Chapter 579 - 336 Intrusion
This cavernous base was enormous, not a common cave dwelling but rather a large-scale base built in the form of a stronghold.
Due to not triggering the formation, Li Shiming’s intrusion went undetected by any cultivator.
Two Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivators were killed by him in an instant. To prevent the blood from the corpses from flowing out and spreading the scent, his Divine Thought scanned over the two bodies, collecting the storage bracelets and placing the corpses into his Space Ring.
His Divine Thought detected another cultivator in advance—this was a Golden Core Early Stage cultivator walking through the corridor.
It had to be said that the remnant cultivators of the Skywalk Trading Company had a rather high rank, for he had encountered three Golden Core cultivators upon entering.
Golden Core cultivators were not common as cabbage. Apart from the six major sects, it was incredibly difficult for other forces to produce a single Golden Core cultivator.
Unless they were extremely lucky, with the sheer number of cultivators at the peak of Foundation Establishment, there were bound to be some who could break through to the Golden Core Stage with just a few resources.
Especially since the six major sects often deliberately released some resources for forming the core, in order to weaken the resentment of smaller forces and Loose Cultivators towards their restrictive control over resources.
Moreover, in the long-term scarcity of resources, smaller forces and Loose Cultivators found alternative ways to replace resources, using forbidden Spiritual Medicines to forcefully break into the Golden Core Stage.
Such Golden Core cultivators who forcefully broke through would either be False Core cultivators or would forever remain at the initial realm of the Golden Core Stage, without any further progress in their lifetime.