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    The Rejuvenating Pill had little effect on the cultivation of a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator like Su Xing.

    To continue maintaining rapid cultivation progress, taking a higher-grade elixir was a good option.

    “If I remember correctly, the Dragon Spirit Pill is one of the best among the lower-grade elixirs. The main ingredient used for its refinement is a spirit herb called Dragon Spirit Herb…”

    Su Xing narrowed his eyes and continued to simulate.

    【You realize that to increase your cultivation, you need to refine a new elixir—the Dragon Spirit Pill! The main ingredient for this elixir is Dragon Spirit Herb, and coincidentally, your spirit field has over ten Dragon Spirit Herbs that are twenty years old.】

    【But merely ten Dragon Spirit Herbs are not enough for you to learn how to refine this elixir. So, you draw a picture of the Dragon Spirit Herb and ask the Shadow Guardian to help you find this herb in the treasury.】

    【A few days later, the Shadow Guardian successfully retrieved over ten Dragon Spirit Herbs from the treasury and gave them to you. She tells you that the Descent Sect’s treasury doesn’t have many Dragon Spirit Herbs, only a few hundred, and you need to pay in sect contribution points to exchange for them.】

    【Although a few hundred Dragon Spirit Herbs aren’t a lot, it’s enough for you. You exchange all the Dragon Spirit Herbs using the contribution points you’ve accumulated over the years.】

    【You then begin to try refining the Dragon Spirit Herb.】

    【In the first month, you refined thirty batches of Dragon Spirit Pill, all of which failed. The Dragon Spirit Herb is more difficult to control in terms of heat and spiritual force, making it the most challenging elixir you’ve encountered so far.】

    【In the second month, you refine thirty batches of Dragon Spirit Pill, two of which were successful. However, the efficacy of the Dragon Spirit Herb is unclear, and you dare not consume them yourself.】

    【In the third month, you refine thirty batches of Dragon Spirit Pill, six of which were successful, achieving a 20% success rate. Your profession panel displays that you have entered the novice stage of Dragon Spirit Pill refinement.】

    【Over the next half-year, you refine Dragon Spirit Pill daily, and your success rate has reached 50%.】

    【At this point, you still have over two hundred Dragon Spirit Herbs left, but you don’t refine them immediately and instead keep them.】

    【In the ninth year, one day, the Shadow Guardian finds you. She seems somewhat disheartened.】

    【She tells you that even though their world has put up a valiant fight, they have still failed. The strength of the alien race is simply too powerful, almost incomparable.】

    【The allies who were once filled with hope are now deeply disheartened. Although you had already known the outcome, the fact that they could hold on for another year is a testament to their resilience. Nevertheless, you feel saddened for the Shadow Guardian.】

    【You give her a comforting embrace and tell her that if she wishes, she can consider Blue Star her second home and fight for it.】

    【The Shadow Guardian smiles bitterly at your words and says that her strength is too weak. Even if she helps you, she will ultimately be unable to resist the alien race.】

    【You say nothing more and simply bring out a newly refined Dragon Spirit Pill for her to try.】

    【Without hesitation, the Shadow Guardian swallows the pill. After a while, a look of astonishment appears in her eyes. She states that the elixir’s potency is extremely strong, and she can actually feel a sense of enhancement.】

    【The Shadow Guardian also mentions that this elixir can even help the so-called Grandmaster-Level professionals in your world become stronger, even giving them a slight chance of becoming Heavenly King Level professionals!】

    【The Shadow Guardian appears somewhat disheartened. She says, even if they had a few more Heavenly King Level professionals, it wouldn’t change the fate of their world being destroyed by the alien race.】

    【You smile calmly and ask, “What if there were hundreds more Heavenly King Level professionals?”】

    【The Shadow Guardian is clearly taken aback by your words. After thinking carefully, she says, “If we could have hundreds more Heavenly King Level professionals, perhaps we could hold out longer against the alien beasts.”】

    【The Shadow Guardian’s expression also reveals a hint of sorrow. She says, “If we had these elixirs sooner, perhaps my home world wouldn’t have been destroyed so easily.”】

    【Having experienced the apocalypse, you know just how terrifying the power of those sky-covering behemoths is. At the very least, it’s not something that a mere hundred more Heavenly King Level professionals could solve.】

    【However, you understand that this is a significant improvement. Previously, your elixirs could only affect Master-Level professionals, but now you can make Grandmaster-Level professionals stronger and even allow them to become Heavenly King Level professionals.】

    Su Xing’s heart is filled with excitement. Nascent Soul Stage strength corresponds to Grandmaster-Level professionals. If these Dragon Spirit Pills can rapidly elevate a group of Heavenly King Level professionals for the human race, it would undoubtedly delay the arrival of the apocalypse.

    “The Dragon Spirit Pill should have a similar effect to the Rejuvenating Pill, only more potent. It can increase the spiritual force cultivation of Nascent Soul Stage cultivators. Even Grandmaster-Level professionals can enhance their mental attributes.”

    “And when the mental attributes of magic-based professionals are enhanced, their chances of completing advancement tasks also increase… Especially if you give them to veteran Grandmaster-Level professionals, it might significantly increase their chances of completing their advancement tasks!”

    Su Xing’s eyes light up.

    Professionals differ from cultivators. Their advantage is that their strength can be rapidly boosted within a short period of time. They achieve this by gaining a large amount of experience points from slaying monsters, thereby leveling up.

    However, every advancement task between major ranks for professionals has a high mortality rate. This leads to many Master-Level professionals at level 30 not being strong enough to break through to Grandmaster Level.

    And many Grandmaster-Level professionals at level 30 cannot break through to Heavenly King Level.

    The purpose of the elixirs Su Xing refines is precisely to enhance their strength, allowing them to successfully advance!

    “Perhaps, in this simulation, the human race will produce a new batch of Heavenly King Level professionals. This might allow them to hold out longer…”

    Su Xing takes a deep breath and eagerly continues the simulation.

    【You once again invite the Shadow Guardian to join you in betraying the Descent Sect.】

    【The Shadow Guardian hesitates for a long time before refusing. She believes that even if they do so, the human race will not be able to withstand the attacks of the behemoths. Rebellion would be akin to seeking death.】

    【With no other choice, you say to her, “Then good luck, Luo Shuying!”】

    【The Shadow Guardian is stunned when you call out her name. She asks incredulously how you know her name, since she has been using “Shadow” as her alias in the Descent Sect for decades, and no one has ever known her full name.】

    【You tell the Shadow Guardian that she told you this name herself.】

    【The Shadow Guardian naturally refuses to believe you. So, you fabricate a story.】

    【You tell her that you have the ability to travel through time. You’ve been running around trying to save both of your worlds. As for the name Luo Shuying, she told you it herself.】

    【This fabricated story that even you don’t believe ends up convincing the Shadow Guardian.】

    【The Shadow Guardian says, “Compared to a future so bleak that it’s impossible to see straight, I’d rather believe in a savior who travels through timelines.”】

    (End of Chapter)

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