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Evergreen Pavilion.
After celebrating his achievement for several days, Fang Xi returned to the closed-door cultivation room.
Although achieving the Golden Core was gratifying, the path ahead was still very long.
Besides sending messages to Ruan Xingling and others to inform them of his Core Formation, he prepared for another round of cultivation.
"On Dragon Fish Island, the second-order spiritual vein isn't suitable for increasing magic power—it's inefficient…"
"However, some methods for enhancing combat power can still be prepared."
Fang Xi fell into deep thought.
Upon entering the Core Formation Stage, he discovered his talisman crafting skills had improved, and he was sure that with dedicated study, it wouldn't be long before he would advance from a quasi third-order to a true third-order Talisman Master!
He had always been studying arrays, and now he had hit a new bottleneck.