All these years, the world had changed!
Among the three of them, what surprised Lou Xiaoyi the most was that Senior Sister Yan Cheng was the first to form her Gold Core forty years ago, which was ten years after Yu Yue stabbed his sword!
She didn't return to Xuanyuan's dome. Instead, she wandered around Wolf Ridge alone after she sensed something. She retraced the path the four of them had taken back then! She looked at the current situation of the High Mountain Tribe, and if there was anything they needed help with, she could also recall the five years they had spent together!
Back then, they had been gone for five years, but she had spent ten years alone. Tracing the traces in her memories was also a form of revisiting her state of mind!
In the end, at the edge of Wolf Ridge, in the place where Guang Bei had left, she used her sword to block Daoist Three Purities' cave and successfully formed her Gold Core in one go!
This was the normal path for cultivators to form their Gold Core! She had chosen a suitable method at the right time and completed the most important step in her state of mind. She had successfully turned the hard power she had gained in her cultivation into the motivation to improve herself!
This was talent!
Yan Bo was ten years slower than her. He had walked a different path, the path of battle!
Ever since Lou Xiaoyi had become the strongest even though he hadn't succeeded in stabbing his sword in name, the Five Ring Foundation Establishment cultivators had started a crusade against Xuanyuan's Swordsman. Some of them were disciples of the defeated sects, while others were adding fuel to the fire.
As Lou Xiaoyi's friend, Yan Bo and some other Swordsman who truly had a Dao Heart took on the responsibility of facing these challenges. First, it was for Xuanyuan's honor. Second, it was for their own future. In the twenty years after Yu Yue stabbed his sword, they had fought from north to south, drank blood on their swords, and walked the line between life and death!
Not everyone could persevere. Some gave up halfway, some didn't have enough strength, and some didn't have enough luck … Yan Bo had persevered until the end not because he had always been victorious, but because he didn't give up even in defeat!
With perseverance and a bit of luck, the results were as expected!
Lou Xiaoyi sighed with emotion. It wasn't because of how easy it was to form one's Gold Core, but because the friends beside him were the cream of the crop. If Guang Bei was here, their team's success rate would be 100%!
Birds of a feather flock together. When he chose his friends, there were actually some unseen factors in it. This was inevitable. It was the mutual attraction between the strong. It was hard to say that a goat was mixed in the middle of a group of tigers.
Smoky understood his thoughts the best. He didn't need to ask to explain.
"Your companions from the distant realms aren't doing too well! In the past few decades, a few more have passed away. Up until now, only Gong Xiaodie has succeeded in forming her Gold Core. There's still no hope for the others. At their age, you know …. "
Lou Xiaoyi sighed. This was the normal ecology of the cultivation world. A nest of ten, and in the end, only two of them matured. To be honest, the ratio wasn't low!
Yan Bo glared at him. "Why didn't you return to Xuanyuan after stabbing the sword? Why did you run to Sand Star, that damned place? If something really happened, you wouldn't be able to get help!
I heard that you went to Weijian Mountain because you were dissatisfied with Qianxiu Peak? "
Lou Xiaoyi smiled. "Senior Brother, I won't hide it from you. I've been dissatisfied since I came to Xuanyuan. I'm a genius in cultivation, but I came to play with the sword. I'm in the wrong line of work!
But everything will change. People will change because they will eventually grow! So will the sect, because what you see may only be the tip of the iceberg!
Even if they were children, how could they not resent their parents when they were young? They hate them for not buying sweets for them. They hate them for frying meat with bamboo shoots whenever they make a mistake …
So what? It doesn't change anything. It's just a process. You can walk past it with a smile. There's no need to explain!
I was dissatisfied, but it's over. That's the price of growth! "
Beside him, Smoky Chang felt injustice for Lou Xiaoyi. She was such a person. When she left the sect, she was only divided into Swordsmen and others. Inside the sect, it was her own people and others. She didn't need a reason to protect them, but she wasn't like Yan Bo, who was loyal to tradition.
"Why can't I have any complaints? In terms of effort, who did more than Little Yi when he built his foundation? In terms of heads, who killed more people than Little Yi? In terms of honor, who can shoulder the revival of the external sword like Little Yi? In terms of prestige, who can change Xuanyuan's history like Little Yi in Fish Leap?
What did those old fellows at Thousand Xiu Peak give him? They didn't give him much resources. He lost the title of Senior Brother with great difficulty. He had to go to Sand Planet to form his Gold Core, and no one asked about him for fifty years!
You know about these things, Yan Bo. If you were in his shoes, you might not be as calm as Little Yi! "
Yan Bo was speechless. He knew Smoky Chang was right, but he still believed that a dog wouldn't despise a poor family or an ugly mother. No matter what, it wasn't desirable to have a grudge against the sect. He was worried that this grudge would grow bigger and bigger until it became awkward for everyone to meet!
Fortunately, Little Yi's answer satisfied him. This was the mentality of a mature cultivator, unlike Smoky Chang. He really didn't know how she succeeded in forming her Gold Core with such a mentality!
However, Smoky Chang changed the topic. "Little Yi, don't blame me for giving you a blow! Your methods when you were in Foundation Establishment made you invincible in Foundation Establishment, but it won't be so easy in Jin Dan!
For Jin Dan cultivators, no matter if they are Swordsman, Dharma or Body Cultivators, almost all of them have power and unique skills. Your advantage in sword spirits will be limited. If you can form your Nascent Soul one day, most Yuanying Swordsman will have sword spirits, and your strengths will be restricted even more. So, you have to change your mentality! "
Lou Xiaoyi nodded gently. This was the advice of a true friend. It was to let go of the glory he achieved in Foundation Establishment and start afresh. Don't think that just because you were invincible in Foundation Establishment, you will be invincible in Jin Dan. This kind of thinking will kill you!
He didn't want to explain and just let the facts speak for themselves. The power of his flying sword was no longer comparable to Yu Yue's flying sword. This was not only a psychological advantage brought about by the increase in his cultivation level, but also many other things, such as the sword formation and the rapid growth of his sword spirits!
Sword spirits were not necessarily stronger than Jin Dan sword spirits cultivated by Yuanying. Jin Dan sword spirits cultivated by Jin Dan sword spirits were stronger than Foundation Establishment. As sword spirits, they were equally weak in the early stages of their birth and were in the same starting state!
The only difference was that the higher the realm, the more effective the training methods they received, and the faster they grew. How could a Yuanying sword spirit's cultivation method be comparable to that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator?
However, if everyone was at the same level, his sword spirit would have a few hundred years more cultivation time than other people's sword spirits. How could this gap be so easy to make up?
Who else could give birth to a sword spirit in such a systematic way like him? Inertia, strength, concealment, spirit, stars, mystery, lightning, covering all aspects. If such an optimized combination were to form a combined force, it would be so terrifying that he didn't dare to imagine it!
Just from the fact that during Heaven's Wrath, he was able to make Heaven's Wrath fly into a rage out of humiliation and use other things to vent its anger, the power of his sword was evident.
However, now wasn't the time to show it. He still needed to polish his swordsmanship. There was still a lot of room for growth. When he really used his sword, it would be like he was Yu Yue's flying sword …
Who could compete with him?
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