Chapter 85: Chapter 85: Heavenly Treasures and Earthly Marvels, Condensing Spirit Wood, Soul Condensing Pills!
Translator: 549690339
Su Xing gave a slight nod upon seeing this. Being able to refine mid-grade elixirs and making rapid progress meant that he indeed could be considered to have achieved some minor success in the art of alchemy.
But when Su Xing saw the content of the next simulation, his vision went dark at once.
[In the first month, you refined thirty batches of Soul Condensing Pills, all of which failed, resulting in a zero success rate.]
[In the second month, being undeterred, you refined another thirty batches of Soul Condensing Pills, all of which failed again.]
[In the third month, you firmly believed that diligent effort would be rewarded by the Heavenly Dao, refining day and night. Every batch of elixirs took a tremendous amount of your mental energy, and after refining thirty batches of Soul Condensing Pills, you finally succeeded in producing one inferior quality Soul Condensing Pill.]
[In the fourth month, you summarized your experiences and methods and once again refined thirty batches of elixirs, all of which failed. You realized that the previously successful batch had been a fluke.]
[In the fifth month, you persisted tirelessly and with astonishing determination, refining another thirty batches of Soul Condensing Pills, finally succeeding in producing three inferior quality Soul Condensing Pills.]
[You consumed all four of the inferior quality Soul Condensing Pills you had refined, and your Divine Sense quickly grew stronger, extending its range to 15 zhang.]
Su Xing rolled his eyes at this.
In the first three months, he had refined ninety batches of Soul Condensing Pills to succeed in creating just one pill, and damn it, it was an inferior quality elixir.
Considering there are ten pills in a batch, this equates to an overall alchemy success rate of nearly one in a thousand. How the heck is this considered rapid progress?
Even after that, it took Su Xing another two months to refine a mere three inferior quality Soul Condensing Pills.
Essentially, it took Su Xing almost half a year to refine four Soul Condensing Pills, all of which were inferior quality.
The difficulty of refining Soul Condensing Pills far exceeded that of any other elixirs Su Xing had refined before.
However, the effects of the Soul Condensing Pills were exceedingly strong. Just four inferior quality pills had increased his Divine Sense range by four zhang. Just how insane would the effects of a regular, let alone a superior quality Soul Condensing Pill, be?
“The young master refuses to believe it. These mere Soul Condensing Pills, do they really think I can’t refine them?”
Su Xing continued the simulation.
[In the eighteenth year, you were still engrossed in refining Soul Condensing Pills, but you also started to pay attention to the war at the front.]
[You breathed a sigh of relief upon learning that Demon-Subduing Pass had not been breached, for according to past experience, it is only after Demon-Subduing Pass falls that the real world would be invaded.]
[You spent another half a year revisiting the steps for refining Soul Condensing Pills over and over in your mind, down to each minute and second, to ensure that you would not make any undue mistakes before beginning the actual refining process.]
[In that half a year, you refined hundreds of batches of Soul Condensing Pills, successfully producing three batches, yielding a total of 13 inferior quality Soul Condensing Pills.]
[After consuming all of the inferior quality Soul Condensing Pills, within just a few days, the range of your Divine Sense increased to 25 zhang, a level comparable to the late Nascent Soul Stage!]
[In the nineteenth year, you continued refining Soul Condensing Pills, but with your consumption over the past two years, less than half of the Condensing Spirit Wood remained. As a result, you started to be meticulous, ensuring that you gained experience from every batch of Soul Condensing Pills you refined.]
[Finally, after a year’s time, you succeeded in refining ten batches of Soul Condensing Pills, including two batches of regular quality pills, totaling 6 pills.]
[After consuming these six Soul Condensing Pills, your Divine Sense surged once again, and your range reached 50 zhang, a level most Nascent Soul cultivators would find difficult to achieve.]
[In the same year, your cultivation level broke through, advancing to triple layers in the Nascent Soul Stage.]
[In the twentieth year, just as you were prepared to continue your research on Soul Condensing Pills, devastating news struck—Demon-Subduing Pass had been breached!]
[In the same year, as the Demon-Subduing Pass was breached, a gigantic beast, blocking out the sun, descended upon the real world.]
[Dozens of golden figures soared into the sky, intending to drive the massive creature away from Blue Star, but, without a doubt, they failed.]
[The beast swallowed the entire Great Xia Country in one gulp. Right before your death, it seemed you saw Luo Shuying running towards you. She opened her mouth as if to shout something, but she was too far away, you couldn’t hear clearly.]
[Then your vision spun, your head fell, and you died!]
[Your inherent talent “Undying Grievance” activated, you widened your eyes and saw clearly the person who beheaded you, someone you had never seen before, seemingly a spy who had infiltrated the Great Xia Military.]
[A sinister smile crossed his face, and as his features changed, he revealed his true face.]
[You recognized him, Damned Zong!]
[Damned Zong crushed your eyeball underfoot, and your talent “Undying Grievance” ceased to function…]
[Ding, simulation over!]
Su Xing took in a sharp breath upon seeing this, he hadn’t expected to be killed by Damned Zong!
And what’s most crucial is that this Damned Zong had somehow infiltrated the Great Xia Military, even disguised himself to get close to him.
Returning to his senses from the simulation, Su Xing rubbed his temples and muttered:
“It seems that the Great Xia Military isn’t necessarily absolutely safe. There had been exposures of possible spies from the Descending Sect among the military’s high ranks before, and now even Damned Zong could disguise himself and lurk by my side…”
“I must be wary of such attacks in subsequent simulations… But hey, this simulation indeed delayed quite a lot of time!”
According to the original timeline, the beast should descend and the apocalypse come in 2038, that is, fourteen years later.
In the last simulation, time was protracted by three years, making it seventeen years until the apocalypse.
And in this simulation, due to the creation of the Spirit Pill, it was delayed by another three years, making it twenty years until the end of the world.
“Twenty years is not a short time…”
Su Xing murmured. It was foreseeable that as Su Xing’s strength grew and the elixirs he refined became stronger, he would definitely be able to negotiate for even more time.
“Moreover, the harvest from this simulation is quite substantial, eh. I not only learned two new elixirs but also mastered the skill of multitasking. Even my cultivation level and divine sense have improved…”
Su Xing shifted his gaze towards the rewards of this simulation.
[Buddha Mastery]: A blue talent, priced at 100,000 energy points.
[Nascent Soul Stage Triple]: Qi Refining Cultivation. Nascent Soul ancestor, terrifying as such, priced at 2 million energy points.
[Twenty Years of Alchemy Experience]: Alchemy insights, including the multitasking alchemy skills, low-grade elixir Dragon Spirit Pill (competent), mid-grade elixir Soul Condensing Pill (beginner) alchemy insights, priced at 1 million energy points (upon receiving this reward, the host’s alchemy level will advance to a competent level).
[Three Stalks of Gathering Spirit Flower (Mature)]: Mature Gathering Spirit Flowers, favored by the Great Dao of nature, capable of ingesting nature’s spiritual energy and further releasing more spiritual energy, priced at 300,000 energy points.
[Divine Sense Fifty Zhang (Five Senses Realm)]: At this realm, divine sense is as the five senses, as eyes, as ears, as nose, as tongue, as body, capable of sensing every movement within fifty zhang with divine sense, priced at 500,000 simulation energy points.
[Three Chi of Condensing Spirit Wood]: A rare treasure in the Cultivation World, capable of bolstering the Divine Sense Realm, priced at 10 million energy points.
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