I Have An Infinite Cultivation Resource
Chapter 56: Sword Core
Lu You sped along like the wind, using the cover of night, and returned safely to his room without any trouble.
He secretly glanced toward Lu Xiao'e's house and let out a sigh of relief. The second-floor window of Lu Xiao'e's room was open, and he could see her hugging a quilt while sleeping soundly on the bed, completely unaware of him.
Hmm? Why does Lu Xiao'e sleep with the window open?
Right, maybe it's because he always keeps his doors and windows tightly shut, so Lu Xiao'e subconsciously forgot he lives next door.
"Do not look at what is improper." Lu You immediately shut his own window tightly.
Evil Eye: Boss, Lu Xiao'e's sleeping posture might be some kind of breathing technique. I recorded it.
Lu You: Get lost…
After dismissing Evil Eye, Lu You happily took out Zhou Lei's storage ring.
The Verdant Cloud Sect controlled cultivators' pills and talismans very strictly. Even when Lu You went to the Myriad Talismans Pavilion auction, he couldn't buy much, so he had very high expectations for the storage ring of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Zhou Lei's ring had a space of about ten cubic meters, and it was packed full of low-grade spirit stones.
Lu You curled his lips. The thing he least wanted to see right now was low-grade spirit stones.
After rummaging around for a long time, Lu You found more than a dozen bottles of Qi-Nourishing Pills, several longswords used by cultivators, and a Foundation Establishment technique called "Great Hand Seal."
"What kind of junk is this? That stingy Zhou Lei only had this much stuff?"
Lu You didn't believe it. Looking at the massive pile of spirit stones, he suddenly thought of something and began searching through them with his spiritual sense.
Sure enough, Lu You found a golden sword core.
A sword core is the precursor of a flying sword used by Golden Core cultivators. If a Foundation Establishment cultivator is confident in breaking through to the Golden Core realm, they may start nurturing a sword core in advance. This allows the core to become attuned to their mind.
Once they reach Golden Core, the core becomes the sword embryo used to forge a flying sword. Afterward, they can ride the sword through the air. Exceptionally talented individuals may even nurture a sword spirit, allowing the flying sword to awaken its own consciousness, automatically protect its master, and assist in battle.
"So Zhou Lei spent all his money on this sword core."
The forging of a sword core is extremely complicated. Not only are the materials expensive, but the refiner must also be in the Golden Core realm. Just getting a Golden Core refiner to craft one shows how much Zhou Lei must have paid.
Lu You held the core in his hand and examined it with his senses, his face lighting up with joy.
Perhaps Zhou Lei had only recently bought it and hadn't fully refined it yet—it was still ownerless.
Moreover, since a sword core is the embryonic form of a flying sword, if one is willing to sacrifice it and forcibly trigger its spiritual structure, even a Qi Refining cultivator can release a low-grade flying sword attack once.
Lu You placed the sword core into the Cauldron of Cornucopia, then took a core out.
Flying Sword!
The sword core shot forward instantly. Under Lu You's control, it stopped just before the wall of the room, then gradually lost its spiritual energy.
The flying sword's speed was even faster than Lu Xiao'e's movement technique. At the very least, Lu You himself couldn't keep up with its speed.
Just now, Lu You had deliberately stopped it. Otherwise, the sword core could cover a range of a thousand meters. The only problem was the enormous consumption—at his current sixth level of Qi Refining, he could only use it twice before exhausting all his spiritual energy.
Unlike talismans, which are complicated to make—requiring structure adjustments and spiritual energy input—but extremely simple to use (like pressing a detonator), sword cores are different. They must be actively driven by spiritual energy in order to attack.
"It could serve as a surprise trump card."
After all, the sword core's advantage lies in its speed. If two people are fighting and he suddenly launches it, the opponent would have a hard time defending.
The reason Zhou Lei hadn't used it was, first, because the sword core was inside his storage ring and he didn't have time to take it out. A storage ring isn't like Lu You's Cauldron of Cornucopia—it doesn't respond instantly to one's thoughts.
Second, Zhou Lei mistakenly believed Lu You was a Golden Core cultivator, so he simply gave up resisting.
But even if Zhou Lei had released the sword core, Lu You wouldn't have been afraid. He had already prepared Golden Light Talismans and Teleportation Talismans.
If Zhou Lei had tried a desperate final attack, Lu You would have made sure to protect himself.
Lu You carefully put away the sword core, then picked up the Qi-Nourishing Pills. He placed one bottle of the pills into the small cauldron, and instantly obtained countless Qi-Nourishing Pills.
Aside from the sword core and the Qi-Nourishing Pills, Lu You had no interest in the other items, including Zhou Lei's storage ring. These things were stolen goods, and Lu You couldn't safely use them. So he simply returned the spirit stones, weapons, and techniques back into the storage ring. Then he took out a Lightning Technique Talisman and blasted the ring into pieces, completely destroying the evidence.
Taking out a Hard Metal Talisman, Lu You locked all the doors and windows, reinforced them again with the talisman, and only then slipped into his secret chamber.
Inside the chamber, he spread spirit stones all over the cultivation bed. Sitting cross-legged atop the pile of stones, Lu You took out a Qi-Nourishing Pill and swallowed it.
"Sure enough, internal consumption is the king. Compared to low-grade spirit stones, the spiritual energy provided by Qi-Nourishing Pills is much easier to absorb."
Feeling the changes in his body, Lu You began circulating the Five Elements Qi-Nourishing Technique. With spirit stones used externally and Qi-Nourishing Pills taken internally, his cultivation speed increased again. Even though he possessed mixed spiritual roots, Lu You could feel the bottleneck that should have taken half a week to reach already loosening.
"Good. I'll break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining today."
Each additional cultivation level increased Lu You's spiritual energy, allowing him to control more talismans. His combat strength would almost double with every level.
A massive surge of spiritual energy poured into Lu You's dantian, and the tearing sensation returned once more. In order to expand his dantian, Lu You endured the pain and placed another Qi-Nourishing Pill into his mouth.
One pill… two pills… three pills…
Thanks to the cauldron, Lu You's Qi-Nourishing Pills were endless, and the spiritual energy inside his body continued to pour into his dantian like raging waves crashing against the shore, repeatedly slamming into the bottleneck and his dantian itself.
The intense pain nearly drove Lu You mad. He released Purifying Heart Talismans one after another. Fortunately, the talismans had their effectiveness enhanced by the ancient diagram, which allowed Lu You to endure until the end without fainting from the pain.
Crack
The bottleneck of the sixth level of Qi Refining shattered. Spiritual energy surged through him, washing over Lu You's entire body. With the combined effects of spirit stones externally and Qi-Nourishing Pills internally, after breaking through the bottleneck Lu You didn't even need time to recover—he directly advanced to the mid-stage of the seventh level of Qi Refining.
Without taking time to familiarize himself with his new cultivation level, Lu You continuously released Healing Talismans while stabilizing his breakthrough. The destructive force of the spiritual energy was even stronger than last time. It took nearly a thousand talismans before Lu You finally recovered.
"If this keeps up, I wonder if I'll be able to endure the expansions later on," Lu You thought with lingering fear. But when he looked inward at his dantian, excitement quickly replaced the worry.
This time, the capacity of his dantian had grown even larger, twice that of the sixth level of Qi Refining.
Lu You could now release the sword core four times, and he could unleash twenty thousand of the Thunder Technique Talismans made using the ancient cultivator skin.
It should be remembered that fewer than ten thousand Thunder Technique Talismans had already overwhelmed the Foundation Establishment disciple Zhang Xiansheng and four others without giving them any chance to fight back. If he used twenty thousand, the entire Earth District would probably be razed to the ground.
"Alright. It's time to spar with Senior Sister Zeng Yan and Lu Xiao'e."
After finishing his cultivation, Lu You didn't waste even a moment resting. He immediately entered the Blood Shadow Space and began fighting the two women in succession.
After being ambushed and killed dozens of times by Lu Xiao'e, Lu You frowned.
Evil Eye replayed the third battle between him and Lu Xiao'e. No matter how he analyzed or dismantled that single sword strike, Lu You still felt a faint sense of helplessness.
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