Chapter 497 – The Spatial Dao Finally Enters the Seventh Realm: What Is Origin?

Chapter 497 – The Spatial Dao Finally Enters the Seventh Realm: What Is Origin?

Looking at the rewards before him, Su Xing didn’t hesitate and chose to bring everything out.

【Ding, detected that you possess a talent of the same type, Heaven-Sent Fortune… Talent replacement in progress…】

【You have successfully brought out the Heaven-Sent Fortune Supreme talent. Remaining origin energy: 2,243,690,000…】

【You have successfully brought out Supreme Unity Perfection cultivation… Remaining origin energy: 2,143,690,000…】

【You have successfully brought out World Power · Spirit Domain cultivation results… Remaining origin energy: 2,113,690,000…】

As the Chime fell silent, Su Xing felt his strength rise once more.

His Qi Refinement cultivation had finally reached Supreme Unity Perfection — there was nowhere further to advance.

All the cultivation insights regarding the Spirit Domain flooded into Su Xing’s mind, and the range of his spirit field grotto-heaven expanded by a full forty thousand li (20,000 km).

At the same time, Su Xing felt some profoundly mysterious changes occurring within his body.

Su Xing understood — this was the so-called fortune augmentation!

Compared to before, Su Xing could sense his fortune even more powerfully — it had nearly reached a degree where it could be directly observed.

“Whew… you can never have too much fortune!”

Su Xing nodded slightly. After this simulation, he would be stepping into a new phase.

“Both my Body Tempering and Qi Refinement cultivation have reached their current limits…”

“So the next goals are obvious!”

“Advance the Great Dao of Space to the seventh realm as soon as possible, begin attempting to overcome the Nine Tribulations… and find a way to break into the eighth layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art!”

Though all three goals were important, they still needed to be prioritized.

“Comparatively speaking, advancing the Great Dao of Space to the seventh realm is the easiest and will yield significant returns!”

“Once I truly enter the seventh realm, my escape speed will increase even further!”

“At that point, it probably won’t even take a year for me to travel from the Azure Origin Domain to the Celestial Demon Domain and take possession of the Luotian Black Pearl!”

Thinking of this, Su Xing felt a surge of anticipation.

If he could truly take possession of the Luotian Black Pearl — such an enormous fortune.

The origin energy needed for cultivating to the Great Firmament realm would probably be more than half covered!

“Besides the spatial Dao, the second goal is reaching the eighth layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art! That also needs to be accomplished as soon as possible!”

The reason Su Xing prioritized breaking through the Great Shaman Body Forging Art was naturally because… overcoming the Nine Tribulations would require a much longer period of time.

Moreover, compared to Qi Refinement cultivation, the power granted by the eighth layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art was equally terrifying!

After all, that was power truly comparable to a Great Firmament Golden Immortal.

The sixth layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art had given Su Xing a nearly inexhaustible supply of primordial energy.

The seventh layer had given Su Xing a near-immortal, indestructible life force.

What was most overpowered was that each layer breakthrough of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art further enhanced all previously gained attributes such as strength, physical body, and primordial energy!

And the eighth layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art would grant Su Xing yet another new power.

This layer would imbue primordial energy with an entirely new ability — One Force Breaks Ten Thousand Laws!

The so-called One Force Breaks Ten Thousand Laws meant that once primordial energy was unleashed, all ten thousand laws under heaven could be shattered by that single force!

And if they couldn’t? It simply meant the primordial energy wasn’t strong enough or abundant enough!

At the eighth layer, as long as one possessed sufficiently powerful and abundant primordial energy, what did “Death law” or “killing intent corruption” matter!

As long as primordial energy coursed through his body, even the Death law would be unable to erase Su Xing’s life force!

Of course, achieving this required even purer, even more massive quantities of primordial energy. When activating One Force Breaks Ten Thousand Laws, primordial energy consumption would increase a hundredfold or even a thousandfold!

This was also why, during the sixth and seventh layers, the Celestial Primordial Tree within Su Xing’s body would continuously grow.

At the seventh layer, Su Xing’s primordial energy was inexhaustible, flowing endlessly.

That was because primordial energy had not yet been imbued with the property of One Force Breaks Ten Thousand Laws.

When he truly reached the eighth layer, what Su Xing would need to worry about was whether his primordial energy would be sufficient…

“Legend has it that in the ancient era, the most powerful among the Twelve Ancestral Shamans possessed primordial energy so vast it was comparable to an entire great world…”

“And it was precisely because of such immense primordial energy that he possessed the power to shatter the Greater World with a single punch!”

“That — that is the true One Force Breaks Ten Thousand Laws!”

“That is the foundation upon which the Wu Clan looked down upon the Three Thousand Worlds in the ancient era!”

Thinking of this, a gleam of anticipation inevitably appeared in Su Xing’s eyes.

If he could break into the eighth layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art, a mere Red Moon would be nothing to fear!

After all, Red Moon’s most powerful weapon — the Death law — could directly erase Su Xing’s vigorous life force.

But if the Great Shaman Body Forging Art broke into the eighth realm, that would no longer be the case.

Su Xing’s abundant primordial energy would be able to greatly resist or even become immune to the Death law!

“Once I break through to the eighth layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art… I’ll be considered a top-tier powerhouse in the Three Thousand Worlds!”

“At that point, those who could threaten my life across the entire Three Thousand Worlds would be reduced to just a handful…”

Su Xing was confident that after mastering One Force Breaks Ten Thousand Laws, combined with his vigorous life force —

Unless it was someone on the level of the White Emperor, no one would be able to kill Su Xing.

And powerhouses on par with the White Emperor — among the foreign races, only the seven chief gods ranked among the Seven Deadly Sins could achieve that.

As for other foreign race chief gods, none would be a match for Su Xing.

Glancing at the simulation panel, he still had four simulation attempts remaining.

Su Xing didn’t hesitate and immediately began a new round of simulation.

“Strike while the iron is hot — let the spatial Dao advance to the seventh realm!”

With this thought, Su Xing silently intoned:

“Begin simulation!”

【Simulation #326 initiated. Current remaining origin energy: 2,113,690,000… Remaining simulation attempts: 3.】

【Simulation begins!】

【Drawing a talent costs 1 origin energy point. Draw?】

“Yes!”

【Ding, congratulations! You have obtained the gold talent Desolate Demon Physique…】

【Desolate Demon Physique】: Gold talent. One of the rare physiques from the ancient era, with a chance of appearing in bloodlines born from the union of powerful Demon Tribe and human race individuals. Possessing this physique greatly enhances Body Tempering and life force.

Su Xing glanced at the newly drawn talent and paid it no further mind.

A physique that merely enhanced physical constitution and life force was of little help to Su Xing at this point — let alone one that was merely a gold talent.

Never mind the bloodline descendants of ancient demons — even true ancient great demons could hardly rival Su Xing in physical body.

“Well then, let the simulation begin!”

【Please select the talent to enhance with the Philosopher’s Stone…】

“I choose to enhance Wisdom in Foolishness…”

【Wisdom in Foolishness (Enhanced)】: Three states — Mundane, Fool, and Transcendent. Accumulate time in the Fool state; one day in Fool state equals ten days in Transcendent state. In Transcendent state, comprehension is increased twentyfold.

Currently, Su Xing’s cultivation could hardly advance any further, so he focused his attention on enhancing comprehension.

Whether it was the Five Elements Dao or the Great Dao of Space, advancing to the seventh realm as early as possible was Su Xing’s goal.

Wisdom in Foolishness specialized in comprehension enhancement — a minimal cost for an effect twice that of Late Bloomer’s comprehension bonus!

“Tsk tsk, with this talent… it probably won’t even take five simulations before the Five Elements Dao reaches the sixth realm Peak!”

Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【In the spirit field grotto-heaven, you realize you are in a simulation.】

【You traveled to the Endless Abyss and fought a great battle against Red Moon.】

【You used the supernatural art Sword One and threatened Red Moon’s life.】

【In a moment of crisis, Red Moon abandoned the Death law and, through the Dao of Slaughter, broke through to the chief god realm.】

【After severing Red Moon’s path to becoming a Sovereign, you activated the Time Stop talent and managed to escape with your life.】

【Afterward, you began refining Celestial Sun Soul-Forging Pills.】

【Over the course of several months, you successfully refined six perfect-quality Celestial Sun Soul-Forging Pills.】

【You did not give these pills to Qingyunzi, but instead traded with him for the Ruyi Visualization Diagram.】

【After obtaining sufficient Dao-Enlightenment Tea, you continued collecting the Luo Tian legacy in the Azure Origin Domain.】

【In the third year, you traveled to the Heavenly Secrets Domain.】

【Upon arriving at the Heavenly Secrets Domain, you began attempting to repair the Luotian Mirror once more!】

【The third repair of the Luotian Mirror required Great Firmament Golden Immortal cultivation.】

【But your magical power was vast and your foundation solid — at Supreme Unity Perfection, you could barely sustain the repair.】

【However, it would require significantly more time…】

【You spent an entire month before finally completing the third repair of the Luotian Mirror.】

【After this repair, the Luotian Mirror’s surface was fully restored, and it now possessed even more formidable power.】

【The greatest change was the increase in the internal-external time differential.】

【As long as you possess sufficient magical power, you can increase the time flow rate inside the Luotian Mirror to a maximum of one hundred times that of the outside world!】

【One year inside the Luotian Realm equals merely three and a half days in the outside world!】

【Without affecting your cultivation, your current magical power can sustain a maximum internal-external time differential of twenty times!】

【This means you have far more time to study supernatural arts and techniques, refine pills, cultivate subordinate forces, and more…】

In the Real World, Su Xing felt a surge of joy upon seeing this.

“At last, with my Supreme Unity Perfection level of magical power, I’ve completed the third repair of the Luotian Mirror!”

“The Luotian Mirror as it stands now has recovered more than half its power… all that’s missing is the core in Luotian Ancestor’s hands…”

Clearly, fully repairing the Luotian Mirror and its twenty-fold time acceleration would bring Su Xing an enormous boost!

Especially given that Su Xing urgently needed to advance to the eighth realm of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art!

“Great Shaman Body Forging Art, eighth layer — One Force Breaks Ten Thousand Laws!”

“To break through from the Peak of the seventh layer into the eighth layer, one must continuously refine and purify primordial energy… until a qualitative transformation is achieved!”

“This process requires an enormous amount of time… even millions or tens of millions of years may not be enough!”

“Consuming rare heavenly treasures from across the world could shorten this time… but such treasures are exceedingly rare!”

At this, Su Xing couldn’t help but let the corners of his mouth curl upward.

Speaking of such heavenly treasures, the one that stood above all others was naturally — the Celestial Primordial Tree!

“As long as I have enough Celestial Primordial Fruits, those millions of years can be shortened to the greatest extent possible!”

“The Celestial Primordial Tree takes six thousand years to mature and bears fruit once every three thousand years…”

“Only a single Celestial Primordial Tree can exist between heaven and earth…”

“Each time it matures, it produces forty-nine fruits. Calculating from this…”

For the first seventy-five years, Su Xing could fully activate the maximum time differential, making the flow of time inside the Luotian Realm one hundred times faster than the outside world.

By the nine-thousandth year inside, the first batch of Celestial Primordial Fruits would mature, while only a mere seventy-five years would have passed in the outside world.

And while ensuring his Body Tempering cultivation didn’t fall behind, Su Xing could activate a fifty-fold time differential, using the Luotian Realm to ripen the next batch of Celestial Primordial Fruits while simultaneously consuming them for cultivation.

By this calculation, every sixty years in the outside world, a batch of Celestial Primordial Fruits would ripen!

Every sixty years, Su Xing could consume forty-nine Celestial Primordial Fruits.

If Su Xing focused solely on survival, with his strength, living to the fifteen-hundredth year of a simulation would be no problem.

Subtracting the two hundred-odd years of immersive comprehension…

In a single simulation, Su Xing could harvest nearly twenty batches of Celestial Primordial Fruits…

Consuming nearly one thousand!

“Tsk tsk… a thousand Celestial Primordial Fruits — that’s practically enough to guarantee I can continuously use them to refine my primordial energy!”

“With the help of the Celestial Primordial Fruits… my speed in advancing to the eighth layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art will increase several times, even more than tenfold!”

Thinking of this, Su Xing couldn’t help but feel excited.

“The three primordial chaos treasures — the Mirror of the Void deduces power from future timelines…”

“While the Luotian Mirror allows the flow of time inside and outside to differ by a hundredfold…”

“As for the last treasure, its whereabouts remain unknown…”

Su Xing fell into thought.

“However, for now, I should focus on advancing my Great Dao of Space Comprehension first!”

“And borrow the power of the Mirror of the Void once more…”

Su Xing’s gaze turned to the simulation panel.

【You know that the Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s Celestial Vessel will arrive at the White Cloud Realm in three hundred years, after which the Celestial Vessel Defense Battle will occur. To obtain an early opportunity to use the Mirror of the Void, you need to distinguish yourself with sufficient merit in that battle.】

【Therefore, around the three-hundredth year, you will return to the White Cloud Realm.】

【But you did not waste the next two hundred-odd years either — you wandered through the mortal world within the Heavenly Secrets Domain, preparing for the coming Nine Tribulations.】

【After all, among the Nine Tribulations of Great Firmament, only one concerns magical power; the rest are all tribulations of the Daoheart!】

【And though your mental state is stable, your years of cultivation are far fewer than those of other Supreme Unity Golden Immortals, and you have experienced relatively little of mortal affairs.】

【Thus, more than two hundred years passed…】

【Year three hundred: the Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s Celestial Vessel arrived.】

【Year three hundred twenty: the Celestial Vessel Defense Battle erupted…】

【Year three hundred thirty: you arrived at the Celestial Secrets Realm and entered the Mirror of the Void…】

In the Real World, Su Xing nodded slightly upon seeing this.

“The Nine Tribulations of Great Firmament — one tribulation concerns magical power, and the other eight all concern the Daoheart!”

“They are the Tribulation of Magical Power, the Tribulation of Karma, the Tribulation of the Mortal Heart, the Tribulation of Greed, the Tribulation of Lust, the Tribulation of Delusion, the Tribulation of Faith, the Tribulation of Original Intent, and the Tribulation of Transcendence!”

“The eight Daoheart tribulations grow progressively harder… aside from the final Tribulation of Transcendence which must be faced last, the other eight can be attempted in any order…”

After a brief pause, Su Xing continued:

“However, when choosing among the Nine Tribulations, most cultivators opt to tackle the Tribulation of Magical Power first!”

“Because the Tribulation of Magical Power offers the greatest growth among all nine! It’s also the only one that carries a risk of life and death…”

“Once you overcome the Tribulation of Magical Power, your magical power will be refined and purified several times over. Even if it doesn’t match a Great Firmament Golden Immortal, it will far surpass even a Peak Supreme Unity Golden Immortal…”

The so-called Tribulation of Magical Power, put bluntly, was dispersing one’s cultivation and starting over!

One had to scatter all cultivation and begin anew!

This was also an opportunity to mend one’s foundation and purify one’s magical power!

During this re-cultivation, any perfect states one had previously failed to achieve could be made up for.

Of course, dispersing one’s cultivation and re-cultivating carried certain risks — if discovered by enemies, one’s life could be in danger.

However, after overcoming the Tribulation of Magical Power, cultivation speed would be more than a hundred times faster than the first time!

Combined with the ancient “Supreme Dissolution Art” passed down from antiquity… re-cultivation would proceed even more smoothly!

Without the slightest bottleneck, and without any heavenly tribulations!

“Especially for me… the Tribulation of Magical Power would take at most two or three simulations before I could re-cultivate back to my current realm!”

Su Xing murmured.

The Tribulation of Magical Power was the one he worried about least.

But in comparison, the other eight tribulations could only be faced when the opportunity and timing aligned.

“But for now, let me advance the spatial Dao to the seventh realm first!”

With that thought, Su Xing silently intoned:

“Activate immersive simulation… duration: 274 years!”

【Ding… remaining origin energy: 2,113,590,000…】

As the Chime faded, Su Xing’s consciousness entered the simulated world.

Within the familiar Void Realm, Su Xing chose to advance his Great Dao of Space once more.

This time, the Mirror of the Void did not ask Su Xing anything.

This meant that Su Xing had a very good chance of advancing his Great Dao of Space Comprehension to the seventh realm within this single simulation!

And for Su Xing, who possessed the Heaven-Sent Fortune Supreme talent, this chance was infinitely close to one hundred percent!

“Then, let us begin!”

Su Xing took a deep breath and slowly merged with the humanoid silhouette of light before him.

Simultaneously, a massive flood of spatial Dao insights surged into Su Xing’s mind — with an intensity unprecedented in all his experiences!

The entire process lasted for an unknowable length of time.

When Su Xing opened his eyes again, he found that he had not left the Mirror of the Void.

A weak voice from the Mirror of the Void’s Artifact Spirit reached his ears.

“Congratulations, Spirit Dragon Celestial Sovereign… your Great Dao of Space Comprehension has advanced to the seventh realm!”

After hearing this, Su Xing carefully sensed his own state and discovered that he truly, unmistakably possessed the same spatial comprehension he had previously only experienced when using the Spirit Domain!

This required no cost whatsoever — it was power that belonged entirely to Su Xing.

“The spatial Dao has finally advanced to the seventh realm!”

Su Xing’s heart pounded in his chest.

But he still politely addressed the Luotian Mirror’s Artifact Spirit:

“You’ve worked hard… you seem quite exhausted?”

The voice of the Mirror of the Void reached his ears:

“It’s nothing! Nurturing powerful beings for the human race has always been my mission!”

“With your spatial Dao advancing to the seventh realm… you can be considered one of the human race’s top powerhouses…”

“As for my weakness, it is only temporary — I’ve merely lost some source… it will replenish itself in time!”

Source!?

Su Xing’s heart stirred upon hearing this.

Regarding “source,” he had heard about it many times already.

But he didn’t know whether the “source” the Mirror of the Void spoke of was the same thing as his own origin energy.

“Um… may I ask how you replenish this so-called source?”

Su Xing asked curiously.

The Mirror of the Void didn’t beat around the bush and quickly answered:

“It’s no secret… all things in the world possess origin!”

“Whether it’s a blade of grass or a stone… it’s simply that the more precious the substance, the more origin it contains!”

“And I can absorb this source and convert it into my own power!”

Hearing this, Su Xing couldn’t help but ask:

“Then, is it not true that the thing containing the most origin… is a world itself?”

“When a world dies and produces a complete world origin… is that the source of a massive ‘origin’?”

What Su Xing was thinking of was the scene of the Talong Chief God consuming the black pearl.

After hearing Su Xing’s words, the Mirror of the Void fell silent for a long moment before giving an affirmative reply:

“Yes!”