Chapter 92 – Hunting Down Old Dog Zong, Demonic Beast Blood Essence!

Su Xing felt a tremor of shock in his heart when he saw this.

Directly assassinating Old Dog Zong — a Spirit Transformation cultivator — could Luo Shuying really pull it off?

But if they truly managed to kill Old Dog Zong, the rewards would be enormous. Su Xing would be able to inherit Old Dog Zong’s legacy. Setting aside the treasures on his person, as long as Old Dog Zong still possessed any cultivation-related inheritances, Su Xing would strike it rich.

After all, the Eternal Spring Art that Su Xing cultivated had been obtained from Old Dog Zong in the first place.

“If we actually manage to slaughter that old dog, we’ll hit the jackpot!”

Su Xing was filled with anticipation for the next part of the simulation.

【The day before defecting from the Advent Cult, you and Luo Shuying finalized your plan: you would feign going out alone, using yourself as bait to lure Old Dog Zong into attacking you, then Luo Shuying would strike and kill him!】

【You weren’t worried about your own safety. After all, Old Dog Zong was desperate to obtain your cultivation secrets and wouldn’t kill you easily. Even if mortal danger arose, you could simply hide in your Blessed Spirit Field, and he’d be powerless against you.】

【What concerned you was whether Luo Shuying had the strength to kill Old Dog Zong. That bastard was a genuine Spirit Transformation powerhouse — even ordinary Martial Emperor-stage experts were no match for him.】

【Regarding this, Luo Shuying displayed tremendous confidence. She stated that among all the Protectors of the Advent Cult, her strength ranked second. Apart from the mysterious Protector Dragon, none of the other Protectors were her match.】

【After receiving Luo Shuying’s assurance, you breathed a sigh of relief and began executing the assassination plan.】

【That night, you pretended to go out alone, deliberately exposing your whereabouts to Old Dog Zong.】

【Old Dog Zong had long been salivating over the secrets you harbored. If not for you staying within the cult under Luo Shuying’s protection all these years, you would have lost your head long ago.】

【Sure enough, when you ventured into the wilderness alone, Old Dog Zong could no longer restrain himself and made his move.】

【Old Dog Zong was quite skilled at concealing his aura. His figure flickered and materialized beside you, reaching toward you with a sinister grin.】

【At that very moment, Luo Shuying struck. She emerged from the shadows, black energy surging wildly around her, and with a single blow, she grievously wounded Old Dog Zong.】

【Severely injured, Old Dog Zong stared at Luo Shuying in horror. Realizing he’d fallen into a trap, he activated a secret technique without hesitation and fled into the distance.】

【Luo Shuying pursued relentlessly. When Old Dog Zong saw he was about to be overtaken, he spat out a mouthful of blood and used a blood escape technique to flee.】

【Luo Shuying was highly experienced in pursuit. Time and again she nearly caught up to Old Dog Zong, but he pulled a spirit fruit from his storage artifact and swallowed it, causing his aura to surge explosively as he escaped once more.】

【Luo Shuying persisted in her chase. Old Dog Zong then deployed three puppets at the Nascent Soul Great Perfection realm to block her path. Luo Shuying destroyed them with ease and continued the pursuit.】

【Old Dog Zong then activated a formation array to trap Luo Shuying. She unleashed her black energy to shatter the formation and resumed the chase.】

【Throughout the relentless pursuit, Old Dog Zong played over a dozen trump cards in succession, but Luo Shuying’s strength was overwhelming, and she always managed to close the distance.】

【In the end, Old Dog Zong gritted his teeth and activated the divine ability Shrink the Earth to an Inch. At tremendous cost, he finally managed to escape from Protector Shadow’s grasp.】

【The pursuit between Luo Shuying and Old Dog Zong lasted several days. Knowing your speed couldn’t match theirs, you could only head to the pre-arranged meeting point and wait for Luo Shuying.】

【Several days later, Luo Shuying returned alone. She didn’t seem to be in a good mood, candidly admitting she had underestimated Old Dog Zong. While his strength wasn’t top-tier among Spirit Transformation stage cultivators, having lived for over a thousand years, the number of life-saving measures he possessed was beyond count.】

【Luo Shuying told you that although she hadn’t killed Old Dog Zong on the spot, he was gravely wounded. Having repeatedly activated secret techniques during his escape, his lifespan had been greatly diminished. He was no longer a concern.】

【You nodded upon hearing this, but couldn’t help feeling some regret.】

【Having failed to kill Old Dog Zong, you and Luo Shuying didn’t dwell on it. Worried that the Advent Cult might send people after you, you headed for Capital City and joined the Great Xia Military.】

Su Xing took a deep breath upon seeing this, somewhat astonished.

“Old Dog Zong truly lives up to his reputation as a Spirit Transformation stage cultivator who’s survived over a thousand years. To have endured this long even after spiritual energy went extinct — he’s cautious enough, alright. And the sheer number of trump cards he carries is absurd.”

Even as Su Xing felt alarmed, he was also even more excited and eager.

“That Old Dog Zong really does have quite a collection of treasures! Not only rare natural materials and Nascent Soul stage puppets, but also numerous secret techniques, formation arrays — he even has a divine ability like Shrink the Earth to an Inch!”

Su Xing’s anticipation grew. If he could manage to kill Old Dog Zong in the future, wouldn’t all those treasures become his?

“Hiss… Looks like I’ll need to plan carefully and figure out how to seize those treasures from that old dog!”

Su Xing muttered quietly to himself.

Meanwhile, somewhere far away, Old Dog Zong felt an inexplicable chill run through his entire body.

Su Xing continued the simulation.

【After joining the Great Xia Military, Lu Yuanwu personally received you. You gifted the pills you had accumulated over the years to the Great Xia Military, and soon Great Xia gained tens of thousands of new Grandmaster-stage experts.】

【You refined all your remaining ingredients into Essence Nurturing Pills and Organ Tempering Pills. Within a single year, Great Xia gained forty thousand new Grandmaster-stage Class Users.】

【But you still weren’t satisfied. You selected veteran Grandmaster-stage Class Users and provided them with Dragon Spirit Pills and Primordial Martial Pills. Within one year, the number of Heavenly King-stage experts in Great Xia increased by six hundred!】

【That same year, due to your enormous contributions, you were granted First-Class treatment, becoming one of Great Xia’s key decision-makers. Yet you continued refining pills and advancing your cultivation every day, knowing these were the most important foundations.】

【After joining Great Xia, Luo Shuying continued on her path of eradicating the Advent Cult. Leading a group of powerful subordinates, she destroyed numerous Advent Cult strongholds within Great Xia’s borders.】

【In the eighth year, Luo Shuying came to you for help. She told you her homeland was suffering a massive invasion by aberrant beasts and couldn’t hold out much longer.】

【You took this matter very seriously and contacted the Great Xia Military’s upper echelon, hoping they could help defend Luo Shuying’s homeland against the foreign race.】

【Thanks to your contributions, humanity’s situation at Demon-Sealing Pass was relatively favorable at this point. The Great Xia leadership collectively agreed to dispatch over a hundred Heavenly King-stage Class Users and several Martial Emperor-stage experts into the dungeon where Luo Shuying’s homeland was located, helping them repel the beast invasion.】

【Luo Shuying was deeply grateful to you. With mutual affection already in place, your relationship deepened further. Your talent Unstoppable Bedspear performed magnificently, and Luo Shuying was no match for you, surrendering completely.】

【In the ninth year, you continued consuming large quantities of Spirit rice and spirit chicken meat daily. Your physical body grew ever more refined. You sensed that the gap between yourself and the Primordial Martial Realm was shrinking, but you decided to play it safe and still refrained from taking the Primordial Martial Pill.】

【One day, after returning from an inspection of military affairs at Demon-Sealing Pass, you saw the mountains of demonic beast corpses piled outside the fortress and had a sudden inspiration: if eating Spirit rice and spirit chicken meat could strengthen your physique, could consuming demonic beast flesh enhance your physical body’s strength as well?】

【You consulted the soldiers about this question. They told you that the flesh and blood of these foreign demonic beasts was mostly harmful to the human body and reeked unbearably — humans simply couldn’t consume it.】

【However, certain demonic beasts that had reached Heavenly King-stage in life contained small amounts of blood essence within their bodies, which could help Class Users improve their strength.】

【This piqued your interest greatly. You leveraged your authority and obtained a fifty-jin block of demonic beast blood essence.】

【This block of blood essence was only the size of a palm, yet it was suffused with rich life energy. You could sense it would be enormously beneficial to your cultivation.】

【After confirming that Grandmaster-stage Class Users could safely consume demonic beast blood essence to improve their strength, you also took several bites — roughly half a jin’s worth.】

【After just a few bites, you felt your body flooding with energy. Your stomach churned constantly as the King of Gluttons talent activated, channeling a continuous stream of energy to nourish your body.】

【While the essence energy from the demonic beast flesh was still active within you, you hurriedly began tempering your physique and training intensively.】

【The demonic beast blood essence proved several times more effective than Spirit rice. A single night of cultivation was equivalent to several days of your previous training.】

【You were overjoyed and began consuming half a jin of demonic beast blood essence daily to supplement your physical strengthening.】

【However, demonic beast flesh couldn’t be consumed in excess at one time. You continued eating over ten jin of Spirit rice daily alongside the demonic beast flesh, and your Body Tempering cultivation advanced rapidly.】

【In merely three months, your body’s strength had increased by nearly a third compared to before. You believed that in this simulation, breaking through to the Primordial Martial Realm was within reach!】

【By this point, your supply of demonic beast blood essence had been completely depleted. You traveled to Demon-Sealing Pass, hoping to obtain more.】

【You learned that demonic beast blood essence was extraordinarily precious. A single Heavenly King-stage demonic beast stood dozens of meters tall and weighed hundreds of tons, yet contained only a mere fifty jin of blood essence. Moreover, the blood essence was extremely difficult to obtain — it had to be extracted within one hour of the beast’s death, or it would turn into dead flesh that was harmful to consume.】

【Furthermore, the demonic beast army would deliberately recover the corpses of Heavenly King-stage and above beasts. Even lower-ranked beasts on the battlefield would scramble to devour the blood essence of their fallen kin.】

【All these factors combined made demonic beast blood essence extraordinarily rare.】

【Although the blood essence was rare, you still managed to bring back over a hundred jin of demonic beast flesh from the military. The general stationed at Demon-Sealing Pass also promised to provide you with at least fifty jin of demonic beast blood essence per month.】

【With the blood essence to nourish you and daily consumption of Spirit rice, your Body Tempering cultivation grew ever more refined, and your physical power continued to surge.】

“Heavenly King-stage demonic beasts produce blood essence, and consuming it strengthens the body and rapidly advances Body Tempering cultivation?”

Su Xing’s eyes lit up when he saw this. This was undoubtedly great news. Perhaps spiritual energy was scarce in the real world, but demonic beasts were anything but scarce — the Demon-Sealing Pass dungeon was crawling with them!

The only problem was that the yield of demonic beast blood essence was far too low. A single Heavenly King-stage demonic beast weighing hundreds of tons produced only fifty jin of blood essence…

And it was incredibly difficult to obtain. The demonic beast corpses were so massive they couldn’t fit into storage rings. Extracting the blood essence from within their bodies would certainly be even more challenging and time-consuming — and on the battlefield, who had time to deal with demonic beast corpses?

Only Martial Emperor-stage experts could probably manage to secure the demonic beast blood essence, right?

It was precisely because of all this that demonic beast blood essence was so precious.

“But then again… couldn’t I bring out a block of Heavenly King-stage demonic beast blood essence from the simulator? If so, I’d be able to consume blood essence with every simulation from now on!”

Su Xing’s eyes lit up. This was just like when he’d previously obtained Spirit stones — purely exploiting a simulator bug. If it worked, it would definitely save him an enormous amount of effort.

With these thoughts in mind, Su Xing continued the simulation.

【In the tenth year, you continued consuming blood essence and Spirit rice daily while training diligently and tempering your physique.】

【As your physical strength gradually increased, you sensed that your body was approaching a bottleneck. The rate of improvement slowed more and more — not because the demonic beast blood essence was losing its effectiveness, but because your body had reached a critical threshold.】

【Resigned to this reality, you understood that trying to accomplish everything in one gulp was unrealistic. You decided to take a steady, gradual approach to improving your physique.】

【Thus, in addition to your daily physical training, you also began attempting to refine Mind-Condensing Pills.】

【In the eleventh year, your daily routine was strictly regimented: four hours tempering your physique, four hours studying Mind-Condensing Pill refinement, and the remaining four hours for eating, resting, and farming.】

【Sleep? Nonexistent! For you, a Nascent Soul patriarch, being an absolute grind lord was practically effortless.】

【Your Body Tempering cultivation continued to advance steadily, and your Mind-Condensing Pill refinement grew increasingly proficient.】

【In the twelfth year, you received a frontline battle report: a critical supply line for humanity at Demon-Sealing Pass had been destroyed, leaving tens of thousands of soldiers to fight on empty stomachs.】