Chapter 138.1: That Is Not The Sun, but My Golden Core

In the Canglan World.

Countless people lifted their heads and looked toward the heavens. Out of nowhere, a small sun had appeared beside the vast, blazing sun. Compared to the great sun, the smaller sun seemed insignificant. Yet anyone who saw it couldn't hide the shock in their eyes.

"There’s another sun in the sky!"

"What’s happening? What kind of phenomenon is this?"

"This isn’t an illusion! It's real!"

In the northern ice plains, a slumbering Ice Dragon opened its eyes, its blue pupils glanced lazily at the suns in the heavens. It murmured, "I’ve slept too long, I must be hallucinating."

Then it rolled over and promptly went back to sleep.

In the Eastern Holy Continent, a woman bathed in divine radiance looked upward, full of disbelief. "Who is it? The one who illuminates all the heavens..."

Whenever a new star appeared, it signified the rise of a new divine one.

In Central Heaven, a white-robed man was fishing. Suddenly, his hand trembled and his fishing rod snapped in half.

He stared at the new sun, looking very concerned. "Two suns cannot exist in the same heaven. Is an immortal challenging the divine throne?"

Then, he sighed deeply. "Troubled times, troubled times... I hope the storm doesn't reach here. There isn't much time left, we must move! If we delay any further, we’ll be caught in the disaster!"

Countless gazes fixed upon the new sun, all filled with awe and fear.

***

Meanwhile, in Divine Radiance Sect.

All Peak Masters had gathered, with Lord Withered Tree seated among them. They stared at the new sun in the sky.

"Why did another sun suddenly appear?"

"No idea."

"There must be great terror behind this!"

"That sun shouldn’t be stared at for too long. If cultivators look at it too much, their memories might worsen."

"What? That can happen?"

The entire sect buzzed with heated discussion, every cultivator discussing the new sun in the sky.

Just then, Lord Withered Tree's stern voice cut through the noise. "What use is there in debating the sun? Will it improve your cultivation? Will it help you break through? I summoned you here to discuss the Hundred Nations Blood War and the Bright Palace!"

The Peak Masters fell silent at once, no longer daring to discuss the newly appeared sun. Even if another sun appeared in the sky, meals still had to be eaten, didn't they? Matters of this level were far beyond the reach of small cultivators like them. What they should worry about were their livelihoods.

"Kang Fulu has stepped into Core Formation realm, and Qi Yuan is Seven-Colored Peak Master's disciple. We absolutely cannot hand these two over!"

"Agreed! We must not surrender them!"

"

Hmph

! The Bright Palace is far too domineering. To initiate the Hundred Nations Blood War, do they have no shame at all?"

"

Haa...

Without a mighty expert to stand up for the Hundred Nations, the outcome is already decided."

Everyone grew dejected. Weakness itself was a sin.

Bright Palace had singlehandedly suppressed a hundred nations. Hundreds of kingdoms and thousands of sects existed, yet not one could stand against it. They could only be pushed around by Bright Palace, and be treated as pawns in the Hundred Nations Blood War. The Great Shang Kingdom suffered the worst fate, labeled as part of the demonic camp.

Any cultivator could kill someone from the demonic camp without restraint. Most likely, many neighboring forces were already sharpening their blades, eager to take advantage of the chaos to invade Great Shang and plunder its resources.

For Great Shang, this was a calamity. Every power within the kingdom would be dragged into it, unable to escape. The entire kingdom was in turmoil. Countless rogue cultivators were already preparing to flee this war-torn land.

An elder sighed helplessly. "In the Hundred Nations, we can't find even a single Violet Palace cultivator. How can we possibly fight against the Bright Palace? Though Kang Fulu and Qi Yuan are talented, they still need time to grow. Even if Kang Fulu reached Nascent Soul and Qi Yuan formed his Golden Core, nothing would change."

Meanwhile, there were dozens of Violet Palace realm cultivators within the Bright Palace. One could say the faction was the undisputed ruler of the Eastern Cuiyun Continent.

Of course, the elders didn’t even know that Bright Palace possessed the incomplete Yin Spirit weapon, the Emperor Dragon Shock Crown. Otherwise, they would’ve fallen into despair. A single stroke from the incomplete treasure could easily erase the kingdom from the continent. Not even Violet Palace realm elites could withstand its power.

"I have news from Ling Tian Pavilion. The Blood-Clothed Sword God of the Divine Flower Society was born in our Hundred Nations. The people of Bright Palace humiliated him, even forcing his daughter to live in a dog kennel. It seems they had a quarrel. Perhaps this will delay the Bright Palace’s attack."

"Bright Palace is truly abhorrent. They call themselves the true leaders of the Cuiyun Continent, yet they act worse than beasts! There's an old saying, ‘Revenge should not involve a man's wife and children.’ Forcing someone’s daughter to live in a dog house is utterly disgusting!"

"

Haa...

We already know they are disgusting, but what can we do?"

"The Blood-Clothed Sword God’s cultivation is at most at late-stage Nascent Soul. He’s no match for Bright Palace."

The crowd murmured anxiously, faces dark with worry. They were simply powerless against the Bright Palace.

***

On the Seven-Colored Peak.

Qi Yuan stared at his reflection, feeling a bit melancholic. "Bai Ze, Foolish Daoist, South Palace Big Dog, Chen Huan, Zhang Sheng..."

He recalled the game storyline of Flowing Wind World, memorizing the important characters. As for the rest, he simply used the Great Forgetfulness Sutra to temporarily erase them.

"I finally became a Core Formation Master. This time, I thought it was my mouth that gained some special power, but who would've thought it was my eyebrows instead?"

After stepping into Qi Refinement, his eyes could see hidden information. After attaining Heavenly Dao class, his ears could pick up strange sounds.

Now that he had formed his Golden Core, he gained another ability: the power to foresee fortune and disaster through his eyebrows. If his left eyebrow twitched upward, good fortune was coming. If his right eyebrow twitched upward, disaster was on its way.

Indeed, not the eyes, but the eyebrows. This was truly an excellent ability. In future game dungeons and boss fights, he’d know whether to fight or flee just from a twitch of his eyebrow.

Simply divine!

Leaving his little wooden hut, he sighed. "Now that I’m a Core Formation Master, living in a wooden hut beside my junior sister lowers my status. I should upgrade to a brick house."

He ran into Jiang Lingsu.

She looked troubled. "Senior Brother, did you see it? There’s an extra sun in the sky."

Her anxiety had begun from that moment. Back then, inside the Heaven-Earth Mirror, she had seen the world drowned in blood and suffering, but she had never seen an extra sun. This meant the heavenly order had shifted. She had no idea whether this was a blessing or disaster.

"Sun?" he asked.

Qi Yuan had been thinking how to steer the conversation toward the little sun all along. Unexpectedly, she brought it up first, thus he naturally seized his chance.

Qi Yuan pointed proudly at the sky. "That’s not a sun, that’s my Golden Core."

To gain glory and not show it off was akin to wearing brocade robes in the dead of night, utterly wasted. At last, he had found a chance to show off!

Jiang Lingsu froze when she heard his words. Her anxiety vanished instantly. She laughed, her chest swaying slightly. "Senior Brother, you really know how to spout nonsense. Don't joke about such things! If the god who casts that sun hears you, they'll cause you misfortune."

"More often than not, the truth is something only a handful know." Qi Yuan naturally kept his mouth shut. With a hint of longing, he gazed at the second sun. "In that sun, there’s still one more person..."

Canary was still on the star.

As a wealthy lady, Jiang Lingsu was sincerely being generous. "Senior Brother, you may be talented, but you've only just broken through to Foundation Establishment. You’re still far from forming a Golden Core. The core’s carrier is even more important than anything in your current realm. Senior Brother, would you like to borrow some spirit stones to buy something better?"

However, blazing with heroic pride, Qi Yuan regarded money as nothing more than dirt and dung. "Can spirit stones buy a star?"

Yeah, no way!

In the vast universe, unlimited stars and planets were waiting for him to devour. All free of charge. If he didn't eat them, wouldn't that be a waste?

Jiang Lingsu decided to switch the topic. "Senior Brother, my elder sister will be arriving tomorrow. I’m just giving you a heads-up."

"Most welcome!"

After chatting for a while longer, Jiang Lingsu returned to her wooden hut to cultivate.

Qi Yuan murmured to himself, "So, becoming a Core Formation Master is just this?"

His life didn’t seem to have changed at all.