Chapter 73: Are You Even Human?
After achieving the Golden Core, Liu Shunyi didn’t immediately return home.
On one hand, he felt a bit uneasy since he was short on enemies right now.
Through Shi Changxin’s experiments, he discovered another flaw.
If he were to encounter a powerful being at the Body Integration Realm and his enemies hadn’t been taken down enough, it could very well mean his own death.
Of course, his enemies would perish too.
Worst case scenario, they’d take him down with them.
Or they might just choose not to kill him at all, sealing him away instead.
“I can’t kill you, but I can make sure you lose your freedom.”
He even thought of something grim—what if some deranged person kept him as a pet and unleashed a bunch of beasts to torment him?
That would truly be worse than death.
Thus, Liu Shunyi’s next objective was to covertly cultivate enemies.
And these enemies had to be selected carefully—not so furious they’d explode, but still filled with murderous intent.
This was quite the delicate operation.
So he didn’t rush home right away.
He was in a different part of Qinzhou, where no one recognized him.
That granted him the opportunity to maneuver.
Additionally, he began researching the guards and the禁军 of Jing Shui City, as well as its motley crew.
Previously, he hadn’t paid them any mind, thinking they were unworthy of names, so he casually jotted them down in his Golden Scroll.
But recently, having dismantled multiple evil sect divisions, he hadn’t come across anything like that—a name for a force.
“I can’t shake the feeling that there’s some restriction here. It seems writing about a force might hold more weight than just listing a personal name.”
For instance:
Shi Changxin was merely a member of the Heavenly God Sect.
But if he wrote the name of the Heavenly God Sect on the scroll, wouldn’t that mean the entire sect bore the consequences?
An entire sect was surely more significant than an individual, right?
However, offending an entire sect required careful consideration.
“What if I just tossed something into the Heavenly God Sect?”
“How about when they’re busy absorbing blood from their blood pit, I just go over and take a leak?”
The more Liu Shunyi thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.
Beside him, Shi Changxin was squatting, looking at Liu Shunyi as if he had seen a ghost.
“Is this even human behavior?”
Naturally, Liu Shunyi wasn’t exactly human.
During this period, Shi Changxin had been through utter torment.
To be precise, he was the one torturing himself.
He had tried to assassinate Liu Shunyi countless times, each attempt nearly cost him his life.
Now, he finally realized he must have fallen victim to some kind of hidden technique from this black-robed guy.
This creature was downright sadistic.
Shi Changxin’s mental state was crumbling.
What truly broke him was the fact that this wretched fellow fed him pills every day.
It wasn’t to help him; it was to keep him in tip-top shape.
He was cultivating some bizarre technique that depleted his body quickly.
Whenever Shi Changxin felt ready to collapse, this guy would promptly show up, tossing him more pills.
Round and round, like being flayed alive.
The most frustrating part for Shi Changxin was the tedious stress of training, which he could still feel perfectly.
“What the heck kind of technique is this?!”
Shi Changxin wanted to cry.
Meanwhile, Liu Shunyi was facing another headache.
“Damn, I break through to Golden Core and have wiped out both of my secret realm resources!”
“With no cultivation materials, my progress has slowed down significantly!”
Liu Shunyi sighed.
But these concerns weren’t on his mind right now.
What he needed to do was refine his personal magic weapon.
After all, a Golden Core with a magic weapon was entirely different from one without.
As for his choice of magic weapon, Liu Shunyi went for the Qingping Sword first.
His second choice was the gourd given to him by Ye Yan.
Of course, Liu Shunyi decided to refine both items together.
The steps were straightforward.
He utilized the usual refining methods, and after completion, he dripped a drop of his blood, separated a thread of his soul, and finally placed it inside his Golden Core for nurturing!
However, when he reached the final step, Liu Shunyi was baffled.
He had dripped blood, but it wasn’t his own that he used.
And the soul used wasn’t his either.
Both the Qingping Sword and the gourd had their own demands—one drained blood, the other drained soul energy.
What the heck?
Double trouble.
Shi Changxin was writhing on the ground in agony.
“What—what did you do to me?”
Liu Shunyi chuckled.
“Nothing, nothing, just eat this pill!”
Liu Shunyi hastily produced a blood-replenishing pill.
Shi Changxin inhaled deeply.
“You won’t get away with this, I… ooooh…”
Liu Shunyi straightforwardly pried open his mouth and shoved the pill in.
Next page for more excitement!
Shi Changxin’s expression was one of sheer torment.
And then came another round of lengthy suffering.
——————
Half a month quickly passed.
Shi Changxin lay sprawled on the ground, his eyes glassy, drooling and mumbling, “Abba abba, abba…”
Meanwhile, Liu Shunyi held a Qingping Sword radiating pure white holy light in his right hand and a gourd emanating black mist in his left.
The two magic weapons almost instantaneously established a connection with him.
Now Liu Shunyi finally understood why having a personal magic weapon made a Golden Core practitioner fundamentally different from one without.
When the personal magic weapon fused with his cultivated techniques, it could even mutate, leaving an imprint of his techniques on the weapon itself.
As for Golden Core cultivators, they just needed to exert their will over the magic weapon, continuously pouring in their spiritual energy, and the weapon would fight based on their intent.
In fact, as long as you had enough spiritual energy, you could enlarge the magic weapon, and both its size and quality would increase.
That’s why Golden Core cultivators were referred to as great beings.
Because they could genuinely move mountains and fill the seas, cover the skies with a wave of their hand!
At this moment, Liu Shunyi activated his spiritual energy.
“Vrooom~”
The Qingping Sword expanded dramatically, growing to over ten meters in length.
With a thought from Liu Shunyi, it emitted a blade aura.
“Boom~!”
Consequently, more than ten nearby mountains were horizontally sliced in half, sending the remaining halves flying away.
“This is just a casual thought! And merely a basic attack!”
Liu Shunyi was stunned.
What would happen if he infused the Qingping Sword with the Thunderbolt Sword and Weeping Sword techniques?
He couldn’t even begin to imagine.
Then he glanced at the gourd in his hand.
Its abilities seemed rather interesting!
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