Chapter 346 – Ultimate Speed and Strength, Comprehension of the Dao of Speed and Strength!
by spirapiraChapter 346 – Ultimate Speed and Strength, Comprehension of the Dao of Speed and Strength!
In the Real World, Su Xing saw this and nodded:
“The White Emperor Tower is considered one of the top three powers of the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm…”
“The Celestial Secrets Pavilion doesn’t concern itself with worldly affairs. Only the White Emperor Tower, the Celestial Demon Prison, and the Azure Cloud Sect—these three major powers—possess considerable influence.”
“And among them, the White Emperor Tower has the fewest restrictions… My disguised identity should be able to achieve a respectable position within it…”
In Su Xing’s plans, the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm was absolutely a crucial stronghold!
And since Su Xing was new here, the only thing he could put forward in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm was his strength, so naturally he needed to temporarily align himself with one of the major powers first.
Relatively speaking, the White Emperor Tower was currently the most suitable power for Su Xing.
“With Peak Earthly Immortal realm cultivation, I’d be more than qualified to become a first-class guest elder within a White Emperor Tower branch… That would be sufficient to support my next plans!”
Su Xing thought this, his gaze turning to the simulation panel.
【After arriving at the White Emperor Tower, you displayed your Peak Earthly Immortal realm cultivation, which instantly drew the attention of the White Emperor Tower’s leadership.】
【After layers of verification, the branch tower master—a True Immortal—personally received you…】
【Three days later, you successfully became a first-class guest elder of the White Emperor Tower.】
【White Emperor Tower guest Elders are accepted regardless of background, so long as they are not practitioners of the evil path.】
【At the same time, you also gained the qualification to purchase a cave dwelling within White Emperor City.】
【To avoid drawing attention and to better match your identity, you spent one million low-grade spirit stones in the center of White Emperor City to lease a lower-grade grotto-heaven for a period of ten years…】
【Seven days later, you visited the Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion once more.】
【Jin Sanniang truly lived up to her reputation as a well-known merchant in White Emperor City. In just over ten days, she had exceeded expectations—she had already gathered half of the three types of metal ores you previously requested!】
【At the same time, Jin Sanniang told you that the backer behind her wished to meet you…】
【After hearing this, you pondered for a moment. If you wanted to establish a certain degree of influence within White Emperor City, allies were naturally indispensable.】
【And the Earthly Immortal behind Jin Sanniang was clearly an excellent choice.】
【So you agreed to Jin Sanniang’s request and arranged a meeting with her backer.】
【Just as you had anticipated, Jin Sanniang’s backer was, like you, a first-class guest elder of the White Emperor Tower!】
【His name was Bai Xuan, a late-stage Earthly Immortal realm cultivator who had been developing his influence in White Emperor City for ten thousand years. His roots ran deep, and both his financial resources and personal strength were exceptional among Earthly Immortals…】
【And the reason Jin Sanniang had been able to locate so many ores in such a short time was likely due in no small part to this Bai Xuan behind the scenes…】
【Your negotiations with Bai Xuan went very smoothly. You agreed to increase the purchase price by half a percent, while Bai Xuan guaranteed he would leverage his connections—not only within White Emperor City, but across dozens of cultivator cities throughout the northern part of the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm—to collect ores for you…】
【From then on, everyone was satisfied, and you and the Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion reached a mutually beneficial arrangement.】
【Just like that, another two months passed.】
【The Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion delivered a massive shipment of the three metals as promised, with quantities even double what you had estimated!】
【You estimated that the three types of exotic metal the Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion brought… had a total value approaching five million points of origin energy!】
In the Real World, a glint of brilliance flashed through Su Xing’s eyes when he saw this.
“Tsk tsk, that’s five million points of origin energy!”
“Such a massive amount… is more than enough for what I need to break through to the Mystic Immortal realm!”
Su Xing was exceedingly pleased. Just these five million points of origin energy alone made his trip to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm worthwhile!
Moreover, once this trade route was established and independent cultivators in White Emperor City were rallied to continuously mine these three metals for Su Xing, the profits it could bring… would be an endless, unceasing stream!
“But… the only problem now is that such a large quantity of these three metals probably costs no less than thirty million high-grade spirit stones!”
“With the financial resources I have on hand… it seems I can’t afford to take it all…”
Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly.
The good news was that Su Xing’s origin energy had a source now.
The bad news was that Su Xing didn’t have enough spirit stones… he couldn’t afford it!
“The spirit stones I have on hand, converted to high-grade spirit stones… would only amount to roughly ten million.”
“And Spirit-Gathering Flowers aren’t suitable for selling in large batches either… This is getting tricky!”
Su Xing pondered. If he purely sold Spirit-Gathering Flowers to fill this gap of twenty million high-grade spirit stones, he would need to sell at least ten thousand plants!
And such a massive quantity of Spirit-Gathering Flowers was clearly not something that a mere “Peak Earthly Immortal realm” cultivator like his cover identity could possibly possess. It would inevitably attract the attention of interested parties.
“Only when my displayed strength matches my wealth… can I avoid the covetous gazes of petty opportunists!”
Su Xing thought it over. The Spirit-Gathering Flowers were of critical importance. If he exposed too many at once and word got out, Mystic Immortal realm cultivators from other worlds might come knocking!
And that was clearly not something Su Xing wanted to see.
“So… this gap of twenty million high-grade spirit stones must be filled in batches…”
“Part of it can come from selling three thousand Spirit-Gathering Flowers—no problem there… The rest can come from selling some supernatural arts and techniques…”
After a brief pause, Su Xing continued:
“Also, the distance from the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm to the Black Water Realm doesn’t seem that far!”
“There are only three or four void nodes between them… If I piloted the Star-Moon Shuttle, I could arrive in less than two months!”
Su Xing weighed whether or not to make a trip to the Black Water Realm—after all, a portion of Luo Tian’s legacy was waiting for him there.
But after careful deliberation, Su Xing abandoned the idea.
A round trip to the Black Water Realm would take at least five months.
For a few million drops of high-grade spirit liquid… tens of millions of high-grade spirit stones—it didn’t quite seem worth it?
“Perhaps once my spatial Dao reaches the fourth realm… then I can head to the Black Water Realm!”
Su Xing thought this, then turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.
【Afterward, you remained in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm for another two months. Once you confirmed there were no issues with the transaction, you piloted the Star-Moon Shuttle and returned to Earth.】
【This return trip to Earth took you only about ten days.】
【After returning to Earth, you began your operation to eradicate the Advent Cult.】
【This operation had no elaborate plan… Relying solely on your overwhelming strength, you crushed Old Dog Dragon and the Advent Cult’s entire upper echelon in a devastating massacre.】
【As for the Advent Cult’s ordinary followers and mid-level cadres, you successfully swayed them using your Self-Help Guru talent.】
【With the speed of lightning, you swept through the entire Advent Cult… then plundered their treasury!】
【You dispatched your puppet subordinates to take stock of the resources in the Advent Cult’s treasury…】
【The resources in their treasury far exceeded your expectations!】
【Without the slightest hesitation, you claimed all these resources for yourself, then made a trip to the Blood Demon Realm to sweep up the remaining evil cultivators.】
【After completing all of this, you piloted the Star-Moon Shuttle back to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, reported Red Moon’s intelligence to the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, and requested the deployment of Supreme Unity Golden Immortals.】
【You brought two Supreme Unity Golden Immortals to Earth, preparing to annihilate Red Moon.】
【After escorting the two Supreme Unity Golden Immortals into the Endless Abyss, you began planning the migration of Earth’s human race.】
【In the blink of an eye, eight years passed…】
【In the eighth year, you successfully relocated the vast majority of Great Xia’s population, along with a small portion of people from other nations, to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.】
【After completing all of this, you immediately contacted the Celestial Secrets Pavilion and directly revealed your identity as a disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect.】
【You met with Fairy Ziling, and under her guidance, traveled to Three Immortals Peak.】
【You struck a deal with Qingyunzi and successfully obtained two cups of Dao-Enlightenment Tea.】
【In the tenth year, news arrived of Red Moon’s fall. Of the two Supreme Unity Golden Immortals, one returned gravely wounded and the other lightly injured.】
【But they had learned of your identity as Qingyunzi’s personal disciple, and thus did not trouble you.】
【You successfully dodged a disaster. Afterward, you spent three years building cultivation academies for Earth’s human race and providing cultivation resources.】
【After completing all of this, the knot in your heart eased considerably, and your mental state improved significantly.】
In the Real World, Su Xing saw this and nodded slightly.
“The preliminary preparation work is more or less complete!”
“So for the remaining time in this simulation, it’s time to cultivate properly!”
Su Xing mulled it over. His Body Tempering cultivation needed to break through to the fourth layer!
“And my spatial Dao also needs further advancement!”
In the future, Su Xing would inevitably wander among various lesser chiliocosms to find Luo Tian’s legacies.
But if he wanted to reach different worlds as quickly as possible, he had to improve his travel speed!
“For any Great Dao comprehension, the difference between the third realm and the fourth realm is like heaven and earth!”
“Great Dao of Space, fourth realm… don’t disappoint me!”
Su Xing murmured.
But immediately after, Su Xing felt somewhat helpless.
“My Qi Refinement cultivation… needs to be advanced further too. But to raise it by two full stages would cost six hundred thousand origin energy…”
“At my current rate of acquiring origin energy… stockpiling it is utterly impossible!”
Su Xing shook his head slightly. He had indeed planned to boost his Qi Refinement cultivation, but doing so might leave him without enough origin energy.
“Regardless, cultivation advancement cannot be neglected… For now, I can only take it one step at a time!”
Su Xing thought this, and turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【In the fifteenth year, you departed the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, piloting the Star-Moon Shuttle toward the Nine Heavens above.】
【In the twentieth year, you successfully arrived at the Nine Heavens and began plundering the secret realms within!】
【Indeed—for other cultivators, decades of wandering might not yield even a single secret realm or a single treasure.】
【But for you, blessed with the Heaven-Sent Fortune talent, you encountered secret realms and obtained treasures nearly every month—though the quality of those treasures varied greatly.】
【In just three years, you had already reached the Third Heaven.】
【With your strength, exploring secret realms in the Third Heaven was the most optimal choice.】
【Your primary objective was to collect enough dao fragments to aid your cultivation, while simultaneously hunting Strange Voidbeasts in preparation for your future comprehension of the spatial Dao.】
【In the blink of an eye, twenty years passed…】
【Year forty. Over these twenty years, you hunted no fewer than ten Strange Voidbeasts, three of which possessed strength above the True Immortal realm, providing you with a considerable number of calculi for comprehending the spatial Dao.】
【At the same time, you also acquired several other treasures — for example, an extraordinarily light feather imbued with the Dao of Speed, and a palm-sized stone as heavy as a mountain, containing the Great Dao of Strength.】
【Blessed with the Heaven-Sent Fortune talent, you thrived in the Third Heaven like a fish in water, easily obtaining numerous treasures to aid your cultivation.】
【And so, another thirty-seven years passed…】
【Year seventy-seven. You found a relatively safe Secret Realm in the Third Heaven and began taking stock of the treasures you had acquired over the years.】
【In a mere sixty-odd years, you had slain over twenty Strange Voidbeasts! You obtained more than fifty Strange Voidbeast calculi — each one a supreme treasure for comprehending the spatial Dao!】
【Beyond that, you also acquired various Dao essence treasures, more than enough to sustain your future cultivation.】
In the Real World, Su Xing saw this and nodded.
“Not bad. These resources I’ve acquired are more than enough for my upcoming comprehension!”
Since Su Xing had decided to prioritize comprehending the spatial Dao, he naturally needed to gather as many calculi produced by Strange Voidbeasts as possible — only then could he facilitate his future cultivation.
With this thought, Su Xing silently intoned:
“Use immersive simulation, duration seventy-five years!”
【Ding — you have successfully used immersive simulation. Expended 27,375 origin energy points. Remaining origin energy: 372,001 points…】
As the simulation notification faded, Su Xing’s consciousness entered the simulated world.
In a Secret Realm filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, Su Xing slowly opened his eyes. After checking the items in his spatial storage, he nodded.
“Good. Now it’s time to comprehend the spatial Dao…”
With a thought, Su Xing produced the Dao-Enlightenment Tea and began brewing it.
Moments later, a cup of fresh, fragrant tea appeared in Su Xing’s hand.
After taking a small sip and feeling his comprehension ability surge tremendously, he took out several Strange Voidbeast calculi and began contemplating the spatial Dao.
In the blink of an eye, nine years passed…
On this day, Su Xing slowly opened his eyes, awakening from his contemplation. Sensing the progress he had made in the spatial Dao, he gave a slight nod.
“Not bad. With treasures to assist comprehension, the results are truly twice the effort for half the work!”
“At this rate, roughly ten thousand years would be enough to smoothly advance to the fourth layer of the spatial Dao!”
The ten thousand years Su Xing spoke of was without the enhancement of Dao-Enlightenment Tea, Wisdom in Foolishness, or the Late Bloomer talent.
If all three were factored in, it would take at most a hundred and seventy-odd years for Su Xing to smoothly advance to the fourth stage of the spatial Dao!
“By my calculations, at most three more immersive simulations… and I’ll reach the fourth stage of the spatial Dao! When that time comes, my speed traveling through the void will definitely improve dramatically!”
Su Xing was quite satisfied, and he continued contemplating the spatial Dao.
…
The stars shifted and the sun and moon shuttled by…
In the blink of an eye, another forty-five years passed.
This was already Su Xing’s fifty-fourth year of immersive simulation.
Three cups of Dao-Enlightenment Tea had been completely consumed. For cultivators, a sixty-year cycle was but a snap of the fingers!
“Sixty years of Dao contemplation… my spatial Dao comprehension has improved tremendously!”
Su Xing awakened from his contemplative state and felt the progress of his Great Dao of Space, his heart filled with emotion.
“Though I haven’t yet entered the fourth stage of the spatial Dao, the progress compared to before is immense!”
“If I were to traverse the void now, traveling from the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm back to Earth, it would take at most eight days…”
Su Xing was delighted — the benefits of the spatial Dao were even greater than he had imagined!
If one day Su Xing’s spatial Dao became powerful enough, traveling between the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm and Earth might take only a single day.
When that time came, across the vast Three Thousand Worlds, where could Su Xing not go?
Even the phrase “morning at the azure sea, evening at Mount Cangwu” would hardly suffice to describe it.
“Fifty-four years of immersive simulation… the three cups of Dao-Enlightenment Tea are exhausted. So next, it’s time to refine Dao-Hearing Pills!”
Su Xing took out a Spirit Awakening Pill and four wrinkled Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves, then began refining Dao-Hearing Pills.
By now, Su Xing’s refinement technique for Dao-Hearing Pills had reached the Minor Mastery level, with a success rate as high as eighty percent. Even when refinement failed, he could at least produce an inferior-quality pill.
But there was still a considerable gap before reaching the Mastery-level refinement technique…
And so, over the next two months, Su Xing refined a total of nine Dao-Hearing Pills.
Eight were successfully formed, all of normal quality… and there was one inferior Dao-Hearing Pill, which Su Xing consumed himself.
In the Third Heaven Secret Realm, Su Xing gazed at the eight Dao-Hearing Pills in his hand and murmured:
“These eight pills are equivalent to eight hundred years of arduous cultivation… roughly the effect of most of a cup of Dao-Enlightenment Tea!”
“But next, I shouldn’t continue comprehending the spatial Dao…”
Rather than continuing to contemplate the spatial Dao, Su Xing had a better plan.
With a thought, Su Xing produced a light, pristine white feather. Wisps of Dao of Speed essence wound around it — quite extraordinary.
“This must be a feather from some powerful avian demon beast. For it to appear in the Nine Heavens, it’s probably a feather from an ancient divine beast.”
Su Xing didn’t know who the feather’s original owner was, but he knew that this feather would be of tremendous benefit to his comprehension of the Dao of Speed!
“Come to think of it, my Dao of Speed and Dao of Strength… are still at the origin stage!”
“Perfect timing — I’ll seize this opportunity to break through to the Dao Embryonic Form stage in one push!”
Su Xing then swallowed the first Dao-Hearing Pill, held the feather in his hand, and began contemplating the Dao of Speed.
Over the next three months, Su Xing successively consumed three more Dao-Hearing Pills.
Four Dao-Hearing Pills consumed, four months elapsed — for Su Xing, this was equivalent to four hundred years of contemplation!
And this finally allowed Su Xing’s comprehension of the Dao of Speed to enter the first stage — the Dao Embryonic Form realm!
In the Secret Realm, Su Xing slowly opened his eyes. Feeling the enhancement that came from the Dao of Speed reaching the first stage, a look of astonishment flashed across his face.
“So that’s how it is… the Dao of Speed is the true core of movement speed!”
Su Xing immediately felt a pang of regret. Previously, he had focused solely on comprehending the spatial Dao while neglecting the equally important Dao of Speed!
“With the Dao of Speed at the first stage… my supernatural art Earthshrink Golden Light has gotten at least thirty percent faster!”
“Moreover, the Dao of Speed seems to be applicable to immortal vessels as well, making them travel even faster!”
Su Xing took a deep breath — this had indeed been an oversight on his part.
As he now understood, the spatial Dao was more suited for dealing with the various dangers of the void, or for performing short-to-medium-range teleportation.
But for prolonged travel through the void, one needed not only mastery of the spatial Dao — the Dao of Speed was equally indispensable!
“Tsk tsk… with the Dao of Speed at the first stage, if I apply it to the Star-Moon Shuttle, I could probably return to Earth in just one week!”
Su Xing felt quite emotional. It seemed he still had enormous growth potential when it came to movement speed.
“Truly an unexpected pleasant surprise!”
Su Xing smacked his lips, then took out the jet-black stone.
This stone was merely palm-sized, yet the weight it contained was no less than an entire mountain!
Su Xing estimated that this single stone weighed several billion tons!
Even for him, holding it in his hand, he could feel its considerable heft.
“This stone should be the legendary Mount Buzhou Stone…”
Su Xing had heard that in the primordial era, there existed a mountain called Buzhou. This mountain stood tens of millions of zhang tall, and its rock was extraordinarily hard and heavy beyond measure.
The stones from this mountain were called Mount Buzhou Stones — the primary material for refining the immortal treasure known as the “Mountain-Overturning Seal”!
The Mountain-Overturning Seal was only palm-sized, yet when wielded against an enemy, each strike carried force no less than the power of mountains and rivers!
The reason for this was precisely the inclusion of Mount Buzhou Stone ore in its composition.
“Tsk tsk, this stone was already nearly extinct after the Wu Clan smashed into Mount Buzhou in the primordial era… I never expected to find it in the Nine Heavens. My luck is truly remarkable!”
Su Xing silently noted the locations where he had previously discovered these treasures. In future simulations, Su Xing could easily obtain them!
“This stone is so incredibly heavy — it’s the perfect supreme treasure for comprehending the Dao of Strength!”
Su Xing murmured, then swallowed a Dao-Hearing Pill and began contemplating the Dao of Strength!
In the blink of an eye, another four months passed…
Su Xing successfully pushed his comprehension of the Dao of Strength into the Dao Embryonic Form realm as well!
With this, Su Xing now possessed the Five Elements Dao, spatial Dao, Dao of Destiny and Karma, Dao of Thunder, Dao of Speed, Dao of Strength, Dao of Killing, and Dao of the Sword…
A total of eight Great Daos, all having entered the Great Dao realm!
“Phew… though it’s eight Great Daos… the Five Elements Dao is actually five combined into one. If you split them apart, the total number of Daos I’ve comprehended comes to thirteen!”
So Su Xing thought. Eight Great Daos, each one extraordinary, leaving Su Xing with virtually no weaknesses!
“From now on, if it’s not a top-tier Great Dao… there’s no need to spend effort comprehending it!”
Su Xing shook his head slightly. Even with the simulator at his disposal, simultaneously comprehending eight Great Daos already felt extremely taxing.
In the future, unless it was a supreme Dao like Time or Life and Death, Su Xing had no need to waste effort on comprehension.
His existing Daos were more than sufficient for Su Xing’s use.
“However, with these eight Great Daos as they are now, I still can’t fully unleash their true power!”
Su Xing knew that to fully bring out the might of his Great Daos, the most crucial factor was the Spirit Domain!
And Su Xing hadn’t cultivated his Spirit Domain in a long time… it was time to focus on that soon!
“When I first entered the Immortal realm, the Spirit Domain was my strong suit… but as my cultivation has grown, my Spirit Domain has fallen behind!”
“Fortunately, with a solid foundation, catching up shouldn’t be too difficult!”
…
Simulation year one hundred and fifty-two. The immersive simulation ended, and Su Xing returned to the Real World.
After using his memory supernatural art, Su Xing’s memories gradually recovered. His eyes were clear as he looked at the simulation panel.
【Year one hundred and fifty-two. In the Third Heaven Secret Realm, you cultivated arduously for seventy-five years, and your Great Dao comprehension underwent further transformation!】
【You then chose to return to the Azure Cloud Sect to focus on increasing your cultivation…】
【Year one hundred and fifty-five. You returned to the Azure Cloud Sect and immediately entered the Luotian Realm to inquire about the progress of the Sky-Mending Flower cultivation…】