Chapter 88
Two more days passed, and Qin Ran learned the Illusory Realm eye technique, planning to go out and form his core.
When night fell, he tidied up, put on a full suit of pitch-black clothes, and walked out of his room into the corridor, leaping over the railing in one step.
In midair, he looked back to the side, outside the kitchen of the wooden house, the brick and tile townhouse on the side, that was, outside Chasing the Wind’s room, under the old locust tree, there was a stone statue of him.
This statue was very ugly. First, don't explore the aesthetics of the carving technique and so on. Just looking at its outline, it looks like something made after studying modeling for three years. It was just a weird thing.
In the late night, leaving it there was quite creepy.
Well, yes, this was the cat scratching post that Li Shiyin had carved out of the stone for Chasing the Wind.
"What sin have I committed!" Qin Ran looked up to the sky, wanting to cry but no tears came out. He could only unfold his figure, step on the wind, and fly out of the Dao Sword Sect’s Dan Peak, quickly leaving this sad place.
"Eh? Where is Dad going so late?"
In the innermost room, Chasing the Wind opened his eyes in the darkness, a pair of black but shiny big eyes appeared in the dark, watching Qin Ran’s figure disappear through the big hole in the door, and he was very curious.
Thinking this, he jumped out of his cat’s nest in one step, pounced forward, melted into the darkness, and followed Qin Ran’s scent.
Simply put, forming one’s core is to twist and squeeze the magic power in one’s Dantian, with the air vortex as the center, and knead it into a core.
From this point of view, there is only one problem, that is, the air vortex and magic power are both energy, and it is all the energy that a cultivator has absorbed during the Foundation Establishment stage. To gather these energies together and compress them into a core, it is obviously too difficult.
And when you have to do something important, difficult, and that others can't help with and you can only do yourself, it’s best to find a safe and suitable place and close in to plan for the long term.
Originally, as a sect member, it would be most appropriate and safest for Qin Ran to form his core within the sect. But this person was too cautious, he only wanted to hide, didn’t want to reveal himself, plus he had just discovered someone targeting schemes against the Dao Sword Sect, so he didn’t dare form his core in the sect anymore.
So going out to find a shady place to form his core was Qin Ran's choice at the moment.
Out of Dan Peak, Qin Ran followed the mountain range along the secluded corner of the Guardian Mountain Formation, flew low all the way, and soon came to the bank of a big river, the big river was the mother river of the Northern Chu Kingdom, called the Cang River. He jumped into the river, performed the Immortal in Water, assimilated into the water, and then flowed upstream, all the way to the source of the Cang River.
So how many years has Qin Ran spent in the Foundation Establishment stage?
A full twenty years.
It was rare for personally taught disciples of the Dao Sword Sect to stay in the Foundation Establishment stage for twenty years. Even when their masters passed away, they would still be in the Foundation Establishment stage. The disciples of the same batch as Qin Ran had either died already, or had already taken shelter in superior sects, or had already become the pillars of the Dao Sword Sect.
Huang Feiyu, strictly speaking, was actually a disciple of the same batch as Qin Ran. However, they did not come in through the normal path of asking the Dao rituals, they were disciples that the sect leader had secretly accepted. Before he was injured, Huang Feiyu, as the personally taught disciple of the Sword Peak’s sect leader, was indeed the pillar of the Dao Sword Sect.
So while others had long formed their cores and left, only Qin Ran was still in the Foundation Establishment Stage.
On the one hand, he was indeed afraid to form his core. He was afraid to form his core and afraid to cross tribulations. So without 100 percent certainty, he didn’t want to cross tribulations; On the other hand, he knew that his aptitude was not good enough, so he needed to accumulate more foundations.
Now that Qin Ran has decided to form his core, does he have 100 percent certainty?
No.
Because of Li Shiyin’s arrival and the outbreak of the Extreme Demon Weeping Willow, he needed to protect himself and his disciples in the coming crisis. So he had no choice but to form his core ahead of time.
The plan was for him to stay for another few decades until the age of fifty before forming his core, accumulating foundations, quietly building tribulation transcendence holy grounds, looking for treasures and materials to refine pills and medicines, and he must have 100 percent chance.
On the day he accepted Li Shiyin as his disciple, he did not lie to her.
And now having to form his core ahead of schedule, he probably only has...
98 percent certainty.
“Alas...” Qin Ran felt uneasy in his heart, looked up at the pitch-black sky, and always felt unstable.
98 percent, not 100 percent, meant there would be accidents.
But after struggling for a moment, he gritted his teeth and started mobilizing his magic power...
Gamble it!
