Chapter 302 - 34: Seven-Turned Golden Core, Changes in Great Xia!
At dusk, Lin Chen loaded the supplies Huang Xin brought into the nanobag.
He weighed them in his hand, quietly waiting for the moment of returning.
As the countdown on his arm reset.
"Three, two, one..."
Lin Chen’s vision changed.
...
Great Xia Country, Martial Arts Palace.
After returning to the familiar Blue Star, Lin Chen handed over all the various supplies he brought back to Wang Lishan.
Then he said:
"For the next seven days, do not disturb me..."
"I’m preparing to break through."
Hearing this, Wang Lishan’s heart stirred, and he said in surprise:
"Are you close to the Seventh-Turned Golden Core?"
Lin Chen nodded and said:
"The magical true essence in my dantian has already reached its limit; I’ve been suppressing it, waiting to return and break through!"
Upon hearing this, Wang Lishan’s face showed joy. After breaking through the Seventh-Turned Golden Core, surely Lin Chen would gain more self-defense capabilities.
...
In the cultivation room, Lin Chen took out a full five thousand pieces of middle-grade spirit stones.
After that, he operated his cultivation technique, absorbed the spiritual energy, and simultaneously compressed the true essence in his dantian continuously.
For a Golden Core cultivator, each breakthrough is an extreme compression of true essence.
The further it goes, the harder it gets!
Lin Chen had spent several years before, compressing it a full six times.
Now, he had to start the seventh compression.
The sun rose and set six times.
Lin Chen remained in the cultivation room, impacting the Seventh-Turned Golden Core.
As another transparent, mist-like strand appeared on the perfect golden core in his dantian...
Lin Chen officially stepped into the Seventh-Turned Golden Core.
The entire process was exceptionally smooth, and the Seventh-Turned Golden Core was almost without difficulty for him.
But thinking about it, with an anomalous spirit root and perfect golden core qualifications, how could the Seventh-Turned Golden Core be a hindrance?
Lin Chen’s heart stirred, and the true essence inside his body surged out.
"Hmm, the true essence quantity is about forty percent higher than at the Sixth Turn..."
"Now, my true essence quantity far surpasses even the Ninth-Turn Golden Core!"
"Perhaps, it’s similar to the rumored Half-Step Nascent Soul?"
Lin Chen pondered for a moment.
Breaking through from the Golden Core to the Nascent Soul requires passing three barriers.
These are the Flesh Body Barrier, Magic Power Barrier, and Spiritual Sense Barrier.
Breaking through any of these barriers means being called a Half-Step Nascent Soul.
A Half-Step Nascent Soul, though not as good as a Nascent Soul cultivator.
But it is a crushing existence compared to ordinary Ninth-Turn Golden Cores.
Especially the Magic Power Barrier, once broken, the true essence can instantly be multiplied several times!
For example, a Half-Step Nascent Soul that has passed the Magic Power Barrier has true essence not much different from someone who has just entered the Nascent Soul Stage.
After stepping into the Magic Power Barrier, one can increase the true essence several times, but after genuinely entering the early Nascent Soul Stage, it can only be doubled.
"I estimate that the true essence is still some distance from Half-Step Nascent Soul..."
"By the time of the Eighth and Ninth Turn Golden Core, it should be about right."
Lin Chen thought silently.
"Besides the true essence, after breaking through the Seventh Turn Golden Core... the divine sense seems to have had a huge leap as well!"
Lin Chen’s heart stirred, and his divine sense surged like a tide around him.
In an instant, it enveloped the entire Martial Arts Palace and continued to spread outward.
Eventually, Lin Chen’s divine sense covered the entire military region and even extended all the way to the back mountain.
"Oh, I haven’t been there for a while... the spiritual medicine plantation at the back mountain has developed so quickly?"
Lin Chen felt slightly surprised.
In his perception, the entire back area of the military region had been expanded on a large scale.
It was no longer limited to a few hills, but the entire Yanjing Mountain Range of dozens of peaks had been developed into a dedicated spiritual medicine plantation base.
The entire spiritual medicine industry area is probably no less than tens of thousands of acres.
Thousands of Spirit Gathering Arrays cover these tens of thousands of acres, ensuring the abundance of spiritual energy.
And tens of hills are planted with Spirit Companion Grass everywhere, continuously generating spiritual energy.
Although the quantity of Spirit Companion Grass is not enough to form a Blessed Land Cave Heaven, it is sufficient to guarantee the basic cultivation and spiritual medicine planting for cultivators.
Meanwhile, each hill has over a thousand cultivators working day and night to speed up the maturity of spiritual medicine.
Almost every month, this Yanjing Mountain Range can produce a million first-tier spiritual medicines of three to ten years old.
At the same time, the Spirit Plant Department also divided the different hills.
Spirit Rice, Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill, and Qi Blood Pill are still the main crops, accounting for more than eighty percent.
The remaining, such as Qi-Nourishing Grass, Golden Yuan Flower, Dragon Spirit Grass, etc., account for only a tenth or two tenths.
On one hand, these spiritual medicines are more challenging to cultivate.
Especially the raw materials for Foundation Establishment Pill and Golden Yuan Pill often require months to mature to meet the age requirements.
"Nowadays, the Great Xia Country’s spiritual medicine is self-sufficient..."
"I heard that a few days ago, the country also had a Golden Core cultivator appear, supposedly with Celestial Spirit Root qualifications..."
"Hybrid Spirit Rice is also being promoted nationwide, expected to completely replace ordinary rice in three to five years..."
Lin Chen’s eyes flashed with a look of reflection.
Since he first traversed to the Cultivation Realm, exactly thirteen years have passed.
This year, Lin Chen is also thirty years old.
In these ten-plus years, the martial path and cultivation department of the Great Xia Country have undergone earth-shattering changes.
Lin Chen initially estimated that the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators within just Great Xia was no less than ten thousand.
Even exceeding the combined Foundation Establishment cultivators of the entire Righteous Alliance and Demon Sect.
Of course, this is because the Great Xia Country has a large population, with billions of people.
Under the modernized selection, not a few youths with dual spirit roots or even single spirit root qualifications are selected from martial artists.
Combined with the mass production of Foundation Establishment Pills, it makes it much easier for these cultivators to break through the Foundation Establishment Stage.
In contrast, Great Xia’s total cultivators are less than a hundred thousand, but the proportion of Foundation Establishment cultivators is over one-tenth.
And the first Golden Core cultivator was also born.
Perhaps, fifty or a hundred years later, the Great Xia Country will not have ten thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators, but ten thousand Golden Core cultivators!
