Chapter 446 – Encountering the “Death Wasteland,” Arriving at the Celestial Demon Domain!

Su Xing silently did the math in his head.

The fifteen leaves of Dao-Enlightenment Tea per simulation, combined with talent bonuses like Late Bloomer, would bring terrifying improvements!

Though as Su Xing’s cultivation continued to rise, the talent bonuses weren’t as terrifying as they had been at the beginning.

After all, the higher one’s cultivation, the more terrifying the innate talents of cultivators at the same level became.

For example, compared to True Immortals and Celestial Immortals, Golden Immortals and Supreme Unity Golden Immortals underwent earth-shattering transformations in both aptitude and comprehension!

But Su Xing’s own “base comprehension” could only be described as average.

Never mind comparing himself to those True Immortals and Celestial Immortals — even compared to cultivators who could achieve immortality, he likely fell short.

But fortunately, under the enhancement of various talents, Su Xing’s “base comprehension” had been amplified dozens or even hundreds of times over!

Yet as Su Xing’s realm rose and the competition in comprehension among same-level cultivators grew increasingly fierce, this advantage was gradually diminishing.

To close this gap, Su Xing needed higher-tier talents to support him.

Such as red-tier comprehension talents and so on…

But that required a certain degree of luck — something Su Xing couldn’t choose for himself.

“Although my base comprehension and aptitude can only be called average… the sheer number of talents and resources I have more than makes up for it!”

The corner of Su Xing’s mouth curved upward.

He did some rough calculations. In the Golden Immortal realm, with all his various talent bonuses, his comprehension efficiency for each session was basically ten times that of cultivators at the same level!

And if he factored in the bonuses from Late Bloomer and Dao-Enlightenment Tea…

“One cup of Dao-Enlightenment Tea, eighteen years of comprehension… that’s roughly equivalent to ten thousand years of bitter cultivation for a Golden Immortal…”

“Five cups of Dao-Enlightenment Tea, lasting ninety years, roughly equivalent to fifty thousand years of comprehension…”

“And with the Wisdom in Foolishness talent bonus, that’s equivalent to a hundred thousand years of bitter cultivation!”

“Plus seventy Dao-Hearing Pills… and one opportunity for an Inevitable Epiphany…”

Su Xing calculated that if he chose to run an immersive simulation for a hundred years under the Late Bloomer enhancement, exhausting all these comprehension resources, it would roughly equal a hundred thousand years of bitter cultivation!

And with the “enhanced Wisdom in Foolishness” bonus, not counting cultivation advancement, it would roughly equal… two hundred thousand years of comprehension for a Golden Immortal cultivator!

“And my true advantage… is the endless simulation opportunities!”

“You could say that every single simulation is a free hundred thousand years of comprehension!”

“If I get a hundred simulation opportunities… that’s equivalent to ten million years of simulation!”

“Even the seventh realm — I could give it a shot!”

At this thought, Su Xing’s emotions surged with excitement.

“After my cultivation enters Peak Golden Immortal… it will probably be difficult to break through to Supreme Unity in a short time…”

“Not for any other reason, but because I won’t have enough origin energy!”

“At that point… if I want to further increase my strength, what I’ll be relying on… is nothing other than Great Dao comprehension!”

“With just a few dozen simulations… it’ll be enough for me to advance all the Great Daos I’ve mastered into the sixth realm!”

“When that time comes, my combat power will absolutely reach a terrifying level!”

Currently, the Great Daos that Su Xing had studied were:

Sword Dao (sixth realm), Five Elements Dao (sixth realm), Great Dao of Space (sixth realm), Great Dao of Thunder (fifth realm), Great Dao of Destiny (fifth realm), Great Dao of Karma (fifth realm), Great Dao of Speed (fifth realm), Great Dao of Strength (fourth realm), Great Dao of Killing (fourth realm), Yin-Yang Great Dao (first realm).

In total, ten Great Daos!

And more than half of them belonged to the top-tier Great Dao level!

Throughout all of history, whether any cultivator had simultaneously cultivated seven Great Daos and raised them all to the sixth realm, Su Xing didn’t know.

But Su Xing could be certain that all Golden Immortals, including the vast majority of Supreme Unity Golden Immortals, could never accomplish this!

Only those Supreme Unity cultivators who had lived for tens of millions of years and had given up hope of advancing further might have turned their attention to Great Dao comprehension.

Or perhaps those Great Firmament Golden Immortals who had lived for who knows how long would also have the time to simultaneously comprehend so many Great Daos.

And their combat power was essentially unmatched within their realm!

“If my cultivation rises to Peak Golden Immortal… combined with ten Great Daos all entering the sixth realm, even a mid-stage Supreme Unity Golden Immortal powerhouse — I might not be unable to contend with one!”

“And if I break through to Supreme Unity… my combat power would likely rival that of a late-stage Supreme Unity Golden Immortal!”

“One day… at the Supreme Unity realm, matching a Great Firmament — that would no longer be a pipe dream!”

At this thought, a spark of wild ambition ignited in Su Xing’s heart!

At the Supreme Unity realm, to battle a Great Firmament and win…

Throughout all of history, it had never been done!

Across the Three Thousand Worlds, there might be peerless prodigies — like those ranked at the top of the Heaven Ranking.

Slaying Mahayana cultivators while at the Golden Core realm — perhaps some had accomplished that before.

But a Supreme Unity slaying a Great Firmament… that was utterly unheard of!

To put it plainly, the higher one cultivated, reaching the Supreme Unity and Great Firmament levels — who among them wasn’t a peerless prodigy, someone who once slaughtered enemies above their level as easily as eating and drinking?

Everyone was a peerless prodigy… and you want to kill me across realms? Do I not have any dignity?

Therefore… even the number one on the Prodigy List’s Heaven Ranking, at the peak of Supreme Unity, could at most fight a Great Firmament to a draw.

And that was only against those “newly ascended Great Firmaments” who had become Great Firmament for no more than a few million years.

Like Blood Two…

Against veteran Great Firmaments like the White Emperor or Qingyunzi, there wouldn’t even be a chance to fight back!

“But if I… maintain this terrifying level of dominance all the way to the peak of Supreme Unity…”

“I might become the first cultivator in all of history to slay a Great Firmament while at the Supreme Unity realm!”

“And what about one day… when I ascend to Great Firmament Golden Immortal?”

At this thought, Su Xing’s heart raced!

In the current cultivation world, the holy path was severed and Saints no longer appeared.

The strongest combat forces were merely Great Firmament Golden Immortals and half-saints…

If Su Xing could always maintain sufficient dominance over his peers, after ascending to Great Firmament, he could likely directly rival veteran Great Firmament Golden Immortals!

With a few more years of accumulation, perhaps he could stand at the very pinnacle of combat power in this world!

“Hah, but… this is merely the safest strategy…”

“If there’s an opportunity to glimpse the holy path, I’ll naturally give it everything I have!”

Su Xing understood that all his current accumulation was so he could walk further along the path of Dao!

After all, the simulator’s greatest advantage was giving Su Xing infinite opportunities to make mistakes and accumulate experience.

“The future may be bright… but I should focus on raising my cultivation realm first!”

Su Xing reined in his thoughts and turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【Time quickly arrived at the three-hundredth year.】

【This year, the Celestial Primordial Tree matured… and you also boarded the Celestial Vessel bound for the Celestial Secrets Realm.】

【Over the following two hundred years, you cultivated as always, accumulating contribution points within the Celestial Secrets Pavilion…】

【Time quickly arrived at the five-hundredth year!】

【This year, Fairy Ziling ascended to Supreme Unity… and you became first on the Earth Ranking.】

【At mid-stage Golden Immortal Seventh Stage… with the Primordial Energy Tree within your body at four zhang (13.32 m) and eight chi (2.66 m), and your Spirit Realm spanning forty thousand li (20,000 km), your strength further increased…】

【During these two hundred years, you also began searching for a way to reach the Celestial Demon Prison.】

【The Heavenly Secrets Domain was located at the center of the Five Great Domains. To its west lay the Celestial Demon Domain, one of the Five Great Domains and also the location of the Celestial Demon Prison’s headquarters.】

【But to travel from the Heavenly Secrets Domain to the Celestial Demon Prison required crossing the vast Endless Sea — one even more difficult to traverse than the Endless Sea from the Azure Origin Domain.】

【Most perilous of all, between the Heavenly Secrets Domain and the Celestial Demon Prison lay a region known as the “Death Wasteland.”】

【According to intelligence, the Death Wasteland was not a fixed region, but rather a tide formed by countless terrifying alien races, roaming about like raving demons.】

【If one was unfortunate enough to encounter this tide, even a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal would have only a one-in-ten chance of survival!】

【Even without encountering the Death Wasteland, at the speed of a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal, it would still take a thousand years to reach the Celestial Demon Prison.】

【To arrive in a shorter time, one would need to obtain a safe navigation route through this stretch of the Endless Sea and pass through void nodes to cross vast distances in short periods of time…】

【But the problem was that navigation routes through this stretch of the Endless Sea were extremely difficult to find.】

【You investigated for nearly two hundred years and leveraged the power of the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, but the information and routes you obtained were pitifully few… not enough to guarantee safe passage.】

【Under these circumstances, you could only place your hopes on the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master…】

【At this point, Fairy Ziling had already ascended to Supreme Unity, and you became the undisputed first place on the Earth Ranking.】

【With your accumulated contribution points, you had enough to enter the Mirror of The Void… though you could not use the Mirror of The Void’s method of severing the power of time…】

【After several days of deliberation, you decided to head to the Mirror of The Void…】

【Upon arriving at the Mirror of The Void, you quickly heard the voice of the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master, and under her guidance, entered the Primordial Void Realm…】

【After entering the Primordial Void Realm, you posed the question that had been weighing on your mind — the optimal route from the Heavenly Secrets Domain to the Celestial Demon Prison!】

【The Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master fell silent for a moment after hearing this, seemingly performing divinations…】

【Moments later, an optimal route map flooded into your mind.】

【According to this route, the original thousand-year voyage would be directly shortened to just fifty years!】

【Along the way, you would not only pass through void nodes, but could also avoid the emergence of Death Wastelands…】

【Having obtained the intelligence you sought, you departed the Primordial Void Realm…】

In the Real World, Su Xing drew a deep breath upon seeing this.

“As expected of the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master… In the future, if I encounter any difficulties I don’t understand, I can simply ask her directly during simulation!”

“After all, every simulation provides an opportunity to ask questions — I mustn’t waste them…”

Now that he knew the route to the Celestial Demon Domain, it was time to set off.

However, before departing, Su Xing decided to use up his immersive simulation first.

“After all, the journey to the Celestial Demon Domain is fraught with unknown dangers… If something unexpected happens midway, that would waste a simulation opportunity!”

“Currently, my Sword Dao, spatial Dao… and Five Elements Dao have all entered the sixth realm!”

“Next, I should advance the Dao of Cause and Effect… but I haven’t yet obtained the Grand Cosmic Visualization Method, so I’ll have to wait until the next simulation to ask the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master!”

“Beyond that, I should work on advancing the Dao of Speed next… I’ll raise it to the sixth realm first!”

With that thought, Su Xing silently intoned:

“Use immersive simulation, duration… 100 years!”

【Ding, you have successfully used… remaining origin energy: 21,754,887 points…】

As the Chime faded, Su Xing’s consciousness entered the simulated world…

…

When the immersive simulation ended, Su Xing returned to reality.

“Not bad — just one simulation was enough to advance the Dao of Speed to Minor Mastery of the fifth realm… As expected, the cultivation difficulty of ordinary Great Daos is far, far lower than that of supreme Great Daos!”

The Five Elements, Sword Dao, and spatial Dao that Su Xing had previously cultivated were all supreme Great Daos.

Even with corresponding talents like the Innate Sword Body, it would likely take ten simulations to fully comprehend them.

Without the supplementary advancement from the Mirror of The Void, Su Xing’s progress would not have been so swift.

But now, without relying on the Mirror of The Void, even without a corresponding talent and relying solely on himself, Su Xing could advance to the sixth realm in at most three or four simulations!

The gap in difficulty was simply too vast!

“Three or four simulations… that means an ordinary Peak Golden Immortal cultivator, secluding themselves for five hundred thousand years, could roughly advance a single ordinary Great Dao from the fifth realm to the sixth realm!”

Su Xing nodded slightly — this was roughly in line with his previous estimates.

“The Great Dao of Speed has improved further… So next, it’s time to head to the Celestial Demon Domain!”

“I hope… everything goes smoothly!”

Su Xing murmured, his gaze turning to the simulation panel.

【In the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, you began making final preparations for the upcoming void voyage.】

【The Star-Moon Shuttle, though a mid-grade supreme post-celestial treasure capable of long-distance travel, was still not fast enough.】

【Before officially departing, you planned to re-temper the Star-Moon Shuttle.】

【You purchased a large batch of materials, including high-quality spirit ores, pre-prepared Formation Dao cores, defensive formations… and spent a sum of contribution points to exchange for supreme post-celestial treasure-grade ores at the Celestial Secrets Pavilion.】

【Afterward, you entered the Luotian Mirror and activated the thirty-fold internal-external time differential…】

【For you, now a Grand Artifact Refinement Grandmaster, reforging the Star-Moon Shuttle was no great challenge.】

【But since it was a large-scale immortal treasure, it still took you a full ten years… or three hundred years inside the Luotian Mirror!】

【Year 520, the Star-Moon Shuttle was successfully upgraded to a supreme post-celestial treasure. You deployed the power of space and headed toward the Celestial Demon Domain.】

【Normally, you traveled by physical body, and each time you employed the power of space, you could traverse several hundred li…】

【When your spiritual power and spatial Dao reserves dropped below half, you would activate the Star-Moon Shuttle, piloting it while recovering your spiritual power…】

【Year 530, you officially arrived at the border of the Endless Sea and the Heavenly Secrets Domain, stepping into this new stretch of the Endless Sea!】

【Just as the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master had said, the Endless Sea between the Celestial Demon Domain and the Heavenly Secrets Domain was far more vast than the one between the Azure Origin Domain and the Heavenly Secrets Domain, and several times more dangerous.】

【But fortunately, your current strength was far beyond what it once was…】

【The first leg of the voyage was not fast. It took roughly ten years before you reached the first void node.】

【Passing through this void node saved you a hundred years of travel time…】

【Over the next fifty years, you passed through more than a dozen void nodes in succession, drawing ever closer to the Celestial Demon Domain.】

【During this time, you also encountered several attacks from Strange Voidbeasts, including Peak Golden Immortal-level Strange Voidbeasts…】

【But to you, they were merely additional reserve materials.】

【You even spotted a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal-level Strange Voidbeast, drifting through the Endless Sea.】

【Its terrifying power was such that even you could not face it head-on. You merely glanced at it from afar before hastily retreating…】

【Year 590, you were drawing ever closer to the Celestial Demon Domain. With the route provided by the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master, the journey had been free of incident.】

【You extended your divine sense, perceiving every movement within a radius of several million li… However, at that moment, you detected a powerful aura at the edge of your divine sense’s range…】

【That aura was eerie and saturated with killing intent, as though it could devour everything in the world…】

【Through your divine sense, you could clearly see the beings within that area.】

【They were countless aliens who had completely lost themselves!】

【From alien deities with Weak Divine Power… to first-tier deities, packed so densely together they were like ants piled into a mountain.】

【A single glance could not even begin to count how many billions there were…】

【This was the Death Wasteland — capable of devouring all living things!】

【Its main body was a world fragment the size of a small world, upon which countless aliens stared with crimson pupils!】

【All of them were red-eyed aliens!】

【Packed so densely together, like all-consuming black ants, leaving nothing alive in their wake…】

【Upon witnessing this scene, you froze for an instant…】

【An alien army of such magnitude would be enough to annihilate the entire Azure Origin Domain!】

【If the alien races could reclaim this portion of red-eyed aliens, their invasion of the human race would be utterly unstoppable!】

【Yet these billions of red-eyed aliens seemed to have completely lost their sense of self, trapped upon that world fragment, endlessly drifting through the Endless Sea…】

【You had barely leaked a wisp of your aura when you felt that terrifying Death Wasteland lock onto you, tearing through space at a horrifying speed, surging toward you.】

【As if in the next instant, it would catch you…】

【Your scalp went numb at the sight. Even someone of your power, if targeted by this Death Wasteland, would be like a boulder cast into the sea — capable of raising only a momentary splash…】

【The final outcome would be total and utter consumption!】

【Without a moment’s hesitation, you immediately employed the power of space, zigzagging tens of millions of li.】

【Yet the Death Wasteland behind you continued pursuing at an astonishing speed.】

【That speed was such that even a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal would struggle to escape…】

【Fortunately, your comprehension of the spatial Dao had reached the sixth realm.】

【Even more fortunately, you were not far from the next void node…】

【After several days of fleeing, you passed through a void node and escaped the crisis.】

【The Death Wasteland composed of countless red-eyed aliens ultimately could not pass through the void node.】

【And so, you narrowly survived this calamity.】

【But after this encounter, you never dared let your guard down again.】

【The Three Thousand Worlds were vast, and dangers were legion… Even a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal, when crossing such forbidden zones, could not guarantee safe passage.】

【For the final stretch of the voyage, you were far more cautious.】

【You restrained your divine sense and proceeded steadily along the route provided by the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master…】

【Finally, the time came — Year 630…】

【After more than a century of voyaging through the void… you at last arrived at a new great domain.】

【You had reached… the Celestial Demon Prison!】