Demonic Cultivator: Immune To Common Side Effects - Chapter 65

Chapter 65: Illusionary Realm? Side Effect Reversal Turns Reality?

As Cinder Annihilation Fairy cried out in desperation, Li Yan stepped into the field of Other Shore Flowers.

The breathtakingly beautiful field concealed a gruesome sight beneath its blooms—piles of corpses.

The white-robed women, who had been dancing tirelessly in circles, gradually came to a halt and turned their gazes toward Li Yan.

One of them, a fair-faced woman adorned with a floral wreath, reached out to Li Yan with a vacant smile, her eyes glazed over.

The System’s voice echoed in Li Yan’s mind:

Host has actively triggered a side effect!

You have been drawn into the Blood Realm Illusion by the Bloodline Emperor’s Joyful Fairy.

In an instant, the scene before Li Yan’s eyes began to distort.

The dim cavern, the God’s Tomb filled with corpses, vanished completely.

In its place appeared a paradise resembling an Immortal Realm, an illusion crafted entirely from blood.

Within this illusionary realm, white marble paved the ground, and pools overflowed with inexhaustible Spirit Liquid.

Countless fairies with graceful figures bathed in the pools, absorbing the boundless spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

It felt as if Li Yan had been transported back to the dawn of creation, to the Ancient Era when spiritual energy permeated the world in abundance.

Spiritual energy filled the air like the sea! Even a simple breath brought a sense of its dense concentration.

Yet Li Yan knew clearly that it was all an illusion.

This was merely a dying cultivator’s hallucination from the Era of Dharma Decline; there was no way spiritual energy could be this concentrated!

Side Effect Reversal Triggered: When the host enters the Blood Realm, the illusion becomes reality! The host can now absorb the spiritual energy within this realm.

Li Yan couldn’t help but marvel at the System’s message.

“I knew Side Effect Reversal was possible, but turning illusions into reality? That’s on another level!”

Even though the Blood Realm was entirely illusory, the Side Effect Reversal System allowed Li Yan to absorb genuine spiritual energy from this hallucination!

What was this?

A true Tathagata had emerged from the Western Paradise!

The Illusionary Realm was fake, but after being transformed by the Side Effect System, Li Yan had no intention of letting this opportunity go to waste.

The spiritual energy was so dense it bordered on intoxicating. He greedily sat cross-legged, absorbing the abundant spiritual energy from the illusion.

Though the Illusionary Realm was a fabrication, Li Yan was absorbing genuine spiritual energy!

Pure spiritual energy, a rarity beyond compare.

The quality of spiritual energy from the dawn of creation—a single breath sent shivers of delight from head to toe.

Unlike the Blood Cores formed by Blood Qi Cultivators, a Golden Core was beginning to coalesce within Li Yan’s dantian!

The massive influx of spiritual energy filled him with unprecedented comfort and euphoria.

“No wonder cultivators in the Immortal Art Era could achieve true immortality, while we’re stuck with imitations now.”

“The difference in spiritual energy quality is staggering! This Illusionary Realm’s energy is from the world’s beginning—its purity is unmatched.”

Li Yan’s heart overflowed with wonder. “This Illusionary Realm is marvelous! Beyond words!”

In this Immortal Realm, spiritual energy flowed as thick as a stream, and the joyous laughter of countless fairies echoed around him.

Reality blurred with illusion, as if he had arrived in paradise. Though false, it felt utterly real to Li Yan.

He could almost touch it—he felt he was about to cross the threshold into Core Formation.

A torrent of pure spiritual energy surged into Li Yan’s Dantian, untainted by the slightest impurity.

His Dantian gradually lit up with a faint golden glow, as the Five Elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—manifested around his Golden Core.

While Li Yan cultivated, the Cinder Annihilation Fairy trapped within the Demonic Eye paced anxiously.

“I had hoped this brat would become my disciple and help me rebuild my physical body.”

“That foolhardy whelp has actually been dragged into an illusion!”

“He’s doomed…”

Just as the Cinder Annihilation Fairy lamented Li Yan’s fate, she suddenly sensed a familiar power.

“What’s happening? That little whelp!”

Her residual soul, dwelling within the Demonic Eye, focused on Li Yan’s Dantian.

A faint golden light radiated from his Dantian, while Blood Qi from the surroundings surged relentlessly toward him.

“What in the world? The Bloodline Qi from the God’s Tomb is converging on him!”

“How can he possibly attempt Core Formation while surrounded by the Bloodline of an Ancient God?”

“Could it be that This Venerable One has been ignorant? Can Bloodline Qi truly be used as spiritual energy?”

At that moment, Cinder Annihilation Fairy’s lips parted slightly, her eyes wide with indescribable shock.

Any ordinary cultivator who allowed the Bloodline to enter their body would have long since died in the Illusionary Realm, their blood vessels bursting.

Yet Li Yan was actually using the Ancient God’s Bloodline to forge his own gilded physique and condense a Golden Core?

Even if Cinder Annihilation Fairy pondered this for ten days and nights, she likely wouldn’t be able to comprehend the reason.

“Does he possess some kind of Spirit Root Sacred Body capable of purifying all malevolent spirits?”

“He’s overflowing with Demonic Qi, yet radiates Holy Light… What kind of monstrous prodigy is this boy?”

Li Yan’s actions repeatedly shattered Cinder Annihilation Fairy’s worldview. As a Great Ascension Stage powerhouse, she had never witnessed such a bizarre phenomenon.

After much contemplation, Cinder Annihilation Fairy arrived at a conclusion.

“This child’s talent rivals that of a true prodigy. He must possess a Saint-Ranked Immortal Physique, one unrecorded in the ancient texts!”

“However, the scale of his Core Formation is rather… excessive.”

Meanwhile, on the ground, extraordinary phenomena began to manifest in the sky.

Dark clouds swirled, their edges crackling with golden lightning as they rubbed against each other. Electric serpents danced wildly within the turbulent mass.

Above Li Yan, on the forest floor of the Red Leaf Forest, a massive vortex of spiritual energy swirled into existence.

The sight left everyone utterly stunned.

“Someone’s achieving Core Formation?”

“In tens of thousands of years, I’ve never heard of anyone successfully forming a Core!”

“Only Ancient Cultivators could forge Golden Cores. We mere mortals can only achieve Pseudo-Cores!”

“Who could it be? They must have unearthed some Immortal Fate hidden deep beneath the earth.”

The powerhouses of the Su Clan and the four major sects of Mishan City buzzed with speculation.

Even Old Daoist Tranquil Void, lurking in the shadows, was consumed by regret. His insides twisted into knots.

“Li Yan? That brat? He’s actually forming a Core?”

“Could he become the first Golden Core cultivator in tens of thousands of years?”

Agitation and fury churned within Tranquil Void. Witnessing Li Yan’s acquisition of Immortal Fate stung worse than the annihilation of his entire clan.

“I’ve been excavating this land for over a century without finding a single trace of Immortal Fate! How dare he steal my opportunity the moment he arrives!”

The old daoist convinced himself that the Immortal Fate rightfully belonged to him, and that Li Yan, the shameless little thief, had stolen what was his.

As Li Yan’s successful Core Formation triggered earth-shattering celestial phenomena, a tempest of emotions raged within Tranquil Void’s heart.

Regret, resentment, grief, indignation, jealousy, madness…

As cultivators from the Su Clan and Mishan City swarmed into the cave, Old Daoist Tranquil Void finally regained a sliver of composure. Gritting his teeth, he snarled, “Li Yan, you little brat! The only one to successfully form a Golden Core in nearly ten thousand years…”

“Heh… hehehe… Those old ghosts will never let you escape! This old man will lie in wait right here, like a hunter watching his trap, waiting for you to crawl out.”

The Golden Core.

For cultivators in the Era of Dharma Decline, its allure was beyond words.

Countless greedy cultivators surged into the Underground Cave, eager to witness firsthand the one who had achieved Core Formation. If Li Yan fell into their clutches, they would undoubtedly tear him open and fight tooth and nail for his Golden Core!

As this murderous horde flooded into the Underground Cave, Li Yan, who had just achieved Core Formation, slowly awakened from his Illusionary Realm.

Still savoring the spiritual energy he had absorbed, he muttered to himself, “The first Illusionary Realm was spiritual energy… What other treasures might the other realms hold?”