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    Chapter 188: Cultivation Soars, Returning Void Stage Triple! (First Update, Asking for Monthly Tickets)

    2024-03-12

    Chapter 188: Cultivation Soars, Returning Void Stage Triple! (First Update, Asking for Monthly Tickets~)

    [Under the guidance of the Dragon Guardian, you quickly surrounded and attacked this Xuan-ranked Tai Xu Spirit.]

    [Of course, you did not expose your full strength, but were always vigilant against the Dragon Guardian’s possible sneak attack on you.]

    [And the Dragon Guardian did the same.]

    [Even though you both had your own motives, in the end, this Xuan-ranked Tai Xu Spirit was finally completely wiped out by your combined efforts.]

    [Soon, it was time to distribute the Xuan-ranked Tai Xu Spirit.]

    [You were secretly vigilant against the Dragon Guardian…]

    [Sure enough, as you expected, the Dragon Guardian launched a sneak attack on you!]

    [Even though you were prepared, you never imagined that the Dragon Guardian would actually have mastered a Divine Consciousness attack technique!]

    [This meant that his strength alone was enough to kill this Xuan-ranked Tai Xu Spirit!]

    [Under the Dragon Guardian’s Divine Consciousness attack, you retreated repeatedly…]

    [Fortunately, your Divine Consciousness was also quite strong, comparable to the late Returning Void Stage.]

    [Although your Divine Consciousness was weakened after the sneak attack, you finally escaped the Dragon Guardian’s pursuit…]

    [You eventually left the Void Realm and your Divine Consciousness returned to your body.]

    [After being seriously injured and sneak attacked by the Dragon Guardian, your Divine Consciousness was severely injured and in a serious state of weakness.]

    [If it were an ordinary Returning Void Stage Cultivator, it would probably take decades to recover.]

    [Fortunately, you still had many Spirit-Condensing Pills and Spirit-Nourishing Pills. You took pills every day and started to recover.]

    [Thus, three years slowly passed.]

    [In the tenth year, your Divine Consciousness injuries finally healed, but you did not dare to enter the Void Realm again. Instead, you prepared to improve your Qi Refining cultivation!]

    Su Xing saw this and sighed, saying:

    “Indeed, the Cultivators who are able to survive in the era of the Decline of Spiritual Energy are not ordinary beings!”

    “This old Dragon dog is truly a dog. He could have killed the Xuan-ranked Tai Xu Spirit on his own, but he deliberately showed weakness and hid his Divine Consciousness attack technique!”

    “Even though I was prepared, I was still ambushed by him, my Divine Consciousness was severely injured…”

    However, although Su Xing was injured and recuperated for three years this time, he also learned more about the dangers of the Cultivation world.

    He also learned about the secrets and situation of the Void Realm. Overall, it was not a loss.

    “Although I was ambushed in the simulation…but in the real world, the enemy is out in the open and I am hidden in the dark!”

    “This old Dragon dog doesn’t know of my existence yet, so I am in a very advantageous position!”

    Su Xing’s lips curved into a slight smile.

    Although he had suffered setbacks in the simulation, he had the advantage in the real world!

    “There’s no rush to re-enter the Void Realm. Maybe after I learn a Divine Consciousness attack technique, I’ll go and have a duel with this old Dragon dog!”

    “For now, I have a lot of Spirit Stones and resources in the simulation, and time is also ample…I can just improve my cultivation level!”

    “Just right, I can test out the power of my three-attribute mutated Heaven-grade Spirit Root!”

    Thinking this, Su Xing looked at the simulation panel.

    [You went to the Xian Wu Era copy, collected three pieces of jade, and found the Wan Mu Sect relic.]

    [After killing the living dead puppet, you entered the core area of the relic and took out all the Spirit Stones stored there.]

    [You did not disturb the sleeping Wan Mu Real Person, because you knew you were no match for him.]

    [You glance at the Spirit Dragon still trapped. Although you want to save it and use it for your own purposes, you know that this will inevitably disturb the sleeping Wan Mu Real Person.]

    [With your current strength, you are still no match for him.]

    [You did not go to the Five Elements Mountain relic, because you are still no match for that living dead puppet.]

    [You returned to the real world and entered the Spirit Field Paradise to cultivate.]

    [Now, you have close to 500,000 Spirit Stones and over a million drops of Spirit Liquid!]

    [This abundance is enough for you to cultivate for a long time.]

    [In the Spirit Field Paradise, you drank a small mouthful of Spirit Liquid (1,000 drops), then sat cross-legged and began cultivating.]

    [The advantage of a Heaven-grade Spirit Root was completely evident at this moment.]

    [Your Elixir Field, like a huge vacuum, rapidly absorbed the Spiritual Energy converted from the Spirit Liquid. The Thousand Flames Scripture operated frantically, accelerating the absorption of the Spirit Liquid.]

    [Compared to Spirit Stones, Spirit Liquid was much easier to absorb.]

    [In just two hours, you had converted all the Spiritual Energy of that mouthful of Spirit Liquid into your own cultivation.]

    [You felt your cultivation progress slightly.]

    [You continued to try cultivating using low-grade Spirit Stones, and you found that because low-grade Spirit Stones have more impurities, you could only absorb 100 per day.]

    [If you absorbed medium-grade Spirit Stones, you could absorb 12 per day.]

    [As for high-grade Spirit Stones, you could absorb two per day.]

    Su Xing saw this and did some calculations in his mind.

    “The Spiritual Energy content of ten low-grade Spirit Stones is equivalent to one medium-grade Spirit Stone…”

    “And I can absorb 12 medium-grade Spirit Stones per day, or 100 low-grade Spirit Stones, which is about 20% faster than purely absorbing low-grade Spirit Stones.”

    “As for one high-grade Spirit Stone, it is equivalent to 100 low-grade Spirit Stones, and I can absorb two per day, which is equivalent to absorbing 200 low-grade Spirit Stones!”

    “Hiss~ This speed is twice as fast as directly cultivating using low-grade Spirit Stones!”

    Su Xing couldn’t help but sigh.

    High-grade, medium-grade, and low-grade Spirit Stones, high-grade Spirit Stones have the fewest impurities and are naturally easier to absorb, which essentially increased Su Xing’s cultivation speed!

    While low-grade Spirit Stones have the most impurities, so the cultivation speed is slowest…

    Of course, it is also many times faster than directly absorbing Spiritual Energy…

    “Then…what about the absorption speed of Spirit Liquid?”

    Su Xing calculated a little.

    “Two hours to absorb 1,000 drops of low-grade Spirit Liquid, which is equivalent to 100 low-grade Spirit Stones.”

    “Twelve hours a day, which is equivalent to absorbing 6,000 drops of Spirit Liquid, which is equivalent to absorbing 600 low-grade Spirit Stones!”

    “Hiss~ This cultivation speed is six times faster than ordinary Spirit Stones!”

    “If I use Spirit Liquid to cultivate for an entire year, it would be equivalent to six years of cultivation using low-grade Spirit Stones, five years of cultivation using medium-grade Spirit Stones…and three years of cultivation using high-grade Spirit Stones!”

    Thinking of this, Su Xing’s expression became somewhat serious.

    Don’t underestimate this simple mathematical problem.

    Su Xing recorded the cultivation speed improvement brought by each type of resource, so he could find the optimal cultivation plan!

    After all, Su Xing had so many resources in every simulation.

    If he could successfully plan his cultivation, it would greatly increase Su Xing’s cultivation speed!

    “Looking at it this way, Spirit Liquid has the highest priority!”

    “After the Spirit Liquid is used up, then use high-grade Spirit Stones…then medium-grade Spirit Stones, and so on…”

    “After all, once the cultivation level increases, the speed of absorbing Spiritual Energy will also increase slightly…”

    After having a plan in mind, Su Xing looked at the simulation panel.

    [In the Spirit Field Paradise, after some experimentation, you decided to prioritize using Spirit Liquid to cultivate!]

    [The Spirit Liquid produced in the Spirit Field over the past ten years, plus the million drops you had before, totaled about 1.5 million drops.]

    [This is enough for you to cultivate for less than a year.]

    [So, for the next year, you cultivated every day using Spirit Liquid.]

    [The Spiritual Energy brought by the Spirit Liquid was purer, and your cultivation advanced day by day.]

    [In the eleventh year, the Spirit Liquid you had accumulated had been exhausted, but at the same time, your cultivation had reached the peak of the first stage of the Returning Void Stage, and it wasn’t far from breaking through to the second stage of the Returning Void Stage…]

    [But now you had exhausted your Spirit Liquid, so you could only take out high-grade Spirit Stones to cultivate.]

    [You held the high-grade Spirit Stones in your palm and absorbed the Spiritual Energy contained within frantically.]

    [Although the speed of absorbing Spiritual Energy was far slower than Spirit Liquid, it was still acceptable to you.]

    [In the twelfth year, on a clear morning, you sat cross-legged and cultivated with your eyes closed.]

    [The aura around you continued to rise, eventually reaching a critical point. After breaking through this small barrier, your cultivation gradually stabilized.]

    [You slowly opened your eyes. In just over two years, your cultivation had reached the second stage of the Returning Void Stage!]

    [But at the same time, you felt a little helpless. In these two years, not only had your Spirit Liquid been exhausted, but also you had only a few high-grade Spirit Stones left…]

    Su Xing saw this and couldn’t help but be a little surprised.

    “My goodness, in just over two years…I went from the first stage of the Returning Void Stage to the second stage!”

    “This speed…heck, this is the Returning Void Stage, not the Foundation Establishment Stage!”

    Su Xing couldn’t help but excitedly clench his fists and muttered:

    “Indeed, in the path of cultivation, wealth, companions, methods, and land!”

    “This wealth is the most important!”

    “Just imagine, if we were in a flourishing era of cultivation, a cultivation genius with enough resources, how much faster would his cultivation speed be than now?”

    Su Xing couldn’t help but sigh.

    Take himself for example, when he was in the Divine Transformation Realm, relying on Spiritual Energy cultivation, it would take ten years to break through one stage.

    Now, in the Returning Void Stage, theoretically, the Spiritual Energy required for breaking through should be more, and the difficulty should be much greater.

    But because of the abundance of cultivation resources, the cultivation speed was so amazing!

    Of course, this was also closely related to Su Xing’s three-attribute Heaven-grade Spirit Root.

    It could only be said that in the path of cultivation, resources and aptitude are indispensable!

    With enough resources, even someone with a Five Elements mixed Spirit Root could cultivate as fast as someone with a True Spirit Root!

    It’s just that unreasonable!

    “No wonder cultivation is so difficult in this era of depleted Spiritual Energy…Forget about Spirit Liquid and Spirit Stones, even finding a place with Spiritual Energy is extremely difficult!”

    Su Xing sighed.

    He felt that all his previous accumulations were worth it!

    This is called accumulating strength in secret!

    A Heaven-grade Spirit Root paired with sufficient cultivation resources, even in the flourishing era of cultivation, few geniuses could cultivate as fast as Su Xing!

    “Then let me see, how high can I raise my cultivation level in this simulation!”

    Thinking this, Su Xing looked at the simulation panel.

    [In the thirteenth year, after using up your high-grade Spirit Stones, you began to use medium-grade Spirit Stones to cultivate.]

    [After your realm improved, your speed of absorbing Spiritual Energy increased slightly, and 10,000 medium-grade Spirit Stones would be enough for you to cultivate for two and a half years…]

    [Thus, in the midst of ceaseless cultivation, two and a half years slowly passed…]

    [In the fifteenth year, you had also exhausted your medium-grade Spirit Stones.]

    [Unfortunately, the cultivation improvement brought by medium-grade Spirit Stones was far less than the previous Spirit Liquid and high-grade Spirit Stones. You still had a long way to go before reaching the third stage of the Returning Void Stage.]

    [Fortunately, you had accumulated over 200,000 drops of Spirit Liquid over the past few years. You spent more than a month absorbing them, which helped your cultivation progress slightly.]

    [In the sixteenth year, you had used up all your medium-grade Spirit Stones and the previously collected Spirit Liquid.]

    [You could only settle for the next best thing and began to cultivate using low-grade Spirit Stones.]

    [Although cultivation using low-grade Spirit Stones was much faster than absorbing Spiritual Energy, it was still much slower than before…]

    [But you had no other choice at this time and could only cultivate using low-grade Spirit Stones.]

    [In one year, you consumed nearly 40,000 low-grade Spirit Stones.]

    [In the seventeenth year, you continued to cultivate using low-grade Spirit Stones, consuming 40,000 Spirit Stones, and your cultivation progressed slightly…]

    [In the eighteenth year, you consumed 40,000 low-grade Spirit Stones, and your cultivation progressed slightly…]

    [In the nineteenth year, you consumed 40,000 low-grade Spirit Stones, and finally felt that your cultivation had reached the peak of the second stage of the Returning Void Stage. You were not far from breaking through to the third stage of the Returning Void Stage…]

    [In the twentieth year, you took out the 200,000 drops of Spirit Liquid you had accumulated over the past few years and prepared to enter seclusion to break through.]

    [One month later, your cultivation successfully broke through.]

    [Congratulations on becoming a Returning Void Stage Triple Cultivator!]

    Su Xing looked at the simulation text in front of him and couldn’t help but sigh.

    “Indeed, cultivating using Spirit Liquid and high-grade Spirit Stones is much faster than using low-grade Spirit Stones!”

    “From the first stage of the Returning Void Stage to the second stage, it only took two and a half years…but from the second stage to the third stage, it actually took a full seven or eight years!”

    Su Xing shook his head slightly. Even with this speed, it was still the result of his taking some Spirit Liquid during that time.

    Otherwise, it would probably have taken another year…

    “Sigh, it’s not been enjoyable for a few years…and the cultivation speed has dropped back to the original level!”

    Su Xing shook his head slightly. Based on this overall speed, Su Xing knew that he wouldn’t be able to break through to the fourth stage of the Returning Void Stage in this simulation.

    “After all, it’s still a lack of resources! All those Spirit Stones and Spirit Liquid I saved up…wouldn’t last a few years…”

    Su Xing realized that he had underestimated the difficulty of cultivating in the Returning Void Stage. Only when Spirit Liquid and high-grade Spirit Stones were abundant enough could cultivation progress rapidly.

    “But it’s not bad…at least every time I simulate, I can experience the thrill of cultivation soaring!”

    Su Xing knew that he couldn’t be dissatisfied.

    After all, cultivation levels are increasingly difficult to raise, one after another.

    If a Cultivator, with unchanged cultivation resources and aptitude, takes ten years to advance one stage in the Divine Transformation Realm.

    Then when he reaches the Returning Void Stage, it will take tens of years, or even hundreds of years to break through…

    The difficulty increases exponentially!

    But this is also why, throughout the ages, countless cultivators have emerged, but only a handful have achieved Immortality.

    No aptitude, no resources, you want to cultivate?

    You cultivate a fart!

    There’s no way! Cultivation is just like that…

    “Fortunately, the Returning Void Stage can still maintain a similar cultivation speed to the Divine Transformation Realm, which is already considered a blessing!”

    “But if I reach the Unity Realm and beyond, without other resources, cultivation will likely be even more difficult…”

    Thinking of this, Su Xing yearned even more…

    He yearned to obtain the Spirit Dragon in the Wan Mu Sect relic!

    “Humph! When this young master becomes strong enough, I will definitely tie a Spirit Dragon to my house and raise it!”

    Thinking this, Su Xing looked at the simulation panel.

    [In the twenty-first year, you cultivated using low-grade Spirit Stones, spending 43,000 low-grade Spirit Stones, and your cultivation progressed slightly.]

    [In the twenty-second year, you consumed 43,000 low-grade Spirit Stones…]

    [Thus, another three years passed.]

    [Until the twenty-fifth year, the Demon-Suppressing Pass was fully invaded by the demon army.]

    [You knew time was running out, so you consumed all the Spirit Liquid you had collected over the years and entered seclusion for a month…but your cultivation still didn’t break through to the fourth stage of the Returning Void Stage…]

    [At this time, your cultivation had finally reached the latter half of the third stage of the Returning Void Stage, but you were still a significant distance from the fourth stage.]

    [You still had more than 400,000 low-grade Spirit Stones left, but you decided to go to the Demon-Suppressing Pass again.]

    [On this day, hundreds of Legendary demon beasts, three Demon Emperors, and countless demon armies descended upon the Demon-Suppressing Pass!]

    [Human cultivators suffered heavy casualties, and the entire Demon-Suppressing Pass was on the verge of being breached.]

    [You, alone, fought against the Legendary-level giant beasts, fought for hundreds of rounds, and killed a thick-skinned and tough Legendary demon beast.]

    [But at the same time, the Human Emperor-level cultivators were surrounded and killed, and you were also killed by the Demon Emperor who had freed himself…]

    [Your soul was obliterated by the Demon Emperor…]

    [Ding, this simulation has ended!]

    After the simulation ended, Su Xing took a deep breath and muttered:

    “Indeed, even if you kill a Legendary being, relying on one person’s strength, you can’t change the situation…”

    “Unless, I have the power to kill a Demon Emperor!”

    But Su Xing also knew that it was unrealistic to achieve this in a short time.

    “Fifteen years of cultivation, from the first stage of the Returning Void Stage to the middle stage of the third stage…this speed isn’t slow!”

    Su Xing nodded in satisfaction.

    After all, Su Xing’s goal this time was only to reach the first stage of the Returning Void Stage, but he exceeded expectations and achieved additional goals!

    “Then, it’s time to claim the simulation rewards!”

    Su Xing rubbed his hands excitedly and looked at the simulation panel.

    [Late Bloomer]: Purple Quality Innate Talent, priced at 1 million energy points.

    [Twenty-five Years of Alchemy Experience]: Alchemy insights, including Refining Void Pill (Great Success) insights, priced at 10 million energy points.

    [Returning Void Stage Triple]: Entering the Void Realm for the first time, achieving the Returning Void Stage, undergoing a perfect Void Thunder baptism, Spiritual Energy is several times stronger than when you were in the Divine Transformation Realm. Priced at 300 million energy points.

    [Divine Consciousness 31,000 Feet]: Achieving the Returning Void Stage, breaking into the Void Realm and undergoing a perfect Thunder baptism, Divine Consciousness has greatly increased. Priced at 210 million energy points (Note: After choosing this reward, you cannot undergo the first Void Thunder baptism again.)

    Su Xing looked at the rewards in front of him with satisfaction, which were much richer than after the last simulation.

    As for choosing the reward, Su Xing had nothing to hesitate about.

    The Late Bloomer Innate Talent was not very useful to Su Xing at this moment.

    And since Su Xing was already in the third stage of the Returning Void Stage, there was almost no use for the Great Success level Refining Void Pill technique…

    So, the choices awaiting Su Xing were the Returning Void Stage cultivation and Divine Consciousness!

    (Brothers, please give me monthly tickets~)

    (End of Chapter)

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