181: All the golden elixir seeds entered the dark water heaven

When Mingshui Heaven fell, it already drew in countless players.

But at that time, everyone wanted various cultivation resources.

Either Medicinal Pills, or Spirit Medicine, or Cultivation Technique Secret Manuals.

These things were indeed important, and even Nascent Soul-level items might appear.

But all these things had one characteristic—they could always be found elsewhere.

The Spirit Medicine that players could access at this stage was limited in grade, and there were no unique divine medicines yet. While rare and precious Spirit Medicine did exist, they were ultimately regarded as “renewable.”

Everyone felt that if they couldn't find it in Mingshui Heaven, they might stumble upon it in some small place after leaving, or at worst, they could probably find it by searching in Sect warehouses like Duan Kong Cave.

So, coming to Mingshui Heaven was more about breaking the monopoly of those Sects and obtaining resources that were usually unattainable.

Therefore, many players who joined Sects like Qingling Sect and Duan Kong Cave were not particularly willing to explore Mingshui Heaven. They could completely progress steadily within their Sects without taking risks.

And some professional players usually had a division of labor; those who came to Mingshui Heaven would risk falling, while carefully cultivated Late Stage powerhouses would not take the risk.

This was also a lesson learned after Green Emerald Heaven, fearing to encounter some formidable powerhouse in a Heaven and affect their subsequent development.

So, star-level professional players like Shao Kaitian, Zong Zishui, and Jie Liuhang did not venture into Mingshui Heaven rashly.

Only Wang Long, who had special missions, would take the risk.

But now... “True Intent? Dao Heart?”

“This System is incredible. I’ve asked many people, and they all say it can’t be traded.”

“Not even for ten million?”

“No, this thing simply cannot be traded.”

“If it can’t be traded directly, can we buy a qualification to comprehend it? Let our players who already have True Intent and Dao Heart teach us?”

“That probably won’t work either. According to the intelligence we’ve gathered, to leave behind a Concept containing a Legacy, one must either have profound cultivation or a subtle True Intent. In any case, no player at this stage can achieve it.”

“Meaning, our players must go to Mingshui Heaven?”

Club managers, administrators, and various strategic analysts who offered advice were constantly integrating intelligence.

In fact, what they investigated was even more extensive than what This Time Bu Ge compiled, but it would never be spread, only kept for their own players’ use.

Closed and conservative, but the amount of intelligence was indeed huge and substantial.

They knew that to achieve an Immortal Foundation, one only needed to find a suitable Immortal Foundation Method, introduce Immortal Qi into the body, and naturally become an Immortal Foundation.

Although the process was somewhat perilous, with perhaps only one in a thousand succeeding in Breakthrough, ultimately, it could still be achieved by throwing resources and piling up Medicinal Pills.

But to achieve a Golden Core, that was even more difficult.

The Core Formation stage was very long. During closed-door Breakthrough, one must have sufficient confidence and an unyielding mentality to repeat the monotonous grinding day after day, step by step refining the Immortal Foundation into a Golden Core, truly achieving transcendence.

Even if players could accelerate through Lifespan, the Breakthrough process would still be the same.

According to intelligence, the Breakthrough process begins with the tedious task of lifting the Immortal Foundation. This step is difficult and consumes a lot of resources, but it is actually the simplest. Many Cultivators qualified for Core Formation can pass this step.

After lifting the Immortal Foundation, one will fall into a delusion, facing myriad illusions. Only by seeing through them can one achieve transcendence.

For native Cultivators, seeing through illusions is already extremely difficult, and for players, it is even harder—distinguishing between false and real in a virtual game? What a joke?

Therefore, ever since the difficulty of the Core Formation stage was discovered, professional clubs have been constantly throwing money to buy intelligence, integrating effective Breakthrough methods from countless clues.

Finally, they discovered that True Intent and Dao Heart are helpful for Golden Core Breakthrough.

When you are deeply trapped in illusions within the delusion, unable to distinguish reality from illusion, you can simply strike out with a sword, comprehending Sword Intent with your Dao Heart, and thereby discerning truth from falsehood.

Even more so, with a firm Dao Heart, one can directly see through the delusion the moment it appears, achieving transcendence on the spot.

And after the Golden Core, for the Nascent Soul to shatter the Core and form a Nascent Soul is even more difficult. It is said that this involves the question of “who am I,” and the Dao Heart can solve this problem.

In short, for professional clubs, the current Immortal Foundation powerhouses are indeed important, but they are no longer the top priority.

They are preparing for Core Formation, planning to have their star players become true Golden Cores.

“Mingshui Heaven must be entered.”

“Ye Chun is Ye Chun after all; he won’t go back on his word.”

“I guess he’s not acting on a whim; he’s probably preparing to target Seiya, so wouldn’t it be a waste if we didn’t go?”

“Let all our players go in, especially the Golden Core seeds. Not a single one can be left out; they all must go.”

Even cautious professional clubs were like this.

The players below were even more frantic.

“Holy crap, True Intent, Dao Heart, I heard it’s related to achieving Golden Core?”

“This Time Bu Ge said that even if we don’t understand anything, we might still comprehend divine Cultivation Techniques from True Intent!”

“Really?”

“Of course it’s true. I asked some native Cultivators, and they were very excited after hearing about it, all saying that the True Intent left by Seniors is the most supreme Opportunity, rare and hard to come by.”

“Not only that, I heard that in some Great Jiang cities, the City Lord actually led people to find the Great Love Sect, saying they wanted to exchange population for the qualification to enter Mingshui Heaven!”

The content posted by this player instantly attracted everyone’s attention.

Someone investigated and found that he hadn’t made it up; the City Lords near Mingshui Heaven were actually gathering Mortals, and even some Qi Refining Cultivators.

All to satisfy the Great Love Sect’s demands and allow them to enter Mingshui Heaven to comprehend True Intent.

In response, Midnight Gao Sou and others simply welcomed all comers.

After all, not long ago, they had a group of powerhouses wiped out by Nascent Soul Spear Intent, suffering heavy losses and urgently needing replenishment. Having people help gather blood food was a good thing.

But no one noticed that while this blood food was constantly being consumed, the National Luck of the Great Jiang Imperial Dynasty became increasingly weak.

The decline of National Luck triggered a chain reaction, and natural disasters began to appear throughout Great Jiang: earthquakes, heavy rains, strong winds... These were catastrophic for Mortals, but had little impact on Cultivators, so Midnight Gao Sou and others did not pay attention.

And what they paid even less attention to, or rather, were completely unable to perceive, was that during this decline of National Luck, the Great Jiang Imperial City, on the contrary, saw an inverse growth in spiritual energy. Faintly, a colossal Dragon could be seen prostrate, its eyes seemingly opening, as if about to raise its head... In Mingshui Heaven, within the great river.

Ye Chun sat cross-legged, the last wisp of Nascent Soul Spear Intent still swirling around him.

He was using Spear Intent to draw in spiritual energy, forcibly guiding the Concept into his body, replacing Immortal Qi, and forming an Immortal Foundation.