Chapter 120 – Finally Reaching the Divine Power Realm! (Second Update)
by spirapiraChapter 120 – Finally Reaching the Divine Power Realm! (Second Update)
“Finally, the breakthrough to the Divine Power Realm!”
Su Xing stared at the simulation panel, murmuring under his breath.
Seeing how slowly the growth had been in those final years as his body approached its limit, Su Xing had even thought he would have to wait until the next simulation to reach the Divine Power Realm.
But in the end, he had reached the limit of ten million jin!
“Ten million jin—even the Wu Clan of ancient times probably couldn’t reach this level of strength while at the Primordial Martial Realm, could they?”
“In fact, those weakest Divine Power Realm cultivators only possess this degree of strength…”
An inexplicable surge of excitement welled up in Su Xing’s heart.
He could feel all the effort he had put in at Demon-Sealing Pass, all for the sake of reaching this limit.
And at this moment, he had finally reached it!
“Break through to the Divine Power Realm! A bright future is right before my eyes!”
Su Xing’s breathing quickened slightly as he turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.
【As the situation at Demon-Sealing Pass grew increasingly dire, you chose to enter seclusion.】
【You returned to the Blessed Spirit Field, adjusted your body to peak condition, and prepared some Demon Emperor Blood Essence along with the supreme-grade Divine Power Pills you had saved from before.】
【You swallowed three jin of Demon Emperor Blood Essence in one go, feeling the surging energy inside your body nearly overflowing.】
【Just as your body was about to buckle under this energy, you consumed a Divine Power Pill and prepared to break through.】
【The Divine Power Pill transformed into a warm current flowing into your abdomen, instantly becoming a violent surge of energy. This energy was like a hammer, relentlessly pounding every inch of flesh in your body.】
【The energy continued to accumulate, spreading to every last corner of your flesh and blood. You felt your bones aching and groaning.】
【This was a reconstruction of your muscle density and bone density—how could an ordinary mortal body withstand such earth-shattering power?】
【This was a more brutal and thorough enhancement than even the Bone Forging stage. You felt endless pain.】
【It began with the skin, then the flesh, then the bones… and finally strengthened your internal organs.】
【Under the flood of this energy, you felt your body’s durability and vitality transcend to a higher plane in this moment.】
【The pain persisted for an entire day and night, nearly driving you to give up several times. It was the ten years of tempering at Demon-Sealing Pass that had forged your willpower into something unyielding, allowing you to grit your teeth and endure.】
【Finally, after your relentless perseverance, there came a moment when you felt your body suddenly lighten.】
【You even thought you had successfully broken through, but immediately after came an endless wave of hunger from your body.】
【Ever since reaching Golden Core stage, you had been able to abstain from food. While you still had basic appetites, logically speaking, hunger should never have come on this fiercely.】
【But at this moment, the hunger felt devastatingly real—like someone who hadn’t eaten for three days and three nights. There was only one thought in your mind: eat!】
【You turned your gaze to the Demon Emperor Blood Essence beside you and began devouring it frantically. You ate a full five jin of Demon Emperor Blood Essence before you felt you absolutely couldn’t eat another bite.】
【Then the energy within your body surged upward once more, and you decisively consumed a second Divine Power Pill… followed immediately by an energy explosion and a wave of pain.】
【Your body was once again scoured and reconstructed by this energy…】
【This cycle repeated over and over. You lost count of how much Demonic Beast Blood Essence you had consumed—perhaps more than the entire previous month combined. You lost count of how many Primordial Martial Pills you had swallowed. The pain in your body had become something you were accustomed to.】
【Finally, in one particular instant, you felt a cracking sound within your body. Some shackle inside you had been successfully shattered!】
【You had broken through and become a Divine Power Realm cultivator!】
【But the expected explosive surge of power did not arrive, because during these several days of breakthrough, your strength had actually been skyrocketing all along!】
【In just a few short days, your strength had grown to twenty million jin!】
【Then, with hunger gnawing at your stomach, you devoured another five jin of Demon Emperor Blood Essence in one breath. But this time there was no pain, no energy explosion—you simply felt your entire body brimming with power!】
【The surface of your body seemed to be bathed in sunlight, covered in a thin veil of golden light.】
【You seemed to understand now—the Divine Power Realm was not merely an increase in strength, but a comprehensive enhancement of total body durability! This was yet another mighty leap in the physical power of a Body Tempering cultivator!】
【Because only a stronger body could wield such tremendous might!】
Su Xing’s face flushed red as he read this.
“Finally, I’ve finally broken through!”
The Divine Power Realm—an existence that could rival Martial Emperor powerhouses!
Although he had only just entered the Divine Power Realm, his strength was no weaker than veteran Divine Power Realm cultivators. By that measure, he could be considered quite formidable even among Martial Emperors!
“After this simulation ends, I’ll definitely be able to break through to the Divine Power Realm for real… At that point, I’ll be among the strongest humans alive. Should I reveal myself and trade that for more energy?”
Su Xing fell into deep thought.
It was easy to imagine—the moment he revealed his strength and cooperated with Great Xia’s upper echelons, harnessing the power of an entire nation, his speed of acquiring simulation energy would increase tenfold, a hundredfold, even a thousandfold!
And that would mean Su Xing’s power was about to enter yet another explosive growth phase!
After the Divine Power Realm, the energy required for each breakthrough would likely increase tenfold—ten million energy per layer!
When calculated that way, whether he could even afford it was an important question…
“Ah, what a headache! As for whether to reveal myself… perhaps I should take a look at Demon-Sealing Pass first? Just how large is the gap between the human race and the foreign races?”
Su Xing already had an idea forming—he would go see for himself in the simulator.
With that thought, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【After breaking through to the Divine Power Realm, you returned to the real world—to Demon-Sealing Pass.】
【The battle at Demon-Sealing Pass was raging fiercely. The human side was being completely crushed by the demonic beasts, with warriors dying on the battlefield every minute, every second.】
【You said nothing, silently joining the battlefield, fixing your gaze on a Demon Emperor-level giant beast.】
【When you were at Primordial Martial Realm, Grand Perfection, you could already fight a Demon Emperor. Now that you had broken through to the Divine Power Realm, there was naturally no reason to fear Demon Emperors any longer.】
【This time you did not choose to use weapons, but instead chose to engage the Demon Emperor in hand-to-hand combat with your bare fists.】
【The massive Demon Emperor before you, towering over a hundred meters tall, formed a stark contrast with your body of less than two meters. You were like an ant before its eyes.】
【But the enormous difference in size did not diminish your strength. On the contrary, it made it easier for you to dodge the Demon Emperor’s attacks.】
【You threw a single punch, twenty million jin of tremendous force wrapped in primordial energy slamming into the Demon Emperor. That one strike alone dealt it serious injuries.】
【You fought the Demon Emperor for dozens of minutes before finally slaying it, and you took its blood essence.】
【Although you had the upper hand in your battles, humanity as a whole remained mired in overwhelming disadvantage. Without time to think, you swiftly threw yourself back into the fray!】
【Every opponent you chose was a Demon Emperor-level giant beast! You had once been the nightmare of Demon Kings—now you would become the nightmare of Demon Emperors!】
【Over the following months, you battled Demon Emperors every day. Every few days, you managed to slay another Demon Emperor powerhouse. Your impact on the battlefield even surpassed the vast majority of Martial Emperor powerhouses!】
【Because while Martial Emperor powerhouses were strong, none of them possessed your terrifying level of raw strength and physical durability!】
【And as you consumed Demon Emperor flesh daily, you felt your strength and physical durability continuing to improve further.】
【Each day, aside from fighting, you also consumed Divine Power Pills and Demon Emperor Blood Essence, steadily improving your power.】
【Year Twenty-Six. The situation at Demon-Sealing Pass remained dire this year, but it could still hold. Meanwhile, you seized this opportunity to rapidly increase your power!】
【Until one day, everything changed!】
【An endless army of demonic beasts appeared on the boundless horizon. Countless demonic beasts charged toward Demon-Sealing Pass like a frenzied tide, and one overwhelmingly powerful beast after another entered your field of vision.】
Seeing this, Su Xing took a deep breath and said:
“Activate immersive simulation mode. Duration: one hour!”
【Ding. Detected activation of immersive simulation mode. Duration: 1 hour. Cost: 100,000 energy. Remaining energy: 26,034,396 points.】
Su Xing’s vision shifted, and in the next instant, he found himself in an unfamiliar place.
Dark, oppressive clouds blanketed the sky, with flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder echoing faintly in the distance.
Frantic shouts surrounded him on all sides. The air reeked of blood.
Su Xing looked around in a daze. Mages in spell robes hurled skills from the walls, armored warriors hefted great blades and clashed with flying demonic beasts in the air.
Golden light and energy fluctuations erupted intermittently from the city walls.
“My lord, we can’t hold! We need to retreat!”
A Heavenly King-stage Class User rushed to Su Xing’s side and urged him.
But Su Xing remained unmoved. If they retreated now, where would they retreat to?
Leaving Demon-Sealing Pass—in the real world, that would only be a matter of time anyway.
Su Xing strode to the edge of the city wall and looked out at the dark, swarming mass of demonic beasts covering the distant earth.
From several meters to dozens of meters, even hundreds of meters—demonic beasts of every size were present.
They attacked the walls relentlessly, trying to blast an opening in the thousand-zhang-tall Demon-Sealing Pass.
Su Xing watched as soldiers threw themselves into the fray without regard for their own lives, trying to stop those beasts.
Some succeeded. Others died.
Suddenly, Su Xing heard a terrified scream.
Following the sound, he saw someone staring ahead with blank, frozen eyes.
Su Xing followed that gaze and saw, within his field of vision, colossal beasts radiating overwhelmingly powerful auras charging toward them.
“This is beyond what Emperor-level beasts can achieve!”
Su Xing made that judgment in an instant.
“At minimum, these are Legendary-stage beasts!”
Su Xing drew a sharp breath, because these Legendary-stage beasts, each thousands of meters tall, numbered not one or two, not even dozens… but hundreds!
Hundreds of Legendary-stage colossal beasts, as tall as the city walls themselves, charged toward the fortifications, intent on smashing through by sheer brute force.
“You dare try to destroy my Demon-Sealing Pass!?”
Su Xing heard an enraged roar from behind him. Over a dozen powerhouses radiating golden light charged toward the Legendary-stage beasts.
Su Xing instantly understood—this must be the full extent of the forces guarding Demon-Sealing Pass.
But a dozen against several hundred…
The outcome was obvious!
After merely a few rounds of combat, the human side’s Legendary-stage powerhouses fell into an absolute disadvantage, on the verge of being completely overwhelmed.
Just as Su Xing thought Demon-Sealing Pass was about to fall, a sigh echoed from within the pass.
An elderly figure appeared high in the sky at some unknown point, launching an attack against the Legendary-stage beasts before him.
However, something even more despairing occurred. Two humanoid figures burst forth from the demon army. Though human in appearance, their entire bodies radiated demonic auras.
The elder immediately engaged them in battle.
Su Xing couldn’t even see what happened before the elder was defeated. Hundreds of Legendary-stage demonic beasts poured into the city.
Su Xing’s vision went black, and his consciousness returned to his body.
【Ding. Due to character death, this immersive simulation has ended prematurely!】
【Ding. This simulation has ended!】
Su Xing stared at the cold text before him, silent for a long time.
“Even an existence above Legendary-stage couldn’t change that outcome…”
Su Xing took a deep breath. The demon race’s strength was far, far greater than he had imagined!
Across thousands of years of human heritage, perhaps one or two exceptional individuals might emerge from time to time.
But the foreign races? They were an exceptional collective!
Absolute superiority in power, compounded by absolute superiority in numbers!
“As I thought, I was being far too optimistic!”
“The Divine Power Realm… perhaps it can be considered decent, but it’s still far from enough!”
Su Xing took a deep breath, abandoning the idea of revealing his identity to rapidly acquire energy.
Having energy was a good thing, but only if you were alive to spend it!
“Ah, why overthink it? We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it… Let’s focus on improving my strength first!”
Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation reward options.
【Strength to Uproot Mountains】: Purple talent. Price: 1,000,000 energy.
【Twenty-Six Years of Alchemy Experience】: Alchemy insights, containing partial alchemy comprehension. Price: 600,000 energy.
【Divine Power Realm, First Layer】: Body Tempering cultivation. Price: 10,000,000 energy!
【Ten Years of Combat Experience】: Price: 1,000,000 energy.
Looking at the four rewards before him, Su Xing said without the slightest hesitation:
“I choose the purple talent Strength to Uproot Mountains, and the Divine Power Realm, First Layer cultivation!”
【You have successfully extracted the purple talent Strength to Uproot Mountains. Cost: 1,000,000 energy. Remaining energy: 25,034,396 points.】
【You have successfully extracted the Divine Power Realm, First Layer cultivation. Cost: 10,000,000 energy. Remaining energy: 15,034,396 points.】
As Su Xing made his choices, two streams of mysterious power descended upon his body.
In the next instant, Su Xing felt his aura begin to surge explosively, his strength continuing to climb.
A gentle energy enveloped Su Xing within it, and at that moment, his physical body began its enhancement.
From flesh and blood to bones, then to internal organs…
Several minutes passed, and when the radiance around Su Xing’s body faded away—
Su Xing had successfully advanced to become a Divine Power Realm powerhouse!
Without a trace of pain, without a hint of discomfort.
Everything had come as naturally as water flowing downhill.
Feeling the surging power coursing through his body, Su Xing clenched both fists tightly in excitement.
“So this is… the Divine Power Realm!”
“The Divine Power Realm… boundless divine power, such terrifying strength… and yet at Demon-Sealing Pass, against those alien beasts, it’s still so utterly powerless…”