Eternal Life: Hundredfold Rewards-Chapter 323 - 193: The Terrifying Heart Demon and Human-Sword Unity
Apart from the two hundred and forty drops of Liquid Magical Power Foundation, Qi Chuan’s Inspiration Opportunity was also in a state of Perfection. Since the Qi Refining Stage, it has provided tremendous help to Qi Chuan in breaking through bottlenecks, proving to be unbeatable.
Not to mention that Qi Chuan also had the support of Celestial Spirit Gang Qi, a Special Five Elements Spiritual Vein Land, and Soul-Stabilizing Incense, all of which were excellent external aids.
Moreover, what’s particularly important is that long before impacting the bottleneck, Qi Chuan’s Divine Soul had already advanced to the Core Formation Stage.
Just now, during the Core Formation process, although it was smooth, every step required the constant control of the Divine Soul to maintain the progress and ensure there wasn’t the slightest error.
In this process, the consumption of the Power of the Divine Soul was undoubtedly vast. Especially since Qi Chuan had a substantial Liquid Magical Power Foundation, more powerful Divine Soul was needed to manipulate and control them, including the Celestial Spirit Gang Qi.
However, throughout the entire process, Qi Chuan’s Divine Soul didn’t feel the slightest strain. Even until now, it remained clear-headed, as if it could undergo the Core Formation bottleneck once more. This is the strength of the Core Formation Stage Divine Soul, playing a significant role in the Core Formation process. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
The combination of all these factors led to Qi Chuan’s incredibly smooth Core Formation process, ultimately achieving a First-Grade Nine Orifice Golden Core.
Swish!
With the successful Core Formation, Qi Chuan suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze as sharp as lightning, spirit-seizing and soul-captivating, exuding a majestic aura like a prison, inherently radiating the overwhelming demeanor of a Core Formation True Master.
At this moment, any Foundation Establishment Cultivator who met his gaze would be terrified, even a Foundation Establishment Perfection Cultivator would tremble in fear.
When a Core Formation True Master displays their might, it’s like the sky falling. If one wishes to live, even a Foundation Establishment Cultivator has no choice but to kneel.
As Fang Yi opened his eyes, Qi Chuan saw a line of text appear before him.
[With two hundred and forty drops of Liquid Magical Power Foundation as the basis, Perfection Inspiration Opportunity, Celestial Spirit Gang Qi, and Special Five Elements Spiritual Vein Qi as support, and Core Formation Stage Divine Soul for control, you operated the Profound Celestial Spirit Devouring Sword Technique to impact the Core Formation Realm, triggering a hundredfold critical strike, receiving a hundredfold gain, and successfully condensed a First-Grade Nine Orifice Golden Core, advancing to the Core Formation Early Stage.]
"It’s the hundredfold critical strike notification!"
Qi Chuan was already familiar with this, and when the text appeared, he browsed through all the information.
Instantly, he felt happy and particularly reassured.
But the next moment, he discovered a certain point.
Why wasn’t there any mention of the Soul-Stabilizing Incense?
One must know that the Soul-Stabilizing Incense was also an important external aid he used.
Qi Chuan immediately felt puzzled in his heart.
Swish!
His gaze swept over and landed on a Jade Box in front of him.
That Jade Box was where the Soul-Stabilizing Incense had been burning earlier.
And at this moment, he saw that the Soul-Stabilizing Incense was long extinguished, leaving only a short, ineffective supporting part, with bits of ash fallen on the brocade inside the Jade Box.
Clearly, the Soul-Stabilizing Incense had burned out.
It had done its duty faithfully.
But the hundredfold critical strike text didn’t acknowledge its contribution.
Why was this?
"No way!"
In the next moment, Qi Chuan suddenly realized that during his entire bottleneck breakthrough, he didn’t even enter the Heart Demon Illusion Realm!
The effect of the Soul-Stabilizing Incense is to reduce the strength of the Heart Demon when it appears, making it easier for one to break free from the Heart Demon’s control and thus succeed in Core Formation.
But no Heart Demon appeared at all, so what use did the Soul-Stabilizing Incense have?
This was why the hundredfold critical strike didn’t acknowledge the contribution of the Soul-Stabilizing Incense?
However, after understanding the reason, a hint of shock appeared in Qi Chuan’s eyes.
When breaking through the Core Formation bottleneck, Heart Demons more or less appear, and they are often quite terrifying, ensnaring one deeply, difficult to break free from, leading to Core Formation failure, waking up only to sadly accept the failure and face a series of side effects.
In legends, there is a notion of having no Heart Demon, but it only exists in legends!
At least in Qi Chuan’s experience from Wind Moon Sect or Myriad Flowers Immortal Sect, all Foundation Establishment Perfection Cultivators facing the Core Formation bottleneck would encounter Heart Demons. Even if the Heart Demon was slightly easy, it was quite rare.
The information doesn’t just relate to Wind Moon Sect and Myriad Flowers Immortal Sect. Sometimes Qi Chuan would read classic records that also document situations beyond Nanhua State and Beihua State.
All information indicates that having no Heart Demon is truly just a legend, utterly impossible to happen.
However, such a legendary thing actually happened to him.
From the beginning of hitting the Core Formation bottleneck, until successfully forming the core now, there wasn’t even a slightest sign of a Heart Demon Illusion Realm appearing.
This is certainly wonderful.
But how could this be possible?
Is his luck truly this incredible?
Qi Chuan found it hard to believe.
His expression alternated between bright and dark, his face incredibly complex.
Now, there are only two possibilities.
One is that his luck is truly extraordinary, with no Heart Demon Illusion Realm appearing, and he succeeded in Core Formation.
And the other...
It’s not entirely without a shred of possibility that he is currently under the control of the Heart Demon Illusion Realm, that his smooth as can be success in Core Formation is a mere illusion, where in reality, he is still in the process of forming the core! Once he truly believes he has succeeded, he has actually failed in Core Formation! And then he would face the terrifying side effects and repercussions of Core Formation failure!
