Sect: Starting with Comprehending Thunder Skill Chapter 1375 - 585: Mysterious Transformation

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Previously on Sect: Starting with Comprehending Thunder Skill...
Li Yunjing refined the Profound Origin Gathering Spirit Pill, but his first attempt failed due to environmental factors. After adjusting the conditions, he successfully refined twelve Fifth Grade elixirs. Consuming one, he felt a powerful surge of energy and broke through to the First Heaven of the Golden Core Realm. Needing more power, he consumed the remaining eleven pills, pushing his cultivation further. Facing a critical juncture where his Golden Core was about to shatter, he made a drastic decision to merge the dragon and tiger energies, causing it to crack. However, the Water Virtue Pearl intervened, stabilizing the energies and healing the Golden Core, resulting in a transformed state.

"Golden Core Third Heaven! I’ve done it!"

Li Yunjing let out a long howl, and a wave of spiritual energy erupted around him, causing the walls of the seclusion chamber to crack like a spiderweb.

At this moment, he looked inward at his dantian and saw that the golden core had grown from the size of a pigeon egg to the size of a fist, with three golden patterns on its surface, shining brilliantly!

Even more astonishing was that he found his sense of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi had increased more than tenfold.

"Eh?"

Just as he was elated, he suddenly noticed a slight anomaly deep within the golden core.

His divine sense probed inside, and he found a tiny rune at the core of the golden core, shaped like...

"Eight Diagrams?"

Li Yunjing’s pupils suddenly contracted.

This rune was very similar to the Fuxi Eight Diagrams he had seen on a turtle shell before, but it contained a few more mysterious changes.

Even stranger, when he took out a "turtle shell" and attempted to deduce celestial secrets, using his divine sense to touch it, the rune unexpectedly transmitted a vague message: "In the depths of the Northern Abyss... the mysterious turtle bears the map..."

This message abruptly stopped, yet it made Li Yunjing’s heart race.

"What’s going on?"

Li Yunjing was somewhat confused.

He couldn’t figure out how this rune appeared!

Was it from a Divine Technique cultivated?

Or a Great Dao Rune?

Or was it some special existence that unknowingly infiltrated his body at some point?

Or something else?

In any case, Li Yunjing was truly bewildered and couldn’t figure out what was going on!

Moreover, that phrase "In the depths of the Northern Abyss, the mysterious turtle bears the map" seemed to contain some kind of secret, similar to the insights he gained using the "turtle shell" to deduce the celestial secrets akin to the River Map and Luo Book?

"Forget it!"

"I won’t think about it now!"

"Perhaps when my cultivation is higher, I’ll know a bit more!"

Li Yunjing shook his head, no longer dwelling on these troubling matters.

Now that his realm had advanced, his spiritual power had increased significantly, already able to radiate up to sixty li in diameter.

Such spiritual power was comparable to experts in the Golden Core Realm Sixth Layer!

In terms of mana, he also became more abundant. Although Li Yunjing hadn’t gone out to test his skills, he clearly felt a significant increase in the intensity of his mana.

From his past experiences with realm breakthroughs, his endurance was certainly stronger than before.

"Hmm! No one is contacting me! It seems everything in the outside world is going smoothly!"

Li Yunjing took out his "Myriad Li Communication Talisman," and seeing no new messages, he felt relieved.

After thinking about it, Li Yunjing decided to continue his seclusion.

He had too many resources on hand.

It was just the right time to categorize and refine these Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

Firstly, he aimed to cultivate all of his major vice positions to the Grandmaster Perfection Realm.

Secondly, with future wars on the horizon, his peaceful days surely wouldn’t last long; this little free time should be used to convert all his resources into usable ones!

Having made up his mind, Li Yunjing began to act.

He brought out the Tier Three materials from his wedding day gifts and the resources seized from successive battles, taking a full three days to select the materials suitable for Alchemy.

As for Tier One and Tier Two materials, Li Yunjing had lost interest in them.

He didn’t have the time to refine Tier One and Tier Two elixirs either.

As for Tier Four materials?

Such rare materials, Li Yunjing didn’t have many at hand.

He wanted to save them for refining elixirs when he reached the Alchemy Grandmaster stage in the future.

At the moment, he couldn’t bring himself to use them.

A total of thirty thousand kinds of materials and thousands of portions of alchemy materials were neatly organized.

Li Yunjing calculated that he needed to refine over twenty different elixirs.

Fortunately, Li Yunjing’s experience was extensive; he had long committed these pill formulas to memory.

Although a bit rusty in refining techniques, it was only a minor challenge.

Li Yunjing was confident that after refining each elixir two or three times, he would gain the experience necessary to ensure a certain success rate.

With Li Yunjing’s current level of alchemy, he had already reached a high level of an Alchemy Grandmaster, just a step away from Great Perfection.

Such a level, not only on the Southern Heaven Continent but even across the entire "Celestial Wave Star," commanded respect from others, with people addressing him as "Grandmaster Li"!

With this level of alchemy, naturally, there weren’t any major problems.

Li Yunjing’s alchemy plan was not to refine one furnace of elixir at a time, but to prepare all the materials for each type of elixir in advance!

With his capability to release the "Samadhi True Fire," liquifying the materials was naturally not an issue.

Soon, all kinds of materials were gathered and refined at once, saving Li Yunjing a hundredfold of time.

This assembly-line-style refining method also eased Li Yunjing considerably.

After all the materials were liquified and sealed with Jade Bottles, Li Yunjing checked the time and found that three months had unexpectedly passed!

During his break, he sent a message to the Five Elements Master to inquire about recent events.

The Five Elements Master quickly replied, indicating that the plan to assault the "Four Seas Commerce Association" was successful but not fully accomplished.

The president of the "Four Seas Commerce Association" managed to escape with the most precious items.

Nevertheless, the remaining resources of the "Four Seas Commerce Association" were enough to satisfy the ten Masters.

The resources were divided among them, and the leftover spirit stones were submitted to the "East Sea Alliance."

During the days of Li Yunjing’s alchemy, the Nascent Soul Realm experts of the "East Sea Alliance" left "Shenxiao Island" and returned to their respective mountain gates.

Before Li Yunjing emerged from seclusion, the major forces had already assembled armies and began converging towards the "Holy Sound Sea Region."