Blood pool, Im Je-seong, Core Formation. At first glance, these words seemed to have no connection whatsoever, but Jaekyung did not find it strange. In the cultivation world, all manner of bizarre events could occur, so there was no reason to treat something as odd simply because one did not understand it.
Looking back from the standpoint of one who had achieved Core Formation, Core Formation was a process of seeking a single answer. For example, if Core Formation could be described as the process of deriving the answer ten, then one plus nine is ten, two plus eight is ten, and one hundred minus ninety is also ten.
The method by which one seeks that answer could vary infinitely depending on the cultivator's ability and the circumstances they faced.
‘Seen this way, it wasn’t just baseless speculation after all.’
Im Je-seong had vanished, and he had achieved Core Formation by borrowing the power of the suspicious blood pool. That alone was bizarre enough, but moreover, when So Cheong-hwa had entered the underground caves, his cultivation level had been the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
Even if, by walking the line between life and death, he had somehow broken through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, to then take another step further and achieve Core Formation... no matter how one looked at it, it was indeed suspicious.