Chapter 82 – Dragon Spirit Pill: Done Pretending, I’m a Time Traveler!

Chapter 82 – Dragon Spirit Pill: Done Pretending, I’m a Time Traveler!

The Essence Nurturing Pill’s effect on cultivation improvement was already negligible for Su Xing, who had reached the Nascent Soul stage.

To maintain rapid cultivation growth, consuming higher-grade pills was an excellent option.

“If I remember correctly, the Dragon Spirit Pill is one of the top pills among the lower-grade category. The primary ingredient is a spirit herb called Dragon Spirit Grass…”

Su Xing narrowed his eyes and continued the simulation.

【You realize that to further improve your cultivation, you need to refine a new pill—the Dragon Spirit Pill! The main ingredient for this pill is Dragon Spirit Grass, and coincidentally, you have over ten stalks of twenty-year-old Dragon Spirit Grass growing in your spirit field.】

【But a mere ten-plus stalks of Dragon Spirit Grass are nowhere near enough for you to master this pill. So you drew a sketch of the Dragon Spirit Grass and had Protector Shadow search the cult treasury for this herb.】

【A few days later, Protector Shadow successfully retrieved over a dozen stalks of Dragon Spirit Grass from the treasury and delivered them to you. She told you that the cult treasury didn’t have many Dragon Spirit Grass stalks either—only a few hundred—and that they required contribution points to exchange for.】

【A few hundred stalks of Dragon Spirit Grass wasn’t a lot, but it was more than enough for you. You used all the contribution points you’d accumulated over the years to exchange for every last stalk.】

【After that, you began experimenting with refining Dragon Spirit Grass.】

【In the first month, you refined thirty batches of Dragon Spirit Pills, all failures. Dragon Spirit Grass demanded far more precise control over heat and spiritual energy—this was the most difficult pill you had ever attempted to refine.】

【In the second month, you refined thirty batches of Dragon Spirit Pills and succeeded with two. However, the medicinal effects of the Dragon Spirit Grass were unclear, and you didn’t dare take them on your own.】

【In the third month, you refined thirty batches of Dragon Spirit Pills and succeeded with six, bringing your success rate to twenty percent. Your class panel now showed that your Dragon Spirit Pill refinement had reached the beginner level.】

【Over the next six months, you refined Dragon Spirit Pills daily, and your success rate climbed to fifty percent.】

【At this point, you still had over two hundred stalks of Dragon Spirit Grass remaining, but rather than refining them immediately, you chose to save them.】

【In the ninth year, one day, Protector Shadow came to find you. She looked somewhat dejected.】

【Protector Shadow told you that despite her world’s best efforts to resist, they had still failed. The alien race was simply too powerful—there was almost no comparison.】

【Your ally, once brimming with hope, was now filled with despair. Though you had long known this outcome—the fact that they’d held on for one more year was already remarkable—you still felt sorrow for Protector Shadow.】

【You gave Protector Shadow an encouraging embrace and told her that if she was willing, she could consider Earth her second homeland and fight for it.】

【Hearing your words, Protector Shadow gave a bitter smile. She said her strength was far too weak—even if she helped you, she would ultimately be powerless against the alien race.】

【You didn’t say much more. You simply took out one of your newly refined Dragon Spirit Pills and offered it to Protector Shadow to try.】

【Protector Shadow didn’t hesitate much and swallowed the Dragon Spirit Pill directly. Moments later, a flash of astonishment appeared in her eyes. She said the pill’s medicinal effects were incredibly potent—she could actually feel herself growing stronger.】

【Protector Shadow added that this kind of pill could even help your world’s so-called Grandmaster-stage Class Users become stronger, and might even give them a slim chance of becoming Heavenly King-stage Class Users!】

【Protector Shadow looked somewhat dejected. She said that even if a few more Heavenly King-stage powerhouses appeared, it still wouldn’t change the fate of having their world destroyed by the alien race.】

【You simply smiled calmly and asked in return: What if there were over a hundred more Heavenly King-stage powerhouses?】

【Protector Shadow was visibly stunned by your words. She thought it over carefully, then said that if there truly were over a hundred more Heavenly King-stage powerhouses, perhaps they really could hold out longer against the alien beasts.】

【At the same time, Protector Shadow’s expression turned sorrowful. She said that if they had possessed these pills earlier, perhaps her homeland wouldn’t have been destroyed so easily.】

【Having lived through the apocalypse yourself, you naturally knew just how terrifyingly powerful that sky-blotting beast was—a mere hundred extra Heavenly King-stage powerhouses certainly wouldn’t be enough to deal with it.】

【But you understood this was significant progress. Previously, your pills could only affect Master-stage Class Users, but now you could make Grandmaster-stage Class Users stronger, and even help them become Heavenly King-stage Class Users.】

Su Xing felt a surge of excitement at this. Nascent Soul-stage power corresponded to Grandmaster-stage Class Users. If these Dragon Spirit Pills could truly help humanity rapidly produce a batch of Heavenly King-stage Class Users, it would absolutely buy more time before the apocalypse.

“The Dragon Spirit Pill’s function should be similar to the Essence Nurturing Pill, only stronger. It can increase the spiritual energy cultivation of Nascent Soul cultivators, and even for Grandmaster-stage Class Users, it can boost their mental attributes.”

“And once a magic-type Class User’s mental attributes are enhanced, their chances of completing advancement missions increase significantly… Especially for veteran Grandmaster-stage Class Users—this could dramatically improve their odds of completing the promotion quest!”

Su Xing’s eyes lit up.

Class Users were different from cultivators. Their advantage was the ability to rapidly increase their strength in a short period by killing monsters to gain large amounts of experience points and level up.

But the advancement missions between each major tier had extremely high mortality rates, which meant many Master level 30 Class Users lacked the strength to break through to Grandmaster-stage.

And many Grandmaster level 30 Class Users couldn’t break through to Heavenly King-stage.

The pills Su Xing refined served exactly this purpose—to boost their strength and help them successfully advance!

“Perhaps in this simulation, humanity will gain a batch of new Heavenly King-stage Class Users. That might let them hold out even longer…”

Su Xing took a deep breath and eagerly continued the simulation.

【You once again extended an invitation to Protector Shadow, hoping she would join you in defecting from the Advent Cult.】

【Protector Shadow agonized over it for a long time but ultimately refused. She believed that even so, humanity couldn’t possibly withstand the giant beast’s assault. Defecting would be no different from seeking death.】

【Left with no choice, you said to her: Then I wish you good luck, Luo Shuying!】

【When Protector Shadow heard you speak her name, she froze completely. She asked in disbelief how you could possibly know her name. After all, she had gone by the codename “Shadow” for decades since joining the Advent Cult, and no one had ever known her full name.】

【You told Protector Shadow that she herself had told you this name.】

【Protector Shadow naturally refused to believe it, so you fabricated a story.】

【You told her that you possessed the ability to travel through time, that you had been tirelessly working to save the world they both lived in, and as for the name Luo Shuying—she had told you herself.】

【This story, which even you wouldn’t believe if you heard it, somehow actually convinced Protector Shadow.】

【Protector Shadow said: Compared to a future so dark it was unbearable to face, she would rather believe that there was a savior traveling between timelines.】