Forge your destiny into a sword, slash your soul and ascend to immortality

Chapter 161 Taking Stock of Gains and Significant Increase in Magical Power
Su Yan got more and more excited as she fought, her spear flashing like pear blossoms in the snow.

She got so into the game that she even commented on Su Zhao's marksmanship:

"Young man, how long has it been since you went to the battlefield? Why is your gun mount so loose and limp!"

"Let your cousin give you a good massage to improve your quality!"

Having said that, she wielded the dragon spear in her hand with even greater brilliance.

Judging from their appearances alone, Su Zhao looks very old, while Su Yan is in her prime.

In reality, Su Yan was actually a few years older than the other woman.

Su Zhao had only met this cousin a few times, and had no deep emotional connection with the clansmen on Tianjing Star.

He just opened his mouth and asked:
"I wonder what business General Yan has with me? The Su family branch in Yingfutu Realm has declined and has not been in contact with the main branch for a long time. You have come all the way to this remote little world, you must have something to ask for. You might as well speak frankly."

Upon hearing this, Su Yan sheathed her gun and stood still, then replied:
"Su Zhao, you have done a great job in the [Yingfu Pagoda Realm]. The offspring you have cultivated have even attracted the attention of the Empress, who has issued a special decree ordering me to come and guide them."

“This matter concerns the revitalization of the Su family. I have come to receive the person in accordance with the Empress’s decree.”

Upon hearing this, Su Zhao turned to look at Su Min'er standing beside him and said:
“I don’t know who your offspring is. Right now, I’ve only brought Min’er back to her parents’ home. Her talent is only average in the [Tianjing Star], so she shouldn’t be the person you’re looking for.”

Upon hearing this, Su Yan immediately took out the blood-red jade pendant and examined it carefully.

This jade pendant was left by Su Jin Gong, specifically for use on the battlefield to detect the life, death, and location of Su family descendants. It is extremely unique.

After she performed the tests, she said:

“There is indeed another bloodline message circulating within the [Realm]. However, the trajectory of this bloodline message is too strange. It is spread throughout the entire Realm and can be found everywhere.”

"But now we can't pinpoint the exact location."

Upon hearing this, Su Min'er, who was standing nearby, suddenly had a bright idea and interjected:
“Grandma Yan, I have an older brother who has been living away from home. The jade pendant should be pointing to him!”

Su Yan nodded and said:
"I need to find him first; I must bring him to [Tianjing Star] as well!"

After saying that, Su Yan pricked the tip of her tongue and flicked the blood onto the jade pendant.

A bloodline ripple, generated by the connection between the Su family's bloodlines, gradually spread outwards.

Within this realm, all members of the Su clan's bloodline will sense this.

……

In the virtual world, Jing Qian was unaware that because he was too outstanding, he had been targeted and was to be taken away.

For him, nothing is more important than his own spiritual practice!
The year-long seclusion seemed long, but he had so much to do that there simply wasn't enough time.

Looking back on his progress in his spiritual practice over the past year, he has made three major discoveries that are worth writing about.

Firstly, it fully absorbed the benefits brought by the [Three Poisons] and [Blood River].

The most important gains that the two second-rank powerful beings brought to Jing Qian were the [Worldly Understanding] in its perfect state and the precious [Blood River] divine ability.

After the [Worldly Understanding] skill is promoted to the [Heavenly Mandate] rank, its effectiveness increases more than tenfold, resulting in an extremely exaggerated effect.

He spent a long time refining his entire system with his newly achieved "Worldly Understanding" several times until there was no possibility of further improvement.

This refinement includes sorting out memories, refining magical power, adjusting resource allocation, optimizing the combat system, and so on.

While these improvements in soft power did not lead to an advancement in his cultivation level, they greatly enhanced the depth and breadth of his cultivation, making his system more sophisticated.

Most importantly, after re-analyzing and reorganizing his understanding of the world, his plans for future spiritual practice became more reasonable and efficient.

The benefits are subtle yet crucial!

After breaking through the tribulation, Jing Qian will truly begin his cultivation at the middle third rank.

[Spiritual Inspiration], [Fire of Evil], and [Destiny Star] are the most crucial factors that laid the foundation for his advancement to the middle three ranks of cultivation.

He wanted to maintain the terrifying advantage he had accumulated in the lower three ranks, continue to dominate his contemporaries, crush his predecessors, and intimidate future generations. He needed to prepare the core resources for these three aspects in advance.

In terms of [Spiritual Ability], he has almost reached the pinnacle. He only needs to accumulate more [Lifespan], activate [Sculpting of Wisdom Source], and accelerate the perfect refinement of [Spiritual Ability] to fully complete the cultivation of the sixth rank and continue to advance.

As for the preparations for the [Fire of Destruction], he had already made arrangements in advance.

For Jing Qian, who possesses the [Sage's Appearance] and a group of top-grade [Spiritual Abilities], his magical power is tens of thousands of times greater than that of other cultivators of the same level, and his need for [Fire of Fiend] is naturally tens of thousands of times greater than that of others!
This is undoubtedly an incredibly large fortune!

If you rely on your own efforts to accumulate experience, it will probably take forever to get promoted.

Unfortunately, the [Fire of Evil] is not only extremely difficult to refine, but it is also not durable for storage.

Generally, once someone refines the [Fire of Evil], they mostly use it for cultivation, so even if Jing Qian wanted to steal it, it would be difficult to find a suitable place.

In the entire Yingfu Pagoda Realm, apart from the kitchen, he couldn't think of any other place where he could snatch so much evil fire.

However, although among the solutions deduced by the [Worldly Solution], robbing the [Kitchen] is the simplest and most efficient way to accumulate [Fire of Evil].

However, Jingqian placed it at the end of the proposal.

He doesn't cultivate the ruthless path of heartlessness and cruelty. He has a pretty good relationship with the Kitchen Gods. Many of the Kitchen Gods are his friends, and they've done a lot of business together.

Moreover, behind the numerous [Stove Spirits] lies the cultivation power of the entire [Yingfu Pagoda Realm].

He hasn't gone so far as to incur the wrath of heaven and the resentment of his hometown.

If this were on [Tianjing Star], he wouldn't have this concern; he would definitely go to the Fire Source Hall of [Wuji Heavenly Dynasty] to test its strength.

Therefore, the most reliable source of "evil fire" at present must indeed be sought from outside.

Within the Great Black Heaven that was swept away by Zhu Yun, there are a hundred great suns, which were painstakingly collected and stored in the Yang side by the Shadow Demon Emperor.

This is the source of power for the Shadow Demon race, a place rich in extremely valuable resources.

These hundred great suns are precisely the best source of [evil fire].

Jing Qian entrusted Mo Pin'er, the new leader of Daheitian, with the important task of quickly establishing a stable research and development system for Sha Huo within Daheitian.

He will also invest a lot of resources in helping Mo Pin'er complete the assessment.

After acquiring the Great Black Heaven, the absorption of the [Fire of Evil] was no longer a problem that Jing Qian needed to worry about excessively.

However, he still had to be extremely careful when choosing his "Destiny Star"!

Advancing from the fifth rank [Earthly Fiend] to the fourth rank [Star Picker] is a move that corresponds to the celestial stars and is a crucial step in transitioning oneself from a being of the realm to a being of the void.

After the promotion is completed, one will be blessed by the [Destiny Star], which will greatly enhance one's magical power and generate one's own vital energy, allowing one to transcend the boundary and exist forever.

However, both the Pure Yang Heaven and the Yama Path have severely overdrawn their reserves of Destiny Stars.

It should be understood that in this void, there are countless stars, but the [Destiny Star] that can generate its own primordial energy core is ultimately a rare find, one in ten thousand.

Among these, stars of the [Main Star] level are extremely rare.

For major lineages with complete inheritance systems, cultivating and accumulating "Life Stars" is an important infrastructure construction within the sect's lineage.

Without a "Destiny Star," a sect's lineage has no future whatsoever!

However, Jing Qian ended up joining two bizarre sects, Chunyangtian and Yanfudao, each with problematic lineages.

The Pure Yang Heaven seeks to overcome tribulations and break through calamities. It is only natural that each disciple and successor must rely on themselves to cultivate their own Destiny Star. There are plenty of Destiny Stars cultivated by others in the void; one can simply find a place and seize one.

Therefore, in other lineages, only cultivators of the upper three ranks would venture out of the boundary to train in the void.

However, the Pure Yang Heaven is completely different. Pure Yang Zi, who is at the fifth-grade Earthly Fiend realm or even the sixth-grade Subduing Spirit realm, has already begun to study the matter of leaving the realm.

Therefore, even in the [Dao Yuan Zhong Shen Tian], while [Chun Yang] was still alive, [Chun Yang Tian] never paid attention to the nurturing of [Ming Xing].

Of course, this could also be because the sect has too many enemies, and before it could even nurture its stars, it was used as a target to be shot at.

As for the [Yanfu Dao], after [Yanfu] went mad, no one cared about the [inheritance] of the entire sect.

When the previous generation of [Yanfuzi] selected and trained his disciples, it was more for the purpose of having someone to share the burden when [Yanfuzi] called out their names.

As for the other details, nobody cares anymore.

At present, the only "Destiny Star" that Jing Qian has in his hands is the one in the "Sumeru" dimension.

Although it is rapidly improving thanks to his nurturing, it is still far from reaching the level of a [main star].

Even after the promotion, a mere [main star] could not satisfy Jing Qian's requirements.

To contain his magical power, at the very least, three to five main stars would be needed to form a small star field.

Within the Yingfutu Realm at this time, only the Ying clan, the human emperor, possessed such reserves.

Therefore, it is a foregone conclusion that Jing Qian will leave the Yingfu Pagoda Realm and go to other realms!

He needs to plan ahead!
Furthermore, the [Blood Sea] deity, in addition to the blessing brought by the [Worldly Liberation], is also extremely useful.

At this moment, Jing Qian perfectly refined this divine being, transforming it into a pool of blood-red spring water that soaked within his sea of ​​consciousness.

The Blood Sea is a top-tier treasure of the Yanfu Dao meat feast lineage. Its greatest function is to nurture the soul and nourish the body.

In addition to comprehensively healing injuries to the body and soul, it can also greatly enhance Jing Qian's physical and spiritual strength, and continuously bring benefits.

This is a valuable resource that can greatly supplement the deficiencies in the Jingqian system.

Unlike Blood River, he doesn't need to raise Blood God Children as a means of magical power and attack.

Burying the [Sea of ​​Blood] within one's own sea of ​​consciousness, using it as a blood pack, and gradually strengthening the physical body and soul, is extremely useful.

At this moment, Jing Qian's spiritual and physical strength was comparable to that of a [Star-Picking] cultivator, and he was quite satisfied with his first achievement!

The second major and most important gain from the retreat was truly unique!
After the [Sumeru Great Dao Stele] was promoted, three great Dao illusions—[Spiritual Life Void Sea], [Primordial Qi Sea], and [Immortal Qi Mountain]—manifested within the Stele's space.

This allows Jingqian to disassemble and reconstruct his own accumulated cultivation, and to polish and correct various flaws.

This is undoubtedly an extremely wondrous and miraculous phenomenon.

However, this divine power was truly unleashed after he killed the Three Poisons and the Blood River.

Within the space of the Life Stele, the cultivation foundations of the two second-grade cultivators were completely dismantled and manifested before Jing Qian.

To his right was a towering river of blood, the manifestation of the Blood River's cultivation.

It originates from the nine [Heavenly Mandates] and twenty-three [Destiny Ranks] in the [Spirit, Life, Emptiness, and Sea].

After condensing into the [Blood River Abyss Impermanence Dharma Form], it perfectly accommodated four powerful [Spiritual Machines].

Then, in the Sea of ​​Primordial Qi, he broke through 367 layers of primordial energy, condensed the Golden Immortal Spiritual Qi, and finally reached the Immortal Qi Mountain, where he successfully carved a stele.

Jing Qian could clearly see that on that [Life Stele], there was an extremely complex Daoist seal script character for "blood".

The extraordinary nature of the [Sumeru Great Dao Stele] completely dismantled the essence of [Blood River]'s cultivation.

For Jing Qian, this allowed him to absorb the most essential cultivation essence from a second-rank powerhouse and transform it into his own accumulation.

His avatar lingered above the river of blood, experiencing the wondrous powers of various [Destinies] one by one, and could easily reflect the methods of refining them.

He can also clearly see through the wonderful uses of many "insights" and even try to replicate them.

Most importantly, when he stepped onto the level of the Sea of ​​Primordial Qi that [Blood River] had comprehended, [Blood River]'s understanding of the [Primordial Qi] at this level was also rapidly filling his soul.

That's just so unreasonable!
This is clearly copying the answers!
[Blood River] spent tens of thousands of years of painstaking effort to comprehend these three hundred-plus layers of [Primordial Qi Sea]!

But for Jing Qian, through the miraculous power of the [Sumeru Great Dao Stele], he could get the [Blood River]'s hard work for free!

Originally, relying on the [Sculpture of Wisdom] of the [Great Dao Stele of Sumeru], he still had to consume a considerable amount of lifespan to comprehend a layer of primordial energy.

But after seeing through the true nature of the Blood River, he could exploit it for free without any cost.

In contrast to the Blood River is the essence of the Three Poisons cultivation, which is dissected into an incomparably enormous three-colored mandala flower.

This is the Great Mandala Form of the Ten Directions and Ten Assemblies, formed by the condensation of the Three Poisons.

In the Sea of ​​Primordial Qi, he also comprehended the 257th level and successfully condensed the Golden Immortal Spiritual Qi.

When Jing Qian steps into it, he can also gain free insights into the [Three Poisons]'s vital energy.

After deducting the number of overlapping Yuan Qi layers that Jing Qian comprehended from the two second-rank powerful beings, he was able to comprehend an additional 327 layers of the [Sea of ​​Yuan Qi]!
He managed to acquire all the hard work of thousands of years for free within six months, resulting in a revolutionary increase in his cultivation foundation.

This was Jingqian's second major gain during his seclusion!
He has already easily surpassed his master Shangxi's three thousand years of cultivation and refinement. As soon as he advances to the [Star Picking] stage, he will immediately obtain high-level [Golden Immortal Spiritual Energy], which is a genuine second-grade magical power.

Moreover, if it weren't for the fact that both [Blood River] and [Three Poisons] are closely related to [Yanfu Dao], the probability of overlap in the [Primordial Qi] they comprehended would be extremely high, allowing Jing Qian to comprehend even more levels.

The extraordinary nature of the [Sumeru Great Way Stele] was a truly transformative function that had a significant impact on Jingqian's spiritual practice.

Each time a second-rank expert falls before him, he can reproduce the essence of their cultivation within the Life Stele space.

In turn, one can obtain the cultivation results of other second-rank experts for free.

Jing Qian counted the treasures he had that could kill a second-grade cultivator. He only had three of Zhu Yun's [Offering Talismans] left, and there was still a [Ren Chong] tribulation lightning sword aura left in his [Sword Ring].

If used properly, I could probably kill a few more second-rank beings!
This undoubtedly made him eager to try it out!
Unfortunately, the [Yingfu Pagoda Realm] is too barren. Among the remaining three second-rank cultivators, [Wuchang Ghost Emperor] and [Dragon Angler] are acquaintances, making it difficult to take action.

The remaining second-grade macaque had too low a cultivation level, only at the level of the [Wordless Stele], and at most had refined more than a hundred layers of the [Primordial Qi Sea].

Using your trump card on it would be such a waste.

If this were on [Tianjing Star], we could sneak up on the door of some [Great Spirit Official], secretly kill him, and reap endless rewards!
The Great Spirit Officials of the Wuji Celestial Dynasty may have somewhat mediocre combat strength, but that's entirely because the Celestial Dynasty system is so powerful that they don't need to devote too much effort to combat power.

However, in terms of cultivation, the Great Spirit Officials are not lagging behind at all, and even perform better due to the inheritance of the Book Mountain.

Jingqian's mouth watered just thinking about it!
In his mind, the image of the Great Spirit Official had become that of a Middle Eastern sheikh covered with a white cloth. Although he was weak, he could produce a lot of gold coins.

At this moment, Jing Qian is only at the sixth rank of [Subduing Spirit], but he has already comprehended 427 layers of [Sea of ​​Primordial Qi]. Although he cannot change the essence of his magic power, he can greatly increase the upper limit of his magic power!
In just six months of comprehension, his magical power cultivation almost doubled.

With a cultivation level of a full 57,420 [Purple Eye Life Essence], he developed an even stronger anticipation for hunting down a second-grade powerhouse.

A year passed while Jing Qian was digesting his second major gain and refining his magical power.

He even thought this would be the biggest gain from his seclusion, until he continued to explore the wonders of the [Sumeru Great Dao Stele] and discovered its true functions, which were beyond his imagination.

The third and most important takeaway from this retreat was the realization of that knowledge.

(There will be one more chapter during the day)
(End of this chapter)