Han Li raised his hand and cast a "Floating" spell on the golden page that had fallen to the ground, causing it to float once more several zhang high as a target. Then he began to attack it bit by bit with small strands of Green Origin Sword Glow, watching eagerly as the page, like a bottomless pit, accepted all the sword glow.
During this process, Han Li also tried sending an ice arrow toward it to see if spells could also be absorbed. However, a single arrow knocked the page flying, startling Han Li into immediately stopping this risky action. He resigned himself to faithfully injecting the sword glow into it.
Han Li's fourth layer of Green Origin Sword Glow should have been quite powerful by all accounts. Yet as he watched his own true essence within his body nearing exhaustion with the book page still showing no reaction, Han Li secretly cried out in bitterness!
He truly didn't know whether, if he didn't satisfy the page's absorption of sword glow in one continuous flow, all his previous efforts would be wasted!
Just as Han Li found himself in a dilemma, the book page finally changed. Golden light burst forth from the page, no longer absorbing the sword glow but instead reflecting it back, punching a sword hole through the bedroom wall.
Han Li held down his excitement, his eyes unblinking as he watched the changes on the book page.
The light on the book page slowly converged, forming characters as small as ants that floated upon the page, covering it with points of gold light as densely packed as the stars in the sky. This left Han Li utterly stunned!
Then with a "clack," the levitation spell suddenly lost its effect, and the golden page dropped straight down. Startled, Han Li instinctively reached out and grabbed the golden page in his hand.
But the moment his fingers touched the object, the light characters upon it seemed to have found an outlet. They all frantically surged through that hand, flooding into his entire body.
This left Han Li pale with fright! He hurriedly tried to shake off the book page, but the object seemed to have come alive, stubbornly clinging to his hand without budging even a fraction.
The light characters transferred too quickly. In that instant, all the light characters crawled across Han Li's entire body, making him shimmer with glowing characters from head to toe, appearing incredibly bizarre.
Just as Han Li stood helpless, trembling with fear—
Suddenly, all the light characters seemed to receive a command, swarming toward his head and penetrating one by one, forcing countless things into his mind in an instant. Han Li cried out in pain, clutching his head.
If this situation had lasted even a little longer, Han Li's head might well have burst from the overload. But fortunately, the pain was very brief. After just a short while, all the light characters had been completely transferred. Only then did Han Li collapse onto the ground, unable to move even a fraction.
A full quarter of an hour passed before Han Li regained some strength and could barely stand. By this time, although the pain in his head had lessened considerably, a buzzing still rang through his mind, his nerves stretched tight.
Han Li hurriedly climbed onto the stone bed, closed his eyes, and regulated his breathing, allowing his mind to fully relax.
Han Li meditated for a full three days and three nights. Not only did the discomfort in his head completely disappear, but he finally understood all the light characters that had flooded into him!
"Green Origin Sword Art," and it was the complete set of techniques from the first layer all the way to the thirteenth, without any deficiency, able to be practiced all the way to the legendary Spirit Transformation stage without any problem. This was the main content brought by the light characters.
When Han Li first received this information, he was momentarily stunned, but didn't show much excitement.
However, in addition to this, there was finally an auxiliary technique appended at the end called the "Triple Circulation Heavy Origin Art." This caught Han Li's interest, so he casually read through it.
When Han Li first read the opening explanation, he was initially startled, thinking he had misunderstood. But after rereading this section several times, he confirmed his understanding was indeed correct. This plunged Han Li into a storm of ecstatic joy.
This "Triple Circulation Heavy Origin Art" actually possessed the astonishing miraculous effect of bypassing the Core Formation stage bottleneck. This news was truly like a voice from beyond the heavens, making Han Li feel as if he were dreaming.
Since he entered the cultivation world, almost all cultivators, when discussing the issue of Core Formation, would sigh and shake their heads endlessly! They all said whether one could break through to the Core Formation stage basically depended on one's own fortune, entirely determined by heaven's will! Of course, this referred to cultivators with exceptional talent who had already cultivated to the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage and qualified for Core Formation. As for those with Heavenly Spirit Roots, they naturally had no such troubles!
So in all honesty, Han Li's confidence in being able to form his own core was almost nonexistent! It was just that having finally found a path to eternal life, to passively give it up like this—Han Li simply couldn't accept it! Therefore, the more hopeless things seemed, the more desperately he desired Core Formation, and the more fiercely he wanted to give it his all!
But now, right before his eyes lay a small path that could lead straight to the Core Formation stage, able to bypass this bottleneck. How could Han Li not be ecstatic?
Actually, this technique couldn't really be called a shortcut. It could almost be said to be nothing more than an unverified hypothesis.
Because the expert who created this technique and the Green Origin Sword Art had long since passed the Core Formation stage. The creation of this technique was merely a wild speculation regarding Core Formation! He himself had explicitly stated at the end of the technique that even if one could perfectly meet all the requirements of the technique, the chance of immediately forming a core was still only fifty percent!
But for Han Li, this was already enough! Not to mention a fifty percent chance—even if it were only one in ten, this would be enough to make Han Li dive in without hesitation.
However, after Han Li's initial ecstasy subsided and he carefully studied this technique, even someone with Han Li's iron will couldn't help but feel as if struck by a club, his face growing paler and paler.
To cultivate this technique, one naturally had to first cultivate the Green Origin Sword Art, as this technique was originally created to assist the Green Origin Sword Art. Although the Green Origin Sword Art was extremely difficult to cultivate, that wasn't the main point. What made Han Li's face look grim was that this technique, just like its name suggested, required the practitioner to disperse their cultivation once each at the sixth layer of the Green Origin Sword Art, then restart cultivation from scratch.
According to the creator, only in this way could one utilize the "Triple Circulation Heavy Origin Art" to compress the magical power and true essence cultivated again, making the magical power several times more refined. After doing this three times in succession and then re-cultivating back to the peak of Foundation Establishment, one could effortlessly form a core in the dantian.
Because according to this expert's theory, the Golden Core was originally condensed from solidified true essence. Now, having first obtained approximately solid-state true essence, to then form a core should naturally require no effort at all!
But disperse one's cultivation—such a foolish thing—even though Han Li felt the expert's reasoning was sound, he still hesitated.
This wasn't because Han Li feared the hardship of dispersing and re-cultivating, but rather because he truly had no confidence that he could accomplish the three cycles of re-cultivation the other spoke of within his lifetime.
Even relying on the mysterious small bottle's assistance, this was an extremely risky endeavor! After all, according to the other's theory, the time required for re-cultivation grew longer with each cycle, as the true essence that needed to be compressed and condensed also increased with each iteration.
Of course, the benefits of doing this were also immense! It could allow him to possess several times more true essence and magical power than ordinary cultivators. But equally, to achieve all this, he would undoubtedly need to spend several times more years than ordinary cultivators.
Could his mere two hundred years of lifespan accomplish all of this? Han Li truly had no confidence!
Unable to decide for the moment, Han Li turned his gaze toward another golden page he had brought directly from Li Huayuan's cave dwelling. It seemed he could only examine what was inside this one before making his decision.
The result was the same: the same sword glow injection, the same piercing pain in the brain. After experiencing all of this once more, Han Li accepted the contents of the other golden page.
"Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords"—these were the words that immediately surfaced in Han Li's mind as soon as he began reviewing the information.
Greatly intrigued, Han Li patiently organized all the light characters before finally understanding what it was about.
As it turned out, this golden page contained entirely instructions for Core Formation stage cultivators on how to refine a type of flying sword treasure called "Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords." This wood-attribute flying sword was actually quite similar to Han Li's "Golden Edge" magical artifact—it was a treasure refined as a set.
A minimum of twelve wood-attribute flying swords were required to form a set, which was quite extraordinary. Of course, if one could gather enough materials and possessed sufficient true essence, it was theoretically possible to refine a set of thirty-six or even seventy-two swords.
The text didn't specify exactly how powerful these flying swords were, but Han Li didn't need to guess to imagine how terrifying this treasure must be! Just imagining being attacked simultaneously by dozens of flying swords made Han Li shudder with horror.
Of course, these things were of absolutely no use to Han Li in his current state. Only after reaching the Core Formation stage would they receive his attention.
However, this did strengthen Han Li's resolve to cultivate the Green Origin Sword Art. Because one look at these wood-attribute flying swords made it clear that if paired with the Green Origin Sword Art, the power would absolutely multiply! Once he cultivated to the sixth layer of the sword art and reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, he could first attempt to form his core. If that didn't work, there would still be time to disperse his cultivation then!