Nine Million Drops of Spirit Liquid, Grinding Cultivation Like Mad! (5k)

Su Xing saw this and nodded slightly, murmuring:

“This simulation should have all efforts focused on breaking through in Qi Refinement cultivation!”

“Twenty-five years… nine million drops of spirit liquid. Let’s see if I can reach Void Return Great Perfection!”

With this thought in mind, Su Xing turned his gaze toward the simulation panel.

【With Luo Shuying’s introduction, you successfully joined the Advent Cult.】

【You spent two years in the Advent Cult. During this time, aside from cultivation, you refined pills daily and even managed to hoodwink over twenty thousand fanatical little followers.】

【Over these two years, you consumed two million drops of spirit liquid.】

【With the daily boost from spirit liquid, your cultivation speed was astonishing. In merely two years, you cultivated to the Void Return stage, Seventh Layer!】

【You successfully advanced into Late-stage Void Return, and your rate of spiritual energy absorption increased further.】

【You also stockpiled over a hundred thousand pills in preparation for your eventual departure from the Advent Cult.】

【Once you had cleaned out the Advent Cult’s treasury of spiritual herbs, you took Luo Shuying and defected from the Capital City.】

【You killed a full three Protectors who came to hunt you down, and successfully joined Xia’s military.】

【The twenty-thousand-plus fanatical follower-disciples who came searching for you were hoodwinked by you into joining Demon-Sealing Pass!】

【In the third year, you continued refining pills and cultivating diligently every day.】

【In the fourth year, you exhausted your herb supplies. The pills you refined added many powerful cultivators to Great Xia’s ranks.】

【With that done, you devoted all your energy to advancing your Qi Refinement cultivation!】

【Over two years, you consumed two million five hundred thousand drops of spirit liquid, and your cultivation was already not far from the Void Return stage, Eighth Layer.】

【But by now you had consumed over four million drops of spirit liquid in total. Counting what you had accumulated over the four years, your remaining spirit liquid was under 1.2 million drops…】

【In the fifth year, on a fine and sunny morning, you drank a small half-bottle of spirit liquid, and the spiritual energy within your body began to surge and churn.】

【After three days and three nights of secluded cultivation, your cultivation finally broke through once more. You became a Void-Breaking Realm, Eighth Layer cultivator!】

【After the breakthrough, you had fewer than 500,000 drops of spirit liquid remaining.】

【You knew this was far from enough to break through to the Void Return stage, Ninth Layer, so you began cultivating with spirit stones.】

【You made a trip to the Age of Immortals and Martial Arts instance and obtained over two hundred thousand spirit stones from the Myriad Wood Sect ruins.】

【As you left, you cast a reluctant glance at the spirit dragon.】

【You knew that with your current strength, you still couldn’t defeat Perfected One Myriad Wood, so you gritted your teeth and departed…】

【In the sixth year, you cultivated using high-grade spirit stones, planning to save your spirit liquid for an all-out push when the time came to break through.】

【Over the course of one year, you used up all six hundred high-grade spirit stones and consumed two thousand mid-grade spirit stones.】

【Although cultivating with spirit stones was far slower than with spirit liquid, your cultivation still made progress.】

【In the seventh year, you cultivated using mid-grade spirit stones. Your cultivation improved slightly.】

【In the eighth year, your mid-grade spirit stones ran out, and you began cultivating with low-grade spirit stones.】

【In the ninth year, cultivating with low-grade spirit stones, your cultivation improved marginally.】

【In the tenth year, although cultivating with spirit stones had been slow over these years, your cultivation had still reached the latter half of the Void Return stage, Eighth Layer. The Ninth Layer was no longer far away.】

【So you took out the total of 1.2 million drops of spirit liquid you had accumulated over these years, preparing to break through to the Void Return stage, Ninth Layer in one decisive push!】

【In the eleventh year, after a full half-year of secluded cultivation, you finally broke through to the Void Return stage, Ninth Layer!】

【You now had fewer than 200,000 drops of spirit liquid remaining.】

【But your heart surged with excitement. The Void Return stage, Ninth Layer — only a single step remained before Great Perfection!】

In the Real World, Su Xing saw this, a hint of a smile in his eyes.

“In merely a little over ten years, from the Void Return stage Sixth Layer to the Ninth Layer… spanning three minor realms. Such speed is absolutely earth-shattering!”

“Cultivating with spirit liquid every day… such heaven-defying resources and treatment — even in the cultivation world, probably only Sacred Son-level figures from cultivation holy lands could enjoy such luxury, right?”

Su Xing was quite satisfied with his cultivation speed.

Indeed, everything had gone just as he had predicted. With the boost from spirit liquid, his cultivation speed was simply incredible!

Afterward, Su Xing did some quick calculations and murmured:

“There are roughly fourteen more years remaining… which means I can accumulate 2.1 million drops of spirit liquid. Adding the remaining 200,000 drops, that’s a total of 2.3 million drops!”

“2.3 million drops of spirit liquid, plus cultivating with spirit stones in the interim… time-wise, it should be enough to break through to Void Return Great Perfection…”

Su Xing nodded slightly. Since reaching Void Return Great Perfection was feasible, he should also consider other matters.

“The talent from this simulation is rather mediocre. There’s no rush to extract Ready for Round Two just yet…”

“However, each simulation allows me to bring out two rewards. Besides cultivation, I shouldn’t waste the other choice either!”

After pondering for a moment, Su Xing suddenly recalled that his Protective Hardened Qi was still stuck at the Major Mastery level!

In previous simulations, although Su Xing had cultivated Protective Hardened Qi to Perfection, he had never extracted it.

Now was the perfect time to bring out his Protective Hardened Qi!

“While reaching Void Return Great Perfection shouldn’t be too difficult… it will still take up most of my time!”

“The remaining time is limited — there might not be enough to learn new techniques…”

“But my Protective Hardened Qi isn’t far from Perfection. This window of time can be perfectly utilized to push it to Perfection level in one go!”

Su Xing had a plan forming in his mind.

If Protective Hardened Qi reached the Grand Perfection level, his defensive capabilities would surely rise to yet another tier.

With this thought, Su Xing turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.

【In the twelfth year, in addition to your daily cultivation, you spent two double-hours each day practicing Protective Hardened Qi.】

【After reaching the Void Return stage, Ninth Layer, your cultivation advancement slowed considerably.】

【But your internal primordial energy was vast and robust, and your progress in mastering Protective Hardened Qi was swift. After each practice session, you could feel slight improvement.】

【In the thirteenth year, your Qi Refinement cultivation improved a bit more, advancing steadily each day.】

【In the fourteenth year, your comprehension of Protective Hardened Qi grew ever more refined, and you took another solid step toward Perfection level.】

【In the fifteenth year, on a fine and sunny morning, you practiced Protective Hardened Qi as you always did.】

【Suddenly, you sensed that you could perceive with exquisite detail the flow of primordial energy, sensing every minute change in your Protective Hardened Qi.】

【Your eyes held nothing but Protective Hardened Qi. You fell into a state of profound, mysterious insight…】

【You successfully triggered the Spontaneous Epiphany state!】

【One day later, the epiphany ended. Your heart felt a sense of wistful loss as you returned to ordinary mortal comprehension.】

【As expected, you discovered that your mastery of Protective Hardened Qi had reached the Grand Perfection level.】

【But to your surprise, you felt that your current Protective Hardened Qi still seemed… not quite complete.】

【During the epiphany state, you sensed that Protective Hardened Qi could be further refined, making its defensive properties even more outstanding!】

【What puzzled you, however, was that the person who created this primordial energy divine ability had only reached Perfection level at most, and you had now already reached the absolute Peak of that realm.】

【If Protective Hardened Qi could be further perfected and enhanced, it would surpass the divine ability itself, reaching a realm unprecedented in history!】

【Unfortunately, the Spontaneous Epiphany had already left you. With your current mortal-level comprehension, you simply could not perceive the crucial insights within.】

【Only by triggering Spontaneous Epiphany once more might you be able to further refine this divine ability…】

Su Xing raised an eyebrow at this and murmured:

“Perfection level is the absolute pinnacle of any technique or divine ability. In theory, there should be no room for further improvement…”

“To go one step further would mean surpassing the divine ability itself… the difficulty of that is unimaginable!”

To put it in perspective: on a test with a perfect score of one hundred, no matter how hard you tried or how flawlessly you answered, you could never score one hundred and one.

Because the upper limit was simply one hundred!

But if you wanted to break through that upper limit, perhaps you would need to discover an error in one of the test questions.

Because only by surpassing the test itself could you break that ceiling…

“For a divine ability… to advance one step further beyond Perfection, to reach a realm surpassing even its creator… you would not only need complete mastery of that divine ability, but also powerful comprehension and cultivation of your own… and of course, perhaps a tiny bit of luck?”

Su Xing fell into contemplation.

Protective Hardened Qi was without doubt his most powerful defensive technique.

If it had reached its limit, that meant Su Xing’s defensive power would be very difficult to boost further for quite some time.

To break through this impasse, the only path was to surpass the divine ability itself!

“But that’s simply too difficult… With my current abilities, I don’t have any leads. Perhaps I should pay a visit to the Luotian Assembly instance?”

Su Xing nodded slightly.

It had been quite a while since he’d gone to the Luotian Assembly instance to farm for resources.

This was because Su Xing had been in an explosive growth period for both his cultivation and resources during this time.

And what the Luotian Assembly could offer Su Xing was merely some cultivation guidance and techniques.

Now that Su Xing had encountered a bottleneck once more, it was indeed time to explore what it had to offer…

“Moreover, if I remember correctly… within the Luotian Sect, anyone who reaches Void Return Great Perfection before the age of one hundred can become a figure on the level of a Sacred Son!”

“Sacred Son… also known as an Immortal Seed! It signifies a seed destined for immortality… Perhaps after becoming an Immortal Seed, I could further explore the secrets of the Luotian Sect?”

“And once this simulation ends, I should be able to break through to the Great Perfection level…”

Su Xing thought this to himself. He planned to immersively enter the Luotian Assembly once more during his next simulation.

His gaze turned to the simulation panel.

【You realized that Protective Hardened Qi could be advanced even further, but you had no leads for the time being.】

【So you temporarily set aside cultivating the Protective Hardened Qi divine ability and instead focused all your efforts on raising your Qi Refinement cultivation.】

【Year Sixteen: You used low-grade spirit stones to cultivate.】

【As you entered the Void Return stage, Ninth Layer, the speed at which you absorbed spiritual energy grew ever faster. In a single year, you could consume nearly eighty thousand low-grade spirit stones.】

【In the day-after-day grind of cultivation, two years passed just like this…】

【Year Eighteen: Your last low-grade spirit stone was exhausted.】

【Fortunately, your accumulated spirit liquid had once again built up to 1.4 million drops!】

【You entered seclusion and began cultivating daily with spirit liquid.】

【Year Nineteen: Your accumulated spirit liquid was depleted.】

【At the same time, your cultivation had reached the latter half of the Void Return stage, Ninth Layer — just one step away from Void Return Great Perfection.】

【With neither spirit liquid nor spirit stones remaining, you could only rely on ambient spiritual energy to cultivate.】

【Fortunately, after the spirit field grotto-heaven had advanced to a mid-grade grotto-heaven, its spiritual energy concentration was far higher than before.】

【Thus, although your cultivation speed was slow, the advantage was that every session of seclusion yielded some gains.】

【Year Twenty: You learned that Luo Shuying’s homeland had been overrun by foreign races.】

【Fortunately, with the help of Xia’s military, tens of thousands of Spirit Clan members successfully escaped and came to Demon-Sealing Pass to jointly resist the foreign races.】

【After receiving the news, you consoled Luo Shuying for a while, then continued your secluded cultivation.】

【In the monotony of secluded cultivation, three years slowly passed, and your cultivation steadily advanced.】

【Year Twenty-Three: Until one day, you sensed that your cultivation seemed to have reached a bottleneck…】

【You knew in your heart that crossing this bottleneck would make you a Void Return Great Perfection cultivator!】

【You decisively retrieved the 800,000 drops of spirit liquid you had collected over these years, preparing to enter seclusion once more and push through to Void Return Great Perfection in one decisive effort!】

Seeing this, Su Xing felt a measure of anticipation rise within him.

Whether or not he could break through to Void Return Great Perfection — it all depended on this attempt!

His gaze turned to the simulation panel.

【Year Twenty-Four: You used the Eight Trigrams Divination Art to select an auspicious day.】

【You began your breakthrough seclusion!】

【First, you began continuously consuming spirit liquid. As the spirit liquid entered your body and flowed through your meridians, the spiritual energy within you grew ever more abundant.】

【Like hundreds of streams converging ceaselessly until they finally filled an entire lake, the spiritual energy within your body at last reached a critical threshold.】

【Then you began frantically circulating your techniques. Your tri-element mutated Heavenly Spirit Root ravenously devoured these spiritual forces, converting them into the refined spiritual energy within your body…】

【Stars shifted, day and night alternated…】

【This session of seclusion lasted a full six months or more.】

【Finally, on the eve of your spirit liquid running dry, your cultivation advanced one step further.】

【Congratulations on becoming a Void Return Great Perfection cultivator!】

Seeing this, Su Xing let out a breath of relief, an involuntary smile spreading across his face.

Although breaking through to Void Return Great Perfection had been a near-certainty, Su Xing still couldn’t help feeling nervous.

“Finally… Void Return Great Perfection!”

“Void Return Great Perfection, combined with Void-Breaking Realm, Fifth Layer cultivation… with my current strength, I shouldn’t be inferior to any Peak Legendary powerhouse, right?”

Su Xing felt a stirring in his heart.

“As for Emperor-level powerhouses…”

Su Xing shook his head slightly.

The gap between an Emperor-level powerhouse and a Legendary was like the difference between heaven and earth.

If Su Xing wanted to fight above his level, he would need at minimum to cultivate both Void-Breaking and Void Return to Great Perfection, and also master one or two powerful offensive spells to even have a chance…

“Human Sword at Perfection… for my current level of strength, it’s already falling behind…”

“In my future cultivation, I could try practicing the Earth Sword… If I could bring the Earth Sword to Perfection, then fighting a Demon Emperor above my level wouldn’t just be a dream!”

After a pause, Su Xing continued.

“After breaking through to Void Return Grand Perfection, advancing to the Body Integration stage also needs to be put on the agenda…”

“But as for how to break through to the Body Integration stage, I’m currently completely in the dark…”

“It seems a trip to the Luotian Sect is truly unavoidable!”

Thinking this, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【After your Void Return breakthrough, you traveled to Demon-Sealing Pass.】

【You knew that Demon-Sealing Pass would soon face a great calamity, and you also wanted to test exactly where your current strength ranked.】

【Year Twenty-Five: Three Demon Emperors, leading hundreds of Legendary-level demon beasts, descended upon Demon-Sealing Pass.】

【In an instant, panic spread throughout all of Demon-Sealing Pass, and even Legendary powerhouses felt a sense of despair.】

【But you had foreseen all of this, so you simply charged forward to meet the challenge, without a shred of fear in your heart.】

【You engaged an Early-stage Legendary demon beast. After dozens of rounds of fierce combat, the Blackice sword in your hand cleaved its head from its body.】

【After slaying one Legendary, you set your sights on a Mid-stage Legendary demon beast.】

【This time you chose not to use your sword, but instead fought with pure physical strength and primordial energy!】

【Void-Breaking Realm, Fifth Layer combined with primordial energy — a full four million tons of colossal force. Even a Legendary demon beast would be grievously wounded if struck in a vital point.】

【You battled this Mid-stage Legendary demon beast for dozens of rounds and successfully killed it.】

【When this Legendary demon beast died, its mountain-sized, rotund head had been completely caved in by your fists, and there wasn’t a single patch of intact flesh left on its body.】

【After slaying this Mid-stage Legendary demon beast, you merely adjusted your breathing before turning your sights on a Late-stage Legendary demon beast.】

【You fought this Late-stage Legendary demon beast for hundreds of rounds, and through a combination of the Separation Fire Technique, primordial energy, and other methods, you finally cut it down!】

【On the battlefield, you slew three Legendary beasts in succession. Such a display quickly drew the attention of the Legendary demon beasts across the battlefield.】

【Soon, a Peak Legendary and a Mid-stage Legendary demon beast simultaneously launched an attack against you.】

【Facing two Legendary demon beasts at once, one of them a Peak Legendary at that — even you… found it immensely difficult.】

【Under the relentless combined assault of two Legendary demon beasts, you struggled to mount any effective offense.】

【But fortunately, your Perfection-level Protective Hardened Qi shielded you firmly, and combined with the inexhaustible primordial energy flowing within you, the two Legendary demon beasts could not critically wound you for the time being.】

【The situation reached a stalemate. You fought the two Legendary demon beasts for hundreds of rounds…】

【Until on the battlefield, the Emperor-level powerhouse on the human side fell under the siege of three Demon Emperors.】

【And shortly after, you too were slain by a Demon Emperor who had freed up its hands…】

【Only now, compared to being instantly killed before, you could endure over a dozen rounds against a Demon Emperor…】

【Your physical body shattered, and your soul departed your body…】

【A dark shadow suddenly appeared before you and swallowed your soul!】

【You died!】

【Your talent Die With Eyes Open activates…】

【You stared wide-eyed and caught a glimpse of the monster that had devoured your soul.】

【It was a demon beast only half the height of a man, resembling a monkey in appearance, yet the aura emanating from it was at least that of a Peak Legendary existence…】

【By your estimation, this was likely a type of demon race that specialized in devouring souls…】

【Ding — this simulation has ended!】