Chapter 916 - 405: Pill Formation After 100 Lifetimes

"This!"

Chu Xiu stared, dumbfounded, at the changes unfolding within his Dantian. Those Awakening Spaces drifting in from all directions toward his Dantian, after accumulating to a certain extent, actually formed a rotating "cloud mass"!

Once that cloud mass took shape, it was as if some invisible gravity had been born. The Awakening Spaces that had originally been evenly scattered throughout Chu Xiu’s body all began drifting toward the Dantian, and the more Awakening Spaces were drawn in, the stronger that pull became!

In this cycle, the attraction at his Dantian was increasing at a shocking Speed, and in the end it wasn’t just those intangible Awakening Spaces being drawn in—even the Golden Core in Chu Xiu’s Dantian, which had been quietly resting there like a stone, slowly floated up, like a rock swept up by a tornado and spinning around the eye of the storm!

And as more and more Awakening Spaces were absorbed, something even more unbelievable happened!

The fragments of his Golden Core that had been forcibly split apart by the Law of Destiny—within them, the Energy that Chu Xiu had been unable to mobilize no matter what he tried—were now, under the rotation of the Awakening Spaces in his Dantian, actually beginning to slowly leak out Energy! And that leaked Energy was immediately Devoured by the Awakening Spaces, making their rotation even faster!

"What in the world is happening?"

Even though Chu Xiu now possessed the entire Demon Sect’s inheritance, he still couldn’t make heads or tails of what was going on! For a moment he didn’t know whether he ought to try to stop the mutation in his Dantian.

After a brief hesitation, Chu Xiu gritted his teeth, simply sat down cross-legged, and chose not to interfere. After all, if the Awakening Spaces completely collapsed, he would be trapped here with no way out but death, so he might as well gamble on this!

But Chu Xiu wasn’t leaving everything entirely up to fate. He sent his Divine Sense back into the Inheritance Hall, searching through the vast Demon Sect legacy for any relevant information.

Although at present the Inheritance Hall had only opened the First Layer—only the permissions of an Ordinary Inner Sect Disciple of the Demon Sect, unable to access any profound secrets or Divine Techniques—

that layer alone contained countless idle notes and unofficial tales. Judging by sheer amount of texts, the other layers combined couldn’t compare!

Chu Xiu didn’t expect to directly find the cause of his bodily mutation; it would be enough if he could stumble on a few rumors that sounded remotely plausible.

Thus time flew by.

A week later, the mutation in Chu Xiu’s body slowly came to a halt, and he opened his eyes with a complicated expression.

At this moment, all of the Awakening Spaces in his Dantian had already been drawn together there. Not only that, they had completely Devoured Chu Xiu’s Golden Core, forming a mass of matter that was rapidly spinning like a nebula!

This mass of matter was rotating at an extremely high Speed, yet it was strangely stable. It didn’t cause Chu Xiu the slightest harm, and not even a trace of Energy fluctuation leaked out!

This left Chu Xiu utterly speechless. He knew that although his Golden Core had shattered, under the Traits of the Law of Destiny "Transcending Causality," not a single bit of the Energy contained within had been lost.

How vast was that Energy? It was enough to rival a million tons’ worth of nuclear warheads! Yet it had been completely Devoured just like that, without leaving even the tiniest scrap behind!

The Golden Core he had painstakingly Refining, gone like this for no apparent reason—anyone else would probably have suffered a mental breakdown, but Chu Xiu’s expression at this moment was extremely complex. Initially, when he searched through the Inheritance Hall, he’d only done so with a "might as well" attitude, but unexpectedly he’d actually found a rumor that might be relevant to his current situation.

The reason it was only a "might" was because this rumor was way too unreliable. Though it originated from a senior powerhouse, it had been nothing more than a casual conjecture the other person voiced. Never mind being put into practice, there hadn’t been any theoretical verification either—it was purely a flash of Spiritual Light in his mind!

That rumor was—

Hundred Generations Core Formation!

This was the very rumor Chu Xiu had always heard about before he reached Core Formation himself—the claim that if one cultivated the Infinite Reincarnation Technique to a hundred Reincarnations, one could forge a Golden Core surpassing a First Grade Pill!

However, even the highest record within the Demon Sect was only cultivating it to nineteen Reincarnations, far from a hundred. After all, which Core Formation Cultivator had that much time to spend on Cultivation of this technique? So no one had ever taken it seriously.

Later, Chu Xiu had also seen the records stating that the so-called Hundred Generations Core Formation was just a rumor. A First Grade Pill was already a Flawless Golden Core; there simply was no better Golden Core.

Because in principle, a Flawless Golden Core was already the most Perfect Golden Core, in harmony with the Heavenly Dao.

So, was Hundred Generations Core Formation really just a baseless rumor?

Not entirely.

When Chu Xiu scoured all sorts of tales, he finally found the origin of that rumor—it had merely come from an offhand remark by a certain great powerhouse.

Legend had it that while that powerhouse was roaming the cosmos, he happened to encounter a star in the process of forming. Near that star he casually set up a recording wall to capture the process of the star’s birth.

Tens of thousands of years later, when he returned and watched the footage, he gained some enlightenment from the process of the star’s formation. During a lecture on the Dao for younger disciples of his Sect, he played that footage for them and casually remarked, "If one could Condense a Golden Core following the method by which a star forms, then the Energy contained in that Golden Core would probably exceed that of an ordinary Golden Core by a hundredfold or more."

It had been nothing more than a casual jest, but because that person’s status was so exalted and what he said was so shocking—one must know that even a Flawless Golden Core, in terms of pure Energy Level, was only ten times that of an Ordinary Golden Core—how could this "hundredfold or more" not be staggering?

Thus his words quickly spread, and a great many Cultivators attempted to study the so-called "Star Nebula Core Formation" method. Among them were not only High Tier Cultivators but also stunningly talented Demonic Cultivators who threw themselves into the research.