Chapter 418 – Great Shaman Body Forging Art Sixth Layer, Celestial Primordial Fruit’s Boundless Uses!

Chapter 418: Great Shaman Body Forging Art Sixth Layer, Celestial Primordial Fruit’s Boundless Uses!

【Two hundred years in the outside world, yet within the Luotian Realm, six thousand years had already passed…】

【Standing a full several dozen zhang tall, the sky-blotting Celestial Primordial Tree stood within the Luotian Sect’s grounds. Throughout the entire surrounding area, an aura of serene harmony permeated the air.】

【To say nothing of consuming the Celestial Primordial Tree’s fruit—merely cultivating beneath the tree made you feel a slight improvement in your Body Tempering cultivation.】

【After tens of millions of years, this divine tree that countless Great Shamans once dreamed of possessing had finally been fully revived in your hands!】

【However, the fruit upon the divine tree had yet to be born…】

【At this moment, flowers had begun to bloom upon the lush green leaves… These blossoms would wither after a thousand years, and only after three thousand years would the Celestial Primordial Tree’s fruit fully ripen.】

【And so, during the time that followed, you continued planting Spirit-Gathering Flowers and studying the Formation Dao within the Luotian Realm.】

【Inside and outside the Luotian Realm, there was a full thirty-fold time differential. Though you could not directly cultivate, you could comprehend and study the various Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation.】

【After the previous hundred years of study, your comprehension of the Formation Dao had greatly improved, and you formally crossed into the realm of Formation Dao Grandmaster.】

【In your hands, you could even arrange fourteenth-tier spirit-gathering formations. Just one more step forward, and you would be able to arrange fifteenth-tier spirit-gathering formations—at that point, you would be a bona fide Formation Dao Paragon.】

In the Real World, Su Xing’s eyes lit up when he saw this.

“That’s right! The Luotian Realm has a thirty-fold time differential with the outside. Though I can’t directly cultivate inside, I can study the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation… That’s equivalent to having thirty times more time for research!”

Su Xing’s interest was immediately piqued.

Improving one’s Formation Dao cultivation was no easy feat. A truly top-tier Formation Dao expert—a Paragon capable of arranging sixteenth-tier formations—held a status no less than that of a Golden Immortal.

And every single Formation Dao Paragon, without exception, required tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years of painstaking study.

For Su Xing, wanting to artificially create a Grand Grotto-Heaven that could produce immortal liquid… was undoubtedly extremely difficult.

“In ancient times, all grotto-heavens, large and small, were naturally formed. They either possessed rare and precious treasures, or were located at nexus points between heaven and earth… Otherwise, it would be impossible for spiritual energy to be so abundant.”

“But now, the natural formation of a Grand Grotto-Heaven is virtually impossible… Only a Formation Dao Paragon would have the slightest chance of constructing one…”

“And even an ordinary Formation Dao Paragon probably couldn’t manage it. At minimum, one would need to be capable of arranging a seventeenth-tier spirit-gathering formation…”

Su Xing pondered. A Paragon capable of arranging a seventeenth-tier spirit-gathering formation would hold a status equal to or even higher than a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal.

Combined with Su Xing’s ample supply of Spirit-Gathering Flowers and the assistance of the Spirit Vein Dragon—

With all three factors combined, perhaps Su Xing could truly construct a Grand Grotto-Heaven!

Once the Grand Grotto-Heaven was successfully constructed, Su Xing’s cultivation speed would inevitably increase severalfold, saving him countless years of cultivation.

“So for this simulation, aside from nurturing the Celestial Primordial Tree, the goal is to improve my Formation Dao Comprehension…”

“There are still several hundred years remaining. Converted to time within the Luotian Realm, that’s well over ten thousand years… That should be enough, right?”

Su Xing thought to himself as his gaze turned to the simulation panel.

【Time quickly arrived at the three hundredth year!】

【Within the Luotian Realm, a full nine thousand years had already passed…】

【This year, the Celestial Primordial Tree finally bore delightful Celestial Primordial Fruits, each the size of a fist—plump and round.】

【You counted them. Upon the great Celestial Primordial Tree, there were a total of forty-nine Celestial Primordial Fruits.】

【This was exactly as recorded in the ancient texts: six thousand years to mature, bearing fruit once every three thousand years… Each harvest yielding seven times seven, forty-nine fruits. Only the strongest and most promising warriors of the Wu Clan would be bestowed fruit from the Celestial Primordial Tree.】

【But such precious fruit—you could enjoy forty-nine of them every hundred years!】

【You plucked all the Celestial Primordial Tree’s fruit one by one, but did not rush to consume them.】

【Because that year, within the White Cloud Realm, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s Celestial Vessel successfully entered the realm.】

【You boarded the Celestial Vessel together with the Bai siblings.】

【In the three hundred and twentieth year, the Celestial Vessel was ambushed by a foreign race.】

【In this battle, you performed brilliantly. With Three Flowers gathered Above the Crown, you displayed astonishing power, single-handedly slaying hundreds of foreign-race Divine Sovereigns, and even killing two second-rank Divine Sovereigns.】

【After this battle, you became famous in a single fight, ascending the Prodigy List to rank eighteenth on the Earth Ranking!】

【At the same time, you received an invitation from the White Emperor and became an Elder of the Celestial Secrets Pavilion.】

【In the three hundred and thirtieth year, you safely arrived at the Celestial Secrets Realm, where you purchased a cave dwelling in Celestial Secrets City and settled down.】

【Apart from occasionally going out on missions, you devoted most of your attention to improving your own cultivation.】

【…】

【Within the Luotian Realm, the Celestial Primordial Tree continued to grow vigorously. In its mature stage, the Celestial Primordial Tree possessed astonishing vitality and required no care whatsoever.】

【You took out the forty-nine Celestial Primordial Fruits you had previously obtained and formally prepared to cultivate.】

【Beneath the Celestial Primordial Tree, you consumed one Celestial Primordial Fruit and felt a warm current enter your body. Without you even noticing, your life force surged by thirty percent.】

【At the same time, it was as though a small flame was burning in your dantian. The flame gradually transformed, ultimately becoming a stream of pure primordial energy that was planted within your body.】

【Simultaneously, you felt that within the qi sea of your dantian, the primordial energy flower was rapidly changing.】

【The brilliantly blooming primordial energy flower actually withered in an instant, ultimately regressing back to the form of a seed.】

【Alarmed by the sight, you examined yourself carefully, only to discover that your primordial energy hadn’t developed any major problems. On the contrary, it had become even more pure.】

【At the same time, you felt that your primordial energy had taken on a certain wondrous quality—a quality difficult to articulate, yet one that made your primordial energy feel incomparably stronger than before.】

【You turned your divine sense inward, sensing the seed of primordial energy within your qi sea, and a vague premonition arose in your heart.】

【When this seed truly broke through the soil and sprouted, you would be able to advance further—the Great Shaman Body Forging Art would henceforth enter the sixth layer!】

In the Real World, Su Xing felt a surge of joy when he saw this.

A single Celestial Primordial Fruit had caused his primordial energy to undergo a qualitative transformation, returning to simplicity and reverting to the form of a seed of primordial energy!

“Tsk tsk, when the seed of primordial energy blooms again, it probably won’t be a primordial energy flower—it will have become a Celestial Primordial Tree!”

A gleam of brilliance flashed in Su Xing’s eyes.

In the Luotian Sect’s Scripture Pavilion, ancient texts had recorded:

In the primordial era, the Wu Clan possessed the Celestial Primordial Tree, which matured once every three thousand years, bearing forty-nine fruits.

All Wu Clan cultivators who had reached the peak of Mystic Immortal were eligible to compete, selecting the strongest forty-nine Wu Clan warriors.

Only those forty-nine Wu Clan warriors could obtain one Celestial Primordial Fruit and thereby complete the sublimation of their primordial energy.

“But the second blooming of the seed of primordial energy is extraordinarily difficult, requiring an immense amount of time… For the Wu Clan, without external intervention and relying solely on one’s own cultivation, it would take a hundred thousand years or even several hundred thousand years for the seed of primordial energy to grow into a sapling of the Celestial Primordial Tree.”

“Only the Wu Clan, whose lifespans are more than ten times that of the human race, could endure such an agonizingly long wait…”

Su Xing murmured.

An ordinary cultivator at the peak of Mystic Immortal had a lifespan of only a few hundred thousand years at most—how could they possibly afford to wait?

Asking Su Xing to wait a hundred thousand or even several hundred thousand years was even more out of the question.

“So the only option is to rely on Celestial Primordial Fruits to accelerate the growth of the seed of primordial energy!”

Long story short, Su Xing’s approach was simply to throw resources at the problem!

The fruit that other Great Shamans could only dream of—something they had but a slim chance of obtaining before advancing to Golden Immortal—

Su Xing could have forty-nine of them every hundred years!

Therefore, Su Xing planned to continuously invest Celestial Primordial Fruits to rapidly break through to the sixth layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art!

“Fortunately, I chose to plant the Celestial Primordial Tree… Otherwise, where would I find so many fruits?”

Su Xing thought to himself as his gaze turned to the simulation panel.

【With an ample supply of Celestial Primordial Fruits, you had no intention of waiting.】

【Instead, you chose to brute-force your breakthrough to the sixth layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art by piling on resources!】

【From then on, you consumed one Celestial Primordial Fruit every two years in real time… A hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.】

【In the four hundredth year, all forty-nine Celestial Primordial Fruits had been consumed, and your Body Tempering cultivation finally broke through to the sixth layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art!】

【Within your dantian’s qi sea, that tiny seed of primordial energy finally burst forth—much like a Celestial Primordial Tree that had just sprouted, barely the size of a thumb.】

【But even so, both the total quantity and quality of your primordial energy far surpassed what they had been before.】

【Congratulations, your Great Shaman Body Forging Art has successfully entered the sixth layer!】

【And this year, the second batch of Celestial Primordial Fruits had also ripened…】

In the Real World, Su Xing beamed with joy when he saw this.

“Finally, the Great Shaman Body Forging Art has successfully entered the sixth layer… I wonder just how much my strength has increased!”

With the Great Shaman Body Forging Art entering the sixth layer, Su Xing’s Qi Refinement cultivation had also entered the realm of Golden Immortal.

Combining the two, Su Xing’s strength should rank among the best even among Peak Golden Immortals, shouldn’t it?

“Perhaps I now deserve a place in the top five of the Earth Ranking…”

Su Xing sighed with emotion. Thankfully, the Celestial Primordial Fruits had saved him those long, drawn-out years.

Forty-nine Celestial Primordial Fruits, a hundred years in reality, and a full three thousand years within the Luotian Realm.

Even with Su Xing’s considerable talent, under normal circumstances it would have taken a hundred thousand years to enter the sixth layer.

In other words, a single Celestial Primordial Fruit had saved Su Xing roughly two thousand years…

“And every hundred years, I can harvest another batch of Celestial Primordial Fruits…”

“What lies ahead is a period of explosive growth in my Body Tempering cultivation!”

Su Xing estimated that at this pace, perhaps within just two simulations, his Body Tempering cultivation could advance from entry-level sixth layer to Minor Mastery of the sixth layer…

However, Su Xing couldn’t possibly devote an entire simulation solely to improving his Body Tempering cultivation. At the very least, Great Dao comprehension had to be extracted through immersive simulation.

“For one simulation, let’s calculate based on nine hundred years.”

“The first batch of Celestial Primordial Fruits ripens at the three hundredth year, and after that I can harvest at least six batches of Celestial Primordial Fruits, totaling 295 fruits…”

“But the prerequisite is maintaining the Luotian Realm’s thirty-fold time differential at all times, which is no small expenditure for me…”

Su Xing mused thoughtfully.

“I wonder how much origin energy the sixth layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art requires… Perhaps it’s the same as the first tier of Golden Immortal, requiring ten million origin energy?”

Su Xing glanced at his remaining origin energy on the panel—barely over two million.

The current situation was that Su Xing’s rate of energy acquisition simply couldn’t keep pace with the growth of his strength.

He had to acquire more origin energy as soon as possible.

“Let me finish this simulation first…”

“For the next hundred years, I need to comprehend the Great Dao…”

Su Xing’s spatial Dao was drawing ever closer to the sixth realm, and he couldn’t afford to slack off in that regard either.

And so, Su Xing silently intoned:

“Activate immersive simulation, duration: one hundred years…”

【Ding, you have successfully… remaining origin energy: 2,200,956 points…】

The Chime’s notification faded, and Su Xing’s consciousness entered the simulated world.

…

Within the simulation timeline, Su Xing temporarily halted the Luotian Realm’s accelerated time flow.

The mana expenditure required to maintain the thirty-fold time differential had a certain negative impact on Su Xing’s Great Dao comprehension.

Taking out his Dao-Enlightenment Tea and the Great Dao comprehension treasures he had prepared in advance, Su Xing began to comprehend the Great Dao of Space.

In the blink of an eye, thirty-six years passed.

After two cups of Dao-Enlightenment Tea were completely exhausted, Su Xing’s comprehension of the spatial Dao successfully advanced to Major Mastery of the fifth realm!

The remaining two cups of Dao-Enlightenment Tea, combined with the Inevitable Epiphany and ten Dao-Hearing Pills, took Su Xing a full sixty years to fully digest.

…

Returning to reality, Su Xing slowly opened his eyes and reflected upon his comprehension of the spatial Dao.

“A hundred years of immersive simulation… I’m only one step away from the peak of the fifth realm of the spatial Dao.”

“Next time I use immersive simulation, I might officially enter the sixth realm!”

At this thought, Su Xing felt a surge of excitement.

The sixth realm of the spatial Dao was a level of mastery that only Supreme Unity Golden Immortals could command.

If Su Xing mastered it ahead of time, the boost to his combat power would be enormous.

Su Xing was confident that once his spatial Dao entered the sixth realm, his overall strength could break into the top three of the Earth Ranking!

“As for defeating Fairy Ziling and achieving the strength to claim the number one spot on the Earth Ranking…”

Su Xing shook his head slightly. That would probably have to wait until his Body Tempering and Qi Refinement cultivation improved further.

“Speaking of which, there’s still not enough Dao-Enlightenment Tea!”

“Twelve Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaves in total, only enough to brew four cups—at most, that covers seventy-two years.”

“I need to try out the Luotian Realm’s ability to replicate the Dao-Enlightenment Tea as well.”

Su Xing had already achieved his goal for this simulation: advancing his Body Tempering cultivation to the sixth layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art.

The Celestial Primordial Tree had also been successfully cultivated.

So the next step was to test the Luotian Mirror’s replication ability.

After all, Su Xing currently didn’t have enough energy, so this was more of an experimental attempt—laying the groundwork for future simulations.

With this in mind, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【In the five hundredth year, you emerged from seclusion, your comprehension of the spatial Dao having improved dramatically.】

【Next, you entered the Luotian Realm and began attempting to replicate the Dao-Enlightenment Tea.】

【The Dao-Enlightenment Tea was an innate treasure, taken from the leaves of the divine Dao-Enlightenment Tree—a marvel born of heaven and earth’s creation. Without a heaven-defying treasure like the Luotian Mirror, replication would be utterly impossible.】

【Even so, replicating the Dao-Enlightenment Tea required an enormous expenditure of effort on your part.】

【Over the next hundred years, every few days you would pour nearly half of your mana into it. Within the Luotian Mirror’s core, a single verdant tea leaf was gradually taking shape.】

【A hundred years passed in the blink of an eye…】

【During this century, aside from replicating the Dao-Enlightenment Tea leaf, you devoted yourself to studying the Formation Dao…】

【Through relentless research and your own exceptional talent for the Formation Dao, you were finally able to successfully arrange fifteenth-tier spirit-gathering formations…】

【Congratulations, you have successfully become a Formation Dao Paragon!】