Chapter 350: Chapter 313: (Cultivation) Heavenly Grade Golden Core (1,200 Monthly Tickets Bonus)

When Jiang Yuebai’s true self opened her eyes, she discovered she was lying in the cave dwelling on Eight Diagram Island, with her master’s flashy five-colored barrier still at the entrance.

Jiang Yuebai smiled, slowly sat up, and found her storage magic treasures beside her, both her bracelet and ring were intact.

The situation in the small world was something she had mostly figured out. She could only enter the small world with her consciousness; her physical body was unable to enter for now. Whether she would be able to do so in the future was uncertain, and whether other living beings could enter at present was also unknown—she would try catching some bugs to test it out.

Currently, the area she could move around in was about ten acres in size and imbued with Five Element Spiritual Energy. The small world’s laws felt crude and somewhat unstable, lacking in many aspects, perhaps requiring her to constantly comprehend the laws to complete them.

This could be done gradually; she could live up to five hundred years, allowing ample time for research.

Jiang Yuebai checked her body; external wounds had mostly healed, though there was a faint soreness throughout. With a thought, white dragon scale patterns flashed across her skin, with lightning concealed within.

It seemed the tribulation lightning helped refine Ao Juan’s patch of white dragon scales into her body, essentially granting her dragon scale armor.

Jiang Yuebai used inner vision to view her elixir field, where a walnut-sized, clear and pristine elixir pill sat, faintly shimmering with a purple halo.

A Heavenly Grade Golden Core, pure and flawless, surrounded by purple aura, signifying primordial chaos.

Beneath the elixir pill lay the Five Elements Lotus Platform, which had absorbed the Heavenly Stone, becoming a spiritual treasure far surpassing a spiritual artifact, as only spiritual treasures could birth small worlds akin to secret realms, like the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Mirror of the Supreme Elder.

The lotus platform was currently absorbed nature’s spiritual energy, refining it to release a bit of purple-tinted, colorless spiritual energy beyond Five Elements, drawing it into the elixir pill.

She didn’t need to perform internal energy circulation; the lotus platform’s autonomous operation efficiency far exceeded her full effort during Foundation Establishment by more than ten times.

Besides the lotus platform, five Ruyi Treasure Gourds floated in the elixir field, absorbing Five Elements Origin Qi and continuing to nurture spiritual artifacts. When the five-colored spiritual light on the gourds fully calmed, it would be time for the spiritual artifacts to emerge.

Just after forming the Core, she should avoid too much combat within the next three years, focusing on nurturing her core calmly and stabilizing her Golden Core cultivation, three years would be enough to allow the gourds to mature the spiritual artifacts.

Jiang Yuebai glanced at her Immortal Cultivation Panel, noting little change beyond her cultivation.

The Five Elements Returning to Truth Skill had no lower volume, reaching Nascent Soul Stage as the limit. The Great Derivation Scripture began formal cultivation at the Golden Core Stage, capable of cultivating up to Mahayana Realm.

She decided to ask her master for the lower volume of the Great Derivation Scripture to see if it was worth switching to this technique.

Apart from the main technique, Jiang Yuebai decided to continue cultivating the Body Refining Cultivation Technique Nine Revolutions Golden Body Technique, which also allowed cultivation up to Mahayana Realm.

The Immortal Grass Scripture was temporarily halted; the ninth level of the Cloud Mushroom Grass Bloodline was sufficient for now, and she didn’t want to become entirely inhuman.

The Demon Clan Cultivation Technique Thousand Leaves All Things Hand, along with the scoundrel’s Green Dragon Spear Technique, were a must-learn; these two techniques allowed her to cast spells with Divine Sense, impaling heroes with her spear, not delaying either.

Especially after forming the Core, spell casting needed no hand techniques; a slight shake of the Divine Sense leaf was enough to manifest a spell, urging her to practice diligently, complementing with the precise control method taught by her master, aiming to do it faster and more discreetly than others.

Other fragmented techniques and methods could be practiced when there’s time, set aside otherwise. She intended to learn artifact refining next.

"Core Formation has broadened the horizons for learning, how delightful! Oh right, there’s also the Space Great Forbidden Technique given by Ao Juan."

Jiang Yuebai previously thought it simple; the Space Great Forbidden Technique was a Dragon Clan Bloodline Restriction, and she couldn’t learn it without the Dragon Clan bloodline.

Ao Juan knew her eagerness to learn, which was why he offered her a drop of Winged Dragon Essence Blood. With the essence blood’s power, she could learn this great restriction, though the power couldn’t match Ao Juan’s original strength.

The drop of essence blood proved to be life-saving, genuinely completing her Five Spirits Body, bringing many advantages.

It allowed her to command all aquatic creature communities with the Winged Dragon essence blood’s aura. At that moment, in the Green Dragon Realm with those scoundrels, she would unquestionably be a Dragon Herding Expert.

"After assessing the gains from Core Formation, it’s time to face reality, examining this time’s losses."

Thinking of this made Jiang Yuebai feel both fortunate and heartache.

Grateful that before Core Formation, she had accumulated substantial resources; otherwise, with insufficient spiritual energy, the Golden Core formation would have failed or merely produced a First Grade Golden Core.

Within the Earth Spiritual Realm, there was no Heavenly Grade Golden Core, the lacking spiritual energy having been the primary reason.

Jiang Yuebai focused Divine Sense into her bracelet, her face turning green, and upon inspecting the ring, it became darkened green.

Aside from Jade Scrolls of cultivation techniques and elixirs, she had Dragon Palace-acquired records of Dragon Clan history and story miscellany in book scroll Jade Scrolls. Her spirit stones had dwindled to just over ten thousand top-grade spirit stones, and she’d instantly plunged the five thousand plus top-grade spiritual stones obtained from the scoundrels into the lotus platform.

Spirit stones were absorbed fastest to sustain life, ensuring artifact and material refinement could keep pace subsequently.

Jiang Yuebai released Jixiang from the Spiritual Beast Bag, lacking anything to eat, she offered a sliver of Golden Spiritual Energy, making Jixiang intoxicated, four paws upwards, unconscious beside her.

Then there was the Ice Armor Beetle King which had forsaken the Cold Jade Pendant, clutching an ice-blue colored jewel, starting to show signs of advancement.

This jewel belonged to the pile of "human clan refuse" Ao Juan gifted her; with the Ice Armor Beetle King atop it, she refrained from tossing it into the lotus platform.

Out of that pile, she kept only a ruler, a folding fan, and this jewel, with the rest consumed by the lotus platform.

Afterward came the Saint Poems Golden Scroll given by the Kong Family, the Crescent Pendant from Xie Jingshan, Eight Arrays Plate, Green Jade Bamboo Flute, two Dragon Scale Daggers, Taihe Umbrella, the damaged Flying Core Boat, Feiyan Pavilion Token, and the hairband gifted by True Monarch Fuyi.

She retained nine Dragon Scales, Dragon Blood and Dragon Skin, ten thousand-year-old spiritual medicines, the Star Meteorite Iron, Refusing Fire Cauldron, Cloud-Breaking Charge, three Poison Dragon Miasmas, and Jades Talisman from the scoundrels untouched.

As for others, such as the Evil Wind Saber, Tailang Whip, Shadow Moon Mother and Child Blades, and the Heart-Dominating Bell on her wrist were tossed into the lotus platform.

Now her inventory was truly bare, only the Saint Poems held as the trump card before the maturation of the five spiritual artifacts, with the Taihe Umbrella as her only available means for battling.

The Green Jade Bamboo Flute’s Killing Song hadn’t been mastered yet, and the Eight Arrays Plate required re-smelting with Star Meteorite Iron to unleash its true potential against Golden Core Cultivators.

"I’m destined to be impoverished!"

Jiang Yuebai rose from the stone bed, changing into a sky-blue long dress, fastening her black hair with the blue hairband given by True Monarch Fuyi, while Little Ganoderma on her head remained a stump, not having grown back.

She re-donned the Crescent Pendant, her body now devoid of other ornaments, feeling refreshingly clean, her visage retaining the radiant beauty of a seventeen-year-old, lively and graceful.

Now, post-Core Formation, a subtle decisiveness in her eyes made her appear formidable.

Thunder rumbled outside, indicating Jiang Yuebai hadn’t slept for long; True Monarch Fuyi’s Divinity Transformation Thunder Tribulation hadn’t concluded yet.

Her Core Formation had been rushed by the Heavenly Dao, finished in half a day, whereas Divinity Transformation Thunder Tribulations typically span nine days, offering-winded tribulation-crossers breaks in between.

Since True Monarch Fuyi hadn’t completed the tribulation, Jiang Yuebai wasn’t hasty either, seated at the stone table within her cave, pulled out the jewel clutched by the Ice Armor Beetle King and the folding fan for study. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Having only the Taihe Umbrella available felt unsettling, prompting a need to seek more magic treasures as a backup.

"This jewel resembles the Ice Soul Pearl mentioned in the Marvels Record, a Dragon Palace specialty, birthed by a thousand-year-old clam spirit absorbing undersea Mystic Ice Qi, this cherry-sized pearl boasting at least three thousand years."

Jiang Yuebai tapped the Ice Armor Beetle King, smacking her lips in praise.

"You’re truly adept at finding treasures; the previous Cold Jade Pendant was another discovery, and this Ice Soul Pearl is indeed a rare gem. Undersea Mystic Ice Qi offers wonderful benefits in combat, upon your advancement, your cultivation will rival mine. Then, I’ll think of a fitting name for you."

Ice Armor Beetle King’s body flickered with ice-blue light. Jiang Yuebai checked a few small bugs in the corner of her cave dwelling, putting them in and retrieving them from the small world found no issues, so she placed both the Ice Armor Beetle King and the Ice Soul Pearl into the small world, examining the folding fan.

Unaware that once the Ice Armor Beetle King entered the small world, it clung to the Ice Soul Pearl, flew into the darkness, settling on a newly blossomed lotus.

Stars sparkled, and purple lightning silently cleaved through the darkness, with the Ice Soul Pearl gradually merging with the lotus...