Gritting his teeth, Bai Lin glared at the other four generals. The generals, fully aware that they were in the wrong, cleared their throats, then cast longing glances at Bai Xiaochun before turning and leaving.
Bai Xiaochun blinked a few times, looked around, and then turned his attention to Bai Lin. Feeling a bit embarrassed, he said, “Um, they came looking for me....”
Face grim, Bai Lin walked over to Bai Xiaochun.
“Xiaochun, those four bastards are real tricksters. Don’t listen to them. You stay here with me. Don’t worry, I’ll keep you safe, and I’ll keep you supplied with whatever medicinal plants you need. Compensation won’t be a problem either, nor will Nascent Soul Pills!” With that, he winced a bit as he pulled two Nascent Soul Pills out of his bag of holding and handed them over to Bai Xiaochun.
“I only have two at the moment. Take them. With a bit of time, I can come up with a way to get a third.” Inwardly, Bai Lin was cursing at the fact that he now needed to come up with yet another Nascent Soul Pill. The truth was that they weren’t impossible to acquire, but it always took a long time to save up enough resources to buy one.
Bai Xiaochun took the two Nascent Soul Pills, his heart quivering with anticipation. Then he looked back at Bai Lin, suddenly struck with how well the general was treating him. And then he thought about how he would be continuing to serve as the man’s subordinate for some time, and his expression suddenly turned very serious. Shaking his head, he said, “What kind of person do you think I am, General?! If I wanted to join one of the other legions, I could have agreed before you showed up. General, don’t you understand why I was buying time?
“I can’t afford to provoke those four generals! Therefore, I also couldn’t simply refuse them. And that was why I was waiting for you to come take control of the situation!” With that, he flicked his sleeve. Looking more serious than ever, he continued, “General, you have treated me with great kindness. How could I possibly cause difficulties for such a benefactor? Two Nascent Soul Pills are valuable enough on their own. I won’t take a third from you even if you offer it!” With that, he clasped hands and bowed deeply in salute, feeling very pleased with himself. From what he could tell, his words just now had brimmed with righteous intent, and had been worded perfectly.
Regardless of how much Bai Lin truly trusted what Bai Xiaochun had just said, he was still moved. After looking at Bai Xiaochun for a long moment, he realized that he was definitely the type of person who knew how to act properly in front of others. Taking a deep breath, he said, “Xiaochun, if possible, try to build up enough battle credit over the next ten years to become a major general!
“If you can reach that rank, your status and position will be completely different. Even your River-Defying Sect’s position will change for the better. When major generals return from the five legions to the sect, they become elders of the Hall of Steel Veins. That’s a status that surpasses the position of anyone in any of the other halls!
“If you can reach that level, you would be in one of the most powerful groups in the entire Starry Sky Dao Polarity Sect! As long as you didn’t ever betray the sect, you could do almost anything you wanted!” Bai Lin didn’t offer any more detailed explanation than that. After making a few more vague statements, he turned and left.
Afterward, Bai Xiaochun thoughtfully walked back into his room. Then he pulled out his command medallion and checked how much battle credit was required to be promoted to major general, and gasped.
“That much...?”
He was left almost completely speechless. He had no idea how the other major generals had ever managed to get promoted; it took more than a hundred times as much battle credit as it took to get promoted to colonel. That basically implied that it would take a hundred battles such as the one he had just fought in to get that promotion.
“Well forget that, then,” he thought. “I’ll just stick with being a colonel.” Feeling a bit discouraged, he shook his head and put his command medallion away. Then he pulled out a Nascent Soul Pill, whereupon his eyes yet again began to shine.
“The great circle of Core Formation....” Trying to keep calm, he set up some restrictive spells around his residence, and then told Zhao Long and the others that he would be going into secluded meditation. By the time all his preparations were complete, it was deep into the night.
When everything was ready, he slowly put one of the Nascent Soul Pills into his mouth!
Instantly, he began to tremble, and his mind filled with rumbling sounds. Then, shocking energy of heaven and earth surged through him, converging in the location of his Gold Core.
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Chapter
505: Great Circle of Gold Core!
RUMBLE!
The boundless power of the Nascent Soul Pill slammed into him like an enraged wave, pouring into his Gold Core and causing his qi passageways to thrum.
His Gold Core, which was filled with a Heaven-Dao aura and nine spiritual seas, rumbled as the spiritual power of heaven and earth crashed into it, causing his cultivation base aura to immediately begin to rise.
Before, he had been in the late Gold Core stage, and very close to the great circle. The frigid qi within him had already reached the eighty percent level, and once he reached the one hundred percent level, he would achieve the breakthrough he sought.
As the energy of heaven and earth filled his Gold Core and its nine spiritual seas, he unleashed his Frigid School Will-Evolving Incantation, causing frigid qi to pulse out rapidly!
That wasn’t ordinary frigid qi, it was of the Frigid Master level!
Once he entered the great circle; his frigid qi would also break through to the Frigid Paragon level!!
As a Frigid Paragon, he would be able to freeze portions of Heavenspan River water. Furthermore, when combined with his other extraordinary abilities and powers, he would be able to freeze anyone in the Core Formation stage in place, and even kill them with a mere thought.
The aura of a Frigid Paragon could even cause major problems for Nascent Soul experts!
After his breakthrough into the great circle, the power of his Heaven-Dao Gold Core would be able to unleash its true potential. It was the most powerful type of Gold Core, the type which could shake the Nascent Soul stage!
Before, he had only been able to fight the Nascent Soul tribal chief by relying on Godly Vestige Pills and his incredible fleshly body strength. But once he stepped into the great circle, then even if he faced ordinary soul cultivators with divine abilities of the Nascent Soul stage, he would definitely be able to fight them toe to toe!
“The great circle of the Gold Core stage....” Such thoughts filled Bai with anticipation, as well as excitement. He had been waiting for this day for a long time, and therefore, he calmed his thoughts and focused on the Frigid School Will-Evolving Incantation, sending pulses of frigid qi out of his body.
Frigid qi filled the building, instantly freezing everything over. In fact, from the outside, the building almost looked like an enormous ice cube!
As the cracking sounds rang out, Zhao Long and the others who were standing guard looked on in shock. Moments later, even some of the nearby pill furnaces were frozen just like the building.
Thankfully, Bai Xiaochun had warned them ahead of time of what to expect, and they were some distance away. Were they not, they very well could have been in danger of being frozen in place.
“What technique does our exalted colonel cultivate!?”
“That... that frigid qi is so strong! It’s horrifying!!”
Zhao Long and Liu Li exchanged glances, as did everyone else. Even as they looked on, frigid qi filled more than half of the Armory!
Everywhere it went became a world of frozen ice!