Chapter 84 – First-Class Sequence, The Powerful Dragon Spirit Pill
by spirapiraChapter 84 – First-Class Sequence, The Powerful Dragon Spirit Pill
Su Xing was delighted when he saw this.
He hadn’t expected that his simulator self would become a First-Class Sequence member of Great Xia simply through pill refining—truly standing at the pinnacle of Great Xia’s power structure.
Thinking back to when the simulation first began, he had been a capital tycoon worth hundreds of billions, yet couldn’t even get a meeting with Great Xia’s upper echelons.
“Even Third-Order Sequence treatment came with so many benefits—how much more powerful must First-Class Sequence treatment be?”
Su Xing felt a surge of anticipation.
【At the meeting, you gave a detailed introduction of the Dragon Spirit Pill’s functions, stating plainly that it could increase the spiritual attributes and constitution of magic-type Grandmaster-stage powerhouses, and that Class Users who took the pill had a chance of breaking through to the Heavenly King stage!】
【The other high-ranking officials were astounded upon learning of the Dragon Spirit Pill’s effects, and swiftly assembled a group of veteran Grandmaster-stage Class Users to prepare for taking the pill.】
【To be safe, you selected ten Grandmaster-stage Class Users and prepared to test the pill’s specific effects.】
【You discovered that a Grandmaster-stage Class User could take at most one Dragon Spirit Pill per month, and that the pill’s efficacy would gradually diminish with each dose—after ten doses, the effect would drop to less than a third of the first pill’s potency.】
【In the thirteenth year, among the ten Grandmaster-stage Class Users, the five weaker ones had their strength doubled, while the five veteran Grandmaster-stage Class Users also saw their strength increase by over sixty percent.】
【After their strength increased, the ten Grandmaster-stage Class Users voluntarily requested to enter an instance dungeon to complete their promotion trials, hoping to advance to the Heavenly King stage.】
【One week later, only five of the ten Grandmaster-stage Class Users returned alive, four of whom were veteran Grandmaster-stage Class Users. This made you realize just how perilous the Heavenly King promotion trial was.】
【You learned that all Grandmaster-stage Class Users, in addition to completing their promotion trial, also needed to undergo a Heavenly King Baptism.】
【All Class Users who completed the Heavenly King Baptism would undergo a fundamental transformation of their life essence, becoming Longevity Seeds from that point forward, easily capable of living three to five hundred years.】
【When you learned that only half the Grandmaster-stage Class Users had successfully advanced to Heavenly King stage, you couldn’t help feeling somewhat disappointed, thinking the Dragon Spirit Pill’s effects weren’t as strong as you had imagined.】
【But to your surprise, the Class Users who had successfully advanced told you that such a success rate had already broken records. In the past, when ten veteran Grandmaster-stage Class Users attempted to advance to the Heavenly King stage, only one would typically succeed—a success rate of just one in ten. This was precisely why, despite Great Xia having over ten thousand Grandmaster-stage Class Users, the number of Heavenly King-stage powerhouses was fewer than a thousand.】
【After learning this data, you breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, you felt that a fifty percent chance was still too low. If veteran Grandmaster-stage Class Users were given Dragon Spirit Pills, the promotion success rate might rise to as high as eighty percent.】
【Next, you began assembling veteran Grandmaster-stage Class Users to take the Dragon Spirit Pills.】
【In the fourteenth year, your cultivation had remained stuck at the second layer of the Nascent Soul stage for several years. You could feel that advancing further was becoming increasingly difficult—the biggest reason being insufficient spiritual energy. Even though you took one Dragon Spirit Pill per month, your cultivation stubbornly refused to break through to the third layer of the Nascent Soul stage.】
【So you stopped trying to raise your cultivation, and instead tried to enhance your divine sense.】
Seeing this, Su Xing nodded slightly and murmured:
“If cultivation is temporarily hard to advance, perhaps enhancing divine sense would be a worthwhile direction…”
Su Xing didn’t know much about divine sense. He had only read a few brief passages about it in the cultivation notes left by predecessors at the end of the Eternal Spring Art.
All cultivators possessed divine sense, but low-level cultivators’ divine sense was so weak as to be practically negligible. It was only at the Golden Core stage that a cultivator’s divine sense would gradually take shape, and only Nascent Soul cultivators could truly wield their divine sense. Upon reaching the Deity Transformation realm, a cultivator’s divine sense could extend up to a three hundred thirty meters!
The benefits of enhancing one’s divine sense were numerous. Within the range covered by divine sense, every blade of grass and every tree was perceived with crystal clarity—no subtle disturbance could escape a cultivator’s awareness. With sufficiently powerful divine sense, one could even cultivate certain divine sense-based techniques and supernatural abilities, killing without a trace.
For Su Xing, divine sense had an even greater use.
Pill refining!
With stronger divine sense, Su Xing’s control over the medicinal processes within the pill furnace would reach an entirely new level. His error rate in pill refining would decrease, and his chances of producing top-grade pills would increase.
“Unfortunately, cultivating divine sense should require a corresponding cultivation method, but I currently have no such technique. I can only rely on natural self-cultivation, or take pills to strengthen my divine sense…”
Su Xing murmured to himself.
“Fortunately, I have the Spirit Nurturing Pill, so my divine sense cultivation has never fallen behind…”
Previously, while advancing his cultivation, Su Xing had also been strengthening his divine sense along the way. It was precisely because of this that upon first entering the Nascent Soul stage, Su Xing’s divine sense had already reached a range of thirty three meters—nearly on par with a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
“So in this simulation, I should continue focusing on improving my pill refining skills and divine sense…”
With that thought, Su Xing continued the simulation.
【From then on, you took three Spirit Nurturing Pills daily, and the strength and range of your divine sense continued to expand. Fortunately, you had previously seized enough Spirit Nurturing Grass from the Advent Cult, making such daily consumption possible.】
【That same year, with your assistance, the Great Xia Military gained one hundred and fifty additional Heavenly King-stage Class Users! They joined the Grandmaster-stage Class Users and headed together to Demon-Sealing Pass.】
【In the fifteenth year, you continued cultivating your divine sense. After a year of relentless tempering and strengthening, the range of your divine sense expanded further, reaching eleven zhang.】
【In the sixteenth year, you cultivated your divine sense, and its range reached twelve zhang.】
【In the seventeenth year, feeling that your progress in cultivating divine sense was too slow, you began searching for ways to develop a new pill that could enhance divine sense—the Mind-Condensing Pill!】
【The Mind-Condensing Pill was a mid-grade pill. Unlike the Spirit Nurturing Pill, which focused on gently nourishing divine sense, the Mind-Condensing Pill placed greater emphasis on directly increasing a cultivator’s divine sense potency.】
【The primary ingredient for refining the Mind-Condensing Pill was a type of wood called Condensing Wood. This wood was marvelously mystical, naturally carrying a subtle fragrance—merely a single sniff would make one feel a surge of mental clarity. If carried on one’s person year-round, it could slowly strengthen divine sense, making it a genuine treasure of heaven and earth.】
【Condensing Wood was even more precious than Dragon Spirit Grass, not only because of its powerful effects, but also because Condensing Wood was harvested from the main trunk of a Condensing Tree. A Condensing Tree grew only one chi every ten years, so a single tree reaching one zhang in height required a hundred years of cultivation.】
【Fortunately, when you and Luo Shuying ransacked the Advent Cult’s treasury, you had found a three-zhang-long piece of Condensing Wood, which was now stored in your spatial ring.】
【So you cut off a small section of Condensing Wood and began refining the Mind-Condensing Pill.】
【The Mind-Condensing Pill was not easy to refine, but fortunately your pill refining skills had already reached a respectable level. Not only had you mastered the Dragon Spirit Pill, which approached mid-grade quality, but you had also grasped the Dual Focus pill refining technique, allowing you to make rapid progress in the art of Mind-Condensing Pill refinement.】