Chapter 281 - True Core Realm

The demonic flame’s reaction wasn't due to a single dragon aura but was drawn to three different regions.

As Liu Wuxie observed from afar, he saw thousands of people wandering around, searching for targets to strike. Being alone, Liu Wuxie made an easy target.

Suddenly, dozens of dragon auras erupted from several large craters, one just fifty meters away from Liu Wuxie.

When the dragon auras emerged, they hovered roughly thirty meters in mid-air, making collecting them challenging for Marrow Cleansing Realm cultivators.

“Quick, seize the dragon auras!” Hundreds of people rushed towards the auras. It was the first time twelve strands of dragon auras had appeared simultaneously. According to their experience, the limit was five to six dragon auras appearing at once.

Liu Wuxie was the closest, roughly fifty meters away. But many people were heading over, and they were approximately seventy meters away. This meant that whoever was faster could seize the dragon auras.

“Brat, how dare you?!”

Liu Wuxie was like a celestial crane, soaring to the sky to save time on the journey. Surprisingly, he was faster than the cultivators in the True Core Realm.

Within a day, many cultivators had made a breakthrough in their cultivation, and there were more cultivators in the True Core Realm.

This meant that Liu Wuxie had to reach the True Core Realm quickly if he wanted to survive. The twelve strands of dragon auras were an excellent opportunity for him, and he couldn’t miss it.

Ignoring the yells coming from behind, Liu Wuxie soared to the sky with his true essence manifesting into a pair of wings, lifting him off the ground.

This shocked the ten envoys, and they realized that they couldn’t treat Liu Wuxie normally.

He traveled a distance of fifty meters in the blink of an eye, and dragon auras appeared before Liu Wuxie. However, he didn’t have time to collect them individually as he could hear gusts of wind behind him.

He controlled his true essence to manifest a hand and formed a black vortex, engulfing the twelve strands of dragon auras, secretly bringing out the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron again. All twelve strands of dragon auras disappeared instantly.

The closer he was to the depth of the Dragon Battlefield, the higher the density of the dragon auras. The dragon auras formed into twelve droplets of liquid, which meant he had thirteen, including the one from before.

“Brat, die!” Dozens of attacks appeared behind Liu Wuxie simultaneously, and those who rushed over had gone insane.

Liu Wuxie was in mid-air with no foothold, meaning that he couldn’t make any effective counterattacks.

At the first opportunity, Liu Wuxie chose to descend. He descended like a meteorite, dodging all the incoming attacks.

“Damn it!” The dozen people who had caught up with him also chose to descend. There were over thirty cultivators in total, fifteen of whom were in the True Core Realm. After facing such a horrifying formation, it would be tough for Liu Wuxie to come out unscathed.

When Liu Wuxie was in mid-air earlier, he didn’t hesitate to pour all of the mysterious liquid into the world in his dantian. In this life-threatening situation, Liu Wuxie chose to make a breakthrough in his cultivation.

If he still didn’t make a breakthrough, these people would undoubtedly tear him alive.

Twelve golden halos appeared behind him in addition to the previous two. Thus, Liu Wuxie had fourteen strands of dragon auras in total.

The moment Liu Wuxie chose to make a breakthrough, all the spiritual energy within tens of thousands of meters vanished. The rate at which Liu Wuxie devoured spiritual energy was terrifying.

This scene caused shock in the depth of Yu Tianyi’s eyes.

“What kind of cultivation technique does he practice? Even those from the Kunpeng Clan can’t match him when devouring spiritual energy.” Dugu Yang was shocked with disbelief.

Within his dantian, a violent gust arose as all the true essence converged into a single point, emitting a golden radiance. This was the formation of the true core.

The true core rotated violently, reaching thousands of rotations in a second, with true essence suppressed and absorbed by the true core. In less than a breath, the golden true core grew to the size of a broad bean, which was still rotating rapidly to devour true essence.

When ordinary people reached the True Core Realm, the size of their true core would be the size of a mung bean at best, and for geniuses it would be the size of a broad bean.

However, Liu Wuxie’s true core was visibly growing in size. When Liu Wuxie descended to the ground, a vast crater appeared, and his true core reached the size of an infant’s fist.

Even Liu Wuxie was surprised at the growth of his true core, with disbelief on his face. He took out a hundred thousand spirit stones and tossed them into the cauldron to speed up the process of forming his true core.

When the other experts descended, they surrounded Liu Wuxie but didn’t dare to get close.

“He’s making a breakthrough to the True Core Realm!” a man on the right exclaimed.

“What a terrifying energy fluctuation! I can’t get close to him at all!” Everyone looked at him in disbelief. Generally speaking, cultivators were at their weakest when making a breakthrough, and this was the best opportunity for them to kill Liu Wuxie.

However, the reality was quite the opposite: as soon as they got close to him, there was a powerful suction force that forcibly extracted the true essence from their bodies. At this rate, they would be wholly sucked dry of their true essence even before they got close to him.

This made everyone furious, and they could only stand ten meters away, waiting for Liu Wuxie to finish his breakthrough before acting.

Dragon auras continued to emerge in the other regions, and their appearance would trigger an intense fight.

The hundred thousand spirit stones only lasted a breath and weren’t enough to make any difference. Liu Wuxie took out all the interspatial pouches he had obtained from killing in the Dragon Battlefield as he didn’t have time to sort through them.

“I’m rich!” Liu Wuxie grinned. He discovered hundreds of thousands of spirit stones from Wu Kang and Lian Yuanzhou’s interspatial pouches. These geniuses from high-grade nations were filthy rich, as expected.

Scavenging through the interspatial pouches, Liu Wuxie obtained four hundred thousand spirit stones, which he didn’t hesitate to dump into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron.

The cauldron swiftly converted the spirit stones into spiritual liquid and poured it into the world in his dantian. This further increased the speed at which his true core was forming.

Liu Wuxie’s true core had already reached the size of a basketball, but it still showed no signs of stopping, leaving Liu Wuxie speechless. It would be troublesome if his true core weren’t done forming soon because he had practically exhausted all the pills and spirit stones on him.

The rotation speed slowed down a little, along with the growth of the true core.

As Liu Wuxie circulated the Desolate Devouring Art, all the spiritual energy in the Dragon Battlefield was rapidly drawn toward him. The commotion naturally caught the attention of countless people, who turned to see what was happening.

“Who’s making a breakthrough? Why is spiritual energy being drained so rapidly?” Geniuses of high-grade nations were shocked but couldn’t see Liu Wuxie from a distance.

The ten envoys were speechless when they saw this scene.

“Why don’t you all guess the size of his true core?” someone suggested, noting that Liu Wuxie’s true core had become more substantial than that of ordinary cultivators after absorbing so much spiritual energy.

“It won’t exceed the size of an infant’s fist!” Jiang Kaicheng said, sharing his opinion.

“Are you kidding? His true core will only be the size of a mung bean at best,” Guo Hanfei sneered. When he had reached the True Core Realm, his true core had barely reached the size of a mung bean. While his aura back then might not have been as formidable as Liu Wuxie’s, it hadn’t been weak either.

After arguing for half a day, everyone couldn’t decide. Furthermore, Liu Wuxie’s dantian was enveloped in a layer of crystal wall that prevented any divine sense from penetrating.

The wood, fire, metal, and ice attributed true essence inside the world within Lui Wuxie’s dantian poured into his true core. From the size of a basketball, the true core gradually became oval, and the speed at which it was growing slowed down.

When ordinary people reached the True Core Realm, their true cores would be grayish-brown. However, Liu Wuxie’s true core sparkled in golden, emitting boundless radiance that illuminated the world in his dantian.

The mysterious tree's roots extended deep underground, and the faint dragon aura was extracted to infuse into the true core.

A bizarre scene occurred as images of divine dragons appeared on the true core. This astonished Liu Wuxie, and he couldn’t comprehend what was happening anymore. He realized that his experiences as an Immortal Emperor were utterly useless.

However, the larger his true core, the more challenging his breakthrough would be.

In his dantian, all the true essence in the world was exhausted and infused into the true core. As the true core's rotation speed slowed, Liu Wuxie’s cultivation stabilized in the pinnacle of the first level of True Core Realm.

Even after fifteen minutes had passed, the true core still didn’t show any signs of stopping.

“This is unusual. When ordinary pepople reach the True Core Realm, their true cores remain stationary even during combat. But why is my true core still rotating?” Liu Wuxie frowned. The rotation of his true core was slow, and it looked like a celestial body floating in the universe with its orbit.

However, he soon threw the thought to the back of his mind after studying his core for half a day without finding any clues. He would just let it be as long as there weren’t any side effects.

The powerful suction force gradually weakened, and the thirty-odd people gathered in the surroundings noticed it. They raised their weapons and gradually approached Liu Wuxie.

The fourteen golden halos on him were too conspicuous. As Liu Wuxie opened his eyes, two terrifying rays shot into the distance.

Liu Wuxie swept his gaze across all thirty-four people’s faces. Fifteen were in the True Core Realm, and the rest were in the Quasi-True Core Realm. Five of the fifteen had obtained a strand of dragon aura.

“Brat, hand over the dragon auras, and we’ll spare your life!” The fifteen True Core Realm cultivators gathered and approached Liu Wuxie.

Suddenly, the world in his dantian began to revolve, suppressing all the aura sweeping towards him.

“Don’t just stand there! He just made a breakthrough, so it’s a great opportunity to kill him and seize his dragon auras.” All thirty-four people attacked simultaneously, unleashing various martial techniques.

The ground rumbled like an earthquake, with countless rocks exploding.

The Heretic Blade appeared in Liu Wuxie’s hand, and his golden true core began to rotate with a surge of violent true essence coursing through his body. A suffocating aura began to spread out of Liu Wuxie.

“This is bad!” Those who had charged over instantly realized that something was amiss. But it was already too late for them to retreat.

After reaching the True Core Realm, Liu Wuxie deeply comprehended the Fatality Blade Art. His blade was like a reaper’s scythe mowing down lives.

When Liu Wuxie swung his blade, the blade ray divided into countless blade rays that enveloped the thirty-four people like a storm.

Those in the Quasi-True Core Realm couldn’t move because the aura Liu Wuxie gave off felt like a towering mountain, suffocating them.

“Die!” Now that Liu Wuxie had reached the True Core Realm, he needed a battle to stabilize his foundation. All the Quasi-True Core Realm cultivators, except those in the True Core Realm, were killed in one exchange. Their bodies were chopped into pieces, and the scene was gruesome.

The remaining fifteen True Core Realm cultivators took deep breaths when they saw this scene.

It was expected of the Fatality Blade Art that every move was fatal. Looking at the corpses on the ground, Liu Wuxie was shocked and muttered to himself, “I did this?”

Before his breakthrough, it was difficult for him to kill so many Quasi-True Core Realm cultivators with one strike.