A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 115

Chapter 114 External Avatar, Fiend Core, Encountering Core Formation

. Han Li immersed his mind in the jade slip, repeatedly pondering the cultivation method.

The secret technique of External Avatar records that one of the basic conditions for cultivation is Foundation Establishment stage cultivation.

The principle of this technique is to split off a portion of one’s divine consciousness and then place it in a body with a cultivation level below Qi Refining level six, thus obtaining an avatar capable of self-cultivation.

Manipulating this avatar is like controlling a high-level puppet.

The benefits are undeniable;

it’s like having an extra henchman.

However, there is also a risk:

if the process of refining the avatar fails, the divine consciousness transplanted into the avatar will destroy itself and cannot be retrieved.

Those with strong primordial spirit and divine consciousness are fine; they only lose a portion of their divine consciousness and can recover in a few months to a few years. But if someone’s divine consciousness is not strong enough, the sudden loss of this significant portion of their divine consciousness will have a severe backlash.

At best, they will fall into a prolonged state of madness, like a rabid dog.

In severe cases, it can cause inner demons to torment the body, leading to a miserable death.

Furthermore, the external avatar isn’t truly a second self.

Upon the death of the original body, the consciousness within the external avatar will also extinguish.

Therefore, it certainly cannot compare to the demonic path’s “Second Nascent Soul Technique” or even the Daoist sect’s premier avatar technique, “One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.”

However,

it’s still quite useful for cultivating Core Formation stage cannon fodder.

“Normally, it would take me a long time and a lot of effort to refine a late-stage Foundation Establishment clone, but Emperor Yue saved me that step. It’s a clone close to the Pseudo-Core Formation stage directly. There’s no need to start cultivating from the sixth level of Qi Refining…”

“As long as I can successfully refine this clone, I can quickly obtain a Core Formation stage fighter using the Blood Condensation Five Elements Pill.”

“At that time, even without relying on the limited-use Invisible Needle Talisman and Qiankun Tower Talisman, I will have considerable self-defense power against early-stage Core Formation cultivators…”

“Converting my wealth into various cultivation resources from the Chaotic Star Sea will prevent others from easily coveting it…”

Thinking of the future, Han Li couldn’t help but grin.

Afterward, he calmed his mind, adjusted his state to its best, and ensured his primordial spirit was at its strongest before officially beginning to cultivate his external avatar.

He summoned the eunuch clone from his high-grade spirit beast pouch and sat facing it, slowly closing his eyes.

Soon, green light began to appear on his face.

Fine beads of sweat condensed on his forehead before sliding down, dampening his clothes.

While the methods of refining and controlling external avatars and manipulating puppets through the Great Evolution Technique were similar, they were also vastly different.

Spiritual material puppets were merely inanimate objects.

Controlling beast puppets like cheetahs, lizards, giant wolves, and tigers required only a small amount of divine consciousness. The divine consciousness didn’t need to precisely control every moment of the beast puppet’s power.

Because of this, the second level of the Great Evolution Technique could even allow him to split his divine consciousness into hundreds of fragments to simultaneously control hundreds of beast puppets.

But external avatars were different.

An external avatar was ultimately a living, breathing body of flesh and blood.

It included the five senses—hearing, sight, smell, and touch—the mobilization of magical power and true essence, daily cultivation, and the activation of magical treasures and talismans.

To perfectly control an external avatar, the amount of divine consciousness split out naturally went far beyond simply controlling a few or a dozen puppets.

“Drink!”

Han Li, his eyes tightly closed, suddenly formed a strange hand seal and let out a loud shout.

The next moment, a ball of green light the size of a thumb emerged from his nostrils, quickly disappearing into the eunuch clone’s nasal cavity.

By this time, Han Li’s face was already pale, and large beads of sweat rolled down his body.

“Is refining an external avatar really this exhausting?”

For the next few months, he recuperated, healing the damage to his divine consciousness.

After all, splitting a large portion of his divine consciousness put considerable pressure on his original primordial spirit. It was like cutting flesh from his body, and a large chunk of it at that. It was a pain from the depths of his soul.

During the process, he wanted to give up many times, to cut less, but in the end, he gritted his teeth and successfully completed this step.

When the cave entrance reopened, a thin figure quietly appeared beside him.

This thin figure was none other than the eunuch clone.

With the aid of the Great Evolution Technique, he succeeded without any surprises, only the process was a bit painful.

In fact, he had completed the initial refinement of this clone four or five months ago.

However, it wasn’t something that could be accomplished in a month or two for the separated divine consciousness to perfectly control a new body.

For the next four or five months, his main focus, besides recuperating and restoring his damaged vital energy, was to subtly allow the separated consciousness to control the new body, thus making it as easy as possible to manipulate.

The results were quite good.

He believed that with a few more years of practice, he would be able to achieve the same level of freedom as the main body.

“I am currently at the Pseudo-Core Stage…”

“I have cultivated the second level of the Great Evolution Technique…”

“I have completed the first transformation, and it was a transformation baptized by the pure spiritual energy of the Spirit Eye Spring…”

Compared to his current foundation, he was definitely far superior to the original body at the same stage.

Logically, the success rate of cultivating another external avatar should be very high.

But he didn’t risk taking the risk.

“Considering the time, I’m only 40 years old now, I still have plenty of time…”

“Besides, I don’t lack cultivation resources…”

Furthermore, because he completed his third-stage Core Formation within the golden treasure chest, he made excellent use of resources, directly saving a large number of rare pills.

These extra pills are more than enough to cultivate one Demon Core clone, and even more than enough to cultivate two other pseudo-Core Formation clones.

After all, he initially prepared the high-quality and rare pills based on the standard of a four-element pseudo-spiritual root’s third-stage Core Formation.

Too many.

Far too many.

With so many resources, he certainly couldn’t let them sit idle.

“However, now is not the time to risk further splitting my divine consciousness and delaying my main body’s Core Formation progress. It’s not too late to cultivate the wind spirit root clone and the curved soul after my main body forms its Core.”

“At that time, my divine sense will undergo a qualitative leap! It will increase several times! Not to mention splitting into two clusters of divine sense to control two avatars, even four or five clusters would be very safe.”

In other words, he only needs to do two things now.

First, complete the second transformation as soon as possible, and incidentally master the third level of the Great Evolution Technique.

Second, help the eunuch avatar condense the Fiend Core.

Anyway, when he left the Golden Drum Plain battlefield many years ago, he had stockpiled many necessary auxiliary materials for condensing the Golden Core through his merits.

He had prepared five sets of auxiliary materials for condensing the Golden Core, such as Heavenly Fire Liquid and Snow Spirit Water.

The margin for error is quite high.

So, after relaxing completely for half a month, he entered the secluded mode of arduous cultivation again. He

lay down in the golden treasure chest again.

Speaking of which, when he lay down in the treasure chest this time, he actually tried to condense the Golden Core.

But it just didn’t feel quite right.

The amount of mana was definitely enough; however, the quality was still slightly lacking.

He was just a hair’s breadth away from solidifying and condensing his core.

“No rush, take your time, time is on my side.”

“I haven’t reached the second or third stage of cultivation yet, I haven’t maximized my benefits.”

“I can use the resources at my disposal and the golden treasure chest to repeatedly retrain my mana, thereby significantly increasing the upper limit and quality of my mana, until this body approaches its peak.”

He believed that reaching the peak would bring many benefits.

Even if his combat strength was limited by his natal magic weapon, and he might not be able to instantly kill opponents of higher levels, other Core Formation cultivators would no longer be able to bully him.

Retraining, retraining.

Seclusion, seclusion.

Time flew by, and another fifteen years passed.

On this day, the once cloudless blue sky above this nameless island suddenly changed color.

A large patch of dark clouds, appearing out of nowhere, shrouded the area directly above the cave dwelling.

Dark clouds, stretching twenty or thirty miles overhead, crackled with lightning and thunder. Silver arcs of electricity roared like thunder dragons, the deafening thunder deafening. As time passed, lightning snaked wildly within the clouds.

Simultaneously, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth over the entire island and its surrounding dozens of miles began to swirl and resonate, rapidly converging and forming a massive vortex several miles in diameter beneath the dark clouds.

The spiritual energy within a radius of dozens of miles around the island vanished completely in a mere hundred breaths, absorbed entirely by the vortex, refined and swirled, and finally poured down into the island’s underground.

Such a commotion could be sensed and even seen from a distance of a thousand miles across the vast ocean.

And so it was.

Hundreds of miles away, a scarred-faced cultivator who happened to be passing through this desolate sea area suddenly stopped his escape and turned to look at the nameless island in astonishment:

“Huh? That’s… a Core Formation phenomenon?”

“Someone actually forms their Core in such a remote place?”

Immediately, he fell into deep thought:

This person would rather form their Core here than go to the spiritual vein treasure land of Tianxing City’s sacred mountain, or even within the gates of any major or minor sect; their identity is probably somewhat suspicious.

“A rogue cultivator?”

Regardless, as a veteran Core Formation cultivator, he wanted to go and try his luck.

“This person has only recently formed his Core, his foundation is not solid. If he forces himself into a fight, he is very likely to fall in cultivation level.”

“Moreover, this kind of rogue cultivator has no roots, no support, and hasn’t even acquired a suitable magic weapon yet, let alone a natal magic weapon that is crucial to his life. In other words, he’s an easy target, his combat strength is at the bottom among Core Formation cultivators…”

Encountering such a newly formed Core Formation cultivator, it would be a waste of his good fortune not to extort him.

Thinking of this, the middle-aged scarred man activated his full speed, heading straight for Han Li’s secluded cultivation location.

Han Li, on the other hand,

was busy collecting the Reversed Five Elements Array.

Fifteen years had not only allowed him to complete his second transformation with the help of the golden treasure chest, but also made significant progress in his cultivation of the Great Evolution Technique.

In addition, his Fiend Core clone had successfully formed its Core.

Although he lacked an unimportant auxiliary pill like the “Dust-Reducing Pill,” relying on the Blood Condensation Five Elements Pill, the success rate of his Fiend Core clone’s Core formation was still over 50%. In addition, he provided a portion of pure spiritual energy, necessary auxiliary spiritual items, and some elixirs.

There were also two “Blood Spirit Diamonds”!

The Blood Spirit Diamond is a secret technique from the Xuan Yin Scripture.

During cultivation, it allows one to condense and compress their true essence tenfold and store it within their body, releasing it all at once. Not only is it extremely fast and difficult to defend against, but its power is also astonishing.

Originally, this was a powerful killing move against enemies.

But conversely, isn’t it also a great means of aiding cultivation?

The Yue Emperor’s body left nothing behind, but it did leave behind a Blood Spirit Diamond.

This Blood Spirit Diamond and the eunuch clone’s true essence and magic power are essentially from the same source.

The Yue Emperor could absorb the eunuch clone’s magic power and true essence to improve his own cultivation; how could the eunuch clone not retaliate by absorbing the Yue Emperor’s magic power and true essence to increase its own cultivation?

He did hand over the Yue Emperor’s corpse in exchange for merit.

But he had always kept that Blood Spirit Diamond very well.

Furthermore, with the addition of another Blood Spirit Diamond that he had arranged over the past ten years for his Fiend Core clone to compress its own true essence and condense, the Fiend Core clone now had two major additional energy sources.

Just as it was breaking through a major bottleneck, this eunuch clone no longer compressed its true essence to maintain the Blood Spirit Diamonds; instead, it did the opposite, dissolving the two Blood Spirit Diamonds and steadily diluting the previously compressed mana and true essence! Having two Blood Spirit Diamonds, compressed tenfold, to help during the Core Formation process was like having two powerful tonics!

And most importantly, his divine sense far surpassed that of his peers. The strength of his divine sense not only greatly aided his own Core Formation but also greatly helped his clone’s.

He and his clone were currently of one mind.

Using the power of divine sense to form a Core was not a difficult task.

Additional spiritual energy.

Auxiliary spiritual objects and pills.

The feedback from the Blood Spirit Diamonds.

The powerful and meticulous micro-management of his divine sense…

Under these multiple factors, even without the Dust-Reducing Pill, the Fiend Core clone still succeeded.

Interestingly, after his Demon Core clone successfully condensed its core and completed its transformation in terms of spiritual consciousness, the split-off divine sense actually grew immensely, more than ten times stronger than when it was first separated. It was

only slightly weaker than a typical early-stage Core Formation cultivator, but significantly stronger than a Foundation Establishment or Pseudo-Core stage cultivator.

This was an unexpected discovery.

Just as he was quickly digging, about to retrieve the array plate of the Inverted Five Elements Array and then intending to dig out the array flags, suddenly, his mind-to-mind Demon Core clone noticed something and immediately warned him.

“A Core Formation cultivator has arrived from fifty or sixty miles away?”

“What a coincidence?” A Core

Formation expert had settled in such a remote, godforsaken place?

He didn’t want to confront a Core Formation cultivator head-on for the time being.

The risks far outweighed the rewards.

“My Demon Core clone just condensed its core, and the other party came uninvited; they definitely have ill intentions!”

“What should I do?”

Han Li was frustrated.

If they were decisive enough to abandon the Inverted Five Elements Formation and escape through the underground passage, there wouldn’t be any problem. After all, during the more than ten years they’d been here, the Demon Core clone and the Iron Arm Beasts hadn’t just been focused on cultivation.

Over the years, several underwater secret passages had been excavated by a dozen Iron-Armed Beasts and their avatars.

The Iron-Armed Beasts were responsible for digging, while the avatars were responsible for reinforcing them with magic and handling the materials.

Choosing any of these passages would allow him to make a strategic retreat.

But if he left, wouldn’t this Inverted Five Elements Array, with its 70% integrity, be given to the other party?

“Let’s first assess the opponent’s cultivation level. If they are in the late Core Formation stage, this array is fine. At worst, I can come back and demand an explanation when my cultivation level improves. If the person is only in the early Core Formation stage…”

Han Li narrowed his eyes, his gaze icy.

Having made his decision, he immediately used the remaining time to re-bury the array plate.

His Fiend Core avatar, carrying four treasures, flew out of the array to probe the opponent’s strength.

“Fellow Daoist, please stop.”

(End of Chapter)