Chapter 273 – Immortal Power Body Tempering, Earth Fiend Supernatural Art: Five Elements Immortal Burst! [Two-in-One, Please Subscribe]
by spirapiraChapter 273 – Immortal Power Body Tempering, Earth Fiend Supernatural Art: Five Elements Immortal Burst! [Two-in-One, Please Subscribe]
Just like spiritual energy, immortal power also had elemental attributes.
Su Xing possessed wood, fire, and lightning attribute spirit roots.
This meant Su Xing could release three types of elemental immortal power.
Among them, fire immortal power was astonishingly destructive — several times more powerful than his former fire spiritual energy.
Lightning immortal power combined speed with extreme destructive force. It was the most terrifying of the three, but also consumed the most energy.
To ripen spirit rice, Su Xing naturally released wood-attribute immortal power…
With a thought, a wisp of immortal power brimming with vigorous life force merged into several stalks of spirit grain.
The originally lush green spirit grain gradually transformed into plump, golden spirit ears. Each glistening grain of spirit rice was wrapped within the ears, distinct and full, enough to make anyone’s mouth water.
A flash of surprise crossed Su Xing’s eyes as he murmured:
“Wood-attribute immortal power is actually this terrifying… Spirit rice that originally needed half a year to mature has ripened in just a few minutes!”
“Compared to spiritual energy… immortal power truly is a metamorphosis!”
The terrifying effects of wood immortal power meant that as long as Su Xing was willing, he could possess an inexhaustible supply of spirit rice, and in extremely short time frames!
Though spirit rice had little effect on Su Xing himself, whether used for pill refinement or enhancing humanity’s potential, its applications were enormous!
“Tsk tsk, looks like the spirit rice plan… can be expanded even further!”
Su Xing muttered to himself, then snapped off a grain ear, peeled open the glistening, plump spirit rice, and held it under his nose to sniff.
His eyes immediately lit up.
“Spirit rice ripened with immortal power… has massively improved in both yield and quality!”
“If the original spirit rice could enhance the potential of Bronze and Silver-stage Class Users… then this current spirit rice could probably benefit Gold and Master-stage Class Users as well!”
Su Xing nodded with satisfaction. The dramatic improvement in spirit rice effectiveness meant that the efficacy of Fasting Pills would also improve…
“Looks like the Fasting Pills I refine in the future will need a price increase!”
Su Xing thought, rubbing his chin.
He then proceeded to test the ripening effects of wood spiritual energy on other spirit herbs.
Yellow Immortal Essence, flesh ginseng, century-old spirit mushroom, Divine Power Vine…
Su Xing discovered that the higher the grade of the spirit herb, the less effective immortal power was at ripening it.
For instance, with ginseng, spirit mushroom, and other common restorative herbs, Su Xing only needed to infuse wood immortal power daily. Within a week, he could harvest millennium-aged ginseng and spirit mushroom…
Just by using immortal power to ripen ginseng, Su Xing would never again lack materials for refining Longevity Pills and Life-Sustaining Pills.
But for Divine Power Vine, growing ten years’ worth of medicinal potency required Su Xing to continuously ripen it for an entire month.
What disappointed Su Xing somewhat was that neither wood immortal power nor wood spiritual energy had any significant effect on ripening Spirit-Gathering Flowers.
“As expected — there’s a reason Spirit-Gathering Flowers are so rare across the Three Thousand Worlds… Even immortals forcing their growth can barely accomplish it!”
Su Xing nodded slightly.
However, the harder Spirit-Gathering Flowers were to cultivate, the more advantageous it was for him!
Because he could cultivate Spirit-Gathering Flowers on a massive scale, while other cultivators could only dream of obtaining them.
The price of Spirit-Gathering Flowers would remain sky-high, and Su Xing could achieve his monopoly!
After testing wood-attribute immortal power, Su Xing proceeded to test lightning and fire immortal power.
With the enhancement of fire immortal power, the Separation Fire Technique was several times more powerful than before, which also notably improved Su Xing’s pill refinement efficiency.
Pills that previously took three double-hours to refine could now be completed in two.
The power of lightning-fire spells had also increased dramatically…
“Right… if spiritual energy has become immortal power, wouldn’t the Five Elements Spirit Burst’s power increase massively too!?”
Su Xing suddenly thought of this, his eyes lighting up.
Ever since Su Xing had created the supernatural art Five Elements Spirit Burst, he had never had time to train it.
He only knew that this supernatural art had an extremely high potential ceiling. If one’s spiritual power was thick enough, it could even rival Protective Sword Aura and reach Earth Fiend supernatural art level!
“After cultivating immortal power… it seems the Spirit Burst needs a thorough overhaul!”
“This supernatural art should become one of my most important offensive weapons!”
Su Xing nodded slightly.
Currently, he didn’t have many trump cards. Many of them had gradually weakened as his cultivation advanced.
The only truly powerful supernatural art he possessed was Protective Sword Aura!
With this single trump card, Su Xing could defeat mid-stage Human Immortal Realm cultivators while still at the Tribulation Crossing stage!
And the Five Elements Spirit Burst clearly needed urgent improvement…
Su Xing released several minor spells in succession to adapt to the immortal power within his body.
Though this immortal power was far more potent than before, its quantity was nowhere near the sea of spiritual energy he’d once had. This meant Su Xing needed to be more economical and couldn’t squander it as freely as he had with spiritual energy.
Of course, this was a process every “novice immortal” went through.
After adapting to his increased strength, Su Xing began disguising his appearance and concealing his aura, preparing to go trade with Lu Yuanwu.
Arriving at the agreed location, the trade proceeded smoothly. Lu Yuanwu maintained his respectful demeanor as always.
After four billion simulation energy was deposited, Su Xing used sword flight to head toward the Immortal Martial World instance.
Over the following week, Su Xing continued refining mining puppets.
In one week, he added three more mining puppets.
With this, Su Xing’s “personal miners” numbered ten, bringing in close to five billion energy per week!
“Hmm, at the Tarot Society’s current scale, with several thousand Class Users simultaneously processing exotic metal, they can purify at least one to two hundred billion energy per week!”
“So it seems around thirty mining puppets would be optimal — just enough to balance the exotic metal supply and demand…”
Su Xing did some quick calculations and checked the time.
After collecting the new week’s exotic metal, Su Xing headed to the Villa to meet with Jin Congxue.
Jin Congxue was sitting at the dining table waiting, lightly made up and dressed coolly.
When Su Xing saw Jin Congxue, he suddenly thought of something and his face reddened.
Jin Congxue was completely oblivious to this and merely asked in puzzlement:
“Su Xing, why do you seem so weird today?”
Hearing this, Su Xing thought of the time Jin Congxue had drawn the curtains, and hurriedly changed the subject:
“Ahem, how has the Tarot Society been running this week?”
As a strong businesswoman, upon hearing Su Xing’s question, Jin Congxue began answering in an orderly manner.
“White equipment and instance items are still being collected, and the Abyss Stones from overseas are shipped in weekly…”
“All the exotic metal you gave me last week has been fully purified… However, the Tarot Society seems to have too many Class Users purifying exotic metal now. Should we lay off some of them?”
Su Xing shook his head slightly after hearing this:
“No need. The amount of raw exotic metal I’ll be giving you will only increase going forward, so you must ensure there are enough purification workers!”
With that, Su Xing handed over this week’s raw exotic metal and pills.
Jin Congxue nodded slightly, a flash of surprise in her eyes.
One had to know that Third Rank and above exotic metal was extremely difficult to obtain, yet Su Xing provided her with such quantities every week — even more than a top-tier merchant guild’s output over half a year!
This only further proved that the “mysterious organization’s” power was not to be underestimated…
The trade concluded quickly, and Su Xing returned to the spirit field grotto-heaven.
This week, Su Xing had earned approximately 8.5 billion energy in total.
His current total energy had reached 19,232,490,000 points.
Su Xing checked the time. There was still a while before the simulation cooldown ended, so he reviewed his plans for the next simulation.
“Of the six trials of Immortal Transformation, I’ve already passed the Primordial Spirit Trial, the Heart Refinement Trial, and the Spiritual Power Trial… The Spirit Domain Trial and Physical Body Trial remain!”
“Once I clear these two trials, I can officially undergo tribulation and become a true immortal!”
After a pause, Su Xing continued:
“For the Spirit Domain Trial breakthrough, the key is to merge Great Dao origin into my body — to guide the Dao within. I’ll need several more attempts before I can manage it reliably!”
“But the Physical Body Trial is relatively simple. Achieving an immortal body only requires tempering the flesh with immortal power and breaking through one’s limits!”
“With my current physical strength, reaching that level shouldn’t be difficult!”
The Physical Body Trial was a mandatory checkpoint for Immortal Transformation.
However, not all cultivators practiced both Qi Refinement and Body Tempering simultaneously.
Some Mahayana stage cultivators had physical bodies that were even weaker than Void Shattering realm Body Tempering cultivators…
Therefore, for Body Tempering cultivators, passing this trial was considerably easier!
Cultivators who practiced only Qi Refinement needed to take pills like the “Golden Armor Pill” to strengthen their physical bodies when facing the Physical Body Trial, or consume rare natural treasures to temporarily boost their physical power dramatically.
Only then could they achieve an immortal body…
But such methods were ultimately shortcuts. The quality of the resulting immortal body was far inferior to what Body Tempering cultivators gained after passing the Physical Body Trial!
Following this line of thought, Su Xing murmured:
“There are multiple ways to break through the Physical Body Trial. The safest approach for me right now is to use flesh essence to break through my limits, supplemented by immortal power body tempering, to achieve an immortal body!”
Ordinary Body Tempering cultivators, when facing the Physical Body Trial, would also seek out extreme environments to once again push past their limits.
But Su Xing didn’t plan to do that. The Heaven Devourer talent gave Su Xing greater potential, allowing him to devour flesh essence to strengthen himself.
Combined with the Ancient Shaman Physique bonus, the Physical Body Trial was practically guaranteed for Su Xing!
“However, aside from passing the Physical Body Trial, I should also train the Five Elements Spirit Burst… and attempt the Spirit Domain Trial!”
Su Xing thought to himself.
On June 9th, 2025 of the New Era, Su Xing initiated a new simulation.
【Ding! This simulation consumes 9,100 energy points. Remaining energy: 19,232,490,000 points. Remaining simulations: unlimited.】
【Simulation begins!】
【Drawing a purple talent costs 100,000 energy. Drawing a gold legendary talent costs 1,000,000 energy. Would you like to draw?】
“Draw a gold talent!”
Su Xing said without hesitation.
【Ding, congratulations! You have obtained the purple talent Skilled in Spirit Runes. Probability of drawing a gold talent next time: 60%…】
【Skilled in Spirit Runes】: Purple talent. Spirit runes, one of the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation. Using ancient symbols, one can inscribe spirit runes onto magical treasures to further enhance their power. Your talent in the art of spirit runes surpasses ordinary cultivators.
“Hmm? Another Hundred Arts skill?”
Su Xing waved his hand helplessly, treating it as collection-completion at this point.
Spirit rune crafting was somewhat similar to enchantment arts — both were relatively niche among the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation, with limited power.
Rather than spending effort learning spirit rune crafting, Su Xing would be better off studying artifact refining.
“Since I didn’t draw a good talent, let’s proceed with the original plan!”
Su Xing murmured, turning his gaze to the simulation panel.
【In the spirit field grotto-heaven, you realize you are in a simulation.】
【You trade with Lu Yuanwu as scheduled. Nothing unexpected occurs.】
【Ten days later, you visit the Luotian instance…】
【After emerging from the Luotian instance, you gain considerably. You then contact Luo Shuying and join the Advent Cult.】
【After joining the Advent Cult, you begin attempting to improve the Five Elements Spirit Burst.】
【To prevent accidents during supernatural art development from affecting Earth, you travel to the Immortal Martial World.】
【You infuse wood immortal power into your palm, slowly forming a vortex. Then you continuously compress and inject more wood immortal power…】
【Suddenly, your expression changes drastically. You hurriedly hurl the immortal power vortex away and summon Protective Sword Aura to shield yourself…】
【The vortex is thrown several li away. A tremendous sound reaches your ears — mountains crumble, forests topple.】
【At the center of the vortex’s explosion, everything within dozens of li has been leveled, leaving a crater a hundred meters deep.】
【You gasp at the sight, yet feel a measure of excitement.】
【What alarms you is that the spiritual energy vortex, once converted to immortal qi, is far harder to control — one moment of carelessness and accidents can happen.】
【What excites you is that the power of immortal energy is truly extraordinary — wood immortal power alone produces devastation nearly on par with the previous version.】
【So you devote even more effort to researching the Five Elements Spirit Burst.】
【In the blink of an eye, three years pass.】
【In the third year, after years of continuous research, your mastery of the Five Elements Spirit Burst gradually deepens.】
【You can now stably inject five percent of your body’s immortal power, producing an attack powerful enough to instantly kill Tribulation Crossing stage cultivators!】
【But you know this Five Elements Spirit Burst is still too weak — far from reaching Earth Fiend supernatural art level, barely comparable to an ordinary supernatural art.】
【So you continue pouring your efforts into research.】
【In the seventh year, you engineer the assassination of the Transhuman Faction’s leader and take his place.】
【That same year, your research into the Five Elements Spirit Burst achieves a major breakthrough. You inject one-tenth of your body’s immortal power in one burst, producing explosive force sufficient to grievously wound an early-stage Human Immortal Realm cultivator!】
【But you are not satisfied, and continue your research…】
【In the eighth year, you eliminate Old Dog Dragon, removing a hidden threat.】
【You then extract his Dragon Pearl and refine it into a Nine Revolutions Pill.】
【This pill’s energy is exceptionally pure, greatly benefiting qi, blood, and physical body. It provides some assistance when facing the Physical Body Trial.】
【Another three years pass.】
【In the eleventh year, Blood Three descends upon Earth. You offer up the Spirit Vein Dragon to earn Blood Three’s trust and obtain a transit pass.】
【You now face two choices: remain on Earth, or travel to the Three Thousand Worlds…】
In the Real World, Su Xing considered this.
“Staying on Earth can delay its destruction by over ten years, which means the Blood Moon’s revival will be pushed back to the fiftieth year…”
“If I then travel to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, that effectively gives me over ten more years of simulation…”
“However, staying on Earth means there won’t be enough flesh essence to break through the Physical Body Trial. But I could study the Spirit Burst and the Spirit Domain Trial…”
After deliberating, Su Xing decided to stay on Earth for another twenty years to research the Five Elements Spirit Burst and explore the Spirit Domain Trial.
He could wait until entering the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm to go all-out on preparing for the Physical Body Trial.
With that decided, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【After much deliberation, you choose to remain on Earth.】
【For the coming period, you prepare to focus entirely on researching the Five Elements Spirit Burst and exploring the Spirit Domain Trial.】
【The so-called Spirit Domain Trial is actually about guiding Great Dao laws into one’s body, forming a domain around oneself.】
【The range and power of the domain are closely tied to one’s cultivation level and comprehension of Great Dao laws.】
【Therefore, in essence, a domain is an advanced application of Great Dao Origin Force!】
【Within a spirit domain, the domain wielder’s supernatural arts and overall strength receive varying degrees of amplification.】
【For example, within a Wood Spirit Domain, the wielder’s wound recovery ability and wood-element spell power are dramatically enhanced!】
【Within a Spatial Spirit Domain, the wielder can teleport and shift positions, with movement speed greatly increased…】
【Within a Strength Spirit Domain, gravity can be imposed on enemies within the domain, rendering them unable to move.】
【Within a Lightning Spirit Domain, lightning can be called down upon targets within the domain…】
【And so on — there are also Fire Spirit Domains, Time Spirit Domains, and more…】
【It is even said that the Luotian Sect’s founding patriarch achieved an inconceivable level of mastery over his spirit domain — within his domain, his word was law!】
【Spirit domains have one fundamental property: once a domain is formed, attempting to integrate additional law origins afterward requires an enormous investment of time!】
Su Xing nodded slightly at this. During his time in the Luotian instance, he had already obtained intelligence on this topic.
For example, if a cultivator possessed dual wood-fire spirit roots and chose to comprehend a Wood Spirit Domain, it might take a hundred years to achieve.
If they wanted to comprehend a combined Wood-Fire Spirit Domain, it would take three hundred years…
But if the Wood Spirit Domain had already been formed, trying to later integrate fire laws would be doubly difficult—even five hundred years might not be enough to complete it!
“So when it comes to Spirit Domains, you need to plan ahead before they take shape!”
Su Xing fell into deep thought.
He had yet to comprehend any Great Dao, but the Origin Forces he’d comprehended already numbered no fewer than several types.
The three origins of wood, fire, and lightning… the Essence of Speed, Essence of Strength, origin of the sword, spatial origin…
“If I could fully integrate all seven Origin Forces, the Spirit Domain’s power would surely be extraordinary!”
Su Xing took a deep breath. This Spirit Domain Trial concerned his future foundation—he had to approach it with utmost caution…
“Unfortunately, profound Daos such as time, causality, reincarnation, and life-and-death are beyond my comprehension, making them impossible to integrate into my Spirit Domain…”
Su Xing shook his head slightly.
But he also knew that these profound law origins could probably only be accessed by those above Golden Immortal.
And after Su Xing formed his Spirit Domain, he could spend more time contemplating them…
“Fortunately, there’s the Spirit Domain secret technique left behind by the Luotian Sect!”
The Luotian Sect’s founding patriarch had researched the path of Spirit Domains to a degree that could be called unprecedented… He had created a unique secret technique that could greatly reduce the difficulty of adding other Great Dao laws after the Spirit Domain had already formed.
Of course, even with the aid of this secret technique, it would still take more time than introducing Great Dao origins before the Spirit Domain formed. But it gave him an advantage over ordinary immortals…
“Then let me try to create a Spirit Domain using all seven Origin Forces…”
Su Xing thought this as his gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【Year 12: Besides researching the Five Elements Spirit Burst each day, you also began spending some time comprehending Spirit Domains.】
【The first thing you thought of was the Spatial Spirit Domain—not only because of its power, but because spatial origin was the Origin Force you currently had the highest mastery over.】
【Following the methods passed down by the Luotian Sect, you carefully unraveled the spatial origin strand by strand, weaving it around your body.】
【The most difficult aspect of early domain construction was controlling its range.】
【You had not yet mastered the Great Dao of Space, so your Origin Force was limited—you could only disperse spatial origin within three chi of your body.】
【You tried again and again, strengthening your grasp of origin each time…】
【Just like that, three years quickly passed.】
【Year 15: Through your continuous attempts, you noticed the changes brought about by spatial origin.】
【The surrounding space would become distorted, and you could even casually open a pocket dimension to store items within…】
【Within three chi around you, your mastery of space had greatly improved.】
【But you knew clearly that this was far from being a Spirit Domain—it hadn’t even formed a Spirit Domain embryo.】
【At most, it could only be said that you could skillfully use spatial origin within a certain range.】
【So you continued your painstaking research into Spirit Domains and the Five Elements Spirit Burst.】
【Year 18: Your research on the Five Elements Spirit Burst achieved a minor breakthrough.】
【You successfully fused two strands of immortal power—wood and fire—together, producing power several times greater than before…】
【At this point, the Five Elements Spirit Burst’s power was gradually approaching the level of an Earth Fiend supernatural art.】
【Even mid-stage Human Immortal Realm cultivators wouldn’t dare take this supernatural art head-on.】
【But you always felt the Five Elements Spirit Burst was still missing something.】
【One day, while attempting to construct a Spirit Domain using wood and fire origins, inspiration suddenly struck!】
【You decided to infuse Origin Force into the Five Elements Spirit Burst…】
【According to your vision, the Five Elements Spirit Burst would use five-element immortal power as its foundation, supplemented by five-element origins—its power would surely increase dramatically!】
【And if you could comprehend the Great Dao in the future and integrate the five-element Great Daos into it, the power would likely reach its absolute peak!】
【You acted on the idea immediately. Over the next five years, you devoted yourself entirely to researching Spirit Domains and the Five Elements Spirit Burst.】
【Year 23: After five years of effort, you finally completed the refinement of the Five Elements Spirit Burst.】
【The refined version could no longer be called a Spirit Burst—it should be called the “Five Elements Immortal Burst!”】
【By spending merely one-tenth of your immortal power to fuse wood and fire immortal power, supplemented by wood and fire origins, you could unleash enough force to instantly kill a mid-stage Human Immortal Realm cultivator!】
【Compared to before, the Five Elements Immortal Burst’s power had increased at least threefold!】
【However, this technique also had drawbacks—releasing it required mobilizing both immortal power and Origin Force, which took considerable time.】
【Moreover, after a single release, the wood and fire origins in your body would be mostly depleted, making it difficult to use again in a short period.】
【In simple terms: long casting time, long cooldown!】
In the Real World, Su Xing’s heart leapt with joy at this.
“Amazing! The Five Elements Immortal Burst can instantly kill mid-stage Human Immortal Realm cultivators… That kind of power is even a notch above Protective Sword Aura!”
“The only downside is that this technique has many conditions for use—it’s suited for ambushes, not head-on combat…”
Su Xing stroked his chin, figuring that combining the Five Elements Immortal Burst with No Martial Virtue would surely yield outstanding results.
“Plus, the Five Elements Immortal Burst has an extremely high ceiling… Right now it’s barely reached the Earth Fiend supernatural art level.”
“But as my spiritual power continues to grow and my comprehension of Origin Force deepens… it can definitely unleash even greater might!”
Su Xing nodded with satisfaction, very optimistic about the Five Elements Immortal Burst’s future potential.
Come to think of it, Su Xing had invested considerable effort into this Five Elements Immortal Burst. Though this simulation only took twenty-odd years of research…
Before this, from Spirit Burst to Five Elements Spirit Burst… and now to Five Elements Immortal Burst!
All told, he’d probably spent one to two hundred years of research, including multiple epiphanies, just to barely raise its power to this level.
“Alright, next I’ll deepen my proficiency with the Five Elements Immortal Burst… then explore the Spirit Domain Trial a bit more!”
Su Xing thought this as his gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【Over these five years, besides making great progress in Five Elements Immortal Burst research, you also gained a deeper understanding of Spirit Domains.】
【By now, you could skillfully use the Essence of Wood—with a single thought, all trees and plants within one zhang of you would grow wildly, their vitality multiplied several times over.】
【What surprised you most was that creating a sword domain seemed remarkably similar to the Protective Sword Aura.】
【Within one zhang of your body, sword light crisscrossed at your command, and any enemy entering this range would be suppressed by your sword aura.】
【Of course, your Spirit Domain construction was still in its initial stages, so this was merely preliminary experimentation.】
【A true Spirit Domain, even at the lowest level, would span a hundred zhang in radius.】
【And as the Spirit Domain’s level increased—a thousand zhang, ten thousand zhang… Spirit Domains that could cover an entire minor thousand world would eventually exist!】
【Over the next five years, you experimented with the practical application of all seven Origin Forces, summarizing and recording your experiences.】
【Soon, five years passed.】
【Year 28: The Double-Pupiled Demon Saint descended upon Demon-Sealing Pass, and you employed the same old tricks, buying another circle of time each year.】
【That year, your comprehension of the Five Elements Immortal Burst and Spirit Domains improved further.】
【In the blink of an eye, another five years passed.】
【Year 33: The Demon Saint retreated, and you prepared to set out for the Three Thousand Worlds.】
【During these five years, you recorded all your experiences exploring Spirit Domains, gaining considerable insight.】
【If you wished, you could easily form a single Spirit Domain, but your ambitions went beyond that—you hoped to stack Spirit Domains and create something even more powerful.】
【You packed all your valuable items into your storage ring, then headed for the Slaughter Battlefield.】
【Walking toward Red Moon’s direction, you presented your pass and entered the other world.】
In the Real World, Su Xing silently chanted:
“Activate immersive simulation… duration: 30 days!”
【Ding…】
Soon the immersive simulation ended, and Su Xing returned to reality.
“Not bad—one month of comprehension has deepened my mastery of spatial origin even further… Perhaps I really can enter the Dao through space and master the Great Dao of Space!?”
Su Xing felt a surge of excitement. The Great Dao of Space was definitely considered profound at his current level!
“More critically… if I comprehend the Great Dao of Space, wouldn’t that mean I could traverse worlds in reality and explore other minor thousand worlds!?”
Su Xing was very much looking forward to this.
This immersive simulation, beyond deepening his comprehension of spatial origin, also allowed Su Xing to commit to memory all the experience he’d summarized about Spirit Domain exploration.
Though not as effective as immersive simulation, it still counted as valuable experience. The next time he simulated, when trying to break through the Spirit Domain Trial, he could avoid many detours.
“Year 33 of the simulation… meaning there’s at least forty more years of simulation time remaining.”
“Forty years should be more than enough to break through the Physical Body Trial!”
Su Xing was confident about this. After all, with the gold bloodline he’d just obtained, combined with Heaven Devourer, achieving an immortal body should be a breeze, right?
With that thought, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【You stepped into the black corridor and entered another pocket dimension, then arrived at the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm…】
【When you next awoke, you had already appeared in the northern reaches of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.】
【You roughly estimated your unconscious time—only a few minutes.】
【As your cultivation and comprehension of the spatial Dao deepened, the side effects of world-traversal grew ever smaller…】
【After briefly getting your bearings, you headed toward White Emperor City.】
【Three days later, you entered White Emperor City under a disguise with suppressed aura, using the alias Su Ye.】
【Your first order of business upon entering White Emperor City was finding the Celestial Secrets Pavilion.】
【You packaged all the intelligence you possessed—information on Qingyunzi, Red Moon, alien race and Advent Cult strongholds—and sold it all to the White Emperor Tower.】
【Selling this intelligence earned you three million high-grade spirit stones and a Celestial Secrets Pavilion VIP token.】
【With this token, you could purchase items at a ten percent discount at Celestial Secrets Pavilion auctions and trade fairs, and receive priority treatment.】
【You were quite satisfied with this, as your upcoming Physical Body Trial breakthrough would require a massive amount of resources.】
【Another three months passed.】
【Bearing your token, you visited the Celestial Secrets Pavilion to purchase blood essence.】
【With your current physical strength, you needed at least Human Immortal Realm-grade blood essence.】
【Blood essence of such quality was hard to come by even in White Emperor City.】
【But because you were a VIP, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s trade association agreed to sell you two hundred jin of early-stage Immortal realm blood essence within three months, priced at 200,000 high-grade spirit stones.】
【Though you felt the quantity was somewhat lacking, you paid the deposit and agreed.】
【Three months later, you successfully obtained the Human Immortal Realm blood essence.】
【You spent some time refining it into Rebirth Pills and began tempering your body.】
【Year 34: After half a year of closed-door cultivation, you finally emerged.】
【But the results of this session did not satisfy you.】
【Breaking through the Physical Body Trial hinged on two key factors.】
【First, possessing enough precious materials to push the physical body to its limits—for this, you could substitute Rebirth Pills.】
【Second, tempering the body with immortal power until it was flawless and brimming with immortal qi, achieving the immortal body.】
【Legend had it that once the immortal body was formed, weapons below the immortal treasure grade could no longer cause harm, dramatically increasing defensive capabilities.】
【Over this half year, you consumed several Rebirth Pills daily, as if eating them like food.】
【And each day you tempered your body with immortal power, strengthening your physical form.】
【You did indeed feel a slight improvement in your body’s strength and resilience.】
【But you possessed the Ancient Shaman Physique and an already formidable body—early-stage Human Immortal Realm blood essence was no longer very effective for you.】
【If you wanted to break through this limit within the remaining forty years, you needed to find higher-grade blood essence to supplement yourself!】
【There were two ways to obtain such blood essence.】
【First, go to the Hundred Thousand Mountains and slay Human Immortal Realm demon cultivators… or go to the Celestial Demon City frontlines and kill alien enemies to obtain their blood essence.】
Su Xing nodded slightly at this.
“Killing demon cultivators in the Hundred Thousand Mountains would effectively weaken the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm’s strength… That’s definitely not an option!”
“Better to head to the frontlines and slay aliens—killing two birds with one stone…”
With that thought, he turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【After some deliberation, you decided to head to Celestial Demon City to defend against the enemy.】
【You boarded an airship and traveled smoothly to the outskirts of Celestial Demon City.】
【At this time, the war between the alien races and the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm had entered a fever pitch, and Celestial Demon City was openly recruiting independent cultivators to fight.】
【After demonstrating your Tribulation Crossing stage cultivation and body tempering prowess, you successfully became a centurion.】
【As a centurion, you frequently ventured to the frontlines, achieving many kills.】
【What excited you even more was that due to years of continuous warfare, blood essence in Celestial Demon City was at least ten percent cheaper than in White Emperor City, and available in larger quantities.】
【You spent 400,000 high-grade spirit stones to purchase two hundred jin of blood essence equivalent to mid-stage Human Immortal Realm.】
【You refined this blood essence into pills, consuming them daily like food, and tempered your body with immortal power. Sure enough, body tempering progress was noticeably faster than before.】
【So you decided to settle down in Celestial Demon City—when not fighting on the frontlines, you focused on breaking through the Physical Body Trial.】
【In the blink of an eye, six years passed.】
【Year 40: Over these six years, your physical strength had grown by roughly ten percent, adding another hundred mountains’ worth of force.】
【But what somewhat frustrated you was that progress on the immortal body was slow—body tempering had only completed about one-tenth.】
【You knew in your heart that to accelerate body tempering progress, you needed higher-grade blood essence.】
【But even in Celestial Demon City, mid-stage Human Immortal Realm blood essence was hard to come by, let alone late-stage, Peak… or even Earthly Immortal realm blood essence.】
【With no other option, you resorted to the “power of money!”】
【Soon, a piece of news spread through Celestial Demon City: a certain chiliarch “possessing a rare bloodline” was willing to pay double the market price for blood essence of late-stage Human Immortal Realm or above.】
【This “chiliarch” was naturally you.】
【After the news spread, quite a few myriarchs came to sell you blood essence.】
【In just one year, you obtained five hundred jin of late-stage Human Immortal Realm blood essence and one hundred jin of Peak Human Immortal Realm blood essence.】
【For this, you spent every last one of your high-grade spirit stones.】
【But fortunately, you still had over ten thousand Spirit-Gathering Flowers in hand—a staggering fortune.】
【You decided to sell these Spirit-Gathering Flowers for cash during breaks in your training, converting them into sufficient spirit stones.】
【After all, in the cultivation world, though Spirit-Gathering Flowers were precious, spirit stones were the hard currency.】
【Soon, another five years passed.】
【Year 45: You had already exhausted all the blood essence you’d obtained two years prior.】
【But fortunately, over those two years you had “changed identities” multiple times, auctioning Spirit-Gathering Flowers across various major cities. You sold several thousand flowers, converting them into over five million high-grade spirit stones.】
【With this enormous sum of spirit stones, you would not lack for resources to break through the Physical Body Trial in the short term.】
【This year, your immortal body tempering progress reached one-third—in just over ten years, you’d covered the distance that would take an ordinary cultivator one to two hundred years.】
Su Xing looked at the simulation text before him and sighed:
“Indeed, cultivation is all about money and resources!”
“Wealth, companions, techniques, and environment—you truly can’t lack any of them…”
Tempering the immortal body was inherently time-consuming, labor-intensive, and resource-draining.
An ordinary Tribulation Crossing stage cultivator would need at least three to four hundred years to pass this trial.
But Su Xing, armed with the Heaven Devourer and Ancient Shaman Physique talents, plus his obscenely lavish resource expenditure, could achieve in one year what would take an ordinary cultivator ten.
“The immortal body has reached one-third? Looks like breaking through the Physical Body Trial this time shouldn’t be a problem!”
Su Xing was satisfied with this. His gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【In Celestial Demon City, you lacked for neither resources nor combat opportunities. Your immortal body tempering progress was ideal.】
【Just like that, another five years flew by in the blink of an eye.】
【Year 50: You tempered your body with immortal power daily, replenishing your immortal power with spirit liquid. By this year, the immortal body’s progress had reached the halfway point.】
【That same year, while killing enemies on the frontlines using your physical cultivation and Spirit Burst, you slew a God-level alien.】
【Having personally killed a God-level alien, you discovered that the interior of this God-level alien seemed vastly different from ordinary aliens.】
【With your Six Senses Realm divine sense, you keenly detected that certain God-level aliens harbored an extremely pure and terrifying power within their bodies.】
【After extensive investigation, you discovered that this energy was called divinity!】