Chapter 485 – Body Transforms at Will, The So-Called Celestial Secrets Avatars

After hearing this, Su Xing’s heart stirred, knowing this was likely Zhenqian True Master extending an invitation.

So Su Xing shook his head and said:

“I’m just a rogue cultivator… I wonder if Brother Zhenqian has somewhere to go?”

“If we could fight alongside fellow human cultivators… it would certainly be better than venturing into danger alone!”

Hearing Su Xing’s words, Zhenqian True Master was inwardly delighted.

During the previous three months of battle, Zhenqian True Master had recognized that Su Xing’s strength was extraordinary. If he could be brought into the human race’s camp, it would be a great achievement.

So Zhenqian True Master said decisively:

“Brother Linglong… several months ago, over a dozen cultivators of our race engaged in battle with the foreign races. That battle was extremely perilous, and I became separated from the group.”

“However, we had a prior arrangement to regroup at a Secret Realm in the central region.”

“If Brother Linglong is willing to trust me, you’re welcome to come along!”

Su Xing had no objections after hearing this.

And so the two hit it off immediately and headed toward that Secret Realm in the central region.

……

Soon, the immersive simulation ended.

Su Xing slowly opened his eyes and murmured:

“The Eighth Heaven’s territory is far too vast… after traveling for over half a year, we still haven’t reached that Secret Realm.”

“But at most it’ll take two or three more years to arrive.”

“Let me first take a look at the situation of the human race in the Eighth Heaven.”

For Su Xing, rescuing Zhenqian True Master was the first step in making contact with human cultivators.

After all, the Eighth Heaven was home to truly top-tier human powerhouses!

At minimum, they were existences above the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal level!

There was even the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master, the foremost cultivator of the human race.

If he could integrate himself among them, not only would his safety be more assured, but more importantly, he would be able to conduct resource trades and obtain more intelligence!

Su Xing stroked his chin, looking at the simulation panel with some anticipation.

【Year 354: You rescued Zhenqian True Master, and under his guidance, headed toward the Secret Realm where the human race was hiding.】

【After three years of travel…】

【Year 357: You arrived at that Secret Realm.】

【But the Secret Realm clearly bore many signs of battle, yet not a single human cultivator remained.】

【Zhenqian True Master’s expression changed drastically upon seeing this, his thoughts unknown.】

【Afterward, Zhenqian True Master told you that he needed to search other Secret Realms to see if any of his former comrades had survived, and asked if you would accompany him.】

【You naturally chose to go along, and so you began tracking down traces of human cultivators.】

【It wasn’t until Year 370, after searching through three Secret Realms in succession, that you finally encountered a squad of human cultivators.】

【This squad consisted of five people, all of extraordinary strength, but each was wounded and hiding here to recuperate.】

【Among them were three Supreme Unity True Masters and two Supreme Unity True Sovereigns — figures who would be renowned powerhouses in the lower realm, yet here they could only hide like rats.】

【When they first saw you, these Supreme Unity True Masters and True Sovereigns were quite guarded.】

【But after Zhenqian True Master’s explanation, you gained their initial trust.】

【Through this squad of top-tier human powerhouses, you learned what had happened over the past several decades.】

【A traitor had appeared among the human race of the Eighth Heaven!】

【A Supreme Unity True Sovereign with the Dao title “Soul Banner True Sovereign” had defected from the human race long ago and exposed the humans’ location during the battle several decades prior.】

【Over the following decades, many of the Secret Realms where human cultivators were hiding had been discovered by foreign races.】

【In just a few short decades, more than ten Supreme Unity Golden Immortals had fallen in battle!】

【You were greatly shocked upon hearing this, feeling that the Dao title “Soul Banner True Sovereign” simply didn’t sound like a good person’s name…】

【Fortunately, Soul Banner True Sovereign didn’t know about this particular Secret Realm, which was why these cultivators had managed to stay hidden.】

【But with foreign race deities currently hunting human cultivators outside, they had no choice but to remain in hiding for now.】

【You were puzzled and asked where the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master was and why he hadn’t appeared to rescue them.】

【Zhenqian True Master let out a long sigh and explained.】

【It turned out that tens of thousands of years ago, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master had chosen to leave the main force and seek out the “opportunity to prove one’s Dao” in the Ninth Heaven alone.】

【Before departing, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master had left behind a total of eighty-one “Celestial Secrets Avatars” of considerable power.】

【It was precisely because of these Celestial Secrets Avatars that the human race had been able to hold out for so long in the Eighth Heaven.】

【As for the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master’s exact current location, even these Supreme Unity Golden Immortals did not know.】

In the Real World, Su Xing furrowed his brow as he read the text before him.

“Even in the Eighth Heaven… there’s still no news of this Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master?”

“It seems the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master truly has reached the critical moment of proving his Dao to become a Saint!”

Su Xing recalled the terrifying white-light supernatural art he had seen in the final moments of his previous dozens of simulations.

“Most likely, at that point in time, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master really did prove his Dao and become a Saint… but it was just a bit too late…”

Su Xing thought to himself.

However, although he hadn’t met the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master, the existence of these so-called “Celestial Secrets Avatars” brought him one step closer.

Moreover, the Eighth Heaven was teeming with experts, and the human race had many powerhouses there.

If he could leverage these connections to obtain more resources, it would greatly benefit Su Xing’s cultivation.

“Let me first try to make contact with the powerhouses of the Eighth Heaven… then play it by ear!”

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

【At this point, the situation in the Eighth Heaven was not exactly dire, but the human race had thoroughly fallen into a disadvantage.】

【The Secret Realms where they had hidden for hundreds of thousands to millions of years had been discovered, and the human race urgently needed to find new hiding places.】

【Without the support of grotto-heaven Secret Realms, these Supreme Unity Golden Immortals’ cultivation and combat were also experiencing problems.】

【The biggest problem of all was the shortage of spirit liquid and immortal liquid!】

【The Eighth Heaven was rich in spiritual energy, with many locations even reaching grotto-heaven standards.】

【But for these Peak Supreme Unity cultivators, every battle required massive amounts of spirit liquid to sustain.】

【Relying solely on ambient spiritual energy was simply insufficient to maintain prolonged combat.】

【Furthermore, to advance one’s cultivation, tons of supreme-grade spirit liquid were necessary to sustain training.】

【And now, with the grotto-heavens that produced spirit liquid destroyed, these cultivators’ spirit liquid reserves were running low…】

【Soon, you identified this problem and began trading with these powerhouses.】

【Your Spirit Domain, containing millions of Spirit-Gathering Flowers, produced vast quantities of spirit liquid and immortal liquid daily.】

【Although your cultivation consumed considerable amounts, over several centuries, you had still accumulated a substantial reserve of spirit liquid.】

【You contacted Zhenqian True Master, wanting to exchange spirit liquid for a portion of foreign race blood essence.】

【The five surviving Supreme Unity Golden Immortals were overjoyed upon hearing this.】

【Over millions of years of battle, what they lacked was spirit liquid and immortal liquid — but what they had no shortage of was blood essence!】

【For these Supreme Unity True Masters and True Sovereigns, killing second-tier deities was as easy as eating and drinking, and they had slain quite a few first-tier deities as well.】

【These five Supreme Unity Golden Immortals alone possessed three thousand jin (1,500 kg) of first-tier deity blood essence, and tens of thousands of jin of second-tier deity blood essence!】

【Moreover, the cultivators of the Eighth Heaven mostly did not practice Body Tempering arts, so these foreign race blood essences were of little use to them.】

【Thus, you produced one billion drops of supreme-grade spirit liquid and ten million drops of immortal liquid, trading with these Supreme Unity Golden Immortals in exchange for three thousand jin (1,500 kg) of first-tier deity blood essence and tens of thousands of jin of second-tier deity blood essence.】

【With this haul of resources, your speed of cultivating the Great Shaman Body Forging Art would increase even further!】

In the Real World, Su Xing couldn’t help but smile at this.

“The Eighth Heaven truly is an enormous treasure vault!”

“Those dozens of powerhouses above the Supreme Unity True Master level, having fought in the Eighth Heaven for over a million years — just how much first-tier deity blood essence have they accumulated…”

“Ten thousand jin (5,000 kg)? Fifty thousand jin (25,000 kg)!?”

“And what they lack is immortal liquid and spirit liquid… I can trade with them for blood essence to fuel my cultivation!”

Su Xing turned his gaze to his new talent, “Heaven and Earth Devourer”!

This talent could greatly increase Su Xing’s speed of digesting food and absorbing energy!

It was a perfect match with the Shaman Ancestor talent!

Yet previously, Su Xing had spent a thousand years on the move, and hunting down even a few first-tier deities had been no easy feat, yielding only a few hundred jin of blood essence — which he had been reluctant to use regularly.

Most of the time, Su Xing had been consuming various rare treasures and second-tier deity blood essence, which significantly limited his cultivation progress.

Now with an abundant supply of blood essence, combined with the synergy of both talents, Su Xing’s speed of cultivating the Great Shaman Body Forging Art would undoubtedly see a massive increase!

“At minimum, it should be an improvement of fifty percent or more, right?”

Su Xing was quite tempted.

“However, I still don’t have a thorough understanding of the Eighth Heaven’s situation… perhaps I should find a way to contact a Celestial Secrets Avatar?”

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

【With a large cache of blood essence in hand, you were eager to begin cultivating.】

【However, you knew this was still not the optimal time for cultivation.】

【The foreign races could discover this Secret Realm at any time, and you could be thrust into danger at a moment’s notice.】

【After deliberation, you all decided to split up and act separately, minimizing the chance of being caught all at once.】

【You agreed to meet at a designated Secret Realm every hundred years, while also searching for other surviving human cultivators.】

【Currently, these Supreme Unity Golden Immortals’ injuries had not yet healed, so you planned to rest for a year before leaving this Secret Realm.】

【During this time, through these cultivators, you gained an understanding of the changes in the Eighth Heaven over the past million years and the human race’s recent situation, recording everything carefully.】

【Millions of years ago, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master had divined that achieving Sainthood was the only chance of defeating the foreign races.】

【And the Ninth Heaven was the place closest to proving one’s Dao and becoming a Saint.】

【Thus, top-tier human powerhouses successively came to the upper three Heavens to temper themselves and glimpse the Great Dao.】

【The upper three Heavens were rich in resources and required constant combat against foreign races, keeping one perpetually on the edge of life and death…】

【These life-and-death crises could also push these prodigies and powerhouses to seek breakthroughs, giving them hope of proving their Dao.】

【After traitors began appearing among the human cultivators who entered the upper three Heavens hundreds of thousands of years ago…】

【The Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master ordered the adoption of a “dispersal” strategy — guerrilla warfare.】

【Normally, cultivators would fight alone or in small teams of two or three… gathering every few decades to share intelligence and trade resources.】

【This approach minimized the risk of being wiped out all at once by foreign races.】

【After all, with collective action, a single traitor could exact a devastating toll, leading to the deaths of multiple powerhouses.】

【And the betrayal of “Soul Banner True Sovereign” several decades ago had already inflicted catastrophic losses on these powerhouses.】

【You were very interested in the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master’s so-called “Celestial Secrets Avatars” and inquired about them.】

【These Supreme Unity True Masters told you that the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master cultivated the supernatural art “Body Transforms at Will,” which could transform into all things in the world with a single thought and create countless avatars with a single intention.】

【Each avatar could cultivate independently, just like a normal cultivator.】

【Among them, the forty-nine strongest avatars were called “Celestial Secrets Avatars”!】

【Every Celestial Secrets Avatar possessed at minimum the strength of a Supreme Unity True Master, and some of the more powerful ones even possessed the strength of a Supreme Unity True Sovereign or Supreme Unity Celestial Venerable!】

【The strongest Celestial Secrets Avatar among them was a genuine Great Firmament Golden Immortal!】

【However, the Celestial Secrets Avatars generally did not coordinate with other cultivators. They typically hunted foreign races alone.】

【They would only periodically meet with other cultivators to trade cultivation resources.】

【This had been the pattern for hundreds of thousands of years.】

【After hearing the explanation from these Supreme Unity Golden Immortals, you understood that meeting a Celestial Secrets Avatar would not be easy.】

【And the human cultivators in the Eighth Heaven were not as weak as you had imagined.】

【Because the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master existed!】

【His supernatural art “Body Transforms at Will” was truly — one person becoming an army!】

【Over the following year, you frequently exchanged information. You gained an understanding of the Eighth Heaven’s situation and intelligence on the foreign races’ deployments, recording everything in detail.】

【Year 371: You left this Secret Realm together and agreed to meet again in a hundred years.】

【You chose to act alone, searching for a suitable place to cultivate.】

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

“It seems the human race’s situation isn’t as dire as I thought!”

“Especially in the Eighth Heaven — the resistance of those powerhouses has exceeded my expectations! They’ve tied down considerable foreign race forces…”

“No wonder the foreign races deployed two full legions to hunt down those in the Eighth Heaven…”

“Especially the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master’s supernatural art — Body Transforms at Will, one person becoming an army… truly terrifying!”

Su Xing smacked his lips. By now, he had encountered three top-tier powerhouses who cultivated avatar supernatural arts.

Qingyunzi — One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, splitting into three, simultaneously possessing three Great Firmament Golden Immortal powerhouses, with unparalleled combat power.

The Celestial Demon General — with thousands of avatars, distributed across various domains, suppressing the foreign races.

And the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master — Body Transforms at Will, even more terrifying, a supreme supernatural art where one person became an army!

“Avatar supernatural arts are indeed an excellent means for these top-tier powerhouses to enhance the human race’s peak combat strength!”

Su Xing nodded slightly.

The foreign races had nearly half of their top-tier combat power — two full legions — concentrated in the upper three Heavens.

This wasn’t solely to prevent the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master from proving his Dao or to kill these human cultivators.

It was also because the laws in the upper three Heavens were clearer, making them an ideal place for the foreign races to enhance their divinity as well.

The top prodigies among the foreign races were also mostly concentrated in the Eighth Heaven, condensing their divinity.

“The good news is that the situation in the Eighth Heaven is manageable… Now that I’ve made contact with these human powerhouses, at least blood essence won’t be in short supply!”

“The only issue is, this means I’ll need even more spirit liquid and immortal liquid…”

Su Xing stroked his chin.

In his spirit field grotto-heaven, the millions of Spirit-Gathering Flowers he had planted formed a Grand Grotto-Heaven.

Every day it produced hundreds of thousands of drops of supreme-grade spirit liquid and over a thousand drops of immortal liquid — barely sufficient for Su Xing’s own cultivation.

But if he wanted to trade with these human powerhouses, it would likely fall short.

And in the future, once Su Xing’s cultivation rose to late-stage or Peak Supreme Unity, the deficit would be even greater.

“In that case, I should plant another batch of Spirit-Gathering Flowers…”

Su Xing murmured.

“Besides that, it’s also time for my Qi Refinement cultivation to break through the bottleneck and advance to mid-stage Supreme Unity!”

Su Xing had already made his decision. He turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【After parting with the human powerhouses, you once again embarked on your solitary cultivation journey.】

【But the blood essence obtained from the previous trade was sufficient to sustain your cultivation for a long time.】

【Thus, you entered the Luotian Realm, activated the tenfold internal-external time differential, and began cultivating.】

【In the blink of an eye, a hundred years passed.】

【Year 470: You traveled to the agreed-upon location to meet with the human cultivators.】

【This time, only five human cultivators participated in the meeting, and one of them was a Supreme Unity True Sovereign you had never met before.】

【You successfully traded for another batch of blood essence and returned to continue cultivating.】

【Thanks to your Blessed by Fortune talent, combined with your cautious nature and favorable fortune…】

【Over the next three hundred years of cultivation, you encountered no danger.】

【With an abundant supply of blood essence, your vital energy grew increasingly vigorous, and the Celestial Primordial Tree’s growth accelerated.】

【Year 770: The Celestial Primordial Tree within your body had reached a height of three hundred and thirty zhang (1.1 km).】

【The following year, inspiration struck, and you sensed that your spiritual power was approaching fullness.】

【So you acted decisively and began a new breakthrough attempt.】

【In previous simulations, you had attempted to break through three times, all ending in failure.】

【Now, with deep accumulation bearing fruit and conditions naturally aligning, you broke through successfully!】

【Congratulations — you have broken through to the fourth stage of Supreme Unity Golden Immortal!】