Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 166 The Shadow Wizard's Tribulation
In the wizarding world, there is even a specialized wizarding profession called Shadow Wizard.

This is a wizard specifically designed for intelligence gathering, possessing exceptional stealth and exploratory abilities.

Although Su You is now consciously cultivating talent in this area, he still needs to explore and refine his methods.

In the world of cultivation, there is no such profession. Su You needs to select suitable content from countless spells and techniques. These techniques and spells are extremely useful for infiltration, concealment, exploration, counter-reconnaissance, and other abilities.

It's not yet a systematic approach; it's just a random combination, and not very professional.

Moreover, Su You's current world exploration is not yet considered true world exploration.

Exploring the Wizarding World involves venturing into completely unfamiliar worlds that have not been influenced by the Wizarding World. Special preparations are required to prevent the world from detecting any unusual presence within them.

Furthermore, due to the different systems in different worlds, one's own power can easily be underutilized, or even completely rendered unusable, which tests the Shadow Wizard's ability to protect himself.

Su You is currently just feeling his way across the river, hoping to summarize a spy system based on the immortal path, which can be integrated with the spy wizard system of the wizard side in the future.

In those worlds that have now been conquered, apart from the occasional rebellion, the forces within have basically submitted.

Moreover, there are some soldiers stationed inside, so even if an accident occurs, it can be easily suppressed.

Resources are now being produced continuously from all dimensions.

Su You had also made plans for the development of various resources in these worlds. Naturally, the mining of spirit minerals should be intensified, and he even provided some magical artifacts that would facilitate mining.

As for spiritual herbs, there's no need to exhaust all resources. He possesses the Qionghua Cauldron and the Great Wilderness Secret Realm, both of which contain abundant spiritual fields suitable for cultivation. He has no shortage of spiritual herbs or even spiritual rice for the time being.

Aside from resources like spirit ore, Su You was most interested in the various spiritual items produced in these worlds, as these were among the most valuable resources.

In order to fully exploit the resources of these worlds, Su You was quite friendly, opening shops in these worlds and dumping large quantities of pills and magical artifacts to harvest the resources of these worlds.

After all, forced exploitation is only temporary and can certainly extract too much wealth, but reaping profits in the commercial sphere is the fastest and most sophisticated method.

First military force, then commerce; by employing both in tandem, one can essentially achieve complete control over the world.

As for the various resources collected, the cultivators under Su You's command who specialize in commercial activities will transport them to various places in the Yun'an Realm and the Tongtian Vine World for sale and exchange, in order to exchange for and purchase high-end resources.

Su You values ​​high-end resources, but he can already mass-produce low-end resources.

Especially for spatial spirit objects, he is now mobilizing his full resources to acquire them, and the results are quite good.

After all, unless they are special spatial spiritual objects, the value of ordinary spatial spiritual objects is not too exaggerated.

Especially with the mature technology of storage bags and storage rings.

The greatest use of spatial artifacts is to refine spatial treasures. However, with storage technology already being very advanced, spatial treasures are no longer needed for refining storage bags and the like.

Therefore, unless you have a high demand for storage space, it's better to carry several storage rings, which are not only cheaper but also less troublesome.

With the investment of a large number of spatial spirit objects, the spatial evolution within the Natal Wizard Tower is extremely rapid. The entire hundred-story tower is now a small spatial secret realm.

The ten spatial realms in the middle have developed the best, and they have all been upgraded to medium-sized spatial realms.

As for large-scale secret realms, there aren't any yet, not only because there are no sixth-tier spatial spirit objects, but also because the current wizard towers are not yet able to support large-scale spatial secret realms.

With the investment of a large amount of resources, his natal wizard tower is constantly evolving, but it is still a bit short of the level of a fifth-tier magic weapon. Only when his natal wizard tower becomes a fifth-tier magic weapon can it be considered capable of withstanding large-scale spatial secret realms.

However, upgrading the Natal Wizard Tower is not so easy now. The transition from fourth to fifth tier is a huge hurdle. He needs to find a way to rely on external forces, perhaps by using some of the world's origin. This would make it much easier to upgrade the Natal Wizard Tower to the fifth tier.

"Unfortunately, truly high-level resources are not so easy to obtain." Su You felt a little regretful.

For example, Tier 5 resources are very difficult to obtain even in the Yun'an World. Only in the Tongtian Teng World, which is at a higher level, are Tier 5 resources easier to buy at auctions.

Su You helped upgrade those layers of secret realm space to medium size by purchasing fifth-tier spatial spirit items from the Tongtian Vine World.

"If the Heavenly Vine could grow faster, it could potentially advance to a large-scale secret realm within it ahead of schedule," Su You thought to himself.

The Heavenly Vine itself has the effect of suppressing space, but unfortunately it is still in the seedling stage. Even though the twin clones water it with sweet rain and various spiritual waters day and night, its growth rate is still very slow.

So far, we've only traversed five spatial realms.

Don't be fooled by the small number; the Transparent Vine has actually grown to a height of a thousand miles. This is mainly because the spatial secret realm is constantly advancing, and its own height will also increase, while the Sky-Piercing Vine will not grow with the expansion of the space.

Everything in Yun'an Realm is developing in an orderly manner.

The cultivation academy is also constantly seeing a surge of inventions and technological innovations. Su You provides tremendous support in this regard, and generous rewards are given for any innovations that emerge.

As for the twin clones, they have conquered one research topic after another and gradually mastered various witchcrafts suitable for their use. Currently, their main research is still bloodline potions, and secondly, the research on the wizard's magic rune system.

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Time flies, and more than two hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Meanwhile, Su You's sect was developing steadily, without encountering any troublesome enemies or anything like that, which allowed him to cultivate in peace until now.

For Su You, breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm was a natural progression, especially after using the Spirit Nourishing Pill, which eliminated any risk of failure.

"Is this the difference between the Nascent Soul stage and other realms?" Su You felt the exhilarating spiritual energy surrounding him.

He could clearly sense the flow of spiritual energy around him and every change in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Su You gently pointed forward, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth quickly gathered in front of him before dissipating.

He was certain that even a casual strike he made now could unleash tremendous power.

It's no wonder there's such a huge gap between the Nascent Soul realm and the Deity Transformation realm.

The Nascent Soul realm primarily relies on physical strength and mana, but the Deity Transformation realm is different. With just a little mana, they can mobilize the surrounding spiritual energy, making them overwhelmingly powerful against lower-level opponents. Su You's previous ability to suppress a Deity Transformation Venerable was entirely due to the power of the formation. If he were to fight head-on, unless he could catch them off guard and unleash all his magic at close range, he might be able to injure them.

By the time the other party realizes what's happening, he will definitely be the one who dies.

"This is the power to mobilize the primordial energy of heaven and earth, somewhat similar to a wizard," Su You analyzed.

Wizards can also mobilize the power of the universe, even at a low level.

However, it requires strong mental strength and incantations as a medium to achieve this. It is still impossible for cultivators to mobilize the spiritual energy of heaven and earth so quickly.

"Is this what makes the cultivation system so special?" Su You wondered silently.

The advancement to the Nascent Soul stage is not much different from other stages. The physical abilities are still those of a Nascent Soul, only more refined and powerful. The only change is that the physical body can only sense the energy of heaven and earth after being baptized by the energy of heaven and earth.

Aside from this, Su You also noticed that his original spiritual root, which was originally his physical strength, seemed to be slowly melting and continuously merging into his body.

He didn't notice this at first, as the change was too subtle. But after he discovered it, he kept observing it. After advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, his spiritual root had dissolved more than half of itself, and the speed was getting faster and faster. It would be able to completely fuse after about ten years.

Su You wasn't sure if this was good or bad, but he couldn't stop it and could only wait for the outcome.

If things go badly, at worst, my cultivation level will revert to its state before I left after I die.

If there is no impact, that would be best. After all, if one's cultivation level returns to its original point, it would take two hundred years to cultivate back to its original state, during which time a solution would need to be found.

“It’s time to leave. I’ve stayed in this world long enough.” Su You stretched his body.

He had no intention of exploring the interior of the continent; nothing in this world could attract him.

After all, this world originally belonged to the Dream Butterfly Sect, and Su You already possessed its heritage. As for resources, there weren't any special ones, so it would be more convenient for him to conquer worlds and plunder resources on the Tongtian Vine side.

Su You left the sect quietly and arrived at the area in the outer sea.

As soon as the thought crossed his mind, rolling dark clouds swept up the sky above, turning the sky for miles around into a dark and oppressive expanse.

After triggering the lightning tribulation, Su You could feel the surrounding space becoming increasingly oppressive, and all life within a thousand miles felt fear and frantically fled to the outside world.

Lightning tribulation doesn't distinguish between friend and foe within its own range. In this situation, being even slightly affected by it could lead to instant death.

Su You could see dozens of streaks of light flashing past, frantically fleeing outwards. They were clearly Golden Core cultivators. He hadn't deliberately chosen a deserted place; it was just bad luck for them.

However, when the actual tribulation of lightning occurs, it will be quite safe as long as you don't get close to the area where he is. Although the tribulation clouds of the lightning tribulation cover thousands of miles, that is to accumulate power. In reality, the area where the tribulation of lightning will descend is only his small area.

boom!
The first bolt of tribulation lightning struck down suddenly, engulfing him directly.

Su You did not take any defensive measures, but instead used his physical body to withstand the lightning tribulation.

His physical body is currently at the peak of the fourth rank, but he is still a bit short of breaking through to the fifth rank. These lightning tribulations can serve as a catalyst to stimulate his physical body to break through.

Blue lightning flowed through his body, eventually disappearing slowly.

"Comfortable!" Su You uttered the two words, trembling.

The power of this lightning tribulation was not weak; just now, it had indeed numbed his entire body.

Of course, the actual damage was not high, and with his physique, he could recover quickly even without using any pills.

However, during the tribulation, it is still necessary to maintain full strength so that the physical body can continuously withstand more tribulations and stimulate its potential.

boom! boom! boom!
Waves of lightning struck rapidly, and the area around Su You's body seemed to become a sea of ​​thunder.

After the lightning subsided, only a bloody, mangled body with exposed bones remained in the sky.

Su You quickly swallowed the pill, sat cross-legged in the air, and tried to absorb the medicinal power of the pill as much as possible in hopes of restoring his physical body.

But he had only recovered a little when the relentless lightning struck him.

Su You's eyes were resolute. He still didn't use any protection and chose to withstand the attack with his bare body.

Although he looks terrible now, he hasn't reached the point of being completely exhausted.

Moreover, after being constantly tempered by thunder, the power of lightning continuously stimulated his physical body, and he vaguely felt a breakthrough coming.

boom!
After this wave of lightning tribulation, Su You was left with only half a body, and his flesh and blood were almost completely worn away, leaving only white bones that emitted a white light.

Although his physical body suffered a near-annihilation blow, his spirit remained excellent, and he was still able to control his body and gather a bit of life force in his heart.

"Finally, I've broken through!" Su You smiled, though he only had two rows of teeth, he was still very happy.

Even though the physical body is about to be stubbornly destroyed, it still retains a sliver of life. As long as it survives the tribulation of lightning and uses elixirs to regenerate muscles and marrow, the physical body can slowly recover.

He still possessed some pills capable of regenerating severed limbs.

This is also why Su You persisted until the end; otherwise, he would have used magic or witchcraft to resist the attack of the lightning tribulation long ago.

However, now that he had successfully broken through, Su You no longer hesitated. Beams of light shone on his body, and dozens of layers of protective shields instantly covered his entire body.

With the combined power of Su You's cultivation of both magic and sorcery, the tribulation that followed was passed with great ease.

Whether it's his wizarding cultivation or his immortal cultivation level, he is comparable to a Nascent Soul Venerable. He possesses countless witchcraft and spells, making it incredibly easy for him to withstand tribulations.

Even without powerful magical artifacts, one can still easily withstand the lightning tribulation.

Of course, there is another reason: this tribulation is only an ascension tribulation, and it is not like the primordial energy tribulation of the Void Refining Realm.

(End of this chapter)