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    Su Xing let out a long sigh of relief.

    “Finally, my Protective Aura has reached its peak, and I’m not far from mastering Elemental Force to the point of full external release…”

    “So, in this simulation, I can try again to achieve the breakthrough to the Void Shattering Realm within the beast’s stomach!”

    Su Xing could feel that the day he reached the Void Shattering Realm was not far off.

    “After entering the Void Shattering Realm… I should be able to consider taking out that old dog in the real world, right?”

    A slight smile appeared on Su Xing’s lips. He had been eyeing the old dog’s inheritance for a long time.

    If he could get the old dog’s storage artifact, whether it was in terms of controlling the Cultivation world, cultivating techniques, divine powers, etc., Su Xing’s progress would see a qualitative improvement!

    “And this Bone Tempering Pill…”

    Su Xing recalled carefully.

    In the Fire-Control Alchemy Technique, there was indeed a record of this pill.

    Legend has it that the Bone Tempering Pill was first developed in the Witch Tribe, and was made by their shamans. Its main purpose was to improve the physical fitness of premature Witch Tribe infants.

    After all, the Witch Tribe had strong physical constitutions, and their infants could even compare to Body Refining Cultivators.

    But if some unforeseen circumstances led to premature birth, the physical constitution of the Witch Tribe’s premature infants would be too weak, which could even lead to them being unable to keep up with subsequent cultivation.

    So the shamans developed this Bone Tempering Pill to enhance the physical fitness of Witch Tribe infants.

    But as time went by, the Witch Tribe disappeared into the vast river of time.

    However, this Bone Tempering Pill was still preserved, primarily for use by cultivators who had just entered the Body Refining Realm to enhance their physical fitness.

    The effects of this Bone Tempering Pill were actually just so-so, but it required the blood and flesh of spirit beasts with abundant vitality as the main ingredient. When Su Xing was at a low level, he couldn’t get his hands on these things, so he didn’t make it.

    When he reached a higher level, this thing was no longer useful to Su Xing.

    But now, these demon beast blood and flesh essences seemed to be able to serve as the main ingredient for making the Bone Tempering Pill.

    Moreover, the effect was better than ordinary spirit beasts!

    “It’s just the side effects…”

    Su Xing hesitated slightly.

    If the side effects were acceptable, this Bone Tempering Pill could completely serve as the main medicine for enhancing the strength of the human race in the future!

    After all, there were only a limited number of spirit herbs, while the demon beasts in the Demon-Suppressing Pass were endless…

    Fighting to strengthen oneself, just thinking about it was exhilarating!

    With this in mind, Su Xing’s eyes fell upon the simulation panel.

    [After successfully developing the Bone Tempering Pill, you conducted numerous experiments to ensure that it would not harm the lives of professional cultivators, and then selected a group of Grandmaster and Heavenly King-level professional cultivators to take the medicine.]

    [Due to the powerful properties of the Bone Tempering Pill, you could only choose professional cultivators with strength and physique attributes, to prevent the effects from being too strong and causing them to explode.]

    [To your surprise, the effects of the Bone Tempering Pill were surprisingly good!]

    [After taking the pill, Grandmaster-level professional cultivators could permanently increase their strength by 30,000 to 50,000 catties! This would almost increase their strength by 20 to 30%! ]

    [Moreover, it could be taken multiple times. After taking three pills, the effects would decrease rapidly.]

    [As for the Heavenly King-level cultivators, they would only be able to increase their strength by 20,000 to 30,000 catties… This increase would only improve the strength of Heavenly King-level cultivators by about 1%.]

    [However, while you were overjoyed, you also discovered the side effects of the Bone Tempering Pill.]

    [Because Demon King blood and flesh essences were used, their power was fierce and could even cause those who took the pill to become irritable and prone to anger in the following period.]

    [Although they hadn’t reached the point of losing their minds, it greatly reduced their rationality and control.]

    [This period lasted for approximately three to twelve months, depending on the professional cultivator’s mental willpower.]

    [Later, you selected a group of professional cultivators with higher mental attributes, and found that their resistance to the side effects of the Bone Tempering Pill was stronger.]

    [You were delighted. Compared to its powerful effects, the side effects of the Bone Tempering Pill were negligible.]

    [Moreover, the source of its main ingredient was abundant, so it could completely serve as the main pill for improving the strength of professional cultivators!]

    [In the sixteenth year, after your Protective Aura reached its peak, you did not slack off in your training of divine powers and Elemental Force.]

    [In your daily hard training, your mastery of Elemental Force became increasingly perfect, and you were able to control it with millimeter precision. Your Elemental Force was not far from reaching the third stage of perfection.]

    [In the same year, you started trying to use Demon Emperor blood and flesh essences as the main ingredient for the Bone Tempering Pill. You were confident that the effects of this pill would be even stronger.]

    [In your daily cultivation and pill making, two years passed in a blink of an eye… ]

    Su Xing was overjoyed when he saw this.

    Although pills such as the Refining Furnace Pill, Nourishing Element Pill, and Dragon Spirit Pill were very effective, they also had obvious drawbacks, namely, their non-renewable nature. Every spirit herb required years, even decades to grow.

    Therefore, there were only a limited number of spirit herbs, and the number of pills that could be made was also limited.

    And consequently, the number of human race powerhouses that could be born was also limited.

    But if they took the Bone Tempering Pill, it would significantly enhance the strength of the human race’s mid-level professional cultivators.

    After all, there was enough demon beast blood and flesh essence!

    “If it’s combined with Spirit Rice… the number of low-level professional cultivators in the human race will also increase greatly!”

    “It seems that the overall strength of the human race will see a qualitative change!”

    Of course, because the Bone Tempering Pill enhanced strength and physical fitness, it could only work on warriors and strength-based professional cultivators.

    And coincidentally, compared to mages who specialized in mental power, mundane professional cultivators were the main composition of the human race’s professional cultivators!

    “The Bone Tempering Pill made with Demon King blood and flesh essences can increase the strength of Grandmaster-level professional cultivators by 30,000 to 50,000 catties. This number is not small!”

    You know, the physical strength of late-stage Grandmaster cultivators was only around 200,000 to 300,000 catties. If they took three Bone Tempering Pills, their strength could increase by more than half!

    As for Heavenly King-level cultivators, their physical strength was around 2 million catties. The effects of the Bone Tempering Pill would be much smaller…

    But if Demon Emperor blood and flesh essences were used to make it, it was presumed that the increase in strength would be more obvious!

    “Spirit Rice combined with the Bone Tempering Pill… If implemented successfully, the number of mid-to-high level powerhouses in the human race might increase by several times, even ten times!”

    “At that time… we might be able to withstand the invasion of the legendary demon beast army in twenty years…”

    Su Xing was a little excited. Anything that could extend his simulation time was worth trying.

    Su Xing thought so and looked at the simulation panel.

    [In the eighteenth year, one afternoon, you trained your Elemental Force divine power as usual, squeezing out the last trace of Elemental Force in your body.]

    [Then, you prepared to rest for a while before making pills.]

    [However, at that moment, you suddenly felt that the Elemental Force Seed in your body had undergone some subtle changes.]

    [The speed at which the Elemental Force Seed replenished Elemental Force increased by a full two times in a mere few breaths!]

    [The strength and total amount of Elemental Force in your body were both nearly twice as strong as before!]

    [You were overjoyed. You knew this was the result of your hard training over decades.]

    [After thousands upon thousands of nights of hard work, your Elemental Force finally entered the third stage of perfection!]

    [Congratulations! Your mastery of Elemental Force has reached the third stage of perfection!]

    [After reaching the full external release level of Elemental Force, you began to familiarize yourself with this new power.]

    [You were shocked by the powerful regeneration ability of the Elemental Force Seed in your body, and marveled at your endless supply of Elemental Force.]

    [Even with just a layer of Elemental Force armor, the Elemental Force in your body could last for three days and three nights!]

    [Even when using the Protective Aura divine power, you could last for a full ten hours!]

    [This terrifying sustained combat ability filled you with boundless confidence. You were confident that you could survive the Limitless Land and enter the Void Shattering Realm!]

    [Even though your strength had greatly increased and you were very close to the Void Shattering Realm, you did not waste any time and continued to diligently train your Elemental Force divine power.]

    [You wanted to see if you could achieve the full perfection level of your Protective Aura in the last few years!]

    Su Xing nodded slightly when he saw this.

    As he had expected, due to his enlightenment about Elemental Force in the last simulation, he was not far from the third stage of perfection.

    After eighteen years of hard work in this simulation, Su Xing’s Elemental Force finally reached the third stage of perfection.

    “I just wonder… after releasing Elemental Force externally, has the path of Elemental Force reached its limit… are there any further realms?”

    Su Xing was puzzled, but then shook his head.

    This wasn’t something he was concerned about at the moment. Right now, his biggest goal was to break through to the Void Shattering Realm!

    He looked at the simulation panel.

    [In the nineteenth year, after reaching the third stage of perfection in Elemental Force, the Elemental Force in your body truly reached the point of being inexhaustible.]

    [In ordinary times, the consumption of Elemental Force in your body was almost less than the speed at which it was replenished.]

    [Under these circumstances, you could continue practicing the Protective Aura for ten hours every day!]

    [With more training time, your mastery of the Protective Aura improved even further.]

    [In your spare time, you would also continue to develop the Bone Tempering Pill, hoping to increase its effectiveness.]

    [And so, another two years passed slowly.]

    [In the twenty-first year, with years of continuous warfare, the number of strong warriors in the Demon-Suppressing Pass decreased, and the human race suffered heavy casualties.]

    [At that time, you also chose to join the battlefield to enhance your understanding of the Protective Aura divine power in battle.]

    [On the battlefield, you were almost comparable to a legendary demon beast.]

    [Although your attacks were not yet able to kill legendary demon beasts, legendary demon beasts were also unable to do anything to your Protective Aura.]

    [As for ordinary Demon Emperors, you could take them down in just a few rounds.]

    [You were hailed as the War God of the Demon-Suppressing Pass, truly possessing the strength of a legendary warrior.]

    [And after becoming a legend of the Demon-Suppressing Pass, you were also eligible to learn about the more secret matters of the Demon-Suppressing Pass.]

    [About the legendary powerhouses of the Demon-Suppressing Pass… and the human race Emperor in the Demon-Suppressing Pass!]

    Su Xing’s brows furrowed involuntarily when he saw this.

    In the real world, there was a strange phenomenon.

    That is, powerhouses above the legendary level almost never interfered with mundane affairs. They simply stayed in the Demon-Suppressing Pass, guarding and protecting the human race.

    According to the information from the simulator, there were only over a dozen legendary powerhouses in the Great Summer Country. As for the Emperor level, as far as Su Xing knew, there was only one.

    This circle of power seemed strange. Even though Su Xing was in a high position in the simulation, he had very little interaction with them.

    They were like ascetics, only guarding the Demon-Suppressing Pass. They would not easily take action unless the Demon-Suppressing Pass was in dire straits.

    “In this simulation, the strength I have shown is truly comparable to legendary powerhouses… so I can finally get in touch with this circle?”

    Su Xing’s knowledge of the human race’s top powerhouses and the secrets of the Demon-Suppressing Pass was limited.

    But could he finally learn about them now?

    Su Xing looked at the simulation panel with anticipation.

    [Led by a legendary powerhouse, you walked into a fortress on the wall of the Demon-Suppressing Pass city.]

    [This fortress looked ordinary and was not heavily guarded. You entered it smoothly.]

    [You were stunned when you entered the room because besides you, there were actually ten legendary powerhouses there.]

    [Even the Emperor was among them!]

    [You understood that this seemed to be the place where the strongest human race powerhouses resided.]

    [So, naturally, there was no need for heavy guarding… ]

    [These human race powerhouses all seemed quite old. Even the youngest was over two hundred years old, and the Emperor even said that he had been guarding the Demon-Suppressing Pass for a thousand years.]

    [From their mouths, you learned about the origin of the demon suppression and the end city beneath your feet.]

    [The Demon-Suppressing Pass did not exist originally. It was brought out from a “forbidden” dungeon by a top powerhouse of the human race thousands of years ago.]

    [After thousands of years of construction and reinforcement, it became the magnificent city it is today. It is also the biggest reliance of the human race in resisting the demon race.]

    [The Emperor looked at you and said that your current strength was sufficient. You could ask any questions you wanted, and as long as they knew, they would try their best to answer you.]

    [You were shocked. To move the entire Demon-Suppressing Pass with human strength, even an Emperor-level powerhouse could not do this, right?]

    [So, your first question was whether Emperor-level powerhouses were the strongest in the Great Summer Country.]

    [They gave you a definite answer to this question. Emperor-level was indeed the strongest force in the human race at the moment.]

    [You were puzzled and felt that it was illogical. So you continued to ask.]

    [Finally, they told you a secret.]

    [It turned out that thousands of years ago, besides the Emperor-level powerhouses, the human race had also given birth to even higher-level Saint-level, even near-God-level powerhouses!]

    [But then, for some unknown reason, all the Saint-level and God-level powerhouses disappeared overnight.]

    [No one knew where they were, and no one knew where they had gone.]

    [This phenomenon didn’t just occur in the Great Summer Country. Including the United States, Yellow Island Country, Austria, and other countries, all the top powerhouses disappeared overnight!]

    [Ever since, every time a powerhouse broke through to the Saint level, they would inexplicably disappear and never be heard from again.]

    [And in the last hundred years, not only Saints, but even Emperor-level powerhouses have been disappearing frequently.]

    [And most of their disappearance locations were on Blue Star.]

    [Therefore, for the sake of safety, all the official legendary and Emperor-level powerhouses would no longer return to Blue Star, and they would spend their entire lives in the Demon-Suppressing Pass, guarding the human race.]

    Su Xing’s brows furrowed when he saw these words.

    Emperor and Saint-level powerhouses did not descend to Blue Star. There was such a secret.

    “No wonder I saw records of Saint-level powerhouses in the library’s historical records… but I’ve never seen them in the simulation. It turns out there was such a reason!”

    “This also explains why the human race has been guarding the Demon-Suppressing Pass for thousands of years, but why they couldn’t hold on in twenty years… because the most top-level powerhouses of the human race have all disappeared!”

    Su Xing was puzzled. Why did those top-level powerhouses disappear without a trace?

    Powerhouses at that level shouldn’t die easily… and all of them disappeared overnight!

    This… was definitely the intervention of supernatural power.

    “Besides the Demon-Suppressing Pass guarded by the Great Summer Country… there is also an Endless Abyss in the United States…”

    “It seems that every country’s situation is not optimistic right now!”

    Su Xing sighed softly. He was also a little worried.

    “Emperor-level powerhouses don’t stay in the real world… will I disappear inexplicably if I break through to the Unity Realm?”

    Su Xing’s brows furrowed. He disliked this kind of unpredictable situation.

    However, Su Xing was still some distance from the Unity Realm, so he didn’t need to worry for the time being.

    He looked at the simulation panel.

    [You then asked these top-level powerhouses a few more questions.]

    [During the conversation, you learned that this human race Emperor had already reached the peak of the Emperor level hundreds of years ago. He was ready to break through to the Saint level at any time.]

    [But to avoid the risk of disappearing inexplicably and losing the human race’s only Emperor, he had not broken through all these years.]

    [You then asked about the situation in other countries, why other countries did not come to help the Great Summer Country guard the Demon-Suppressing Pass.]

    [As expected, you learned that besides the Great Summer Country, all seven countries and twelve domains on Blue Star had their own dungeons to guard.]

    [Even a hundred years ago, the Endless Abyss in the United States was almost breached. As the strongest country on Blue Star, the Great Summer Country sent two Emperor-level powerhouses who barely managed to defend it.]

    [Otherwise, if the Endless Abyss dungeon was breached, the real world would also be destroyed.]

    [And those two Emperor-level powerhouses from the Great Summer Country stayed in the Endless Abyss to protect the human race.]

    [From these top-level human race powerhouses, you learned many secrets.]

    [But you knew that what you needed to do now was still to improve your strength.]

    [In your daily cultivation, two more years passed in a blink of an eye.]

    [In the twenty-third year, you successfully developed the Bone Tempering Pill that could enhance the strength of Heavenly King-level powerhouses.]

    [You made a large number of these pills. In a mere year, you increased the strength of the human race’s Heavenly King-level powerhouses by nearly 50%.]

    [And some of their outstanding members successfully broke through to the Martial Emperor level.]

    [In the same year, your Protective Aura divine power was close to perfection, but you hadn’t taken that final step.]

    [And so, another two years passed.]

    [In the twenty-fifth year, the demon beast army invaded the Demon-Suppressing Pass. Human race powerhouses suffered heavy casualties. Even with all your might, you could only fight a legendary giant beast to a draw.]

    [In the end, the Demon-Suppressing Pass was breached, and you knew you couldn’t die so easily. Your mission wasn’t over yet!]

    [So, you retreated to the real world with a few legendary powerhouses, silently waiting for the day the beasts descended… ]

    [A few months later, the giant beast that covered the sky and whose body was as large as a planet finally descended.]

    [The last few legendary powerhouses of the Great Summer Country flew out to stop the beast, but as expected, they couldn’t even break through its defenses.]

    [The beast opened its mouth and swallowed the entire Great Summer Country in one gulp.]

    (End of Chapter)

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