The Path of Survivor begins with obtaining titles

At the same time, he also observed a disciple from the Xuan Qing Sect, who seemed genuinely innocent and harmless. After observing for half a month, Lin Yi could still see no difference between the disciple’s outward appearance and his true nature.

He wondered if this disciple from the Xuan Qing Sect was truly harmless or if it was an act taught by the sect.

Perhaps the Pill Immortal Master was really deceived by this disciple of the Xuan Qing Sect. In the end, after passing the test and receiving the inheritance, the disciple revealed himself as one with ill intentions.

There were ten disciples from the Dao Ling Sect who were assigned to the Wood Element area. They grouped together and journeyed to the Giant Spirit Tree Herb Garden.

They even launched an attack on the Green Giant Python in an attempt to distract it, allowing another disciple to break the formation.

However, all of these disciples were slapped away by the Green Giant Python.

Quickly, the one month of Dan God’s Secret Realm ended. Lin Yi, through various methods, earned the gratitude of several disciples for saving their lives. But he gave no further instructions.

After all, his primary focus was always at the Heng Yuan Realm, and the Xuan Tian Realm was just a marketplace for him.

During this Secret Realm journey, he killed some Dao Ling Sect disciples who harbored dark thoughts and ruthlessly killed disciples from his own sect. Later, he gained a lot of Virtue Points from educating them, which demonstrated the unethical deeds they had done regularly.

After the Secret Realm journey in the Xuan Tian Realm ended, everything returned to normal, and Lin Yi resumed his cultivation. After reaching the Foundation Building Tenth Layer, the training points of his [Student] third-tier title decreased slightly.

Previously, when he was at the Foundation Building Eighth Level, he could gain 9 training points in an hour. But when he reached the Foundation Building Ninth Level, it dropped to 8 points.

Now, having reached the Foundation Building Tenth Layer, it had further decreased to 7 points. According to his past schedule of attending six classes per month, the earned training points had dropped from 54 points to 42 points. However, he could still gain approximately 500 points annually.

Two years later, his cultivation reached the Great Perfection of the Foundation Building Tenth Layer. He then began his plan to condense the Golden Core.

It has been ten years since the Heng Yuan Realm’s Dan God Secret Realm opened. If he could condense the Golden Core within five years, the timeline would be five years shorter than his previous estimate of twenty years.

Lin Yi calculated that from his entry into the Cultivation World until now, about thirty-seven years had passed. He had progressed from a lower-level cultivator at the Qi Refining Three Layers to his current stage of Foundation Building Tenth Layer.

If he had not created the Tenth Layer of the Creation Method, he might have already become a Golden Core Real Person.

He first checked the number of Pill Flames he had acquired. After obtaining the high-order alchemy title [Expert Alchemist], his chances of getting Pill Flames had increased, as well as the quantities.

However, the rank of the pills he was going to refine also changed from the middle rank to the high rank.

In the beginning, due to the level restrictions of the title and high-order alchemy skills, his chances of refining supreme-grade pills were extremely low. Later, as his level increased, the frequency of successfully refining high-rank supreme-grade Gathering Yuan Pills also increased significantly.

Over these twenty or so years, excluding the four years he spent on creating the Tenth Layer and not refining pills, he spent the vast majority of his time refining about five furnaces of pills per month.

That translated to sixty furnaces per year, totaling to over a thousand furnaces of pills over twenty years.

Now, he had accumulated around a thousand strands of Pill Flames accumulated, theoretically enough for refining the Golden Core. And since he had the [Face Difficulties Head On] and Little Luck statuses, with their blessings, it was possible he might succeed.

Prior to all this, Lin Yi had gone to the Cloud Sect’s book collection within the Liu Yun Sect to do some research. He learned from the ancient books that there were fire-element cultivators who tried to refine Golden Cores with their own flames but ended up failing. Some of them even self-ignited and perished.

This highlighted the danger of such innovative methods. Following the established path might be more difficult but safer with the experiences of predecessors to refer to. Refining your own Golden Core with fire, however, could result in self-incineration if not careful.

However, what set him apart from those people was that their flames were either self-cultivated or borrowed from external sources, while his flame was a Pill Flame awarded by the title system.

As stated in the introduction to Danfire, all the Elixirs of the World could be refined, including the Golden Core condensed from your own spiritual liquid.

During the process of condensing the Golden Core, Lin Yi stayed in his cave mansion, thinking deeply for a while. Judging by the experience of breaking through from the tenth layer of Qi Refining to the Foundation Establishment, if Golden Core was condensed by normal means, breaking through from the tenth level of Foundation Establishment could be somewhat easier than from the ninth level.

If he used the Alchemy title’s Danfire to create his Golden Core, the difficulty could be unpredictable, possibly even harder than reaching the heavens, and he couldn’t afford to waste too much time on it.

The Golden Core condensed by Creation Method is already much stronger than that of ordinary cultivators. Perhaps there is no need to increase the difficulty by refining his Golden Core with Danfire.

However, the Danfire brought by the alchemy title could refine all the elixirs in the world and was specifically born for refining elixirs. If he missed this opportunity to condense the Golden Core, there’d be no turning back – regret wouldn’t help.

After contemplating for a month, Lin Yi decided to first give it a try. If it truly posed any danger, he would stop immediately and condense the Golden Core with the normal method.

But if it presented no danger, he would spend two years trying to verify if he could truly refine his Golden Core.

After making up his mind, Lin Yi did not shut the world away. He first came to the cave mansion behind the Golden Sword Hall, proposing the question to Master Golden Sword Zen Ren, “Master, a few days ago, I saw some ancient books in the sect’s library that record that some cultivators had used flames to refine their own Golden Core. Can this method, which is different from the normal condensation of Golden Core, actually work?”

The laughter of Golden Sword Real Person came from the cave mansion, “Lin Yi, come in, let your master enlighten you on this matter.”

Lin Yi slowly entered the cave mansion, this being his first visit to Master Golden Sword’s Cave Mansion. The arrangement was very simple – a tea table and a futon, “Disciple greets master.”

“Sit down,” Golden Sword Real Person gestured, and an extra futon appeared on the ground.

“Thank you, master.” Lin Yi saluted and took a seat on the futon.

Subsequently, Golden Sword Real Person slowly said, “Lin Yi, why do you think we cultivators keep advancing on the path of cultivation, only encountering obstacles but no end?”

“To answer master, it’s because of the experiences left by the forebears of cultivation. Some of them paid with their lives to pave a path for us,” Lin Yi answered.

Golden Sword Zen Ren nodded lightly, “Indeed, with the experiences of our predecessors, we only encounter obstacles on the path of cultivation, not dangers. As long as one has the talent, they can break through the realm simply by cultivating step by step.”

“Refining Golden Core with flame has a certain connection to alchemy, and there is some logic to it. After all, they’re both about refining. Why can’t the corpse be refined with flame?”

“Therefore, some people have tried it, but all of them who failed to break through the obstacles and condense the Golden Core by their own power decided to try this alternative method.”

“This method is fraught with danger and there are no previous experiences to refer to. It is the inferior choice for condensing Golden Core…”

“You are currently at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, still far away from condensing a Golden Core, there’s no need to consider this matter early. Although you possess lower-grade spiritual roots, with the help of the supreme-grade Gold Coagulation Pill, you could have a certain chance of condensing the Golden Core.”

Lin Yi saluted, “Thank you, master. Your disciple understands.”

In the eyes of these orthodox cultivators, refining one’s own Golden Core with flame is a choice made out of desperation, so they wouldn’t pay attention to it and naturally, couldn’t provide useful information.

“Practice diligently, and do not overthink,” Golden Sword Real Person chuckled, then waved his hand to send Lin Yi out of the cave mansion.

Lin Yi bowed once more outside the cave mansion and returned to his own. He shook his head, deciding to go to Dan God Secret Realm and ask Pill Immortal Master.

As the Dan God, Pill Immortal has unparalleled mastery in Alchemy Dao, transforming the profound into divine, and he might be able to provide some insights.