Chapter 151

Chapter 151: Golden Core Formed

The Bai family was desperate to escape their current plight, so they let that Daoist priest take away Bai Jing Han, who was only ten years old. From that day on, Bai Jing Han never returned to the Bai family.

That Daoist priest did teach Bai Jing Han cultivation, but as her cultivation deepened, Bai Jing Han realized what she was learning was not any proper Dao art at all. It was a cruel, bloodthirsty evil technique that killed people and stole souls.

By the time she wanted to break free from that so-called enlightened master, it was already too late. He showed his cruel, vicious face. First he ripped out her soul, then refined her flesh body into a white zombie. Next he used evil techniques to seal her spirit into the zombie body he had refined, and finally placed her into the corpse-nurturing ground.

Bai Jing Han could only watch helplessly as her body changed from human to monster. Her divine soul was branded with an imprint by him and would only obey that man.

But she was unwilling. She refused to become a puppet monster. She did not want to kill people. She did not want to become a walking corpse that others could drive around. So when someone broke the seal on her coffin, she warned Yun Xi. She only wanted to die – to die cleanly and innocently.

The man sealed into the coffin beside hers later seemed to be a dead cultivator. His flesh body was even stronger than hers, so he only needed five years to advance into a white zombie, with strength above hers. That man valued him greatly.

That was why she had hinted to Yun Xi to destroy that man as well. She did not have the ability to take revenge on the true culprit herself, but it was enough that someone else could do it.

Yun Xi’s awareness returned, and she slowly opened her eyes. Now everything connected together. The Bai family had indeed been dragged down by Bai Jing Han, only because Bai Jing Han had been born in an yin year, an yin month, and an yin day. She was the best candidate for refining corpses.

The instant she opened her eyes, all the spiritual liquid in her dantian was compressed into a single Golden Core. The Golden Core faintly glowed purple, with sparks of lightning flickering across it. Nine? appeared on the Golden Core as it hovered in her dantian, slowly spinning.

Yun Xi had formed a Ninth Grade Golden Core after a brush with death. As long as she did not fall, she would definitely advance to Nascent Soul in the future.

“Fei Xia, take me away from this corpse-nurturing ground,” Yun Xi communicated with the Fei Xia Butterfly through divine sense.

When Yun Xi drew down Nine Heavens Profound Thunder, the Fei Xia Butterfly had flown away from her bun and quietly hidden outside the range of Thunder Tribulation, waiting. It felt like it was going to lose its life this time. Its master was simply reckless. She actually advanced in the mortal world and was not afraid of being blasted into ashes by tribulation lightning.

But reality was that its master was lucky in her foolishness. She actually succeeded in passing Thunder Tribulation. She had been blasted terribly, but she still had breath left. So when it received the message, it immediately flapped its wings, its body instantly grew larger, and it carried its master, who was almost scorched into charcoal, away from the spot.

At this moment, the dark clouds over Yun Xi’s head had already??, and a rainbow appeared in the sky. The spiritual rain bestowed by the Heavenly Dao also fell with it.

Yun Xi did not want to waste the spiritual rain, and she did not want to stay in that unlucky place any longer. She had the Fei Xia Butterfly carry her away, then began absorbing the spiritual rain to repair her body.

However, this was the mortal world after all. The spiritual energy was far too thin. Even after she drew in all the spiritual energy within a thousand miles, it still could not fill her meridians.

Yun Xi worried that City Lord Li might appear. After communicating with the Immortal Spirit Grass, she moved it out of the space, but did not let it be exposed in front of people. Instead, she hid it in her arms and had it start sending pure spiritual energy.

As the scorched shell on Yun Xi’s body fell away, her cultivation also stabilized at early Golden Core.

Yun Xi no longer suppressed her divine sense. Her divine sense sprang out from her sea of consciousness and slowly spread outward, taking the entire mortal world into view. Then she discovered the approaching City Lord Li.

The instant their divine senses touched, City Lord Li’s face changed. Without hesitation, he crushed a jade talisman and vanished from where he stood.

Yun Xi’s divine sense paused and continued spreading outward. That unthinking move of hers had actually frightened him away.

When her divine sense spread out, the three companions beside her also sensed it. Everyone was more shocked than happy. It felt like Yun Xi was a hidden big shot.

Yun Xi’s divine sense even brushed the?? formation between the mortal world and the Cultivation World. She quickly withdrew her divine sense and opened her golden-glinting eyes.

In the next instant, she put the Immortal Spirit Grass back into the space, changed out of her damaged magic robe, and put on the direct disciple robe of the Hao Ran Sect.

The Fei Xia Butterfly shrank back down and returned to Yun Xi’s bun. Dian Dian also left the space, happily sending a message to congratulate his master on advancing to Golden Core. The whole mouse radiated bubbles of joy.

Yun Xi flashed and appeared in front of Yu Qing Cheng and the other two.

Liu Hao Tian had already raised his cultivation to the peak of late Foundation Establishment. He was only one step away from breaking through to Golden Core. But because Yun Xi had broken through smoothly, he temporarily stopped pushing toward his own breakthrough.

“Yun Xi, you were too risky!” Yu Qing Cheng said with a frown.

“Yeah. Just now we were worried sick. After we found you trapped, we attacked the weak point of the formation under Fellow Cultivator Liu’s guidance. We didn’t expect you to draw the tribulation lightning down, and we had to retreat,” Xia You said.

Yun Xi sighed helplessly. “Do you think I wanted to take that risk? I was forced. Guess who I saw in the corpse-nurturing ground?”

Xia You’s curiosity was stirred. She asked, “Who? There was someone else in the corpse-nurturing ground? How come we didn’t sense it just now?”

“Not a person. It was Twin Mountain City’s deceased Young Lord Li Cang Yuan. He’s already a white zombie.”

Liu Hao Tian sucked in a breath of cold air. “He refined himself into a zombie?”

“Yes, and no. He has indeed cultivated into a white zombie, but he definitely didn’t do it willingly. After he died, his father sent him to this corpse-nurturing ground. Just now, when I spread my divine sense after my breakthrough, I found City Lord Li coming.”

Yu Qing Cheng and Xia You immediately changed expressions. That was a Nascent Soul True Lord. Even if the four of them joined together, they still were not his match. She pulled out a teleportation jade talisman, ready to take everyone and run.

Liu Hao Tian stopped her and said with a smile, “Fellow Cultivator Wei, the pressure you released just now was terrifyingly strong. It was probably above Nascent Soul, so you should be able to scare City Lord Li away, right?”

Yu Qing Cheng froze for a moment after hearing that. She also remembered that overwhelming pressure of divine sense just now. Luckily it hadn’t been aimed at them, or she would have already been forced flat on the ground.

Yun Xi smiled slightly. “I did scare him off. We were lucky this time too. The cultivation method I practice makes my divine sense stronger than my flesh body. After that, I also used the treasure my Master bestowed and managed a bluff. That’s how I startled him into leaving.”

Yun Xi’s explanation was half true and half false. She had to keep a trump card for herself.

Only then did Yu Qing Cheng notice Yun Xi was wearing the direct disciple robe of the Hao Ran Sect. She immediately cupped her hands in congratulations. “Congratulations to Master Wei on advancing to Golden Core and becoming a direct disciple. This time, we escaped disaster because we benefited from your light.”

Xia You and Liu Hao Tian also cupped their hands to congratulate her. Yun Xi waved her hands in embarrassment. “This time, I was forced into it. To save my life, I had no choice but to break through by force. Luckily my Master stocked enough spirit stones for my advancement, or it really would have been hard to say how it would turn out.”

After the four of them exchanged information briefly, they learned that the corpse-nurturing ground had not only buried Li Cang Yuan, but also Bai Jing Han. The Bai family had been the original residents of that feng shui treasure land. Not only had the evil cultivator dug up their ancestral graves, he had also refined the Bai family’s granddaughter into a zombie. It was simply insane. Being struck to death by lightning was letting Li Cang Yuan off too easily.