Chapter 262 – Seventy Years of Simulation, Upheaval in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm!

In the Real World, Su Xing saw this and nodded slightly.

“Currently, my spatial origin comprehension is only at the Beginner-level, but I can still envelop an independent space of two to three cubic meters…”

“That means I can bring a portion of starting capital to the Three Thousand Worlds, which will undoubtedly accelerate my development significantly!”

After brief deliberation, Su Xing decided to bring the most cost-effective items to the Three Thousand Worlds.

Spirit-Gathering Flowers, and… Spirit-Gathering Flower seeds!

Spirit-Gathering Flowers were extremely fragile during their juvenile and growth stages — even minor disturbances like overwatering or insufficient sunlight could cause them to wither.

But once they reached maturity, Spirit-Gathering Flowers became the most tenacious plants in the world.

Even separated from soil and spiritual energy, they wouldn’t wither for months.

Moreover, Spirit-Gathering Flowers were very small, each one only about the size of a palm.

Two cubic meters of space was more than enough for Su Xing to fit several thousand Spirit-Gathering Flowers!

A single Spirit-Gathering Flower was worth a hundred thousand lower-grade spirit stones. Several thousand of them would amount to hundreds of millions of lower-grade spirit stones!

Even an ordinary Human Immortal Realm cultivator wouldn’t possess such enormous wealth…

“With this starting capital, my development in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm should go much more smoothly!”

Su Xing murmured, his gaze turning to the simulation panel.

【On the eve of departing for the Slaughter Battlefield, you began preparing supplies in advance.】

【You purchased a storage ring of decent quality with an internal space of 2.6 cubic meters. After testing, your spatial origin could just barely envelop it entirely.】

【You began transplanting Spirit-Gathering Flowers from your spirit field grotto-heaven, harvesting 3,800 mature Spirit-Gathering Flowers and placing them inside.】

【In addition to the mature Spirit-Gathering Flowers, you also stored 2,000 Spirit-Gathering Flower seeds, Nine Revolutions Pills, Spirit Awakening Pills, and other relatively precious medicinal materials.】

【The last sliver of space, you reserved for your spirit sword Blackice.】

【After forty years of nurturing, the spirit sword Blackice was spiritually linked to your thoughts. Its spirit treasure grade was approaching that of a supreme-grade spirit sword, and you were unwilling to easily abandon it.】

【With preparations complete, you donned the storage ring and headed for the Slaughter Battlefield.】

【Traveling in the direction of the red moon, after several days, you arrived at the end of the Slaughter Battlefield.】

【After presenting your passage permit, you entered the World Gate and arrived at that anomalous space.】

【At this moment, you faced two choices: pass through the black channel to reach the Three Thousand Worlds, or arrive at the Advent Cult’s valley gathering point.】

In the Real World, Su Xing’s heart stirred at the sight of this. He silently chanted:

“Activate immersive simulation… duration: 30 days!”

【Ding. You have successfully activated immersive… remaining energy: 16,432,530,000 points.】

As the notification faded, Su Xing’s vision shifted. The next second, he appeared within that anomalous space in the crevice between worlds.

Beneath his feet was a resplendent star-path, glimmering with silver light… Not far to Su Xing’s left was the Advent Cult’s temporary passage.

And beyond layers upon layers of void turbulence lay another black channel.

“Having obtained the passage permit, as long as I don’t enter the black channel, the red moon shouldn’t detect me…”

“Moreover, the void turbulence here is saturated with layers of spatial origin. If I can comprehend it, the effect would be even better than the Void Stone!”

Su Xing’s plan was to rely on his Protective Sword Aura to linger within the void turbulence for extended periods, capturing more spatial origin…

And with the Spirit Awakening Pill and Great Wisdom state bolstering him, Su Xing’s goal was to raise his spatial origin comprehension to Minor Mastery-level!

With this thought, Su Xing produced a Spirit Awakening Pill, activated his Great Wisdom state, summoned his Protective Sword Aura, and resolutely charged into the void turbulence before him.

Even knowing that seven hundred and twenty layers of sword aura were sufficient to withstand the void turbulence, Su Xing still felt somewhat nervous.

Su Xing took a step forward, crossing into the void turbulence.

The terrifying turbulence tore at Su Xing’s surroundings like blades, violently colliding with his Protective Sword Aura…

Clang, clang, clang!

In just a few breaths, Su Xing’s Protective Sword Aura had already lost over a dozen layers.

But Su Xing also sensed the space before him shifting, containing faint white points of light within — that was spatial origin!

“Successfully captured the aura of spatial origin…”

Joy surged in Su Xing’s heart as he simultaneously controlled his Protective Sword Aura while guiding the spatial origin, comprehending a deeper level of Origin Force.

As such, Su Xing’s Protective Sword Aura count diminished rapidly.

In just a few minutes, the seven hundred and twenty layers of Protective Sword Aura had been whittled down to barely a hundred.

Under these circumstances, Su Xing gauged the distance and retreated back onto the star-path.

“Phew… twenty layers of Protective Sword Aura remaining. I lasted seven minutes total in the void turbulence…”

“My comprehension of spatial origin has advanced further!”

Su Xing nodded with satisfaction, then simply remained in the safe zone, sitting cross-legged to recover his sword intent and primordial energy.

At the same time, he carefully contemplated the spatial origin he had just captured.

Twelve double-hours passed quickly.

Su Xing’s sword intent had fully recovered, and his Protective Sword Aura had reformed as well.

Su Xing slowly rose to his feet, a hint of amusement flashing in his eyes.

“Not bad. Directly facing the void is indeed more effective than studying the Void Stone!”

“As long as I stay in this space for thirty days, my comprehension of spatial origin will definitely break through to Minor Mastery-level!”

So Su Xing thought.

And so, over the following month, Su Xing continuously shuttled through the void turbulence, exploiting it like a glitch — endlessly grinding “spatial origin comprehension” experience points.

The effect of immersing himself in the void turbulence on his spatial origin comprehension exceeded Su Xing’s expectations!

By the seventeenth day, Su Xing’s comprehension of spatial origin had already reached the Minor Mastery level…

And through constant tempering in the void turbulence, Su Xing’s grasp of void patterns grew increasingly refined.

Once his spatial origin comprehension reached Minor Mastery-level, Su Xing could endure a full quarter-hour in a single session, nearly doubling his daily comprehension efficiency.

Thus, another twelve days passed.

Seeing that the immersive simulation was about to end, Su Xing slowly stood up and murmured:

“Time’s almost up… it’s time to cross through the void turbulence and enter the black channel!”

With this thought, Su Xing summoned his Protective Sword Aura and deftly navigated through the void.

A few minutes later, Su Xing successfully penetrated the layers of void turbulence and arrived outside the black channel.

At this point, of his seven hundred and twenty layers of Protective Sword Aura, only three hundred and twenty had been consumed, leaving four hundred layers still intact.

Su Xing took a deep breath and stepped into the black channel.

The next second, Su Xing entered a new space.

Su Xing attempted to extend his divine sense outward to probe his surroundings, but this space was exceedingly strange. His divine sense range of 2,600 li had been compressed to less than thirty zhang.

“This space… resembles the stomach space of that Amalgamated Beast somewhat…”

Su Xing observed with his naked eyes, spotting numerous glowing fragments drifting about like stars.

These were fragments of various worlds.

There were also many strange orbs of light — fragments of various Great Dao laws, Origin Force…

Lingering in the void were the residual shockwaves from that ancient battle…

Merely stepping into this space, Su Xing felt his comprehension of spatial origin elevate once more.

Yet at that moment, Su Xing’s heartbeat suddenly accelerated as his Blessed by Fortune talent sent frantic warnings.

“What a pity. If I could linger in this space for an extended period… the gains in comprehending Origin Force and Great Dao laws would be absolutely enormous!”

Su Xing sighed softly, knowing full well that the red moon had already sensed his intrusion.

So Su Xing began relying on pure intuition and luck to navigate through the various inter-world passage channels.

Moments later, Su Xing paused outside a particular world passage and murmured:

“This should be it… this familiar feeling — it’s the passage to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm!”

Su Xing stepped forward, feeling the violent spatial tearing around him.

Then his consciousness went blank…

When Su Xing came to his senses, the immersive simulation had already ended, and he had returned to the Real World.

“A single immersive simulation… and my comprehension of spatial origin jumped straight to Minor Mastery-level!”

A smile played at the corner of Su Xing’s lips as he sensed the spatial origin within him — it had grown several times over compared to before!

“Then let’s see — with my current comprehension of spatial origin, how large a space can I fully control?”

Su Xing took out several storage rings and began testing.

After a moment, Su Xing nodded with satisfaction.

“Not bad. Roughly a threefold improvement… my spatial origin can now fully envelop eight cubic meters of space…”

Though it was only an increase of just over five cubic meters, this meant the supplies Su Xing could carry would increase dramatically!

To say nothing of anything else — those ten-thousand-plus Spirit-Gathering Flowers alone could all be brought to the Three Thousand Worlds.

Bringing Su Xing a fortune of nearly one billion lower-grade spirit stones!

Such resources were something perhaps only an Earthly Immortal realm cultivator could produce…

“With this starting capital, unless there’s a specific objective, I won’t necessarily need to make contact with the Azure Cloud Sect… perhaps the simulation can last a bit longer this time?”

Su Xing mused, turning his gaze to the simulation panel.

【When you regained consciousness, you had already arrived in the northern outer reaches of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.】

【You had only sustained minor injuries, retaining the vast majority of your combat strength.】

【What delighted you even more was that the storage ring was still on your hand, and the supplies within had come through just as you had anticipated.】

【After brief recuperation, you prepared to leave the Hundred Thousand Mountains and head for White Emperor City.】

【Along the way, you casually slew several demon cultivators, extracting the essence of their flesh and blood.】

【Several days later, you arrived at White Emperor City.】

【In previous simulations, you were singularly focused on joining the Azure Cloud Sect, but the Azure Cloud Sect was never a permanent refuge, and the lingering consequences were considerable.】

【This time, you wished to join the White Emperor Tower to cultivate, hoping to use it as shelter to quietly develop your strength.】

【And so you displayed power comparable to the Tribulation Crossing stage, smoothly becoming a third-rank guest elder of the White Emperor Tower.】

【As a loose cultivator alliance, the White Emperor Tower imposed few restrictions on its affiliated cultivators.】

【You only needed to submit a portion of spirit stones each year to claim a blessed land within White Emperor City as your dwelling.】

【After brief deliberation, you rented a blessed land in the center of White Emperor City to serve as your cultivation grounds.】

【The spiritual energy concentration within the blessed land was far inferior to the spirit field grotto-heaven, but fortunately you possessed over three thousand Spirit-Gathering Flowers.】

【After transplanting the Spirit-Gathering Flowers into the blessed land and laying down a ninth-order spirit-gathering formation and a Xuanyuan Breath-Concealing Formation, within just one year, the spiritual energy concentration inside the dwelling had become comparable to a lower-grade grotto-heaven.】

【Such an anomaly of a blessed land ascending to grotto-heaven level would inevitably attract the attention of cultivators within White Emperor City.】

【Fortunately, the Xuanyuan Breath-Concealing Formation possessed the ability to shield karmic secrets both inside and out. With it deployed within your dwelling, even a Heavenly Immortal would not necessarily detect anything without careful observation.】

【You spent one year establishing your cultivation grounds in White Emperor City, then rented a shop in the city. Under the title of formation master, you occasionally helped other cultivators set up formations.】

【And so, three years quietly passed.】

【In the forty-fourth year, your cultivation advanced to the mid-stage of Mahayana Stage, Fourth Layer, and the depth of your magical power increased further.】

【Over those three years, many loose cultivators in White Emperor City came to know that a powerful cultivator named Su Ye served as a third-rank guest elder of the White Emperor Tower.】

【Not only was his cultivation unfathomably deep, having reached the Tribulation Crossing stage, he was also a ninth-order formation master of exceptional skill in the Formation Dao, extremely close to becoming a tenth-order Formation Grandmaster.】

【This placed your status within the White Emperor Tower on par with a Human Immortal realm cultivator!】

【Over those three years, you continued planting Spirit-Gathering Flowers, and the number in your blessed land reached close to five thousand.】

【The only thing that left you somewhat dissatisfied was the slow growth of your divine sense in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.】

【This was because the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm also contained a Primordial Void Realm.】

【But in this particular Primordial Void Realm, there were quite a few cultivators at or above the Void Return stage, which meant many cultivators competed for the spirits of the Primordial Void!】

【After three years of effort, you had barely managed to devour a few Yellow-tier spirits of the Primordial Void. This pace already far exceeded that of ordinary Mahayana stage cultivators…】

In the Real World, Su Xing sighed upon seeing this.

“As expected, with the vast number of cultivators across the Three Thousand Worlds… the competition within the Primordial Void Realm becomes far more intense!”

“Too many monks, too little porridge… the spirits of the Primordial Void aren’t so easy to capture anymore!”

Su Xing nodded slightly. On Earth, the depletion of spiritual energy wasn’t without its advantages.

The scarcity of high-realm cultivators allowed Su Xing to devour spirits of the Primordial Void more effectively in the Primordial Void Realm, growing his divine sense…

This was actually good news for him!

“It seems that if I want to improve my divine sense in the future… I’ll need to spend more years on Earth…”

“But since I’m heading to the Three Thousand Worlds, I should focus on cultivating the Ruyi Visualization Method — that can also rapidly increase my divine sense realm!”

Su Xing thought this to himself, then turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【Spirit-wandering through the Primordial Void proved too competitive and not worth the effort, so you decided to devote your daily spirit-wandering time to cultivating the Ruyi Visualization Method instead.】

【As the range of your divine sense continued to expand, your divine sense realm also improved slightly.】

【Now, even after studying the Ruyi Visualization Method for five or six double-hours each day, you barely felt the drain on your divine sense.】

【At the same time, within that image, the appearance of the elder holding a jade ruyi scepter grew increasingly clear.】

【You had a premonition that if you could fully visualize the elder’s appearance, your divine sense might break through to an entirely new realm…】

【Life within White Emperor City was rather leisurely. Besides the monotony of daily cultivation, you occasionally strolled through the city to appreciate the unique charm of the cultivation world.】

【And so, five years quietly passed.】

【In the forty-ninth year, your divine sense strength increased further, reaching a range of two thousand eight hundred li.】

【During these years, you also occasionally gathered intelligence about the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, gaining an ever-deeper understanding of the situation across the Three Thousand Worlds.】

【In a mere span of just over ten years, seven or eight minor thousand worlds had fallen to the invasion of foreign races, or had lost contact with the outside world, degenerating into Chaotic Realms.】

【The situation in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm was equally dire. The foreign races had intensified their incursions, and in recent years, the White Emperor Tower and other righteous factions had been aggressively recruiting cultivators to mount a resistance.】

【For the sake of caution, you did not join the front lines.】

【But as a guest elder of the White Emperor Tower, you sold a batch of talismans and pills at reduced prices, doing your small part.】

【Beyond that, you paid particular attention to intelligence from the Hundred Thousand Mountains.】

【You learned that of the thirty-six Demon Kings in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, over twenty had already perished in battle, leaving fewer than ten, who continued fighting among themselves with greatly depleted strength…】

【And the Tiger Immortal, without your assistance, had been killed in the past two years. Tiger Immortal Fortress was destroyed…】

【You sighed with deep emotion upon hearing this, but fortunately, White Emperor City remained relatively safe under the White Emperor Tower’s governance.】

In the Real World, Su Xing felt a twinge of sentiment upon seeing this.

“Under the tide of great events, even Earthly Immortal and Heavenly Immortal realm cultivators cannot remain unscathed alone… At this rate, without the support of a top-tier power, the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm probably won’t hold out much longer…”

The Lesser Azure Cloud Realm’s strength among the Three Thousand Worlds was comparable to a Medium Chiliocosm.

It was even the gateway to the Azure Cloud Realm, and yet it struggled this badly to resist — to say nothing of other minor thousand worlds…

“But my current strength isn’t enough to intervene in these matters…”

“The best strategy is still to focus on developing and advancing my cultivation realm!”

Su Xing thought this to himself, then turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【In the fiftieth year, you remained within the White Emperor Tower cultivating in peace, but relying solely on spirit stones and spiritual energy for cultivation would require fifty years of bitter training before you could reach the Mahayana Stage, Fifth Layer.】

【And although you possessed a large number of Spirit-Gathering Flowers, you didn’t want to attract attention and had no safe channel to sell them.】

【It so happened that this year, a secret realm appeared ten thousand li from the White Emperor Tower.】

【Based on intelligence you had previously obtained, this secret realm was a treasury left behind by a Human Immortal realm cultivator.】

【This Human Immortal realm cultivator had been a spirit cultivation master of considerable attainment in life, and the intelligence indicated that a small number of Spirit-Gathering Flowers had been preserved within the secret realm.】

【In the original timeline, several lucky individuals had obtained over a hundred Spirit-Gathering Flowers from this secret realm.】

【Therefore, you only needed to enter the secret realm as a cover, and you could then naturally produce over a thousand Spirit-Gathering Flowers without raising suspicion.】

【At that point, others would simply assume you were a fortunate soul who had gotten lucky.】

【And so that year, after a full decade in White Emperor City, you left the city for the first time to explore a secret realm.】

【Your departure attracted the attention of some cultivators.】

【But since no one knew the value of this secret realm before it opened, the cultivators exploring it were mostly at the Mahayana or Tribulation Crossing stages.】

【You entered the secret realm smoothly and conducted a round of exploration.】

【Since your primary purpose in entering the secret realm was to establish cover, you merely familiarized yourself with the terrain inside and collected a few aged herbs.】

【One month later, you left the secret realm and returned to White Emperor City.】

【Another three months passed, and you found the Celestial Secrets Pavilion auction house, putting one thousand Spirit-Gathering Flowers up for auction.】

【In the fifty-first year, the Spirit-Gathering Flowers were successfully purchased by several Earthly Immortal realm cultivators, netting you one hundred and ten million low-grade spirit stones.】

【You spent five million low-grade spirit stones at a premium to purchase one million drops of mid-grade spirit liquid at the auction.】

【Mid-grade spirit liquid contained less spiritual energy than mid-grade spirit stones, but was extremely rare, with only small quantities available at auctions.】

【In the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, being able to purchase one drop of mid-grade spirit liquid for three low-grade spirit stones was already quite difficult.】

【Because mid-grade spirit liquid was rich in spiritual energy, it could save considerable cultivation time.】

【After purchasing enough mid-grade spirit liquid, you returned to your dwelling and continued cultivating diligently.】

【And so, four years passed.】

【In the fifty-fifth year, having expended one million drops of mid-grade spirit liquid, your cultivation advanced further, reaching the late stage of Mahayana Stage, Fourth Layer!】

【That same year, your divine sense had also grown considerably, reaching a range of three thousand li.】

【You knew that it wouldn’t be long before Qingyunzi emerged from seclusion, and whether he would remember you remained unknown.】

【Therefore, you had to advance your cultivation realm as quickly as possible to reach this simulation’s target.】

【But without mid-grade spirit liquid, your cultivation speed slowed.】

【In the fifty-seventh year, you attended an auction and sold another batch at a premium of six million low-grade spirit stones, acquiring one million two hundred thousand drops of mid-grade spirit liquid.】

【Afterward, you entered closed-door cultivation to break through and advance your cultivation.】

【In the sixtieth year, you successfully emerged from seclusion, your cultivation having risen to the Peak of Mahayana Stage, Fourth Layer!】

【That same year, your divine sense grew to three thousand one hundred li.】

【As always, you stayed in White Emperor City cultivating, occasionally attending auctions to purchase spirit liquid. Your days passed in relative leisure.】

【And so, another seven years passed.】

【In the sixty-seventh year, you successfully emerged from seclusion, your cultivation naturally breaking through to the Mahayana Stage, Fifth Layer.】

【At the same time, your divine sense had grown to three thousand three hundred li.】

【Three thousand three hundred li of divine sense was considered impressive even among Mahayana stage cultivators, but you were not satisfied with this.】

【You knew your foundation was solid and there was still room for further improvement. You also learned of the next realm beyond the Divine Sense Subtlety Realm — the Six Senses Realm!】

【Cultivators at this realm awakened a sixth sense, gaining a spiritual intuition of the heart beyond the five conventional senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch!】

【Generally speaking, the Six Senses Realm of divine sense could only be reached by those at the Immortal realm, though some cultivators with exceptionally powerful divine sense at the Tribulation Crossing stage could also attain it.】

【This was also the goal for the next phase of your divine sense cultivation.】

【And so, another three years passed.】

【In the seventieth year, before you knew it, it had been thirty years since your arrival in White Emperor City.】

【And you had broken the longest record from any previous simulation… Staying away from the Azure Cloud Sect seemed to be a wise choice.】

【Though you lacked various precious resources, your simulation lasted longer, and your cultivation progress had not fallen behind.】

【And over these thirty years, the entire Lesser Azure Cloud Realm had undergone earth-shattering changes.】

【In the Hundred Thousand Mountains, all thirty-six Demon Kings had perished!】

【The Advent Cult assembled all their blood-coded cadres and launched a surprise attack on the Celestial Demon Prison!】

【Qingyunzi emerged from seclusion and announced the withdrawal of all forces from the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm!】

【Even the once-bustling White Emperor City had grown increasingly desolate, teetering on the brink of collapse…】