Chapter 50 (1/2)

Chapter 50: Core Condensation

A few days later…

In the dead of night, Meng Chuan sat cross-legged on his bed. Moonlight shone onto his body through the window.

My Lightning Divine Body is completely perfected. I can now attempt to condense my core. Meng Chuan was filled with antic.i.p.ation.

Mortal cultivation had five major realms.

The realm with the slowest progress and expended the most cultivation resources was the Mortal Shedding realm. This was when a person began shedding one’s mortal coils and gradually possessed G.o.dfiend powers. During this process, one would need to consume a large number of supplements like lucidum or ginseng pills to support the expenditure. For instance, even with the Meng family providing him a limitless supply of supplements, it took him nearly three years before he completed the shedding process.

For those who were not wealthy enough—without sufficient supplements to allow their bodies to undergo a mortal shedding—their body’s transformation would be slow. It was normal for them to spend ten to twenty years. Furthermore, they would be “malnourished.” Their physical bodies and Quintessential Energy would also be weaker than experts of the same level.

The Zhou family—the instigator of the Idle Stone Garden battle—had given a thousand-year-old ginseng that was worth ten thousand taels to Meng Chuan as an apology gift. It was meant for their young master when he underwent his Mortal Shedding cultivation. This was a testament to how expensive cultivation was in the Mortal Shedding realm. Many Mortal Shedding experts took up jobs as guards and subordinates to earn resources for their cultivation.

If they were talented, the family clan would view them in a different light.

For example, Meng Chuan and Yan Jin not only had sufficient resources, but they also had all kinds of natural treasures to establish their G.o.dfiend foundation.

For Mei Yuanzhi, he was groomed by the Dao Academy and the G.o.dfiend families, allowing him to complete his Mortal Shedding in three years. However, they couldn’t provide him rare treasures that could establish a strong G.o.dfiend foundation. Mei Yuanzhi’s talent was still a little lacking in the end, and he failed to enter Archean Mountain. If he had the talent of King Calm Sea’s fifth son, he would have been recruited by Archean Mountain and groomed tremendously even if he were a commoner.

On the contrary, the Seamless realm expended the least.

As long as one broke through to the Seamless realm, they just needed a few months of preparation to reach the mortal body’s pinnacle. There was no point in cultivating any further once this happened. If one wished to improve their body further, they had to become a G.o.dfiend!

Using Quintessential Energy to condense a core. That’s the final threshold before the Life-and-Death juncture. Meng Chuan’s eyes were filled with antic.i.p.ation.

Eastcalm Prefecture only had three Core Condensation experts.

But in the past few decades, almost all of the geniuses who had appeared in Eastcalm Prefecture had fought in wars to acc.u.mulate contribution credits. A few of them had succeeded in condensing a core.

For example, Fairy Meng had become an outer sect disciple of Archean Mountain. She had been fighting outside all this while. Her teammates were all equally talented as her, and almost all of them had succeeded in condensing a core. They worked hard together to acc.u.mulate credits in exchange for a chance to attempt the Life-and-Death juncture. Fairy Meng had managed to obtain a chance to enter the G.o.dfiend Blood Pool and attempt a breakthrough after she had enough credits. Failure meant death. She succeeded and absorbed the powers within the G.o.dfiend Blood Pool to become a true G.o.dfiend. But most of her companions—those who had already successfully condensed a core—died in battle while acc.u.mulating credit. They didn’t even have the chance to enter the G.o.dfiend Blood Pool.

There were only two people who made an attempt. Only Fairy Meng succeeded.

Mei Yuanzhi would take a similar path. The path to becoming a G.o.dfiend was that difficult. If he couldn’t enter Archean Mountain, he could only work hard and acc.u.mulate credit for a chance to enter the G.o.dfiend Blood Pool.

The three Core Condensation experts in Eastcalm Prefecture, such as Yun Fucheng stayed in the prefecture to live peaceful lives because they no longer had any hope of becoming G.o.dfiends. Those who still had hope remained on the battlefield.

With the body seamless, Quintessential Energy will condense into a core. That’s just one prerequisite for becoming a G.o.dfiend. The sooner I succeed, the better. Meng Chuan closed his eyes. It’s time.

Inside his dantian, concentrated Quintessential Energy gathered. After a mortal body reached the peak, the Quintessential Energy in one’s dantian would reach maximum concentration.

Arise!

The thick, mist-like Quintessential Energy began to fuse with Meng Chuan’s Force. The wisps of Quintessential Energy fused with Saber Force. It allowed Quintessential Energy to undergo a qualitative change. The prerequisite for condensing a core required the comprehension of Force.

Wisps of Quintessential Energy condensed into saber lights that were much denser than before. They began to revolve and gather in the center like countless small fish.

Condense! Condense!

Meng Chuan put his all into controlling the Quintessential Energy, compressing it with full force. The more compressed it was, the better. Once the density reached a certain level, it would completely change.

As the revolutions and pressure continued, some of the saber light in the innermost region began to wear away and was squeezed into a ball.

Revolution, compression, condensation!

One’s Saber Force had to be strong enough before one had a chance of successfully condensing the core. Otherwise, it would disperse. Many experts who had comprehended Force were unable to condense a core for the rest of their lives.