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“The difficulty has increased so much, do you feel any changes in the Golden Core?” Zhang Dao Xuan revealed a serious expression on his face before asking.

Lin Yi was just about to tell his master about the modifications he had made to his Golden Core when he felt a strange sensation in his heart. It was as if destiny was preventing him from speaking out. He took a deep breath, “Master, there’s a mysterious force that’s preventing me from revealing this. I am powerless to resist it.”

Zhang Dao Xuan’s face shifted slightly before he finally sighed in regret. “The secrets of heaven must not be leaked. It seems that this Golden Core Tenth Layer has unimaginable implications. Have you managed to create it yet?”

“Almost, at most another one or two years and it will be complete,” Lin Yi said with a smile, even though he still could not anticipate what effects the modification would have on his Golden Core.

“Why are you still standing there? Hurry and go meditate!” Zhang Dao Xuan promptly urged.

“Master, even a mule needs a break after working for several years non-stop,” Lin Yi said resignedly.

Zhang Dao Xuan laughed, “The Horse Demon in the Spirit Beast Dojo has been cultivating non-stop for six years without even a single day’s rest.”

“I…I have no rebuttal. Alright, I’ll go meditate now.” Lin Yi glared incredulously, then gave a wry smile. He sat down on a cushion again.

Only then did Zhang Dao Xuan nod in satisfaction, “That’s more like it. I have already guessed your plan. You aim to reach the Nascent Soul Realm before turning 150 years old, right? With just over a decade left, there’s no time for dawdling. Hurry and cultivate! I’m leaving now.”

Lin Yi watched Zhang Dao Xuan’s figure disappear. He slowly closed his eyes and continued to meditate. His Creation Method was already at the final stage of transforming his Golden Core, and once it was successful, he would achieve the Tenth Layer of the Golden Core.

A year later, he was able to overcome the final hurdle of the Creation Method, leading to the complete transformation of his Golden Core. A pop-up notification appeared in front of him, informing him that his cultivation had increased by one level. This indicated that he had successfully evolved into the Golden Core Tenth Layer.

Of course, when he was about to cross the final hurdle, Lin Yi used the Predict Crisis ability to see if any potential dangers would arise after he had evolved his Golden Core to the Tenth Layer.

What he received was a calm and quiet prediction, indicating no danger at all.

While evolving to the Tenth Layer, he kept his Divine Sense in his Dantian, wanting to see what miraculous transformations the Golden Core might experience after such a difficult transformation.

From the outside, the Golden Core didn’t seem to have changed at all, only increased slightly in size. Its color and texture remained the same as before.

Suddenly, under the actuation of the Wind Element, the Golden Core which was automatically rotating came to a halt.

Seeing this, Lin Yi’s expression changed. Could it be that the successful evolution of the Golden Core Tenth Layer caused the automatic rotation of the Golden Core to cease?

At that moment, the Golden Core started to rotate anticlockwise. This left him shocked because up to now, the Golden Core had been rotating clockwise. He had attempted before to make it rotate anticlockwise, but the Golden Core remained immobile. Of course, he only dared to attempt this after using Predict Crisis.

If he hadn’t done that, he wouldn’t have dared to experiment with such a precious thing as his Golden Core.

Now, with the successful evolution of the Golden Core to the Tenth Layer, his Golden Core had started to rotate anticlockwise all by itself. Furthermore, as it was rotating, the mysterious energy produced by the modification of the Golden Core emerged.

A clockwise rotation absorbs Spiritual Energy to increase the cultivation levels. I wonder if an anticlockwise rotation means that it will release Spiritual Energy, thereby decreasing my cultivation level. That would be ridiculous.

However, since the Predict Crisis ability showed a result of tranquillity, it probably won’t result in an automatic reduction of cultivation levels.

Suddenly, Lin Yi had an insight. If clockwise rotation means positive, does anticlockwise rotation mean negative? Thinking of it this way…

A wave of excitement spread across his face. If his speculation was correct, the opportunities brought about by the tenth level of the Golden Core would be earth-shattering.

Indeed, as the Golden Core spun, he saw changes happening within it. The Wood Element was the first to undergo a significant transformation, transitioning from a state full of life to one that carried the aura of decay and dilapidation. Even a hint of poison was intermingled amidst it.

Lin Yi couldn’t contain his excitement. When the Golden Core underwent a reversal, the Elemental attributes within also reversed. The Wood Element represented life, its polar counterpart being decay and dilapidation, and a special derivative attribute—poison.

After achieving his Golden Core, he had attempted to derive a poison attribute from the Wood Element, but to no avail.

Unexpectedly, with the advent of the tenth iteration of the Golden Core, a reversal of the Golden Core fulfilled this goal.

However, besides the Wood Element in the Golden Core, the other six elements didn’t seem to have experienced any changes.

Of the seven attributes, it seemed impossible that only the Wood Element possessed a polar counterpart. The other attributes must also have their respective reverse sides.

The only explanation was that he only recently evolved the tenth grade Golden Core, and his cultivation level or understanding of the Creation Method had not yet met the requirements, hence only the Wood Element had reversed.

As for why it was the Wood Element, the answer seemed apparent—the Wood was the beginning of the five elements. If everything went as expected, the elements next in line to undergo transformation were probably the Wind-Thunder derivatives closely linked with the Wood Element.

Lin Yi evaluated the pace of the transformation. Under normal circumstances, it would likely take almost a month to transform the Wood Element within the Golden Core completely into the antithetical Decaying Element.

However, the start of the transformation allowed him to use some decaying elements already. He slowly opened his eyes, retrieved a fresh piece of fruit from his Storage Bag, and with a thought, the Decaying Element already transformed in his Golden Core emerged from his hand.

In just a blink, the fresh fruit rapidly decayed and turned into ashes.

Lin Yi also attempted with a Flying Sword, surprisingly it, a metal object, could also slowly turn into ashes.

A look of thrill spread over his face. Wood Element cultivation generally focused on vitality. In comparison, decay and dilapidation, which were polar opposites, were also part of some spells, such as the Decay Technique used in farming. Such a spell, however, was only effective on plants and not applicable elsewhere.

Now, the Decaying Element from the transformation of the Golden Core could interact with any entity. Even the spells cast by others could possibly be rendered useless by Decaying Element.

The opportunities brought about by the tenth level of the Golden Core were incredibly powerful, enabling him to freely transform the properties of elements. He had seven attributes inside his body, almost enough to counter the attributes of anyone by using the antithesis of their attributes.

No wonder it carried such difficulty. As long as one evolved the tenth level of the Golden Core, they would possess a distinct attribute.

Lin Yi felt that he was an exception. Other cultivators of the Creation Method could probably only integrate one or two attributes at most.

He, however, integrated the elements by creating the Golden Core, invoking the Wood Element with the Wind-Thunder Element, successively using the Elemental origin, Wood, to draw in other elements and integrate them into the Golden Core, thereby creating the miracle of seven attributes.

Such a miracle was impossible to reproduce casually.

Next, Lin Yi used the Thunderstorm combination of Wind-Thunder elements in an attempt to accelerate the reversal of the Golden Core. It was a success. This method allowed his Golden Core to reverse at an increased speed, enabling the attributes to change faster.

He then tried to halt the movement of the Golden Core and start its primary trajectory. Just as before, he could control it freely. During forward motion, the decaying element became full of life, turning green, which was nothing short of magical.

Lin Yi spent a few days in his Cave Mansion to acquaint himself better with the workings of the Golden Core. Subsequently, he exited the dwelling, teleported to the Alchemy Room where the Pill Immortal Master frequently resided.

Creating a tenth Realm now, naturally, he would need to continue reaping benefits till he reached the Great Perfection and then break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.