Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 70: Core Formation Realm

The Core Formation realm is one of the most important turning points in a cultivator’s journey. It is the realm where you form a core inside your body, also called a dantian.

Even geniuses have to be very careful while forming their dantian; a single mistake can cost them serious injuries or their life.

This is also the step where most cultivators die.

Jiang Hao wasn’t overly worried though, as he or Ming Yue could open their dantian without even focusing on it, as their physiques would handle that.

Ming Yue sat in the middle and started absorbing qi. She didn’t have to move it towards her dantian area, as her physique was doing it for her.

She just waited for it to complete. While absorbing spirit qi to reach saturation.

The amount of qi required for opening a dantian is quite high, so she had to wait for some time.

She closed her eyes to observe the process happening in her body by using her consciousness. It was like spirit sense but different, as they can’t watch outside their body—that can only happen in the Soul Sea realm.

She saw that all the qi she had absorbed till now was concentrated in her dantian region and was revolving at immense speed.

Now she understood why it was really dangerous for cultivators to form a dantian.

If they lost even a little focus here, or made even a small mistake, this raging qi would tear them apart from the inside out.

She kept absorbing more qi, and the speed of revolution kept increasing. Eventually, there came a point where her physique started compressing this revolving qi, making it smaller and smaller. As the size of the revolving qi cloud decreased, its speed increased even more.

Even she began sweating after seeing that. Right now, in her dantian, the pressure was so high that even she would die if it got released immediately.

Well, nothing of that sort happened. After two minutes, she wasn’t able to absorb any more qi, as her body wasn’t accepting it.

At this point, she saw that the small cloud of qi, which was revolving with immense speed, was pressed even more. The pressure was so much that it turned that qi cloud into a pin-sized small sphere.

She immediately felt her strength increasing tremendously. It was far more than what she had felt when she advanced from the Qi Refinement realm to the Foundation Establishment realm.

Her body started absorbing qi with tremendous suction force; it all came from the pin-sized sphere. She knew it was her dantian. As she absorbed the qi, the size of her dantian increased.

When it became at least the size of a pill, it stopped growing. She immediately knew that she had completed her advancement.

But after this, her second transformation started: the creation of her blood core. Body cultivators create blood cores similar to beasts but without bloodline abilities. Blood cores are related to an immense increase in vitality, just like the immense increase of qi in qi cultivators.

The formation of a blood core is easier than the formation of a dantian, but it is far more painful. Ming Yue just endured it calmly; it wasn’t even close to the pain she had felt during training.

It didn’t take long before her blood core was completed. She felt immense physical strength after that.

She stood up and stretched herself. It was a really new feeling for her right now; her old self wasn’t even comparable to her now.

She looked at Jiang Hao, who was waiting for his turn, and said, "Junior brother, how about we go for a quick spar before you advance?"

Jiang Hao became speechless. She just wanted to beat him. Nowadays, when they spar, with him having more endurance and physical strength than her, she always gave up first, so he always won.

Jiang Hao didn’t listen to her and sat where he was, immediately starting his breakthrough.

"Junior brother, wa—"

"Stop it now, he has already started his breakthrough."

"Aunt, believe me, there won’t be any problem even if you kick junior brother right now, I didn’t even need to focus while breaking through, much less Junior, who has an even better physique than me, and it’s also a cultivation type."

"Really... should we give it a try?"

Before they could do anything, they saw the not-so-amusing expression of Zhi Hui.

"Cough... well, we can always kick him later. Let’s not be impulsive."

"Yup, you are right, Aunt."

Huan Caiyi and Ming Yue knew that when Zhi Hui made this expression, she was dead serious, and if they did something unwarranted, they would definitely get beaten by her. Even Huan Caiyi wouldn’t be spared.

Jiang Hao also observed his breakthrough. It wasn’t much different from Ming Yue’s; everything was controlled by his physique. novelbuddy.cσ๓

He took a lesser amount of time to reach the saturation point, as his physique’s absorption speed was far greater than Ming Yue’s.

Everything happened smoothly, and he broke through to the early stage of the Core Formation realm.

He also formed his blood core easily without any problem.

He sighed in amazement at the increase in his strength. No wonder Sister Ming Yue wanted to fight with him; it was an uncontrollable desire after getting stronger.

He stood up and looked toward Ming Yue and asked, "Senior sister, is that offer still valid?"

"Junior brother, are you sure you want to fight? While you were breaking through, I just interacted with my physique and got to know what skill I got, but what about you?"

Jiang Hao immediately sat down again and closed his eyes while connecting with his physique. He entered the Black Sphere again and reached its core. There were new strings of words there. When he reached the core, they entered his forehead.

He immediately understood his new skill; it’s called Nihility Sphere. It’s quite terrifying, to say the least.

"I am ready, Senior Sister, but it’s better to know about our skills first. It’s quite terrifying if you are not aware of it."

"I had the same thoughts, Junior Brother. I will go first. You already knew about my first skill; it’s that ice I use. You must have felt more than normal pain when you touched it or got hit by it, right?"

Jiang Hao nodded. He definitely felt a different kind of pain; it was like his whole self was getting affected by that pain.

"Well, that’s my Foundation Establishment skill called Netherfrost Ice. It is more painful because it targets the soul. If used at full strength, it can freeze a person’s soul itself."

Jiang Hao was surprised because, unless you reached the Nascent Soul realm, you can’t use attacks that can affect the soul of your opponent.

"My second skill, which I got at the Core Formation realm, is this."

She put her palm forward, and a bluish-black flame formed on her palm.

"This is called Dark Yin Soul Fire. Just like my Netherfrost skill, it also affects the soul, but beware, Junior Brother. A small amount of frozen soul can still be recovered, but this soul fire, which is also extremely cold, doesn’t freeze the soul—it erodes them. So once it touches you, your soul will erode, and I don’t know if eroded souls can be recovered or not."

Even Huan Caiyi and Zhi Hui got stunned by listening to its ability. Souls are the most important part of a cultivator’s life, and if they are damaged, the cultivator’s journey of cultivation will end at their current level.

Because recovering a lost soul is definitely not possible, at least not in this world.

Jiang Hao understood its lethality and said, "I got it, Senior Sister. About my skills, you are already aware of the Primal Essence Sphere. Not only can I use it to refine things, but I can also use it to attack someone close range. My second skill is called Nihility Sphere."

Jiang Hao also moved his palm forward, and a small black sphere came into his hand.

He changed his direction and threw it on the ground, like a stone.

The moment the sphere landed, it expanded to five meters in diameter, and when it was gone, everything that was in the five-meter diameter was gone.

Everyone’s eyes widened.

"As you can see, Senior Sister, anywhere it lands, the things inside it will be converted into the purest form of qi and dissolve into nature, unless I am close enough to absorb it."

"That’s really terrifying, Junior Brother. Now I doubt if your physique is really a cultivation type or not."

Huan Caiyi and Zhi Hui looked at each other and nodded. Zhi Hui spoke, "You two, you are not allowed to use those two skills in friendly battles. I won’t listen to any excuse that you can dodge it or not; it’s the final verdict."

Jiang Hao and Ming Yue both nodded, as these skills were really not made for friendly battles.

"Also, don’t rely on skills too much. They only help you till the Void Reversion realm, as after that, only your understanding of the Dao matters," Huan Caiyi said.

"So, Aunt, if I ask you to tell us how, then you won’t tell us, right?"

Huan Caiyi sighed and said, "It’s not that I don’t want to or something. It’s just that the Dao is a very vast topic in itself. Even if I told you, you might not understand. We too got to learn about it when we reached the Void Reversion realm; before that, we hadn’t even heard about it much.

It is said that knowing about it before can affect your mind. We don’t know how, though, as you need to be at the Heavenly King realm to even understand it. But since you guys have physiques, it might be different for you. At least we don’t know anything about your case."

Ming Yue nodded and looked towards Jiang Hao and said, "Junior Brother, looks like we can’t use our whole strength in this one. I hope you aren’t disappointed."

"Senior Sister, I prefer this way, since I love my soul dearly."

"Says the one who can turn a whole person into nothingness. Are you saying that I don’t love myself, Junior Brother? Forget it, let’s go. I am dying to have a good fight."

Jiang Hao nodded, and they both stood in front of each other.