Chapter 85 – Heavenly Treasure Mind-Condensing Wood, Mind-Condensing Pill!
by spirapiraChapter 85 – Heavenly Treasure Mind-Condensing Wood, Mind-Condensing Pill!
Su Xing gave a slight nod upon seeing this. Being able to refine mid-grade pills with rapid progress meant he could indeed be considered to have achieved minor success in the art of alchemy.
But when Su Xing saw the next part of the simulation, his vision went dark.
【First month: You refined thirty batches of Mind-Condensing Pills, all failures. Success rate: zero.】
【Second month: Refusing to give up, you refined another thirty batches of Mind-Condensing Pills. All failures once again.】
【Third month: Firmly believing that heaven rewards the diligent, you refined pills day and night. Each batch consumed enormous mental energy. You refined thirty batches of Mind-Condensing Pills and finally succeeded in producing one defective Mind-Condensing Pill.】
【Fourth month: You summarized your methods and experience, then refined another thirty batches—all failures. You realized that the one successful Mind-Condensing Pill from before was merely luck.】
【Fifth month: With unwavering persistence and astonishing willpower, you refined another thirty batches of Mind-Condensing Pills and finally succeeded in producing three defective Mind-Condensing Pills.】
【You consumed all four defective Mind-Condensing Pills. Your divine sense strength grew rapidly, and your divine sense range expanded to 15 zhang.】
Su Xing rolled his eyes at this.
In the first three months, he had refined ninety batches of Mind-Condensing Pills and only managed to produce a single one—and it was a damn defective pill at that.
Assuming ten pills per batch, the overall success rate was roughly one in a thousand. And this was supposed to be “rapid progress”?
Even afterward, Su Xing spent another two months just to refine a measly three defective Mind-Condensing Pills.
In other words, Su Xing had spent nearly half a year and only produced four Mind-Condensing Pills, all of which were defective.
The difficulty of refining Mind-Condensing Pills far exceeded that of any pill Su Xing had previously attempted.
However, the effects of the Mind-Condensing Pill were also extraordinarily potent. Just four defective pills had increased Su Xing’s divine sense range by four zhang. If they had been normal Mind-Condensing Pills, or even supreme-grade ones, how insane would the effects be?
“This young master refuses to believe it! A mere Mind-Condensing Pill—you really think I can’t refine one?”
Su Xing continued the simulation.
【Year 18: You remained immersed in refining Mind-Condensing Pills while also keeping an eye on the war at the front lines.】
【Upon learning that Demon-Sealing Pass had not been breached, you breathed a sigh of relief, because based on past experience, only after Demon-Sealing Pass fell would the real world be invaded.】
【You spent another half year mentally simulating the steps of refining Mind-Condensing Pills in your mind every day, precise down to every minute and second, making sure you would make no avoidable mistakes before you began refining.】
【Over that half year, you refined over a hundred batches of Mind-Condensing Pills. Of those, three batches were successfully refined, yielding a total of 13 defective Mind-Condensing Pills.】
【You consumed all the defective Mind-Condensing Pills. In just a few days, your divine sense range expanded to 25 zhang—a range comparable to a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator!】
【Year 19: You continued refining Mind-Condensing Pills, but after two years of consumption, less than half of your Mind-Condensing Wood remained. You began to budget carefully, ensuring that every attempt at refining a Mind-Condensing Pill yielded experience.】
【Finally, over the course of an entire year, you successfully refined ten batches of Mind-Condensing Pills. Among them, two batches were normal-quality Mind-Condensing Pills, totaling 6 pills.】
【You consumed all six Mind-Condensing Pills. Your divine sense surged once more, and your divine sense range reached 50 zhang—a level that the vast majority of Nascent Soul cultivators could never achieve.】
【That same year, your cultivation made a small breakthrough, advancing to Nascent Soul Stage, Third Layer.】
【Year 20: Just as you were preparing to continue researching the Mind-Condensing Pill, earth-shattering news arrived—Demon-Sealing Pass had been breached!】
【That same year, with the fall of Demon-Sealing Pass, a sky-blotting, sun-eclipsing colossal beast descended upon the real world.】
【Dozens of golden figures soared into the sky, attempting to drive the colossal beast from Earth. Without question, they failed.】
【The colossal beast swallowed the entire nation of Great Xia in a single gulp. In the moment before death, you seemed to see Luo Shuying running toward you. Her mouth was open as if shouting something, but the distance was too great—you couldn’t hear her.】
【Then your vision spun, your head fell, and you died!】
【Your talent Die With Eyes Open activated. You stared wide-eyed and saw the person who had severed your head—someone you had never seen before, apparently a spy who had infiltrated the Great Xia Military.】
【A vicious grin spread across his face. His features shifted and changed, revealing his true appearance.】
【You recognized him—Old Dog Zong!】
【Old Dog Zong stomped your eyeball to pieces. The Die With Eyes Open talent was nullified…】
【Ding! This simulation has ended!】
Su Xing drew in a sharp breath. He never expected that he’d be killed by Old Dog Zong!
And the most critical part was that Old Dog Zong had somehow infiltrated the Great Xia Military at some unknown point, even using a disguise to get close to him.
Su Xing snapped back from the simulation and rubbed his temples, murmuring:
“It seems the Great Xia Military isn’t necessarily safe either. It was exposed before that there might be Advent Cult spies among the military’s upper ranks, and now even Old Dog Zong managed to disguise himself and lurk by my side…”
“I’ll need to watch out for this kind of ambush in future simulations… But still, this simulation really did delay things by quite a bit!”
According to the original timeline, the colossal beast would descend and the apocalypse would arrive in 2038—fourteen years from now.
In the previous simulation, the timeline had been pushed back by three years, placing the apocalypse seventeen years away.
And in this simulation, because he had managed to refine Dragon Spirit Pills, the timeline was delayed another three years, pushing the apocalypse back to twenty years from now.
“Twenty years—that’s already quite a long time…”
Su Xing murmured. It was easy to foresee that as Su Xing’s strength continued to grow and the pills he refined became increasingly powerful, he could definitely buy even more time.
“And the rewards from this simulation are really substantial. Not only did I learn two new types of pills, I also mastered the Dual Focus skill, and even my cultivation and divine sense improved…”
Su Xing turned his gaze to this simulation’s rewards.
【Buddhist Dharma Mastery】: Blue-grade talent. Price: 100,000 energy points.
【Nascent Soul Stage, Third Layer】: Qi Refinement cultivation level. A Nascent Soul ancestor—how terrifying! Price: 2,000,000 energy points.
【Twenty Years of Alchemy Experience】: Alchemy insights, including the Dual Focus alchemy technique, insights into the low-grade Dragon Spirit Pill (Minor Success) and mid-grade Mind-Condensing Pill (Beginner). Price: 1,000,000 energy points. (Upon obtaining this reward, the host’s alchemy skill will advance to the Minor Success level.)
【Spirit-Gathering Flowers x3 (Mature)】: Mature Spirit-Gathering Flowers, spiritual plants favored by the heavenly Dao. They can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and in turn release even more spiritual energy. Price: 300,000 energy points.
【Divine Sense, 165 Meters (five Senses Realm)】: At this level, divine sense functions like the five senses—as eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body—allowing you to perceive every disturbance within a 50-zhang radius. Price: 500,000 simulation energy.
【Three-Foot Mind-Condensing Wood】: A heavenly treasure, an exceedingly rare treasure of the cultivation world that can strengthen one’s divine sense realm. Price: 10,000,000 energy points.