Invisible Security Guard

At the most critical moment, just as the nine Blood Beads were cracking and about to explode, Yusuf Zuck stuffed the last Golden Core into his mouth.

The Golden Core is a product born of tribulation; it’s well-known that in order to achieve the Golden Core, one must endure a kind of heavenly tribulation. Cultivators refer to this heavenly tribulation as the Four Nine Heavenly Tribulation, a kind of mandated ordeal. If you can overcome this ordeal, you can solidify the pill; if you fail, you die.

This is why it is called the Four Nine Heavenly Tribulation—because at that time, thirty-six heavenly punishments will appear, and thirty-six is referred to as "Four Nine."

This is also the first ordeal that seekers of the Dao must face, and it is said that as one progresses, the number of tribulations increases.

Those who have survived such tribulations will have their human pills in their bodies cleansed by heavenly punishments, turning them into a golden color, possessing strange and unpredictable powers of heaven and earth. The Golden Core is a threshold, a major hurdle in cultivation. There might be many Golden Pill Monks, but few have a Golden Core because those thirty-six tribulations are extremely terrifying.

Yusuf Zuck even heard that inside the Golden Core contains a type of energy that can annihilate the spirit soul. The Black Jiao told Yusuf Zuck that human pills could be consumed, but Golden Cores should not be ingested recklessly, because many people who did swallow a Golden Core recklessly had their spirit souls shattered, and without a soul, one simply dies.

No one knows why this happens, but many claim that after Golden Pill Monks survive the tribulation, in addition to the pill becoming golden and possessing the power of heaven and earth, they also possess a force of the spirit soul that is equally mysterious and unpredictable.

After Yusuf Zuck swallowed the Golden Core that had been cleansed by the heavenly tribulation, the situation inside his body was far more than just a rumbling explosion—it was because the energy was too vast and overpowering, and all of it converged towards the Dantian, as if it, too, wanted to blast the Dantian apart.

Of course, in addition to the endless energy, the Golden Core truly released an unknown force that was invisible and intangible, somewhat like Divine Sense, which emerged out of thin air, and then rushed towards his mind, seemingly wanting to strangle his soul.

"Boom—" When that spirit soul power rushed into his mind, an even more peculiar thing happened. The nine Blood Beads, which were about to explode, seemed to sense danger and threat and stopped beating simultaneously, then, when they suddenly contracted, nine purple light arrows shot towards the incoming spirit soul power.