Chapter 759: Chapter 287: Magic Cultivator’s Breakthrough, Moving Strange Wind (2)

As a Loose Cultivator, he had nothing pressing to do.

So, after reading the intelligence reports, Xiao Chen wasn’t in a hurry to leave. Instead, he stayed at the Spiritual Communication Pavilion to relax.

He didn’t leave until 7 p.m., finding a nearby inn to stay for the night.

The wind outside had been blowing all day without the slightest sign of weakening.

Fortunately, once the array in the inn’s small courtyard was activated, the sound vanished instantly.

WHOOSH! SWISH! RUSTLE!

However, when Xiao Chen woke up the next morning and opened his door, he was immediately greeted by the sound of the raging gale outside.

The commotion was immense; just from the sound, he could tell it was even stronger than the day before.

Even though it was already 7:00 AM, the world outside was a murky, yellowish-gray expanse, making it nearly impossible to see anything in the distance.

’This... This isn’t right, is it?’

Xiao Chen had a bad feeling.

He had arranged with Alchemist Geng to pick up his Elixirs on the third day after the wind stopped.

If this wind never stopped, wouldn’t he be delayed indefinitely?

"What’s going on with the wind outside?"

Returning to the Spiritual Communication Pavilion, Xiao Chen went straight to the manager to ask for information.

But the manager just shook his head. "Oh, Senior, we really don’t have any information about that."

"We’ve never had winds this strong in previous years, so we really have no experience with this."

Normal weather isn’t a problem for Cultivators, so news about it doesn’t even qualify as intelligence.

Because of this, no one in the entire Tingtao Market had paid any mind to the sudden gale at first.

Not until the wind began to affect every single person in the marketplace did people realize something was wrong.

"It’s so strange. The strong winds started on the twentieth, and this is already the ninth day. Why haven’t they stopped?"

"Stopped? It seems to me they’re only getting stronger."

"Do you think this could be a sign that some Exotic Treasure is about to appear?"

...

On the twenty-ninth of the twelfth lunar month, many Cultivators were hiding inside the Spiritual Communication Pavilion’s shop, discussing the recent, exceptionally strange gales.

Xiao Chen was a bit frustrated.

He wasn’t actually afraid of the wind and could have easily walked the streets.

The problem was that with everyone hiding indoors, the streets were nearly empty, and there was no point in wandering around.

He finally had a few days to relax, but he could only spend them inside the Spiritual Communication Pavilion listening to stories.

The main issue was that there were only a few pieces of news circulating. He had already heard them all two days ago, so hearing them repeated now was far less interesting.

As for the bizarre rumors, they were so distorted that he couldn’t bring himself to listen to them.

’Forget it. I might as well go back and cultivate.’

Finding no more amusement at the Spiritual Communication Pavilion, Xiao Chen simply returned to his inn’s courtyard, activated the array to block out the wind, and began refining his True Essence.

After obtaining the Yin Five Elements Ring, this was something he no longer needed to worry about actively.

Every day, thanks to the effect of Five Elements Mutual Generation, an additional strand of True Essence would automatically form within his Flawless Golden Core.

But since Xiao Chen had nothing better to do, he decided to do it just to pass the time.

With practiced ease, he directed his Divine Sense Internal Observation to check the total amount of True Essence in his Flawless Golden Core.

Only then did he realize that despite barely focusing on his cultivation after breaking through to the Middle-stage Golden Core in his path as a Magic Cultivator, he had unknowingly accumulated a total of 666 strands of True Essence.

If not for the three strands of True Essence that came from the Hundred Revolutions Profound Pill, he would have already been touching the minor bottleneck to the Late-stage Golden Core on his Magic Cultivator path.

But even so, he was only three strands of True Essence away.

’It’s been this fast?’

Xiao Chen himself was a bit surprised; he had thought he had fallen far behind.

But upon closer calculation, he realized it had been nearly four months since he arrived at the island where the Broken Blade Fiend was.

In other words, the Yin Five Elements Ring had unknowingly helped him generate over a hundred strands of True Essence.

This effect, which didn’t seem particularly powerful on the surface, was valuable because it was a small, steady, and silent stream.

It not only supplemented Xiao Chen’s True Essence but also didn’t interfere with his progress in searching for Relics or collecting Evil Qi.

So, after two days of active cultivation, he successfully gathered the required True Essence.

Under his internal observation, the Flawless Golden Core had become an almost perfectly round, bulging sphere.

"Excellent!"

Xiao Chen nodded in satisfaction. "Next, it’s time to break through another Minor Realm in one go!"

He sat in meditation, cleared his mind, and silently recited his Heart Method three times.

Then, aided by the experience from his path as a Body Cultivator, he began to push his Flawless Golden Core to break through the minor bottleneck.

"Hiss... This makes no sense!"

Xiao Chen sucked in a sharp breath. As a Dual Cultivator of Body and Technique, he already had experience breaking through to the Late-stage Golden Core once, which was why he had wanted to give it a try.

He never expected to fail the breakthrough, and it wasn’t even a near success.

On the contrary, his failure was absolute.

A large amount of chaotic True Essence shot through his body, rampaging through his internal organs and the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.

Fortunately, as a Body Cultivator, this level of impact wasn’t enough to injure him.

Moreover, because he decisively released the out-of-control True Essence into his Meridians to bear the brunt, his Flawless Golden Core itself was undamaged.

’To think I’d fail a breakthrough even with my advantages.’

Xiao Chen sighed. "I thought I could try to save a Dao Crystal, but it looks like that’s not going to happen."

After personally experiencing his True Essence spiraling out of control, he gained a much more profound understanding of why so many Golden Core Cultivators were trapped by minor bottlenecks, sometimes for decades or even centuries.

It was because once a Flawless Golden Core had accumulated 666 strands of True Essence...

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