Chapter 500 – Slaying Blood Three! Red Talent, Double Pupils!

Chapter 500: Slaying Blood Three! Red Talent, Double Pupils!

Early November, New Era 2030.

The third repair of the Luotian Mirror, supported by abundant immortal liquid and spirit liquid, was finally complete!

Over the course of an entire month, Su Xing had worked day and night, continuously pouring massive amounts of magical power into the Luotian Mirror.

This was only possible because of Su Xing’s solid foundation and profound magical power, combined with the spirit liquid he had obtained from the Luo Tian legacy over the past half year.

Otherwise, even with the magical power of Supreme Unity Golden Immortal Perfection, it would have been absolutely impossible to sustain such intense magical power consumption.

And once the Luotian Mirror’s third repair was complete, the maximum time differential between inside and outside the Luotian Realm reached a full hundredfold!

Without affecting his own cultivation, Su Xing could maintain a maximum twentyfold time differential between the inside and outside of the Luotian Realm.

Eighteen days in the Real World equaled one full year inside the Luotian Realm!

This enormous time flow differential allowed the people of Earth to advance toward the era of cultivation even faster.

Meanwhile, Luo Shuying, Jin Congxue, and others saw their cultivation rapidly improve.

At the same time, the pills and magical treasures refined by the Luotian Sect members inside the Luotian Realm, along with the spirit plants they cultivated, would all become part of Su Xing’s reserves.

After repairing the Luotian Realm, Su Xing attempted four more simulations.

This allowed his Dao of Speed to smoothly advance to sixth realm Minor Mastery.

And Su Xing’s body tempering cultivation was now on the verge of fully reaching the Great Shaman Body Forging Art, Eighth Layer.

……

One week later. Celestial Demon City.

Su Xing, who had been in secluded cultivation within his cave dwelling, suddenly sensed an extraordinary battle fluctuation from several million li away.

In that instant, Su Xing’s eyes snapped open, the corners of his mouth curving upward:

“The fish has finally taken the bait!”

The next second, Su Xing stepped forward and appeared at the frontlines several million li outside Celestial Demon City.

Since the great war began two and a half months ago, the human race had won battle after battle, pushing the frontline forward by three million li (1,500,000 km)!

As a result, the foreign race’s casualties had grown ever larger, with the number of dead foreign race members approaching fifteen million!

If this continued, the foreign race of the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm would be completely annihilated.

It was precisely for this reason that the foreign race had launched their final counterattack against the Celestial Demon City cultivators three days ago!

In this battle, the foreign race had once again assembled dozens of deities and hundreds of foreign race divine beings — they still had the strength to fight!

But after Su Xing had slain three second-tier deities, no foreign race member capable of fighting the Celestial Demon General’s avatar had appeared in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.

So Su Xing and the Celestial Demon General’s avatar devised a plan.

The Celestial Demon General’s avatar would take the lead, slaying foreign race members above the God-level, while Su Xing would hide in the shadows, waiting for the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to the foreign race.

Su Xing did this, naturally, to deceive the fish — to make the foreign race believe that the one acting had always been the Celestial Demon General.

Over the past three days, the Celestial Demon General’s avatar had killed over a hundred foreign race divine beings.

If they didn’t act soon, the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm’s foreign race would be completely wiped out.

And so, the fish couldn’t sit still any longer!

The one who made a move wasn’t Red Moon, but — Blood Three!

……

At this moment, at the frontlines of Celestial Demon City, beneath the reddish sky.

The battlefield was saturated with the stench of blood and slaughter.

The Celestial Demon General, clad in black armor and wielding a massive axe, stared grimly at the figure before him.

“Traitor to the human race, high-ranking member of the Advent Cult, Blood Three… you actually dare show yourself outside Celestial Demon City!”

The Celestial Demon General let out a cold snort and swung his axe at Blood Three. The force was impressive, but Blood Three blocked it with his Blood River technique.

The gap between a Golden Immortal and a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal was like an insurmountable chasm!

Moreover, the Celestial Demon General before him was merely an avatar of the original body.

At this moment, Blood Three was supremely arrogant. He flashed a sinister smile and said:

“Heh heh! A mere avatar, and you dare act so insolent? If your true body were here… I might still give you some respect!”

Of course, Blood Three’s words were pure bluster.

If the Celestial Demon General’s true body were actually here, Blood Three would “give him some respect”? That made it sound like the two were opponents on the same level.

But in reality, if Blood Three saw the Celestial Demon General’s true body, he’d probably have to cut his own throat on the spot.

It was only in front of an avatar that Blood Three could afford to be arrogant.

Blood Three spoke while launching a barrage of attacks at the Celestial Demon General’s avatar.

After just a few dozen exchanges, the Celestial Demon General had already been significantly wounded.

In terms of pure combat power, the Celestial Demon General’s avatar was indeed inferior to Blood Three, but it wouldn’t be defeated in a short time either.

Over the past few months, Blood Three had been observing from the shadows.

Although the situation for the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm’s foreign race had become dire, Blood Three feared death even more!

Several third-rank deities had died under mysterious circumstances, and over a thousand foreign race divine beings hadn’t even had a chance to resist…

Blood Three couldn’t help but suspect that a powerful human cultivator had entered the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.

But after over a month of observation, Blood Three had only discovered that the one taking action was the Celestial Demon General’s avatar.

The Celestial Demon General’s avatar did indeed possess the power to slay second-tier deities.

But out of caution, he had still waited until today.

Until the point where if he didn’t act, the foreign race in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm would be completely wiped out.

This was something Blood Three couldn’t accept — after all, the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm fell under his jurisdiction.

“Heh heh! Celestial Demon City sent out everything they had… but it’s nothing more than courting death!”

“Once I slay you and call in the foreign race army for a full-scale invasion, within ten years… the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm will fall!”

Blood Three laughed aloud while wielding the power of his Blood River.

If he could conquer the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, it would be an enormous achievement.

After all, the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm occupied a critical position and was the vital point of the Azure Cloud Realm itself.

If it fell… it would absolutely accelerate the invasion of the Azure Origin Domain.

Thus, Blood Three had finally made his move against the Celestial Demon General.

And just as the two were engaged in combat, a figure appeared behind Blood Three.

“Is that so? I’d like to see just how you plan to destroy the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.”

A voice tinged with amusement reached Blood Three’s ears, sending a cold sweat cascading down his entire body.

“Who? Who is it?!”

Blood Three whipped his head around, only now noticing Su Xing standing behind him.

In a single instant, Blood Three made the wisest decision possible.

A single drop of cold sweat fell, and then he frantically sacrificed his lifespan, activated a secret technique, and fled like a madman.

In just one instant, the streak of blood-red light had fled tens of millions of li.

With Blood Three’s experience, he naturally realized he had fallen into a trap.

Someone who could appear behind him without him noticing was definitely stronger than him!

“Run, run now!” At that moment, Blood Three had only one thought. In the blink of an eye, he fled the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm and escaped into the void.

The Celestial Demon General’s avatar immediately grew anxious and called out:

“Spirit Dragon True Master, why aren’t you pursuing him? Don’t let that scoundrel escape!”

Clearly, in the avatar’s understanding, although Su Xing was powerful, Blood Three was no pushover either.

For a Supreme Unity True Master to kill a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal, it would likely take considerable effort.

Su Xing remained unhurried. “Calm yourself, Celestial Demon friend… he can’t escape.”

With that, Su Xing took a single step, crossing hundreds of millions of li, and caught up to Blood Three as he fled through the void.

Blood Three was instantly shocked — he had clearly had a head start of several breaths, yet the person behind him had caught up in an instant.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Blood Three directly burned his lifespan. A massive river of blood materialized in the void, attempting to block Su Xing’s path.

But Su Xing merely smiled faintly and drew the Blackice sword.

Spirit Domain instantly activated…

“Sword One!”

A single graceful sword strike fell, and a bloody hole appeared between Blood Three’s brows.

In an instant, all life force vanished!

And so, the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal Blood Three… was dead!

Su Xing calmly collected Blood Three’s corpse, erased all traces in the surrounding area, and took his storage artifact.

Then with a single step, he returned to Celestial Demon City.

From Su Xing’s appearance to Blood Three’s death, the entire process… had taken no more than ten breaths!

When Su Xing brought back Blood Three’s corpse, the Celestial Demon General was stunned.

The Celestial Demon General’s avatar understood all too well — battles between Supreme Unity Golden Immortals often lasted months without a clear victor, let alone ending in a kill.

Yet in merely ten or so breaths, Su Xing had slain Blood Three and brought back the body.

There was only one possibility: the gap in their power was simply too vast!

Thinking this, the Celestial Demon General formed a rough assessment of Su Xing’s strength.

He tentatively asked:

“Spirit Dragon Celestial Sovereign?”

Su Xing smiled lightly and nodded:

“Still a bit short of Great Firmament… but roughly at the Celestial Sovereign level, I suppose…”

The Celestial Demon General was immediately filled with profound respect.

Supreme Unity Celestial Venerable — in the entire human race across the Three Thousand Worlds, that was solidly a top-twenty combatant!

Apart from those few Great Firmament Golden Immortals, such a being could be called invincible in the world!

At this moment, the Celestial Demon General had only one thought:

The Luotian Sect… was about to reclaim its former glory!

……

An hour later, Su Xing politely declined the Celestial Demon General’s invitation, left Celestial Demon City, and returned to White Emperor City.

After this battle, the foreign race of the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm had been virtually wiped out. Perhaps a few survivors still clung to life, but they could no longer stir up any trouble.

Even if Red Moon intervened in the future.

It would still guarantee that the foreign race couldn’t reassemble their forces to attack the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm again for at least a hundred years.

Most importantly, Blood Three — that thorn in Su Xing’s side — had been slain!

The strongest Advent Cult cadre in the Azure Origin Domain was dead!

From now on, Su Xing would be much safer!

And of course… there was also a handsome sum of origin energy!

Blood Three’s entire estate was worth over one hundred million origin energy.

With this, since the start of the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm war, Su Xing had accumulated a total of over four hundred million origin energy!

“Tsk tsk… war profiteering really isn’t bad at all!”

Su Xing smacked his lips.

But he knew that special situations like the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm were rare.

Trying to obtain origin energy by killing foreign race members was far too difficult!

Four hundred million origin energy worth of blood essence — a foreign race force of that scale would be enough to invade an entire Medium Chiliocosm!

And beyond his gains in origin energy, Su Xing also noticed something unusual about himself.

“The Tribulation of Lust… seems to have broken through on its own!”

Su Xing blinked, quite surprised.

“Purge wickedness, let the heart be clear as a still pool… thus shall the Tribulation of Lust be overcome!”

“So this ‘lust and wickedness’ doesn’t refer to carnal desire, but to evil and corruption?”

Su Xing came to an understanding. The concept of “lust and wickedness” was quite broad.

For different cultivators, the Tribulation of Lust they needed to overcome would vary.

For some it might be carnal desire, while for others — like Su Xing — it meant slaying evil and banishing inner demons.

And Blood Three, following Old Dog Zong and Old Dog Dragon, was the enemy who had put the most pressure on Su Xing.

Su Xing had schemed for several years, gone through countless simulations, and finally crushed Blood Three with overwhelming power!

Thus, Su Xing broke through the Tribulation of Lust!

Thinking of this, Su Xing was in an excellent mood.

“Tsk tsk… in less than three short months, I’ve broken through both the Tribulation of Sincerity and the Tribulation of Lust, and even the Tribulation of Karma is coming together!”

“It seems like breaking through to Great Firmament Golden Immortal… the Nine Tribulations of Great Firmament aren’t so difficult after all!”

Su Xing knew that fortune had come knocking, and there was no stopping it!

“And breaking through two tribulations consecutively in reality… saves me quite a bit of origin energy!”

“While my luck is hot… let me run a few more simulations and get through the Tribulation of Magical Power too!”

Su Xing thought to himself.

At this point, he still had roughly 2.2 billion origin energy remaining, and five simulation attempts left.

Since his spatial Dao had advanced to the seventh realm, Su Xing had conducted seven or eight more simulations.

He was now on simulation number 334.

But even so, after this battle, his origin energy had actually increased rather than decreased.

From two billion to nearly 2.2 billion!

At the same time, Su Xing’s strength had also advanced further.

“My primordial energy purification has already reached a critical juncture! The Great Shaman Body Forging Art, Eighth Layer isn’t far off either!”

“Then let me set a small goal — break through to the Great Shaman Body Forging Art, Eighth Layer within five simulations!”

“And the Spiritual Power Trial — I need to break through within two simulations at most!”

Su Xing thought to himself.

For an ordinary Supreme Unity Golden Immortal, passing the Spiritual Power Trial required dispersing all cultivation and re-cultivating from scratch, which naturally carried risks.

But Su Xing was different — he dual-cultivated in both qi refinement and body tempering.

Even if he dispersed his magical power, with the Great Shaman Body Forging Art alone, he would still possess combat power approaching that of a Supreme Unity Celestial Venerable!

Moreover, in previous simulations, Su Xing had already learned the Supreme Dissolution Art, so re-cultivation would be smooth sailing.

More importantly, all risks occurred within the simulation.

In reality, two or three simulations for Su Xing took mere moments!

With this in mind, Su Xing began a new round of simulation.

“Begin simulation!”

【Simulation #335 initiated. Current remaining origin energy: 2,234,690,000… Remaining simulation attempts: 4.】

【Simulation begins!】

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

“Yes!”

【Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the red talent Double Pupils…】

【Double Pupils】: Red talent. Double pupils are inherently the path of the invincible. One of the supreme anomalies of heaven and earth from the ancient era. Those who possess double pupils are blessed by fortune. A pair of such eyes can see through all falsehood, and can project Yin-Yang Divine Light from the twin pupils to overwhelm enemies with devastating power.

“Double Pupils?!”

Upon seeing the newly drawn talent, Su Xing blinked.

“Double pupils, a natural-born anomaly… possessing the potential for Great Firmament?”

Su Xing pondered, recalling descriptions of double pupils he had read in ancient texts.

Beyond being a special constitution, double pupils were also a powerful innate supernatural art!

Not only could one use double pupils to see through falsehood and illusions, but one could also channel the Yin-Yang Great Dao to unleash Yin-Yang Divine Light with devastating power.

“Offense and defense in one — not a bad talent at all!”

Su Xing nodded slightly, quite satisfied with this talent, but the specific effects would have to be seen in the simulation.

With that thought, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

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

“I choose to enhance the Late Bloomer talent…”

【In White Emperor City, you realize you are in a simulation.】

【You enter the spirit field grotto-heaven… After preparing an ample supply of spirit liquid in advance, you begin preparations to undergo the Tribulation of Magical Power!】

【You disperse all your cultivation…】

【Your realm falls continuously…】

【You become a mortal.】

【You take out supreme-grade spirit liquid and begin cultivating…】

【In just a single breath, you smoothly enter Qi Refinement, Layer One…】

【A quarter hour later, you reach Qi Refinement, mid-stage!】

【Half an hour later, you successfully reach Foundation Establishment.】

【A mere dozen or so drops of supreme-grade spirit liquid were enough to help you break through to Foundation Establishment!】

【You sense that your magical power after re-cultivation is several times more profound than during your original Foundation Establishment stage!】

【You realize you have already surpassed Perfect Foundation Establishment.】

【With your supernatural arts, relying solely on Foundation Establishment cultivation, you could now hold your own against Spirit Transformation cultivators!】

【You continue raising your cultivation…】

【Two hours later, you successfully form your core.】

【You condense a Perfect Golden Core, its quality even higher than before.】

【Your magical power is several times more profound than during your original Golden Core stage.】

【You continue cultivating…】

【Half a day later, you break through to the Nascent Soul stage!】

【You condense a Perfect Nascent Soul, your magical power far surpassing your previous Nascent Soul stage…】

【And at this point, you have used less than a single bottle of supreme-grade immortal liquid.】

【You circulate your cultivation technique and continue cultivating…】

In the Real World, Su Xing grinned from ear to ear at the sight.

“Tsk tsk, is there truly someone in this world who can reach Nascent Soul in a single day?”

“Being able to use supreme-grade spirit liquid for cultivation from as early as Qi Refinement — I’ve never fought such a wealthy battle before!”

Su Xing felt a twinge of emotion.

If not for the fact that he was only at the Nascent Soul stage and his cultivation was insufficient, directly using immortal liquid would probably yield even more explosive results!

“Tsk tsk… but with my foundation, by Spirit Transformation I should be able to cultivate with immortal liquid!”

“Having money and talent — it really does feel amazing!”

Su Xing had gotten a taste of what it felt like to be a genius. He turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.

【Three days later, you successfully break through to the Spirit Transformation stage!】

【After reaching Spirit Transformation, you begin attempting to cultivate with immortal liquid…】

【Immortal liquid contains enormous energy and can directly provide immortal qi… but currently you can only absorb spiritual energy.】

【Each time you circulate your technique, you can only convert immortal qi into spiritual energy cultivation… you waste ninety percent of the immortal liquid’s effect.】

【But even so, your cultivation speed is several times faster than when using supreme-grade spirit liquid!】

【Another seven days pass… you successfully break through to the Void Return stage!】

【Because you dispersed your cultivation and are re-cultivating, you need not undergo heavenly tribulation, nor must you face a heart-questioning trial.】

【At merely the Void Return stage, you feel that your magical power is even more profound than that of a Mahayana cultivator… even against an Immortal, you are confident you could fight!】

【After reaching the Void Return stage, you do not linger and continue pushing toward higher realms!】

【Another month later, you successfully break through to the Body Integration stage!】

【After reaching Body Integration, you notice your cultivation speed has decreased slightly, but the impact is minimal.】

【Three months later… you successfully break through to the Mahayana stage!】

【Half a year later, you successfully reach peak Mahayana…】

【You begin your charge toward the Immortal realm!】