Cultivating in the Wizard World-Chapter 309 - 277: Golden Core Lifespan and City-Destroying Power
However, because the process of ascension was too smooth, Jeming did not have to go to too much trouble.
Without any hesitation, Jeming reached out and picked up the bottle of magic potion originally intended for ascension, uncorked it, and drank it all in one go!
Boom—!
The immense medicinal power instantly dissolved in his body, like a flood breaking its banks, impacting his entire being.
If it were an average cultivator who had just ascended, they would probably be scrambling to guide and refine it, to avoid being overwhelmed by the medicinal power.
But Jeming allowed the torrent to be madly devoured by the bottomless pit-like suction of his Lower Dantian!
The medicinal power was efficiently converted by the body into pure Spiritual Power, then without delay, absorbed into the Dantian and injected into the slowly rotating Golden Core.
Then, through some mysterious form of operation, it surged into the rapidly expanding inner space!
This process lasted for a long time, until the magic potion power, sufficient for ordinary Golden Core cultivators to stabilize their realm with surplus, was completely absorbed, and the terrifying suction of the Lower Dantian finally subsided.
Eagerly, Jeming immersed his mind into his inner space.
"This is...!"
Even though he was mentally prepared, the scene before him was still shocking.
The space, originally the size of a single room, had undergone earth-shaking changes!
The boundaries of the space expanded rapidly in all directions, vast enough to easily accommodate a small village.
What delighted him the most was that the top of the space was no longer a chaotic blur but vaguely showed signs of clarity and opacity separating.
Though still vast, it gave a nascent feeling of the sky being high and clouds drifting.
And the space below had a solidity never felt before.
Undoubtedly, if this evolution continued, this inner space would form a bona fide world!
"I didn’t expect the extent of space expansion to be so vast!" Jeming’s face was filled with uncontrollable joy.
This harvest far exceeded his previous estimates.
Moreover, the transformations brought by the Golden Core Realm were not limited to this.
Jeming calmed himself and sensed an all-round enhancement in his Essence, Qi, and Spirit, his five senses sharper, thinking speed further increased, and physical strength and recovery skyrocketing.
Additionally, the True Essence of the Foundation Establishment Stage was completely transformed into a higher-level power, more akin to the essence of the Laws of Heaven and Earth.
Whether it was casting magic, refining magical treasures, or drawing talismans, the effectiveness and efficiency would be significantly improved.
"At this stage, it should no longer be called True Essence, but rather ’Spiritual Power’." 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Of course, the most crucial change was the increase in longevity!
Under normal circumstances, because of the wizard system’s surgical modifications, Jeming would not care much about changes in lifespan.
However, the change in lifespan at the Golden Core Stage far exceeded his expectations.
A Qi Cultivation Stage lifespan lasts one hundred eighty years, and Foundation Establishment Stage lasts eight hundred.
As for the Golden Core Stage... according to the records of the Great Dao Book Pavilion, the longest-living Golden Core stage cultivator recorded in cultivation immortality history lived for a staggering one million one hundred and twenty thousand years!
Their ultimate cause of death was the natural weakening of the soul to the extreme, beyond the saving grace of any soul-extending treasures, not the decay of the physical body.
In other words, once one achieves the Golden Core, the physical body theoretically attains immortality.
The limit of lifespan then depends on the longevity of the soul!
And the longevity of the soul is closely related to the strength of personal will and the consumption of soul-strengthening elixirs and treasures.
Having thoroughly examined his renewed state, Jeming stood up with satisfaction, a sense of unprecedented power and control filling his heart.
Suppressing his excitement, he rushed into the laboratory like a gust of wind.
In the following months, the laboratory remained brightly lit, with waves of energy and strange humming sounds echoing non-stop.
Jeming immersed himself in the sea of knowledge and the passion for creation.
With a newfound understanding of energy manipulation from the Golden Core Realm, he began working on improvements and creations for his Talisman Witchcraft Artifact.
The Talisman Witchcraft Artifact was his exclusive weapon system, combining the wizards’ "leveraging power with knowledge" and the cultivators’ "using one’s own power to invoke the Power of Heaven and Earth."
During the Qi Cultivation and Foundation Establishment stages, limited by the scale of external power one could invoke, the Talisman Witchcraft Artifact was more reflected in the speed and continuity of release, forming a mode of suppression like the "Great Light Appearance" with terrifying firing speed and quantity.
However, the absolute destructive power of a single attack was limited, so much so that additional power supply was needed due to high energy consumption.
But now, everything was different!
With the Golden Core Realm, Jeming’s sensing and manipulating ability of Heaven and Earth Energy had a qualitative leap.
He could finally integrate the characteristic of "invoking external power" deep into the destructive core of the Talisman Witchcraft Artifact!
Months later, Jeming, holding a newly refined Talisman Witchcraft Artifact, only the size of a thumb but structurally complex multiple times over, and crystal clear like pure water, arrived before a barren mountain range on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, filled with hard metal ores.
"First... let’s see how effective it is."
With a thought, he activated the basic function of the new Talisman Witchcraft Artifact.
Whizz...
An unremarkable energy bullet, only the size of a fist, shot out from the front of the talisman.
Silently slicing through the air, it struck a nearly thousand-meter-high mountain composed of high-density metal ore in the distance.
The next second...
Boom!!!
A deafening sound echoed, and the world changed color!
A terrifying sphere of blinding light abruptly erupted, rapidly expanding, engulfing the entire top half of the mountain!
Following was a shockwave spreading in a circular pattern, with visible airwaves sweeping out like a tangible tsunami!
This was not a simple explosion and collapse.
In Jeming’s serious gaze, the struck mountain’s upper half was like being wiped away by an invisible giant hand, directly vaporizing in the blazing white light!
And the ground beneath the explosion center, a rock layer with over seventy percent metal content, was peeled and shredded like fragile biscuits.
Transforming into tens of thousands of tons of metal fragments and molten rock, being thrown thousands of meters into the sky, then crashing down like a cataclysmic meteor shower!
Dust billowed, and a thunderous roar filled the air, as if the apocalypse had come.
Jeming hovered mid-air, enveloped in a faint shield, blocking the oncoming shockwave and debris.
Looking at the altered terrain before him and the massive crater, tens of meters deep with a diameter over a thousand meters, his eyes shone with a brilliant gleam.
"It’s done!" he muttered, his voice filled with irrepressible excitement.
With the amplification from drawing more Elemental Power, the power of this strike had surpassed the scope of a Second Level Wizard, firmly reaching the destructive level of Third Level Witchcraft!
This meant that with just one strike, he possessed the terrifying power to destroy an entire city!
