Chapter 179 – Ten-Thousand-Zhang Divine Sense, Divine Sense Subtlety Realm! (First Update)

Su Xing frowned slightly upon seeing this, murmuring:

“This is bad. Zong Laogou’s Eight Trigrams Divination Art must have forewarned him of the danger…”

“So that’s why he fled without a trace?”

Su Xing silently cursed his miscalculation.

Zong Laogou’s life-preserving methods were truly first-rate. He had merely harbored some killing intent in his heart, and that old dog had immediately abandoned everything and bolted.

“It seems that if I want to kill Zong Laogou… I first need to master the Eight Trigrams Divination Art!”

“The Eight Trigrams Divination Art contains techniques for concealing heavenly secrets — it should be able to shield me from Zong Laogou’s danger sense…”

Su Xing murmured.

“I just don’t know what level Zong Laogou has cultivated the Eight Trigrams Divination Art to.”

Su Xing felt this was quite a thorny problem, and decided to first comprehend the Eight Trigrams Divination Art before anything else.

His gaze turned to the simulation panel.

【Knowing that you cannot forcibly kill Zong Laogou in the short term, you can only settle for the next best thing and defect to Great Xia’s Capital City with Luo Shuying.】

【You bring out the hundred-thousand-plus pills you’ve accumulated over the past few years, creating many powerful fighters for Xia’s military.】

【After that, you remain in the Capital City, peacefully refining pills and researching secret arts.】

【You temporarily set aside your cultivation of the Sword-Controlling Technique and begin studying the Eight Trigrams Divination Art instead.】

【Amid daily pill refining and cultivation, another two years pass.】

【In the fourth year, you exhaust all the medicinal ingredients you’ve accumulated over the years, refining them into a great quantity of pills.】

【Knowing these pills are enough to sustain Demon-Sealing Pass until the twenty-fifth year, you begin to focus entirely on cultivation.】

【However, the Eight Trigrams Divination Art proves even more difficult to cultivate than you imagined.】

【After a full two years of practice, you still haven’t reached the introductory level.】

【This year, your divine sense range expands to eight thousand zhang!】

【In the fifth year, in order to reach the introductory level of the Eight Trigrams Divination Art as soon as possible, you activate the Wisdom in Foolishness talent to forcibly increase your comprehension.】

【Sure enough, with the threefold boost to comprehension and wisdom, your understanding of the Eight Trigrams Divination Art rapidly improves, and you gradually begin to grasp the rudiments.】

【In the sixth year, you continue daily visualization of the Ruyi Visualization Method in your mind. This year, your divine sense grows to eight thousand four hundred zhang!】

【But unfortunately, your comprehension of the Eight Trigrams Divination Art remains stuck at the rudimentary stage.】

【With your slow comprehension of the secret art, all you can do is work even harder at understanding it!】

【And so, another two years pass…】

【In the eighth year, your divine sense grows to eight thousand eight hundred zhang.】

【And after six consecutive years of study, your comprehension of the Human Fate chapter of the Eight Trigrams Divination Art has finally, barely, stepped into the Beginner level.】

Su Xing was somewhat surprised to see this.

“The Eight Trigrams Divination Art is actually this difficult?”

“No wonder. The secret art’s records state that only those with exceptional comprehension can grasp this technique…”

“Relying on the Wisdom state’s threefold comprehension boost… it actually took me six years to barely comprehend it?”

Su Xing began to doubt himself for a moment.

“Damn it, is this young master’s comprehension really that poor?”

Su Xing grumbled, his face covered in black lines.

But in all fairness, Su Xing’s comprehension wasn’t bad — it could be considered above average.

It was simply that the Eight Trigrams Divination Art was an absurdly demanding secret technique with extremely high comprehension requirements! Perhaps only one in a million — someone with truly exceptional comprehension — could reach the introductory level within five years.

“But… hmph, this young master has the Epiphany talent! Once I trigger an epiphany… this Eight Trigrams Divination Art will be conquered by me sooner or later!”

Su Xing muttered, speaking with a hint of defiance.

His gaze turned back to the simulation panel.

【After reaching the introductory level of the Eight Trigrams Divination Art, you acquire some special abilities.】

【From time to time, you can sense whether potential dangers exist. When you are about to face danger, your heartbeat accelerates.】

【This is very similar to the effect of your Blessed by Fortune talent…】

【Now, you finally understand why Zong Laogou was able to detect danger in advance.】

【You also understand why he was able to survive hundreds of years on the run in the Immortal Martial dungeon world. With this talent, it truly is an invincible life-preserving skill.】

【You are unsure what level Zong Laogou has cultivated the Eight Trigrams Divination Art to. Out of caution, you do not rashly go looking for Zong Laogou, and instead choose to continue cultivating this secret art.】

【In the ninth year, your divine sense reaches a range of nine thousand zhang!】

【But your comprehension of the Eight Trigrams Divination Art remains at the introductory stage. You cultivate bitterly while praying that you can trigger the Epiphany state soon.】

【In the monotony of cultivation, three more years pass in the blink of an eye.】

【In the twelfth year, your divine sense range improves further, growing to nine thousand five hundred zhang!】

【However, from consuming too many Mind-Condensing Pills, a significant amount of Pill Poison has accumulated in your body. You occasionally experience auditory hallucinations.】

【But you pay this no mind and continue daily observation of the Ruyi Visualization Method and cultivation of the Eight Trigrams Divination secret art.】

【In the thirteenth year, your divine sense grows to nine thousand six hundred zhang.】

【With your daily observation of the Ruyi Visualization diagram, you sense a subtle change occurring in your divine sense.】

【Beyond the massive increase in divine sense range, you begin to perceive minute changes in tiny objects thousands of zhang away.】

【Ten thousand meters away, the vein patterns on a fly’s wing, or the frequency at which a butterfly beats its wings.】

【You are elated, knowing that you are not far from the second stage of divine sense — the Subtlety Realm!】

【But what gives you a headache is that progress on the Eight Trigrams Divination Art remains slow. These years of cultivation have only made your danger sense slightly more acute.】

【In the fourteenth year, your divine sense grows to nine thousand seven hundred zhang.】

【The increase in divine sense range only leaves you somewhat satisfied. What truly delights you is that your divine sense grows ever more acute — the probability of successfully observing minute objects increases steadily.】

【At the same time, you can feel that your cultivation of the Ruyi Visualization diagram is about to advance from the introductory level to Minor Mastery.】

【In the fifteenth year, your cultivation of the Eight Trigrams Divination Art finally achieves a small breakthrough.】

【Beyond passively sensing danger and fortune, you have also learned the art of divination.】

【Through divination, you can predict fortune and misfortune up to one day in advance. You are quite satisfied with this.】

Su Xing raised an eyebrow at this.

“Oh? Beyond danger sense… it can even divine one’s fortune and misfortune for the entire day?”

“Could it be that Zong Laogou divined his impending crisis in advance and fled?”

Su Xing frowned slightly.

The more he studied the Eight Trigrams Divination Art, the more Su Xing found this secret art — which bordered on Dao techniques — to be a thorny problem.

If Su Xing himself mastered the Eight Trigrams Divination Art, everything would be fine.

But with his enemy in possession of it, it gave Su Xing no end of headaches.

“I can only hope that Zong Laogou’s mastery of the Eight Trigrams Divination Art isn’t too profound…”

Su Xing sighed, though he knew this hope was slim.

After all, given Zong Laogou’s cautious personality, that cowardly dog had probably prioritized cultivating this secret art to an extremely high level.

Su Xing’s gaze returned to the simulation panel.

【In the sixteenth year, your divine sense range grows to nine thousand nine hundred zhang!】

【Every movement throughout the entire city — from the machinations of every faction, down to a stray dog relieving itself in a back alley.】

【As long as it falls within the range of your divine sense, you can perceive it with perfect clarity!】

【But at the same time, you discover that with your divine sense having grown to such an extreme level, the Mind-Condensing Pill’s effect has become negligible.】

【You understand that the final stretch to ten-thousand-zhang divine sense must be achieved through arduous self-cultivation and the slow accumulation of time…】

【This year, your progress in the Eight Trigrams Divination Art yields minimal results.】

【In the seventeenth year, you continue painstakingly studying the Ruyi Visualization Method.】

【With your mind immersed in the visualization diagram within your consciousness, you feel as though your entire soul is being drawn into it.】

【The visualization diagram seems to contain both great terror and great secrets, making you unable to resist the urge to explore further.】

【This year, your divine sense increases slightly.】

【In the eighteenth year, you occasionally experience flashes of inspiration, catching glimpses of the profound mysteries within the Eight Trigrams Divination Art, but that elusive feeling remains just beyond your grasp.】

【At times, when you cultivated the Eight Trigrams Divination Art, you found yourself utterly lost in its mysteries, giving you splitting headaches.】

【But fortunately, you were no blockhead. After over a decade of cultivation, your comprehension of the Eight Trigrams Divination Art grew ever deeper.】

【This year, your divine sense grew further.】

【Year Nineteen. On a quiet afternoon, you sat cross-legged in your room, your divine sense spreading out like a tide, blanketing the entire city—sensing every subtle movement throughout the Capital City, as you always did.】

【You tried expanding your divine sense bit by bit. Though it left your spirit exhausted, you never tired of it.】

【Finally, in a single instant, you felt your divine sense take one step further beyond the highest peak!】

【Your divine sense range at last achieved a breakthrough in this moment, reaching the Perfection stage of Ten-Thousand-Zhang Divine Sense!】

【Though your divine sense had reached ten thousand zhang, you felt you were still some distance from cultivating the Ruyi Visualization Diagram to Minor Mastery, and had not yet truly stepped into the Subtlety Realm.】

【Therefore, you could only resolve to continue your arduous cultivation of the Visualization Method.】

【Year Twenty. This year, your Eight Trigrams Divination Art achieved another minor breakthrough—you finally gained a preliminary understanding of the Heavenly Secrets Concealment Art.】

【But because your mastery of the Eight Trigrams Divination Art was still shallow, your Heavenly Secrets Concealment Art occasionally malfunctioned.】

【You knew that if you wanted to fully master the Heavenly Secrets Concealment Art—to conceal your own fate and fortune, to deceive Zong Laogou—you would need to cultivate the Divination Art to the Minor Mastery level.】

【Year Twenty-One. One day, you immersed yourself in cultivating the Ruyi Visualization Method as usual.】

【Your entire consciousness sank into the visualization diagram within your mind.】

【The elder in the diagram, previously always indistinct, suddenly became clear in a single instant…】

【You seized this flash of inspiration, straining to control your spirit as you visualized the elder within the painting… You seemed to make out the cold smile at the corner of the old man’s lips.】

【In that moment, you felt your divine sense undergo a sublimation!】

【When you withdrew from the visualization diagram, you discovered that the meticulous observation technique you previously couldn’t fully control could now be deployed with complete stability!】

【Congratulations—your divine sense has entered the Subtlety Realm!】

【Year Twenty-Two. After your spirit reached the Subtlety Realm, the first thing you did was attempt to sense Spring Dew Purified Water.】

【On the day of the Awakening of Insects this year, you climbed a mountain alone and sat suspended high in the air, eyes tightly shut, yet your divine sense already blanketed the entire sprawling mountain range.】

【The instant the spring thunder cracked, you sensed the first wisp of rootless water falling from the sky.】

【One drop… two drops… three drops… ten drops!】

【Ten drops of rootless water—their falling trajectories slowed countless times over in your perception. You effortlessly sensed the precise location of each and every drop of Spring Dew Purified Water.】

【You chose not to collect the Spring Dew Purified Water immediately. You knew you were still lacking a movement technique…】

【Though you had now fully sensed all ten drops of Spring Dew Purified Water, you had no confidence you could collect them all within half a second!】

【But everything was ready save for the east wind. You understood in your heart that cultivating the Sword-Controlling Technique would be far simpler than achieving Divine Sense Subtlety Realm.】

【Year Twenty-Three. Your mastery of the Eight Trigrams Divination Art had nearly reached the Minor Mastery level, yet that final step stubbornly refused to be crossed.】

【Knowing you couldn’t afford to wait much longer, you deployed your half-baked Heavenly Secrets Concealment Art and set off into the Immortal Martial Era instance to find Zong Laogou.】

【With your current divine sense range, releasing the Myriad-Mile Tracking Art, you could sense Zong Laogou’s location even from ten thousand li away.】

【And so, wandering through the Immortal Martial Era instance, you successfully sensed Zong Laogou.】

【He was hiding deep within a mountain range, disheveled and filthy, looking like a wild man.】

【The instant he saw you, he let out a despairing laugh, as though he had given up on fleeing.】

【He pulled out the storage artifact in his hand, making as if to destroy it.】

【You rushed forward to stop him.】

【Elemental Force Entwinement coiled around both fists, and the million-ton might of a Void-Shattering Realm powerhouse erupted in an instant.】

【Zong Laogou was blasted into a bloody mist by a single punch.】

【But you were still a step too slow—his storage artifact had already been completely destroyed.】

【You looked up at Zong Laogou’s soul hovering in the air, let out a cold laugh, and without hesitation shattered it with another punch!】

Seeing this, Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly.

“As expected… that Zong Laogou still sensed the danger… But why did he give up on running this time?”

“Was it because he sensed the overwhelming gap in their power? Knew there was no hope of escape?”

Su Xing nodded slightly. That was probably the only explanation for Zong Laogou’s behavior in this simulation.

But seeing Zong Laogou’s move to destroy his storage artifact even in his final moments, Su Xing was momentarily speechless.

“What the hell—what kind of unspeakable secret is he keeping in that storage artifact?”

“He’d rather no one ever gets their hands on it?”

Su Xing suddenly recalled a joke he’d seen before.

A pedestrian hit by a car, using the very last shred of consciousness before blacking out to factory-reset their phone…

That was practically the same damn thing as what Zong Laogou did!

Truly living by the motto: “Grind my bones to powder, I care not—so long as my innocence remains!”

Su Xing roasted him furiously in his mind, then let out a sigh.

“Sigh… Looks like the only way to get Zong Laogou’s artifact is to completely conceal my own heavenly secrets…”

“Then catch him off guard with a surprise attack and kill him in a single blow!”

Su Xing decided to first thoroughly study the Eight Trigrams Divination Art and cultivate it to Minor Mastery before anything else.

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

【Year Twenty-Four. After Zong Laogou’s death, you continued studying the Eight Trigrams Divination Art diligently, yet you remained stuck just short of Minor Mastery, unable to break through.】

【Year Twenty-Five. Demon-Sealing Pass was on the verge of collapse as hundreds of legendary demon beasts descended upon the real world.】

【In the final hour, you decided to fight with everything you had, to see just how powerful you had become after breaking through to the Void-Shattering Realm!】

【You arrived atop the walls of Demon-Sealing Pass and gazed out at the endless horde of demon beasts across the wasteland—at those hundreds of legendary aberrant beasts, each a thousand zhang tall, radiating terrifying pressure.】

【You knew that with your strength alone, there was no way to face so many legendary demon beasts simultaneously.】

【So, on impulse, you shouted those words—”1v1 me if you’re a real man!”】

【Then, something you never expected happened…】

【A demon, standing no more than ten meters tall, stepped out from the army, then regarded you with an indifferent glance.】

【The terrifying aura emanating from its body nearly stopped your heart… This was a Demon Emperor!】

【The Emperor-level demon beast transformed into an afterimage and charged straight at you.】

【Its speed was so fast you could barely react…】

【In that brief instant, you only had time to activate your primordial energy armor and raise your Protective Hardened Qi.】

【The next instant, the Emperor-level demon beast was already on top of you.】

【Crack!】

【A single strike—spiderweb cracks spread across your Protective Hardened Qi, and it shattered on impact…】

【Crack!】

【Another strike—your physical body was pulverized to dust by the Emperor-level demon beast! Your soul escaped your body!】

【Crack! One final strike—your soul was utterly annihilated…】

【You died!】

【Ding! This simulation has ended!】

After the simulation ended, several black lines appeared on Su Xing’s forehead.

“This ‘Real Man’ talent… isn’t this way too ridiculous?”

Su Xing was somewhat speechless. The talent was indeed conceptual in nature.

Even an Emperor-level demon beast was affected by it!

But the problem was, Su Xing was absolutely no match for an Emperor-level demon beast… After all, that was an existence far beyond the legendary tier.

“Looking at it this way… this talent seems a bit like a double-edged sword!”

Su Xing shook his head slightly. He couldn’t think of a use for this talent at the moment—perhaps it would only prove miraculous at some critical juncture?

“What a shame. Originally, this simulation was meant for cultivating the Sword-Controlling Technique… But to get my hands on Zong Laogou’s inheritance sooner, I should master the Eight Trigrams Divination Art first…”

With that thought, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation rewards before him.

【1v1 Me If You’re a Real Man】: Purple talent. Price: 1,000,000 energy points.

【Ten Years of Pill-Refining Experience】: Pill-refining insights. Price: 500,000 energy.

【Eight Trigrams Fortune Divination Art (Introductory)】: Heaven-grade upper-tier secret art. Created by a wandering Daoist, this technique approaches the Dao itself—a glimpse into the fundamental nature of the Dao of Destiny. Nearly a Dao Art, it can divine fortune and misfortune, and evade danger. Mastery of the Human Destiny chapter has reached the Beginner-level, just a hair’s breadth from Minor Mastery. Price: 50,000,000 simulation energy.

【Ruyi Visualization Method (Minor Accomplishment)】: Contains insights into the Ruyi Visualization Method. Divine sense range has been enhanced to ten thousand zhang, and observation of all things in the world has become meticulous to the finest detail, having reached the Subtlety Realm. Price: 80,000,000 energy.

【Sword Flight Art (Rudimentary)】: The speed-type divine ability Sword Flight Art. Speed is determined by the quality of the spirit sword and the strength of the sword cultivator. On offense, it can take an enemy’s head from a thousand li away; in retreat, one can ride the sword in carefree freedom, traversing ten thousand li in an instant. Price: 10,000,000 simulation energy.