Chapter 117 – Talent: Strength to Uproot Mountains! (Second Update)
by spirapiraChapter 117 – Talent: Strength to Uproot Mountains! (Second Update)
“Strength to Uproot Mountains?!!”
Su Xing froze for a moment, unconsciously murmuring:
“Could this be… a purple-grade Body Tempering talent?!”
Su Xing was instantly filled with excitement. If it really was a Body Tempering talent, then the timing couldn’t be more perfect!
His gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【Strength to Uproot Mountains】: Purple talent. Your strength and constitution are extraordinary, making you a martial prodigy seen only once in a thousand years. You possess the power to uproot mountains and move seas. Body Tempering talent greatly increased. Strength to uproot mountains, spirit to overshadow the world~ spirit to overshadow the world~
“It really is a purple-grade Body Tempering talent!”
Su Xing clenched his fists in excitement.
From the very first Fitness Enthusiast, to Mr. Mighty, and then to Innate Divine Power… Strength to Uproot Mountains was clearly an even more formidable talent.
“I just wonder how much more of a boost Strength to Uproot Mountains provides compared to Innate Divine Power?”
Su Xing’s eyes gleamed with inexplicable excitement. He could hardly wait to experience the simulation.
【In the Blessed Spirit Field, you realized you were in a simulation.】
【You felt your entire body brimming with power, even feeling an urge to uproot Mount Tai with your bare hands.】
【Although you were eager to begin cultivating, you currently lacked demonic beast flesh, and training without it would yield half the results for twice the effort. Thus, you could only wait for the time being.】
【You began your daily pill refinement, producing a batch of Fasting Pills and Healing Pills in preparation for the Great Xia soldiers at Demon-Sealing Pass.】
【After several days, you entered the Luotian Assembly dungeon.】
Seeing this, Su Xing’s heart stirred. He silently chanted:
“Activate immersive simulation mode, duration: 24 hours!”
【Ding! Detected activation of immersive simulation mode for 24 hours. Cost: 2,400,000 energy. Remaining energy: 26,134,396 points.】
Su Xing’s vision shifted and transformed. When he arrived in the Luotian Assembly dungeon once more, the person before him was still Grand Elder Niu Rulie.
“Good disciple, go to the rear mountain and invite your Granduncle Shennong…”
Su Xing nodded and headed toward the rear mountain with practiced ease.
Before long, Su Xing had brought Shennong Youtian to the Luotian Assembly. Afterward, Su Xing rushed toward the Scripture Pavilion without stopping!
This time, Su Xing had come to the immersive simulation with a specific mission!
The reason he had paid for 24 hours of immersive simulation time was precisely because he wanted to learn a tracking-type divine ability!
“Hmph, that Old Dog Zong’s movements are erratic and unpredictable. He’s extremely cautious… If a Spirit Transformation stage cultivator truly decides to play turtle, he’d be nearly impossible to find…”
“But once I break through to the Divine Power Realm, I need to start planning how to take out Old Dog Zong. After all, that bastard is still hiding quite a few secrets!”
Indeed, Su Xing had cooperated with Luo Shuying several times before to set ambushes for Old Dog Zong, but the man had always managed to slip away. Although Su Xing didn’t know how he’d done it.
But that didn’t stop Su Xing from finding another way to track him down.
Divine abilities and magical arts were endlessly wondrous. Among them, there had to be tracking techniques. As long as Su Xing could learn such a technique, he would absolutely be able to locate Old Dog Zong.
When that time came, with Luo Shuying — a legendary powerhouse — holding the fort, plus all the Martial Emperors of Great Xia, there was no way that old dog could survive.
Su Xing had been eyeing the treasures on his body for a long time now.
Soon, Su Xing arrived at the Scripture Pavilion and began searching through the third floor’s divine ability section.
With Su Xing’s current status as a direct disciple, he already had access to the third floor of the Scripture Pavilion.
“Tracking-type techniques… where exactly are they?”
“Found it!”
Su Xing quickly arrived before a row of divine ability jade slips and began searching for the technique he wanted.
The third floor of the Scripture Pavilion contained Earth-grade techniques, all tremendously powerful, but far fewer in number than the first and second floors. Because of this, Su Xing easily found what he was looking for.
“Thousand-Mile Blood Soul Art… Spiritual Imprint…”
“There it is — the Myriad-Mile Tracking Art!”
Su Xing’s heart stirred as he quickly found the technique he wanted.
“An Earth-grade technique, the Myriad-Mile Tracking Art. As long as one’s spiritual sense is stronger than the target’s, one can leave an imperceptible mark on their soul. Afterward, one can sense the target’s movements, with the detection range depending on the strength of one’s spiritual sense…”
Su Xing’s eyes lit up with joy, and he immediately began attempting to learn the technique.
One hour… five hours… ten hours…
Su Xing tirelessly tried to memorize this divine ability, but made little progress.
Seeing that the simulation time was nearly up and he still hadn’t mastered it, he could only sigh:
“Looks like I’ll have to come back another time to continue learning…”
Su Xing stood up, preparing to leave. Just as he was steeling himself for a prolonged effort—
An elderly woman’s voice suddenly drifted over from nearby.
“Hehe, you’re the inner disciple Luo Xiaochuan, aren’t you? Why all the sighing? I’ve noticed you studying that technique for quite some time now. What’s the matter — hit a bottleneck?”
Hearing this, Su Xing looked up and saw an old woman dressed in gray robes with an aged, weathered face.
Su Xing’s heart stirred. This old woman was the guardian of the Scripture Pavilion.
Generally speaking, those who guarded the Scripture Pavilion year-round were always formidable figures!
So Su Xing sighed dramatically and said:
“Esteemed senior, I’m indeed trying to learn a tracking technique, but the art is too difficult. I can’t master it in such a short time…” Su Xing shook his head with a put-on expression of distress, sneaking a glance at the old woman.
The old woman glanced at the jade slip in Su Xing’s hand and said:
“You’re studying the Myriad-Mile Tracking Art? Hehe… that technique is a bit outdated. You can learn it or not — doesn’t really matter…”
Su Xing looked at the old woman somewhat speechlessly. The introduction to this technique had stated it was created by a peerless expert at the Fusion stage — how could it be worthless in her eyes?
The old woman smiled and said to Su Xing:
“What, you don’t believe me? I’m the one who created that technique when I was young… Now that several thousand years have passed, it’s indeed become somewhat impractical…”
Su Xing was instantly stunned. Good heavens — the legendary senior who created this technique was standing right before him?
He quickly asked:
“Then, senior, you mean… there’s an even better tracking technique?”
The old woman nodded and said:
“Indeed. I later improved upon the Myriad-Mile Tracking Art. Its power approaches that of a Heaven-grade technique. Even someone with spiritual sense roughly equal to yours wouldn’t detect anything abnormal. Moreover, the tracking range is far greater. Would you like to learn it?”
Su Xing nodded eagerly:
“This disciple is willing to learn!”
The old woman smiled and said: “Nothing in this world comes free. If you learn my exclusive secret art, you’ll have to do something for me in return…”
Su Xing nodded quickly: “This disciple is willing!”
The old woman was taken aback — she hadn’t even said what the task was, and Su Xing had already agreed?
But Su Xing was secretly gloating inside:
“Pfft, the next simulation resets everything anyway. That means I never have to actually do the task. Getting a stronger secret art for free — what a steal!”
The old woman thought for a moment and said:
“Very well then! Come back to the Scripture Pavilion this time next year, and I’ll tell you what it is then… As for the technique, there’s no harm in passing it to you first!”
With that, the old woman pressed a finger to the center of Su Xing’s brow.
Instantly, Su Xing felt a new stream of memories flood into his mind.
It was the cultivation method for the Myriad-Mile Tracking Art!
And it was even better and more profound than what he had been studying before!
“Thank you, senior!”
“…”
Before long, Su Xing’s immersive simulation time ended, and he returned to the real world.
Because the knowledge had been imprinted as memories, Su Xing successfully retained the cultivation method for the Myriad-Mile Tracking Secret Art.
And the Su Xing within the simulation should have mastered this secret art as well.
“Wonderful! With this secret art… I’ll be able to track Old Dog Zong’s movements from now on…”
Su Xing smiled and turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【After leaving the Luotian Assembly dungeon, you mastered the upper Earth-grade secret art, the Myriad-Mile Tracking Art… You returned to the Blessed Spirit Field, preparing to study this technique.】
【However, your spiritual sense was insufficient, making it quite difficult to learn. With no other choice, you could only master the most basic portions first, planning to continue cultivating it once your spiritual sense improved in the future.】
【Several months quickly passed.】
【One day, Wang Qingxuan found you. After one night together, you joined the Advent Cult.】
【You directly revealed your true strength and pill-refining talent, successfully gaining the Advent Cult’s attention.】
【Afterward, you chose to join Luo Shuying’s faction and successfully earned her trust.】
【Over the following months, you obtained large quantities of spirit medicines through Luo Shuying and began refining Mind-Condensing Pills.】
【In the second year, you became an Elder of the Advent Cult. Working with Luo Shuying, you nearly emptied the entire Advent Cult’s spirit medicine reserves.】
【Thanks to consuming Mind-Condensing Pills, your spiritual sense surged dramatically. In just one year, your spiritual sense range grew from fifty zhang to three hundred zhang.】
【In the third year, your spiritual sense surged to five hundred zhang, and you had also accumulated a considerable stockpile of Essence Nurturing Pills and Organ Tempering Pills.】
【You determined the time was ripe. Remaining in the Advent Cult any longer would serve little purpose. You wanted to join Great Xia to obtain Demonic Beast Blood Essence more quickly.】
【So you planted a spiritual imprint on Old Dog Zong in advance. With this mark, you could easily sense Old Dog Zong’s location.】
【Afterward, you secretly contacted the upper echelons of Great Xia and, together with Luo Shuying, defected from the Advent Cult.】
【As expected, you were pursued by the Advent Cult’s assassins, but with the help of Great Xia’s powerhouses, you successfully slew them all…】
【Old Dog Zong, predictably, did not appear. You activated the secret art to sense his location, but your spiritual sense was insufficient — he was too far away, and you still couldn’t detect him.】
【With no other option, you and Luo Shuying headed to Capital City.】
【You took out the one hundred thousand pills you had refined in advance and gifted them to the Great Xia Military. Within a single year, Great Xia gained an additional twenty thousand Grandmaster-stage warriors!】
【In the fourth year, you continued refining pills, periodically delivering them to the Great Xia Military. Grandmaster-stage and Heavenly King-stage powerhouses began emerging in Great Xia in an endless stream.】
【That same year, through the Great Xia Military, you successfully obtained one hundred jin of Demon Emperor Blood Essence. You began consuming the blood essence daily, enhancing your physical strength and durability.】
【Thanks to your improved talent and constitution, the rate at which your physical body strengthened became rapid once more.】
【You could feel that your body now possessed far greater potential. Every day you consumed Demon Emperor Blood Essence, your strength grew visibly!】
(Sorry for the late update. There’ll be one more chapter after this.)