Ten days later, in Furious Bears City …
The Temple of Immortals' scheme had failed, but the aftermath of the shock had still turned Furious Bears City into a turbulent swirl. Li Yao, on the other hand, was not involved in it. His most important task for the past few days was to have enough food and water, treat his wounds in peace, and consolidate the new superlative height of the Building Foundation Stage.
"Shua!"
Sha Yulan picked up the last needle from his chest and sensed the endless circulation of spiritual energy inside his body. She smiled and said, "Your body is even more terrifying than that of the strongest qi-trainers I've ever seen. I don't know how you trained yourself to be like this. I thought that you would have to lie in bed for at least two to three months. I didn't expect that you would be fully recovered in only ten days!"
Li Yao smiled. He sensed the strength that was both familiar and strange to him flowing slowly inside his body. He punched out casually, and the air before him was rippling like water, but there was not the slightest sound.
His control over his strength had reached the acme of perfection. It was far better than that of common Cultivators at the peak of the Building Foundation Stage and even the beginning level of the Core Formation Stage!
Sha Yulan's eyes flashed with splendor as she said with a smile, "The world of cultivation is truly ever-changing and endlessly mysterious. I originally thought that you would definitely die, but who would have thought that you would open up a completely new path!"
"I've analyzed it carefully over the past few days. Your current state is far from the superlative height of the Refinement Stage. It is not as if you can advance into the superlative height of the Building Foundation Stage by compressing your spiritual gas after you reach the tenth level of the Refinement Stage.
"At that time, the chaotic spiritual energy released by the cores of the apocalyptic beasts was still condensed inside your body. It had not been fully transformed and had accumulated in your abdomen. The spiritual energy alone was enough to explode you.
"But as it turned out, Yan Xibei's apocalypse blasted the foreign spiritual energy into smithereens and channeled it out of your body!
"That was not all. Yan Xibei also suppressed it with the bloody mist. Like a giant pot, the spiritual energy that was channeled out of your body was suppressed around you. There was nowhere for them to run to even if they wanted to.
"Also, everybody was in the most intense reverberation of fighting will at that time.
"All sorts of coincidences superimposed on each other to create your current bizarre realm!"
Li Yao chuckled and scratched his head. He also felt that his luck was frighteningly good.
Sha Yulan changed the topic. "However, I have two guesses about your current weird situation, one good and one bad. Which one do you want to hear first?"
Li Yao thought for a moment. "Let's hear the bad one first!"
Sha Yulan said, "Although you hit it by accident, you still have a lot to learn. You have reached the 'superlative height of the Building Foundation Stage'. However, while your combat ability has been greatly enhanced, I estimate that it will be ten times more difficult for you to form your core than for common Building Foundation Stage Cultivators!
Li Yao raised his eyebrows.
Sha Yulan explained, "You've received the cruelest training of qi-trainers and reached the superlative height of the Building Foundation Stage. Your meridians and abdomen are ten times larger than those of common Building Foundation Stage Cultivators!
"For example, if the body of an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator is a lake, then your body is a vast ocean."
Li Yao nodded. Over the past few months, his capacity for spiritual energy was indeed much better than before. After he broke into the superlative height of the Building Foundation Stage, he had been feeling hungry all day long. He had to consume dozens of crystals every day to train himself, but he was still not satisfied. His body was like a bottomless pit.
Sha Yulan said, "If the water level is raised to a certain height, the Core Formation Stage will begin. After a heavy rain, the 'lake' of a common Cultivator will be raised to the tipping point.
"But for your 'ocean', a heavy rain is far from enough. How much water is needed to raise the level of the ocean by one meter? I can't calculate it! "
Li Yao was deep in thought. He had to admit that Sha Yulan did have a point.
Sha Yulan continued, "I've been thinking for a long time. There are so many Cultivators on Iron Plateau, and many of them are highly talented and smart. Why hasn't anyone entered the Building Foundation Stage in the past thousands of years? Even if it was by chance, there should be at least a few of them!
"Now, I finally understand that it is because the qi-trainers have broadened their veins and nerves by force so that their 'lake' can be enlarged. While they are able to accommodate more 'lake water', it is more and more difficult to raise the 'water level' to the tipping point!"
Li Yao slapped his thigh. "Fair enough!"
Sha Yulan said, "There is another fatal problem in your body. Your abdomen has been pierced through by Yan Xibei's apocalyptic force brutally. It is like a bag of rice that is riddled with holes. No matter how much water is poured into it, some of it will leak out!
"It is the leaked strength that has brought you to a brand-new level. But as a result, it will be even more difficult for you to form the core, because the core formation is about condensation, not dispersion.
"All in all, in my opinion, you have deviated from the normal path of training. The superlative height of the Building Foundation Stage and the Core Formation Stage are two incompatible paths, just like the superlative height of the Refinement Stage and the Building Foundation Stage are incompatible paths!
"The qi-trainers have persisted on the path of the superlative height of the Refinement Stage. They have reached the 50th level, the 80th level, and now the 100th level. The price they have paid is that they have lost the possibility of entering the Building Foundation Stage normally.
"If you insist on walking on the path of the superlative height of the Building Foundation Stage until you reach the tenth level, the twentieth level, or even the 100th level of the Building Foundation Stage, it is very likely that you will have to pay a price, which is that … you will never be able to enter the Core Formation Stage!"
Li Yao gritted his teeth. It was indeed a tough choice.
The superlative height of the Building Foundation Stage could greatly improve one's combat ability. Li Yao estimated that his maximum combat ability right now was on par with that of the middle level of the Core Formation Stage. Even if he were to run into an expert such as Jin Dan such as Fengyu Zhong again, he might still stand a chance.
If he were to break into the 50th level of the Building Foundation Stage one day, it would not be impossible for him to suppress the Yuanying monster!
However, the path of Cultivation was not just about improving one's combat ability.
The Core Formation Stage, the Nascent Soul Stage, and the Divinity Transformation Stage represented one step after another on the path of evolution.
Right now, he was like a dinosaur in the world of Cultivators.
The combat ability of a dinosaur was, of course, much higher than that of an ape.
But it was not right to say that dinosaurs were more advanced than apes. The key was that there were infinite possibilities in apes!
Li Yao took a long breath in relief. He asked curiously, "Sister Sha, what's the good news?"
Sha Yulan smiled. "Do I need to tell you the good news? Your body is an 'ocean'. Although it is ten times more difficult to enter the Core Formation Stage than it is for regular Building Foundation Stage Cultivators, if you succeed, you will be the strongest Core Formation Stage Cultivator in history! It can't even be described as' Jin Dan '. I don't know how terrifying it will be, either! "
Li Yao's eyes lit up. It was true. Raising the ocean by one meter was, of course, much more difficult than raising a small lake by one meter. However, if the sea level was really raised by one meter, three meters, or more than ten meters, the damage it would cause would be incomparable to that of a small lake!
"I've made up my mind!"
Li Yao clenched his fists. His eyes glittering, he said, "I will not give up on the Core Formation Stage. Maybe I will suddenly break into the superlative height of the Core Formation Stage from the superlative height of the Building Foundation Stage as I train.
"Superlative Jin Dan! Wow, I'm drooling just thinking about it! "
Sha Yulan couldn't help but chuckle. She covered her mouth and said, "Alright, alright. You take your time to figure out how to form the 'superlative Jin Dan'. I'm going to change Big Bear's medicine. Right, come to Big Bear's ward later. Captain Lei seems to have brought something to Big Bear that he wants to study with you!"
After Sha Yulan left, Li Yao pondered for a moment. Then he locked the door and secretly turned on the communication with Sparkle.
Sparkle was lurking dozens of meters below him. The two parties were very close to each other. Despite the blockage of rocks, point-to-point communication was not hindered.
Sparkle was not idle, either. Li Yao sent the broken Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit and the scraps of the Apocalyptic Extension into Sparkle. Professor Mo Xuan supervised the repair work in person. After three days and three nights, the work was finally done!
Li Yao told the five spectral Cultivators about his situation and said that he had not given up on the Core Formation Stage. Mo Xuan and the rest of them agreed with him, too.
They were all refiners and did not pay much attention to the improvement of combat ability in the superlative height of the Building Foundation Stage.
But the Core Formation Stage did not bring about a simple increase in combat ability but a completely different understanding of spiritual energy.
Many planetary magical equipment could only be fully utilized when one was in the Core Formation Stage. It was impossible to replace them even if one was in the 10,000th level of the Building Foundation Stage.
"The path to the Core Formation Stage can be extremely dangerous," Mo Xuan said. "Thankfully, there is still plenty of time. It has been less than a year since we arrived in the Flying Star Sector, and you have already advanced into the superlative height of the Building Foundation Stage. Maybe, you will really become 'superlative Jin Dan' in ten years! If there is no other choice, we can always consider training and forming the core with the assistance of magical equipment! But we can talk about that later. We have been drilling below the ground for too long. Two crystal reactors exploded this morning. We are still in the middle of repairing them. "
"Alright. I'll leave you to it!"
Li Yao nodded. He was about to end the communication when he suddenly bulged his eyes and shouted, "Wait!"
Mo Xuan was shocked. "What's going on?"
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and said, deep in thought, "Using magical equipment to form the core …
"Professor Mo, you see, the biggest problem I'm facing right now is that, on one hand, my abdomen is too large, and my veins and nerves are too thick. The spiritual energy I consume is multiple times more than that of common Cultivators. On the other hand, my abdomen is riddled with holes. It's fine in normal times, but when I summon my spiritual energy to the maximum, it will leak.
"Let's say that we can craft a piece of magical equipment that is similar to a crystal reactor in form and working mechanism. It will be a pressure cooker almost three meters in diameter.
"Then, I will crawl into the pressure cooker and form the core inside.
"This is a pressure cooker that has been sealed. Even if the spiritual gas inside my body wants to escape, there will be nowhere for it to escape. Instead, it will be pressed down by the immense pressure from all directions. When all the spiritual gas is pressed together, won't it be condensed into 'superlative Jin Dan'?"
Mo Xuan was silent for a long time. Then he said, "That's a good idea, young man. Let's talk about it later."
Mo Xuan cut off the communication.
"What do you mean? Is the idea not good enough?"
Li Yao rubbed his hands. His imagination was running wild. He selected a blank light beam and began to work on it excitedly. (To be continued.)
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