A secluded hall in Cangyuan Mountain.
With the prowess of slaying a Foundation Establishment, Xu Ping recounted his perilous journey of escape, to which Zhang Qingfeng, without doubting him, couldn’t help but lament, "Clan Leader, this journey was truly fraught with danger!"
However, when he heard that Xu Ping was injured, he couldn’t help but feel anxious, "Is the Clan Leader’s injury healed?"
For the Zhang family, a Foundation Establishment cultivator is extremely important; today’s attack on the mountain was a bloody lesson.
Xu Ping sighed, "It’s not that easy. Coupled with today’s excessive expenditure, I’m afraid I need to enter seclusion for a long time to recover. The clan affairs will rely on you for now."
"Please rest and recover at ease, Clan Leader. I will handle all the clan matters properly," Zhang Qingfeng nodded.
"Do not provoke any trouble recently. Forgive the Li family and those loose cultivators for the time being," Xu Ping further instructed, "Pay attention to Hu Country’s movements, and if there are any major events, remember to inform me with a Sound Transmission Talisman!"
"Understood!" Although reluctant to let go of the Li family and those loose cultivators, Zhang Qingfeng had to obey since it was the Clan Leader’s order.
"Clan Leader, did you manage to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill?" Zhang Qingfeng asked tentatively.
"No!" Xu Ping shook his head helplessly, "My war achievements haven’t been accumulated enough, and Qiu Xuan Immortal City was already breached. It’s a pity, I spent quite a few Spirit Stones on buying achievements, and now it’s all for nothing."
Hearing this, Zhang Qingfeng couldn’t help but feel a touch of disappointment, but he quickly composed himself, thinking it was already a blessing that the Clan Leader returned safely.
"I will now enter seclusion to heal. Do not disturb me unless it’s urgent!" With that, Xu Ping got up and headed towards his abode.
As the only Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Zhang family, Zhang Yu naturally resided at the very center of the Second-stage Spirit Vein.
Xu Ping took out the token that controlled the array, performed a spell, and the spiritual radiance of the array guarding the abode dissipated, revealing the complete abode.
A spiritual pond ten yards wide came into view, with a pavilion in the middle and a luxurious two-story building in the front.
"This place is quite nice."
After surveying around, Xu Ping nodded in satisfaction; although the Spiritual Qi was a bit lacking, the environment was quite good.
He swept his Divine Sense around and after ensuring there was nothing unusual, he took out over a dozen array flags from his storage bag and planted them in various corners of the small courtyard.
Next, Xu Ping took out a gray array plate, inserted several Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and performed a spell.
The array plate glowed gently, emanating a wave of spiritual light, and at this moment, the array flags planted in the corners of the small courtyard also began to shimmer with spiritual light.
Under the cooperation of the array plate and array flags, a layer of spiritual light shield enveloped the entire abode.
At this moment, a strong suction burst forth from the spiritual light shield, continuously absorbing Spiritual Qi from the outside.
Quickly, the Spiritual Qi inside the abode became abundant, almost forming a thin layer of mist.
"This Second-stage Spirit Gathering Array is indeed useful!"
Xu Ping felt the concentration of Spiritual Qi carefully, and a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.
The Spiritual Qi concentration here was almost comparable to the Second-stage Upper Grade Spirit Vein, more than sufficient for his cultivation.
After setting up the array, Xu Ping walked into the cultivation room.
He sat cross-legged on the futon, took out Li Zhengyu’s Storage Ring, easily removed the Divine Sense imprint on it.
Then, he explored inside with his Divine Sense and poured all the contents out.
A huge pile of things was poured out instantly, but although the items were many, they were all worthless stuff.
Xu Ping carefully counted them, and all the items together only amounted to about a thousand Spirit Stones, poorer than an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator.
However, on second thought, it made sense.
After all, the other party was just a newly-promoted Foundation Establishment, and his family was originally a small Qi Cultivation family, whose status rose in the Ten Thousand Mountains thanks to his breakthrough into Foundation Establishment.
Xu Ping quickly stored all the items one by one.
It was just that a cultivation technique called the "Thousand Leaves Scripture" caught his attention.
Originally, he wasn’t very interested, but as he casually flipped through a few pages, he immediately perked up.
This technique was rather mysterious, unlike ordinary techniques.
As expected when he reached the end, it turned out to be a technique that led directly to the Late-Stage Golden Core.
One should know that even the clan technique of the Zhang family that had existed for hundreds of years only extends to the Early Stage Golden Core.
Evidently, this cultivation technique was definitely not something his previous Qi Cultivation family could possess.
"To achieve Foundation Establishment with the background of a small Qi Cultivation family, certainly means there was a fortunate encounter," Xu Ping thought to himself.
Seeing this, the "Thousand Leaves Scripture" could only be considered a decent cultivation technique, but when he flipped to the last page, Xu Ping was shocked.
It recorded a secret technique to improve the success rate of Foundation Establishment and Core Formation respectively!
"This... what an unexpected surprise!"
Xu Ping was ecstatic, not expecting that merely killing an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator would yield such precious secret techniques.
If these two secret techniques were to be revealed, not to mention the Golden Core forces, even the Nascent Soul forces might eye it eagerly.
After all, besides the Celestial Spirit Root, which does not face the bottleneck of breaking through to the Core Formation Stage, all cultivators are obstructed by this hurdle.
To breakthrough Foundation Establishment Realm, there is the Foundation Establishment Pill which significantly improves success rates, but for Golden Core, there is no such pill.
The rarest item for assisting in Core Formation only barely increases the success rate by ten percent, yet it is enough to drive countless Late-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivators into madness.
Frankly speaking, even with the proficiency panel in hand, he wasn’t very confident about achieving Golden Core.
Now, obtaining a method to significantly improve the Core Formation success rate so easily, how could he not be excited?
"No wonder Li Zhengyu could achieve Foundation Establishment with a background not much stronger than a loose cultivator. This secret technique definitely played a crucial role."
"Let’s take a look at this secret technique first!"
He took a deep breath, calmed his excitement, and began to carefully read this secret technique for Core Formation.
As he continued to read, Xu Ping’s brows gradually furrowed. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ novel⚑fire.net
By the end, his brows were tightly knit together, "This Core Formation secret technique, I’m afraid very few can cultivate it."
According to the secret technique, one needs to be a cultivator at Late-Stage Foundation Establishment, disperse their cultivation to Early-Stage Foundation Establishment and then retrain themselves, while compressing their liquid mana several-fold during retraining with the secret technique.
After this process thrice, the liquid mana in their body would be a step away from solidification.
The Golden Core is originally formed from the long-crystallized liquid mana in the Dantian. At that time, forming a core would certainly be much easier, probably increasing the success rate by thirty to forty percent.
However, although this idea seems good, implementing it is extremely difficult.
One must know that even with Upper Grade Spirit Roots, smoothly cultivating to Late-Stage Foundation Establishment takes at least a hundred years.
At that time, dispersing cultivation for retraining will still require three cycles, and even if retraining is faster, their lifespan is certainly not enough.