From Family Fisherman to Water Virtue True Immortal
Chapter 288 - 283: Golden Core Middle Stage

Chapter 288: Chapter 283: Golden Core Middle Stage

"Heavenly One Pill..."

After cultivating, Li Quanqing began studying this third-rank Dan Recipe.

He crushed the Light Group, instantly causing a wealth of alchemical insights to emerge, absorbing them with his Divine Sense, transforming them into his own knowledge.

Li Quanqing had already entered the threshold of a third-rank Alchemist, and with the Heavenly One Pill’s refining process being not difficult, he mastered it successfully.

Aside from Heavenly One Spirit Liquid, there were many common Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, all water attributes, not difficult to gather.

Li Quanqing spent three days, issuing many tasks within the Li Family, and successfully collected numerous Spiritual Medicines and Spiritual Materials.

Being the Clan Leader, a significant portion of his annual salary was replaced with Family contribution points.

Li Quanqing sat cross-legged before the Pill Furnace, taking out dozens of drops of Heavenly One Spirit Liquid, mixing them with various Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, putting them into the furnace.

Refining such pure and immaculate water-attribute elixirs requires attention only to avoiding fire.

In other words, using his own Golden Core Power to replace flames, and refine them into pills.

Azure Sea Magic Power naturally possesses the capability to harmonize, seemingly making the refining process of Heavenly One Pill specifically for Alchemists practicing the Heavenly River Dao Inheritance.

In a certain sense, this can be considered as a unique Water Skill in Alchemy.

Li Quanqing exerted Mana, which flowed out from his meridians like azure seawater, crushing various Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

During this process, a few drops of Heavenly One Spirit Liquid sparkled like gems, gradually merging with Mana, blending its properties, under the influence of flowing water, condensing into pill shapes.

Ten days passed, and Li Quanqing finally succeeded in solidifying pills, gaining two dark blue pills, with a deep luster, surface adorned with faint golden Dan Patterns blooming.

"The medicinal effect it contains rivals one percent of a drop of True Water of Heaven..."

Li Quanqing pinched a pill, immediately sensing the majestic power contained within, seeming boundless like an ocean.

As the foremost among the Seven Great True Waters, relatively speaking, True Water of Heaven is the most common and mundane.

It lacks the heaviness of One-Origin Heavy Water, the purity and soul-nourishing quality of Taiyin True Water, and does not have the freezing power of Xuanming True Water that petrifies all.

The attributes of True Water of Heaven represent the infinity of water, vast and majestic like the sea, bearing the power to embrace all things.

From within this pill, Li Quanqing equally perceived that feature, as if resonating with his own Azure Sea Magic Power.

Without hesitation, Li Quanqing directly swallowed the Heavenly One Pill.

Unexpectedly, this pill did not melt upon entrance, instead, it lurched downward as if filled with lead.

Finally, it directly settled into his Dantian.

Crash!

The sea-blue pill hovered above the Golden Core of Mana he cultivated, emitting waves of sound like sea waves.

Soon after, bursts of pure medicinal power were released from the Heavenly One Pill, seemingly endless, surging forth like great rivers and seas.

The Golden Core spun around, welcoming this power without rejection, absorbing and refining it entirely.

These medicinal powers, after being refined by the Golden Core, dispersed to his limbs and bones, eventually conveyed through the Grand Circulation, transformed back into superior Mana returned to the Dantian.

Differing from the concept of ordinary pill toxins, perhaps due to the lack of True Fire during refinement, the medicinal properties of the Heavenly One Pill are pure and astonishing.

After a full three months.

This pill was finally completely refined, leaving only the last bit of residue, vanishing with each breath.

Li Quanqing had never experienced how cultivating could truly be such a wondrous thing, and he became somewhat entranced by it.

He couldn’t help but begin to imagine, if someday he found actual True Water of Heaven for aiding cultivation.

What a scene that would be—it might even allow the Divinity Transformation Realm to be within his reach.

...

Years go unnoticed in cultivation; at the Golden Core True Master level of cultivation, time truly passes in the blink of an eye.

In the flash of an eye, twenty years passed like that.

For mortals, it is the peak of their life span, enough for a child to become the head of a family, and for a young girl initiating her family to welcome three generations living together.

But for Li Quanqing, it’s like a breeze passing by without leaving a trace on him.

He still sits cross-legged on the dam, nourishes the fishday after day, dances with countless Spirit Fish, more immovable than the Longevity Turtle.

"Moo!!"

Between Li Quanqing’s palms, accompanied by a clear dragon’s roar, a Green Horned Fish Dragon leaped out, riding the rain and mist happily ascending to the sky.

"The eighth one..."

His eyes slightly shifted, gazing at the Light Group condensing on the forehead of this second-rank Great Demon, showing no signs of joy or sorrow on his face.

During these years, he completely captured all the Green Jade Carp in the entire Jade Dragon Pond, exhausting the Li Family’s foundation accumulated over centuries.

In the end, he obtained eight Green Horned Fish Dragons in the Foundation Establishment Realm, significantly advancing the family’s hidden power.

The Green Horned Fish Dragon that guarded the family for centuries also experienced a journey in the Dragon Transformation Pool, successfully reaching Foundation Establishment Great Perfection in cultivation.

If you add Ao Qing, the Green Moon Horned Dragon, there would be a total of nine Foundation Establishment cultivators, plus one Golden Core Demon Beast.

It’s equivalent to creating another Golden Core Family.

Truly terrifying.

Yet, corresponding to these, are the Qi Refining Demon Beasts in the Hanhai Bowl.

Not a single one has broken through the Foundation Establishment Realm; it can only be said that their potential is exhausted.

However, two have broken through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, specifically the Treasure Light Toad and the Jade Qilin Beast.

Among them, the Treasure Light Toad rewarded a Third Rank Talismanic Treasure, "Golden Toad Brick," useful for secretly hitting someone, prepared for the family’s disciple Li Jingui to use for self-defense after breaking through Foundation Establishment.

The Jade Qilin Beast, upon breaking through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, was rewarded with a quasi-Third Rank Earth Master Inheritance.

Also known as a Feng Shui Master or Geomancy Master, able to survey mountain and sea vein trajectories and island mineral deposits.

Li Quanqing passed this Earth Master Inheritance onto the Scripture Pavilion, where Li Zongzhuo led the learning with a trial attitude, traversing numerous family sea territories.

Unexpectedly, he discovered two Spirit Stone Veins, one located on a wild isolated island, and one deep undersea, with great difficulty in mining.

Even so, it substantially eased the family’s financial issues.

After all, the original Spirit Stone Mines across tens of thousands of miles of the sea belonged to the Shuihua Sword Sect.

Even with subsequent pressure from the Li Family, the Sword Sect only handed over a few Spirit Stone Veins nearly depleted, truly tasteless and regrettable to discard.

If not for the suppression by the Star Sect, Li Quanqing would have already attacked, obliterating the Shuihua Sword Sect.

As for those breakthrough Green Horned Fish Dragons, without exception, their rewards were Heavenly One Spirit Liquid.

Li Quanqing, after consuming the Heavenly One Pill for twenty years, finally accumulated cultivation to a certain bottleneck, feeling that thick barrier.

He reached the pinnacle of Golden Core Early Stage.

"This Green Horned Fish Dragon’s reward should also be Spiritual Liquid..."

Li Quanqing looked at the green fish dragon above the fish pond, breathing clouds and mist, with little expectation, clutching the Light Group in his hand.

[Obtained one Foundation Establishment Early Stage Green Horned Fish Dragon, rewarded with a large Spiritual Energy Group!]

Huh?!

Li Quanqing slightly gasped in surprise, indeed finding it strange, as it had been a long time since he had seen a large Spiritual Energy Group reward.

He did not hesitate, directly crushing the Light Group.

White light points scattered all around, transforming into pure Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, appearing in his meridians.

These Spiritual Energies condensed without dispersing, nearly resembling a white jade bead, gradually refined with the movement of his cultivation technique.

In terms of energy richness, this large Spiritual Energy Group was equivalent to about three or four Heavenly One Pills.

Yet within, it contained an invisible special power as if it could weaken the bottleneck and aid breakthrough!

This sensation was familiar to Li Quanqing.

Back in the days of Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment, he repeatedly broke through his boundaries with the power of large Spiritual Energy Groups.

This time was no exception, boldly charging towards the Golden Core Middle Stage bottleneck!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Li Quanqing sat cross-legged on the dam, firmly holding his heart and mind, circulating his Golden Core power throughout his body, mana surging like an ocean.

From thousands of miles around, Heaven and Earth Essence Qi flooded in, as if grasped by an invisible giant hand, becoming a spiritual energy tide encompassing the whole Jade Dragon Pond.

Even Ao Qing, who had broken through the Third Rank, was drawn by this commotion, actively aiding with Essence Qi from the pond.

As the Flood Dragon naturally manipulates water veins, mobilizing Spiritual Energy within the water veins was almost instinctive for it.

Li Quanqing was at the heart of the tide, inhaling and exhaling vast Essence Qi, transforming into small white serpents drilling between the seven apertures, his body seeming to emit a bright glow.

Endless water waves rose sharply, forming fierce currents enveloping him, making him look like an ancient Water God awakening, waves surging unceasingly.

With the combined assistance of his own Spiritual Energy Group and the external tidal forces.

Li Quanqing successfully broke through that layer of bottleneck, hearing a crisp sound beside his ear, spiraling waves of power whistling past, going straight for the heart of the dragon, seemingly in eternal pursuit.

After over half a cycle since breaking through Golden Core, following more than thirty years of arduous cultivation, he finally reached this entirely new realm.

Golden Core Middle Stage!