Chapter 66 – Core Marking Engraving: The Secret of the Nine-Revolution Golden Core!

Chapter 66 – Core Marking Engraving: The Secret of the Nine-Revolution Golden Core!

Su Xing felt a surge of joy when he saw this.

According to the Core Condensation Technique’s description, the Nine-Revolution Golden Core was divided into nine revolutions.

With each additional revolution, the golden core within the dantian would gain an additional marking, and the potential upper limit of spiritual power would increase by ten percent compared to before.

Once all nine markings were engraved simultaneously to complete the Nine-Revolution Golden Core, the spiritual power within one’s body would be more than double that of a superior-grade Golden Core cultivator!

Seeing that his simulated self had finally achieved the First Revolution Golden Core, Su Xing remarked with slight emotion:

“Cultivating the Nine-Revolution Golden Core truly isn’t easy! Even with my True Spirit Root talent and possession of the Core Condensation Technique secret art, it still took nearly three years just to condense a single marking.”

Su Xing let out a soft sigh. Fortunately, he had abundant resources in the simulation—otherwise, who knew how long it would take to condense this Nine-Revolution Golden Core.

Su Xing continued the simulation.

【You carefully contemplated the mysteries of the First Revolution Golden Core. The mysterious ancient markings upon the golden core were like the most exquisite patterns, captivating your mind.】

【You attempted to circulate the spiritual power within your body, only to discover with astonishment that your cultivation had actually dropped by one realm—from Golden Core Stage, Grand Perfection down to Golden Core stage ninth layer. Yet the total volume of spiritual power within your body remained completely unchanged.】

【In a Flash of Inspiration, you realized that perhaps the so-called Nine-Revolution Golden Core was a secret technique for elevating spiritual energy quality and compressing cultivation. Your realm had fallen, but your actual strength hadn’t weakened at all. If you were to re-cultivate back to Golden Core Grand Perfection, wouldn’t your strength increase considerably?】

【And so you began taking Essence Nurturing Pills daily to raise your cultivation.】

【That same year, thanks to your meritorious monthly pill refining, you were successfully promoted by Protector Shadow to become the Advent Cult’s eighteenth Elder, with the code name Medicine Elder.】

【After becoming an Elder, you had more time to raise your cultivation and engrave the Nine-Revolution Golden Core, which significantly accelerated your progress in cultivating the Nine-Revolution Golden Core.】

【In the fourth year, your cultivation returned to Golden Core Stage, Grand Perfection. You could feel that your spiritual power and cultivation were roughly ten percent stronger than when you had a superior-grade Golden Core, confirming your theory.】

【You spent eight hours each day engraving golden core markings and refining the spiritual power within your body.】

【In the fifth year, you continued to refine your internal spiritual power and engrave markings upon the golden core. Since you already had experience cultivating the Nine-Revolution Golden Core, your speed was considerably faster than before.】

【In the sixth year, a second marking was engraved upon your golden core. You had achieved the Second Revolution Golden Core, and your cultivation once again dropped to Golden Core stage ninth layer.】

【In the seventh year, you spent one year’s time to return your cultivation to Golden Core Stage, Grand Perfection once more.】

Seeing this, Su Xing remarked with a slight sigh:

“So that’s how it works. Increase the upper limit and quality of spiritual power, drop one realm in cultivation, then re-cultivate back—repeat this process nine times, and that’s what the Nine-Revolution Golden Core is?”

Su Xing finally understood why cultivating the Nine-Revolution Golden Core was so difficult and time-consuming.

Each engraving of a marking, each dispersal and re-cultivation of power, required an enormous investment of time and effort.

“I possess the True Spirit Root talent, and my cultivation speed is roughly thirty times that of an ordinary cultivator. Even so, re-cultivating from Golden Core stage ninth layer back to Golden Core Stage, Grand Perfection takes a full year. Wouldn’t an ordinary cultivator need thirty years?”

“Repeated like this, an ordinary cultivator would spend nearly three hundred years on re-cultivation alone… Add in the time needed to engrave the golden core markings, and it would probably take close to four hundred years. Yet a Golden Core stage cultivator’s maximum lifespan is only three hundred years!”

Su Xing shook his head slightly and murmured, “By that reasoning, at minimum one would need a Dual-Attribute Spirit Root to even qualify for condensing the Nine-Revolution Golden Core. The cultivation speed of a dual-attribute pseudo spirit root is seven to eight times that of a Five-element mixed spiritual root…

“But even so, including the time needed for marking engraving, a dual-attribute pseudo spirit root cultivator would still need close to a hundred years to complete the Nine-Revolution Golden Core.”

“By that point, even a Golden Core cultivator would already be decrepit with age, having lost any possibility of further advancement. It would be more loss than gain…”

After a pause, Su Xing pondered. “Therefore, only True Spirit Root cultivators would likely ever attempt to cultivate the Nine-Revolution Golden Core. With each revolution, one’s potential increases by ten percent. With sufficient spirit medicines, it takes three to five years to engrave each marking, and completing the Nine-Revolution Golden Core would still require over thirty years…”

With just a rough calculation, Su Xing understood the immense difficulty and cost of cultivating the Nine-Revolution Golden Core.

If Su Xing didn’t possess the future simulator, thirty years would be just two or three weeks of simulation time—otherwise, he probably wouldn’t have dared to attempt cultivating the Nine-Revolution Golden Core so readily.

“But the greater the cost, the greater the reward! Once a Nine-Revolution Golden Core cultivator completes cultivation, their true combat power would absolutely rival that of a Nascent Soul cultivator. Moreover, one step ahead means staying ahead at every step. The Nine-Revolution Golden Core is the true broad path forward!”

Su Xing calmed his somewhat excited emotions and continued the simulation.

【In the eighth year, you continued engraving markings upon the golden core, preparing to cultivate the third core marking.】

【In the ninth year, you successfully cultivated the third core marking, achieving the Third Revolution Golden Core. Your cultivation dropped once again to Golden Core stage ninth layer.】

【In the tenth year, you trained diligently for one year and returned your cultivation to Golden Core Stage, Grand Perfection.】

【In the eleventh year, you began attempting the fourth revolution of the golden core. At the same time, in order to be able to cultivate for a longer period, you began devising ways to strengthen humanity’s power.】

【Over the course of one year, you dispatched Wang Qingxuan multiple times to the Cult treasury and spent all the contribution points you had accumulated over the years, exchanging them for several thousand stalks of Yellow Immortal Essence.】

【In your spare time from cultivation, you set aside eight hours each day to refine Organ Tempering Pills. Over the course of one year, you refined tens of thousands of Organ Tempering Pills.】

【Because you had planned ahead, you had never revealed the Organ Tempering Pill in this simulation. Since it would be appearing before the world for the first time, surely no one would connect it to you.】

【In the twelfth year, for the sake of caution, you took a Disguise Pill and a Breath-Concealing Pill in succession. After altering your appearance and aura, you went alone to find Lu Yuanwu. You handed over the nearly thirty thousand Organ Tempering Pills you had refined over the past year, told him the method of consumption, and instructed him to publicly claim they were refined by an alchemist within the military.】

【After completing all this, you quietly returned to the Advent Cult’s base, worried about whether any high-ranking members of the cult would discover your betrayal.】

【Fortunately, your worries proved unnecessary. Everything within the cult carried on as usual, and no one discovered your betrayal.】

【That same year, you achieved the fourth revolution of the Nine-Revolution Golden Core, and your cultivation dropped once again to Golden Core stage ninth layer.】

Seeing this, Su Xing breathed a slight sigh of relief. In the last simulation, he had provided Essence Nurturing Pills directly to the Great Xia Military, which had been far too rash—it was too easy to be discovered.

So in this simulation, Su Xing changed his approach and offered the never-before-seen Organ Tempering Pill instead. Surely the Advent Cult wouldn’t easily discover this, and even if they did, there would be no solid evidence.

Su Xing continued reading.

【In the thirteenth year, your cultivation rose back to Golden Core Stage, Grand Perfection.】

【One day, Protector Shadow came to see you. She had not given you prior notice. You were alone in your residence and had forgotten to wear your mask, allowing Protector Shadow to see your face.】

【Upon seeing your strikingly handsome appearance, Protector Shadow was visibly stunned. You could tell she seemed somewhat bashful.】