Chapter 34: Core Formation

Chapter 34: Core Formation

After signing the agreement, Zhao Yuan and Qi Dongyuan warmly invited Li Pin to visit their place. However, Li Pin rejected them out of consideration for Fang Lingjue's feelings.

Seeing this, Zhao Yuan could only take the second best option and invite Li Pin to attend their sect master's 66th birthday celebration that would take place half a month later.

Cao Zuoqiu had already been buried. They had lost a Core Formation and several high-level Force Cultivation experts to Wang Daoyi, so this might cause the other influences in Zanglong City to start harboring ill intentions toward them. So, in order to showcase that the Five Elements Sect was still influential in Zanglong City, they planned to make Cao Tianyou's 66th birthday a big event and invite guests from different places.

Considering that the box he had just received contained Ciao Tianyou's personally handwritten experience on the subject of Core Formation and Aura Training, Li Pin didn't reject the invitation to his birthday celebration.

Li Pin sent off Zhao Yuan and Qi Dongyuan to the elevator and then returned to Fang Lingjue's office. When he was back, Fang Lingjue exclaimed, "Looking at you makes me feel like I'm looking at a rising sun. You'll probably be able to soar to great heights and your reputation will spread across the Jiang Province in the 17th, or at the latest, the 18th martial competition. All the other participants in the intermediate category will be left in your shadows."

Li Pin smiled and joked, "I've signed up for the upcoming martial competition as well. Are you feeling any pressure, Hall Master Fang?"

Fang Lingjue laughed. "Haha, what a joke. I, Fang Lingjue, am still a hot favorite to get into the top ten in the upcoming Jiang Province Martial Competition. I might even get the chance to be invited to participate in the national martial competition. As for you... you might be able to shine in the future, but you'll have to wait at least ten or more years before you can dampen my shine!"

This was, after all, Fang Lingjue's last year participating in the intermediate category of the Jiang Province Martial Competition. In the future, he'd have to join the adult category.

Li Pin, on the other hand, was only twenty-two, so he had more than ten years before he'd be forced to participate in the adult category.

Li Pin smiled and didn't continue saying anything.

Unable to resist the urge to flip through the Five Qi's to Primordiality Art, Li Pin only chatted with Fang Lingjue for a little bit before he returned to his condominium.

This was an organs-tempering secret art, something very precious in this world where martial arts prospered. You might find many martial arts that talked about Aura Force, but martial arts that spoke about nurturing and tempering the organs were few and far between. They belonged to legacies that weren't passed down to outsiders. Only the core disciples of each sect would inherit the legacies.

There was once a Martial Saint who had pushed for the Taibai Kingdom to establish a law that would protect Aura Training martial arts and would not allow them to be spread outside their respective sects to outsiders. He stated that the reason for this was to prevent adverse effects.

After all, if one were to cultivate Aura training arts without a proper art for tempering the internal organs, although the individual would be able to strike out Aura Force, the martial artist's internal organs would be destroyed and they'd have no more future in martial arts. It was not beneficial for the development of the martial arts world.

Although the law was not passed, the same Martial Saint took a step back to request for organs-tempering arts to be protected instead. The law was approved.

This showed how precious organs-tempering arts were.

If a martial artist were to sneakily learn martial arts for training Aura Force, the sect in question would have to go through proper procedures in the martial society and get approval before dealing with the scum.

This also meant that if someone was discovered to be stealing their sect's organs-tempering arts, they'd be protected by the law even if they were killed by the experts in the sect.

It'd be a loss for them to die.

This alone showed how valuable organs-tempering arts were.

Li Pin checked his current body condition.

[Aura Force: 1/1,846]

"I can't strike out Aura Force now, but at least I can see hope. Moreover... Core Formation, was it...?"

Li Pin moved and punched out.

Rumble!

The void space trembled, and a stifled rumble rang out in the training room that was twenty or so square meters. The entire floor was trembling slightly. It was like there was a heavy-duty truck driving by with the gas pedal floored.

[Core Force +1]

This time, he didn't visualize Taowu, Tengshe, Chilong, or any other of the eight evils. However, when he struck out the Fist Force, he still reached the standard of Core Force eruption.

"Soon."

Li Pin calmed down once again and started studying the Five Elements Body-Refining Art as well as the Core Formation understandings that Cao Tianyou and Fang Lingjue had documented.

***

Thirteen days later.

At Changfeng Martial Hall.

After Li Pin performed the Xuan Pin Gate, he didn't even take the initiative to activate Core Force when the qi and blood in his body suddenly started to seeth.

He instantly realized what this abnormal phenomenon was, and with a single thought, all the qi and blood in his entire body rapidly rushed toward one part of his body.

There was no danger at all. This wasn't an astonishing situation either.

Li Pin continued to circulate the Xuan Pin Gate and guided his qi and blood using the method he had recently comprehended.

In less than half an hour, all the qi and blood he could control were consolidated together and there wasn't the slightest bit of leakage.

He merely stood there casually and everything came into a uniform and flawless state.

"Just like that, I've succeeded in consolidating qi to form a Core."