Cultivation: But Not a Game

Chapter 477 - 323: Golden Core Trait, Immortality (Part 3)

Traditional leveling up, spirit veins, and alchemy.

Yes, the third cultivation method is alchemy, using various elixirs to boost one’s cultivation level, like the Purple Mansion Heaven Essence Pill, which grants 100 billion cultivation points or 100,000 Dao points with just one pill. As long as there are enough elixirs, one can rapidly enhance their cultivation level.

While others require centuries or even millennia to accumulate enough to reach Level 300, with enough resources, it can be done in just a few decades.

Su Yu had something to say about this.

The main ingredient of the Purple Mansion Heaven Essence Pill is the Celestial Essence Fruit. The Celestial Essence Fruit Tree was planted a thousand trees inside the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, blooming in a hundred years, fruiting in a hundred years, and maturing in a hundred years, totaling three hundred years, which in reality only takes three years. Since the last time until now, it’s been eight years, and two batches have been harvested.

A single fruit tree can bear 36 fruits, a thousand trees produce 36,000 fruits, two cycles yield 72,000 fruits, at 5 celestial coins per fruit, just this alone can sell for 360,000 celestial coins.

"Sweetness comes after hardship!"

Su Yu waved his hand, opening the realm gate to enter the Sea Suppressing Realm, where Vast Sea was currently refining elixirs, precisely the Purple Mansion Heaven Essence Pill.

These Celestial Essence Fruits definitely wouldn’t be sold, they would all be used for refining elixirs for personal use.

However, as Su Yu watched Vast Sea refining alchemy for a while, he suddenly realized a big problem.

"Your level has gotten so high?"

Having not paid attention for a long time, Vast Sea’s level was now 290, just ten levels away from 300, just like Su Yu, directly upgrading to Golden Core, and only one step away from facing the Celestial Human Tribulation.

"This is not good."

Su Yu immediately asked seriously:

"How confident are you in passing the Celestial Human Tribulation now?"

Vast Sea thought for a moment and said:

"In the current age, it’s almost impossible for innate beings to form. My existence is an accident; if not for you, husband, I couldn’t have manifested. The difficulty of the Celestial Human Tribulation for an innate being far exceeds that of an acquired being. I’m not very confident right now."

Su Yu frowned, asking solemnly:

"What else do you need to be confident?"

Vast Sea immediately responded:

"I need at least a medium-grade defensive Immortal Treasure, or a low-grade defensive type Innate Immortal Treasure."

"Can’t the Sea-Suppressing Pearl work?"

"Sea-Suppressing Pearl can, but its unlocked power hasn’t reached the Immortal Treasure level yet, it’s between level ten and Immortal Treasure, it needs another unlocking."

"Do you know how to unlock it?"

"At least more than ten innate chaos origins, or refining an innate Immortal Treasure with the same attribute, or you, husband, passing the Celestial Human Tribulation will provide the Power of Heavenly Dao feedback to raise its grade."

"Of course, if a great being above the Golden Immortal level personally intervenes, it can be forcibly unsealed."

"Golden Immortal great being...."

In the Profound Clarity Upper Sect, there is no Golden Immortal great being; the only Golden Immortal great being he knows is the Old Mother Lishan who took Qingchan. She’s not just a Golden Immortal, but a Daluo Golden Immortal.

But he dared not take out the Sea-Suppressing Pearl.

Even though the Sea-Suppressing Pearl hasn’t been fully unsealed yet and its true quality is unknown, from what it has shown so far, it is definitely not an ordinary Innate Immortal Treasure, at least a top-grade Innate Immortal Treasure, possibly even a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

He even had a bold guess in his mind: Could this Sea-Suppressing Pearl be the famous Sea-Stabilizing Pearl?

He didn’t know where the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl is in the real Earth Immortal Realm, but in the novels he read in his previous life, the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl originally belonged to the Jie Sect’s Zhao Gongming, consisting of 24 pearls, later taken by the Burning Lamp Buddha and turned into the twenty-four heavens.

Based on the records of the sect that Su Yu reviewed over the years, the outcome of the ancient Fengshen War in this Earth Immortal Realm did not differ much from what he had read in novels in his previous life. After the Fengshen War came the Calamity of the Journey to the West, leading to the flourishing of Buddhism, suggesting it’s impossible to be the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl.

But in reality, the flourishing of Buddhism happened in the last Calamity era. Now it is a new Epoch Calamity; after unknown millions of years, Buddhism no longer holds the prosperity it had during the Journey to the West.

You can see this from Blue Mountain or the Human Race’s territory, and the various sects in the Cyan Immortal Domain; Buddhist influence is not strong.

Sect records also document that once Buddhist influence was strong, but it has weakened now.

With Buddhism weakened, is it possible for those enemies suppressed during its peak to retaliate?

Or thinking the other way, the decline of a force generally goes from top to bottom, could the enemies of Buddhism’s past retaliation have caused the weakening of the Buddhist ancestral court at Mount Sumeru, thereby causing Buddhist forces to decline everywhere?

If the Buddhist ancestral court has weakened, could that lead to the loss of the twenty-four heavens of the Burning Lamp Buddha?

After all, during the Calamity now, the major figures sit high above, placing their pawns for their interests, using the twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls as pawns is entirely possible.

Or to take it a step further, is it possible that the Burning Lamp Buddha himself willingly laid out the twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls for the Buddhist resurgence plan, and Su Yu is just one of the pawns?

That is entirely possible.

He had previously understood his true nature and examined the karma on himself, finding two hidden lines of karma not inferior to the line concerning the Ancestral Dragon, which indicates the involvement of extraordinary existences.

If the Sea-Suppressing Pearl is indeed the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl, it indicates one of those hidden lines of karma involves Buddhism.

If the Sea-Suppressing Pearl is the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl, its grade is at least top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, and when the twenty-four top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures consolidate, their power exceeds most top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, second only to Innate Treasures.

The Sea-Stabilizing Pearl is an Innate Immortal Treasure, master of the Water Dao Law, containing an independent space, and was once transformed into the twenty-four heavens.

The Sea-Suppressing Pearl is also an Innate Immortal Treasure, also mastering the Water Dao Law, also containing an independent space, and can even derive an independent Heavenly Dao, making their similarity very high and greatly increasing the possibility of being the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl.