I Cultivate Immortality With Scientific Thinking

Chapter 54: Thoughts on the Gold Core

"But this is just a low-level alchemy method. While it is worth celebrating, we should not be proud and complacent, but continue to move forward."

After the joy, Lin Chen put away the smile on his face and admonished himself in his heart.

Using the Five Elements method to refine pills is just extracting the medicinal properties needed from Spirit Medicine and condensing them into non-toxic Qi Pills. It is still far from the true path of alchemy, Mahayana.

In Lin Chen's imagination, low-level alchemy is about extracting the medicinal properties needed from Spirit Medicine through various means, achieving perfection and purity without impurities or toxins.

Mid-level alchemy is not limited to Spirit Medicine, but uses all things in the world to refine pills. Based on Lin Chen's knowledge from his previous life, there are roughly five categories.

For example, the mainstream in the current Immortal Cultivation World is the herbal stream that uses plant essences as medicine.

There is also the beast pill stream that uses the essence of the internal organs, fur, scales, and blood of various beasts to improve one's own innate Divine Ability and comprehend the legendary Divine Ability "Embryonic Transformation," thus transforming into the most perfect race, the "Heavenly Human."

Or using gold and iron ore as medicine to refine a sword pill, tempering it day and night with True Qi, creating the "Mineral Pill" stream that can illuminate the nineteen provinces with its sword light.

There is also the Qi Pill stream that collects the essence of the sun, moon, earth, magnetic force, and purple energy, melting them into one pill, using the essence to form pills.

Finally, there is the human pill stream that uses humans as medicine, such as the Purple River, Full Moon Baby, and young boys and girls.

As for high-level alchemy, in Lin Chen's opinion, it is no longer simply about refining pills, but about alchemists expressing their cultivation and understanding of this world.

The chaotic creation of the world, the division of purity and impurity, the derivation of yin and yang, at this stage, alchemists are no longer refining pills, but refining life, refining creation!

According to Lin Chen's speculation, this level of alchemy has the most obvious manifestation in this world, which is the breakthrough from the Gold Core stage to the Nascent Soul stage, the sublimation of flesh and blood life into a spiritual creature!

This change and promotion of the essence of life is a manifestation of creation!

"But if I can comprehend this level, I would at least reach the Nascent Soul stage or even the Soul Formation stage." Lin Chen smiled self-deprecatingly, then shook his head and brought his thoughts back to reality.

"I should focus on the present for now."

He looked at the pill stored in the jade stone in his hand. The pill was completely green, but had a hint of illusion, indicating its pure and non-toxic spiritual essence.

Although storing this pill in the Spirit Stone and then placing it in the Entering Spirit Meridian could continuously assimilate spiritual essence and enhance its medicinal properties, it would probably take decades before he could complete the Qi Refining Stage cultivation. But obviously, Lin Chen couldn't wait that long.

"This pill is good, but there's no need to worry too much about it. When it's time to use it, I'll use it." Lin Chen smiled lightly.

He placed the pill-shaped jade stone near his mouth and gently inhaled. Instantly, the round Spirit Pill turned into a wisp of pill energy and flew into Lin Chen's mouth, directly entering his dantian.

In his dantian, the pill energy was gently enveloped by three-colored clouds and mist, directly transforming into True Qi without any hindrance. Even the process of refining was skipped!

"The True Qi transformed by this Spirit Pill probably fills about one-thousandth of my dantian..." Lin Chen carefully felt it and murmured.

In other words, as long as he persisted in refining pills every day, in a maximum of three years, he could naturally advance to the Foundation Building Stage and become a high-ranking member of the sect, enjoying the longevity of two hundred years!

In other words, before the age of twenty-four, he could naturally advance to the Foundation Building stage and become the youngest person to advance to the Foundation Building stage in the history of Azure Cloud Sect!

"Now that the path to the Foundation Building Stage is clear, the next step is to consider the cultivation of the Foundation Building stage and the Gold Core stage." Lin Chen rubbed his forehead and his eyes flickered.

Scientific research, from establishing a topic to conducting experiments, and then obtaining results, is a very lengthy process. Lin Chen cannot wait until he reaches the Gold Core stage to consider its mysteries. He must plan ahead.

He also needs to understand the secrets and goals of the Foundation Building stage cultivation.

"The cultivation of the Foundation Building stage is also divided into three stages: Condensing Liquid, Refining Form, and Violet Palace. Interestingly, these three stages correspond to the human body's Qi, Essence, and Spirit."

"After completing these three stages of cultivation, cultivators gather the essence, energy, and spirit within their bodies to condense a flawless Gold Core, right?"

"I originally thought that cultivators only needed to write their consciousness into the Entering Spirit Qi. Now it seems that they also need to write the information of Essence and Qi. Otherwise, they cannot transform into spiritual creatures, but only become unpredictable spiritual energy?"

Lin Chen pondered.

As far as he knew, the cultivation in the Foundation Building stage involved filling the dantian with liquid true essence.

Refining the body involved merging the liquid true essence with blood, refining the whole body, removing impurities, and making up for innate deficiencies, thus reaching the state of a leakless body.

The Violet Palace involved using liquid true essence to penetrate the dantian, opening up the mud pill palace, condensing the Violet Palace, and achieving the fusion of spiritual energy and memory.

"With the help of the non-toxic Qi Pill, the cultivation in the Foundation Building stage is not a problem for me. And in my last experiment with True Qi vaporization, it seems that due to my transmigration experience, I accidentally condensed the prototype of the Violet Palace. Even if it's just a prototype, it may not be useful for a while, but it will be helpful in the future..."

"As for refining the body, the blood cultivation technique I obtained last time gave me some inspiration... Well, in that case, it seems that there are no problems with my cultivation in the Foundation Building stage. I only need to consider the path to the Gold Core stage?"

Lin Chen suddenly realized that he seemed to have no problems with his cultivation in the Foundation Building stage.

After all, for so many years, he had been studying the essence, energy, and spirit, which happened to have similarities with the cultivation in the Foundation Building stage. This would greatly reduce the time he needed for cultivation. So now, he only needed to consider how to proceed on the path to the Gold Core stage.

"Gold Core, Gold Core. According to the records I saw in the Sutra Pavilion, to break through to the Gold Core stage, cultivators need to integrate their essence, energy, and spirit, and also grasp the mysterious Dao Rhyme?"

"What the hell? The essence, energy, and spirit are already within the human body, blending with each other, becoming one. Why do they still need to be integrated? And what is this Dao Rhyme? Why do these cultivators always like to play these word games?!"

Lin Chen furrowed his brow deeply.

These mysterious and incomprehensible terms had puzzled countless peak Foundation Building stage cultivators, forcing them to pursue Core Formation spiritual objects and Core Condensation.

And the explanations given by those high-level cultivators were like "The mysterious gate of the female, this is called the root of heaven and earth..." Anyway, if you understand it, you understand it. If you don't, there's nothing you can do.

In short, it all came down to something mysterious and incomprehensible, transmitted from heart to heart.

Perhaps those disciples of major sects could understand, but for Lin Chen, who was a transmigrator, it was like a teacher lecturing on a bunch of advanced mathematical formulas and asking if you understood them. It was simply torture.

"If only I could conduct experiments to explore the mysteries. But when it comes to experiments involving the Gold Core..."

Lin Chen suddenly remembered the accident in the laboratory last time and fell silent.

Last time, a Foundation Building stage cultivator, who was the most rubbish, half-crazy, and even on the verge of death, created by himself, had forced him to destroy an underground space at the cost of countless white phosphorus and kerosene, just barely suppressing him. If it were a Gold Core stage cultivator, even the most rubbish one...

"Forget it, forget it. Safety comes first in experiments. Let's think of other ways!" Lin Chen shook his head decisively, removing the idea from his mind.

"Perhaps I can turn my research ideas into a cultivation technique and spread it out, allowing other cultivators to step on the landmines for me, perfect it, and then retrieve it, absorbing the ideas and wisdom of all beings to pave the way for my Gold Core stage?" Lin Chen's eyes flickered, but then he fell into contemplation.

This approach was good, after all, an individual's wisdom and ideas were limited. No matter how intelligent one was, there were always blind spots that were not considered. But collective wisdom was different.

However, there were three problems with doing this:

First, the Lingnan region was too vast. Even if he advanced to the Foundation Building stage, he would not be able to monitor the situation of the cultivators who practiced the technique in real-time. And even if there were problems and improvements, the other party might not record them.

Second, the resources in the Lingnan Immortal Cultivation World were scarce. Even with a complete inheritance, there were very few cultivators who could advance to the Gold Core stage, let alone the technique Lin Chen provided, which was speculative and incomplete. How could they achieve Gold Core?

Third, even if by some stroke of luck, a Gold Core cultivator emerged and perfected his research ideas, at that time, he himself was only a Foundation Building stage cultivator. What right did he have to obtain the corresponding information from him to explore the mysteries of the Gold Core?

"This idea is not feasible." Lin Chen rubbed his chin, thinking carefully. "Perhaps I can lower the requirements. I don't necessarily need Gold Core cultivators. As long as there is an experimental subject who can integrate the essence, energy, and spirit, maybe I can explore the so-called Dao Rhyme..."

"If I go with this idea, I don't even need cultivators. Mortals will do, after all, it's much safer." The more Lin Chen thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

But now there was still one problem...

"Mortals can only cultivate things like Qi and blood. How can they be involved in the mysteries of integrating the essence, energy, and spirit?"

(End of this chapter)