Chapter 62 – The Spy Plan Exposed

Chapter 62 – The Spy Plan Exposed

Seeing this, Su Xing immediately thought to himself—locked in!

Holding the position of Elder within the Advent Cult meant he was a bona fide member of the upper echelons!

On top of that, with Protector Shadow as his backer in the simulation, that Old Dog Zong surely wouldn’t dare provoke him.

“Ah, working under Protector Shadow really is comfortable! Not only is the compensation great, but there’s plenty of free time too. I only need to spend a few days each month completing tasks, and the rest of the time is mine for cultivation. Wonderful!”

Su Xing let out a soft sigh. In the last simulation, he had joined Old Dog Zong’s ranks, and the outcome had been nothing short of tragic. How could that compare to Protector Shadow? Not only was she a great beauty, she was genuinely good to Su Xing.

Su Xing continued the simulation.

【Year Three: After becoming an Elder, you gained the right to select your own subordinates. You appointed Wang Qingxuan as your Elder’s secretary to handle affairs when there was nothing else going on.】

【Worth mentioning is that aside from Wang Qingxuan becoming your subordinate, among your newly recruited underlings was a cultist named Little Stone—the one whose life you had saved with a Healing Pill and who never betrayed you.】

【You kept an extremely low profile every day, rarely going out. Apart from completing necessary tasks, you avoided socializing with other Elders within the cult, focusing solely on cultivation.】

【Year Four: Your cultivation advanced to the sixth layer of the Golden Core stage, and you devoted yourself to comprehending the Core Condensation Technique. The quality of your Golden Core improved further.】

【Year Five: Your cultivation advanced to the seventh layer of the Golden Core stage.】

【Year Six: Your cultivation advanced to the eighth layer of the Golden Core stage.】

【Year Seven: Your cultivation advanced to the ninth layer of the Golden Core stage.】

【Year Eight: Your cultivation advanced to Golden Core Stage, Grand Perfection.】

【Year Nine: After reaching Golden Core Stage, Grand Perfection, you chose not to continue pushing your cultivation to break through to the Nascent Soul stage in one go.】

【First, because you knew that even with your considerable talent, advancing to the Nascent Soul stage would still require an enormous amount of time.】

【Second, you knew your foundation was not yet deep enough. You needed extensive time to temper your Golden Core so it could unleash even greater combat power.】

【And so you began reducing your intake of Essence Nurturing Pills, dedicating a fixed eight hours each day to refining the spiritual energy within your body while simultaneously tempering your Golden Core.】

【Year Ten: Your cultivation did not advance further, but you could feel the quality of your Golden Core growing ever stronger. The spiritual energy within your body was at least twenty percent more potent than when you had first reached Golden Core Grand Perfection.】

【You continued tirelessly tempering your Golden Core. For someone who possessed the simulator, time was plentiful.】

【One day, Protector Shadow sought you out. Over the years, you had refined countless pills for her, and in return you had earned her immense trust, becoming her most important confidant.】

【She summoned you into a dungeon instance, then produced the corpse of a shadow beast and invited you to join her in modifying your own organs to transcend the limitations of a mortal body.】

【Looking at the grotesque corpse on the ground, a wave of revulsion washed over you. You had no desire to become a half-human, half-beast existence, so you refused.】

【Protector Shadow was not surprised by your refusal. She said she would give you time to gradually accept the matter, but added that you were running out of time—you needed to become a member of the master race as soon as possible.】

【You understood what Protector Shadow meant by “running out of time.” Because of humanity’s weakness, the foreign races’ invasion of the human realm was accelerating. Perhaps before long, Demon-Sealing Pass would fall.】

【The destruction of the real world would absolutely not be good for you, because it meant the time left for your cultivation was shrinking.】

【You began to consider whether, through your own efforts, you could slow the pace of the foreign races’ invasion of humanity.】

【Over the years, you had been receiving over two hundred medicinal herbs per month—enough to refine nearly two thousand pills. After subtracting the portion turned in for tasks and what you used for your own cultivation, over the course of ten years you had accumulated more than fifty thousand Essence Nurturing Pills and Spirit Nurturing Pills.】

【You deliberated over whether you could deliver these pills to the upper echelons of the Great Xia Military, because if discovered, the Advent Cult would absolutely execute you as a traitor.】

【But you also knew that if you did nothing, the real world would be destroyed in just over four years, and you would only be able to continue simulating for four more years.】

【One day, you found an excellent excuse to temporarily leave. After confirming no one was following you, you used a Disguise Pill to change your appearance.】

【After disguising yourself, you contacted Lu Yuanwu directly, telling him you had a great gift for him.】

【Lu Yuanwu naturally assumed you were a fraud and refused to meet with you.】

【Left with no choice, you pulled some strings and secretly contacted Jin Congxue, through whom you secured an opportunity to meet Lu Yuanwu.】

【On a deserted rooftop, you handed Lu Yuanwu a storage ring containing over twenty thousand Essence Nurturing Pills and over ten thousand Spirit Nurturing Pills.】

【This was an absolutely enormous fortune. If these pills were fully utilized, the Great Xia Military could potentially produce several thousand additional Grandmaster-stage magic-class Class Users within a single year.】

【You told Lu Yuanwu to use the pills wisely and urged him to conceal their origin and effects as much as possible. After handing over the pills, you departed.】

【Year Eleven: You continued refining pills as always, rarely venturing out except for necessary tasks.】

【One day, Protector Shadow came to find you. Besides Protector Shadow, Grand Protector Zong and several other Elders were also present.】

【Even through her mask, you could sense Protector Shadow’s unstable emotions. A sense of dread immediately washed over you.】

【Protector Shadow furiously demanded to know why you had betrayed her. She told you that the human race was beyond saving, and that your actions would change nothing.】

【Grand Protector Zong declared that he had been watching you for a long time. He intended to extract your secrets and refine you into pills to advance his own cultivation.】

【You feigned confusion and insisted you had always been loyal, never once betraying them. But when Protector Shadow produced an Essence Nurturing Pill and revealed it had been recovered from the Great Xia Military, you knew the truth was out.】

【Several Elders and the two Protectors closed in on you. You knew you were no match for them.】

【At the critical moment, you surged your spiritual energy and escaped into the Blessed Spirit Field instance.】

【Fortunately, you had planned ahead for this very scenario—fearing that your activities might be exposed and lead to a siege. Inside the Blessed Spirit Field, you had prepared sufficient living supplies and food, along with several thousand Essence Nurturing Pills and Spirit Nurturing Pills. These would be more than enough to sustain your cultivation for a very long time.】

【The Blessed Spirit Field was safe. Not even Martial Emperor-stage Class Users or Spirit Transformation stage cultivators could enter. And so you began cultivating in peace within the Blessed Spirit Field.】

【Year Twelve: Your cultivation did not break through, but the quality of your Golden Core improved further. You could feel that you were not far from condensing a superior-grade Golden Core.】