Chapter 295 – Su Xing’s Sword Dao, the Sword of Safety! [First Update]
by spirapira【The next day, Qingyunzi attacked…】
【No matter how you explained yourself, even offering up the Ruyi Visualization Diagram, Qingyunzi still performed a soul search on you…】
【Your consciousness gradually dissipated…】
【You died!】
【Ding, this simulation has ended!】
After the simulation ended, Su Xing shook his head slightly.
“What a shame. With my current strength, simulating a hundred and thirty years is probably already my limit… Once I grow stronger in the future, I should be able to extend the simulation further…”
“Befriending Qingyunzi has been proven unfeasible… I need to raise my cultivation instead!”
Su Xing’s gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【Innate Severed Meridians】: Gold talent. Price: 10 origin energy.
【Three Immortal Calamities: Yang Fire Calamity】: One of the Three Calamities of Immortals — the Yang Fire Calamity baptism from the twin fires of yin and yang. After experiencing it, one’s internal organs are baptized and the immortal body constitution is strengthened. If one overcomes the Yin-Yang Fire Calamity, one can achieve the Earthly Immortal realm! Price: 10,000 origin energy.
【Origin-Channeling Flowers x180】: Rare natural treasure. Has the effect of stimulating vital energy and refining primordial energy. Price: 18,000 origin energy.
【Embryonic Sword Grand Dao Comprehension】: Entering the Dao through the sword, achieving the Sword Immortal path. Requires cultivating more advanced sword arts to further improve. Price: 30,000 origin energy.
Su Xing looked at the simulation rewards before him, feeling somewhat torn.
The Innate Severed Meridians talent was set aside for now — it could be used later when his main cultivation in Qi Refinement no longer required pills.
As for the Origin-channeling Flowers, Su Xing intended to bring them out eventually to ensure he had enough Earth Origin Pills for the second layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art, but not right now.
“When it comes down to it, the most critical thing right now is still achieving the Earthly Immortal realm and further increasing my strength!”
Su Xing murmured, then declared decisively:
“I choose the Three Immortal Calamities… and the Sword Grand Dao Comprehension!”
【You have successfully brought out the Three Immortal Calamities: Yang Fire Calamity comprehension. Cost: 10,000 origin energy. Remaining origin energy: 117,583 points…】
【You have successfully brought out the Sword Grand Dao Comprehension. Cost: 30,000 origin energy. Remaining origin energy: 87,583 points…】
As the simulation notification faded, two streams of mysterious energy surged into Su Xing’s body.
Su Xing first felt his internal organs undergo a baptism, a searing heat flaring within his body before finally settling into calm…
In mere moments!
The Yin-Yang Fire Calamity — the Yang Fire Calamity — was successfully passed!
At the same time, a flood of insights about the Sword Dao poured into Su Xing’s mind. The sword intent emanating from his body surged endlessly upward, breaking through to an entirely new level!
From the origin of the sword to the Great Dao of the Sword — it was a qualitative leap!
Su Xing sat cross-legged, quietly contemplating for a while before slowly rising to his feet.
With a thought, twenty-two hundred strands of Protective Sword Aura swirled around Su Xing’s body.
“The Great Dao of the Sword… Though it’s only in Dao Embryonic Form, the number of Protective Sword Aura strands I can control has increased dramatically…”
“But the Dao of the Sword differs from other Great Dao laws — it almost never arises naturally in the cultivation world. Only by studying sword arts and the like can one gain comprehension?”
Su Xing murmured to himself.
If he wanted to elevate his Protective Sword Aura to the next level, he would likely need to visit the Luotian Sect again.
“No rush for now… The Dao Embryonic Form of the sword is sufficient for the time being. Advancing to the Earthly Immortal realm as quickly as possible is what matters most!”
Su Xing glanced at the time, then began applying his disguise and concealing his aura.
Moments later, Su Xing successfully completed a trade, netting twenty thousand origin energy.
Over the following week, Su Xing repaired three Spirit Transformation stage puppets inside the spirit field grotto-heaven.
On September 23rd, Su Xing made a trip to the Immortal Martial World and retrieved the newly mined exotic metal ore from the past week.
With Su Xing’s improved comprehension of the Great Dao of the Sword, his Sword-Controlling Technique’s speed had increased by a full fifty percent!
Now it took only 16 hours for Su Xing to traverse a million li (500,000 km) by sword flight!
This was because the Sword-Controlling Technique’s travel speed depended not only on one’s mastery of the supernatural art and one’s own cultivation level…
More importantly, it depended on one’s comprehension of the Sword Dao!
The massive improvement in Sword-Controlling Technique speed meant that Su Xing could travel between the various dungeon worlds and to other countries much faster.
This saved Su Xing a considerable amount of effort.
After obtaining the exotic metal ore, Su Xing went to the Villa to meet Jin Congxue.
Once the trade was complete, Su Xing didn’t linger and returned directly to the spirit field grotto-heaven.
Su Xing could hardly wait — he was ready to begin a new round of simulation.
It was time to enter the Luotian dungeon once again!
Once the cooldown period ended, Su Xing immediately activated the simulation!
“Begin simulation!”
【Simulation #105 initiated. Current remaining origin energy: 133,276 points… Remaining simulation attempts: none.】
【Simulation begins!】
【Drawing a gold legendary talent costs 1 origin energy. Draw?】
“Yes!” Su Xing intoned silently.
【Ding, congratulations! You have obtained the purple talent Innate Water Physique. Probability of drawing a gold talent in the next simulation: 70%…】
【Innate Water Physique】: Purple talent. You are naturally born with higher water content in your body, granting you greater affinity for water-element spiritual energy than ordinary people.
Su Xing: “…”
What the hell — this physique was kind of weird, wasn’t it?
Su Xing rolled his eyes. Rather than using it himself, perhaps gifting this physique to someone else might yield better results?
Su Xing pondered the thought.
Shaking his head, Su Xing intoned silently:
“Whatever. Let’s officially begin the simulation!”
【Inside the spirit field grotto-heaven, you realize you are in a simulation…】
【Ten days later, you traveled to the Luotian Sect dungeon!】
“Use immersive simulation…” Su Xing intoned silently.
【Ding…】
The next second, Su Xing’s vision shifted, and he appeared inside the Luotian dungeon.
In the familiar great hall of the Luotian Sect, Su Xing ran through the quest sequence, then returned to his master Luo Qingniu’s side and asked:
“Master, your disciple’s Three Talents Sword Art has already unified all three swords into one. I have entered the Dao through the sword and can advance no further. Might there be a path beyond that of the Sword Immortal?”
Upon hearing Su Xing’s words, Luo Qingniu was silent for a moment before replying:
“The way of the Sword Immortal… even I know little of it. However, one thing is certain — all sword cultivators, upon reaching the Sword Immortal realm, must walk their own path!”
Their own path?
Su Xing was momentarily stunned, a trace of confusion in his eyes.
Luo Qingniu nodded and continued:
“All Sword Immortals under heaven cultivate the sword solely for themselves!”
“The Sword Dao one cultivates cannot follow the paths of predecessors… One can only explore it on one’s own!”
Hearing Luo Qingniu’s words, Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly.
Explore on his own…
While Su Xing had ample time within the simulation, relying solely on self-exploration would certainly be far less efficient than learning an existing sword art!
As if seeing through Su Xing’s thoughts, Luo Qingniu said:
“Xiaochuan, your talent is exceptional… But for a sword cultivator, talent is only secondary. What matters more is temperament!”
“Our Luotian Sect once had an ancestral patriarch who was a sword cultivator… In his entire life, he reached only the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal realm at his peak, yet with that cultivation, he fought a Grand Luo Golden Immortal to a standstill!”
The moment Su Xing heard this, his eyes lit up.
A Taiyi Sword Immortal who could fight a Grand Luo Golden Immortal! This was a sword art Su Xing could absolutely learn!
After all, the sword was only one of Su Xing’s many means.
Even if he could only attain Grand Luo-level combat power, Su Xing would be more than satisfied…
After all, with Grand Luo-level strength, Su Xing’s simulations could be extended enormously. At that point, he would have all the time in the world to raise his cultivation…
With that thought, Su Xing asked:
“Master, then this Taiyi patriarch’s sword art…”
But Luo Qingniu shook his head slightly and said:
“As I said, Sword Immortals have no set technique…”
“However, that ancestral patriarch did leave behind the path he himself had walked…”
With that, Luo Qingniu produced an ancient tome resembling a journal and handed it to Su Xing, saying:
“If you have the time, you may study the patriarch’s methods and use them to forge your own Sword Dao!”
Su Xing nodded, took the ancient text, and began reading through it.
It was indeed a journal. Within its pages, only the patriarch’s experiences in practicing the sword were recorded.
Su Xing’s memory was extraordinary, and he finished the journal quickly, a look of astonishment crossing his face.
This Sword Immortal patriarch had practiced the sword for hundreds of thousands of years!
The journal contained no descriptions of any sword techniques or sword forms whatsoever.
All it contained was the story of his life!
Yet from the day this patriarch first picked up a sword, he never once parted from it for the rest of his existence…
From the trajectory of his entire life, Su Xing roughly distilled four key principles:
First — nurturing the sword!
A sword cultivator uses their own Sword Dao comprehension to nurture and temper the sword in their hand!
There is no time limit on nurturing a sword. Strictly speaking, a sword cultivator spends their entire life nurturing their sword — and the longer one nurtures it, the deeper the unity of mind between cultivator and blade, and the more terrifying the power unleashed!
Second — slaying enemies!
Slaying enemies with the pure sword, casting aside all sword forms, sword techniques, and even sword aura and sword intent!
This Supreme Unity Sword Immortal had spent his entire life in battle, slaying enemies numbering in the hundreds of millions… Through this endless combat, he deepened his comprehension of the sword!
Third: sword energy and sword aura!
Using sword energy and sword aura as his means, he could sever all things in the world that could not be severed!
Once, this Supreme Unity Sword Immortal had refined his sword energy to the point where a single strike could cleave apart an entire Medium Chiliocosm!
Fourth: sword intent!
Using one’s own will of the Sword Dao, one chooses their own path…
On this point, that ancestral master had walked the path of invincible sword intent!
This required the sword cultivator to have absolute confidence in their own strength and possess an indomitable will!
“Forging a path that belongs to oneself…”
Su Xing fell into thought. From this ancestral master’s Sword Dao, what Su Xing saw was the ultimate pursuit of the sword.
In his entire life, he cultivated only the sword. Perhaps it was precisely because of this that he could walk the path of the invincible Sword Dao?
“The invincible Sword Dao… is it suited for me?”
Su Xing took a deep breath, then shook his head.
Without a doubt, this path was not suited for Su Xing.
When Su Xing’s strength was still meager, in previous simulations, he had encountered far too many powerful enemies.
Even within simulations… Su Xing had suffered defeats. He could not claim to be invincible.
“Then… what is the Sword Dao that I seek?”
Su Xing closed his eyes and pondered deeply. After a long while, a single word surfaced in his mind.
Safety!
The path Su Xing walked was the Sword Dao of Safety!
What he pursued was nothing more than the ultimate safety of himself!
But… how could he realize this Sword Dao?
Su Xing suddenly smiled and murmured:
“If I kill all the enemies… wouldn’t that make me safe?”
“The Sword Dao I seek is to protect myself and those I love!”
“All who fall beneath my sword are enemies!”
In that instant, Su Xing seemed to feel his sword intent and Sword Dao undergo a tremendous sublimation!
Su Xing had found the Sword Dao that belonged to him—Safety!
……
After finding the Sword Dao that belonged to him, Su Xing did not rush to leave. Instead, he went to the Scripture Pavilion, hoping to find a secret technique for sealing away portions of his memory.
This was to prevent the prolonged immersive simulations from causing some confusion in Su Xing’s memories.
Su Xing arrived at the seventh floor of the Scripture Pavilion. After searching extensively, he finally found an immortal technique.
The Memory Binding Art!
The effect of this technique was simple: it sealed one’s own memories, or the memories of others.
Of course, sealing one’s own memories was straightforward, but sealing another’s memories required either their consent with their soul fully open, or cultivation far surpassing the target’s to forcibly seal them!
Cultivating this immortal technique was no simple matter for Su Xing. It took him the better part of a day just to memorize the secret technique, without even reaching the introductory level.
……
The immersive simulation ended, and Su Xing returned to reality.
“Phew… the Memory Binding Art! Truly excellent! It’s perfect for me—sealing away portions of my memory!”
Su Xing murmured, then recalled the Sword Dao he had discovered this time:
“Pursuing safety… is far harder than pursuing invincibility!”
“Because to be truly safe, one must be invincible in this world!”
Su Xing took a deep breath, his eyes filled with determination as he looked toward the simulation panel.
【After leaving Luotian Sect, you found your own Sword Dao—the Dao of Safety!】
【This Sword Dao is perhaps more difficult than any that came before… but you were not afraid!】
【And so, you chose to continue cultivating on Earth.】
【Ten years honing a single sword, time flying by.】
【In the tenth year, the number of Protective Sword Auras you had comprehended reached two thousand four hundred!】
【That same year, you traveled to the Beast Taming World to eliminate hidden threats.】
【Seeking an opportunity to break through to the Earthly Immortal realm as quickly as possible, you decided to head for the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm!】
【You contacted Xia’s military, but at this time the foreign races’ offensive was still weak, and Demon-Sealing Pass remained solid.】
【So you brought your family and friends, placed them within the spirit field grotto-heaven, and left Earth.】
【After passing through the spatial rift, you arrived at the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.】
【At this point, it was merely the tenth year of the simulation, and the situation in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm was still favorable, with the foreign races at a disadvantage.】
【You traveled to White Emperor City and sold the intelligence you had gathered previously, including information about the Purple Bull Demon King.】
【In the twelfth year, White Emperor City secretly assembled independent cultivators, preparing to raid the Advent Cult’s major strongholds.】
【You infiltrated their ranks, heading to the valley gathering point to participate in the raid on Advent Cult officers.】
【Because you were prepared and struck preemptively, three officers at the Human Immortal Realm Peak didn’t even have time to flee into the depths of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.】
【You successfully obtained one supreme-grade Yin-Yang Pill, but you did not plan to head to the Yellow Sand Realm to undergo the Three Calamities of Immortals just yet.】
【Before that, you had more important things to do.】
【After settling your family and friends, you piloted the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel and headed for the Black Water Realm.】
【For the next twenty-odd years, you remained in the Black Water Realm, cultivating the Zhengyi Breath Absorption Art, hoping to trigger a Spontaneous Epiphany…】
【In the thirty-fifth year, you entered the secret realm, killed Advent Cult officers, and obtained one hundred and eighty Origin-Channeling Flowers!】
In the Real World, Su Xing saw this and nodded slightly.
“What a pity that the Spontaneous Epiphany didn’t trigger… But at least I successfully obtained the Origin-Channeling Flowers!”
Indeed, Su Xing’s goal for this simulation, beyond breaking through to the Earthly Immortal realm, was to find a way to obtain Origin-Channeling Flowers!
Previously, Su Xing had drawn a “double-edged sword” talent: Innate Severed Meridians.
Unable to use pills for cultivation, but doubling his cultivation speed!
Therefore, after breaking through to the Earthly Immortal realm, Su Xing planned to immediately push toward Perfection in the second layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art!
If he could successfully cultivate the Great Shaman Body Forging Art’s second layer to Perfection, Su Xing could then turn to cultivating his Qi Refinement cultivation, leveraging Innate Severed Meridians to rapidly increase his Qi Refinement level.
Of course, if he could successfully cultivate the Zhengyi Breath Absorption Art to the third layer, that would naturally be ideal.
If not, Su Xing wouldn’t force it.
“One hundred and eighty Origin-Channeling Flowers—enough to refine several hundred Earth Origin Pills. Adding what I’ll obtain in future simulations, that’s over a thousand Earth Origin Pills!”
“That amount should be sufficient…”
Su Xing murmured.
Over a thousand Earth Origin Pills, taking one per month—that should be enough for over a hundred years of cultivating the Great Shaman Body Forging Art’s second layer.
With this thought, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【After obtaining the Origin-Channeling Flowers, you did not refine them into pills.】
【You decided to leave this realm immediately and head for the Yellow Sand Realm!】
【After nearly two months of traveling through the void, you successfully arrived at the Yellow Sand Realm!】
【You came to the desolate grounds, preparing to overcome the final Yin Fire Calamity!】
【If you could successfully overcome this calamity, you would advance to the Earthly Immortal realm…】
【Yin fire—after every sunset, the temperature in this place would plummet so drastically that even ordinary immortals would struggle to endure it!】
【After taking the Yin-Yang Pill, you felt considerably better. From then on, every day after sunset, you would venture into the Yin Fire Calamity to undergo Shedding Impurities and Cleansing Marrow.】
【The yin fire, as it penetrated through your limbs and bones, could increase your accumulated aptitude…】
【This cultivation continued for thirty-five years!】
【In the seventieth year, the yin fire’s tempering of your physical body was largely complete. All that remained was the accumulation of time.】
【And over these decades, you had also accumulated a full five years of Great Wisdom state enhancement.】
【Thus, another ten years passed.】
【In the eightieth year—three years prior, you had already triggered the Late Bloomer talent, directly doubling your cultivation speed!】
In the Real World, upon seeing this, Su Xing hesitated no longer and declared decisively:
“Use immersive simulation, duration: ten years!”
【Ding. You have successfully used immersive simulation. Remaining energy: 129,432 points…】
As the simulation notification faded, Su Xing appeared within the simulation world.
The first thing he did was cultivate the Memory Binding Art!
This technique was an absolute necessity for prolonged immersive simulations!
The Memory Binding Art was profoundly mysterious. It could not only seal memories from a specific period of time—it could even fix certain memories in place, to be retrieved at the appropriate moment.
Su Xing took a Spirit Awakening Pill, activated the Great Wisdom state, and began cultivating the Memory Binding Art!
On the tenth day of the immersive simulation, Su Xing finally achieved complete mastery of the Memory Binding Art!
He then chose to fix and seal his recent memories, ensuring that after leaving the immersive simulation, he could still maintain his sensitivity to memory and the passage of time.
With preparations complete, Su Xing formally began his cultivation.
Su Xing’s first choice remained the Zhengyi Breath Absorption Art!
And so, ten years passed in the blink of an eye…
Su Xing returned to the Real World, a hint of confusion in his eyes. But he quickly realized what had happened and immediately activated the Memory Binding Art!
Immediately after, a flood of memories surged back, and Su Xing recovered the memory node from before the immersive simulation.
“Phew… Ten years of immersive simulation, equivalent to thirty or forty years of bitter cultivation, and the third layer of the Zhengyi Breath Absorption Art is still nowhere in sight!”