Jiedan

Two more days passed, and Qin Ran learned the Illusory Realm eye technique, planning to go out and form his core.

When night fell, he tidied up, put on a full suit of pitch-black clothes, and walked out of his room into the corridor, leaping over the railing in one step.

In midair, he looked back to the side, outside the kitchen of the wooden house, the brick and tile townhouse on the side, that was, outside Chasing the Wind’s room, under the old locust tree, there was a stone statue of him.

This statue was very ugly. First, don't explore the aesthetics of the carving technique and so on. Just looking at its outline, it looks like something made after studying modeling for three years. It was just a weird thing.

In the late night, leaving it there was quite creepy.

Well, yes, this was the cat scratching post that Li Shiyin had carved out of the stone for Chasing the Wind.

"What sin have I committed!" Qin Ran looked up to the sky, wanting to cry but no tears came out. He could only unfold his figure, step on the wind, and fly out of the Dao Sword Sect’s Dan Peak, quickly leaving this sad place.

"Eh? Where is Dad going so late?"

In the innermost room, Chasing the Wind opened his eyes in the darkness, a pair of black but shiny big eyes appeared in the dark, watching Qin Ran’s figure disappear through the big hole in the door, and he was very curious.

Thinking this, he jumped out of his cat’s nest in one step, pounced forward, melted into the darkness, and followed Qin Ran’s scent.

Simply put, forming one’s core is to twist and squeeze the magic power in one’s Dantian, with the air vortex as the center, and knead it into a core.

From this point of view, there is only one problem, that is, the air vortex and magic power are both energy, and it is all the energy that a cultivator has absorbed during the Foundation Establishment stage. To gather these energies together and compress them into a core, it is obviously too difficult.

And when you have to do something important, difficult, and that others can't help with and you can only do yourself, it’s best to find a safe and suitable place and close in to plan for the long term.

Originally, as a sect member, it would be most appropriate and safest for Qin Ran to form his core within the sect. But this person was too cautious, he only wanted to hide, didn’t want to reveal himself, plus he had just discovered someone targeting schemes against the Dao Sword Sect, so he didn’t dare form his core in the sect anymore.

So going out to find a shady place to form his core was Qin Ran's choice at the moment.

Out of Dan Peak, Qin Ran followed the mountain range along the secluded corner of the Guardian Mountain Formation, flew low all the way, and soon came to the bank of a big river, the big river was the mother river of the Northern Chu Kingdom, called the Cang River. He jumped into the river, performed the Immortal in Water, assimilated into the water, and then flowed upstream, all the way to the source of the Cang River.

The source of the Cang River was at the northernmost edge of the Hengduan Mountains range, this was the highest point of the Hengduan Mountains, conservatively estimated to be 10,000 meters high. The mountain top was covered with snow all year round. The snow on the mountain eventually melted and gathered into the source of the Cang River.

Qin Ran naturally didn’t plan to go to the top of the mountain to cross the tribulation, he stopped at the foot of the mountain, jumped out of the river, regained his human form, and put on the black clothes.

He found a flat huge rock by the river bank, checked around, there was no threat, and then flew as high as he could within his limits, opened his eyes technique, and searched a large area.

The illusion realm is essentially a method of developing the potential of the eyes, so although it is not a technique specifically for night vision, telescopic vision and other capabilities, it still has a certain degree of night vision and telescopic vision.

After confirming that there was no one nearby–to be honest, it would be difficult to find someone in such a broken place–Qin Ran fell from the air and began to set up formations around the huge rock.

After setting up the formations, he checked the contents of his universe bag again to make sure nothing was missing before he was ready to form his core.

But after sitting cross-legged on the rock by the river, he still felt uneasy, as if his preparations were still insufficient, not safe enough. So he got up again and made some more preparations nearby before returning to the big rock and officially starting to form his core.

Forming one's core, in other words, would be better to call forming an egg. Gather all the magic power in the body as egg white and eggshell, and place one's soul in the egg as egg yolk, condensing a golden egg.

The shell of this golden egg, condensed from magic power, provides protection and nutrition for the soul to hatch, and the hatched soul is the nascent soul.

Of course, condensing the magic power in the body into an eggshell, breaking through from the Foundation Establishment Stage to the Golden Core Stage, this breakthrough process does not require transferring the soul into the golden core.

Transferring the soul into the golden core is an extremely long process, which will continue from the initial golden core stage to the middle golden core stage. When the soul is completely transferred into the golden core and the golden core begins to incubate the soul, this stage is actually already the late golden core stage.

However, even without involving the soul, just condensing the magic power is difficult enough, because it requires the cultivator to have absolute control over the magic power in the body.

For the vast majority of cultivators, absorbing enough magic power to form a core already requires them to go all out. Talent, treasures, techniques and pills, as long as they can increase their cultivation, they can do anything for it.

Forming one’s core is already so distant, so grinding qi vortexes, condensing magic power, increasing control over magic power, etc., are too far away for them.

So pills that can help break through bottlenecks to form one’s core are so important, and alchemists are so important...

Of course... the above are not issues for Qin Ran at all, because he started preparing to form his core as soon as he started building his foundation.

If a genius like Li Shiyin was allowed to grow wildly, she would become a core formation cultivator in five years, then spend a long time in the golden core stage, and spend her whole life looking for opportunities to form her nascent soul.

So how many years has Qin Ran spent in the Foundation Establishment stage?

A full twenty years.

It was rare for personally taught disciples of the Dao Sword Sect to stay in the Foundation Establishment stage for twenty years. Even when their masters passed away, they would still be in the Foundation Establishment stage. The disciples of the same batch as Qin Ran had either died already, or had already taken shelter in superior sects, or had already become the pillars of the Dao Sword Sect.

Huang Feiyu, strictly speaking, was actually a disciple of the same batch as Qin Ran. However, they did not come in through the normal path of asking the Dao rituals, they were disciples that the sect leader had secretly accepted. Before he was injured, Huang Feiyu, as the personally taught disciple of the Sword Peak’s sect leader, was indeed the pillar of the Dao Sword Sect.

So while others had long formed their cores and left, only Qin Ran was still in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

On the one hand, he was indeed afraid to form his core. He was afraid to form his core and afraid to cross tribulations. So without 100 percent certainty, he didn’t want to cross tribulations; On the other hand, he knew that his aptitude was not good enough, so he needed to accumulate more foundations.

Now that Qin Ran has decided to form his core, does he have 100 percent certainty?

No.

Because of Li Shiyin’s arrival and the outbreak of the Extreme Demon Weeping Willow, he needed to protect himself and his disciples in the coming crisis. So he had no choice but to form his core ahead of time.

The plan was for him to stay for another few decades until the age of fifty before forming his core, accumulating foundations, quietly building tribulation transcendence holy grounds, looking for treasures and materials to refine pills and medicines, and he must have 100 percent chance.

On the day he accepted Li Shiyin as his disciple, he did not lie to her.

And now having to form his core ahead of schedule, he probably only has...

98 percent certainty.

“Alas...” Qin Ran felt uneasy in his heart, looked up at the pitch-black sky, and always felt unstable.

98 percent, not 100 percent, meant there would be accidents.

But after struggling for a moment, he gritted his teeth and started mobilizing his magic power...

Gamble it!