Chapter 445 – New Changes, Taking All the Dao-Enlightenment Tea!
by spirapira【The massive increase in divine power caused earth-shaking changes to your strength…】
【However, you still haven’t broken through to the first-tier deity level.】
【Because aside from divine power meeting the standard, your divinity and godhood both fall far short…】
【And the remaining time is no longer sufficient for you to continue accumulating power of faith.】
【Before long… you were unluckily targeted by the demonically corrupted Qingyunzi.】
【You died…】
【Ding, this simulation has ended!】
Su Xing looked at the text before him and let out a long breath of relief.
“Finally, the lesser demon deity’s divine power has also reached the first-tier deity standard…”
“The distance to fully becoming a first-tier deity shouldn’t be far now!”
Su Xing was fairly satisfied with this.
As long as the lesser demon disguise entered the first-tier deity realm, Su Xing’s upcoming plans in reality could proceed smoothly.
Su Xing could hardly wait to use the lesser demon disguise to swindle large amounts of blood essence from the aliens!
“Whew… but for now, let’s first bring out this simulation’s rewards!”
Su Xing looked at the reward list.
【Pill Saint】: Red talent, priced at 100 origin energy.
【Spirit Realm Thirty-Nine Thousand Li (19,500 km)】: Spirit Domain transformation, reaching the Spirit Realm level. Within the Spirit Realm’s range, the power of supernatural arts and spatial Dao are massively boosted, and the Spirit Realm gradually evolves toward becoming a real world. Priced at 400,000 origin energy.
【Golden Immortal Seventh Stage Early Phase cultivation】: Priced at 10,000,000 origin energy.
【Great Shaman Body Forging Art cultivation results】: Great Shaman Body Forging Art, Sixth Layer Major Mastery, Primordial Energy Tree at four zhang (13.32 m) five chi (1.67 m), primordial energy flowing endlessly. Priced at 3,000,000 origin energy!
Su Xing looked at the simulation rewards before him, his heart stirring with excitement.
“The red talent Pill Saint… and my cultivation has finally broken into Late Golden Immortal!”
“Then next, it’s time to attempt repairing the Luotian Mirror…”
Su Xing silently intoned: “I choose to bring out…”
【Congratulations on bringing out the red talent Pill Saint… remaining origin energy: 35,231,388 points…】
【Ding, congratulations on bringing out Spirit Realm Thirty-Nine Thousand Li (19,500 km)… remaining origin energy: 34,791,388 points…】
【Congratulations on bringing out the Great Shaman Body Forging Art cultivation results… remaining origin energy: 31,791,388 points…】
【Congratulations on bringing out Golden Immortal Seventh Stage cultivation… remaining origin energy: 21,791,388 points…】
As the simulator’s Chime faded, tremendous changes occurred within Su Xing.
The Pill Saint talent replaced his original gold alchemy talent, multiplying Su Xing’s aptitude in the art of pill refinement several times over!
Aspects of pill refinement he previously couldn’t understand were now readily solved…
His Spirit Domain range also steadily grew to thirty-nine thousand li (19,500 km) — this had already reached the Spirit Realm level of an ordinary Supreme Unity Golden Immortal.
The Great Shaman Body Forging Art also grew ever more refined, boosting Su Xing’s primordial energy by roughly ten percent.
Finally, the greatest change was naturally Su Xing’s breakthrough to Late Golden Immortal!
The immortal power within his body had thickened by nearly fifty percent!
This allowed Su Xing to unleash spells and supernatural arts far more freely…
Su Xing gently closed his eyes, adapting to the surging cultivation within him.
After a moment, Su Xing slowly rose, feeling better than he ever had before.
“Sword Dao has entered the sixth realm… and my cultivation has also entered Late Golden Immortal!”
“My overall strength has probably increased by another thirty percent!”
“After this simulation, I truly have the power to stand unafraid against Supreme Unity Golden Immortals!”
The corners of Su Xing’s mouth curled upward, his mood soaring.
With a thought, Su Xing recalled Blood Four.
“With my current strength… even if I can’t kill him… after a few more simulations, that might change!”
Su Xing pondered for a while. He now knew Blood Four’s location.
It was in the Thousand Isles Realm.
If Su Xing wished, he could even go to the Thousand Isles Realm personally to kill Blood Four!
“So… should I go or not…”
Su Xing was somewhat hesitant.
Killing Blood Four would certainly have its benefits.
The wealth left behind by a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal would likely be enough for Su Xing to use for a very long time.
But the problem was, Blood Four wasn’t so easy to kill!
Although Su Xing’s Blackice sword countered Blood Four, and his strength had improved —
Once the battle began, it would likely take years before a victor emerged.
“Forget it… before breaking through to Supreme Unity Golden Immortal, the time to strike hasn’t come yet. It would be too wasteful of time…”
Su Xing shook his head slightly.
Against opponents at the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal level, battles often dragged on for years or even decades, with no guarantee of killing the other party.
The commotion would be too great, the variables too many — it held little benefit for Su Xing.
In comparison, steadily acquiring origin energy and developing safely was the optimal strategy.
“Right now, I still have over twenty million origin energy and four simulation attempts… Having advanced to Late Golden Immortal, it’s time to try repairing the Luotian Mirror!”
After some thought, Su Xing quickly settled on a plan.
First, attempt to repair the Luotian Mirror. A greater time differential between the Mirror’s interior and exterior, combined with thicker immortal power, would give Su Xing higher cultivation efficiency and more resources.
Second, find a way to resolve Qingyunzi’s demonic corruption.
The Celestial Sun Grass, Soulsever Grass, and Bewilderment Branch — he needed to get his hands on all of them.
And his pill refinement skills also needed continued improvement.
Having run through the plan in his mind, Su Xing took a deep breath and without hesitation launched a new round of simulation.
“Begin simulation!”
【Simulation #163 initiated. Current remaining origin energy: 21,791,388 points… remaining simulation attempts: 3.】
【Simulation begins!】
【Drawing a talent costs 1 origin energy. Draw?】
“Yes!”
【Ding, congratulations on drawing the gold talent Nine Nether Underworld King Physique. Next draw: 80% chance of gold talent, 20% chance of red talent…】
【Nine Nether Underworld King Physique】: One of the Hundred Great Divine Physiques. Gold talent. Possesses the ability to commune with the Nine Nethers, cultivate the soul, and command ghosts. Extremely talented in the path of ghost cultivation, but possessing this talent reduces combat power by half during daytime.
Seeing the newly drawn talent, Su Xing couldn’t help but feel his vision go dark.
“Damn… combat power halved during the day? This physique…”
Su Xing was somewhat speechless.
This gold physique was indeed the dream talent of any ghost cultivator.
But for Su Xing, whose physique was already freakishly powerful, it would actually be a nerf.
“Sigh, this talent seems useless…”
Su Xing shook his head, then gathered his spirits again.
“Right now, what’s more important is attempting to repair the Luotian Mirror!”
“And resolving the issue with Qingyunzi…”
Su Xing murmured to himself, his gaze turning to the simulation panel!
【Please select your Plus One…】
“I choose to boost the Late Bloomer talent…”
【In the spirit field grotto-heaven, you realize you are in a simulation.】
【Under the sunlight, you feel your body growing weak…】
【You randomly gifted the Nine Nether Underworld King Physique to a passerby…】
【You collected sufficient Star Stones in the Star Realm… Soon, you attracted Advent Cult operatives who came to investigate.】
【You tore open space and fled directly — these Advent Cult operatives couldn’t begin to keep up…】
【Afterward, you arrived at the Thousand Isles Realm.】
【You fought a great battle with Blood Four… This battle lasted three years.】
【In the end, Blood Four was defeated and fled, and you severed several hundred thousand years of his lifespan…】
【In the fourth year, you returned to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm and headed to Celestial Demon City.】
【You revealed your identity, using the Dao title True Master Spirit Dragon… At the same time, you stated that you had concealed your cultivation and were actually a guest elder of Celestial Demon City.】
【You pledged that you would help Celestial Demon City slay the aliens…】
【Over the following years, you remained in Celestial Demon City slaying enemies… With your strength approaching that of a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal, countless alien deities fell at your hands.】
【But soon, you ran into some trouble.】
【On the battlefield, red-eyed aliens began to appear…】
【By this time, you had already received word… Earth had long been completely destroyed, and Red Moon and the aliens had accelerated their invasion of the Azure Origin Domain.】
【Meanwhile, on the battlefield, you occasionally felt a premonition of being watched, and your Blessed by Fortune talent occasionally sent warnings.】
【A sense of foreboding gripped your heart — you realized it was likely Blood Three and Red Moon who had set their sights on you.】
【It was at this moment that the Celestial Demon General finally sought you out.】
【He asked why you had come to this place… Clearly, a combatant approaching the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal level wouldn’t come to defend Celestial Demon City without reason.】
【You didn’t hide the truth, revealing your identity as the inheritor of the Luo Tian legacy… You said you had heard that the Celestial Demon General and Luotian Ancestor once shared a connection, and you had come specifically to inquire.】
【After hearing your words, the Celestial Demon General fell silent for a moment, then ultimately told you that you would need to find his true body in the Celestial Demon Prison.】
【You nodded slightly upon hearing this and said nothing more.】
【One year later, you departed from the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm…】
【Before leaving, you had slain thousands of alien deities and millions of aliens… extending the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm’s fortune by at least a century!】
In the Real World, Su Xing sighed upon seeing this.
“As expected, from the Celestial Demon General’s avatar, I still can’t get the answer… Even after displaying greater strength, I still have to go to the Celestial Demon Prison!”
Su Xing wasn’t too disappointed by this. After all, he had only been testing the waters — if he could directly obtain what Luotian Ancestor had left behind, all the better. If not, so be it.
“But next, it’s time to go find Qingyunzi…”
Su Xing thought it over.
He wanted to try telling Qingyunzi the solution, and see if Qingyunzi could go search for the Celestial Sun Soul-Forging Pill’s ingredients on his own.
If possible, it would save Su Xing a great deal of time.
“And the sparring sessions with Fairy Ziling, helping her advance to Supreme Unity, are also essential…”
Su Xing thought this as his gaze returned to the simulation panel.
【After leaving the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, you traveled to the Azure Cloud Sect.】
【You smoothly met with Qingyunzi and told him of the solution you had devised.】
【Qingyunzi was somewhat astonished. Re-undergoing the heart demon tribulation to sever the evil corpse seemed perilous on the surface, but in truth held a genuine thread of hope.】
【As for the Celestial Sun Soul-Forging Pill, he had only vaguely heard of it and didn’t know how to refine it.】
【You told him the formula for the Celestial Sun Soul-Forging Pill… After hearing it, Qingyunzi was silent for a long time.】
【He told you that with his current state, he could barely exert even one percent of his power… He had to devote all his strength to suppressing the heart demon. The slightest lapse could result in him being consumed by it.】
【Therefore, Qingyunzi hoped to entrust the task of gathering the formula’s ingredients to you, and he would pay a sufficient reward for it!】
【Qingyunzi promised that if you successfully helped him sever the evil corpse and restore his true self… he would serve as your protector for a hundred thousand years, until you advanced to Supreme Unity.】
【You were quite tempted upon hearing this. If you could truly save Qingyunzi, the Azure Cloud Sect’s wealth would likely be yours for the taking.】
In the Real World, Su Xing mulled this over upon seeing it.
“Qingyunzi can barely protect himself right now… He truly can’t go searching for the formula ingredients…”
“As for the Azure Cloud Sect’s second-generation disciples, they might not even be as effective as me going personally… Besides, I need to visit the Celestial Demon Domain anyway, and no one else could obtain the Bewilderment Branch…”
Su Xing sighed. As expected, this matter was best handled by him personally.
Having made his decision, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【You agreed to Qingyunzi’s request. Before departing, you left behind the Ruyi Visualization Diagram to ensure Qingyunzi could hold on a while longer.】
【At the same time, you asked Qingyunzi to search for traces of the Bewilderment Branch and Soulsever Grass…】
【Qingyunzi gave you all twelve of his Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves, along with forty-nine spent Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves he had accumulated over time…】
【You received them as if they were priceless treasures, accepting this “deposit.”】
【Over the next ten years, you remained at the Azure Cloud Sect, occasionally sparring with Fairy Ziling. Before departing, you left behind a painstakingly crafted manual of spirit cultivation insights.】
【Over the following twenty years, you searched for the Luo Tian legacy… and traveled to the Heavenly Secrets Domain.】
【In the fortieth year, you successfully arrived at the Heavenly Secrets Domain and prepared to begin researching whether the Luotian Mirror could be further repaired!】
【You entered the Luotian Mirror and spent dozens of consecutive days pouring immortal power into it… Unfortunately, with your current level of power, it still fell slightly short.】
【It would likely require reaching Peak Golden Immortal before you could attempt the next repair.】
【Although repairs were impossible, you did discover other changes within the Luotian Realm brought about by your increased immortal power.】
【The maximum time differential between interior and exterior remained unchanged, still at thirty times.】
【However, the immortal power required to maintain its operation dropped from more than half to merely one-third!】
【You only needed to consume a few hundred drops of immortal liquid per day to fully restore your power!】
【Although this was still insufficient to allow you to practice Qi Refinement… it did noticeably boost your training speed for the Great Shaman Body Forging Art!】
【Your Body Tempering cultivation speed increased by at least fifty percent compared to before!】
【You were quite pleased with this…】
【In addition, you tested the Luotian Mirror’s replication function again.】
【Replicating a single Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaf previously required a full hundred years…】
【But now, as long as you poured in immortal power day and night without ceasing, you only needed fifty years to produce one complete Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaf… a twofold increase in efficiency!】
【You only made a brief attempt and did not spend enormous effort replicating Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves.】
【Afterward, as always, you continued cultivating the Celestial Primordial Tree…】
In the Real World, Su Xing’s heart stirred at this.
“The Luotian Realm really does become more effective as my cultivation advances!”
“But unfortunately… the next repair is still out of reach…”
“Peak Golden Immortal… it’s not far off though!”
Su Xing quietly raised the priority of advancing his cultivation realm another notch.
“Besides that, there’s the development with Qingyunzi!”
“A full twelve Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves, plus the three I already have… that’s enough to brew five cups of Dao-Enlightenment Tea!”
“And forty-nine spent Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves… those can be refined into Dao-Hearing Pills. In total, I can refine close to seventy Dao-Hearing Pills!”
At this thought, a gleam of light flashed through Su Xing’s eyes.