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    Shennong Youtian nodded slightly upon hearing this and said,

    “Why not? The alchemy formula is just an external object…”

    After speaking, Shennong Youtian searched through his storage device and finally handed over an ancient piece of parchment.

    Su Xing took it and looked at it.

    The parchment not only recorded the alchemy formula for the Refining Void Pill, but also clearly listed the types and quantities of the required medicinal herbs.

    One of the main herbs for the Refining Void Pill was, surprisingly, the Soul-Condensing Wood!

    Su Xing wasn’t surprised by this.

    After all, Soul-Condensing Wood was a rare herb that could strengthen one’s spiritual awareness, making it the perfect main herb for this Refining Void Pill.

    “But, what is this Spring Dew Pure Water?”

    Su Xing pointed to that specific medicinal herb on the alchemy formula and asked his Uncle Shennong.

    Shennong Youtian explained,

    “Pure water refers to water without roots… meaning the rainwater that falls from the sky.”

    “As for Spring Dew Pure Water, it refers to the first drop of rain that falls after the Spring Thunder on the day of Awakening Insects!”

    “The day of Awakening Insects is the day of the beginning of spring, where it’s said ‘When the thunder strikes, all evil spirits retreat!'”

    “This Spring Dew Pure Water, because it absorbs a trace of the laws of thunder from the first sound of thunder, is even more beneficial to our cultivators’ souls and bodies.”

    “When a Returning Void Stage cultivator enters the Void Realm, their body and soul will be tempered by the Void Thunder. If they can obtain the essence of thunder from this Spring Dew Pure Water, they will be able to safely pass through this ordeal.”

    Shennong Youtian spoke eloquently.

    Su Xing nodded thoughtfully,

    “So, Spring Dew Pure Water is just the first drop of rain on the day of Awakening Insects?”

    “But… since there’s so much rainwater from one rain, how do I get the first drop?”

    Su Xing felt a headache coming on. There were countless drops of rain from a single rainfall, right?

    To get the first drop out of those countless drops… how difficult would that be?

    Perhaps… only divine methods could achieve it?

    Shennong Youtian chuckled slightly upon hearing this,

    “Nephew Luo, have you forgotten about your spiritual awareness?”

    “If a cultivator’s spiritual awareness is strong enough, it can cover an area of several dozen li (approximately 1.5 miles). On the day of Awakening Insects, the first drop of rain will probably be the first ten drops…”

    “Of course, the more, the better… but if your cultivation techniques and spiritual awareness aren’t strong enough, the tenth drop and the first drop are actually not that different…”

    Su Xing nodded thoughtfully after hearing this.

    But he was still somewhat worried. The requirements for Spring Dew Pure Water were simply too strict…

    “Thank you, Uncle, for your guidance!”

    Su Xing bowed to Shennong Youtian.

    No matter what, he now had a starting point to break through to the Returning Void Stage.

    Even if it was difficult, as long as Su Xing was willing to grind it out, he would eventually get it.

    Afterwards, Su Xing sent Shennong Youtian to the Luo Tian Great Assembly venue.

    There were still ten hours left before the immersive simulation began.

    Su Xing took advantage of the time and went to the Scripture Pavilion to continue memorizing the “Three Talismans Sword Technique” – the Heaven Sword chapter.

    After all, the Heaven Sword chapter was the most difficult part, and Su Xing wanted to cherish every opportunity to memorize it.

    By accumulating a little bit each day, he could eventually memorize the entire sword technique.

    Soon, Su Xing arrived at the Scripture Pavilion.

    Reaching his familiar spot, Su Xing took out the “Three Talismans Sword Technique” and prepared to memorize it.

    However, he had only been there for a short time when he heard the voice of the Ghost Granny.

    “You are, the disciple of Niu Ruli, Luo Xiaochuan, right?”

    The Ghost Granny’s figure appeared behind Su Xing.

    Su Xing quickly bowed, “Greetings, Senior!”

    The Ghost Granny still had the same calm expression, but she said,

    “As I see it, you lad’s Qi Refining talent surpasses your Body Refining talent!”

    “You are less than a hundred years old and have already reached the Divine Transformation Realm. It’s only a matter of time before you break through to the Returning Void Stage…”

    Su Xing just smiled and thanked her.

    The Ghost Granny was indeed mistaken.

    Su Xing’s Body Refining talent was purple, which was strictly speaking, better than his Qi Refining talent.

    And Su Xing had invested more resources and energy in his Qi Refining cultivation, so he could barely keep the two cultivation paths on par.

    But then, the Ghost Granny’s next words filled Su Xing with joy.

    “I observe that you haven’t cultivated any spiritual awareness secret techniques… how can you ascend to the Void Realm and enter the Returning Void Stage?”

    “Huh? Strange…”

    “You haven’t cultivated any spiritual awareness secret techniques, yet your spiritual awareness is so strong?”

    “Could you be a natural Soul Immortal Body… or have you taken some kind of heavenly treasure?”

    The Ghost Granny’s expression became increasingly strange.

    It was no wonder the Ghost Granny couldn’t figure out Su Xing’s background.

    Su Xing’s current spiritual awareness was entirely built up through the Soul-Condensing Pills!

    But the Soul-Condensing Pills had a toxicity that was fine in small doses. Taking too many would hinder spiritual awareness improvement.

    However, Su Xing’s biggest cheat… the simulator, when extracting spiritual awareness and cultivation levels, could eliminate the toxicity of the pills!

    This made Su Xing’s source of spiritual awareness and cultivation levels seem extremely pure, as if they were entirely obtained through his own cultivation.

    Just as Su Xing was pondering,

    The Ghost Granny’s eyes turned an eerie purple. After carefully observing Su Xing up and down, she was instantly amazed.

    “Strange indeed! I’ve lived for thousands of years… and this is the first time I’ve seen such a peculiar talent…”

    “You’re not a natural Soul Immortal Body, yet you possess such astounding spiritual awareness… and there’s no trace of taking any pills to enhance your soul…”

    “Even though your spiritual awareness is only at the Five Senses Realm, if you cultivate spiritual awareness secret techniques… hmph, your future is immeasurable!”

    Su Xing listened to the Ghost Granny’s mumbling and became even more astonished.

    This Ghost Granny’s abilities were truly profound, she could even sense his spiritual awareness.

    Those purple, eerie eyes were probably some kind of divine ability?

    If Su Xing didn’t know that the Ghost Granny was unfathomable,

    just hearing those words might make him think the Ghost Granny was a con artist selling the “Buddha Palm” technique.

    Just as Su Xing was pondering, the Ghost Granny said,

    “Luo Xiaochuan, I see that you have outstanding talent… I want to teach you a spiritual awareness secret technique.”

    “But in exchange, you have to do something for me…”

    Before the Ghost Granny finished speaking, Su Xing immediately agreed,

    “Disciple agrees!”

    For a moment, the Ghost Granny was taken aback.

    She didn’t expect Su Xing to agree so readily.

    She asked in confusion,

    “Aren’t you afraid that I am a kind of evil cultivator who is secluded in the sect and has a strange hobby of experimenting on cultivators?”

    Su Xing shook his head decisively and said sincerely,

    “Disciple is not afraid, I see that you are a kindhearted senior.”

    But in reality, Su Xing was thinking: Anyway, I won’t remember next time… why not get a free secret technique?

    Su Xing silently gave the Ghost Granny a thumbs-up in his heart.

    Seeing Su Xing’s quick agreement, the Ghost Granny pointed at Su Xing’s forehead and said,

    “I’ll teach you this secret technique… called the Wishful Visualization Technique!”

    “It’s a supreme secret technique for soul cultivation, comparable to a top-grade Heaven-ranked cultivation technique… Cultivate it well, do not let it gather dust!”

    As soon as she finished speaking, a visualization drawing filled with endless mysteries appeared in Su Xing’s mind.

    The drawing depicted an old Daoist with a white beard, holding an indistinct jade wish-granting scepter!

    Along with it, a passage of several hundred words, which was a set of incantations, also entered Su Xing’s mind.

    “Supreme Wish… Man desires clarity, but the heart disturbs him; the heart desires stillness, but desires pull it… Those who chant this method will obtain the jade of wish-granting and its protection for their soul…”

    Su Xing was overjoyed. This visualization technique could enhance spiritual awareness, precisely the secret technique Su Xing had been dreaming of!

    Su Xing was about to express his gratitude, but looking up, he saw that the Ghost Granny’s face was pale and she couldn’t even stand steadily.

    Su Xing reached out to support the Ghost Granny, but she stopped him.

    The Ghost Granny said,

    “You just cultivate well, don’t forget to come back to this Scripture Pavilion again next year…”

    With that, the Ghost Granny disappeared.

    Su Xing was left alone, sighing involuntarily,

    “Sigh, this Ghost Granny may have a harsh appearance, but she truly is a good person!”

    “Not only did she give me divine abilities and cultivation techniques… she even taught me something as precious as the Visualization Technique!”

    When teaching the Sword Control Technique last time, the Ghost Granny hadn’t spent so much energy.

    But this time, teaching the Visualization Technique, the Ghost Granny almost couldn’t stand.

    Besides the Visualization Technique and the visualization drawing being more difficult to manifest, it was probably also because the Visualization Technique had a profound origin!

    After the Ghost Granny left, Su Xing first took out the alchemy formula for the Refining Void Pill and carefully memorized every step, every detail of the alchemy process.

    With the remaining time, Su Xing began memorizing the “Heaven Sword chapter” of the “Three Talismans Sword Technique.”

    Soon, the time for the immersive simulation ended, and Su Xing’s consciousness returned to the real world.

    In the real world, Su Xing rubbed his temples and closed his eyes slightly, only to see that mysterious and infinite Wishful Visualization drawing.

    At the same time, the incantations were also in Su Xing’s heart.

    Su Xing took out pen and ink and tried to draw the visualization drawing.

    But he tried for a long time, even though he was sweating profusely, he still couldn’t put pen to paper.

    “This Wishful Visualization Technique is truly profound, it can only be visualized in the mind, not even seen!”

    Su Xing sighed in his heart. This immersive simulation was a huge success for Su Xing.

    The secrets of Yuan Weapons, the Refining Void Pill… he even got a free, incredible Wishful Visualization Technique!

    “Besides, I’ve almost memorized a third of the Heaven Sword chapter of the Three Talismans Sword Technique, if I go a few more times, I should be able to completely memorize it, right?”

    Su Xing wasn’t in a hurry about this, after all, he hadn’t finished cultivating the Earth Sword, he wasn’t in a rush.

    “The Refining Void Pill… I already have the Soul-Condensing Wood, the other auxiliary herbs are not difficult to find… but that Spring Dew Pure Water, I’m afraid my current cultivation techniques and spiritual awareness are not enough to obtain it. I guess I need to prioritize spiritual awareness cultivation…”

    Su Xing pondered, his gaze falling on the simulation panel.

    【After coming out of the Luo Tian Great Assembly copy, you have gained a lot.】

    【You returned to Kyoto University and practiced your Body Protection罡气 (a type of Qi-based body protection technique). After your Yuan Force (an energy source in cultivation) was exhausted, you practiced the Wishful Visualization Technique. Every day was fulfilling.】

    【In your spare time, you would also release your spiritual awareness to see if anyone was secretly investigating you and Jin Cong Xue.】

    【Fortunately, there were no accidents. Every time you changed your appearance and concealed your aura to trade with Jin Cong Xue, no one followed.】

    【You observed for a year and nothing happened, so you felt relieved.】

    【In the second year, you went to Shuangqing City, preparing to join the Descent Sect and obtain medicinal herbs.】

    【You were lucky, and met Elder Dog within a few days.】

    【Elder Dog followed the spiritual awareness and was alert when he saw you, because the cultivation aura on you gave him great pressure.】

    【You wondered why Elder Dog didn’t come to you directly, but you didn’t dare to act rashly. You continued to be brazen and arrogant.】

    【You pretended to be a cultivator who had awakened from a cultivation copy, and Elder Dog fell for it!】

    【When you took out your Life Extension Pills, Elder Dog’s eyes lit up with desire.】

    【In the end, you successfully joined the Descent Sect with the Life Extension Pills and obtained many medicinal herbs from Elder Dog.】

    【After joining the Descent Sect, Elder Dog often invited you to drink, and you never refused. The two of you acted like old friends who had known each other for years.】

    Su Xing raised an eyebrow when he saw this, wondering why Elder Dog had changed so much?

    But he quickly realized that compared to before, Su Xing’s strength had increased a lot in this simulation.

    Especially his Qi Refining cultivation had reached the Divine Transformation Realm, which could be said to completely crush Elder Dog.

    Elder Dog probably also felt the threat from Su Xing and thought that Su Xing was a more powerful cultivator, so he wanted to befriend him, right?

    “Heh… unfortunately, I don’t even care about you!”

    “After I break through to the Void Realm, the first one I’ll kill is you!”

    Su Xing snorted coldly and looked at the simulation panel.

    【After joining the Descent Sect, you were superficially brotherly with Elder Dog, but in reality, you had secretly contacted Luo Shuyin and obtained a lot of medicinal herbs.】

    【But the other members of the Descent Sect didn’t know this, they only thought you and Elder Dog were close friends.】

    【You enjoyed this situation and settled down in the Descent Sect.】

    【You would cultivate your Body Protection罡气 for two hours every day. While cultivating your divine abilities, your mastery and strength of Yuan Force also steadily increased.】

    【After your Yuan Force was exhausted, you would visualize the Wishful Visualization drawing in your mind for half an hour.】

    【But the cultivation difficulty of the Wishful Visualization Technique was higher than you had imagined. You would feel mentally exhausted after visualizing for half an hour and had to stop.】

    【For the rest of the time, you spent most of it refining pills.】

    【You had already mastered the refining of Internal Refining Pills and Nourishing Yuan Pills. So, you decided to enter the State of Foolishness to refine pills, and accumulate some enlightenment in the process.】

    【In the State of Foolishness, your enlightenment and intelligence would decrease, but you were proficient in refining these low-level pills. The refining speed was only slightly affected.】

    【You continued this way for a year, refining nearly eighty thousand pills and accumulating over thirty days of Great Wisdom duration.】

    【In the third year, you continued to refine pills and cultivate Body Protection罡气 every day.】

    【You refined more than eighty thousand pills this year, and your accumulated Great Wisdom state total duration reached sixty days.】

    【In the fourth year, you had collected enough medicinal herbs and escaped the Descent Sect with Luo Shuyin.】

    【After escaping the Descent Sect, Elder Dog was also implicated and hunted down by the guardians and faction leaders of the Descent Sect.】

    【You and Luo Shuyin went to Kyoto and were relatively safe under the watchful eyes of the Great Summer Army.】

    【This year, you refined another eighty thousand pills and your Great Wisdom duration accumulated to over ninety days!】

    【You gave all the pills you refined to the Great Summer Army.】

    【The Great Summer Army gained more than eighty thousand Grandmaster-level experts, nearly eight hundred Heavenly King-level experts, and dozens of Martial Emperor-level experts.】

    【In the fifth year, after running out of medicinal herbs, you focused on cultivation.】

    【You still cultivated Body Protection罡气 for two hours every day.】

    【Through years of effort, your Body Protection罡气 had taken shape and could be considered入门级 (entry-level).】

    【When your Yuan Force was exhausted, you would try to visualize the Wishful Visualization drawing in your mind.】

    【You could still only visualize for half an hour each day, but you would enter the Great Wisdom state during this half-hour. Your enlightenment soared and your understanding of the visualization drawing improved day by day.】

    【You would end the Great Wisdom state and return to the state of an ordinary person after each visualization session.】

    【You used about fifteen days of Great Wisdom state in a year.】

    Su Xing’s eyes lit up when he saw this.

    After breaking through to the Divine Transformation Realm Perfection, his spiritual awareness growth had slowed down.

    It had always been a little over three thousand zhang (a unit of length, roughly 100 meters).

    But he didn’t expect the Wishful Visualization Technique to be so effective, in just two years it had raised his spiritual awareness to three thousand six hundred zhang!

    “啧啧, with this spiritual awareness, it’s probably already surpassed ordinary Divine Transformation Realm Perfection cultivators, right?”

    Su Xing’s lips curled up into a slight smile as he looked at the simulation panel.

    【In the ninth year, in addition to cultivation, you began exploring every hidden place on the planet.】

    【You had visited snow-capped mountains that were thousands of zhang high, as well as the depths of the ocean that were ten thousand zhang deep.】

    【But with your God Power Realm cultivator’s physical fitness, you had already become immune to cold and heat, and even the pressure of the ten-thousand-zhang deep sea was almost negligible to you.】

    【After searching for a year like this, you realized that this land, the planet, would not have the limit you were looking for. So, you began exploring the copies…】

    【The same year, your spiritual awareness range increased to three thousand nine hundred zhang!】

    (End of Chapter)

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