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    Su Xing gaped in astonishment, unable to close his mouth.

    You see, Qi Refining Cultivators’ techniques are divided into four tiers: Heaven, Earth, Mystery, and Yellow.

    The Eternal Spring Technique Su Xing was currently cultivating was merely a Mystery-tier technique.

    At best, it could only be cultivated to the Returning Void Stage’s peak.

    A higher-tier Earth-tier technique, however, could be cultivated to the Unity and Great Ascension Stages.

    As for Heaven-tier techniques, they were secrets passed down only to those who had reached the Dao of Immortals!

    Even in a large sect like the Luo Tian Sect, one needed to reach the level of an inner sect elder before they were eligible to cultivate Heaven-tier techniques.

    Su Xing’s original worry was that after reaching the Returning Void Stage, he would have no further techniques to cultivate.

    But he never expected that this simulation would give him such a pleasant surprise!

    “The Ten Thousand Trees Resolution… to be called a Heaven-tier technique, it at least indicates that among those who practiced it, at least one Immortal existed!”

    Su Xing murmured softly.

    That’s right, it wasn’t the technique that determined the cultivator’s limit, but the cultivator who achieved the technique’s limit!

    A technique, even if it was infinitely profound, needed a cultivator who cultivated it to achieve the status of an Immortal before it could be called a Heaven-tier technique!

    “The Ten Thousand Trees Resolution… does it require merging three Mystery-tier techniques into one to achieve the Heaven-tier level?”

    Su Xing furrowed his brow, calming himself down.

    In the simulator, although he had obtained three techniques, how to merge them into the Heaven-tier Ten Thousand Trees Resolution was certainly not as simple as cultivating them simultaneously.

    “Perhaps I can ask that Innate expert?”

    An idea came to Su Xing, and he looked at the simulation panel.

    [Knowing that it was related to a Heaven-tier technique, you were excited and asked how the three techniques could be upgraded to a Heaven-tier technique.]

    [After several inquiries, the old man was also unclear about the secret, but he said that the ruins might hold the secret of how the Ten Thousand Trees Resolution could regain its former glory.]

    [After hearing this, you made up your mind. It seems that you must go to the ruins!]

    [So, you pieced together the three jade fragments, but nothing happened.]

    [You were puzzled, and then, with a thought, you injected your Qi into the jade fragments.]

    [Sure enough, a miraculous scene occurred. As your Qi was injected, the three jade fragments slowly restored themselves and finally merged into an antique jade pendant.]

    [The jade pendant was engraved with a vibrant picture of trees and flowers, likely the symbol of the Ten Thousand Trees Sect.]

    [You penetrated the jade pendant with your divine sense and saw a map. The location marked on the map was likely the address of the ruins.]

    [You secretly memorized every detail on the map, but thousands of years had passed, and the world had changed. Many of the landmarks had been worn away by time.]

    [After days of careful observation and research, you roughly determined the location of the ruins.]

    [According to the map recorded on the jade pendant, the ruins were located in a mountain range about five thousand miles northwest of the Ten Thousand Trees Sect.]

    [You spent a day traveling to the mountain range, but the vast mountains stretched for hundreds of miles. It wasn’t easy to find a ruin.]

    [So, for the next month, you cultivated while using your divine sense to scan every inch of the mountain range, leaving no detail unturned.]

    [Soon, a month passed, and with your continuous search, you finally narrowed down the location of the ruins to a single mountain.]

    [You extended your divine sense, covering the entire mountain, carefully examining every detail, even a rabbit’s burrow.]

    [But you still couldn’t find the so-called ruins.]

    [You began to doubt if the map was wrong, but after comparing it repeatedly, you felt that it should be in this mountain range.]

    [Unsatisfied, you once again carefully scanned with your divine sense, but still couldn’t find anything.]

    [With no choice, you decided to personally traverse every corner of this mountain, hoping to find something.]

    [For the next month, you roamed through the mountains and rivers, looking for possible locations of the ruins and admiring the beautiful scenery, occasionally hunting wild game.]

    [Experiencing the tranquility and harmony of the mountains and rivers, your state of mind improved….]

    [Until a month later, you found a giant stone, over ten feet tall, lying in a valley.]

    [This giant stone looked ordinary, having experienced countless years of wind and rain, and was somewhat dilapidated. It blended perfectly with the surrounding flowers, trees, and grass, without any sense of incongruity.]

    [But what surprised you was that you could see the stone with your naked eyes, but your divine sense couldn’t sense its existence!]

    [You immediately had an epiphany. Perhaps this ten-foot tall giant stone was the entrance to the ruins!]

    [You carefully explored in front of the giant stone and finally discovered that there should be some kind of formation on it. Not only could it interfere with your divine sense, but it could also transport you to a mysterious space.]

    [There are two ways to break such a formation. One is to have enough research in the Dao of Formations to directly break it.]

    [Secondly, you could use brute force to break through ten thousand laws, directly smashing the giant stone and formation with absolute strength, which would also allow you to enter.]

    [You had no research in the Dao of Formations, so you decided to use brute force.]

    [You gathered your strength, kept your Qi in your Elixir Field, and were about to smash the giant stone with a punch….]

    [Suddenly, an unprecedented feeling of palpitations and anxiety arose, making you feel extremely uneasy. You stopped your attempt to smash the giant stone.]

    Su Xing frowned slightly at this.

    “Palpitations and anxiety? What’s going on…”

    After thinking for a moment, Su Xing seemed to have an epiphany.

    “Could it be that my Fortune-Seeking Innate Talent is prompting me?”

    Su Xing clearly remembered that the Fortune-Seeking Innate Talent could allow one to avoid danger as much as possible and make things develop in a good direction.

    But now, as he was about to smash the giant stone, he received a prompt from his Fortune-Seeking Innate Talent.

    It was hard not to think about it. Perhaps there would be danger inside the ruins?

    Su Xing pondered for a while and shook his head.

    “It’s just a simulation. Even if there is danger in the ruins, it’s just death, there’s no loss…”

    “However, this simulation has only been going on for a dozen years, and the remaining ten years can allow me to further enhance my Qi Refining cultivation…”

    “Maybe I can explore these ruins after reaching the Divine Transformation Stage Level Four?”

    Obviously, cultivating further to improve his realm and then exploring when approaching the end of the simulation period would be the most cost-effective choice.

    That’s what Su Xing thought, and he looked at the simulation panel.

    [Prompted by your Fortune-Seeking Innate Talent, you temporarily abandoned entering the ruins.]

    [You plan to first break through to Divine Transformation Stage Level Four and then explore.]

    [So, you secretly memorized the location of the giant stone and then exited the copy and returned to the real world.]

    [Next, you entered your personal Spirit Field and started to grind your cultivation day and night.]

    [In the seventeenth year, you cultivated for ten hours a day, and the abundant Qi in your Cave Heaven allowed your cultivation to progress rapidly.]

    [Unfortunately, your mastery of Elemental Force remained at the Winding level, with only a slight improvement. You hoped for a breakthrough.]

    [In the eighteenth year, your cultivation progressed smoothly. As your state of mind improved, you felt that your cultivation speed also accelerated.]

    [You still couldn’t achieve a breakthrough, and your Elemental Force remained at the Winding level.]

    [In the nineteenth year, you were surprised to find that on the petals of the Spirit Gathering Flowers in your Cave Heaven Paradise, there was a drop of crystal-clear water.]

    [This wasn’t a natural spiritual dew naturally grown by the spiritual plant, but a liquefied manifestation of Qi, namely spiritual liquid!]

    [The difference between spiritual dew and spiritual liquid is huge. Spiritual dew is a healing elixir that can be used as an auxiliary ingredient in many healing elixirs.]

    [Spiritual liquid, on the other hand, is similar to Spirit Stones. It can help cultivators cultivate!]

    [While it was just a drop of spiritual liquid, it gave you a signal that the concentration of Qi in your Spirit Field Cave Heaven had reached the point where it could produce spiritual liquid!]

    Su Xing was moved by this and then overjoyed.

    “Spiritual liquid! After my Spirit Field Paradise upgraded to a Cave Heaven, it can actually produce spiritual liquid!”

    Su Xing recalled the information about spiritual liquid. His Uncle Shen Nong had mentioned it before.

    Spiritual liquid, like Spirit Stones, was a universal currency in the world of cultivation.

    Compared to Spirit Stones, spiritual liquid was more gentle and easier to absorb.

    Spiritual liquid also had different qualities. The prices of different qualities of spiritual liquid varied.

    Low-grade spiritual liquid, ten drops were equal to one Spirit Stone. While high-grade spiritual liquid was worth the same as Spirit Stones, and one drop of spiritual liquid could even be exchanged for dozens or hundreds of Spirit Stones.

    “With spiritual liquid, there’s no doubt that my cultivation speed will be faster!”

    “I just wonder what the quality of this spiritual liquid is?”

    Su Xing was eager to know, looking at the simulation panel.

    [After confirming that your personal Spirit Field could produce spiritual liquid, you were delighted and immediately started to arrange a Spirit Gathering Formation.]

    [You spent a month successfully setting up several Spirit Gathering Formations. These Spirit Gathering Formations, after careful arrangement and adjustment, could gather the surrounding Qi to the maximum extent.]

    [In the middle of the Spirit Gathering Formations, you transplanted many more Spirit Gathering Flowers, and spiritual liquid would appear on them every day.]

    [After a week, you successfully harvested one thousand drops of spiritual liquid!]

    [You could produce over one hundred drops of spiritual liquid per day on average!]

    [You stored the spiritual liquid in a small jade bottle and then consumed a few drops.]

    [After that, you started to practice and absorb the Qi in the spiritual liquid.]

    [After an hour, you shook your head in disappointment.]

    [After consuming the spiritual liquid, your cultivation speed did indeed significantly increase, but it wasn’t as fast as directly cultivating with Spirit Stones.]

    [Based on your judgment, this spiritual liquid should only be of the lowest quality. The effect of ten drops of spiritual liquid could barely equal one Spirit Stone.]

    [But even so, you were very satisfied, because you had a stable channel for producing spiritual liquid, which was equivalent to harvesting more than ten Spirit Stones per day. Little by little, it was quite considerable.]

    Su Xing nodded slightly at this and murmured,

    “Sure enough, as I expected… The personal Spirit Field in the simulator has only just been upgraded to the Cave Heaven level, so it’s obviously only at the level where it barely produces enough spiritual liquid.”

    “But it’s not bad. I only have less than a thousand Spirit Stones left, and I naturally can’t afford to cultivate…”

    “But spiritual liquid is easier to absorb than Spirit Stones, and my cultivation speed will increase further! This is already an unexpected surprise, I can’t be greedy…”

    Su Xing comforted himself in this way, looking at the simulation panel.

    [In the twentieth year, you harvested about fifty thousand drops of spiritual liquid in this year. You consumed all of them, and your cultivation continued to progress.]

    [In the twenty-first year, the output of spiritual liquid in your Spirit Field Cave Heaven was very stable. You consumed about one hundred drops of spiritual liquid every day, and then consumed Clear Mind Pills and cultivated in a place with abundant Qi.]

    [In just a few years, your cultivation had almost reached Divine Transformation Stage Level Four!]

    [In the twenty-second year, your cultivation finally broke through again, achieving Divine Transformation Stage Level Four, entering the middle stage of Divine Transformation!]

    Su Xing nodded slightly at this and said,

    “It took seven years to go from Divine Transformation Stage Level Two to Level Three. It should be even harder to break through from Level Three to Level Four, but it only took seven years… it must be the merit of spiritual liquid!”

    [In the twenty-third year, you were still cultivating in your Spirit Field Paradise, consuming spiritual liquid every day, and striving to reach Divine Transformation Stage Level Five!]

    [In the twenty-fourth year, your Elemental Force was still at the Winding level and progressing slowly. You focused more on cultivating!]

    [In the beginning of the twenty-fifth year, your Qi Refining cultivation was still at Divine Transformation Stage Level Four, but it had improved a lot compared to before.]

    [You were very satisfied with this and knew that the Demon-Suppressing Instance might be broken this year. Time was running out.]

    [So, you chose to enter the Immortal Martial Era copy again!]

    “Here it comes!”

    Su Xing was slightly nervous at this, and he was also very curious about what was hidden in the ruins.

    His current cultivation was at the peak of the Divine Power Realm, but the danger in this copy was so great that it even prompted his Fortune-Seeking Innate Talent.

    “Fortune favors the bold! I want to see what’s hidden in the ruins!”

    [You came to the familiar mountain range and found the giant stone you remembered!]

    [This time, you didn’t hesitate and smashed the giant stone in front of you with a punch!]

    [As the giant stone shattered, a white ball of light appeared in front of you. You understood that as long as you stepped into this ball of light, you would appear in the so-called ruins.]

    [Your Fortune-Seeking Innate Talent frantically prompted you not to enter.]

    [But you were determined and stepped into the ball of light!]

    [The scene in front of you changed, and when you came to your senses, you found yourself in an unfamiliar environment.]

    [You looked around. In the dim and damp environment, only the night pearls embedded in the walls emitted a faint light.]

    [You didn’t act rashly, but carefully observed the surrounding environment.]

    [A strange smell of sulfurous acid filled the air, and you could faintly hear the sound of water droplets in the distance.]

    [You used the dim light to see several corpses not far away. The ravages of time had left them with only skeletons, with traces of battle around them.]

    [The feeling of palpitations intensified. You knew that it was your Fortune-Seeking Innate Talent prompting you, but you still took a few steps forward boldly.]

    [You observed the appearance of those skeletons. Some of them were strong and likely belonged to men before their death, while others were slender, seemingly belonging to women.]

    [But without exception, these skeletons were as crystal-clear as jade, which proved that they were at least at the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage, or even the Divine Transformation Stage before their death!]

    [Because only Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation Cultivators could achieve such crystal-clear jade bones even after thousands of years of death.]

    [Judging from the traces around them, they should have fought before their death, but their magic tools and storage bags were gone, seemingly taken by someone.]

    [Finding no more useful information, you decided to move forward.]

    [After walking hundreds of steps, the original ten-foot wide passage gradually narrowed to only three feet wide. However, more and more night pearls were embedded in the walls, and the light became brighter.]

    [At the same time, the feeling of palpitations in your heart became stronger and stronger.]

    Su Xing frowned slightly at this and said,

    “Strange, shouldn’t these ruins be the place where the elders of the Ten Thousand Trees Sect slept? Why was there a battle?”

    “Even Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation Cultivators died at the entrance?”

    “What happened in these ruins thousands of years ago… Are there still living cultivators in these ruins?”

    Su Xing became more and more curious, and he also wanted to figure out what caused the danger warning.

    [You continued forward and soon found two more skeletons in a corner.]

    [These two skeletons were crystal-clear and white as jade. You picked up a few bones and weighed them in your hand. Then, you were shocked.]

    [These bones were extremely heavy, indicating that the bone density was very high, which was a sign of a high-level Body Refining Cultivator.]

    [Because only with sufficient bone and muscle density could Body Refining Cultivators burst forth with astonishing strength.]

    [And based on your estimate, the density of these bones was even three points higher than yours, which meant….]

    [These two skeletons on the ground were once Void-Breaking Realm Cultivators!]

    Su Xing was shocked at this and murmured,

    “What’s hidden in these ruins? Even Void-Breaking Realm Cultivators died here?”

    Su Xing suspected that thousands of years ago, there was a very shocking battle among the cultivators who entered the ruins of the Ten Thousand Trees Sect.

    In that battle, perhaps Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation Cultivators were not even ranked, and even Void-Breaking and Returning Void Cultivators could only die in the fight?

    “Why did that battle break out? Was it to fight for Qi?”

    “No, that’s wrong… They were preparing to sleep, there was no need to fight a battle before sleeping…”

    Su Xing became even more puzzled, looking at the simulation panel.

    [The feeling of unease in your heart became stronger, but you decided to continue exploring.]

    [After walking dozens of steps further, you suddenly sensed thin Qi in the air!]

    [Although the Qi was thin, it meant that there might still be a spirit vein in these ruins.]

    [You continued forward.]

    [Suddenly, a strange sound of collision came from the darkness. A black figure darted past you!]

    [The figure was incredibly fast. You couldn’t even see its appearance clearly, but from its outline, you roughly judged it to be a human.]

    [As the figure darted past, your sense of unease reached its peak, so you quickly took out your spirit sword, Ink Ice, and prepared to fight at any moment!]

    [Your divine sense surged forward like a tide, and you successfully sensed the figure, less than thirty feet in front of you!]

    [But what shocked you was that this figure had no life force at all, which meant that it was likely a puppet!]

    [Suddenly, the figure rushed towards you. You quickly swung your Ink Ice and attacked the puppet!]

    [Duang!]

    [A sword Qi slashed onto the puppet, and a sound of metal clashing against metal rang out. However, the figure only paused slightly and continued to rush towards you…]

    (End of Chapter)

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