Chapter 214 – Ultimate Power? Origin Force, the Foundation of the Great Dao Laws! (5k)

【For two consecutive weeks, you refined pills inside the spirit field grotto-heaven.】

【Occasionally, you visited the Real World and used divine sense to observe whether anyone was tracking you.】

【Fortunately, thanks to your powerful concealment abilities, no one discovered your whereabouts.】

【You successfully delivered the pills to Jin Congxue and obtained mining rights to a Second Rank exotic metal mineral zone dungeon from Xia’s military.】

【You secretly observed for several days and discovered that you had not been exposed, which put your mind considerably at ease.】

【One day, having accumulated enough Great Wisdom state bonuses for a full day, you set out to enter the Luotian Assembly dungeon.】

Seeing this, Su Xing gave a slight nod and silently recited:

“Activate immersive simulation function, duration twenty-four hours!”

【Ding. Congratulations on activating the immersive simulation function. 2,400,000 energy points consumed. Remaining energy: 146,330,000 points.】

As the notification faded, Su Xing’s vision shifted, and when it settled again, he was already inside the Luotian Assembly dungeon.

Su Xing found himself standing in a great hall, and before him was none other than his dungeon identity’s nominal master, Luo Ying.

“Good disciple, go to the rear mountain and invite Senior Brother Shennong over…”

Su Xing nodded slightly at these words, but rather than hurrying off, he voiced the doubts in his heart.

“Master, your disciple’s cultivation has already reached Void Return Great Perfection, and I wish to break through to the Body Integration stage…”

“But my current comprehension of the power of heaven and earth… of the laws… is still somewhat vague. Might Master be able to offer some guidance?”

Upon hearing Su Xing’s words, Luotian Sect’s Sect Master Luo Ying nodded slightly and first offered a word of praise:

“Your aptitude is truly remarkable, disciple! Following the orthodox path of immortality, you may well achieve eternal life!”

With that said, Luo Ying carefully examined Su Xing, then exclaimed in surprise:

“Good disciple, it seems you have already comprehended ultimate speed?”

“Ultimate speed is one type of ultimate force… and ultimate force is also known as Origin Force!”

“It is part of the Great Dao laws… Under normal circumstances, as long as a cultivator comprehends one type of ultimate force and cultivates it to a profound level, they need only find a location rich in spiritual energy and use the ultimate force to stimulate their dantian…”

“Of course, this must also be supplemented with the proper incantations and mental cultivation methods…”

Having said this, Luo Ying pressed a finger to the center of Su Xing’s brow.

Instantly, a wealth of new memories appeared in Su Xing’s mind.

These memories concerned important considerations for breaking through from the Void Return stage to the Body Integration stage, as well as a short set of incantations.

Among them, the routing paths for spiritual energy circulation were of tremendous help to Su Xing, saving him the time he would have spent exploring on his own.

With these new memories, Su Xing felt a surge of joy and hastily said:

“Thank you, Master, for your guidance!”

Luo Ying nodded slightly but still offered a reminder:

“Good disciple, your aptitude is exceptional. While still in the Void Return stage, push your divine sense to its absolute limit. When you reach the Body Integration stage, your divine sense will undergo a further transformation!”

“Beyond that… there is the matter of the ultimate speed you have grasped!”

“You possess an innate thunder physique and are skilled in swordsmanship… Your master believes that the first Great Dao you comprehend after achieving immortality may be the Dao of Thunder, or perhaps the Dao of the Sword…”

“But regardless of which Great Dao it is, both require ultimate speed and ultimate power!”

“If you can comprehend both of these while still in the Void Return stage, your subsequent exploration of the Dao of Thunder and the Dao of the Sword will yield twice the results with half the effort—an immense benefit!”

Su Xing nodded slightly upon hearing Luo Ying’s words.

These were the insights of predecessors, and Su Xing would naturally engrave them in his heart.

Then, Su Xing raised the second question he had come to ask.

“Master, regarding the breakthrough to the Primordial Unity realm after the Void Shattering realm… might you also offer your disciple some guidance?”

Hearing Su Xing’s question, Luo Ying replied:

“In truth, for the body tempering path, the core of every breakthrough… has always been one and the same—shattering your limits!”

“Shattering the limits of the body, unleashing one’s greatest potential!”

“Therefore, whether it is Primordial Unity, Major Mastery physique… or even an immortal physique, all you need to do is continuously shatter your limits!”

“Just as you did before—find a place of extreme conditions, and you can push your body’s strength to its fullest, thereby shattering your limits and achieving Primordial Unity!”

Su Xing nodded, then asked another question:

“Master, regarding the spirit vein dragon—have you ever heard of such a thing?”

Having finally made a trip to the Luotian Assembly dungeon, Su Xing naturally wanted to ask as many of the questions that had been accumulating in his mind as possible.

Hearing Su Xing’s words, Luo Ying said with amusement:

“Good disciple, you seem to have rather too many questions today, don’t you?”

“Why not go invite your senior brother first… and your master will answer the rest for you another day when there is time?”

Su Xing sighed inwardly, knowing he had asked too many questions.

It seemed he couldn’t keep exploiting this dungeon’s loopholes indefinitely. He could always ask again during the next simulation.

And so, Su Xing went to find Senior Brother Shennong Youtian.

After completing the full quest sequence, Su Xing immersed himself in the Scripture Pavilion once more, continuing to catch up on common knowledge about the cultivation world.

Soon, the immersive simulation time ended, and Su Xing returned to the Real World.

Back in the Real World, Su Xing murmured:

“Void Shattering—the breakthrough after Void Return—I now have some idea of how it works…”

“Next, I should continue improving my divine sense… and what about cultivating the ultimate forces?”

Su Xing pondered for a moment. His ultimate speed had been triggered when he was comprehending swordsmanship.

But if he wanted to obtain ultimate power, how would he go about it?

Su Xing was momentarily puzzled.

“I’ll just take it one step at a time… If I truly cannot obtain ultimate power, I’ll break through to the Body Integration stage directly and make up for it later…”

With that thought, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【After leaving the Luotian Assembly dungeon, you immediately began researching the micro spirit-gathering formation.】

【You purchased some fish fry from the market and dug out a pond in the spirit field grotto-heaven, channeling in a spirit spring and lavishly adding a batch of spirit liquid.】

【Afterward, you placed the fish fry into the pond, planning to later attempt inscribing the micro spirit-gathering formation on the carp.】

【On the day of your meeting with Luo Shuying, you brought her Mind-Condensing Pills.】

【At the same time, you joined the Advent Cult alongside Luo Shuying.】

【After joining the Advent Cult, you quickly amassed a large following of adoring fans.】

【Over the next two years, you refined pills daily. Meanwhile, the fish fry from before grew rapidly, becoming carp with budding spiritual intelligence…】

【You accumulated two months’ worth of Wisdom in Foolishness state.】

【In the third year, seeing that the time was ripe, you defected from the Advent Cult.】

【After defecting from the Advent Cult, you were hunted down.】

【You seized the opportunity to counter-kill all the Martial Sovereign-stage Protectors and eliminated both faction leaders as well.】

【Afterward, you duped your follower devotees into entering the Demon-Sealing Pass to fight the enemy.】

【You began attempting to set up the micro spirit-gathering formation.】

【Setting up a micro spirit-gathering formation has extremely high requirements for divine sense—at minimum, one must reach Subtle Realm divine sense in order to observe the minute changes in the spirit-gathering formation.】

【In this regard, you just barely met the threshold.】

【Additionally, setting up a spirit-gathering formation differs from ordinary formations. Besides requiring spirit stones, it also requires special tools—a spirit brush and spirit ink—to inscribe onto the target.】

【These tools and formation materials were all contained within Five Elements Master’s storage ring.】

【But the difficulty of the micro spirit-gathering formation lies in… aligning with the characteristics of the spirit-gathering formation, harmonizing with the flow of spiritual energy and the power of heaven and earth. Only then can it be properly set up…】

【The entire process is less like setting up a spirit-gathering formation and more like inscribing a talisman…】

【Although your Formation Dao talent is outstanding, you are not proficient in the Dao of Talismans, making it very difficult for you to even get started with inscribing the micro spirit-gathering formation.】

【Fortunately, you had accumulated two months of Great Wisdom state bonuses. With your comprehension enhanced, you took out the spirit ink and spirit brush and attempted to inscribe onto a spirit carp.】

【Your Subtle Realm divine sense radiated outward, and you could feel the minute flow of spiritual energy within this spirit carp…】

【Then, using the spirit brush as a medium and the spirit ink as energy, your brush danced like dragons and serpents in one fluid stroke!】

【Boom! A sharp crack rang out, and this spirit carp, unsurprisingly, exploded into a handful of bloody mist.】

【Not even a carcass remained. Your evening plans for tofu and carp soup died before they could be born…】

【Helplessly, you turned your gaze toward the remaining spirit carp in the pond…】

【The spirit carp, whose spiritual intelligence had only just awakened, trembled in terror.】

In the Real World, Su Xing couldn’t help but laugh and cry at the sight.

The micro spirit-gathering formation, when it came down to it, was about combining the circulation of one’s own spiritual energy with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Using the form of a formation, one would draw heaven and earth’s spiritual energy into the body, allowing it to circulate on its own, thereby achieving the effect of passive cultivation.

But precision in the minute details was absolutely critical.

With ordinary formation deployment, failure was just failure—at worst, you simply tried again.

But deploying a micro spirit-gathering formation on the skin of a living creature carried enormous risk.

If even a single stroke went wrong, it would cause the spiritual energy within the living being to become imbalanced, easily triggering a spiritual energy rampage that would cause the body to explode and die.

Therefore, beyond the requirements for formation mastery, divine sense, and Talismans… one also needed extreme sensitivity to the flow of spiritual energy.

After thinking this through, Su Xing let out a long sigh and said:

“Truly, one must never underestimate the heroes of this world!”

“This Five Elements Master not only possessed extraordinary comprehension and mastery of formations and Talismans… he even conducted extensive research into spiritual energy and divine sense!”

“Only then could he have developed such an exquisite micro spirit-gathering formation, right?”

Su Xing couldn’t help but admire this prodigious cultivator from thousands of years ago.

“But the more remarkable it is, the more it proves how extraordinary the micro spirit-gathering formation truly is!”

“If I can successfully deploy it, not only will my cultivation speed increase dramatically, but my comprehension of the spirit-gathering formation and the Formation Dao will likely improve enormously as well, won’t it?”

Su Xing had only made a brief attempt this time, wanting to see if he could learn the micro spirit-gathering formation.

Yet he discovered that this thing was even more difficult than he had imagined.

However, Su Xing had no intention of giving up. At the very least, after reaching the Body Integration stage, he still needed to master this micro spirit-gathering formation so that his cultivation could advance as quickly as possible!

“But trying to learn the deployment of the micro spirit-gathering formation this time will probably be quite difficult…”

“Still, I can give it a preliminary try. And there’s also the cultivation of divine sense—I should focus on improving my divine sense as much as possible first!”

Su Xing thought this to himself, then turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.

【Over the following months, you caught several spirit carp each day to practice inscribing the micro spirit-gathering formation upon.】

【Each day, the pond lost a few more spirit carp.】

【Though your progress with the micro spirit-gathering formation was minimal, it didn’t waste much time either.】

【One day, you set out for the Blood Demon’s Lair dungeon, wanting to see what consequences would follow if you slaughtered the Blood Demon Realm clean.】

【You infiltrated the Blood Demon Realm and, after a lengthy investigation, confirmed that Protector Dragon was not within this realm.】

【So you swiftly carved a path of killing toward the Blood Demon Sect, shattered their sect-protecting grand formation, and stormed into the Blood Demon Sect’s forbidden grounds!】

【You destroyed every single blood pool in the Blood Demon Sect and stored all the Blood Spirit Liquid, Blood Spirit Stones, and Blood Coagulation Pills into your storage ring.】

【You then proceeded to slaughter every last member of the Blood Demon Sect.】

【Afterward, you returned to the Real World, preparing to observe Protector Dragon’s reaction…】

【Each day, aside from spirit-wandering through the Void Realm, you began monitoring developments in the outside world.】

【Until one month later… you heard of a horrifying blood sacrifice incident at Great Xia’s southern border.】

【An entire town’s population—tens of thousands of civilians, thousands of Class Users—had all been cruelly subjected to blood sacrifice.】

【You personally traveled to that border town to investigate. Everywhere you went, there were countless corpses and pools of blood… You were absolutely certain this was Protector Dragon’s handiwork!】

In the Real World, Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly upon seeing this and murmured:

“As expected, with the Heavenly Secrets Concealment Art, Protector Dragon can’t discover me…”

“But having lost his greatest source of blood sacrifices and cultivation resources, this Protector Dragon actually turned his sights on Great Xia! Rather than staying in the dungeon…”

At this thought, Su Xing’s frown deepened further.

If Protector Dragon were performing blood sacrifices on Blood Demon Sect cultivators, that was still somewhat removed from Su Xing—it wasn’t his concern.

But if he was performing blood sacrifices on the people of Great Xia, then Su Xing absolutely could not stand by and do nothing!

“More importantly, those townspeople also died indirectly because of me… That is truly unacceptable!”

Su Xing’s expression grew grave.

“So before destroying the Blood Demon Sect, I need to eliminate Protector Dragon first!”

“Otherwise, the people of Great Xia will always be at risk of blood sacrifice…”

Su Xing let out a soft sigh and turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【Though you wished to kill Protector Dragon, you lacked the strength to do so and could only endure in patience for now.】

【You chose to cultivate even harder, spirit-wandering through the Primordial Void each day, striving to increase your divine sense!】

【In the third year, you devoured three Yellow-tier spirits of the Primordial Void, and your divine sense grew to 113,000 zhang.】

【Each day, aside from spirit-wandering through the Primordial Void, you also found time to visit Demon-Sealing Pass, spending several months to slaughter every last Legendary-stage demonic beast within!】

【Seeing that the situation at Demon-Sealing Pass had stabilized, you devoted yourself to cultivation with greater peace of mind. Several years passed in this manner…】

【In the sixth year, your divine sense grew to 125,000 zhang.】

【By devouring spirits of the Primordial Void in the Void Realm, your divine sense grew rapidly.】

【One day, you encountered Old Dog Dragon in the Void Realm. At this point, Old Dog Dragon did not recognize you.】

【So he prepared to take you to find that Profound-tier spirit of the Primordial Void.】

【You played along with him and successfully killed the spirit of the Primordial Void.】

【Then you struck first, using your powerful divine sense and the Ruyi Golden Cauldron technique to slay Protector Dragon within the Void Realm!】

【However, death in the Void Realm would not truly kill Protector Dragon—it would only severely wound his soul, forcing him into seclusion to recover.】

【Afterward, you devoured that Profound-tier spirit of the Primordial Void, and your divine sense grew to 128,000 zhang.】

【In the seventh year, you suddenly received news that at a city on Great Xia’s southern border, the entire city’s population of over a million people and more than a hundred thousand Class Users had all been slaughtered.】

【Your heart clenched immediately. You knew this was Protector Dragon’s doing—he had performed a blood sacrifice on an entire city’s population, surely to rapidly recover from his injuries…】

【You felt some regret over your earlier reckless actions.】

【Protector Dragon was utterly inhuman. Though injured, he still used ordinary people as blood sacrifices to restore himself… The consequences were endless!】

【You understood that when dealing with Protector Dragon, you absolutely had to kill him in a single strike. Otherwise, this deranged dragon would massacre entire cities for blood sacrifices at any moment!】

In the Real World, after reading these words, a cold expression appeared on Su Xing’s face.

“As expected, Protector Dragon must be eliminated as soon as possible!”

“But until I possess absolute strength, I still cannot provoke him—otherwise the consequences will be endless!”

Su Xing let out a soft sigh and turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【In the eighth year, you spirit-wandered through the Primordial Void each day, diligently devouring spirits of the Primordial Void to increase your divine sense.】

【Three more years passed like this. In those three years, you devoured a total of eleven Yellow-tier spirits of the Primordial Void and three Profound-tier spirits of the Primordial Void.】

【Your divine sense surged to 150,000 zhang!】

【In the eleventh year, you found time to visit the Slaughter Battlefield in the Beast Taming World.】

【With the overwhelming suppression of your terrifying cultivation, in just one short year you killed several hundred Legendary-stage demonic beasts.】

【After killing these demonic beasts, you knew this simulation could be extended by another three years.】

【Afterward, you continued spirit-wandering through the Primordial Void.】

【Another three years passed…】

【In the fifteenth year, over the past three years you had devoured ten Yellow-tier spirits of the Primordial Void and two Profound-tier spirits of the Primordial Void.】

【Your divine sense surged to 166,000 zhang!】

【As your divine sense continued to grow, you also began to sense the limits of your own divine sense…】

【By your estimation, at Void Return Great Perfection, your divine sense range could reach a maximum of 200,000 zhang.】

【This was roughly in line with your earlier projections—nearly more than double that of a typical cultivator at the same Void Return Great Perfection level.】

【You continued strengthening your divine sense, making early preparations for your future breakthrough to the Body Integration stage.】

【And so, another three years passed…】

【In the eighteenth year, over the past three years you had devoured a total of ten Yellow-tier spirits of the Primordial Void and three Profound-tier spirits of the Primordial Void.】

【Your divine sense range grew to a full 185,000 zhang, leaving less than 15,000 zhang until the final boundary of divine sense Perfection.】

【In the process of your divine sense’s continuous growth, you discovered the wondrous properties of the spirits of the Primordial Void.】

【When using pills or divine sense cultivation methods, after cultivating to a certain degree one would encounter bottlenecks that needed to be overcome before continuing.】

【However, the existence of spirits of the Primordial Void virtually eliminated minor bottlenecks in divine sense growth, allowing one to accumulate directly up to the Perfection of their current realm!】

【But to your disappointment, despite exploring the Void Realm for so many years, you had not found a single trace of an Earth-tier spirit of the Primordial Void.】

【The divine sense combat technique could only be encountered from Earth-tier spirits of the Primordial Void!】

【And so, in the daily routine of spirit-wandering through the Primordial Void, another three years passed…】