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#175 - Chapter 21: Fake Dan Realm

Sitting cross-legged in the cave, Liu Yuan was gorging himself on wild beast meat and some herbs he had found. These could provide him with the energy he needed and replenish his gradually depleting blood energy.

Although the conversion rate was low, he had no other choice. He had been in this world for so many years and hadn't found anything rich in energy. Fortunately, this situation didn't last long. After about twenty hours, the feeling of blood energy loss had eased somewhat.

Liu Yuan sighed in relief. It was finally over. His body had been so depleted that he had considered cutting off a piece of Leviathan to taste. The vortex of energy within him began to rotate rhythmically, gradually becoming more rounded and solid.

Controlling his mental energy and retracting it into his body, he entered a wondrous perspective. Three misty blood cores, like celestial bodies, rotated in predetermined orbits.

Is that it? Three cores for Core Formation? How is it different from the novels? Just as he was wondering, a sharp pain came from his brow, as if his Baihui, Shenting, and Yintang acupoints were about to burst out.

Damn it!

Sourness, numbness, pain, and itching mixed and intertwined, making him feel like he was dying. Liu Yuan found it hard to endure and slammed his head against the ground. Soon, his head was bleeding. Liu Yuan could only retain the last shred of consciousness to avoid sinking into chaos and pain.

He didn't know how long it had been before Liu Yuan gradually woke up. Unlike the situation when his blood energy condensed into cores, where his entire essence was depleted, he now felt a weariness from the depths of his soul, like the weakness of staying up for ten consecutive nights, as if he could fall asleep and never wake up.

Liu Yuan covered his forehead. Was it so difficult to enter the fourth stage? He had suffered so much. Feeling a swelling in his lower abdomen, he cursed inwardly, "Damn it, I almost peed my pants! Holy crap! (`皿´)～ Here it comes again, is it never going to end!"

The swelling sensation wasn't the urge to urinate, but rather his entire body's true energy was beginning to converge towards his dantian. The pure true energy he had cultivated for more than twenty years poured into his dantian like a mighty river. However, unlike the previous two times, it was a very magical feeling. His body, from birth until now, had been constantly washed by spiritual energy, and his meridians and bones had become very strong.

This experience allowed him to fully feel the vast true energy constantly washing and squeezing within his dantian. Countless large and small vortices collided, devoured, shattered, and reunited, finally forming three relatively stable vortices. They began to absorb the surrounding massive true energy, forming a stable equilibrium.

From the outside, an unusual phenomenon appeared on the mountain peak, centered on Liu Yuan's location. The surrounding spiritual energy was plundered and constantly converged here. The clouds directly above rotated, seemingly brewing lightning.

Liu Yuan could feel the continuous stream of spiritual energy constantly nourishing his body. Not only was the previously consumed blood energy replenished, but even his originally exhausted mental energy began to recover.

As if sensing something, Liu Yuan walked out of the cave. He looked at the clouds above his head and murmured, "So even in another world, I still need to undergo the Golden Core Tribulation. Come on! Everything that doesn't kill me will only make me stronger!" Liu Yuan had been stuck at the third stage for nearly a hundred years. He wasn't quite sure what was happening with his current state. He had a total of nine inner cores condensed within him: three blue crystal cores at his spiritual platform, three blood cores near his heart, and three purple cores at his sea of Qi. They formed their own systems, intertwined, and did not interfere with each other.

“Crack!” A bolt of purple lightning as thick as an arm struck down, and Liu Yuan's clothes instantly turned to ashes. His naked body trembled for a short period of time.

Liu Yuan wasn't being struck by lightning for the first time. Eh! Surprised, he looked at the sky. The vortex-like clouds had actually dispersed.

Is that it? Only one lightning strike. He waited for a long time until the cold wind made him feel a little chilly. Only then did he realize that he was still naked, and quickly found a set of clothes to put on. Looking at the sky that had returned to normal, he guessed that lightning wouldn't suddenly appear to strike him again.

After thinking for a long time, he finally opened the attribute panel.

Name: Liu Yuan (Garon Morningstar)

Race: Human (Lesser Dragonkin Bloodline)

Age: 23/800

Status: Weak (Nascent Soul Stage, Third-Order Threshold...)

Strength: 80

Agility: 80

Constitution: 80

Intelligence: 80

Spirit: 80

Commanding Power: 80

Integrated Perception: 80

Hidden Attributes:

Luck: 75

Willpower Strength: ???

Soul Strength: ???

Body Strength: ???

Abnormal Status Resistance: ???

The changes in the data weren't significant, but Liu Yuan's life form had indeed been sublimated, and his lifespan had increased to eight hundred years. The colors of the various attribute values were a vibrant red. He noticed the words "Nascent Soul Stage."

Carefully sensing the nine inner cores within his body, they were indeed not solid, as if they were jelly. Liu Yuan tried to mobilize the power within them, and it was indeed different, as distinct as water and oil.

This reminded him of a novel he had read a long time ago, the name of which he had forgotten. Most cultivation systems have a Foundation Establishment stage leading to a Golden Core stage. And at the peak of Foundation Establishment, one can form a pseudo-core within the body before advancing to Core Formation. A more solid foundation will make it easier to advance to the Golden Core stage than directly advancing from the peak of Foundation Establishment. The Pseudo-Core realm can already utilize some Golden Core stage methods, condensing magic power into true essence and spiritual sense into divine sense.

That bolt of heavenly lightning helped Liu Yuan stabilize his Pseudo-Core realm. The Nascent Soul Stage on the panel was probably in this state. When the three cores are united in the future, he will advance to the true Golden Core stage.

Liu Yuan rode Leviathan back to Harold City. A month had passed since he last left. The hunting team led by Misda had returned. They had swept through the northwestern edge of the Dothraki Sea, bringing back more than 4,000 captives and rescued slaves.

Riken was telling Liu Yuan excitedly about what he had seen and heard along the way. It was too exciting for a child his age, but the long march was a bit hard. Liu Yuan didn't discourage him; boys need to build confidence.

Liu Yuan was reviewing the reports sent from various places during this period. After the operations beyond the northern border stopped, the Green Prophet and the Children of the Forest also seemed to have fallen silent.

Bran had woken up in Winterfell, but due to the head injury, he couldn't remember what happened. Liu Yuan curled his lips. He knew best what kind of injury the child had suffered. It was impossible for it to cause amnesia, so his memory had been artificially erased. Who else in the entire North has this ability?

Hehe~ The old guy can't sit still and is preparing to personally enter the game.