I, the Son of the Demon Emperor, Had My Eyes Gouged Out by My Fiancée on Our Wedding Night - Chapter 70

70: Golden Core? Something Feels Off!

Boom!

Lu Yuan immediately mobilized the spiritual energy within his body.

He frantically extracted the Sage’s Spiritual Liquid and Ten Thousand Year Heavenly Marrow Liquid to condense his Golden Core.

Time was of the essence, every second counted.

Moreover, Lu Yuan had high standards for himself.

The Golden Core he aimed to condense was to be First-grade.

Golden Core stage cultivators could condense cores ranging from Ninth-grade (lowest) to First-grade (highest).

In his previous life, due to unstable foundations, Lu Yuan had only achieved a Fifth-grade Golden Core—neither exceptional nor terrible, just mediocre.

Most talented cultivators could achieve at least Seventh-grade or higher.

With proper foundation-building and rare treasures, even Fifth-grade was attainable.

Yet despite consuming countless treasures, Lu Yuan had only managed Fifth-grade, proof of how poor his foundations had been.

This was precisely why starting over was necessary.

Now, after absorbing so much Sage’s Spiritual Liquid and Heavenly Marrow Liquid, his Golden Core would undoubtedly be of a higher grade.

But Lu Yuan wanted First-grade.

With all these treasures and the Chaotic Heaven Devil Scripture from his Heavenly Demon Emperor Eye…

If he still couldn’t achieve First-grade, he might as well reincarnate again.

Rumble!

A terrifying heat erupted from Lu Yuan’s body as his energy reached its peak.

Torrents of spiritual energy surged from every part of his body into his meridians.

At this moment, his aura skyrocketed.

His cultivation teetered at a critical threshold.

“Not enough! This energy still isn’t enough!”

Lu Yuan compressed his spiritual energy further, pushing it to the absolute limit.

One final push, and First-grade Golden Core would be his.

But then—

Something unexpected happened.

Tiny, demon-rune sigils, each no larger than a tadpole, began appearing in his elixir field.

“Hmm? What’s this?”

Lu Yuan was startled by the change.

With each new sigil, his spiritual energy was completely drained.

Luckily, the cultivation chamber had no shortage of energy.

Each time he compressed his qi, he immediately replenished it from the surroundings.

“Could this be… the work of the Chaotic Heaven Devil Scripture?”

A bold thought struck him.

The scripture now operated automatically within him, as natural as breathing.

If these black demon sigils were indeed its doing…

Then achieving First-grade Golden Core was all but guaranteed.

“If it’s spiritual energy you want, then TAKE IT!”

Lu Yuan greedily devoured the surrounding energy like a whale inhaling the ocean.

The number of demon sigils in his dantian multiplied rapidly, soon reaching thousands.

“This amount is impressive, but not my limit.”

“Keep condensing!”

Whoosh!

Lu Yuan continued compressing his qi, forming more and more sigils.

Even with thousands, he hadn’t reached his body’s true capacity.

Now at Heaven-grade Foundation Establishment, achieving First-grade Golden Core would forge an unrivaled foundation.

As time passed, his dantian approached saturation.

The demon sigils numbered in the tens of thousands, densely packed like a swarm of locusts.

Then—

His spiritual energy replenished once more.

“Finally… time to impact the Golden Core!”

With a thought, the sigils surged outward, scattering across his body like spring rain.

Hummm!

In an instant, a golden light ignited in his dantian.

The sigils converged toward it, sinking into the core like stars into a black hole.

Then—

An anomaly manifested behind him.

A spectral vision of the heavens and earth unfolded, demonic energy billowed endlessly.

A Supreme Demon Sovereign emerged from a mountain of corpses, eyes pitch-black yet radiating terrifying brilliance.

Boom!

The vision shifted—

Cities burned.

Bones piled high.

Millions perished.

It was an apocalypse.

Demonic whispers echoed, haunting yet mesmerizing.

The black sigils, like tadpoles, swam out from Lu Yuan’s body.

Space rippled as black lotuses bloomed midair.

The scene was breathtakingly beautiful.

Had anyone witnessed it, their jaws would’ve hit the floor.

A Golden Core breakthrough… triggering celestial phenomena?

Just how monstrous was this talent?

In a flash, the spectral vision collapsed back into sigils, rearranging themselves into an arcane formation before plunging into Lu Yuan’s body.

CRACK!

Lu Yuan’s body shuddered violently as a palm-sized Golden Core settled into his dantian.

Then—

A pitch-black demonic aura erupted from his pores.

Countless sigils reappeared, forming another formation that glowed ominously before merging with him.

Just two formations had drained him completely.

“At this critical moment… MORE ENERGY!”

Lu Yuan roared, resuming his insatiable absorption.

Spiritual energy flooded in from the chamber.

The Golden Core solidified further, its color darkening to jet black as it hovered in his dantian.

Yet in mere moments, the chamber’s energy was nearly depleted.

Spirit stones shattered, unable to keep up with demand.

“Success!”

Lu Yuan’s joy was short-lived.

Something was wrong.

The demon sigils kept pouring into the core.

A normal Golden Core was golden-white, the size of a fingernail.

But he had swelled to the size of a goose egg, now deep violet and still growing visibly.

“Let’s see what the Chaotic Heaven Devil Scripture is truly capable of.”

Without hesitation, Lu Yuan activated the scripture again.

He’d already achieved First-grade Golden Core.

Now, with the sigils’ infusion, it was evolving further.

Instantly, Lu Yuan felt a hundred times stronger.

His foundations were unshakable.

His power soared the moment he broke through.

A strange intuition arose—

He stood at a new pinnacle, touching an invisible barrier.

Breaking it would grant access to higher realms.

His starting point now dwarfed other cultivators’.

“No matter. As long as the Golden Core forms that’s what counts!”