenly materials and earthly treasures he used for his pill condensation in his notes. Wang Chen roughly estimated the amount to be astonishingly large, and according to his own needs, he expected that number to be several or even more than ten tis greater.
Pill condensation was so difficult—what about nascent soul formation and divinity transformation later on?
Wang Chen shook his head, not wanting to think too much about such distant matters.
He put down the notes he had finished reading and took out a set of cultivation techniques on a Jade Slip, also belonging to Ye Shunping.
In fact, this set of techniques on the Jade Slip wasn’t Ye Shunping’s own either; he had obtained it during his Purple Mansion tier as an opportunity while exploring a precursor’s cave mansion.
It was a Golden Core Cave Mansion, and its owner had failed in nascent soul formation and passed away, leaving behind many treasures.
Among them was this Jade Slip.
At that ti, Ye Shunping was exploring with a team. After acquiring the treasure, his teammates turned against each other, and after a bloody internal fight, he managed to retain the biggest opportunity of his cultivation career.
Ye Shunping’s successful pill condensation on his first attempt, despite not having particularly high innate talent, was greatly related to this opportunity.
Even the embryo of his Lifebound Magic Treasure ca from this Golden Core Cave Mansion.
This Jade Slip contained a total of nine powerful spells.
They were all Golden Core-tier spells!
Interestingly, Ye Shunping obtained this treasure while he was at the Purple Mansion tier, and he hadn’t been able to practice any of the spells by the ti his pill condensation was successful.
Because this Jade Slip was quite special—it had requirents for the cultivator’s cultivation level and Root Bone to unseal it.
True Person Ye had sufficient cultivation level, but his Root Bone wasn’t up to the mark, so he could only stare helplessly!
In other words, Wang Chen also couldn’t practice them now.
However, this Jade Slip had a special function—that of testing Root Bone!
Wang Chen forced a drop of blood from the tip of his finger and let it drop onto the Jade Slip.
The Jade Slip quickly absorbed his blood and soon emitted a faint light.
A True Seal Talisman Script surfaced on its face.
The character “Upper”.
Wang Chen’s Root Bone was now at an upper-level!
As far as he knew, above “Upper” there was “Supre,” but an upper-level Root Bone was already enough for a Nascent Soul True Seed.
For this particularly demanding Jade Slip, an upper-level Root Bone was more than sufficient.
Unfortunately, Wang Chen’s cultivation level was still far from enough.
So he could only do the sa as Ye Shunping and stow the cultivation technique Jade Slip away at the bottom of his storage.
Tap tap!
Just as Wang Chen was returning the Jade Slip to the Suru Ring, he suddenly heard a knocking at the door.
Hmm?
Wang Chen swiftly turned his head towards the door.
At that mont, the evil wind was strong— who could be knocking at Free Residence?
He suspected he had heard wrong.
Tap tap tap!
Yet the sa sound rang out again, clear and distinct, without any possibility of mishearing.
Wang Chen was startled and imdiately grasped the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net.
“Who is it?”
He asked in a stern voice.
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The second update is delivered.
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