Chapter 112: Fourth-Grade Nascent Soul, Nascent Soul Stage Great Perfection!
[You directly told Luo Suying your purpose and spoke the code phrase and your request.]
[Luo Suying believed you, and she used her own contribution points to help you exchange for many spiritual herbs.]
[For the next six months, you completed the pill refining tasks assigned to you by the higher-ups of the Advent Cult every month, refining 300 pills each month, but secretly embezzled even more medicinal materials.]
[Half a year later, you became an elder of the Advent Cult, possessing a more independent status. Besides refining pills every day, you devoted more energy to your own cultivation.]
[In the second year, you mastered the principle of the Small Spirit Gathering Array and placed Spirit Gathering Flowers inside it to increase your cultivation speed.]
[You opened a secret chamber near the Spirit Gathering Array and cultivated in it every day, swallowing Dragon Spirit Pills to increase your spirit absorption rate. Your cultivation progressed rapidly.]
[During this year, Luo Suying cooperated with you and emptied most of the Advent Cult's medicinal materials. You now had enough medicinal materials to refine pills for the next few years.]
[In the third year, you deemed the time ripe and prepared to betray the Advent Cult with Luo Suying.]
[You contacted Lu Yuanwu in advance through Jin Congxue and gained his trust by gifting him tens of thousands of Yuan Nourishing Pills. You requested the Great Xia higher-ups to ambush the Advent Cult protectors and elders who would be pursuing you.]
[The Great Xia higher-ups believed you and decided to dispatch three Martial Emperor-level experts and one Legend-level expert to cooperate with your actions.]
[You were confident about this. With the help of these experts, plus Luo Suying, you could definitely wipe out the pursuers.]
[Of course, this was not your ultimate goal. Your goal was to take this opportunity to eliminate Old Dog Zong and inherit his cultivation legacy!]
Su Xing's heart stirred as he read this, exclaiming, "It's a sure thing!"
"With one Legend-level expert and three Martial Emperor-level experts, Old Dog Zong, where can you run this time!"
Su Xing was a little excited. If he could really kill Old Dog Zong, he would definitely be able to inherit his legacy!
Su Xing clenched his fists and muttered, "Cultivation techniques, secret manuals, pills, heavenly materials and earthly treasures, I want them all!"
Su Xing continued to read the simulation.
[At the agreed time, you met with Luo Suying and secretly spread the news, announcing your betrayal of the Advent Cult.]
[As expected, the Advent Cult sent three protectors and more than ten elders to pursue you.]
[You successfully waited for the Great Xia experts who came to meet you and launched a counter-ambush against these elders.]
[You single-handedly killed several Advent Cult elders, while the remaining three protectors were successfully killed by Luo Suying with the cooperation of the Great Xia experts.]
[For a time, the overall strength of the Advent Cult suffered heavy losses.]
[But what you didn't expect was that Old Dog Zong didn't participate in this operation, and he successfully escaped.]
[Although you felt a little regretful, there was nothing you could do. You had to rush to the Great Xia capital with Luo Suying.]
Su Xing frowned slightly and muttered, "How could this be? Last time, Old Dog Zong came to chase me himself... Why didn't he fall into the trap this time after I set up an ambush in advance?"
"Could it be that the Great Xia higher-ups leaked the news, and Old Dog Zong knew about it in advance?"
Su Xing then shook his head slightly. If the news had really been leaked, not only would Old Dog Zong not come, but even these protectors would not come to pursue them... Or the Advent Cult would simply send stronger people to finish them off.
"It shouldn't be a leak. Then why didn't Old Dog Zong come? Could it be that Old Dog Zong has the ability to predict the future? Or... was there something different in the steps I took in this simulation compared to before?"
Su Xing was a little confused for a while.
But the matter of predicting the future was too bizarre. Perhaps only the legendary immortals could do it, and ordinary cultivators couldn't possibly achieve this.
Therefore, Su Xing was actually more inclined to believe that there might have been some errors in this simulation.
After all, although the simulation simulates future trajectories, Su Xing cannot control every detail, and there are still some differences compared to personal participation.
"Forget it, it's nothing more than being unable to kill this old dog for the time being. Let him live a few more days..."
Su Xing shook his head slightly, then turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.
[After returning to the capital, you began to continue refining pills. Because of the bonus from your Alchemy Talent, your pill refining skills and efficiency gradually improved.]
[You refined pills for four hours every day, and spent the rest of the time cultivating diligently in the underground secret chamber of the Spiritual Land.]
[In one year, you refined 60,000 Yuan Nourishing Pills and Organ Refining Pills, adding more than 10,000 Grandmaster-level experts to the Great Xia Nation.]
[In the fourth year, you continued to maintain your cultivation time because you found that after your cultivation reached the late Nascent Soul stage, the improvement of your realm became increasingly slower.]
[Therefore, you decided to focus on pill refining for a year first, refining the pills needed by the Great Xia Nation and Luo Suying in advance, so that you could focus on closed-door cultivation for the rest of the time.]
[You spent a year refining a total of more than 100,000 pills, adding tens of thousands of Grandmaster-level experts to the Great Xia Nation. This year, the number of Grandmaster-level experts in the Great Xia Nation exceeded 70,000.]
[In the same year, you ordered people to help you search for spiritual herbs in the Great Xia Nation's treasury. Besides Yuan Nourishing Grass and Yellow Immortal Essence, you also asked them to help you find some rare medicinal materials.]
[Because of your contributions to the human race in the past two years, you were hailed as a hero of the Great Xia Nation, and also a hero of the entire human race.]
[And because of your existence, the Tarot Society became the premier Chamber of Commerce in the Great Xia Nation. You didn't care about this, but the expansion of the Tarot Chamber of Commerce was beneficial to you. You asked the Tarot Chamber of Commerce to help you collect more spiritual herbs and treasures related to the cultivation world.]
[In the fifth year, you refined all the medicinal materials in the Great Xia treasury, adding thousands more Grandmaster-level experts to the human race.]
[At the same time, you also refined thousands of Dragon Spirit Pills and Yuanwu Pills. You kept over a thousand Dragon Spirit Pills and hundreds of Yuanwu Pills for your own use, and donated the rest to the Great Xia military.]
[With your help, the Great Xia Nation gained hundreds more Heavenly King-level professionals.]
[For the rest of the time, you refined a lot of Spirit Condensing Pills and gave them to Luo Suying to help her and the Spirit Race break through their strength.]
[In the sixth year, with your help, Luo Suying successfully advanced to become a Legend-level expert.]
[You then spent half a year refining a batch of healing pills. After doing all this, you started to cultivate diligently.]
[In the seventh year, you spent half a year in seclusion, cultivating underground every day. You felt that you were getting closer and closer to the eighth level of the Nascent Soul stage.]
[In the eighth year, after continuous closed-door cultivation, you finally broke through to the eighth level of the Nascent Soul stage, taking your cultivation further!]
Su Xing frowned slightly when he saw this.
The improvement of his cultivation in the late Nascent Soul stage was more difficult than he had imagined.
Excluding the two and a half years spent on pill refining, it took him almost six years to advance from the seventh level of the Nascent Soul stage to the eighth level.
At this rate, he might just reach the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage in this simulation, of course, this was only if he was lucky.
But if he was unlucky, he might only be able to cultivate to the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage...
"I hope I can successfully break through to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage..."
Su Xing prayed silently in his heart and looked at the simulation panel.
[In the ninth year, you meditated and cultivated every day, frantically absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy, and taking Dragon Spirit Pills to increase your spiritual absorption rate.]
[But the path of cultivation is going against the heavens. In the late Nascent Soul stage, it is difficult for ordinary cultivators to break through a small realm in decades. Although you have a True Spiritual Root and your cultivation speed is astonishing, it is still extremely difficult to break through a small realm within a few years.]
[Moreover, the more difficult it is to break through in cultivation, the more impatient you become, which in turn affects your cultivation speed, creating a vicious cycle.]
[Therefore, in desperation, you began to look for other ways. You took out the ancient book on Lihuo Pill Refining, hoping to find a pill formula to improve your cultivation speed.]
[After several days of searching, you unexpectedly discovered something.]
[There is a type of pill called the Clear Mirror Pill, which can enhance a cultivator's state of mind during cultivation, reaching a state of etherealness, thereby effectively improving cultivation efficiency.]
[This Clear Mirror Pill is a low-grade pill, and it is not complicated to refine. The medicinal material needed for refining, Clear Mirror Grass, is also relatively common and can be found in the Advent Cult's treasury.]
[What surprised you even more was that when you were browsing through the pills, you discovered a type of pill called the Nascent Soul Tempering Pill recorded in the book, along with a few legends.]
[This Nascent Soul Tempering Pill can improve the quality of the Nascent Soul. After breaking through to the Deity Transformation stage, it can allow the path of cultivation to go further and increase the spiritual energy content within the dantian.]
[The book records that Nascent Souls are divided into lower, middle, and upper grades, and above these three grades, there is also a Perfect Nascent Soul. The only pity is that the most crucial main ingredient is missing from this pill formula, so you cannot refine it.]
Su Xing frowned slightly when he saw this. The cultivation speed of the Nascent Soul was already much slower than he had imagined, and if there was a Clear Mirror Pill, it might be able to improve it.
But what was this Fourth-Grade Nascent Soul? Could it be that Nascent Souls are also divided into high and low grades?
But even so, if he didn't have the pill formula, how could he refine this Nascent Soul Tempering Pill and achieve a Perfect Nascent Soul?
Su Xing felt a little frustrated for a moment. After hesitating for a while, Su Xing could only sigh and say, "Forget it, let's focus on improving my cultivation to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage first. I'll ask about this Fourth-Grade Nascent Soul when I go to the Luotian Conference next time..."
Su Xing shook his head slightly and turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.
[Next, you spent half a year successfully mastering the Clear Mirror Pill and refining several hundred of them.]
[You started taking Clear Mirror Pills and continued cultivating. You found that the effect of the Clear Mirror Pill was outstanding. After taking it, your mind became ethereal, and you became calmer, able to focus more on cultivation. Your overall cultivation speed increased by 30%.]
[In the following months, you took Clear Mirror Pills every day, but eventually discovered the side effects of this pill. That is, if you take it continuously for many times, it is easy to go from a clear mind and focused cultivation to laziness, and the whole person enters a sage mode, not caring about anything.]
[Helplessly, you reduced the frequency of taking Clear Mirror Pills, stopping for a day or two after taking a few. Your overall cultivation speed increased by about 20%.]
[Even so, you were very satisfied. For a low-grade pill, being able to increase the cultivation speed by 20% was already quite remarkable, and this speed was enough for you.]
[In the tenth year, you still cultivated every day. Because of taking the Clear Mirror Pill, you were calm and unperturbed, cultivating without noticing the passage of time.]
[In the eleventh year, bad news came from the front line of the Demon Suppression Pass that the supplies had been cut off, and the military was in a panic. You timely took out the辟谷丹 谷 Pill and healing pills that you had refined in advance, saving this crisis.]
[In the twelfth year, a year of hard work, you felt good. The Clear Mirror Pill still had an excellent effect on you, and you were getting closer and closer to the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage.]
[In the thirteenth year, you had used up all your Clear Mirror Pills, so you refined a new batch.]
[In the fourteenth year, your cultivation finally broke through, and you became a ninth-level Nascent Soul cultivator! You were only one step away from reaching the end of the Nascent Soul stage and becoming a Great Perfection Nascent Soul cultivator!]
[The breakthrough to the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage was two years earlier than you expected. You did a quick calculation and believed that the remaining time was enough for you to break through to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage.]
[So you set aside one or two hours every day to prepare to refine Divine Power Pills, hoping to trigger a chance enlightenment and successfully learn the Divine Power Pill.]
[In the fifteenth year, you did not trigger enlightenment this year. However, because you are an alchemy prodigy, your learning of the Divine Power Pill was rapid, and you began to gradually grasp the basics of the Divine Power Pill.]
[In the sixteenth year, you continued to cultivate, and the spiritual energy in your body became more and more abundant. You felt that you were getting closer and closer to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage.]
[This year, Luo Suying's hometown was breached by foreign races, and thousands of Spirit Race people came to the Great Xia Nation on Blue Star, joining the battlefield of the Demon Suppression Pass to jointly resist the invasion of foreign races.]
[In the seventeenth year, it was another year of boring cultivation, and your cultivation remained at the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage.]
[In the eighteenth year, after several years of refining, your Divine Power Vine was exhausted. Even with the bonus of the Alchemy Prodigy talent, you only barely managed to refine some inferior Divine Power Pills. Your proficiency in refining Divine Power Pills barely reached the入門級 Entry level.]
[But you did not choose to take the inferior Divine Power Pills because you were still not satisfied with your current strength at the Yuanwu realm. You believed that your strength could be further improved, so you were unwilling to do this to exhaust your potential.]
[But Divine Power Pills are hard to come by, and you didn't want to waste them, so you handed over the dozens of refined Divine Power Pills to the Great Xia Nation's military, hoping to contribute some strength to the human race.]
[In the nineteenth year, you were still at the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage, but you felt that you were getting closer and closer to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage.]
[In the twentieth year, what you didn't expect was that the Divine Power Pill was actually very effective for Heavenly King-level experts. The Divine Power Pills you donated were distributed to three Heavenly King-level experts. Unexpectedly, after taking them, one of the Heavenly King-level experts successfully advanced and became a Martial Emperor-level expert.]
Su Xing was overjoyed when he saw this. He didn't expect to discover another pill that could help professionals improve their strength.
"Divine Power Pill, it can enhance the strength of Heavenly King-level experts. It should be very helpful for strength-type professionals. After taking it, their strength will be further improved, thereby breaking through to become Martial Emperor-level experts, right?"
Su Xing murmured softly.
This was definitely good news for him because it meant that Su Xing officially had the ability to help the human race create Martial Emperor-level experts.
Although Su Xing had not yet mastered the refining of Divine Power Pills, and the number of Divine Power Vines was limited, and he still needed to take the refined pills himself.
But when Su Xing no longer needed Divine Power Pills, he could completely use these pills to improve the strength of Heavenly King-level experts, thereby creating Martial Emperor-level experts.
Even if only a dozen or so Martial Emperor-level experts were created, their role on the battlefield might not be inferior to that of hundreds of Heavenly King-level experts. By then, the strength of the human race would be greatly improved.
"This is really good news, but for now, let's focus on breaking through to the Divine Power Realm..."
Su Xing calmed himself down and looked at the simulation panel again.
[In the twenty-first year, you continued to cultivate diligently, and the spiritual energy in your body became more and more abundant.]
[In the twenty-second year, the human race suffered a setback at the Demon Suppression Pass, and the situation at the Demon Suppression Pass became precarious.]
[You felt even more urgent in your heart, so you cultivated even harder.]
[In the twenty-third year, your cultivation finally broke through, and you became a Great Perfection Nascent Soul cultivator!]
[After breaking through to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, you felt that the improvement of your strength had reached a bottleneck. You decided to spend the last few years experiencing life well.]
[In the twenty-fourth year, the human race suffered heavy losses at the Demon Suppression Pass, and it was on the verge of collapse.]
[In the twenty-fifth year, the Demon Suppression Pass was completely breached, and hundreds of thousands of Great Xia soldiers died at the pass.]
[In the same year, a foreign beast descended and swallowed the entire Great Xia Nation in one bite.]
[In the last second before your death, you gave the giant beast the middle finger.]
[You died!]
[Your talent, Die With Unfulfilled Ambitions, activated...]
[Ding, the simulation is over!]
After the simulation ended, Su Xing let out a long sigh of relief.
No matter what, his goal was finally achieved in this simulation: Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage!
Just one more step, and he would be able to reach the Deity Transformation stage!
Thinking of this, Su Xing's face was filled with joy, and he muttered, "Old Dog Zong, just you wait, your death is not far away..."
The cultivation to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage was more difficult than Su Xing had imagined. Perhaps it was because of the Demon Emperor's flesh and blood essence that Su Xing didn't feel so strained at the Yuanwu realm.
Su Xing closed his eyes and pondered, carefully summarizing and reviewing the experience of this simulation.
The first was the breakthrough of the Divine Power Pill and the Divine Power Realm!
"With my current physical strength, I am far from reaching my limit. Before breaking through to the Divine Power Realm, I should make my strength even stronger so that I can maximize my potential..."
"With enough Demon Emperor's flesh and blood essence, maybe my strength can reach six million catties, or even higher..."
Su Xing was a little expectant because the stronger the strength at the Yuanwu realm, the greater the amplification at the Divine Power Realm.
For every one million catties increase in strength, when reaching the Great Perfection of the Divine Power Realm, the twentyfold amplification would result in a difference of twenty million catties in strength!
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that a slight difference can lead to a huge disparity!
"Secondly, after reaching the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, I must figure out the matter of the Fourth-Grade Nascent Soul. Otherwise, it may affect my future path..."
For Su Xing, he didn't lack time. Let alone a Fourth-Grade Nascent Soul, even an Eighth-Grade Nascent Soul or a Sixteenth-Grade Nascent Soul was just a matter of simulating a few more times.
And the stronger the foundation he laid, the further Su Xing could go on his future path. After all, Su Xing's goal was not the mere Deity Transformation stage, but immortality!
Or even higher realms.
"This Alchemy Prodigy talent is not bad either. Although the bonus is not groundbreaking, it can improve my pill refining speed and pill success rate... And it's very helpful in learning new pills. It's a good auxiliary talent!"
In the previous simulations, Su Xing hadn't even grasped the basics of refining the Divine Power Pill. But in this simulation, even without triggering enlightenment, he had barely reached the Entry level, which could be considered a very good bonus.
Su Xing looked at the simulation reward choices in front of him.
[Alchemy Prodigy]: Purple talent, price: 1 million energy points.
[Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Stage]: Qi Refining cultivation, Nascent Soul ancestor, only one step away from entering the Deity Transformation realm, price: 3 million energy points.
[Twenty-five Years of Pill Refining Experience]: Pill refining insights, experience in learned pills slightly increased, newly learned Clear Mirror Pill (Small Accomplishment), Divine Power Pill (Entry), price: 1.5 million energy points.
[Mastery of the Small Spirit Gathering Array Principle]: Price: 5,000 energy points.
In this simulation, Su Xing's goal was very clear, which was to break through his cultivation to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage. Therefore, he had few reward choices left.
Looking at the four rewards in front of him, Su Xing didn't hesitate at all and said directly, "I choose the Alchemy Prodigy talent and the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage cultivation!"
There was nothing to say about the Alchemy Prodigy talent. This thing had a really good bonus. With this talent, Su Xing's future pill refining would be much easier. It was a must-choose.
Apart from that, the only thing he might be hesitant about was the pill refining experience and the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage cultivation.
In this simulation, Su Xing successfully grasped the basics of refining the Divine Power Pill, but he was probably still far from the Small Accomplishment level. Su Xing conservatively estimated that at this rate, it would take two or three simulations to reach the Small Accomplishment level, which was the level that would be useful to him.
But Su Xing didn't intend to choose pill refining experience.
Because it was too slow! What if Su Xing was lucky enough to directly trigger enlightenment next time? Wouldn't he be able to directly gain Small Accomplishment level experience then?
Even if he didn't trigger it, Su Xing could completely learn a few more types of pills, such as a few low-grade healing pills, so that he could bring out more pill refining experience at once, which would be more efficient.
Moreover, cultivation in the late Nascent Soul stage was not easy to improve, and Su Xing was unwilling to spend another twenty-five years breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.
After Su Xing made his choice, the simulator's prompt sounded in his ears.
[You have successfully brought out the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage cultivation, spending 3 million energy points, remaining energy: 15,879,768 points.]
[You have successfully brought out the purple talent Alchemy Prodigy, spending 1 million energy points, remaining energy: 14,871,527 points.]
After Su Xing made his choice, two mysterious forces fell upon him.
Su Xing first felt that his pill refining thoughts became clearer, and he felt a sense of intimacy when looking at the pill furnace in the distance.
This was the purple talent Alchemy Prodigy taking effect.
And in the next second, a powerful aura of cultivation breakthrough suddenly erupted from Su Xing's body.
(Two-in-one chapter, needed for plot coherence, will resume three updates tomorrow, this word count is not included in the paid content.)
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