38: Chapter 38 A True Person's Explanation, System Changes

Inside the cultivation room.

Zhou Yan clearly hadn't recovered from her excitement yet.

She had already circled around Zhao Yi several times.

She kept asking back, "Have you really cultivated into a Golden Core?"

"My judgment was indeed correct."

Looking at Zhao Yi's helpless expression, she smiled and said, "Alright, you go into seclusion first."

"I'm going next door."

"After you finish resolving the doubts for the various Cultivators, I can give myself to you like this!"

Zhou Yan struck a split pose.

Zhao Yi's eyes lit up.

"It's a deal."

After Zhou Yan left, Zhao Yi was in no hurry to Cultivate; instead, he first summoned the System.

Advancing from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core, the System experience points actually had a maximum value; before this, experience points could always be accumulated.

Therefore, Zhao Yi concluded that the System must have changed.

"System."

【Miner: Zhao Yi】

【Cultivation: Early Golden Core (Insufficient experience, cannot promote)】

【experience points: 0/100】

【Reward: None】

"What am I seeing?"

Zhao Yi rubbed his eyes; the experience points on the System panel had actually returned to one hundred.

"Is there a BUG in the System?"

"If it's true..."

Zhao Yi rubbed his hands together; he couldn't wait to go down into the mine right now.

"No, no."

"I am already a Golden Core Cultivator now; I cannot be impatient."

"Mystic Ice reflects the Dao, Primordial Spirit condenses."

...

Zhao Yi silently recited the general outline of the Azure Spirit Scripture a few times before suppressing the ripples in his heart.

The matter of the System could be delayed; the most urgent thing now was to transform all the True Essence in his body into Golden Core Power.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to exert the strength of a Golden Core, and the so-called Golden Core True Person would just be a joke.

In a flash, nine days passed.

The more Zhao Yi cultivated, the more he could feel the profundity of the Azure Spirit Scripture.

Now, using the Azure Spirit Scripture to circulate Golden Core Power, there wasn't the slightest hint of sluggishness.

"It seems I need to find time to return to the Cultivation Academy."

Both to return the Spirit Stones and to look into this Azure Spirit Scripture.

...

An unnamed mountain peak.

Zhao Yi hadn't arrived yet, but the peak was already densely packed with people.

Even Bai Chuanzhu and Bai Chuanfa were thick-skinned enough to hide in the corners of the crowd, unwilling to miss Zhao Yi's resolving of doubts.

In fact, while it was called resolving doubts, it was actually a sermon; however, as a Golden Core True Person who had just achieved success, to guard against arrogance and impetuosity, he insisted on calling it resolving doubts.

At dawn,

Zhao Yi's figure appeared on the mountain peak; he sat on the ground.

His posturing voice resounded through the entire unnamed mountain peak.

"The world often says that we Death Cultivators are abandoned by Heaven and Earth."

"We swing pickaxes to chisel mountains, taking thousands of Spirit Stones and severing countless Spiritual Veins; yet who has seen us working day and night without rest, our sweat falling into the mineral veins?"

"Others draw Qi into their bodies smoothly, but we must first cough up the mine dust in our lungs; others face nine Lightning Tribulations for Foundation Establishment, but we endure twenty-seven, where purple lightning wraps the malevolence of the Ore, striking with enough power to incinerate the Spiritual Qi within our bones."

"Therefore, you are afraid."

"Afraid that when you meditate, the Spiritual Qi will disperse as soon as it gathers; afraid that the Lightning Tribulation will take your life during a Breakthrough; afraid that these hands, which double as tools to dig Spirit Stones, can hardly grasp the power of a Magical Artifact."

"You say: this is enough, to linger for a few more years; since Heaven and Earth do not tolerate us, why force it?"

"Yet you forget, these hands dig for Spirit Stones, but they also dig a path to life."

"Other practitioners have smooth sailing, cultivating a minor path; we go against the heavens, cultivating the Great Dao!"

"Speak no more of the words 'Death Cultivator'; I see that 'Reversal Cultivator' is more suited for us."

"If our hands can dig out thousands of Spirit Stones, they can also dig out the path to Immortal Venerable!"

"Rise!"

"Use mine dust as ink and the Lightning Tribulation as paper to write our names upon the immortal path!"

"Abandoned by Heaven and Earth?"

"I insist on using a Mortal body to shake the heavens and move the earth!"

Zhao Yi's voice even shook the white clouds in the sky until they dispersed.

The entire unnamed mountain peak was in a deathly silence.

Zhao Yi also calmed down, his mind going blank.

Holy crap, what did I just say?

What Death Cultivator? Reversal Cultivator?

Is this something a Golden Core Cultivator should say?

Zhao Yi's back felt cold, but since he had already postured and the words were spoken, he couldn't exactly take them back, could he?

"Cough, cough~"

"This session of resolving doubts ends here."

After saying that, Zhao Yi slipped away.

Leaving behind many Cultivators looking at each other in dismay.

...

Inside the cultivation room.

The newly promoted Golden Core True Person was finding new ways to Cultivate with Zhou Yan.

"What?"

"A dignified Golden Core Cultivator, the Ancestor of Defiant Cultivators, only has this much strength?"

Zhao Yi...

"It's fine if others tease me, but why are you making fun of me too?"

"Wasn't that just a slip of the tongue?"

"Besides, cultivation—what does it have to do with how high or low one's cultivation level is?"

"High cultivation doesn't necessarily mean I'm great at this kind of cultivation."

Zhao Yi's legs felt a bit weak, and at the same time, he was somewhat puzzled; with his Golden Core cultivation, he actually wasn't a match for this little wench. It was truly strange.

"Hmph!"

"I originally thought that if you performed better, I'd let you take Mi Yao in as well. I'd suffer a bit of grievance to let you enjoy the blessing of having both a wife and a concubine."

"Now..."

"Tell me yourself, do you have that kind of strength?"

Zhao Yi's eyes lit up, and he nodded frantically.

But he soon felt a cold, biting Killing Intent and hurriedly shook his head.

"No, no, no..."

"In this life, having you alone is enough!"

"Hmph hmph!"

"A man's words~"

"Alright, let's not talk about that. When are you going to take me to the third layer of the mine to broaden my horizons?"

"I heard that in the third layer, besides Spirit Stones, there are all kinds of gemstones. If we can dig up a piece of purple strange crystal stone, we'll be rich."

Zhou Yan looked at Zhao Yi, her eyes sparkling.

"purple strange crystal stone? What is that?"

"The most precious stone in the Lesser Strange Spirit Stone Mine; even High-Grade Spirit Stones pale in comparison to it."

"The Great Yin Immortal Dynasty's purchase price is three hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones per piece, but in the Far West Land, a single purple strange crystal stone can sell for over ten thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones."

"What are you thinking?"

"Could you even sell the crystal stone to the Far West Land?"

Zhao Yi said with a smile. Having spent a long time at the Cultivation Academy, he naturally knew about the Far West Land.

The Far West Land was a realm of foreign races.

Anything from the Great Yin Immortal Dynasty would double in value once it reached there.

But one had to actually get the items there first. Not to mention anything else, the endless, eerie Boundless Sea alone had blocked countless Cultivators.

That was getting off-topic; Zhao Yi hadn't even left Anning Prefecture, let alone reached the Far West Land.

"We'll go to the third layer of the mine tomorrow."

"Forget about the crystal stones, they aren't practical; we'll go dig for High-Grade Spirit Stones."

His cultivation had stabilized and the sermon was over; it was time to go verify the System.

Lingran Illusion Realm.

The Bai Family Cultivators who had returned from listening to the sermon were all kneeling on the ground.

"What?"

"Does the Bai Family have no Golden Core True Person?"

"You actually went to listen to an enemy's sermon; where am I supposed to put this old face of mine?"

In the seat of honor, a young Cultivator smacked his own cheeks repeatedly.

"Old Ancestor, we were wrong."

"Wrong?"

"How could you be wrong? The one who is wrong is me; if not for my momentary indulgence in pleasure, how could there be bastards like you?"

"Tell me about that Zhao Yi."

As the many Bai Family Cultivators spoke all at once, the Bai Family Old Ancestor's expression became increasingly solemn.

The next day.

Zhao Yi was refreshed and in high spirits, but Zhou Yan was listless.

"Low-life, actually using your hands..."

Zhao Yi...

"Aren't long hands meant to be used?"

"Get lost!"

"Alright, I'll wait for you at the mine entrance."

In the long corridor of the cultivation room, Zhao Yi rested his chin on his hand; it seemed he needed to find a new place to live. Staying in the cultivation room all the time wasn't a long-term solution.

Just as he stepped out of the cultivation room, his vision suddenly spun.

In an instant, the world had changed.