Chapter 402 – Arriving at the Foreign Tribe’s Ancestral Land, Red Talent: Innate Dao Physique!

Su Xing’s “divine oracle” was quickly transmitted into the heart of the Lesser Demon Apostle.

With the Lesser Demon Apostle’s intelligence, he perhaps didn’t understand why the God of Lesser Demons only required the blood essence of foreign tribes.

But that didn’t prevent him from carrying out the oracle.

This Saint-stage Lesser Demon Apostle quickly began recruiting large numbers of believers and started holding regular sacrificial ceremonies.

……

Soon, the immersive simulation ended, and Su Xing’s consciousness returned to reality.

Rubbing the space between his brows, Su Xing carefully reflected on his gains from this past year of immersive simulation.

“The Dao of faith—a path entirely different from conventional cultivation!”

“From the perspective of the God of Lesser Demons identity, the potential is absolutely enormous!”

An unusual gleam flashed through Su Xing’s eyes. This lesser demon disguise identity had truly given him a huge surprise!

“And finally, it’s time to head to the foreign tribe’s Ancestral Land…”

Su Xing’s gaze flickered.

During the final stretch of the immersive simulation, Su Xing had received a transmission of consciousness, the general content being:

That Su Xing, as the “God of Lesser Demons,” should make a trip to the Ancestral Land and receive the Ancestral Land’s baptism!

And Su Xing would be the first deity in the entire history of the Lesser Demon Tribe to ever enter the Ancestral Land!

“What kind of place is the foreign tribe’s Ancestral Land, exactly?”

Curiosity gleamed in Su Xing’s eyes as he looked toward the simulation panel.

【Year 1411. After ascending to True God of the Lesser Demon Tribe, you gained a single opportunity to enter the Ancestral Land.】

【Entering the Ancestral Land is something all foreign tribes dream of…】

【Legend holds that the Ancestral Land is the place of origin of all foreign tribes, where the “exalted” Mother of the Foreign Tribes is nurtured!】

【It is also the source of all foreign tribes’ power…】

【Any foreign tribe member who enters the Ancestral Land invariably receives immense benefits.】

【Under these circumstances, before entering the Ancestral Land, you wished to find more detailed intelligence about what lies within—preferably firsthand accounts from foreign tribe members who had been there before.】

【However, the number of foreign tribe members who can enter the Ancestral Land is exceedingly small. In the entire 2nd Legion, only the legion commander—a first-rank Divine Sovereign—had visited once after ascending to that rank.】

【But according to him, every foreign tribe member sees and gains different things within the Ancestral Land.】

【This only deepened your confusion…】

【Finally, three years later, you obtained the opportunity to enter the Ancestral Land.】

【Under the legion commander’s guidance, you stepped into a wondrous teleportation space.】

【Upon entering this space, everything before your eyes was pitch black.】

【In this space, both time and space seemed to have come to a standstill…】

【You followed your instincts and walked in a certain direction…】

【After an indeterminate amount of time, a faint, barely perceptible light appeared before you.】

【Guided by this feeble glow, you gradually moved forward…】

【Finally, you arrived at a bizarre space.】

【Withered, towering giant trees. A blood-red sky. Ink-black earth. And a massive, constantly writhing mass of pink flesh.】

【Apart from that writhing mass of flesh and the nearly dead giant tree, you could sense no other living presence…】

【Just as you were puzzling over this, a guiding voice suddenly arose from the depths of your heart.】

【This guiding voice seemed to originate from that constantly writhing mass of pink flesh.】

【As you gradually approached the mass of flesh, only then did you see just how enormous it truly was.】

【Like a colossal mountain peak, ten thousand zhang (33.3 km) tall, radiating a sinister aura.】

【You extended both hands and slowly drew closer to the mass of flesh…】

【Soon, your entire body was sucked in and embedded within the mass of flesh.】

【Your consciousness gradually fell into slumber…】

【……】

【After an unknown amount of time, when you awoke again, you were no longer inside the flesh, but had returned to that bizarre space.】

【A black passageway opened. You sensed intuitively that entering this passage would allow you to leave this space.】

【And that mass of flesh was perhaps what the foreign tribes called the Mother Goddess!】

【The place of origin for all individual foreign tribe members…】

【Before departing, you took one last look at this space. That withered giant tree seemed unable to hold on much longer… yet still emanated faint traces of life force.】

【The mass of flesh appeared to be parasitizing the giant tree, continuously growing stronger…】

【……】

【You left through the passage and returned to the Heavenly Secrets Domain.】

【At this moment, you could feel an enormous transformation within yourself!】

【You awakened the Lesser Demon Tribe’s innate talent… the very first talent of the Lesser Demon Tribe!】

【This talent allows you to sense the presence of Lesser Demon believers to a far greater degree, and doubles the power of faith!】

【Most critically, your individual power will now influence the strength of the entire Lesser Demon Tribe!】

【And the total population of the Lesser Demon Tribe will in turn amplify your divine power!】

【You named this talent: aggregation!】

【Gathering the power of all Lesser Demons to perfect oneself!】

【Perhaps the Lesser Demon Tribe was never truly weak… they merely lacked someone who possessed this innate talent!】

【And now, this talent you possess is a perfect match for the Dao of faith you walk!】

【After you returned to the real world, you vaguely perceived changes in your believers…】

【All the Lesser Demon believers—their physical bodies became more formidable, their claws grew sharper, their movements more agile…】

【The individual strength of the Lesser Demon Tribe was finally no longer the weakest among all foreign tribes…】

In the Real World, Su Xing raised an eyebrow upon seeing this.

Although the information obtained from the simulation was somewhat abstract, Su Xing still managed to glean some useful things from it.

“Aggregation… the innate talent comprehended by the lesser demon disguise?”

“Essentially… as the God of Lesser Demons, the growth of my personal divine power will feed back into the entire Lesser Demon Tribe!”

“They’re still cannon fodder, but compared to before, the individual strength of each Lesser Demon has increased several times over at minimum!”

“And the sheer numbers of the Lesser Demon Tribe will comprehensively enhance my own strength?”

Su Xing’s eyes gleamed with excitement.

This talent was undoubtedly a perfect match for the divine path of faith.

As long as the Lesser Demon Tribe continued to grow, the strength of Su Xing’s lesser demon disguise would also reach terrifying heights!

Beyond that, what Su Xing was most focused on was the so-called Ancestral Land of the foreign tribes!

Based on the text descriptions Su Xing had seen, there was no life to speak of within that Ancestral Land.

Only that towering giant tree and that mass of flesh were noteworthy.

“That mass of flesh is the source of the foreign tribes’ power?”

“If that’s truly the case, it’s almost absurd…”

Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly, thinking it couldn’t be that simple.

Perhaps that enormous mass of flesh was connected to the foreign tribes and could bestow power upon them.

But given the current overall strength of the foreign tribes, the Ancestral Land seemed more like a symbol than anything else.

“However, what can be confirmed is that the so-called Ancestral Land blessing is real!”

“Foreign tribe members can indeed travel to the Ancestral Land and obtain entirely new powers…”

Just as Su Xing’s lesser demon disguise had.

“As for where exactly that Ancestral Land is located… that remains unknown…”

Su Xing shook his head slightly, deciding to focus his energy on improving the strength of his lesser demon disguise for now.

For the time being, it was best to take things one step at a time.

His gaze turned to the simulation panel.

【You then began continuously gathering the power of faith, and your strength grew steadily.】

【Year 1450. You summoned your second Lesser Demon Apostle.】

【Year 1500. Using the power of faith, you summoned your third Lesser Demon Apostle.】

【At this point, you possessed three Lesser Demon Apostles, each holding regular sacrificial ceremonies. Vast numbers of Lesser Demon believers continuously provided you with the power of faith.】

【The number of your believers grew ceaselessly, and the rate at which your power of faith accumulated was more than ten times what it had been before!】

【Year 1600. You expended the vast majority of your power of faith to advance your cultivation.】

【You broke through from mid-stage True God directly to True God Peak!】

【Year 1630. You followed the 2nd Legion on an external mission.】

【Misfortune finally caught up with you…】

【You died at the hands of a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal.】

【Ding! This simulation has ended!】

After the simulation ended, Su Xing let out a long breath.

“The power of faith really is incredible!”

“In just a few hundred years, going straight from having just entered the True God realm all the way to True God Peak…”

Su Xing was quite satisfied with the improvement of his lesser demon disguise. It had been well worth all the effort he’d invested in strengthening this disguise’s power.

Once the cultivation level rose a bit more, the lesser demon disguise should be able to manifest in reality.

“But more importantly, this simulation successfully condensed the Human Flower!”

“I’m now extremely close to fully condensing the Three Flowers Above the Crown…”

Su Xing looked eagerly at the rewards from this simulation.

【Lunar Divine Physique】: Gold talent. Price: 10 origin energy.

【Half-step Golden Immortal realm】: Five Qis gathered in the chest. The Human Flower of the Three Flowers Above the Crown has been successfully condensed. Refining essence into qi—a glimpse of the Golden Immortal Dao. Price: 4,000,000 origin energy.

【Spirit Domain Cultivation Results】: A seven-thousand-li (3,500 km) Spirit Domain that has begun gradually transforming from Spirit Domain to Spirit Realm level. The Spirit Domain’s influence on reality is stronger. Price: 200,000 origin energy.

【Spirit-Connecting Flower】: An innate treasure—a precious supreme treasure that can help cultivators refine qi into spirit and condense the Three Flowers Above the Crown. Price: 1,500,000 origin energy.

After seeing the rewards from this simulation, Su Xing didn’t hesitate.

What he needed most right now was naturally to extract the half-step Golden Immortal cultivation and the Spirit-Connecting Flower, to prepare for the next simulation!

But the problem was—it was too expensive!

Merely condensing the Human Flower, plus advancing from Mystic Immortal ninth layer to Mystic Immortal Great Perfection—this half-step Golden Immortal cultivation alone would cost Su Xing a full 4,000,000 origin energy!

Adding in the Spirit-Connecting Flower, the total came to 5,500,000 origin energy!

And the amount of origin energy Su Xing had on hand, counting every last bit, was 2,841,213 points.

A gap of nearly three million origin energy…

“Right now, I still have one simulation attempt remaining, which means I must extract the rewards within the next twenty days. Otherwise, I’ll waste a simulation attempt…”

Su Xing murmured.

At present, Su Xing still had a batch of earnings in the Star Realm that he hadn’t withdrawn.

In one month, 300,000 Star Stones would indeed be enough to cover the three-million origin energy gap.

But during this month, Su Xing wouldn’t just sit idle.

“One month’s time—staying in the Star Realm won’t yield much more benefit…”

“Looks like I need to venture to the surrounding worlds and earn some extra income…”

Su Xing pondered whether there were any Luo Tian legacy coordinates near the Star Realm.

“With my current travel speed, I can make round trips to anywhere within a half-month’s journey…”

Su Xing thought it over, and within that radius, there were indeed two Luo Tian legacy sites.

One was called the Azure Firmament Realm, a Medium Chiliocosm approximately five void nodes away from the Star Realm—roughly four times the distance from Earth to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.

The other was called the Primordial Dream Realm, a lesser chiliocosm approximately six void nodes away.

At Su Xing’s current speed, one month would be just barely enough to explore both worlds and return safely.

With that thought, Su Xing didn’t hesitate any further. He tore open a void passage, mounted the Star-Moon Shuttle, and sped swiftly toward the Primordial Dream Realm.

……

Twenty days later. The Azure Firmament Realm.

Within a Secret Realm beneath an ancient tree, Su Xing successfully retrieved the Luo Tian legacy buried in this world.

With a thought, Su Xing attempted to convert some of the unusable legacy materials into origin energy.

【Ding! Large quantities of origin energy-containing materials detected. Value: 2,270,334 origin energy… Absorb?】

“Yes!”

Su Xing didn’t hesitate and chose to absorb directly.

Combined with the origin energy from exploring the Primordial Dream Realm ten days ago, the two Luo Tian legacy sites had provided Su Xing with approximately four million origin energy in total.

Now, Su Xing’s origin energy reserves had reached 6,800,000 points!

“Finally, it’s enough to extract the rewards from the previous simulation!”

Su Xing nodded with satisfaction, then silently recited:

“I choose to extract the half-step Golden Immortal cultivation… and the Spirit-Connecting Flower!”

【Ding! You have successfully extracted half-step Golden Immortal cultivation. Cost: 4,000,000 origin energy. Remaining origin energy: 2,801,344…】

【You have successfully extracted the Spirit-Connecting Flower. Cost: 1,500,000 origin energy. Remaining origin energy: 1,301,344…】

Two successive Chimes sounded, and Su Xing’s origin energy reserves plummeted.

However, Su Xing’s cultivation also began to grow at this very moment.

Within the spirit field grotto-heaven, Su Xing sat with his five centers facing the sky, carefully sensing the changes within his body.

He saw that within the previously empty Mysterious Pass aperture, wisps of luminous motes poured in.

Those motes of light continuously gathered, and at the same time, Su Xing also perceived changes in his divine soul.

Refining essence into qi…

The entire process was as calm as still water. After merely a dozen breaths, Su Xing sensed that his vital essence had become fundamentally different.

“Hah… The Human Flower of the Three Flowers Above the Crown has finally been successfully condensed!”

Su Xing nodded with satisfaction, then turned his gaze to a patch of soil nearby.

A palm-sized Spirit-Connecting Flower bloomed upon the Five Elements Soil.

After approaching it, Su Xing gave a slight nod.

“The Spirit-Connecting Flower is in hand too. Next comes condensing the Earth Flower!”

At this point, Su Xing had 1,300,000 origin energy remaining.

The fourth simulation was about to refresh as well. To ensure he wouldn’t waste any simulation attempts, Su Xing didn’t hesitate and prepared to begin a new round of simulation.

“Begin simulation!”

【Simulation #147 initiated. Current remaining origin energy: 1,301,344… Remaining simulation attempts: 3.】

【Simulation begins!】

【Drawing a gold legendary talent costs 1 origin energy. Draw?】

“Yes!”

【Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the red legendary talent Innate Dao Physique… Probability of drawing a gold talent next time: 80%…】

【Innate Dao Physique】: Red legendary talent. A rare innate Dao physique—possessing a terrifying aptitude for comprehending the Great Dao that surpasses all common understanding. A legendary physique that even Great Firmament Golden Immortals dream of obtaining.