Chapter 390: Four Years to Form the Core

"A Mortal's Journey to Immortality" – Volume 3 & 4: Winds Stir Overseas

Before taking the spiritual medicine, he first meditated for several days in the secret chamber, adjusting his entire body's true essence to its optimal state. Only then did he take out the small bottle containing the Skyfire Liquid.

He tilted his head back, carefully dripped a few drops into his mouth, then quickly put the bottle away and closed his eyes, waiting for the medicine's effects to manifest.

Not long after, Han Li's meridians began to grow scorching hot, and the true essence within his body surged rapidly along them, like boiling water.

Feeling a bit startled, Han Li hastily pulled out a pouch of unknown spiritual medicine from his person, poured it into his mouth without hesitation, and then began to calmly cultivate the Azure Essence Sword Art to break through his bottleneck.

The day the seventh level of the Sword Art was perfected would also be the day Han Li successfully formed his Core.

Of course, before this, Han Li had already used his divine sense to instruct Qu Hun, who was in the adjacent room, to also consume the "Skyfire Liquid" and other auxiliary spiritual medicines.

The "Blood Refinement Divine Light" that Qu Hun cultivated was a quick-success demonic cultivation method. Under normal circumstances, forming a Core would be utterly impossible. However, with the "Blood Coagulation Five Elements Pill," the situation was naturally different, making his Core formation process vastly different from Han Li's.

Qu Hun did not rely on a specific cultivation method to condense his Golden Core; instead, he successively consumed the "Blood Coagulation Five Elements Pill" and directly refined its medicinal power to form a Demonic Core.

Relatively speaking, his Core formation process was much simpler than Han Li's.

Therefore, after giving Qu Hun detailed instructions, Han Li left him in the adjacent room and no longer diverted his attention to him.

Although Han Li's chances of forming a Core this time were slim, he still had to give it a serious try.

Even if he failed, he could accumulate more experience for his next attempt.

As Han Li thought this, he gradually shut off all his senses to the outside world, completely immersing himself in arduous qi cultivation.

At this point, the passage of time outside held no meaning for Han Li.

Days passed by.

Spring faded, winter arrived...

Four years later, Sea Ape Island remained bustling. The docks and the island's only city were in a state of mild excitement.

This was because it was the season when numerous sea apes surfaced for mating. Many low-level cultivators bustled in and out of the island.

While the cultivators earned spirit stones with beaming smiles, the merchants were also constantly acquiring goods with joyful expressions.

However, around noon, on a remote desolate mountain on the island, a scene unfolded that left nearby reclusive cultivators dumbfounded.

The originally clear, azure sky, without a single cloud for thousands of miles, suddenly changed dramatically!

A vast expanse of dark, oppressive clouds, seemingly from nowhere, enveloped the desolate mountain. Silver lightning and deafening thunder danced wildly like mad snakes.

Simultaneously, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from all directions began to swirl and hum around the desolate mountain, forming a massive vortex several miles in diameter beneath the dark clouds. This vortex completely absorbed all the spiritual energy from dozens of miles around, leaving the rogue cultivators utterly shocked and astonished.

They all, as if by prior agreement, walked out of their cultivation dwellings.