Chapter 403 – The Terror of the Innate Dao Physique, the Foreign Races’ Strength Finally Revealed!
by spirapira“Innate Dao Physique!”
Upon seeing the newly drawn talent, Su Xing’s eyes went wide.
This was the second red-tier talent Su Xing had drawn, and also his third mythical-grade talent.
“The effects of a red-tier talent are far beyond what a gold legendary-tier can compare to…”
“Originally, my Acquired Dao Physique already let me comprehend the Great Dao several times faster than cultivators at the same level…”
“Then with the Innate Dao Physique, wouldn’t my speed of comprehending the Great Dao be over ten times that of cultivators at the same level?”
At this thought, Su Xing’s heart pounded wildly.
Currently, Su Xing’s origin energy was nearly depleted, but his simulation attempts still hadn’t been used up.
His cultivation was temporarily insufficient to bring out, but his progress in Great Dao comprehension absolutely could not fall behind!
After all, each type of Great Dao required enormous amounts of time to accumulate.
Each of Su Xing’s immersive simulations lasted seventy years. Little by little, he would eventually reach the end of the Great Dao.
“With the Innate Dao Physique, the goals for this simulation need to change!”
A thought stirred in Su Xing’s mind as his gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【Ding, please select a target for the Plus One talent enhancement…】
“I choose to enhance… the Wisdom in Foolishness talent!”
That’s right — this time Su Xing did not choose to enhance Late Bloomer. When it came purely to improving Great Dao comprehension, the Late Bloomer talent was decent, but clearly its bonus wasn’t as high as Wisdom in Foolishness.
Below was the effect of the Wisdom in Foolishness talent before enhancement.
【Wisdom in Foolishness】: Purple talent. You may normally appear simple-minded or even somewhat foolish, but at critical moments, you can draw upon previously accumulated wisdom, erupting with unprecedented intelligence and insight. This is an active talent with three freely switchable modes: “Foolish,” “Great Wisdom,” and “Mediocre.”
But as the simulation text before Su Xing’s eyes shifted, the description of the Wisdom in Foolishness talent rapidly changed.
【Wisdom in Foolishness (Enhanced)】: Gold talent. Possesses three states: Fool, Mundane, and Transcendent. Three days in Fool state can be exchanged for one day in Transcendent state. In Transcendent state, insight enjoys a tenfold boost!
“A full tenfold boost!”
Su Xing’s eyes lit up. Seeing the enhanced Wisdom in Foolishness, he knew he had made the right bet this time!
The original Wisdom in Foolishness required ten days of foolish state to exchange for one day of extraordinary insight, and it only provided a threefold insight bonus.
Now, not only had it become a three-to-one exchange rate, but the insight bonus had also increased to a full tenfold!
One had to know that the gold-tier Late Bloomer talent only provided a fivefold overall cultivation bonus, and its insight bonus was also merely fivefold.
The enhanced version of Wisdom in Foolishness was clearly more suited to Su Xing’s current goal of comprehending the Great Dao!
“Under the dual enhancement of Innate Dao Physique and Wisdom in Foolishness… I wonder just how absurd my insight has become!”
Filled with anticipation, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【In the spirit field grotto-heaven, you realized you were in a simulation.】
【You spent ten days returning to the Star Realm.】
【After collecting all three hundred thousand-plus Star Stones from the Star Realm, you returned to Earth.】
【You relocated Earth’s human race to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm…】
【You went to the Celestial Secrets Pavilion to sell intelligence…】
【Afterward, you went to the Azure Cloud Sect and conducted a trade with Qingyunzi, obtaining two cups of Dao-Enlightenment Tea.】
【You proposed to Qingyunzi that you wanted more Dao-Enlightenment Tea.】
【Qingyunzi refused…】
【Unwilling to give up, you continued proposing trades to Qingyunzi.】
【You offered to trade a spirit vein dragon for Qingyunzi’s Dao-Enlightenment Tea.】
【Qingyunzi agreed… You obtained an additional three Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves.】
【You proposed to Qingyunzi to exchange for his already-brewed Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves… Using an innate Fusang tree branch plus several other treasures, you acquired the remaining eight Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves in Qingyunzi’s possession.】
【Although you took a huge loss on this trade, you still left feeling perfectly satisfied.】
In the Real World, Su Xing raised an eyebrow at this.
“So… I could actually trade for three extra Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves!”
Su Xing drew a deep breath. Perhaps it was because Su Xing’s strength had grown — his cultivation approaching Golden Immortal gave him the standing to speak with Qingyunzi on relatively equal footing.
Or perhaps it was because the treasures Su Xing offered were truly breathtaking…
Either way, the three additional Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves were completely unexpected!
“Adding these to the previous nine… the total number of Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves in my hands has reached a full twelve!”
“Plus eight used Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves… that’s enough to refine an additional twenty Dao-Hearing Pills!”
At this thought, Su Xing could no longer contain his excitement.
He had a premonition — through comprehending the Great Dao this time, his overall strength would achieve a massive breakthrough!
“This simulation, I’ll cast aside everything else and focus solely on comprehending the Great Dao!”
With this resolve, Su Xing turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.
【Next, you traveled throughout the Azure Origin Domain, searching for the Luo Tian legacy.】
【In year forty, you found enough of the Luo Tian legacy and decided to head for the Heavenly Secrets Domain.】
【In year sixty, you successfully arrived at the Heavenly Secrets Domain.】
【Next, you traveled to the Nine Heavens Domain…】
【You arrived at the Fifth Heaven of the Heavenly Secrets Domain…】
【You found a Secret Realm within the Fifth Heaven.】
【You activated the Wisdom in Foolishness talent…】
【For the next three hundred years, you remained in the “Fool” state…】
【In year three hundred sixty, you successfully switched from Fool state to Mundane state. By now, you had accumulated a full one hundred years of “Transcendent” insight state!】
【Without further hesitation, you formally began comprehending the Great Dao…】
In the Real World, Su Xing took a deep breath at this and silently intoned:
“Activate immersive simulation… duration: one hundred years!”
【Ding, you have successfully activated immersive simulation. Cost: 36,500 origin energy points. Remaining origin energy: 1,264,844 points…】
As the Chime faded, Su Xing’s consciousness entered the simulated world.
……
The Fifth Heaven, within a concealed Secret Realm.
Su Xing laid down layer upon layer of restrictive barriers, ensuring that absolutely no one would disturb his seclusion.
Then, Su Xing produced the resources he had prepared in advance.
Hundreds of Dao essence treasures for Great Dao comprehension.
From the Five Elements Dao to the Great Dao of Space, and every other Great Dao Su Xing had ever touched upon — everything was accounted for!
A full nine Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves. One cup of freshly brewed Dao-Enlightenment Tea.
One Spirit Awakening Pill. One chance at an Inevitable Epiphany.
These were all the preparations Su Xing had made for this session of Great Dao comprehension.
Without the slightest hesitation, Su Xing drank a sip of Dao-Enlightenment Tea, activated his Wisdom in Foolishness state, and began comprehending the Great Dao of Space!
Su Xing sat cross-legged, several spatial Dao essence treasures floating before him.
As Su Xing continued his comprehension, his understanding of the Great Dao of Space deepened continuously. The profound fluctuations were so intense that the very heavens and earth within this Secret Realm seemed to shift in color.
He drank nine sips of Dao-Enlightenment Tea in succession. Accounting for the diminishing effects of each cup, eighteen years passed in the blink of an eye.
When Su Xing opened his eyes again, his comprehension of the Great Dao of Space had leaped from fourth realm Minor Mastery straight to fourth realm Major Mastery!
“Whew — in just eighteen years, the Great Dao of Space has entered Major Mastery of the fourth realm!”
Su Xing could hardly contain his joy. This feeling of continuously advancing in Great Dao comprehension was extraordinarily satisfying.
Without any hesitation, Su Xing continued his comprehension of the Great Dao of Space.
……
Another eighteen years passed, and the second cup of Dao-Enlightenment Tea was completely exhausted.
His comprehension of the Great Dao of Space had smoothly advanced to fourth realm Peak!
At this moment, he was only one step away from reaching the threshold of the fifth realm!
“Whew… my comprehension of the Great Dao has gone unexpectedly smoothly!”
Su Xing brewed the third cup of Dao-Enlightenment Tea, then continued his contemplation.
Another eighteen years passed.
The third cup of Dao-Enlightenment Tea was exhausted, and his spatial Dao had smoothly entered the fifth realm!
Invisible spatial Dao essence swirled around Su Xing.
“Great Dao of Space, fifth realm — successfully achieved!”
With a sweep of his hand, a massive mountain in the distance vanished into thin air.
Along with the mountain, the entire space it had occupied disappeared as well!
Great Dao of Space, fifth realm — Spatial Severance!
This was a true Golden Immortal-level technique!
With his spatial Dao having entered the fifth realm, Su Xing could now casually sever and capture space itself.
A thought stirred within Su Xing as he slowly extended his hand.
A miniature mountain appeared in Su Xing’s palm.
This was no model—it was a real mountain range!
That entire stretch of mountains, spanning ten li (5 km) of space, had been casually plucked up by Su Xing and spatially compressed.
If Su Xing were to catch an opponent off guard in battle and hurl this mountain at them, even an immortal would be unable to handle it.
“The power of space is this terrifying…”
“If I could extract an entire lesser world and release it with the power of space, this supernatural art could probably grievously wound even a Golden Immortal!”
Su Xing’s eyes gleamed. With the Great Dao of Space advancing into the fifth realm, he had gained yet another combat method!
Beyond that…
Su Xing took a single step and crossed a hundred thousand li (50,000 km), appearing directly in another Secret Realm within the Fifth Heaven.
“After the spatial Dao enters the fifth realm, my perception of Secret Realms, spatial dimensions, and even world coordinates has become far more sensitive…”
“Crossing between worlds in the blink of an eye no longer seems like a mere dream!”
Su Xing thought of Blood Three from back then!
He had descended from the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm to Earth.
Though he had relied on a spatial treasure, the fact that he could accomplish it meant his spatial Dao must have also successfully entered the fifth realm.
“With my current strength… I’m still not capable of crossing between worlds. But perhaps after reaching fifth realm Major Mastery, I could travel directly from the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm to Earth?!”
One had to understand that the distance between the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm and Earth spanned a full three void nodes.
Once, a Great Firmament Golden Immortal had traversed the void in the flesh without passing through void nodes, measuring the distance between two void nodes.
Each void node crossing spanned approximately one billion myriad li…
In other words, ten thousand light-years…
What Su Xing could currently accomplish was accurately traveling from one void node to another.
But he was not yet capable of crossing a billion myriad li in a single step.
“So even mighty cultivators must pass through void nodes to quickly reach another world!”
Su Xing blinked. His current travel speed could now be considered among the very best in all the Three Thousand Worlds.
The Dao of Speed and the Great Dao of Space had both entered the fifth realm!
Even among Golden Immortals, few cultivators could match Su Xing in travel speed.
A thought stirred in Su Xing’s mind. He returned to the original Secret Realm and began reviewing his Dao comprehension progress from this session.
“Three cups of Dao-Enlightenment Tea, and in merely fifty-four years, the Great Dao of Space advanced from fourth realm Minor Mastery to successfully entering the fifth realm… This speed is equivalent to a Mystic Immortal’s hundred thousand years of bitter cultivation, isn’t it?”
Su Xing did some rough calculations.
The Late Bloomer talent provided a twofold comprehension boost.
The Wisdom in Foolishness talent, after enhancement, provided a tenfold comprehension boost!
The Innate Dao Physique was another tenfold comprehension boost!
The Dao-Enlightenment Tea’s enhancement was a tenfold comprehension boost!
Most critically, these four enhancements could be multiplied together!
Setting aside personal aptitude, heavenly materials, and other factors, Su Xing’s speed of Dao comprehension was approximately two thousand times that of a cultivator at the same level!
Therefore, Su Xing’s fifty-four years of comprehension was roughly equivalent to a Mystic Immortal comprehending the spatial Dao for a hundred thousand years!
If it had been Su Xing’s previous Dao comprehension speed, seventy years of immersive simulation would have been good enough to advance from fourth realm Minor Mastery to Major Mastery at best.
“Previously during my immersive simulations, the Acquired Dao Physique gave roughly a threefold boost, Wisdom in Foolishness another threefold, Dao-Enlightenment Tea tenfold, Late Bloomer fivefold…”
“Calculated together, my previous Dao comprehension speed was approximately four hundred times that of a cultivator at the same level…”
Thinking of this, the corners of Su Xing’s mouth curved upward.
Now, he had finally found the ideal method for comprehending the Dao.
The efficiency was nearly five times what it had been before!
“However… I currently command quite a number of Great Daos, and pushing all of them into the fifth realm will still require considerable time!”
Su Xing did some calculations.
The Great Daos he had successfully advanced into the fifth realm were the Great Dao of Speed, Sword Dao, spatial Dao, and the Five Elements Dao.
Su Xing did not intend to push every single Great Dao into the fifth realm.
But the Daos of cause and effect and destiny were ones Su Xing absolutely had to advance into the fifth realm!
“Right now I still have one cup of Dao-Enlightenment Tea remaining, twenty Dao-Hearing Pills yet to be refined, and one Spontaneous Epiphany opportunity.”
“I wonder what level I can raise the Great Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny to?”
Su Xing felt a slight sense of anticipation.
The Great Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny was the most difficult Great Dao that Su Xing had mastered.
After all, whether it was cause and effect or destiny alone, each was already a top-tier Great Dao.
And comprehending these two Daos together made the difficulty even more terrifying!
Even with Su Xing’s mastery of the Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method and his Astrology talent, it still required an enormous amount of time.
“Hoo, then let me formally begin my comprehension!”
Su Xing took out the Dao essence treasures he had prepared in advance and began comprehending the Great Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny.
…
In the blink of an eye, eighteen years passed.
On this day, Su Xing slowly opened his eyes and carefully assessed his Dao comprehension progress.
“What a shame—there’s still some distance to fourth realm Minor Mastery…”
Without hesitation, Su Xing used his Inevitable Epiphany opportunity.
Ten days later, Su Xing’s Great Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny successfully reached fourth realm Minor Mastery.
As for the twenty Dao-Hearing Pills, Su Xing did not waste them either.
After spending several years fully absorbing the Dao-Hearing Pills,
Su Xing’s comprehension of the Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny was just one step away from fourth realm Major Mastery.
Between the fifth realm and the fourth realm of a Great Dao lay a qualitative difference!
If the Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny successfully entered the fifth realm, Su Xing could even pay a price to alter reality’s cause and effect on a massive scale!
…
The hundred-year immersive simulation soon concluded. Su Xing slowly opened his eyes, and after digesting the memories in his mind, nodded with satisfaction.
“Hoo… A hundred years of immersive simulation, and the spatial Dao has successfully entered the fifth realm… The Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny has also approached fourth realm Major Mastery… At most, by the next simulation, the Dao of Cause and Effect and Destiny can enter the fifth realm too!”
“This speed is equivalent to seven or eight previous immersive simulations…”
Su Xing nodded with satisfaction.
“Spending less than forty thousand origin energy, my overall strength has increased by at least thirty percent!”
“Most importantly, the improvement in travel speed… Gathering resources in the Real World will become much simpler!”
Originally, returning to the Star Realm might have taken Su Xing ten days.
But now, Su Xing could return to the Star Realm in five days at most.
If he traveled at full speed regardless of cost, he could even make it back to the Star Realm in three days.
And the travel time from the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm back to Earth would be shortened to six hours…
This undoubtedly greatly accelerated Su Xing’s rate of development.
The faster his travel speed, the wider the range Su Xing could cover.
Previously, Su Xing could only collect origin energy from a few lesser chiliocosms near Earth, while worrying about alien races and the Advent Cult “raiding his base.”
But now, Su Xing could explore dozens of lesser chiliocosms in Earth’s vicinity.
In fact, if his Dao of Speed entered the sixth realm, a trip to the Tianyuan Realm wouldn’t take much time at all.
After the tremendous improvement in Dao comprehension, Su Xing began planning his next simulation.
“I still have too little origin energy on hand right now…”
“Bringing out cultivation gains next time would be too difficult. In that case, I should focus on upgrading the lesser demon disguise’s realm instead!”
Su Xing was curious—given enough time, just how powerful would the God of Lesser Demons’ power of faith become?
His gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【Year 460: After a hundred years of closed-door cultivation, your Dao comprehension far surpassed anything before.】
【You traveled to a lesser chiliocosm in the Heavenly Secrets Domain that had been invaded by alien races, then assumed your lesser demon disguise identity.】
【You were quickly discovered by the alien races, drawing the attention of the entire Third Grand Army.】
【A True God lesser demon was enough to elevate the strength of an entire alien army by a full tier.】
【You received invitations from the Third Grand Army’s First Grand Legion.】
【The one who greeted you was a vice legion commander at the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal level. You accepted his invitation and became a vice legion commander of the First Grand Legion.】
【Over the following period, you began encouraging lesser demons to reproduce and started cultivating your own followers.】
【In the blink of an eye, forty years passed…】
【Year 500: After forty years of development, your follower count reached the billions.】
【Nearly a billion lesser demons, spread across dozens of grand legions and over a hundred worlds, ceaselessly provided you with power of faith.】
【At the same time, after forty years of investigation, you also obtained some critical intelligence!】
【The Third Grand Army was primarily responsible for invading the Heavenly Secrets Domain, commanding over two hundred grand legions in total, ranked by overall military strength.】
【The entire Third Grand Army had over thirty first-rank Divine Sovereigns, as well as two chief gods!】
【The commander of the First Grand Legion was a chief god-level member of the Shadow Tribe! He was also the patriarch of the Shadow Tribe!】
【Such terrifying strength sent a chill through your heart…】
【And armies as powerful as the Third Grand Army—the alien races had ten of them in total!】