Others Level Up, but I Pursue Cultivation!

"Three Gathering Spirit Flowers, better than nothing!"

Su Xing sighed lightly.

Even though three Gathering Spirit Flowers were not enough for his Nascent Soul Stage cultivation needs, they were enough for daily elixir refining and replenishing spiritual power consumption.

Ever since Su Xing learned that the spiritual energy in the Spirit Field Blessed Land was limited, he had become more cautious in using spiritual power. He dared not cultivate, even wishing he could split a portion of spiritual power into two. This was because his daily alchemy also consumed spiritual energy. Once the spiritual power was exhausted, he wouldn't even be able to refine elixirs.

"However, if I have these three Gathering Spirit Flowers, perhaps I can supplement the spiritual energy I need for daily alchemy?"

Su Xing felt a desire for these Gathering Spirit Flowers.

"Let's continue simulating first...."

[In the same year, you became the eighteenth elder of the Descending Sect, code-named Elder Yao.]

[The next day, the Shadow Protector contacted you. She asked you to refine a batch of Essence-Nourishing Pills for her, totaling five thousand pills.]

[She provided you with enough medicinal materials. You nodded and told her to come back in two months.]

[The Shadow Protector was greatly shocked by your words. She initially thought it would take you a year to refine five thousand pills but was surprised you said two months would suffice.]

[The Shadow Protector voiced her doubts and questioned why you were not wholeheartedly refining elixirs for the Descending Sect.]

[You chuckled and stated you were just hiding your true abilities before, and naturally, you had your own reasons for your actions.]

[At the same time, you proposed a collaboration. You would provide two thousand Essence-Nourishing Pills every month, but the Shadow Protector needed to give you one thousand spiritual medicines each month.]

[Though the Shadow Protector was uncertain in her heart, she agreed to your collaboration request due to the enormous temptation.]

[In the fourth year, you had been collaborating with the Shadow Protector for over a year. Each month, she provided you with a large number of spiritual medicines, and you supplied her with two thousand Essence-Nourishing Pills.]

[Over the year, you had embezzled over ten thousand spiritual medicines from the Descending Sect with the Shadow Protector. This drew the attention of some sect members, but you faced no obstacles due to the Shadow Protector's protection.]

[One day, the Shadow Protector found you. After over a year of collaboration, she became certain that you had a significant secret and asked about your identity.]

[Due to your prior simulation experiences, you did not hide and directly revealed that you were an undercover agent sent by the Human Race.]

[The Shadow Protector was stunned by your words, finding it unbelievable that you revealed it so easily.]

[The Shadow Protector questioned if you were not afraid of her reporting you. You smiled faintly and said you knew she was also an undercover agent from another world.]

[Upon hearing this, a trace of killing intent appeared in the Shadow Protector's eyes. This was the biggest secret she had kept since joining the Descending Sect, yet you had discovered it.]

[But you remained calm, knowing that in order to obtain more elixirs, the Shadow Protector could not kill you.]

[Sure enough, after a moment of silence, the Shadow Protector said that only the two of you could know about this and that no one else must find out.]

[You nodded in agreement. Knowing each other's secrets, your bond tightened, and your alliance became even stronger.]

[In the fifth year, you continued your secret alchemy business with the Shadow Protector, accumulating more and more elixirs. By this time, you had nearly fifty thousand Essence-Nourishing Pills and fifty thousand Organ Refining Pills.]

[As your collaboration with the Shadow Protector became more reliable over the past two years, she revealed some information to you. She told you about the secrets of her world.]

[The Shadow Protector expressed her envy of your world, where everyone could enhance their strength by killing monsters. In her world, the only way to become stronger was through cultivation.]

[You asked if this was cultivation, but the Shadow Protector shook her head. She said that the power system in her world consisted of Dou Qi and magic, similar to profession users, and lacked the mysticism of cultivators.]

[Though somewhat disappointed, you still learned about the power structure of the Shadow Protector's world.]

[Compared to Earth, the power of humans in the Shadow Protector's world was much weaker. The Shadow Protector was considered one of the top beings in her world. But in their world, many possessed strength comparable to Gold- and Master-Level profession users, making a significant improvement in strength after consuming Essence-Nourishing Pills.]

[The Shadow Protector also told you that the foreign races' aggression towards her world was less intense than on Blue Star, but they were still an unavoidable threat.]

[You were even more shocked by the strength of the foreign races, but your unwavering determination to resist them remained steady.]

[In the sixth year, you accumulated more elixirs. By now, you had nearly eighty thousand Essence-Nourishing Pills and seventy thousand Organ Refining Pills.]

[In the seventh year, the number of elixirs you possessed broke through the two hundred thousand mark for the first time, enough to create nearly forty thousand Grandmaster Level profession users. You had unprecedented confidence in resisting the invasion of demonic beasts.]

[However, due to your collusion with the Shadow Protector over the years, the number of spiritual medicines in the Descending Sect's treasure vault had significantly decreased, causing dissatisfaction among the other elders and protectors.]

[In desperation, you claimed that your alchemy had slightly improved, allowing you to provide the sect with one thousand elixirs each month while also getting more abundant medicinal materials every month.]

[In the eighth year, as your cultivation level steadily improved, you grew closer to the second layer of the Nascent Soul Stage.]

[On a bright and sunny morning, you made a breakthrough to the second layer of the Nascent Soul Stage after accumulating strength and allowing the natural progression.]

[It took you eight years to go from the first layer to the second layer of the Nascent Soul Stage. Due to the time spent on alchemy, you estimated that even with full dedication, breaking through one layer in the Nascent Soul Stage would take four or five years, and it would only become harder in the later stages.]

Su Xing frowned slightly upon reading this. It took him eight years to break through from the first to the second layer of the Nascent Soul Stage. Including the previous simulation's cultivation time, it took over a decade to advance from the first to the second layer.

Moreover, it naturally became harder to cultivate in the later stages. If so, wouldn't it take two to three hundred years to cultivate to Great Perfection in the Divinity Transformation Stage?

Though this speed was already considered fast for ordinary cultivators, Su Xing was still dissatisfied.

Two to three hundred years would require a dozen simulations in the simulator.

And this was only achievable if Su Xing extracted cultivation every time. If he obtained any cultivation techniques, wouldn't his cultivation level be even harder to improve?

Su Xing pondered as he stroked his chin:

"There are currently two ways to quickly improve my cultivation level. The first is to enhance my talent quality. If I acquire a purple-quality Spiritual Root, it may only take a hundred years to break through to Great Perfection in the Divinity Transformation Stage...."

"The second way is to refine a kind of elixir that can improve the cultivation level of Nascent Soul stage cultivators!"

Su Xing muttered:

"I remember that the Li Fire Alchemy seemed to record an elixir named Dragon Spirit Pill, which can enhance the cultivation level of Nascent Soul Stage cultivators?"