Chapter 332 – Entering the Nine Heavens Again, Target: True Immortal Realm!
by spirapiraChapter 332 – Entering the Nine Heavens Again, Target: True Immortal Realm!
Back inside the spirit field grotto-heaven, Su Xing could no longer contain the joy in his heart, the corners of his mouth curling upward as he spoke.
“These old folks from Great Xia are truly wealthy!”
Su Xing looked at the remaining origin energy on his panel—
A full 1,587,654 points!
Besides the fifty thousand tons of fourth-order exotic metal that Lu Yuanwu had promised to provide, which brought a million origin energy…
Those dozen or so Martial Sovereign powerhouses alone had each contributed over fifty thousand origin energy to Su Xing!
“Tsk tsk, looking at it this way… Earth really is wealthy!”
“In the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, forget about ordinary cultivators… even Human Immortal realm cultivators, if you added up everything they owned, would they even have fifty thousand origin energy?”
Su Xing estimated they’d fall far short.
But due to Earth’s unique environment, the planet possessed quite a number of items containing vast amounts of origin energy…
And most of these items were controlled by inherited aristocratic families and top-tier powerhouses… such as these veteran Martial Sovereigns!
“Tsk tsk, nearly 1.6 million origin energy… that’s a massive recovery! The simulation costs for the journey to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm are finally covered!”
Su Xing breathed a sigh of relief, but naturally the more origin energy the better. He planned to rake in another big haul before leaving the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.
Next, Su Xing made a trip to the Villa to meet with Jin Congxue.
This week, Jin Congxue had provided Su Xing with over forty thousand simulation energy, pushing his origin energy past 1.6 million…
…
The date came to January 27th, 2026. Su Xing stayed in the spirit field grotto-heaven, preparing for a new round of simulation.
“This simulation has only one objective!”
“Achieve the True Immortal realm!”
Su Xing took a deep breath. After two rounds of Wind Calamity tempering, his potential had been elevated to the greatest possible extent!
A full ten-tenths potential increase gave Su Xing the capital to ascend to Grand Luo in the future…
But Su Xing wanted to try once more, to see if he could push it to the absolute limit of eleven-tenths!
“This simulation, whether or not I succeed… I must break through to True Immortal realm in one push!”
Su Xing murmured, his gaze fixed on the simulation panel.
“Begin simulation!”
【Simulation #123 initiated. Current remaining origin energy: 1,632,167 points… Remaining simulation attempts: none.】
【Simulation begins!】
【Drawing a gold legendary talent costs 1 origin energy. Draw?】
“Confirm draw!”
【Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the gold talent Shennong Reborn… Probability of drawing a gold talent next time: 60%!】
【Shennong Reborn】: Gold talent. Like the ancient divine farmer Shennong himself, you possess astonishing affinity with all plant life, able to effortlessly cultivate immortal medicines and spirit plants…
“Holy crap! It finally appeared!”
Su Xing blinked, unable to hide his excitement.
Su Xing had previously possessed a purple talent, Descendant of Shennong!
The help that Descendant of Shennong had given Su Xing back then was immense—even Spirit-Gathering Flowers, spirit plants notoriously difficult to cultivate, had an extremely high survival rate in his hands!
And the ten thousand Spirit-Gathering Flowers he’d cultivated had become his first pot of gold after venturing into the Three Thousand Worlds…
“This Shennong Reborn talent is clearly the superior version of the Descendant of Shennong talent! Its effects… are probably not to be underestimated!”
Su Xing nodded slightly. This talent had come at just the right time.
When Su Xing later traveled to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, if he wanted to trade and acquire energy… he would inevitably need a large quantity of treasures.
Su Xing’s original plan was to trade a portion of his Spirit-Gathering Flowers… and then use treasures from the Myriad Wood Sect ruins and parts of the Luotian Sect’s inheritance as payment to exchange for resources.
Now with the Shennong Reborn talent, things would obviously be much easier to manage.
“Then, let the simulation formally begin!”
Su Xing’s gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【In the spirit field grotto-heaven, you realized you were in a simulation…】
【You made a trip to the Luotian Sect and obtained a portion of their inheritance.】
【Afterward, you left behind numerous treasures, talismans, puppets, and more, ensuring Earth could hold out for a sufficiently long time.】
【Before leaving Earth, you went to find Luo Shuying. After explaining everything, you formally prepared to depart…】
【You arrived at the void node you had located in advance, activated the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel, and concealed your karmic secrets…】
【The Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel transformed into a streak of afterimage, rapidly vanishing from Earth’s skies…】
【Soon, the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel flew out of the void region where Earth was located.】
【You sailed smoothly the entire way, and in less than a month, you arrived at the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm…】
【The first thing you did upon reaching the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm was to retrace your route!】
【You wanted to test whether, with your current spatial comprehension, you could successfully return to Earth…】
【Another month passed, and you arrived at the void region where Earth was located… The area was shrouded in layers of void mist and chaotic currents… Invisible barriers blocked cultivators from peering at Earth.】
【But your spatial Dao had already reached the third level of the Great Dao—Minor Attainment!】
【Such Great Dao comprehension gave you sufficiently keen perception… You searched tirelessly around the area.】
【Since you were absolutely certain of Earth’s exact location, you only needed to break through the spatial barriers to find it.】
【In the end, you spent one month and finally found a void barrier… You successfully opened a gap in this barrier, allowing you to return to Earth!】
In the Real World, Su Xing breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.
“At least… after leaving Earth, I can still return safely!”
What Su Xing feared most was that once he left Earth, he wouldn’t be able to come back—that was absolutely unacceptable to him.
But now, the trial in the simulation proved that Su Xing could indeed return safely!
“It’s just… the round-trip time is still too long!”
Su Xing frowned slightly. Ideally, a round trip to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm and back shouldn’t take more than four months…
But now, the travel alone took two months round trip…
Add another month to crack the barrier, and that was a full three months!
And Su Xing had to reserve some time for trading in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm…
“After reaching the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, I need to further strengthen my spatial Dao! Save as much as possible of that one month spent breaking the spatial barrier…”
“Also, after my cultivation advances, I need to further reduce my travel time between Earth and the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm…”
Su Xing set his objectives. The time needed for trading couldn’t be shortened, so he could only economize where time was being wasted unnecessarily.
After pondering for a while, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【After returning to Earth, you felt a persistent unease in your heart… as if you were being watched by some gaze…】
【A sense of foreboding welled up within you. You had clearly concealed your karmic secrets—could Red Moon have still discovered you?】
【After deliberating repeatedly, you ultimately confirmed that the source of this watching gaze was indeed Red Moon!】
【Over these years, Red Moon had laid down barriers, constantly guarding against discovery by outside cultivators… Therefore, even though you had concealed your karmic secrets, you were still detected the moment you entered…】
【After being discovered by Red Moon, you knew you couldn’t stay long. So you quickly gathered your family and friends… and left Earth together!】
In the Real World, Su Xing’s brow furrowed deeply upon seeing this, and he murmured:
“How is this possible? I had clearly concealed my karmic secrets… yet Red Moon still discovered me!”
A sense of foreboding gripped Su Xing’s heart. If the price of leaving was being discovered by Red Moon… then he’d rather not leave at all!
“Is there any way… to completely block Red Moon’s perception?”
Su Xing racked his brain and ultimately could think of only one method—to completely sever the portion of the barrier through which he entered and exited Earth!
Cut off Red Moon’s perception of it!
It was like a spider that could sense vibrations across its web… but if a section of the web were damaged, perhaps it could no longer detect anything there…
At that point, the spider would have to spend time re-weaving that part of its web…
Thinking of this, Su Xing mused thoughtfully:
“Right now, Red Moon is that spider… but repairing this damaged barrier would surely take considerable time!”
“Before the repairs are complete… I shouldn’t be noticed, right?”
Su Xing felt this plan might be worth a try…
“Hah… never mind all that, let me focus on breaking through to True Immortal realm first!”
Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【After leaving Earth, you piloted the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel and headed for the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm!】
【After settling your family and friends, you visited the Celestial Secrets Pavilion… As always, you sold some intelligence at the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, eliminated Advent Cult branches, and built up quite a reputation…】
【Over the next ten years, you were repeatedly targeted by Storm Rain Tower assassins… You counter-killed an assassin at the late True Immortal realm at the highest, and in one stroke rose into the top ten of the Prodigy List!】
【In the twelfth year, you visited the Celestial Secrets Pavilion and informed them about Qingyunzi’s matter.】
【Over the next ten years, you collected four Wind-Calming Pearls.】
【In the twenty-fifth year, you followed several Celestial Immortals, met Fairy Ziling, and entered the Azure Cloud Sect…】
【You were invited to Three Immortals Peak to converse with Qingyunzi.】
【You exchanged the Ruyi Visualization Method for one cup of Dao-Enlightenment Tea and three Dao-Enlightenment Leaves…】
【Over the following twenty-five years, you traveled through the Azure Origin Domain, collected numerous inheritances left by the Luotian Sect, and purchased three more Wind-Calming Pearls.】
【In the fiftieth year, you formally prepared to undergo the Wind Calamity!】
【You came to a relatively safe lesser chiliocosm and continuously absorbed spirit liquid. Your magical power swelled endlessly… until at a certain moment, you successfully triggered the Wind Calamity!】
【A gentle breeze drifted past you… At the onset of the Wind Calamity, it posed virtually no threat to you…】
In the Real World, Su Xing nodded slightly upon seeing this and murmured:
“The Wind Calamity was triggered in the fiftieth year! This Wind Calamity should last at least three hundred and fifty years! That gives me an even better chance of reaching eleven-tenths potential!”
“As for the weakening effect after the Wind Calamity begins… during the first hundred years, with my current strength, I should be able to get through it easily! I’ll use that time to consume the Dao-Enlightenment Tea!”
Su Xing thought this as his gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【After the Wind Calamity began, its impact on you was negligible.】
【You continued traveling through the Azure Origin Domain as always… In the blink of an eye, twenty years passed!】
【In the seventieth year, you prepared to set out for the Nine Heavens above!】
【You wanted to further strengthen your comprehension of the Great Dao of Space in the Nine Heavens…】
【However, just as you were about to reach the Azure Cloud Realm… a figure burst from the void, extreme speed and terrifying killing intent surging toward you…】
【You instinctively released your Protective Sword Aura, firmly blocking the attack…】
【You focused your gaze and saw that it was actually a palm-sized flying sword, striking from a thousand li (500 km) away, aimed directly at your vitals!】
【Your divine sense spread out like a tide, and you quickly locked onto the one who had ambushed you!】
【Storm Rain Tower — Rain-class Number One assassin!】
【Having missed with one strike, the Rain-class Number One assassin immediately showed an expression of horror… That attack of his was powerful enough to grievously wound or even kill an early-stage Mystic Immortal realm cultivator!】
【But you had blocked it!】
【Boundless terror filled his heart… Without any hesitation, the Rain-class Number One assassin fled at top speed…】
【Seeing this, you furrowed your brows slightly. Having undergone the baptism of two Wind Calamities, your strength had also entered the Mystic Immortal realm… In particular, your physical body and immortal power had undergone a qualitative enhancement!】
【And now, this Rain-class Number One assassin had struck first… You had no intention of letting him go!】
【Thus, a chase began…】
【The Rain-class Number One assassin was utterly shocked at this moment… He had originally assumed you were merely a Celestial Immortal realm cultivator… But from the abilities you had just displayed, you were at minimum at peak True Immortal realm!】
【With faulty intelligence, the assassin naturally dared not linger in battle… But you pursued relentlessly!】
【This battle unfolded in the void… The Rain-class Number One assassin dual-cultivated the Sword Dao and spatial Dao, which was precisely why he possessed such terrifying strength!】
【And his Sword Dao… had even reached the level of Minor Attainment… He was a true Sword Immortal!】
【But his spatial Dao was only at Initial Glimpse, far inferior to yours… Therefore, in void combat, you held an absolute advantage!】
【Moreover, your foundations far surpassed this peak True Immortal realm assassin!】
【This battle lasted a full three months… In the end, the True Immortal realm assassin exhausted all his immortal power and was slain by you in the void!】
【After killing him, you seized quite a number of treasures…】
【You estimated that this assassin’s true combat strength was roughly at the Half-Step Mystic Immortal Realm, just slightly weaker than you by half a margin.】
【Fortunately, the Wind Calamity had not been going on for long, and your strength had not yet declined… Otherwise, if this assassin had come a hundred years later, you would have had no choice but to flee!】
【After killing the Rain-class Number One assassin, you continued heading toward the Nine Heavens…】
【You planned to cultivate the Great Dao of Space within the Nine Heavens and attempt some exploration.】
【In the seventy-fifth year, you explored the first layer of the Nine Heavens for two years, found nothing, and decided to head to the higher layers…】
【In the seventy-seventh year, you arrived at the third layer of the Nine Heavens. The spatial Dao essence here was quite remarkable… You decided to cultivate here for a period of time.】
In the real world, Su Xing raised an eyebrow when he saw this.
“The Rain-class Number One assassin… nothing more than that!”
Su Xing couldn’t help feeling a bit smug. Thinking back to several simulations ago, he had been mercilessly killed by this assassin like a dog.
But now, Su Xing’s strength had completely surpassed him!
“With the simulator in hand… what’s that saying about a gentleman’s revenge? Next time won’t be too late!”
Su Xing sighed with emotion.
“And in a previous simulation, I obtained treasures from the Nine Heavens… Perhaps this time I can gain some benefits too!”
“In any case, the Nine Heavens are worth exploring!”
Su Xing rubbed his chin, but limited by his strength, it was best for him to explore only the third layer and below for now. The fourth layer — Su Xing wasn’t yet qualified to venture there.
With that thought, Su Xing silently intoned:
“Use immersive simulation… duration sixty years!”
【Ding — You have successfully used immersive simulation… Cost: 21,900 origin energy points. Remaining origin energy: 1,610,266 points…】
As the simulation notification faded, Su Xing’s consciousness entered the simulated world.
The next second, Su Xing appeared on the third layer of the Nine Heavens…
Su Xing carefully perceived everything around him, detecting the remarkable spatial Dao essence of this place. He nodded with satisfaction:
“No rush to explore — let me first comprehend the Great Dao of Space!”
With that thought, Su Xing took a sip of Dao-Enlightenment Tea, activated the Great Wisdom talent enhancement, and began his comprehension.
In the blink of an eye, nine years passed…
Su Xing emerged from his comprehension and felt the growth in his Spatial Dao Comprehension, furrowing his brows slightly:
“Nine years of comprehension… equivalent to over five hundred years of bitter cultivation, yet the progress isn’t significant?”
Su Xing increasingly felt the difficulty of advancing in Dao realm mastery…
The fourth realm of Dao, called Thorough Mastery!
At this realm, one truly achieved the ability to perfectly wield a particular Dao.
Countless cultivators who painstakingly studied a particular Dao for a hundred thousand years might never step into this realm!
Therefore, the realm of Thorough Mastery could only be reached by a very small number of Mystic Immortals and Golden Immortal realm cultivators!
Mystic Immortal realm cultivators had lifespans of three to five cosmic cycles, while Golden Immortals lived over a million years!
Only cultivators of such caliber… could afford the vast amounts of time needed to devote themselves to comprehending a single Dao and reaching Thorough Mastery!
Su Xing made some calculations and said with some disbelief:
“With my aptitude and talent… to comprehend the spatial Dao to the fourth realm, I’d need at least thirty thousand years of bitter cultivation?”
Su Xing took a deep breath. Thirty thousand years of bitter cultivation…
This meant that even if Su Xing used all his Dao-Enlightenment Tea on comprehending the spatial Dao during every immersive simulation, it would still take ten sessions!
Thinking of this… Su Xing shook his head slightly:
“So be it… The spatial Dao is barely sufficient for now. Let me shelve it for the time being! After reaching the True Immortal realm… I’ll reconsider!”
Su Xing pondered for a moment, then began attempting to comprehend the Five Elements Dao!
With a casual wave of his hand, several Five Elements supreme treasures appeared around Su Xing, wisps of Dao essence emanating from them.
Taking a sip of Dao-Enlightenment Tea, Su Xing’s comprehension ability surged dramatically, and he began comprehending the Five Elements Dao.
Just like that, another eighteen years passed in the blink of an eye…
Su Xing slowly opened his eyes, sensing his comprehension of the Five Elements Dao, and felt a pleasant surprise.
“In just eighteen years… my comprehension of the third realm of the Five Elements Dao has already progressed considerably?”
Su Xing estimated that with another round of eighteen years, he could completely cultivate the Five Elements Dao to the third realm of Minor Attainment!
“Hiss… The Five Elements Holy Physique truly lives up to its reputation!”
“My aptitude for the Five Elements Dao is at least three times that of the spatial Dao!”
“In that case, the Five Elements Dao has a much better chance of being the first to break into the fourth realm!”
Su Xing felt a surge of excitement in his heart…
If the Five Elements Dao truly broke through to the fourth realm smoothly… then while still in the True Immortal realm, he would likely possess the ability to contend with mid-stage or even late-stage Mystic Immortal realm cultivators!
“The Five Elements Dao possesses remarkable destructive power… ever-changing and unpredictable!”
Su Xing sighed with emotion, then continued comprehending the Five Elements Dao…
In the blink of an eye, another eighteen years passed.
…
Time arrived at the 122nd year of the simulation, which was also the seventy-second year since Su Xing began experiencing the Wind Calamity.
Having undergone two consecutive Wind Calamities, Su Xing’s potential and strength had greatly increased… But even so, the Wind Calamity in the seventy-second year still affected Su Xing’s strength.
Though he still held stable Mystic Immortal realm combat power, there was a certain degree of decline.
On this day, Su Xing emerged from his comprehension, his face bearing a look of satisfaction. With merely a wave of his hand, lights of five colors flashed across his palm…
If one looked closely, one could even discern that each color was divided into a bright and a dark shade, as if faintly corresponding to the Dao of Yin-Yang…
“Phew~ Thirty-six years of bitter cultivation, and the Five Elements Dao has officially entered the realm of Minor Attainment!”
Su Xing once again marveled at the formidable power of the Dao-Enlightenment Tea…
The third realm of Dao that would take ordinary cultivators ten thousand years to comprehend — Su Xing had achieved it in merely a few decades!
“With the Five Elements Dao entering the third realm… not only can I wield various immortal power supernatural arts with perfect fluency…”
“More importantly, all five types of immortal power can be incorporated into the Five Elements Spirit Burst… and the destructive power will undergo a qualitative transformation!”
Su Xing estimated that with his current immortal power, if he developed the Five Elements Immortal Burst… combined with the Five Elements Dao, it would be enough to threaten a Half-Step Mystic Immortal Realm cultivator!
“I still have half a cup of Dao-Enlightenment Tea left… No rush to use it in the remaining nine years!”
Su Xing decided to first explore this third layer. The extremely high-purity Spatial Origin Stone he had previously obtained had piqued his interest.
“Well then, let’s start from this direction…”
Su Xing gazed at a patch of void mist a hundred li (50 km) away… and attempted to probe it with his divine sense.
But the moment his divine sense touched the mist, it was immediately blocked from entry. No matter how Su Xing tried, he could not penetrate it…
“The Nine Heavens are truly mysterious… The void mist is even more terrifying than the void itself!”
Su Xing murmured, then took a single step forward, appearing outside the void mist.
He then attempted to step inside, and a faint stinging pain emanated from the center of his brow.
“Hmm? There’s danger… but not much?”
Su Xing deliberated for a moment, then entered the void mist…
Upon entering the void mist, at first he couldn’t even see his own fingers in front of him. But after just a brief moment, Su Xing seemed to appear in an entirely new world.
In this world, apart from Su Xing, there was also a creature as massive as a mountain range, dozing off.
The creature’s appearance was ferocious and terrifying. Its body bore not a single strand of hair, instead smooth as polished stone… Yet its hundred-zhang (333 m)-tall frame still radiated an overwhelming sense of pressure.
“This seems to be… a Strange Voidbeast?”
“Its strength is roughly… Half-Step Mystic Immortal Realm?”
Su Xing’s eyes lit up — this Strange Voidbeast had arrived at just the right time!
A Strange Voidbeast’s strength would receive a considerable boost within the void. With its Half-Step Mystic Immortal Realm strength, it should be capable of displaying combat power comparable to an early-stage Mystic Immortal realm cultivator…
“Moreover, the flesh and blood of a Strange Voidbeast seems to be an excellent treasure for comprehending the spatial Dao…”
The corner of Su Xing’s mouth curved upward as a five-colored vortex of energy appeared in his hand.
“Perfect — I can test the progress of my Five Elements Dao…”