Chapter 176 – Bringing Out Void-Shattering Realm Cultivation, Celestial Thunder Body! (Fourth Update, Seeking Monthly Tickets)
by spirapiraChapter 176 – Bringing Out Void-Shattering Realm Cultivation, Celestial Thunder Body! (Fourth Update, Seeking Monthly Tickets)
As his words fell, the simulator’s notification chimed in Su Xing’s ears.
【You have successfully brought out Void-Breaking Realm, First Layer cultivation. Cost: 100 million energy. Remaining energy: 398.33 million points.】
【You have successfully brought out Celestial Thunder Body (Minor Mastery-level). Cost: 200 million energy. Remaining energy: 198.33 million points.】
In the blink of an eye, Su Xing’s simulation energy plummeted like flowing water, dropping by a full 300 million!
A pained expression crossed Su Xing’s face.
“But it’s all worth it!”
“Void-Shattering Realm, here I come!”
Su Xing took a deep breath, suppressing his surging excitement.
He then sat cross-legged, guarding his mind and spirit, preparing to receive the incoming cultivation breakthrough.
Immediately, two streams of mysterious energy flowed into Su Xing’s body.
In that instant, Su Xing’s aura began to skyrocket!
It felt like bathing in warm sunlight — none of the agony that typically accompanied a realm breakthrough.
Instead, with every breath, his physical strength grew in a natural, effortless progression…
No, it wasn’t just an increase in strength! This was a comprehensive enhancement of his entire physical constitution!
Su Xing could feel that both the durability and raw power of his body had doubled in just a few breaths! And the enhancement was still continuing, showing no signs of stopping…
100,000 tons… 200,000 tons… 300,000 tons…
Finally, Su Xing’s strength settled at 400,000 tons!
In just a few breaths, Su Xing’s strength and physical constitution had quadrupled! After sensing that the surge in cultivation had ceased, a look of astonishment appeared on Su Xing’s face.
“No wonder… so this is the gap between Void-Shattering Realm and Divine Power Realm Great Perfection…”
“A full 400,000 tons… this isn’t as simple as just lifting an aircraft carrier anymore, is it?”
Su Xing finally understood why he had been completely outmatched by that living-dead puppet.
The gap in raw power had simply been too vast…
Even though Su Xing had previously been at the extreme limit of Primordial Martial Realm with ten million jin of force, even though he had reached the absolute peak of Divine Power Realm Great Perfection with 100,000 tons of strength —
He still would have been no match for someone at the Void-Shattering Realm…
“Tsk tsk, the Void-Shattering Realm where one force breaks ten thousand techniques — truly lives up to its reputation!”
Su Xing marveled inwardly and murmured:
“With my current strength… I should be able to kill Old Dog Zong with a single punch, right?”
Su Xing felt a surge of anticipation.
With 400,000 tons of brute force, augmented by Elemental Force Entwinement, his power could double again, unleashing an instantaneous burst of 800,000 tons!
But the gains from this simulation were far more than just that!
After Su Xing broke through to the Void-Shattering Realm, a power of thunder immediately manifested within his body.
Su Xing hastily turned his spiritual sense inward, and the first thing he noticed was a change in his spirit roots.
Still a Heavenly Spirit Root… but now the colors had increased to three, with an additional deep purple!
A mutated spirit root — Thunder Spirit Root!
Su Xing carefully examined the changes in his spirit roots.
Normally, the more mixed the elemental affinities of one’s spirit roots, the slower one’s cultivation speed would become.
An ordinary Heavenly Spirit Root would possess only a single elemental attribute.
But Su Xing’s spirit roots originated from his innate talent and had undergone mutation.
Therefore, the three attributes of thunder, wood, and fire not only failed to diminish the quality of his Heavenly Spirit Root — his speed of absorbing spiritual energy actually became even faster than before!
With just a slight circulation of his cultivation technique, the spiritual energy within the surrounding spirit field grotto-heaven surged madly toward Su Xing.
This rate of spiritual energy absorption was more than a tier faster than before!
The increased speed of absorbing spiritual power wouldn’t just accelerate the growth of his Qi Refinement cultivation.
In the current era of depleted spiritual energy, it would also allow Su Xing to rapidly recover his spiritual power within the spirit field grotto-heaven, ensuring sustained combat capability.
“Tsk tsk, a three-element mutated Heavenly Spirit Root… truly formidable!”
Su Xing briefly marveled at the wonders of the Celestial Thunder Body. Just this mutation of his Heavenly Spirit Root alone was an immeasurable gain.
But the Celestial Thunder Body’s strengthening and enhancement of Su Xing went far beyond a mere spirit root mutation.
Su Xing’s physical constitution began climbing rapidly again over the span of several breaths.
From 400,000 tons, it surged straight to 500,000 tons!
Beyond the explosive increase in strength, Su Xing’s overall physical constitution also began improving rapidly.
The Celestial Thunder Body was a comprehensive enhancement of strength and physical durability across the board.
On top of that, Su Xing’s affinity with the thunder element had also increased dramatically.
He could even sense the trace amounts of thunder-attribute spiritual energy contained within the ambient spiritual energy around him.
Compared to conventional five-element spiritual energy, thunder spiritual energy was far more violent and destructive!
With a thought, a ball of thunder spiritual energy materialized in Su Xing’s hand.
Thunder spiritual energy was the bane of all evil spirits and malevolent entities!
“Tsk tsk… and this is merely the Minor Mastery level of the Celestial Thunder Body. If it reached Major Mastery… or even Perfection level, how terrifying would it be?”
Su Xing murmured softly.
Clearly, judging from the process through which he had obtained the Celestial Thunder Body, it was a special kind of “acquired constitution” that could be gradually refined and strengthened step by step.
And the means of strengthening it was naturally to continuously absorb the power of thunder and lightning, allowing the laws of thunder to bolster the Celestial Thunder Body!
“No wonder… breaking through to the Void-Shattering Realm only cost 100 million energy…”
“Yet a single Minor Mastery-level Celestial Thunder Body cost 200 million energy!”
Su Xing was beginning to understand why the simulator had priced the Celestial Thunder Body so outrageously.
In terms of individual option pricing, the Celestial Thunder Body was second only to the ten-billion-valued immortal technique, Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique.
“In terms of immediate combat power enhancement, the Void-Shattering Realm breakthrough is clearly more critical…”
“But in the long run, the Celestial Thunder Body likely far exceeds the value of a mere realm breakthrough!”
Su Xing murmured.
Because the Celestial Thunder Body was essentially an upgrade to Su Xing’s potential — both his Body Tempering and Qi Refinement talents received boosts from the constitution’s enhancement.
“My current strength should be directly comparable to a late-stage Legendary Class User… or even a late-stage Legendary-tier demonic beast, right?”
Su Xing pondered briefly.
Previously, with the augmentation of Protective Hardened Qi and primordial energy armor, Su Xing’s defensive power had already approached mid-stage Void-Shattering, roughly equivalent to mid-stage Legendary.
It was just that his attack power had been too low back then — only his defense had met the mark.
To put it bluntly, he had been a human punching bag that could take an incredible beating…
After all, with Divine Power Realm Great Perfection’s 100,000 tons of strength, even if Elemental Force Entwinement doubled his destructive power, that was still only a measly 200,000 tons.
But now things were different!
With pure physical strength of 500,000 tons, combined with elemental force, he could unleash a million tons of power in an instant!
Su Xing looked at his own fist, an odd expression on his face:
“Could this be… the legendary Million-Ton Punch?”
After reaching the Void-Shattering Realm and awakening the Celestial Thunder Body, Su Xing’s combat power had surged to unprecedented heights! This also gave him extraordinary confidence… and perhaps just a tiny bit of hubris.
Su Xing even felt an impulse right now to march straight up to Old Dog Zong.
Kill him with a single punch… seize his storage artifact… and inherit the millennia of accumulated wealth!
When it came to an evil cultivator like that, a traitor to the human race, Su Xing felt zero guilt about killing him and taking his treasures.
After some hesitation, Su Xing barely managed to suppress the impulse and murmured:
“With my current strength, killing Old Dog Zong in one hit shouldn’t be difficult…”
“But to be safe, I should run through it a few more times in simulations to avoid any unexpected surprises…”
After calming his emotions, Su Xing began formulating a plan for his future growth.
“Although I’ve reached the Void-Shattering Realm and obtained the Celestial Thunder Body this time… I wasn’t able to bring out the Perfection-level Protective Hardened Qi…”
“Even for Void-Shattering Realm powerhouses, the enhancement from Perfection-level Protective Hardened Qi would be enormous!”
“But there’s no rush. It only takes five or six years to cultivate it to Perfection level, so I can bring it out whenever a good opportunity arises…”
After a pause, Su Xing murmured again:
“The only headache now is… breaking through in the Void-Shattering Realm is absurdly expensive!”
“A single layer of cultivation… costs 100 million energy! Damn it, if I want to reach Void-Shattering Great Perfection, wouldn’t that cost close to a billion energy?”
Su Xing simply couldn’t produce that much energy at the moment.
Having just cleaned out the Baili Trading Company’s dungeon resources, it would likely be two to three months before the Baili Trading Company could provide much simulation energy again…
“As for the Tarot Society… well, the energy income there is at least stable. Even counting 80 million energy per week… that’s only about 300 million per month…”
“Even at the most optimistic estimate, it would still take three months of accumulation to provide one billion energy!”
Thinking this, Su Xing felt a headache coming on.
The further along he progressed, the more simulation energy Su Xing needed to bring out his cultivation realm. “The energy required to advance Body Tempering cultivation is way too absurd… I should focus on breaking through to Qi Refinement Void Return first…”
Su Xing let out a light sigh.
“Perhaps, obtaining Old Dog Zong’s inheritance… or raiding the Advent Cult’s treasury could make up for this energy deficit?”
Su Xing pondered carefully.
“Whether it can actually be carried out… will depend on the risks revealed in the simulation.”
“Let’s not worry about what comes after the Void-Shattering Realm for now… To step into the Void Return stage, I’m still lacking Spring Dew Purified Water.”
“And collecting Spring Dew Purified Water requires mastering the movement divine ability Sword-Controlling Technique, as well as advancing my spiritual consciousness to the Subtle Insight realm!”
Su Xing nodded slightly. His goals for the upcoming simulation were already crystal clear.
“Sigh, even though this young master is now a great cultivator at the Void-Shattering Realm… I still have to obediently refine pills!”
Su Xing sighed, then began refining pills.
Unfortunately, the improvement in his Body Tempering cultivation did not make his pill refining any faster.
Over the course of one week, Su Xing refined five thousand pills, collected a considerable amount of spirit liquid, and harvested a batch of spirit rice.
As for spirit liquid, Su Xing was unwilling to use even a single drop.
After all, once he reached the Void Return stage, his rapid cultivation advancement would depend entirely on this spirit liquid.
Soon, a week had passed.
It was once again the day for Su Xing and Jin Congxue to meet.
Su Xing disguised his appearance and concealed his aura ahead of time, and only entered the villa after confirming no one was tailing him.
Today, Jin Congxue wore a black casual business suit, looking every bit like an urban beauty, her figure tantalizingly outlined…
“Ahem~”
Su Xing hurriedly guarded his dao heart, averted his gaze, and began obediently eating his meal.
After the meal, the two began discussing business.
“Boss~ Here’s the new week’s goods. All the freshly mined minerals from those four mining zone dungeons are in here…”
Jin Congxue handed over a storage ring, while Su Xing gave her the pills he had refined over the past week.
After the transaction was complete, Jin Congxue began to complain:
“Sigh, Boss~ The dungeon item business is getting harder and harder to do these days!”
“That Baili Trading Company down south has gone crazy or something… Not only have they inflated the market price for dungeon items and monopolized the entire southern market…”
“Now they’re even trying to reach into our Capital City territory. Are they looking for a price war?”
Hearing Jin Congxue’s complaints, Su Xing’s heart stirred. He understood that the Baili Trading Company was likely putting even more effort into purchasing dungeon items.
As for the reason… it was naturally to curry favor with Su Xing.
Thinking this, the corner of Su Xing’s mouth curved upward slightly as he said:
“Since the Baili Trading Company wants to collect those… let’s hand over the dungeon item business sector to them.”
“We’ll focus our main efforts on collecting white-quality equipment and acquiring more mining zone dungeons!”
Hearing Su Xing’s words, Jin Congxue was somewhat surprised but still nodded slightly.
After a pause, Su Xing thought for a moment and added:
“Oh right, if the Baili Trading Company makes any big moves… remember to let me know promptly.”
Hearing Su Xing’s words, Jin Congxue was even more puzzled—why was Su Xing so concerned about the Baili Trading Company? But even if Jin Congxue racked her brains, she probably wouldn’t dare believe that the Baili Trading Company was going through all this trouble simply to please Su Xing.
The two chatted a bit more before Su Xing left the villa.
He expertly circled the vicinity, scanned with his spiritual consciousness, and only after confirming no one was following him did Su Xing return to the dormitory and enter the spirit field blessed land.
Su Xing couldn’t wait to convert all the goods from the storage ring into simulation energy, wanting to see how much he had in total.
【Ding, detected large quantities of energy-containing materials, total value: 91.23 million simulation energy points… Absorb?】
“Hm? Over ninety million… That’s quite a bit more than I expected!”
Su Xing’s eyes lit up. He had originally estimated that a week’s worth of goods bringing in eighty million energy would already be quite good.
But unexpectedly, there was a full ten million more, and this was even with a significant reduction in dungeon items.
“My, my. It seems the energy yield from exotic metals is even higher than I imagined!”
“Among these, aside from first-order exotic metals, there must be quite a few second-order exotic metals as well—otherwise there couldn’t be this much energy…”
“After all, at equal mass, the energy contained in second-order exotic metals is a full ten times that of first-order!”
Su Xing thought to himself.
By this calculation, a week’s goods could provide Su Xing with ninety million energy… and after some more time, it might even reach a hundred million?
At that point, it would be four hundred million energy income per month!
“Tsk tsk, four hundred million energy per month… In the past, I couldn’t have even imagined this. But now, for someone at the Void-Shattering Realm like me, it’s still not quite enough!”
Su Xing sighed.
After absorbing the simulation energy, Su Xing’s total came to 289.56 million.
On the afternoon of August 26th, New Era 2024, Su Xing punctually activated a new round of simulation.
“Begin simulation!”
【Ding! This simulation costs 5,000 energy points. Remaining energy: 289.56 million points. Remaining simulation attempts: unlimited.】
【Simulation begins!】
【Drawing a blue talent costs 10,000 energy points. Drawing a purple talent costs 100,000 energy points. Draw?】
“Draw a purple talent!”
After some thought, Su Xing decided to draw a purple talent.
【Ding, congratulations! You have obtained the purple talent: 1v1 Me If You’re a Real Man!】
【1v1 Me If You’re a Real Man】: Purple talent. Whenever the enemy outnumbers you and tries to overwhelm you with sheer numbers, you can activate this talent. After you speak the words “If you’re a real man, come fight me 1v1,” you will forcibly enter a one-on-one duel with the strongest member of the opposing force, continuing until one side dies. (Note: More often than not, we hope you aren’t just feeding them a free kill~)
“Hm? This talent…”
Su Xing rubbed his chin, somewhat astonished.
Clearly, this was a conceptual-type talent.
After activating this talent, Su Xing could forcibly create a relatively fair combat environment… Perhaps he would no longer need to fear human wave tactics?
“But… what happens after I kill their strongest fighter?”
Su Xing was a bit curious. He was worried that after killing the strongest opponent, the remaining underlings would still swarm him all at once—wouldn’t that make the talent pointless?
“Whatever… if the opportunity arises, I’ll test this talent in a simulation.”
“But my goal for this simulation is still to improve my spiritual consciousness and learn the movement technique Sword-Controlling Technique!”
Su Xing thought to himself, then turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【In the spirit field grotto-heaven, you realize you are in a simulation.】
【You waste no time and immediately begin practicing the Sword-Controlling Technique and studying the Ruyi Visualization Method.】
【You stay in the Capital City for one month. After confirming nothing unexpected has happened with the Tarot Society, you prepare to set out in search of the Advent Cult.】
【You arrive in Shuangqing City, Southwest Province, and release a portion of your spiritual consciousness. Old Dog Zong is quickly drawn to you.】
【You forcibly suppress the urge to kill Old Dog Zong. Now is not the best time to strike—you need to infiltrate the Advent Cult first.】
【Old Dog Zong treats you with great respect, addressing you as “senior” with every other breath.】
【Under Old Dog Zong’s guidance, you successfully join the Advent Cult.】
【Over the following period, you outwardly act as brothers with Old Dog Zong while secretly maintaining contact with Luo Shuying, obtaining large quantities of spirit medicines.】
【You begin lying low within the Advent Cult. Each day, aside from practicing the Sword-Controlling Technique and studying the Visualization Method, you refine pills.】
【This period of lying low lasts two full years.】
【Over these two years, you refine over a hundred thousand pills while accumulating a full sixty days’ worth of heightened-wisdom state for future use in studying the Visualization Method.】
【During these two years, your spiritual consciousness also grows rapidly, increasing from 7,000 zhang to 7,500 zhang!】
【Unfortunately, your mastery of the Sword-Controlling Technique has still not reached the introductory level.】
【Over these two years, you have nearly emptied the Advent Cult’s supply of spirit medicines.】
【You determine the time is ripe, and prepare to defect from the Advent Cult with Luo Shuying at any moment.】
【Before defecting from the Advent Cult, you have one final task to complete.】
【That is to kill Old Dog Zong!】
【However, you search the Advent Cult for several days but find no trace of Old Dog Zong.】
【Just as you have everything prepared and are about to force a confrontation to kill Old Dog Zong… he has mysteriously vanished!】
【You inquire with other Protectors within the Advent Cult, even the faction leaders, but Old Dog Zong was not dispatched on any external mission.】
【You understand now—Old Dog Zong sensed the danger in advance and fled before it was too late…】
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