Chapter 407 – The Lesser Demon’s Power Rises Again, Return to the Starfield Realm!
by spirapiraChapter 407 – The Lesser Demon’s Power Rises Again, Return to the Starfield Realm!
【But during these sixty years, your strength had not improved in the slightest…】
【Because with each simulation, you needed to accumulate believers from scratch, which became the greatest obstacle to your growth…】
【Fortunately, massive numbers of lesser demon believers grew wildly like weeds.】
【The speed at which you gathered faith power also gradually accelerated…】
【Time quickly reached the seven hundredth year. In a mere two hundred years, the number of your lesser demon believers had surpassed a hundred billion.】
【At the same time, you cultivated your first batch of lesser demon apostles—twenty in total. With the apostles’ support and regular sacrificial rites each year, the speed at which you obtained faith power increased even further.】
【The seeds of faith had been planted. You needed only to wait quietly for the harvest.】
【And so, another three hundred years passed…】
【In the one thousandth year, you finally accumulated sufficient faith power.】
【You mobilized all of your faith power and began advancing your realm…】
【As vast quantities of faith power were consumed, your realm advanced directly from early Third-Level Divine Mansion to mid-stage Third-Level Divine Mansion!】
【In a mere three hundred years, your strength had risen another level!】
In the real world, Su Xing nodded slightly upon seeing this.
“Tsk tsk, three hundred years to advance to mid-stage Third-Level Divine Mansion—that speed is almost too fast!”
“At this rate, perhaps one or two more simulations and the lesser demon disguise will step into Second-Level Divine Mansion… At that point, it would be equivalent to the Golden Immortal realm!”
If the lesser demon disguise reached Second-Level Divine Mansion, it would surpass Su Xing’s true body in cultivation realm, at least.
“Whew… but the speed has still slowed down somewhat…”
“Because the lesser demon disguise possesses the Calamity Divine Body, it’s very difficult to live long… and faith power needs to snowball, requiring the cultivation of ever more believers.”
“With each immersive simulation, believers need to be cultivated from scratch… Otherwise, at this pace, it would probably only take ten thousand years to become a First-Level Divine Mansion!”
Su Xing could easily imagine—if he had trillions upon trillions of lesser demon believers and tens of thousands of lesser demon apostles, just how fast would the acquisition of faith power be?
“But I still shouldn’t be too greedy. This speed is already sufficient… I wonder if this simulation can push the realm to late-stage Third-Level Divine Mansion?”
Su Xing felt a hint of anticipation and turned his gaze to the simulation panel.
【After becoming a lesser demon, you began using your faith power in a planned manner.】
【The first portion of faith power needed to ensure the nurturing of lesser demon apostles. At mid-stage Third-Level Divine Mansion, the number of lesser demon apostles you could cultivate reached fifty.】
【Merely cultivating this batch of apostles, starting from zero, would require you to accumulate for nearly three hundred years…】
【But the benefits were obvious—more apostles multiplied the speed at which you harvested faith power several times over.】
【And so, over the next hundred years, you expanded the number of apostles to fifty, then waited for the next harvest of faith power.】
【Time quickly reached the eleven hundredth year. That year, news arrived from the Southern Barbaric Domain—the Six-Winged Sovereign personally invited you to come to the Southern Barbaric Domain.】
【But you knew that after going to the Southern Barbaric Domain, you would need to cultivate believers all over again, which would not benefit your realm advancement.】
【So you refused the Six-Winged Sovereign and focused on improving your cultivation…】
【Though the Six-Winged Sovereign was somewhat displeased, your status was what it was—countless foreign races needed to curry favor with you.】
【Still, you dispatched several lesser demon apostles to the Southern Barbaric Domain to prevent the Six-Winged Sovereign from constantly pestering you.】
【And so, another three hundred years passed…】
【The tree of faith was once again laden with sufficient fruits of faith—even more than before.】
【Without hesitation, you absorbed all the fruits of faith and converted them into cultivation…】
【But this time, even after consuming all your faith power, you remained one step away from late-stage Third-Level Divine Mansion.】
【You immediately understood—as your realm advanced, the divine power required continued to increase.】
【Even with abundant faith power, the speed inevitably slowed.】
In the real world, Su Xing breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.
“As expected, on any cultivation path under heaven, the further you go, the harder it gets. The cultivation speed slowing down is actually more reasonable…”
Though Su Xing felt some regret, he knew this was normal.
Going forward, he only needed to cultivate steadily, and he should be able to advance to late-stage Third-Level Divine Mansion.
【In the fourteen hundredth year, the exhaustion of faith power made it impossible for you to respond to your believers’ requests in time. In just a hundred years, the frequency of your “divine manifestations” noticeably decreased, and believers began reducing their sacrificial offerings.】
【This, in turn, further slowed the speed at which you harvested faith power.】
【You learned from this lesson and resolved that in the future, you needed to reserve a portion of faith power as a tool for responding to believers and maintaining their faith.】
【Fortunately, faith power recovered quickly.】
【In just a hundred years, the tree of faith bore quite a few new fruits.】
【In the fifteen hundredth year, the Six-Winged Sovereign sent word that the entire Southern Barbaric Domain had essentially been invaded.】
【Upon hearing this news, you sighed. Indeed, without your “assistance,” the Southern Barbaric Domain fell even faster.】
【This news did not discourage you. You continued to lie low and cultivate.】
【But as time passed, you unexpectedly discovered that the stronger your realm became, the more unlucky you became…】
【You understood—this was the terror of the Calamity Divine Body. The higher the cultivation realm, the greater the impact of misfortune!】
【In just a hundred years, you had already suffered multiple assassination attempts by human cultivators, each one a human powerhouse at the Golden Immortal level!】
【Fortunately, you had always remained vigilant, so you simply hid in your base camp, eating, drinking, and enjoying yourself, occasionally responding to your believers’ needs while waiting for faith power to accumulate again.】
【And so, another two hundred years passed…】
【In the seventeen hundredth year, the number of your believers had surpassed one trillion.】
【You mobilized the faith power accumulated over several centuries and directly advanced your realm to late-stage Third-Level Divine Mansion!】
【Divine power surged rapidly, and your comprehension of laws also advanced swiftly.】
【…】
【In the nineteen hundredth year, you received a mission to invade a Great Thousand World. You figured this would be a good opportunity to influence the speed of the foreign race invasion.】
【So you eagerly followed the legion into battle.】
【But you never expected that this foreign legion would fall into a human ambush. The one who struck was none other than the Grand Luo Golden Immortal—the White Emperor!】
【The White Emperor’s target this time was precisely you!】
【He knew full well the terror of a lesser demon at the Divine Mansion level…】
【And so, he personally assassinated you…】
【Under the White Emperor’s assassination, you had not the slightest power to resist.】
【You died!】
【Ding, this simulation has ended!】
“Just short of two thousand years, what a pity… Next time, I must make sure to use up all faith power before this time point, or it’ll be a waste!”
Su Xing silently noted the timing.
But he also felt somewhat helpless about this.
After becoming a foreign race, being targeted by human powerhouses was inevitable.
But this didn’t really matter. The key point was that Su Xing’s goal for this simulation had once again been perfectly achieved.
“Let’s see the rewards from this simulation first!”
His gaze turned to the reward list.
【Pure Marrow Jade Body】: Purple talent, priced at 1 point of energy origin.
【Spirit Domain Cultivation Results】: A seven-thousand-li (3,500 km) spirit domain, beginning to gradually transform from a spirit domain toward spirit realm level. The spirit domain’s influence on reality is stronger. Priced at 100,000 energy origin.
【200,000 Spirit Gathering Flowers】: Wondrous treasures nurtured by heaven and earth, capable of increasing spiritual energy. Priced at 20,000 energy origin.
Without the slightest hesitation—this simulation’s talent was only purple-grade, so Su Xing had absolutely no need to bring it out.
“I choose to bring out the spirit domain cultivation results and the 200,000 Spirit Gathering Flowers…”
【You have successfully brought out the spirit domain cultivation results. Cost: 100,000 energy origin. Remaining energy origin: 1,028,244 points…】
【You have successfully brought out 200,000 Spirit Gathering Flowers. Cost: 20,000 energy origin. Remaining energy origin: 1,008,244 points…】
As the successive chimes fell, Su Xing felt his spirit domain grow several degrees more powerful.
At the same time, the range of his Spirit Field Grotto-Heaven expanded further, reaching a radius of seven thousand li (3,500 km).
Originally, Su Xing’s Spirit Field Grotto-Heaven already contained nearly 500,000 Spirit Gathering Flowers. Adding the newly obtained 200,000, the total reached over 700,000.
“It’s a shame the Spirit Field Grotto-Heaven’s range is too vast. If it were confined to a smaller area…”
“Perhaps the grotto would surpass the grotto-heaven level and become what legends call a Grand Grotto-Heaven…”
“At that point, my cultivation speed would probably be even faster!”
In ancient times, when Saints walked the world, legends spoke of Ten Grand Grotto-Heavens, Three Hundred Lesser Grotto-Heavens, and countless Blessed Lands in the Upper Realm…
Among them, Grand Grotto-Heavens possessed terrifyingly abundant spiritual energy. Legend had it that if you placed a container beneath a plant, by the next day the dew that dripped from the plant would be supreme-grade spirit liquid!
Such dwellings were fit only for Grand Luo Golden Immortals to reside in!
If Su Xing could transform his Spirit Field Grotto-Heaven into a Grand Grotto-Heaven, not only would his cultivation speed increase dramatically, he would also gain an inexhaustible supply of spirit liquid.
“But forming a Grand Grotto-Heaven isn’t that easy… It would probably require setting up higher-level formations to condense spiritual energy…”
Su Xing estimated that with his current mastery of formation arts, he was still somewhat lacking.
“The matter of the Grand Grotto-Heaven can wait… What I urgently need right now is energy origin!”
Su Xing glanced at the simulation panel. His energy origin was already about to drop below one million points.
“So next, I must obtain a large sum of energy origin as quickly as possible…”
Su Xing didn’t hesitate. He extended his hand, tore open space, and stepped through into the void.
Then he took out the Star-Sun-Moon Shuttle, transforming into a streak of light as he raced toward the Starfield Realm.
…
In the blink of an eye, five days passed.
During these five days, Su Xing traveled day and night, finally arriving at the Starfield Realm.
Returning to the Purple Radiance Tribe, everything here was the same as before.
After all, Su Xing had only been gone for a little over twenty days.
Soon, the Star Slave elder appeared before Su Xing and invited him to attend the Starfield Assembly.
Su Xing hadn’t wanted to attend, but then he remembered that this assembly was crucial to his future acquisition of energy origin, so he had no choice but to go.
Before long, Su Xing appeared in the great hall of the Purple Radiance Tribe.
The once-empty divine hall was now packed with several thousand cultivators.
These cultivators all hailed from various major tribes—they were the tribal representatives who had come to attend the Starfield Assembly.
…
The moment Su Xing appeared in the divine hall, the somewhat noisy hall gradually fell silent.
Su Xing thought for a moment, then walked before the assembled cultivators and declared in a clear, resonant voice:
“Thank you all for attending the Starfield Assembly… As you may have guessed, I am the Lord of the Starfield…”
“I am also the colossal giant you saw before…”
The moment these words left his mouth, the cultivators from the various tribes below erupted in excitement.
Though they had anticipated it, hearing Su Xing personally confirm it still filled them with fervor.
This first batch of cultivators to arrive, whether or not they had been moved by Su Xing’s Body Forging Art and Minor Heavenly Cycle Star Gazing Method, surely still maintained reverence and faith toward the Lord of the Starfield.
After Su Xing revealed himself, he spoke a few simple words.
The general gist was: follow me faithfully, and in the future you’ll live the good life—realm advancement, cultivation resources, beautiful celestial maidens—all of it will come in time!
Su Xing had heard this kind of talk countless times in his past life.
But now that he was the one saying it, he found it rather amusing.
Moreover, with the boost of “Master of Success Philosophy” and his own realm and strength far surpassing the tribal representatives below, the assembly delegates quickly submitted to Su Xing from the bottom of their hearts.
This scene left the Star Slave at the side completely stunned.
He had originally thought Su Xing wouldn’t handle this situation well and had been wondering if he’d need to step in personally to win them over. Now it seemed he had been overthinking things entirely.
“Truly worthy of the Lord of the Starfield—not only is his cultivation peerless, but his charisma is equally formidable…” the Star Slave elder murmured from his corner, quietly watching the scene unfold with deep emotion.
Soon, an hour passed. The several thousand cultivators present had been subjected to a full hour of Su Xing’s persuasion.
Seeing that the timing was right, Su Xing didn’t beat around the bush and said directly:
“Ahem, since everyone is in agreement… then let me bring out the Grand Shaman Body Forging Art and the Minor Heavenly Cycle Star Gazing Method… These are surely what you all need!”
“Every single one of you, every tribe, will receive jade slip copies of these two techniques.”
“But in return, I will also need some Star Stones from you… Star Stones are vital to the fortunes of our Star Shaman race…”
The moment Su Xing finished speaking, a tribal representative nearby called out:
“My lord, why even mention it?”
“My Dire Wolf Tribe is willing to contribute all our Star Stones—8,679 in total!”
“My Skyfall Tribe is willing to contribute 3,216 Star Stones…”
“My lord, our Creek Gathering Tribe is rather poor. We didn’t prepare many Star Stones—only a little over five hundred… We’ll make up the rest later!”
“My lord…”
…
As voices rose one after another throughout the divine hall, representatives from nearly two hundred tribes expressed their willingness to offer Star Stones.
Su Xing watched this scene with satisfaction and gave the Star Slave a knowing look.
The Star Slave quickly understood and arranged for his subordinates to collect each tribe’s Star Stones one by one.
…
After the assembly concluded, Su Xing returned to his room.
Taking out the storage pouch brimming with Star Stones, Su Xing took a deep breath and said:
“I never expected to receive even more Star Stones this time than in the simulation… Was my speech earlier really that impressive?”
This time, Su Xing had obtained a total of over 390,000 Star Stones.
Nearly a third more than in the simulation.
Without the slightest hesitation, Su Xing attempted to convert the Star Stones into energy origin.
The simulator’s chime sounded in his ears…
【Ding…】