Above Nascent Soul, the Heavenly Road Was Severed
[Age 46, years of service]
[Trait being generated...]
[Congratulations on obtaining the Trait: Printed Homework (Level C) -- You can use the organization's printer and paper to Printed Homework for free.]
Lu Ping: "..."
On Blue Star, he didn't even have a girlfriend, so where would he get homework for his kids!
This "Printed Homework" was actually rated C, that's too high!!
Furthermore, Lu Ping felt that the system was discriminating against single people!
[You refused to change it.]
[During these three years, you will completely solidify your Nascent Soul Perfection stage.]
[You've already refined all the ingredients for the three Spirit Transformation Pills that Song Fuan gave you into Pills.]
[As Earth Grade Pills, the Spirit Transformation Pill is extremely difficult to refine. A normal Alchemist would be proud if they could produce one pill in a single batch.]
You're not a normal person.
[With the support of "Artisan Spirit," "Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement," and a host of other Trait, you managed to produce five kinds of pills in one batch.]
[Three portions of medicinal herbs, fifteen Spirit Transformation Pills.]
[You flipped your hand and took out a Jade Bottle, pouring out a Pills the size of a longan, covered with cloud patterns.]
[Spirit Transformation Pill]
[You simply tossed the Pills into your mouth.]
[For others, the Spirit Transformation Pill is a supreme elixir, a precious medicine used to provide a sliver of fortuitous opportunity breakthrough when attempting to overcome a bottleneck; they dare not use it lightly.]
[But you're a wallflower.]
[Fortuitous opportunity others may only dream of in a lifetime, you can have as many as you want, if you're willing.]
[You swallowed the Spirit Transformation Pill as easily as swallowing a candy, without even flinching.]
[The medicinal effects dissolved within your body, and a surge of immense Spiritual Power exploded forth, instantly filling every part of your body.]
[You guide this pure medicinal power, attempting to find the opportunity to Spirit Transformation being.]
The most important step in the so-called "Spirit Transformation" is the breaking of the Infant Spirit Transformation.
[However, when this medicinal power rushed towards the Nascent Soul, the Nascent Soul swallowed it all, without showing any sign of shattering or transformation, nor did it allow you to touch that higher barrier.]
[Your Nascent Soul has only become more translucent through the nourishment of the medicine. But that's all; it's merely become more translucent.]
[You have a vague feeling that the path to heaven has been severed beyond the Nascent Soul.]
Just like a mortal, no matter how many delicacies one eats or how strong one becomes, one can never simply fly away.
[You understand now the gap between the Nascent Soul and the Spirit Transformation stage.]
Ultimately, the Nascent Soul stage is still about a cultivator's use of Spiritual Qi.
[The Spirit Transformation involves using the Primordial Spirit Power to manipulate the Principle of heaven and earth and command Spiritual Qi.]
[A somewhat inappropriate analogy comes to mind.]
[Even though both are using brooms to sweep the floor, Nascent Soul Cultivator, no matter how strong or skilled, ultimately relies on their own hands to hold the broom and sweep.]
[However, Spirit Transformation cultivator directly commands the broom to sweep.]
One approach is to use tools, the other is to let the tools do their own thing.
[This is a leap from "operator" to "manager," a fundamental transformation at the level of life.]
[Your mind involuntarily conjures up images of the Household Ancestor Zhao, Han Shishan, Zhu Wanshan, Qi Huailin... all the Nascent Soul Perfection cultivators you've killed or seen.]
[You personally experienced the despair they felt when facing the road ahead.]
[Having spent his entire life accumulating mountains and seas of Spiritual Power, he discovered that the door ahead was not even a crack.]
[You feel an ever-growing sense of gratitude towards Song Fuan.]
[If it weren't for his guidance back then, which allowed you to gradually break free from your previous limitations from the Nascent Soul Late Stage, you would probably be like those people today, caught in doubt about yourself and the Heavenly Dao.]
[It's even possible that they might take the path of the Supreme Emotion-Slaying Scripture.]
[You tried taking a few more Spirit Transformation Pills, but the result was still the same.]
[You spent more time delving into understanding the "Principle".]
[You often leave your cave abode, stand on the cliff edge, and watch the clouds drift by.]
[You will also step into the Herb Garden and observe the entire process of a medicinal herb from sprouting to withering.]
[Life and death, glory and decay, rise and fall...]
[A thought delayed comes, a thought arrives...]
[These scenes, at this moment, seem to contain some inexplicable and profound truth in your eyes.]
[Sometimes, you might even find yourself lost in thought as you look at the Tongchen Talisman you've crafted.]
However, that thin veil remained unbroken.
[You have completely entered a state of seclusion.]
[You no longer farm, no longer refine elixirs, no longer study Cultivation Method. You've even stopped producing Qi-Gathering Pill and Qi-Consolidating Pills.]
[You were simply sitting cross-legged on the stone bed, your breath gradually weakening.]
In the end, you felt as if you had completely merged with this world, without the slightest fluctuation.
Time, on Hidden Peak, seems to have lost its meaning.
[Nine years have passed in the blink of an eye. The system continues to consistently produce useless Trait.]
[You are still in a state of seclusion.]
[Age 59, 41 years of service.]
[Trait being generated...]
[Congratulations on obtaining the Trait: Men and Women Working Together Don't Tire (Grade A) -- When you are with someone of the opposite sex, you will be exceptionally energized. Your work efficiency will double, and your combat power will increase fivefold.]
Lu Ping looked at the panel, and his eyelids twitched suddenly.
Ever since that disastrous "Tattling" B-Rank Trait when he was forty-three, it seems that the system and he have entered a state of separation.
For sixteen years, it was all D-grade garbage.
Today, I finally managed to produce a Grade A.
This is the third Trait that directly increases combat power!
It's also an extremely rare Trait that provides bonuses to both combat and work. Double the efficiency, five times the combat power!
Add to that the Bully at Home their I'm the Client... If all of this were to happen at once, the scene would be too beautiful.
However, these restrictions are far too stringent.
Being with someone of the opposite sex?
Even if Work from Home, a top-tier Trait, eliminates environmental limitations, the requirement of "opposite sex" can't just magically appear out of thin air, can it?
A dangerous thought suddenly popped into Lu Ping's mind.
Can Crow-Crow be of the opposite sex?
However, strictly speaking, Crow-Crow is Lu Ping's own Divine Sense clone.
Gender swap...
He quickly nipped this perverse idea in the bud.
Moreover, Lu Ping had reason to suspect that the novels the system had read on Tomato (a Chinese online novel platform) before must have been somewhat strange...
He decisively chose not to change it.
[You choose not to change.]
[You remain immersed in that mysterious and desolate state.]
[Although you've completely severed all external perception, deep within your Divine Sense, a warning has always lingered.]
[Those are memories etched from previous simulations.]
[Next year, when you turn sixty, two major battles will erupt simultaneously in the Southern Front and Western Front.]
[ To the Southern Front Demon-Severing Cliff, where Song Fuan, who bestowed upon you the teachings, is located.]
[The White Tiger Hall to the Western Front houses Jiang Mutian, who is suspected to have been entangled with you several times.]
[Options pop up.]
[A: Completely severing all ties, I will continue my seclusion, seeking that sliver of Heavenly Dao Spiritual Energy.]
[B: Forced to break through the barrier, rushing to the aid of Demon-Severing Cliff, the little Chunwu is already dead, but can the Nine Great Demon Emperors still cause any trouble!]
[C: Break through the pass and march westward, heading straight for the White Tiger Hall! Charge in and force a team! Who cares if she's the White Tiger Hall Master or the Demonic Cult Sect Leader! Activate the "male-female pairing" five-times-explosive critical strike on the spot, and right in front of her, repeatedly rub and grind Li Ling Lifeless Lord to the ground, turning him into dust, while wiping away sweat with an evil and arrogant air: "Woman, watch closely, this is called a brutal kill for you!"]