My Golden Core is a Star, do you call this cultivating?

Chapter 313: Desperate for Progress

By the side of the Wu Yun Carving, Qi Yuan fell into a brief contemplation.

He memorized all the marks on the carving, one by one.

"Do you think Luo Bufan really broke through the limits of martial arts and shattered the void?" Han Qianyun asked in a daze, staring at the marks left by Luo Bufan.

Luo Bufan was the most recently recorded person in history to have broken through the limits of martial arts.

As a child, Han Qianyun admired Luo Bufan the most and regarded him as an idol.

It could be said that many martial artists in the martial arts community held great admiration for Luo Bufan.

"Maybe he shattered the void, or maybe… he just died," Qi Yuan replied casually.

He remembered when he met Yu Xiu in that punitive space.

Yu Xiu… was already a dead man.

So, this world... has an underworld.

Did Yu Xiu come from the underworld?

Qi Yuan considered many possibilities.

As for breaking through the limits of martial arts, Qi Yuan already had an idea.

"It seems that I should also start preparing to break through the limits of martial arts," Qi Yuan said seriously.

"??? Wait, Mr. Qi, you want to break through the limits of martial arts?" Han Qianyun was a bit confused.

He had seen Qi Yuan in action.

This kind of cultivator, like a divine being, yet he was aiming to break through the limits of martial arts.

Was this... just a hobby?

Suddenly, he thought of Zhang Yang the Southern Lion; compared to Qi Yuan, Zhang Yang’s hobby wasn’t even a hobby.

"Do you mean that after looking at the Wu Yun Carving, you’ve realized something... Did you learn something from the mark left by Luo Bufan? Are you planning to imitate Luo Bufan to break through the limits of martial arts?"

Qi Yuan shook his head. "I won’t imitate Luo Bufan. Firstly, I have no relatives. Secondly, his path isn’t suitable for me.

The little treasures in the sea are more suitable for me."

Han Qianyun felt a surge of emotions.

Cultivators were indeed cultivators, having already discovered how to break through the limits of martial arts.

"By the way, your family is quite wealthy. Could you lend me a yacht? I’m planning to go to sea to find an opportunity to break through the limits of martial arts." Qi Yuan asked to borrow something.

He was thick-skinned and had no qualms about borrowing things when needed.

"Ahem... I don't have a yacht," Han Qianyun replied awkwardly.

Although he was a second-generation rich kid, he wasn’t living as luxuriously as some of the others.

His father died early, and the power was already in his older brother’s hands.

Compared to ordinary people, his life was heavenly, but compared to other rich kids, it was rather tight.

"But Princess Huansha definitely has one!" Han Qianyun quickly said, "You can ask her to borrow it!"

"Does the Paramecium Princess have one?" Qi Yuan's eyes lit up, and he mused, "I’ve protected her so well. She probably won’t refuse if I ask to borrow a yacht, right?"

Qi Yuan thought that this was a sure thing.

After all, he protected Princess Huansha with such care, even going so far as to nearly halt her cell division.

This extended her lifespan by at least ten minutes.

Han Qianyun, standing nearby, was speechless.

Was this called good protection?

Of course, he didn’t dare to argue with Qi Yuan.

"Let’s go find the princess and borrow a yacht," Qi Yuan said with a wave of his hand, heading back to where they had come from.

At this moment, Han Qianyun was quite nervous.

He was afraid that the princess, now turned into a paramecium, might die.

If he remembered correctly, the lifespan of a paramecium wasn’t very long.

...

A day later.

The luxurious yacht was moving slowly.

Qi Yuan stood on the yacht, his expression calm.

Princess Huansha stood behind him, a look of reverence in her eyes.

The ten minutes from the previous day were undoubtedly the most magical experience of her life.

Faced with this extraordinary man in front of her, she didn’t have a trace of her usual princessly pride; instead, she was like a servant.

"Hmm, head southwest," Qi Yuan said at this moment.

Princess Huansha immediately ordered the intelligent robot to steer the yacht in the direction Qi Yuan mentioned.

The yacht immediately sped towards the southwest.

Qi Yuan stood on the yacht, his eyes fixed on the sea surface.

He was searching for the mutated sea creature he needed.

However, he had found almost nothing over the past half-day.

Mutated sea creatures were not easy to find.

Moreover, finding a mutated sea creature with the same bloodline as Qi Yuan was even more difficult.

At this moment, Qi Yuan had transformed into a radar, constantly scanning.

Princess Huansha was full of curiosity. She had many questions in her heart but remained obediently silent.

Suddenly, Qi Yuan spoke, "Stop."

Princess Huansha, like a driver, instructed the intelligent robot to stop the yacht.

She looked at Qi Yuan curiously.

At this moment, a long sword appeared in Qi Yuan's hand.

"Go!"

With Qi Yuan's command, the blood-red sword shot into the sea.

Princess Huansha saw this and widened her eyes.

She finally saw Qi Yuan make a move again… and this blood-red sword… wasn’t it the one from before? She looked at Qi Yuan with a different expression, as if he were a god.

After the sword was unleashed, Qi Yuan sat down on the yacht.

"It’s over ten thousand meters deep. Looks like we’ll have to wait a bit."

He sensed the mutated sea creature at a depth of more than ten thousand meters.

Such depths were extremely terrifying.

On Blue Star, the immense pressure would be enough to crush any human submarine.

Even though the technology on Gongxing was a notch higher than Blue Star, descending more than ten thousand meters was still extremely challenging.

To put it in perspective, even if Princess Huansha’s country, Luli State, pooled all its resources, it couldn’t build a submarine capable of diving more than ten thousand meters.

At this moment, Qi Yuan’s target was more than ten thousand meters below the sea.

At the bottom of the ocean, more than ten thousand meters deep, on a broken piece of wood, fresh blood still strangely clung.

On many peculiar stones, various bloodstains remained, seemingly unaffected by the passage of time.

The bloated corpse of a mutated sea creature lay silently on the seabed, wrapped in a transparent crystal, as if sealed inside.

At this moment, the blood-red sword flickered, and the transparent crystal at the bottom of the sea, along with the corpse of the mutated sea creature, began to rise from the depths.

On the yacht, Qi Yuan’s expression was surprised: "Looks like my luck is quite high in this game. I encountered a remarkable sea creature on my first try."

"Game?" Princess Huansha was curious. "What game?"

"I mean, your world is a favorite game of mine, and I’m a player."

Princess Huansha was momentarily stunned, then smiled: "Mr. Qi, you sure know how to joke."

Even if Mr. Qi was a cultivator, it didn’t mean everything he said was true.

"I never joke," Qi Yuan smiled and did not continue on this topic.

To him, the people in this world were just NPCs.

Soon, a wave surged on the sea surface.

A blood-red light flashed, and the blood sword carried a transparent crystal onto the yacht.

The transparent crystal was about a meter tall, a meter long, and a meter wide, forming a cube.

Inside the transparent crystal was a strange mutant fish corpse with three legs, two fins, and three eyes.

The fish's eyes were still open, showing human-like emotions—anger and resentment.

【King of the Mo Li Fiendfish, a martial arts hero-class fish with terrifying bloodlines, once swallowed two thousand people from a small town and was sealed here.】

Qi Yuan’s eyes quickly scanned various pieces of information.

His throat moved, and he felt a thirst, a desire to break open the transparent crystal and drink the fresh blood of the Mo Li Fiendfish.

Princess Huansha looked at the monster fish, a trace of fear in her eyes: "This mutated sea creature… looks so disgusting."

As the saying goes, even if you haven’t eaten pork, you’ve seen pigs run, right?

Nowadays, that saying is outdated. Princess Huansha had never seen a mutated sea creature but had eaten them.

On Blue Star, many city folks have eaten pork but never seen a pig run.

"This is a great harvest, and…" Qi Yuan's eyes were smiling, "it’s the perfect bait."

Qi Yuan said as he took out a fishing line and tied it around the transparent crystal.

Qi Yuan was very greedy.

This mutated sea creature might be enough for him to break through to the limits of martial arts.

But since he was already out at sea, why not get a little more?

After all, the path of martial arts requires a continuous supply of blood.

With this, he used a fishing line to tie up the transparent crystal, then made a tiny hole with the blood sword.

The fishing line went through the transparent crystal, piercing the body of the mutated sea creature.

This mutated sea creature hadn’t woken up at this point; it seemed to still be asleep.

"All set, time to fish!"

Qi Yuan happily tossed the mutated sea creature into the sea.

"With your ancestors as bait, you all should bite, right?"

The blood martial arts path is all about devouring. With an unconscious ancestor as bait, wouldn't the other mutated sea creatures come flocking?

After setting the bait, Qi Yuan sat back down and continued his cultivation.

All he had to do now was wait for the eager-to-progress mutated sea creatures to deliver themselves to him.

"A world of illusions, a boring pastime game. It’s more satisfying to have some killing," Qi Yuan sighed.

How to play matters in day-to-day life. But after meeting Yu Xiu, he had a premonition that soon, he would be able to unlock new maps and start some serious combat.

About an hour later, a smile appeared in Qi Yuan's eyes. "Finally, they're coming."

It seemed like he could see through the surface of the ocean as his hand suddenly pointed downward.

From within the sea, a mutated creature, resembling a fish, suddenly leaped out and landed on the yacht.

A smile of satisfaction appeared on Qi Yuan’s face. "Since you’re so eager to improve yourself, I promise that after you die, I’ll scatter your ashes in the ocean, letting you return to your roots."

Qi Yuan was becoming more and more convinced that he was a good person.

He was generous to those who were eager to progress.

As he spoke, he casually grabbed the mutated sea creature.

The fish-like creature, desperate for progress, exploded instantly.

One drop of blood was extracted from the creature’s body, while the rest of it turned to mush.

With a flick of his hand, Qi Yuan summoned a flame.

The remaining mush was reduced to dust under the fire.

"I always keep my promises and never deceive sea creatures."

With those words, Qi Yuan scattered the dust into the sea.

Meanwhile, he swallowed the drop of blood.

"Hmm... My martial arts talent has increased slightly, but the bottleneck... it's still a bit far off."

Qi Yuan longed for a status panel; it would make things so much easier.

He felt that if he had a status panel, allowing him to monitor his progress in real-time, his cultivation speed would definitely skyrocket.

As time passed, more and more mutated sea creatures gathered near Qi Yuan.

On the first day, he caught eighteen of them.

On the second day, the number of sea creatures increased significantly, reaching a total of one hundred and thirty.

This made Qi Yuan sigh, "There are indeed many creatures in this world eager to progress."

As the days went by, Qi Yuan captured an increasing number of mutated sea creatures.

Moreover, the speed at which they appeared was accelerating.

Meanwhile, on the surface of the ocean, a large yacht appeared.

The yacht was owned by a pair of siblings, accompanied by about a dozen other wealthy second-generation individuals.

At that moment, a man in black leaned against the railing, staring at the sea, seemingly lost in thought.

As the owner of the yacht, Liu Yu, walked over gracefully, she looked at the man in black with curiosity.

This man in black was someone they had found at sea.

According to him, he had been swimming and ran into some trouble, leading to his rescue by the sibling pair, after which he regained consciousness on their yacht.

"Chen Fan, you seem to be deep in thought. What’s on your mind?" Liu Yu asked curiously, eyeing Chen Fan’s handsome face.

This man, although young, had an air of world-weariness about him.

Liu Yu, who had a thing for "mature men," was quite taken by this.

"I have something on my mind... Miss Liu, could you steer the yacht in the direction I suggest? I will reward you generously afterward," Chen Fan said, his eyes seeming to penetrate the depths of the ocean, where he saw a mutated sea creature.

Over the past few days, he had spotted more than one mutated sea creature heading toward the same location.

He had a bad feeling about this.

"This..." Liu Yu hesitated.

They had planned this outing meticulously.

However, looking at Chen Fan’s handsome face, Liu Yu smiled, "Not a problem."

"Thank you," Chen Fan said, cupping his fists in gratitude, looking rather righteous.

About three hours later, Qi Yuan sat on his yacht, a satisfied look on his face.

Today, he had caught another two hundred mutated sea creatures.

The amount of blood he had gathered was growing larger and larger.

At this moment, he couldn’t help but sigh, "Sigh, these sea creatures are so diligent and eager to progress. How could I possibly justify slacking off?"

Just then, Princess Huansha approached, "Mr. Qi, a yacht not far away has sent a signal. They want to board our ship, saying it's a matter of great urgency."

"Oh?" Qi Yuan looked up and immediately noticed the yacht in the distance.

His gaze quickly locked onto the man in black on the yacht.

In an instant, he detected a hint of death energy.

"A person similar to Yu Xiu?"

Qi Yuan’s interest was piqued.

If it had been someone else, he might have outright refused.

But he was very curious about people like Yu Xiu.

"Let’s meet."

"Alright."

About ten minutes later, Liu Yu and her brother accompanied the man in black, Chen Fan, onto Princess Huansha's yacht.

Liu Yu had a gun holstered at her waist, just in case of any unexpected situations.

Upon seeing that there was only one man and one woman on the yacht, Liu Yu's wariness eased.

This couple looked like just another pair of wealthy second-generation people out on a honeymoon.

At this moment, the man in black, Chen Fan, spoke up. He looked at Qi Yuan, then at the sea, his eyes narrowing. "Are you fishing?"

Qi Yuan smiled. "If I answer your question, will you answer one of mine? That would only be fair."

Qi Yuan's response left Chen Fan momentarily stunned.

He had encountered all sorts of people, but this was the first time he had met someone who spoke to him like this.

"Alright," he agreed after a brief pause.

"Yes, I’m fishing.

Now it’s my turn. How does one enter your world?" Qi Yuan asked casually, stretching his waist.

Chen Fan’s expression changed slightly.

Liu Yu, her brother, and Princess Huansha were all confused, not understanding what Qi Yuan was talking about.

At this moment, Chen Fan looked at Qi Yuan more closely. "You wouldn’t want to enter it. You have to die first… to get in."