Chapter 372 – Eight Hundred Years of Simulation, Red Moon Returns!

Chapter 372 – Eight Hundred Years of Simulation, Red Moon Returns!

【However, compared to Bai Xiaoxiao, Bai Yutang’s cultivation progress was what truly terrified you!】

【Bai Yutang possessed exceptional aptitude. With the purity of his spiritual root, he was already extremely close to Heavenly Spirit Root quality.】

【You used the Art of Fate, employing a treasure called the “Heaven-Earth Spiritual Root” to help him successfully condense a Heavenly Spirit Root.】

【Combined with the seventh-order micro spirit-gathering formations you had inscribed on the two siblings, their cultivation speed increased dramatically.】

【In a mere century or so, Bai Yutang’s cultivation had already approached the Mahayana stage!】

【After all, these two siblings had always used high-grade spirit liquid for cultivation, and with the spirit dragon’s occasional guidance, their cultivation speed was already no weaker than so-called Saintesss or Holy Sons.】

【In year four hundred and ten, under your arrangements, the Bai siblings successfully joined the Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s inner cabinet, becoming inner cabinet disciples.】

In the Real World, Su Xing nodded slightly upon seeing this.

“Joining the Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s inner cabinet—the life-saving debt owed to the Bai siblings has finally been repaid!”

“From now on, relying solely on their own abilities, they should be able to smoothly become Immortals…”

Su Xing rubbed his chin and muttered:

“But this micro spirit-gathering formation really is useful!”

“Although with my current aptitude, the micro spirit-gathering formation’s boost is limited… for ordinary cultivators, it’s absolutely a fate-defying formation!”

Su Xing understood that with this micro spirit-gathering formation, whenever he wanted to build a force in the future, he could absolutely give cultivators of mediocre aptitude terrifying cultivation speeds.

“From the current situation, everything in the Heavenly Secrets Domain appears normal… aside from fighting off the alien races, things are relatively stable most of the time…”

Su Xing nodded with satisfaction, his gaze turning to the simulation panel.

【Days passed one after another, and everything seemed peaceful.】

【In the blink of an eye, ten years went by…】

【In year four hundred and twenty, one day, the Bai siblings came to find you.】

【They told you something… their mother apparently hadn’t died, and had successfully broken through to the Immortal realm. She was currently in the Celestial Secrets Realm!】

【Upon hearing this news, you were initially happy for the siblings, but deep down you felt deeply puzzled.】

【Their mother had been merely at the Body Integration stage just over a century ago. How could she have broken into the Immortal realm in just a hundred years?】

【Moreover, although no body had been found, the death of the Bai parents had been virtually a certainty. How could someone return from the dead?】

【You weren’t the only one puzzled—even the Bai siblings themselves found it extremely surprising.】

【Bai Yutang had no memory of his mother’s appearance at all, but Bai Xiaoxiao, being somewhat older, knew what their mother looked like.】

【Though your heart was full of doubts, the return of the Bai siblings’ mother was, all things considered, a good thing…】

【Before long, the Bai mother came to visit you. After meeting her, you secretly probed her with divine sense, but found nothing abnormal.】

【So you temporarily suppressed the doubts in your heart and returned to your normal cultivation.】

【In the blink of an eye, another thirty years passed.】

【In year four hundred and fifty, your cultivation successfully broke through to the fifth level mid-stage of the True Immortal realm.】

【Besides your daily cultivation, you began taking on some Celestial Secrets Pavilion missions, while also gathering intelligence about the Three Thousand Worlds.】

【In year four hundred and eighty, your cultivation broke into the late fifth level of the True Immortal realm…】

【That same year, you accepted a special mission. Traces of red-eyed aliens had appeared in a certain lesser chiliocosm within the Heavenly Secrets Domain!】

【Though their numbers were few, and they had been dealt with by the local cultivators, you knew all too well what the red-eyed aliens’ presence signified!】

【Out of caution, you accepted this mission and prepared to investigate personally.】

【You piloted the Star-Moon Shuttle, spending roughly three years to successfully arrive at this lesser chiliocosm.】

【Three years had passed since then, and the original traces had long since faded, but you still managed to uncover some clues.】

【Through examining the corpses of several alien creatures, you confirmed that these were indeed red-eyed aliens, and ones of considerable strength—approaching Immortal-level power.】

【But you found no trace of Red Moon in this world. After staying for a hundred years, you returned to the Celestial Secrets Realm.】

In the Real World, Su Xing frowned slightly upon seeing this.

“As expected, that Red Moon has come back from the dead… The alien deity who commands slaughter really is hard to kill!”

“However, back then two Supreme Unity Golden Immortals had besieged it. Even though Red Moon faked its death to escape, it must have been severely wounded!”

“But what is its purpose in coming to the Heavenly Secrets Domain? Could the alien races be planning to use the Heavenly Secrets Domain as their main battlefield and accelerate the invasion?”

Su Xing rubbed his brow.

Whether it was Blood Two’s appearance, the mass emergence of alien deities, or this resurrected Red Moon—all of it indicated that the alien races placed great importance on the Heavenly Secrets Domain.

“But the Heavenly Secrets Domain has far more powerful experts than the Azure Origin Domain, and it’s guarded by both the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master and the White Emperor…”

“Why would the alien races target the Heavenly Secrets Domain first?”

Su Xing truly couldn’t comprehend the alien races’ strategic objectives.

After pondering for a while, Su Xing shook his head slightly and said:

“Never mind. These events haven’t happened yet, and even if the alien races launch a full-scale invasion… the Heavenly Secrets Domain should be fine.”

“For now, I should focus on improving my strength… though if I can gather intelligence along the way, all the better!”

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

【After completing your investigation at this lesser chiliocosm, you returned to the Celestial Secrets Realm.】

【In the blink of an eye, another ten-plus years passed.】

【In year five hundred, this year passed without incident, and your cultivation improved steadily.】

【Besides your daily cultivation, your relationship with the Bai siblings deepened further. You would occasionally visit the Bai household for a casual meal, and during these visits you would secretly observe the Bai mother, but nothing unusual occurred.】

【However, at the end of that year, you received a piece of intelligence: Advent Cult members had appeared in a lesser chiliocosm near the Celestial Secrets Realm.】

【In that world, large numbers of cultivators and humans had been slaughtered, and nearly eighty percent of the entire lesser chiliocosm’s cultivators had perished!】

【Upon receiving the news, you rushed there immediately.】

【But the Advent Cult followers had already fled without a trace, leaving only devastation in their wake. The entire world was steeped in grief and carnage.】

【But you keenly noticed that the Advent Cult’s slaughter wasn’t merely aimed at weakening the human race—it appeared more like some kind of blood sacrifice ritual.】

【After investigating in secret, you confirmed that this blood sacrifice ritual was the very same one you had seen before—the ritual to help Red Moon restore its power!】

【You immediately reported this information to the Celestial Secrets Pavilion and quietly awaited a response.】

【In the blink of an eye, another twenty years passed.】

【In year five hundred and twenty, your cultivation successfully advanced to the Peak of the fifth level of the True Immortal realm!】

【In year five hundred and fifty, after long accumulation, you entered seclusion for a breakthrough and successfully advanced to the sixth level of the True Immortal realm!】

In the Real World, Su Xing’s brow furrowed tightly upon seeing this.

“Blood sacrifices and slaughter can rapidly restore Red Moon’s power… Who knows how much of its strength Red Moon had recovered by then?”

“But having sacrificed an entire world’s worth of cultivators… I’m probably no longer a match for it!”

“Yet why hasn’t the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master taken action despite the Advent Cult’s rampant slaughter in the Heavenly Secrets Domain? Could something have happened to them?”

Su Xing shook his head slightly, feeling he was perhaps worrying too much.

The Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master—if something could happen to a powerhouse of that caliber, there was nothing Su Xing could do to help anyway.

“Still, my cultivation progress isn’t bad. I’ve already reached the sixth level of the True Immortal realm… I wonder how long this simulation can last, and whether I can successfully enter the late True Immortal stage?”

With a flicker of anticipation in his heart, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【After breaking through to the sixth level of the True Immortal realm, you spent considerable time stabilizing your cultivation.】

【In year five hundred and sixty, you received intelligence once again. Over the past several years, the Advent Cult had been conducting blood sacrifices in one lesser chiliocosm after another near the Celestial Secrets Realm.】

【You found it puzzling—why didn’t they choose remote worlds, instead selecting such dangerous locations?】

【Over these decades, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion continuously dispatched cultivators to search for traces of the Advent Cult.】

【Finally, in year six hundred, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion discovered several Advent Cult strongholds and prepared to annihilate them in one fell swoop!】

【You joined this operation as well, accompanying a group of outer cabinet Elders to besiege the Advent Cult.】

【This battle lasted a full three years.】

【In this fight, over ten cadre-level members of the Advent Cult were slain, including seven True Immortal realm cultivators!】

【The Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s Elder casualties were significant as well—three True Immortals had fallen in battle.】

【In this war, the red-eyed aliens proved to be the most troublesome foe. Tens of thousands of red-eyed aliens, all possessing strength above the Immortal realm… Such an alien legion made you realize that Red Moon’s power had been recovering more and more.】

【Although you had slain many red-eyed aliens and swept through several Advent Cult strongholds—】

【You knew that as long as Red Moon remained undefeated, the red-eyed aliens would continue to pour forth endlessly, constantly wearing down the human race’s strength.】

【After this battle, your desire to improve your own strength grew ever more urgent.】

【In year six hundred and thirty, your cultivation finally advanced to the mid-stage of the sixth level of the True Immortal realm…】

【In year six hundred and fifty, Bai Yutang successfully entered the Tribulation Crossing stage and began preparing for his breakthrough to the Immortal realm.】

【As his master, you gifted him numerous dao-guarding treasures, ensuring he could smoothly break through to the Human Immortal realm.】

【In year six hundred and seventy, Bai Xiaoxiao successfully entered the Mahayana stage.】

【In year seven hundred, after over seventy years of arduous cultivation, your own cultivation reached the late sixth level of the True Immortal realm.】

In the Real World, Su Xing nodded slightly upon seeing this.

“Starting from the sixth level of the True Immortal realm, each minor realm breakthrough already requires over seventy years… Converting that, for an ordinary cultivator, it would take ten thousand years!”

“Of course, this is also because my magical power runs deep, so accumulating magical power takes me much longer than cultivators at the same realm… For an ordinary True Immortal, one or two ten-thousand-year periods would be enough to break through a single minor realm.”

After a brief pause, Su Xing continued:

“The simulation has reached year seven hundred, finally breaking the previous record… From the current situation, things still seem relatively stable. My cultivation should be able to smoothly break through to the late True Immortal stage, right?”

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

【Cultivation knows no passage of time. In the blink of an eye, another seventy years passed.】

【In year seven hundred and seventy, your cultivation successfully reached the Peak of the sixth level of the True Immortal realm.】

【You began preparing the resources needed for your breakthrough to the late True Immortal realm…】

【In year eight hundred, one day, you suddenly received a message.】

【A squad of Celestial Secrets Pavilion disciples had gone missing three years ago while on a mission, and had yet to return.】

【If they had been ordinary disciples, you might not have concerned yourself.】

【But among this squad were several people you knew.】

【Bai Xiaoxiao’s mother, the White Cloud Sect Master… and the Bai siblings!】

【This disappearance of Celestial Secrets Pavilion disciples quickly drew the attention of the Pavilion’s upper echelons.】

【Led by Xiao Zhanlong, a Heaven-rank Elder, you and two other Human-rank Elders set out together to search for the missing disciples…】

【Half a year later, you successfully arrived at this lesser chiliocosm and began searching for traces of the disciples.】

【Through your investigation, you discovered something deeply unsettling.】

【The cultivators of this world had possessed perfectly ordinary levels of cultivation just decades ago. The strongest among them had been merely at the Human Immortal realm… with no more than a dozen cultivators above the Mahayana stage, ranking at the very bottom among lesser chiliocosms.】

【Yet in just a few short decades, this world had gained three Earthly Immortals, over ten Human Immortals, and as many as a hundred Mahayana-stage cultivators!】

【This explosive surge in overall cultivator strength had alerted the Celestial Secrets Pavilion to the anomaly, which was why they had sent disciples to investigate.】

【No one had expected the disciples to mysteriously vanish.】

【You traversed this world, investigating the cause of the cultivators’ sudden power increase, and found that every account was astonishingly consistent…】

【According to the local cultivators, this was a blessing from the heavenly dao, granting them the ability to gain power and increase their cultivation by killing demonic beasts…】

【The moment you heard these familiar words, the first thing that came to mind was—Earth’s Class Users!】

【So you asked them whether they possessed some kind of special attribute panel.】

【But the local cultivators flatly denied it, insisting that they could only grow stronger by killing demonic beasts… and knew nothing of any attribute panel.】

【Even so, you were absolutely certain that this power originated from Red Moon!】

【You immediately relayed the intelligence to Xiao Zhanlong.】

【Xiao Zhanlong took it extremely seriously and transmitted the information to the Celestial Secrets Pavilion.】

【At the same time, one of the accompanying Elders found news of the Celestial Secrets Pavilion disciples!】

【Including the Bai siblings and the White Cloud Sect Master—they were all in this world’s demonic beast mountain range, slaughtering demonic beasts!】

【In just a few short decades, Bai Yutang had even successfully broken through to the Human Immortal realm!】

【And Bai Xiaoxiao’s cultivation had somehow advanced to the Tribulation Crossing stage…】

【You deployed the power of causality and, sure enough, discovered that peculiar thread of causation on the Bai siblings.】

【According to them, gaining cultivation had never been this effortless… All one needed to do was worship the heavenly dao of this world, and one could gain the ability to draw power from killing.】

【Hearing this, your heart was filled with unease, knowing that Red Moon had appeared!】

【Although you wanted to request reinforcements from the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, this operation already had Xiao Zhanlong—a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal—overseeing it. Surely there wouldn’t be too much danger…】

【Even if Red Moon had been revived, breaking into the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal realm in just a few hundred years would be utterly unrealistic…】

【Just as you were conversing with the Bai siblings, a thought suddenly struck you… Where was Bai Xiaoxiao’s mother right now?】