My Master Knows It All

973: Chapter 262 973: Chapter 262 In the Cultivation World, there is a phenomenon.

None of the cultivators who have achieved the Ten Different Phenomena of Golden Core Great Perfection are particularly old; even those with a Perfect Completion Golden Core are not very advanced in years.

After all, those who can accomplish Pill Fusion with ten Golden Cores are considered geniuses.

It’s impossible for them to stay at the Golden Core Stage for an extended period.

They will break through to the Wind Fire Tribulation level very soon, either continuing to accumulate strength until they are completely confident to transcend, or they will face the Wind Fire Heavenly Tribulation when they can no longer accrue power, risking either breakthrough or bodily harm.

Or else, they confident enough to directly face the Heavenly Tribulation!

However, during the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, it was different.

There were some cultivators with the Ten Different Phenomena of Golden Core Great Perfection, or those with a Perfect Completion Golden Core.

Because the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth was approaching, they chose to make sacrifices for their sects, halting their own breakthrough to maintain their Golden Core Stage, to ensure that their sects had sufficient strength to safely navigate through the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth.

Within the Hundred Peaks Sect, Nie Jie was someone who made such a sacrifice.

In fact, he could have entered the Wind Fire Tribulation realm already, but for the sake of the Hundred Peaks Sect, he chose to remain at the Ten Different Phenomena Golden Core Great Perfection.

And this sacrifice, in terms of how many years it would last, depended on the sect in question.

Some geniuses, having given up cultivation thirty to fifty years in advance, managed to maintain their Golden Core Stage.

Gu Ling, however, sacrificed twenty years for his sect.

During these twenty years, he could have cultivated Divine Skills, perfected his swordsmanship, and studied the Six Arts, but the sect did not allow him to break through the Golden Core Stage.

In reality, twenty years is not a long time.

After all, he was just an ordinary cultivator who had completed Pill Fusion with ten Golden Cores.

He felt that the truly unfortunate one was his senior brother, Huang Feng.

Huang Feng, as a Ten Different Phenomena Golden Core Great Perfection cultivator, was forced by the sect to stop making breakthroughs sixty years before the onset of the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth.

However, three years after Huang Feng’s brother achieved Ten Different Phenomena Golden Core Great Perfection, another in his sect also reached the state of Ten Different Phenomena Golden Core Great Perfection.

That person should be called junior brother, because he was younger than both him and Huang Feng.

Although the junior arrived at the breakthrough later, he cultivated faster and even being another of the Ten Different Phenomena Golden Core Great Perfection, Huang Feng was no match for him.

And for that junior brother, the sect did not demand that he remain at the realm of Ten Different Phenomena Golden Core Great Perfection.

Because the talent of this junior brother was so high that the sect didn’t limit his progress.

Of course, that junior brother was indeed a genius, managing to achieve Earth Immortal before the advent of the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth.

The most unfortunate was senior brother Huang Feng, who awaited his breakthrough for sixty years in advance.

Together with the hundred years the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth was predicted to last, Huang Feng was essentially facing a loss of one hundred sixty years.

This was not a short time by any means.

But this was not the worst of it.

Ten years before the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth began, their sect produced another genius of Ten Different Phenomena Golden Core Great Perfection, and although he achieved it later, his strength was even greater than that of Huang Feng.

Originally, it was almost certain within the sect that Huang Feng would be the Sect Leader during the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth.

But due to the newly emerged genius, Huang Feng ended up only as the Vice Sect Master.

Even though Huang Feng was the most senior among the Ten Different Phenomena Golden Core Great Perfection cultivators in the sect, he was merely the Vice Sect Master.

Because, the Cultivation World has always been ruled by the hierarchy of strength.

Just like him, he was also one of the most senior among those in his sect who completed Pill Fusion with ten Golden Cores, but no one coddled him for it, and the task of venturing out on an adventure was still handed to him.

He hesitated, being at Golden Core Stage, and didn’t dare to cultivate further, for fear of triggering the Wind Fire Tribulation.

Thus, for these years, he had been wandering outside, exploring.

He had visited many places in East Breeze; in East Breeze, only in the most remote, harsh, and barren wastelands would one encounter a situation like this where so many flights were needed just to see a city, but the region he was currently in was not one of the harsh extremes, and furthermore, the city below was very small.

“It seems that the array in this region is not very impressive,” said Gu Ling as he flew, looking down at the city below, and speaking to his fellow sect brothers around him, “In our East Breeze, within a similar stretch of land, you would see at least three cities by now, but now we see only one.

“This is actually good for us.

This region’s development is so poor, with fewer mortals, there will be a lower chance of mortals with suitable cultivation talents, leading to fewer cultivators.

The Immortal Sects here will be weaker.

This is a great advantage for us.”

Immediately, someone asked with puzzlement, “Senior brother, if there are fewer cultivators here, wouldn’t the resources we can seize from their Immortal Sects be less as well?

Why is this a good thing?”

After seeing another continent earlier, they had made a decision; if they were nearing the Central Five Provinces, naturally there was nothing much to say, and they would have to think about survival.