Chapter 216 – Earth Ranking Spirit Treasure, Spirit Vein Dragon! Battle Against Perfected One Myriad Wood Again! (5k)

Su Xing let out a sigh of emotion.

Previously, his talent in the Dao of formations could only be considered mediocre at best.

But now that he possessed the Formation Dao Prodigy talent, his speed of learning formations was at least several times faster than before!

“The study of the micro spirit-gathering formation will have to be set aside for now. The priority right now is to break through to the Body Integration stage as soon as possible!”

Su Xing murmured to himself.

With that decided, over the next few days, Su Xing devoted even more effort to refining Fasting Pills.

Four days quickly passed, and Su Xing disguised his appearance and concealed his aura before making a trip to the villa.

Jin Congxue was still busy with matters involving Xia’s military and was not at the villa for the time being.

So Su Xing simply collected the new week’s goods and returned to the spirit field grotto-heaven.

On December 2nd, 2024 of the New Era, Su Xing punctually activated a new round of simulation.

“Begin simulation!”

【Ding! This simulation consumes 6,400 energy points. Remaining energy: 3,225,430,000 points. Remaining simulation attempts: unlimited.】

【Simulation begins!】

【Drawing a purple talent costs 100,000 energy points. Drawing a gold legendary talent costs 1,000,000 energy points. Would you like to draw?】

Su Xing thought it over and decided to draw for a talent once more. Even if he didn’t get gold quality, it would increase his pity guarantee probability.

“Draw for gold quality talent!”

【Ding, congratulations on drawing the purple talent “Gimme That!” Your probability of drawing a gold quality talent next time is 40%…】

【”Gimme That!”】: Purple talent. Can only be used once per target. When you say “Gimme That!” to a target, you can secretly steal a random item from the target without them noticing.

“As expected, pity guarantee again…”

Su Xing was just about to let out a sigh, but when he saw the effect of this talent, he was instantly stunned.

“This talent… seems pretty strong!”

“‘Gimme That?’ It’s basically snatching an item directly from the target! Holy crap!”

Su Xing suddenly realized — if during a battle, he suddenly stole the opponent’s weapon or some similar tool, wouldn’t that massively increase his chances of winning?

“Tsk tsk… even the Great Sage Sun Wukong couldn’t withstand Lord Laozi’s Golden Diamond Ring!”

Su Xing muttered.

“But the specific effects of this talent are still unclear… I should examine it carefully before making any plans!”

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

【In the spirit field grotto-heaven, you became aware that you were in a simulation.】

【After refining pills for several days, you prepared to head to the Luotian Assembly dungeon to resolve the doubts in your heart.】

Seeing this, Su Xing silently recited:

“Use immersive simulation function, duration: 24 hours!”

【Congratulations on using the immersive simulation function. Cost: 2,400,000 energy points. Remaining energy: 3,222,030,000 points.】

As the notification faded, Su Xing appeared in the great hall of the Luotian Sect.

In the last simulation, Su Xing still had unfinished questions — specifically about spirit dragons.

Su Xing’s understanding of spirit dragons was limited to some introductions found in books, and he didn’t know much.

But Su Xing’s current master, Luo Ying, was a Tribulation Crossing stage powerhouse who surely knew something about spirit dragons.

“Good disciple, go to the rear mountain and invite your senior brother…”

The familiar quest dialogue reached his ears, but Su Xing didn’t rush to leave. Instead, he asked:

“Master, I’d like to ask about the spirit vein dragon… I once read about this creature in ancient texts in the Scripture Pavilion, and I’m curious…”

Upon hearing Su Xing’s words, Luo Ying smiled faintly and said:

“Not bad — curiosity is a good thing. Your master does know a fair amount about spirit vein dragons. I can explain it to you.”

After a brief pause, Luo Ying continued:

“Spirit vein dragons can only be born from supreme-grade spirit veins… and the probability of their birth is less than one in ten thousand!”

“Legend has it that in the great cosmos, there once existed a cultivation organization called the Thousand Mysteries Pavilion, which endured for untold eons…”

“The Thousand Mysteries Pavilion once compiled rankings of the supreme treasures between heaven and earth, divided into three lists: Heaven, Earth, and Mortal…”

“And the spirit vein dragon ranks first on the Earth Ranking! The foremost among all spirit veins under heaven!”

“It is said that spirit vein dragons are born with spiritual intelligence and understand gratitude… But each spirit vein dragon has a vastly different temperament — some are mature and steady, while others are as playful as mischievous children…”

“Spirit vein dragons possess near-infinite lifespans. Even immortals can hardly match them. They are beings that truly share the longevity of heaven and earth, shining alongside the sun and moon.”

Hearing this, Su Xing raised an eyebrow. The Thousand Mysteries Pavilion’s three rankings of Heaven, Earth, and Mortal, as well as the fact that spirit vein dragons had distinct personalities — this was the first time Su Xing had heard of such things.

Su Xing continued to listen quietly as Luo Ying spoke at a measured pace:

“But all spirit vein dragons share one common trait — they are free-spirited by nature and love their freedom, preferring to roam among the mountain ranges.”

“If they’re in a good mood and feel drowsy, they may even choose a spot to enter a deep slumber…”

“Legend says that after slumbering for several years, that land can give birth to a low-grade spirit vein… After slumbering for several decades, a mid-grade spirit vein can emerge… After slumbering for several centuries, a high-grade spirit vein can appear from thin air!”

“Spirit vein dragons are typically honored guests of the great sects. Major sects often invite spirit vein dragons to sleep within their territories for thousands of years, which can produce supreme-grade spirit veins!”

“Heh heh, in our Luotian Sect, more than half of our one hundred and twenty-eight supreme-grade spirit veins were left behind by a senior spirit vein dragon long ago…”

“Beyond that, spirit vein dragons can also convert pure spiritual energy and catalyze the formation of supreme-grade spirit stones… The benefits are countless. Possessing a spirit vein dragon is equivalent to possessing a nearly inexhaustible supply of cultivation resources!”

Su Xing’s eyes lit up after hearing this, and even his breathing grew rapid.

Catalyzing supreme-grade spirit stones was equivalent to sitting atop a treasure vault with an endless supply of spirit stones!

So Su Xing asked somewhat nervously:

“Then Master, how does one subdue a spirit vein dragon?”

Upon hearing Su Xing’s words, Luo Ying instead shook her head with a smile:

“You little rascal, quite the ambitious one…”

“In all the Three Thousand Worlds, the forces that possess a spirit vein dragon can be counted on one hand… and every single one is a supreme sect that commands authority across the great cosmos!”

“Even so, these forces don’t truly own a spirit vein dragon. Rather, they’ve reached an agreement with one — the spirit vein dragon resides within their territory, and the force in turn does its best to satisfy the dragon’s requests… It’s a mutually beneficial arrangement!”

“Take our Luotian Sect for example. There was once an ancestor-level figure who befriended a spirit vein dragon and established a pact with it. That senior spirit vein dragon thus stayed in our Luotian Sect for an entire epoch… leaving behind the foundation of our heritage that has endured for hundreds of thousands of years…”

After a pause, Luo Ying seemed to recall something and added:

“It is exceedingly difficult for a spirit vein dragon to accept a master. But if one does, it will be loyal to the very end…”

“Legend has it that in ages immemorial, a great immortal powerhouse once saved an infant spirit vein dragon and nurtured their bond from childhood… It was precisely because of this that the spirit vein dragon stayed faithfully by that cultivator’s side…”

Su Xing had felt some disappointment at first, but upon hearing Luo Ying’s final words, hope was reignited.

The spirit vein dragon he had encountered in the Myriad Wood Sect ruins — wasn’t that one in its infant form?

And if Su Xing could rescue that spirit vein dragon, wouldn’t it accept him as its master?

Thinking of this… Su Xing was instantly overjoyed.

“Thank you, Master, for resolving my doubts!”

Su Xing said cheerfully, then went to the rear mountain to bring back his senior brother Shennong.

Afterward, as always, Su Xing entered the Scripture Pavilion to read books on common knowledge of the cultivation world.

A day quickly passed, and the immersive simulation time came to an end.

Su Xing’s consciousness returned to the Real World.

“Spirit vein dragon… I must obtain it as soon as possible!”

Su Xing’s eyes held a trace of anticipation.

He was already eager to give it a try.

“With my current strength, combined with the Blood Burning technique, I should be able to kill Perfected One Myriad Wood! After all, he’s only… at the half-step Body Integration stage…”

Su Xing murmured, his gaze turning to the simulation panel.

【After leaving the Luotian Assembly dungeon, you stayed in the Capital City for several more days before meeting with Luo Shuying as agreed.】

【You brought Mind-Condensing Pills for Luo Shuying and successfully joined the Advent Cult.】

【You gained a large group of devoted followers and admirers…】

【Over the next two years, you continued refining pills within the Advent Cult while seeking ways to further increase your strength.】

【After much deliberation, you decided to begin cultivating the Spirit Burst technique.】

【The power of Spirit Burst has reached the level of a lesser divine art, making it one of the strongest offensive techniques in your arsenal… If you could cultivate it to Perfection level and pair it with Earth Sword, killing Body Integration stage cultivators above your rank would be well within your capability.】

【And so you spent your time refining pills while studying Spirit Burst.】

【Two years passed in this manner.】

【In the third year, you discovered that advancing Spirit Burst to Perfection level presented an enormous bottleneck — you were unable to infuse sufficient fire spiritual energy into your wood spiritual energy to achieve the mutual generation of the five elements and further enhance the divine art’s power.】

【Thus, you decided to shift your focus to studying the Five Elements Cycle Art first.】

【That same year, seeing that the time was ripe, you took Luo Shuying and defected from the Advent Cult.】

【Before defecting from the Advent Cult, you slaughtered every last one of its high-ranking leaders.】

【You successfully duped over twenty thousand followers into joining Demon-Sealing Pass.】

【You provided Great Xia with a great many pills, bolstering their ranks with numerous powerful cultivators.】

【In the fourth year, you began attempting to cultivate the Five Elements Cycle Art.】

【The deeper you delved into it, the more you realized the extraordinary nature of this technique.】

【This technique not only enhanced the power of five-element spells, but could even harmonize the five-element spiritual energies within your body, allowing smoother circulation of spiritual energy and achieving the effect of increasing cultivation speed.】

【Furthermore, the Five Elements Formation Dao, the crafting of micro spirit-gathering formations… all of these could draw inspiration from this technique.】

【This only strengthened your resolve to cultivate the Five Elements Cycle Art.】

【And so, aside from cultivating this technique daily… you would also observe the spring thunder on each year’s Awakening of Insects.】

【The thunder on the day of Awakening of Insects is the only thunder throughout the entire year that contains a trace of the Great Dao of thunder. Observing it yielded you considerable gains.】

【In this manner, three years slowly passed.】

【In the seventh year, your comprehension of the Five Elements Cycle Art finally broke through the introductory stage. You could feel the formidable power of this technique.】

【It was not a cultivation-type technique, yet it could perfectly harmonize the Thousand Blazing Flame Art and Eternal Spring Art that you practiced, achieving the principle of wood generating fire to enhance your cultivation speed!】

【At the same time, as your research into the Five Elements Cycle Art deepened, you also perceived the opportunity for Spirit Burst to break through to Perfection.】

【But what troubled you was that your comprehension of the Great Dao of thunder and ultimate strength remained completely stagnant.】

【You understood clearly in your heart that to successfully comprehend the Essence of Strength, you would likely have to rely on an epiphany.】

【But this was not something you could will into being. All you could do was try again and again, hoping to trigger a Spontaneous Epiphany.】

【In this manner, another three years passed.】

【In the tenth year, your comprehension of the Five Elements Cycle Art advanced another step. Though it had not yet reached Minor Mastery level, you had benefited greatly.】

【That same year, you traveled to Demon-Sealing Pass and slew dozens of Legendary-rank demon beasts, striking awe into the hearts of the human race.】

【In the eleventh year, on the day of Awakening of Insects, you observed the spring thunder, hoping to comprehend the Essence of Strength. You failed.】

【In the twelfth year, you continued attempting to cultivate Spirit Burst, hoping to bring it to Perfection.】

【In this manner, cultivating Spirit Burst while comprehending the Five Elements Cycle Art, another three years passed.】

【In the fifteenth year, your cultivation of Spirit Burst grew ever more refined, with only one final step remaining before Perfection.】

【In the sixteenth year, one day, inspiration struck you unbidden. Sensing the dual wood-and-fire spiritual energies within your body, you gradually grasped the essence of five-element mutual generation.】

【Your comprehension of the Five Elements Cycle Art successfully advanced to Minor Mastery level!】

【In the seventeenth year, as your understanding of five-element spiritual energy deepened further, the final bottleneck preventing Spirit Burst from reaching Perfection was completely shattered.】

【Congratulations — your mastery of Spirit Burst has finally advanced to Perfection level!】

In the Real World, Su Xing let out a small sigh upon seeing this.

“Sigh… it seems comprehending the Great Dao of heaven and earth… the Essence of Strength is even more difficult than I imagined…”

Su Xing’s original plan had been that as long as he could achieve an introductory comprehension of the Essence of Strength, he could bring it out with him, and future comprehension of the Essence of Strength would surely become much simpler.

But in this simulation, Su Xing ultimately failed to trigger a Spontaneous Epiphany.

“Still, Five Elements Cycle Art and Spirit Burst at Perfection… that’s not bad at all!”

“After cultivating Spirit Burst to Perfection and pairing it with Earth Sword at Perfection, defeating Perfected One Myriad Wood shouldn’t be much of a problem…”

A glimmer of anticipation shone in Su Xing’s eyes.

“Though to be safe, I could wait another two years…”

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

【In the eighteenth year, you entered the Slaughter Battlefield of the Beast Taming World.】

【With your masterful swordsmanship and the terrifying power of Spirit Burst, in just one year you slew every last one of several hundred Legendary-rank demon beasts.】

【In the nineteenth year, you left the Beast Taming World and returned to Earth.】

【You decided to cultivate the Five Elements Cycle Art one final time before going to challenge Perfected One Myriad Wood.】

【In this manner, another three years passed.】

【In the twenty-first year, your comprehension of the Five Elements Cycle Art remained at Minor Mastery level.】

【You knew in your heart that reaching Major Mastery level within this simulation would be quite difficult, so you decided to go challenge Perfected One Myriad Wood directly.】

【With your current strength, you had at least an eighty to ninety percent chance of defeating Perfected One Myriad Wood. Even if he had hidden trump cards, you were confident you could retreat unscathed.】

【You traveled to the Age of Immortals and Martial Arts dungeon and collected three jade fragments.】

【You successfully entered the Myriad Wood Sect ruins.】

【You passed through the long tomb passage before you and encountered that living-dead puppet.】

【With a single swing of your sword, you successfully slew the living-dead puppet.】

【You arrived at the core area of the Myriad Wood Sect ruins.】

【You broke the formation sealing the core area and entered.】

【You felt the dense spiritual energy in the air and saw those vast fields of spirit fields.】

【You saw the spirit dragon trapped by formations, and you saw that bronze stone coffin.】

【To prevent the shockwaves of battle from destroying the medicinal herbs in these spirit fields, you transplanted every last herb into your spirit field grotto-heaven.】

【Afterward, you attempted to move those puppets into your spirit field grotto-heaven as well.】

【These puppets seemed to lack any intelligence, knowing only to mindlessly tend the fields.】

【You then returned to the ruins’ core and gazed at the Spirit Vein Dragon before you.】

【Looking at the spirit dragon trapped within the formation, its body wreathed in dark energy, letting out anguished cries, compassion stirred in your heart.】

【After careful deliberation, you attempted to dismantle the formation and free the Spirit Vein Dragon.】

【But after studying it for several days, you discovered that this formation was extraordinarily sophisticated — with your current level of Formation Dao, you were actually unable to directly undo it.】

【Left with no choice, you could only resort to overwhelming force to break through all techniques!】

【You took a deep breath, sank your qi to your dantian, drove power from your waist, wrapped your arms in primordial energy… then unleashed a blow of tens of millions of tons of force!】

【With that single strike, the formation trapping the spirit dragon instantly began shattering layer by layer.】

【Seeing this, you gave a slight nod, then followed up with another punch, finally shattering the formation completely!】

【After the formation shattered, the Spirit Vein Dragon — over a zhang in length — burst free from its confinement, a flash of excitement in its eyes.】

【It let out a series of mournful cries, then bolted toward the tomb passage without so much as a backward glance at you.】

【You were instantly dumbfounded. What happened to the grateful-spirit-beast-repays-its-savior plotline you were expecting?】

【Before you could think further, you were just about to chase after the Spirit Vein Dragon.】

【But at that moment, the bronze coffin behind you began emanating waves of energy, and a long, ancient voice brimming with fury rang out.】

【Who is it? Who dares disturb this True Master’s slumber… who dares ruin this True Master’s plans!】

【Seeing Perfected One Myriad Wood awaken, a solemn look settled in your eyes.】

【Protective Hardened Qi and primordial energy armor instantly coalesced around you. In one hand you gripped the sword Blackice, while your other hand began slowly forming a vortex of spiritual energy.】

【The scene of Perfected One Myriad Wood instantly killing you still remained vivid in your memory.】

【But you were no longer that mere Spirit Transformation stage cultivator from back then. With your current strength, Perfected One Myriad Wood might not even be your match.】

【The lid of the bronze stone coffin was sent flying, and a terrifyingly powerful figure of a young man shot out.】

【His complexion was deathly pale, like a living corpse — it was none other than Perfected One Myriad Wood!】

【The first thing Perfected One Myriad Wood did upon awakening was inspect the formation beneath the stone coffin.】

【When he discovered that the formation held nothing at all, his expression shifted. He then released his divine sense like a tidal wave.】

【Perfected One Myriad Wood quickly detected the spirit dragon fleeing frantically, and a look of delight crossed his face as he prepared to give chase.】

【At the same time, he also noticed your presence.】

【Sensing your aura, he frowned slightly and was about to say something.】

【But you gave him no time to react whatsoever, firing a Spirit Burst directly at Perfected One Myriad Wood!】

【After launching the Spirit Burst, you activated your Protective Hardened Qi and instantly fled into the distance. This Spirit Burst was far more powerful than before — there was a very real possibility it could destroy the entire Myriad Wood Sect ruins.】