Chapter 20: Lifebound Treasure, Nine Heavens Primordial Sword

Chapter 20: Lifebound Treasure, Nine Heavens Primordial Sword

Night fell. When the time reached eight o'clock in the evening, Zhang Yuhe quickly entered Yu Fantian.

As time gradually passed, the news that Dao Saint Sect had gained a new Inner Sect Disciple slowly spread among the Disciples.

However, no one had seen him, and his background remained unknown. From time to time, when Disciples passed by Galaxy Peak, they could not help but look up at the mountain.

However, the Formation of Galaxy Peak was activated, and looking from the outside, nothing could be seen.

One week passed in Blue Star time, and Zhang Yuhe had already cultivated in Dao Saint Sect for close to two years.

On this day, countless Spiritual Qi surged toward Galaxy Peak. Zhang Yuhe sat cross-legged on the cultivation platform, his expression slightly tense.

He continuously guided the Spiritual Qi, pouring it into his Dantian.

Not knowing how much time had passed, the gathered Spiritual Qi slowly dissipated, and Zhang Yuhe finally let out a long breath.

"I've finally reached the Golden Core realm."

After nearly two years of cultivation, he had never stepped outside, staying continuously at Galaxy Peak to Cultivate, advancing all the way from Qi Refining to the Golden Core realm.

Such cultivation speed was definitely one of a kind throughout the entire Yu Fantian.

In two years, Zhang Yuhe had walked a path that took most Cultivators a lifetime.

"Holy crap, what's going on?"

When he checked the condition inside his Dantian, his expression grew somewhat vacant.

He saw a golden round bead suspended above the ocean of Spiritual Qi in his Dantian, resembling a golden sun.

"Does this count as the Golden Core realm? Could this golden bead be my Golden Core?"

Looking at the situation inside his Dantian, Zhang Yuhe could not help feeling a bit doubtful.

Based on his understanding, the process of a Cultivator condensing a Golden Core should be solidifying all the liquid Spiritual Qi in the Dantian into a Golden Core.

Yet his ocean of Spiritual Qi still existed, and instead, an extra golden sun had appeared.

"This should count as a Golden Core, right."

Zhang Yuhe sensed his own aura; it was clearly much stronger than before.

"There's no mistake, it's the Golden Core realm."

After repeated confirmation, Zhang Yuhe finally reached an answer. After all, an aura could not lie.

Getting up to leave the courtyard, he came to the outer peak. With a wave of Zhang Yuhe's right hand, a purple Flying Sword hovered in front of him.

"Go."

The Flying Sword crossed the sky, instantly slashing toward the lake at the foot of the mountain.

The sword light chopped down, splitting the entire lake surface directly in two, causing countless dead fish to float up.

After a long while, the lake surface finally returned to calm.

"Return."

With a casual beckoning of Zhang Yuhe's hand, the purple Flying Sword instantly returned before him.

"Not bad."

Looking at the effect of the Flying Sword's slash, Zhang Yuhe nodded in satisfaction.

After breaking through to the Golden Core realm, his strength had clearly experienced a leap in improvement.

With his current strength, if he were to walk down the mountain, he would definitely be considered a formidable expert.

After all, Golden Core Cultivators were no weaklings anywhere.

Moreover, Zhang Yuhe as a Golden Core Cultivator was clearly somewhat special.

Although he had never formally fought anyone, he had a feeling that he was many times stronger than Golden Core Cultivators of the same rank.

"Why even think about this? Anyway, I'm not going to fight anyone."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuhe couldn't help but shake his head.

He was a cultivation otaku; combat power and such were not his pursuits.

He just wanted to Cultivate quietly and first set a small goal: Undergoing Tribulation and Ascension.

With another casual wave, the purple Flying Sword landed in his hand.

High Grade Magical Artifact, Galaxy.

This Flying Sword was refined by himself. The Flying Sword belonging to the sixth elder of the Wu Family had long been thrown into the trash heap by him.

Over the past two years, besides cultivation, Zhang Yuhe also took the time to study alchemy, Formations, talismans, and Artifact Refining, and all had reached Minor Achievement.

He didn't even need to go out to look for Materials; the trading market of the game System had them for sale.

During this period, the strength of other players was also gradually increasing, and most players had already gained a firm foothold in Yu Fantian.

Among them, players with fast cultivation speeds had already reached the fourth or fifth layer of Qi Refining.

Such cultivation was enough to support them in traveling around small places.

As the players' strength improved, the items in the trading market also slowly became richer.

Some items dropped when players fought monsters, while more were resold by players from the indigenous people.

Commerce and trade were the genetic instincts of Blue Star people, and it was the same even when they arrived in Yu Fantian.

Zhang Yuhe purchased Materials from the trading market, then refined some low-end Medicinal Pills and Magical Artifacts to sell, occasionally drawing talismans and making Formation Plates.

In the eyes of other players, Zhang Yuhe was simply a major merchant of the cultivation world.

No one would believe that all these things were made by himself.

Everyone thought that he had hugged the thigh of some indigenous force and was helping them engage in business activities.

"It's time to refine a Lifebound Treasure for myself."

Zhang Yuhe put away the Galaxy Flying Sword and came to the Artifact Refining Room in the courtyard.

After entering the Golden Core realm, a Cultivator could refine a Magic Treasure into a Lifebound Treasure.

The Lifebound Treasure could gradually improve along with the advancement of the Cultivator's realm.

Moreover, compared to ordinary Magic Treasures, a Lifebound Treasure had greater power and consumed less.

Every Cultivator above the Golden Core realm had their own Lifebound Treasure.

Zhang Yuhe naturally had to get one for himself too. The Lifebound Treasure he planned to refine was named the Nine Heavens Primordial Sword.

This was the method for refining the Lifebound Treasure that came with the Mixed Origin Heavenly Scripture.

In fact, most Cultivation Techniques came with their own Divine Abilities and methods for refining Lifebound Treasures.

It's just that the Nine Heavens Primordial Sword was somewhat special, because it was a set of Lifebound Treasures composed of nine Flying Swords.

When all nine swords were released together, they could deploy the Nine Heavens Primordial Chaos Sword Formation, integrating offense and defense with incomparably fierce power.

Zhang Yuhe looked forward to seeing whether, after refining the Nine Heavens Primordial Sword, it would be as fierce as described in the Cultivation Technique.

Walking into the Artifact Refining Room, a tall four-legged tripod stood quietly inside.

High Grade Magical Artifact, Four Beasts Tripod.

Zhang Yuhe sat cross-legged and took out the Materials for refining the Nine Heavens Primordial Sword one by one.

To collect these Materials, he had spent a very long time.

Among them, several kinds of Materials were even entrusted to other players to purchase on his behalf.

Because those Materials were too precious, no player would ever list them for sale in the trading market.

Over the past two years, the Spirit Stones he earned from refining Medicinal Pills, Magical Artifacts, drawing talismans, and making Formation Plates had basically all turned into these Materials.

There was only a single portion of Materials. If he failed, wanting to gather the Materials again would take quite a bit of time.

However, Zhang Yuhe wasn't worried. Ever since his first hands-on Artifact Refining, he didn't know what failure meant.

It was always a one-time success with no exceptions.

Throwing the Materials into the Four Beasts Tripod one by one, Zhang Yuhe formed hand seals, and scorching flames ignited beneath the tripod.

While operating the Mixed Origin Heavenly Scripture to Cultivate, he also split off a strand of Divine Sense to monitor the changes inside the tripod at all times.

After all the Materials melted, Zhang Yuhe continuously formed hand seals, using his Divine Sense to shape the melted Materials into nine tiny Flying Swords.

After a long while more, Zhang Yuhe waved his right hand, the tripod lid flew up, and nine Flying Swords slowly emerged.

These nine Flying Swords were all different, but the auras emitted by the Flying Swords were connected together.

Zhang Yuhe extinguished the flames, took out the Flying Swords, picked up one of them, and examined it carefully.

The Flying Sword as a whole was crystal clear, with water-like light flowing on its surface. This was a water-attribute Flying Sword.

At the hilt of the Flying Sword, three small characters—'Galaxy.Water'—were carved in wild cursive script.

"Not bad."

Looking at the Flying Sword in his hand, Zhang Yuhe nodded in satisfaction.

After leaving his imprint on the Flying Swords, Zhang Yuhe put them into his Dantian one by one.

Through internal vision of his Dantian, he saw that above the ocean of Spiritual Qi, the nine Flying Swords were slowly revolving around the golden round bead.

The Lifebound Treasure needed to be nurtured in the Cultivator's Dantian before its power would gradually manifest.

"All done."

Zhang Yuhe walked out of the Artifact Refining Room and came to the cultivation platform to sit cross-legged.

"Continue cultivating."

Refining the Lifebound Treasure was just a small interlude; cultivation was the norm.

If one does not Cultivate on ordinary days, when will they ever achieve Ascension?