Chapter 441 – Defeating a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal, Rising to the Top of the Prodigy List!
by spirapiraChapter 441 – Defeating a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal, Rising to the Top of the Prodigy List!
“Among the Advent Cult’s officers, those who pose a threat to me… are none other than the top four in the rankings!”
“Blood One has never appeared to this day… there’s no way to know.”
“Blood Two is currently in the Heavenly Secrets Domain, and Blood Three has a mission on Earth…”
“Therefore, the one who comes must be Blood Four!”
Su Xing was over ninety percent certain of this.
Because Blood Four possessed Supreme Unity Golden Immortal cultivation!
Even if they sent some “Blood Six” or “Blood Nine” Golden Immortals afterward, Su Xing wouldn’t care.
It was merely a matter of killing a few more until he drew out Blood Four, the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal!
“Hoo… if my luck is bad and I directly attract Blood One…”
“Hmm, that wouldn’t really be a loss either. It would just mean using one simulation opportunity to figure out what kind of existence Blood One is…”
Up until now, Su Xing had never seen Blood One.
Nor did he know whether Blood One and the Blood Immortal were one and the same…
“Hmm, since that’s the case, let’s give it a try!”
Su Xing decided to test his idea, his gaze turning to the simulation panel.
【After killing the Advent Cult officers, you chose to remain in the Star Realm.】
【In the blink of an eye, three years passed…】
【In the third year, several cultivators sneaked furtively into the Star Realm.】
【Though they had tried their best to conceal themselves, you still detected the distinctive aura of the Advent Cult on them.】
【You spent some effort and killed every last one of these Advent Cult officers.】
【Among them, the strongest was a Late Golden Immortal evil cultivator.】
【Code name: Blood Seven!】
【In Blood Seven’s storage ring, you discovered some clues.】
【Your luck was excellent—Blood Seven’s direct superior was none other than Blood Four!】
【After receiving the mission to investigate the Star Realm, Blood Seven had led a team here.】
【Before this, Blood Four and Blood Seven had been carrying out a mission in a Medium Chiliocosm called the Thousand Isles Realm.】
【After performing a soul search on Blood Seven, you gained a general understanding of the current situation…】
【Sure enough, just as you had guessed, the only one who currently had time to come was Blood Four!】
【And so, you waited quietly in the Star Realm for Blood Four’s arrival…】
【Like this, roughly two more years passed.】
【In the fifth year of the simulation, while you were in secluded cultivation, you suddenly sensed a terrifying aura appear in the Star Realm.】
【At the same time, your Blessed by Fortune talent faintly sent a warning—this meant the newcomer’s strength was no less than your own.】
【You had not hidden your tracks, and Blood Four quickly discovered you…】
【From you, he too faintly sensed a hint of threat.】
【Blood Four’s face showed a flash of surprise as he regarded you with unfamiliarity: “Strange. Who are you? Why would you ambush my Advent Cult officers? You’re clearly only at Golden Immortal cultivation… yet you give me a faint sense of threat. How bizarre!”】
【Hearing this, a mocking smile crept onto the corner of your lips, and you thought to yourself: You may not know me, but I know you all too well!】
【With that, you raised the Blackice sword, and a Void Slash cleaved through space, striking directly at Blood Four’s vital points!】
【The moment you met, you went straight for the killing blow!】
【Facing this Supreme Unity Golden Immortal-level enemy, you had absolutely no room to hold back!】
【Blood Four’s face flashed with anger as he said: “A mere Golden Immortal dares raise a hand against me?”】
【As he spoke, a river of blood materialized before Blood Four, flowing like silk as it swallowed your sword intent whole.】
【Your first strike failed, but this was well within your expectations—and the Star Realm was no place for a prolonged battle.】
【If you and Blood Four erupted into a full-scale battle here, the entire Star Realm could very well be destroyed!】
【And so, you flashed a provocative look at Blood Four, your figure flickering as you left the Star Realm… emerging into the void above!】
In the real world, Su Xing nodded slightly as he read this.
“Golden Immortals possess the power to destroy a lesser chiliocosm…”
“If Blood Four and I fought in the Star Realm, the entire world would probably be annihilated!”
“And that is naturally not what I want to see…”
Fighting in the void would somewhat diminish Su Xing’s strength.
But the formidable power of Su Xing’s Great Shaman Body Forging Art would certainly give him an advantage over Blood Four in that regard.
However, the text that followed caught Su Xing somewhat off guard.
【You fled into the void, which raised a hint of wariness in Blood Four’s heart.】
【Clearly, Blood Four also suspected you had laid an ambush, or that this was a diversion tactic…】
【But Blood Four had come specifically to investigate the missing Advent Cult officers, so he naturally couldn’t let you go.】
【And so, the battle erupted!】
【In the void, you had originally assumed Blood Four’s strength would be diminished just like yours.】
【But to your great surprise, the cultivation technique Blood Four practiced, and even his physical body, were virtually unaffected by combat in the void.】
【Moreover, Blood Four’s spiritual power was immense, with a river of blood swirling around him…】
【This was the Advent Cult’s exclusive supernatural art—the Nethervoid Blood River!】
【The power of this supernatural art was no less than a top-tier Heavenly Spirit supernatural art, and even among cultivators of the same realm, few could stand against it.】
【The blood river instantly transformed into a torrent that engulfed you… the entire void suddenly fell silent, and your aura gradually faded away.】
【The next second, a spatial passage opened a million li (500,000 km) away… in the final instant before being swallowed by the blood river, you had ultimately activated the power of space and escaped successfully!】
【Blood Four quickly detected this and continued pursuing you…】
【You gripped the spirit sword Blackice, primordial energy surging ceaselessly within you like a flood pouring into the Blackice sword.】
【Ten million strands of sword energy formed a silver river, illuminating an entire stretch of the void.】
【A battle this terrifying could even destroy an entire Medium Chiliocosm!】
【However, Blood Four was after all a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal—that terrifying blood river continuously eroded and devoured your sword intent, serving as both offense and defense, protecting Blood Four!】
【Yet after your breakthrough, you were no longer comparable to an ordinary Golden Immortal… the battle reached a temporary stalemate.】
【In the blink of an eye, half a month passed…】
【Sure enough, just as you had predicted, Blood Four had only recently entered the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal realm and had merely achieved the sixth realm with five Great Daos.】
【His strongest was merely a single “Blood Dao” at Minor Mastery of the sixth realm!】
【Though his spiritual power surpassed yours, his physical body was actually inferior to yours… which meant you were not at an absolute disadvantage in battle.】
【Combined with the Blackice sword, which had advanced to an innate treasure, you were able to hold your own in the fight.】
【As the battle wore on, Blood Four also noticed something was amiss…】
【He had never encountered such a troublesome Golden Immortal before, and a faint sense of panic rose in his heart.】
【He understood clearly that with the strength you had displayed, you were likely qualified to rank first on the Earth Ranking!】
【And whoever ranked first on the Earth Ranking, as long as they didn’t perish, would inevitably become a Great Firmament Golden Immortal in the future…】
【With this thought, Blood Four became even more determined to kill you…】
【But as the battle continued, Blood Four discovered another anomaly… his lifespan was rapidly decreasing!】
【Cultivating the Blood Immortal Scripture inherently consumed lifespan, and his actual maximum lifespan was less than half that of a normal Supreme Unity Golden Immortal.】
【Yet in just one month of fighting you, his lifespan had inexplicably decreased by nearly thirty thousand years!】
【This pained Blood Four greatly, but he gritted his teeth, still intent on killing you…】
【Like this, another three months passed!】
【Finally, the battle had lasted a full four months!】
【Over these four months, you had been severely wounded multiple times, but each time you recovered through your astonishing regenerative ability.】
【Though you had been suppressed by Blood Four throughout, you never once teetered on the brink of death.】
【Blood Four, on the other hand, had lost a staggering hundred thousand years of lifespan in this battle!】
【Finally, Blood Four panicked!】
【After advancing to Supreme Unity, he had gained several million years of lifespan with great difficulty… yet fighting you had cost him a hundred thousand years. How could he possibly accept that?】
【He knew that if this continued… he might very well die from lifespan exhaustion!】
【And so… Blood Four finally unleashed his ultimate technique…】
【The terrifying blood river enveloped the entire expanse of space… mountains of corpses and seas of blood rushed toward you, gradually eroding your sanity.】
【This was the Nethervoid Blood River’s most powerful move—concentrating all baleful energy and the Blood Dao into one devastating attack…】
【Any cultivator swallowed by the blood river would become part of it…】
【Indeed, under this technique, you had no room to resist.】
【But at the last possible moment, you activated your One More Shot talent and successfully escaped just before death!】
【Blood Four, seeing you emerge from the blood river completely unscathed, finally lost all composure…】
【Without a moment’s hesitation, Blood Four fled from this stretch of void…】
【Seeing this, you did not pursue… instead, you felt a wave of relief.】
【Fortunately, the one who had unleashed that technique was Blood Four. If someone stronger like Blood Three had used it, the terrifying baleful energy would have overwhelmed you before you could even react, leaving no opportunity to activate your talent.】
【As things stood, Blood Four had simply misjudged your strength, and with too much lifespan lost, he had fled mid-battle.】
【Even if you had given chase, you had absolutely no confidence you could have kept him there.】
【You remained where you were, expanding your divine sense, and quickly detected several consciousnesses observing the battle from afar.】
【Your battle had been so spectacular that it had drawn the attention of several Golden Immortal cultivators.】
【The Golden Immortals had all recognized Blood Four’s identity… but you, who had always been unknown, had suddenly erupted with combat power rivaling a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal—truly terrifying!】
【Before you departed, several divine transmissions reached you, inquiring about your Dao title.】
【After a moment of silence, you left behind the Dao title of Spirit Dragon Golden Immortal…】
In the real world, Su Xing couldn’t help but grin as he read this.
“A dignified Supreme Unity Golden Immortal… Blood Four was actually forced to retreat by me?”
“Supreme Unity Golden Immortals… seem to be nothing more than this!”
Though there was certainly an element of luck in Su Xing’s battle with Blood Four.
Not only did the Blackice sword counter cultivators who practiced the Blood Immortal Scripture by draining their lifespan.
He had also scared Blood Four away with his One More Shot talent.
But fighting Blood Four for four months without being defeated—that was genuine, undeniable strength!
This proved that Su Xing now truly possessed the power to fight a newly advanced Supreme Unity Golden Immortal to a standstill!
After some contemplation, Su Xing roughly assessed his own strength.
“My current strength is approximately equivalent to a cultivator who has just recently entered the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal realm.”
“Among Supreme Unity Golden Immortals, I would absolutely be considered the weakest tier…”
“But even so, an early-stage Supreme Unity Golden Immortal cannot threaten my life without paying a certain price!”
“Only mid-stage Supreme Unity Golden Immortals and above pose a significant threat to me!”
“In other words… with my current strength, even against Blood Three, I could perhaps last several exchanges? At the very least, I should be able to hold out for several days against him?”
Su Xing nodded slightly.
First on the Earth Ranking—that was the level of his strength now!
Only Fairy Ziling from before perhaps surpassed Su Xing by a notch.
But Tang Yiyi should be below him.
And as Su Xing’s cultivation continued to advance, as long as he didn’t break through to Supreme Unity Golden Immortal, he would assuredly hold firm in the first place on the Earth Ranking!
Su Xing would even shatter the ceiling of combat power for those ranked first on the Earth Ranking!
“Moreover, the objective for this time has also been achieved… after this battle, the name of Spirit Dragon Golden Immortal will resound across the entire Three Thousand Worlds!”
“And I… will ascend to the first position on the Earth Ranking!”
Su Xing was merely a bit curious.
The Prodigy List had been established by the Celestial Secrets Pavilion.
But the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master hadn’t appeared for countless years, and his true body was in the Nine Heavens Domain.
How was Su Xing supposed to find the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master?
And thereby obtain the promise granted to the one ranked first on the Earth Ranking?
“Never mind… I naturally know nothing of the might of a half-saint…”
“Perhaps the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master has a way?”
Filled with anticipation, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【After forcing Blood Four to retreat, you did not linger in place for long.】
【If Blood Four came to his senses afterward and returned to pursue you, you would likely face nine deaths and one life…】
【And so, under the identity of Spirit Dragon Golden Immortal, you departed from the vicinity of the Star Realm and appeared in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.】
【Before long… a woman came looking for you!】
【You recognized this woman… the branch pavilion master of the Celestial Secrets Pavilion in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm… that seemingly languid young woman!】
【The young woman clearly knew your identity and informed you that news of you becoming first on the Earth Ranking would soon spread across the entire Three Thousand Worlds…】
【At the same time, she asked whether you wished to meet the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master… who would answer one question for you, whether it concerned cultivation or anything else…】
【You naturally agreed without hesitation.】
【The young woman then told you… to find the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master, you would need to travel to the headquarters of the Celestial Secrets Pavilion in the Celestial Secrets Realm.】
【Though puzzled, you nodded in agreement…】
【At the same time, you informed her about Red Moon, emphatically warning her never to approach Earth.】
【With your identity as Spirit Dragon Golden Immortal, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion naturally took your word seriously, and they indicated they would handle the matter promptly.】
【Following that, you were in no rush to head to the Celestial Secrets Realm… before that, you still needed to go through the usual routine.】
【Seeking out the Luo Tian legacy… going to the Azure Cloud Realm for trade… exchanging insights with Fairy Ziling and gifting her your spirit cultivation experience.】
【After completing the entire process, time reached the twentieth year of the simulation.】
【You traveled to the Celestial Secrets Realm.】
【In the thirtieth year, you arrived at the Celestial Secrets Realm, but did not rush to the Celestial Secrets Pavilion. Instead, you waited quietly in the White Cloud Realm.】
【You knew that in just over two hundred years, the Celestial Vessel would descend upon this realm.】
【Over the next two hundred-plus years, you nurtured the Celestial Primordial Tree… cultivated the Zhengyi Breath Absorption Art…】
【The days passed one by one, and soon, time reached… the three hundredth year of the simulation!】