Chapter 183 Accumulation

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"Sigh!" Just as the group of loose cultivators were preparing to make their move and seize Li Zhiyue, a resigned sigh suddenly rang out. "Who is it? Stop playing tricks on me, come out here!" a loose cultivator shouted loudly. "As you wish!" A slender female cultivator slowly appeared, and with her emergence came a flash of lightning-fast blue light, as well as vines spreading all over the ground. "Be careful! That blue light is poisonous!" Feeling pain on his arm, he immediately examined his body with divine sense and so was the first to sense something amiss. The color drained from everyone's faces because they had already been bitten before the man had spoken! They looked terrified, fearing the venom could claim their lives in an instant, but they soon realized they didn't seem to be affected at all. Thinking of fighting by expending mana after being bitten by Li Shiting's spirit beast, the Green Scale Snake, was utterly foolish. It was indeed pitiful for inheritless loose cultivators who didn't even know the habits of the Green Scale Snake. Soon, they were horrified to discover that the mana in their bodies had been greatly depleted, leaving only a very small portion! "What did you do? Why is my mana gone!" someone cried out in panic. Li Shiting couldn't be bothered to respond, continuing her spell casting, wanting to dispatch them quickly to avoid any accidents. After all, this was the territory of the Devil Race, and attracting a Devil Beast would be troublesome. And without their mana, the cultivators had no power to resist. "Mrs. Ting, how could you..." Li Zhiyue recognized the voice as familiar from the start, but never imagined it would be Li Shiting. Li Shiting shook her head without explaining, absorbed in her spell casting to cleanse the corpses of the few cultivators who wanted to harm Li Zhiyue.@@@@ "Let's leave Green Mountain first." Saying so, Li Shiting lifted her up with mana, and the Spirit Boat sped away through the skies. Li Zhiyue, although naive, was not a fool and quickly understood, her face filled with emotion as she said, "Mrs. Ting, have you been silently protecting me all this time?" What she didn't know was that Li Shiting, worried about her safety, had followed her in secret the moment she left Da Rong Island. And all that Li Zhiyue had been through these past days, such as encountering Li Zhixuan but pretending not to see, battling with Devil Beasts, being deceived, and so on, Li Shiting had witnessed it all. Although she felt heartbroken, she also saw how inadequate Li Zhiyue was and suppressed the urge to intervene, letting her endure hardship on her own. 'I hope this setback will allow her to grow,' Li Shiting silently said to herself. Da Qing shook its head; no clan member had come to look for them during this time, and Xiaoqing hadn't found anything unusual while soaring outside. "Has the family sent any news?" Li Zhirui asked again. Da Qing nodded, took out a Jade Slip with its divine sense, and handed it to him. "Elder Lian is entering retreat, preparing for the breakthrough to Golden Core, isn't he?" Li Zhirui murmured to himself. This was a good thing, if he managed to form his Core successfully. But if he failed, the loss of a Golden Ganoderma was a minor issue, Li Shilian would likely fall during the Thunder Tribulation of Golden Core! The fall of a late Foundation Establishment cultivator would be no small blow to the Li family. But in such matters, one really couldn't say much. After all, you couldn't stop someone from advancing just because you're afraid they might fail, right? Moreover, Li Shilian was not young anymore. It was better to take a gamble now while his vitality had not yet declined, rather than wait till he was even older and no longer had the strength to attempt it. In fact, despite Li Zhirui's confident facade, believing he could successfully form his Core, he wasn't quite so confident about transcending the Tribulation. Why were Golden Core cultivators so rare? Apart from the need to accumulate and refine a large amount of mana and find ways to condense vitality, the main reason was the existence of Thunder Tribulation! And Thunder Tribulation alone stopped ninety percent of cultivators! The remaining ones often failed due to Heart Demons. The reason Thunder Tribulation was considered the biggest obstacle on the path to Core Formation is that, while other requirements can be solved, such as taking Spirit Pills or practicing Visualization Skills, Thunder Tribulation must be faced with one's own strength. Li Zhirui shook his head, casting all these distracting thoughts aside. He still had some way to go before Core Formation and there was no need to rush or allow himself to be overtaken by fear. As for Li Shilian, with the family's two Core Formation Comprehensions, in addition to a Golden Ganoderma, his chances of succeeding were not low, at least higher than what Li Shiqing had originally. "In the coming time, you two will have to work hard," Li Zhirui said somewhat apologetically. Chirp! Screech! Both pets cried out in unison, indicating that they didn't mind the effort.

Chapter 183 Accumulation

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