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Congratulations, Host, you obtained "Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength"!

The next second, densely packed ancient characters appeared in Su Mu's mind. These ancient characters glowed with golden light and contained supreme Dao rhythms.

With just one glance, his heart was shaken, and he felt the awe of gazing up at Mount Tai.

This was a cultivation art even more advanced than the "Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art."

What a cause for celebration—his thousand Favor Points had not been spent in vain! He had hit the jackpot!

After obtaining the cultivation art, Su Mu immediately prepared to add points. Cultivation was impossible—why cultivate when he could add points?

Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength: Level 0 (0/10)

Description: Draw upon qi to summon the divine; use the divine to form elephants. With every gesture, wield the power of colossal elephants. The human body is composed of eight hundred and forty million particles. If their potential is awakened, every tiny particle will possess the power of a colossal elephant. When all awaken, one may rival a divine elephant—overturn rivers and seas, roar falling stars from the sky, pluck the moon and swallow the sun, all within a single thought.

After reading the description, Su Mu's heart shook violently.

The physical body was made of countless flesh-and-blood particles. If their potential was awakened, every tiny particle would possess the power of a colossal elephant! This was an unimaginably powerful cultivation art, its vision wildly grandiose! Add points—add points for me.

Add them hard!

Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength +10

Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength: Level 1 (0/500)

The next second, Su Mu could feel his flesh-and-blood particles changing.

Ten flesh-and-blood particles transformed into colossal elephant particles, then further transformed into Primal Elephant Particles, and finally into Divine Elephant Particles.

Su Mu circulated the cultivation art, and ten Divine Elephant Particles gathered behind him, forming a phantom of a divine elephant! At that moment, Su Mu felt power unlike anything he had ever known. Only when he stopped the cultivation art did the divine elephant phantom vanish.

One had to know, this was only the first level, yet it already possessed such might.

To advance to the second level, he would need a full five hundred Favor Points! From this alone, it was clear that Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength stood several tiers above Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art, because the latter only required one hundred points to advance to the second level.

He still had 640 points left. Keep adding points!

Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength +500

Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength: Level 2 (0/1000)

In an instant, ten thousand flesh-and-blood particles transformed into Divine Elephant Particles once more!

After circulating the cultivation art, ten thousand and ten Divine Elephant Particles gathered into a divine elephant phantom, standing behind Su Mu like a Dharma manifestation, a thousand times stronger than before! As Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength reached the second level, Su Mu felt that his physical body had become at least a hundred times stronger than before—and that was a conservative estimate.

The next second.

Su Mu felt the bottleneck loosen. He was about to charge into the Great Ascension Stage! He sat down where he was, held his breath, focused his spirit, and threw his full attention into breaking through.

Soon after, Su Mu felt his dantian and qi sea undergo qualitative transformations. His Sea of Consciousness in particular truly became a sea, overflowing with vast, dense spiritual power.

A crisp sound rang out from his dantian, and Su Mu's aura surged rapidly to an entirely new height!

Great Ascension Initial Stage!

The Great Ascension Stage differed from the previous realms. It only had four minor stages: Great Ascension Initial Stage, Great Ascension Middle Stage, Great Ascension Late Stage, and Great Ascension Completion.

After breaking through to the Great Ascension Initial Stage, Su Mu rose to his feet and felt incomparably clear and unburdened, filled with an indescribable profundity.

Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength truly deserved to be the treasure he had drawn with a full thousand Favor Points. It had indeed not disappointed him, successfully allowing him to step into the Great Ascension Initial Stage.

Advancing from the second level to the third would require one thousand points.

Su Mu did not have that many, so he had to start saving again! These Favor Points really were not enough. He had to use them to raise River Affinity, use them for draws, and use them to upgrade cultivation arts.

Congratulations, you cleared away a piece of broken stone by the riverbank. Favor Points +1.

Congratulations, you cleared away a piece of broken stone by the riverbank. Favor Points +1.

No time to be sad. Time to patrol!

Congratulations, you cleared away weeds. Favor Points +1.

Congratulations, you saved a stranded little crab. Favor Points +10.

Today was another calm and peaceful day. You were rewarded for maintaining order. Favor Points +20.

Spending these Favor Points felt great, but earning them was truly bitter.

At first, Su Mu had thought calm and peaceful days were quite nice, since he received guaranteed Favor Points every day.

But now, Su Mu hoped the river would get a little more chaotic. Then he could transform into an emissary of justice, a light of the righteous path, and maintain River Channel Order, earning more Favor Points that way.

Just as Su Mu now greatly hoped that a few more Li Qi Yes would trespass into the river, or that some blind fools would come stir up trouble!

But ideals were beautiful, while reality was cruel.

For the next half month, everything remained calm and peaceful. However, Su Mu's impatient state of mind also settled down. He had been a little too hasty before, always wanting to grow fat with one bite.

Now, his daily routine of patrolling and guarding the river brought him around thirty guaranteed points a day, and fifty on good days.

Over half a month, he had saved up five hundred and twenty-one Favor Points.

Favor Points: 661

During those half a month, Su Mu had wanted to become a gambling addict countless times, but he had held himself back every time.

Whenever he was about to get carried away, a sentence would ring through his mind: "Gambling addicts never die a good death!"

During those half a month, aside from his daily patrols, Su Mu simply slept.

Cultivate?

Cultivate my ass!

It was not that Su Mu did not want to cultivate. Rather than cultivating diligently, he might as well go patrol.

With the time he spent cultivating, he could have repaired several breaches in the river channel, cleared several pieces of broken stone, and pulled a few clumps of weeds. Wouldn't it be better to use the Favor Points he earned to add points directly? Of course, when Su Mu said he was not cultivating, he meant that he would not continue cultivating forward on his own.

For example, regarding Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength, Su Mu would not rack his brains trying to break through to the third level, because there was no need. He could simply charge through it by adding points.

What he needed to do now was spend his time consolidating his foundation—constantly reviewing the first and second levels he had already mastered.

Every review gave him unique insights.

Reviewing produced miraculous results. Originally, he only had ten thousand and ten Divine Elephant Particles, but after Su Mu continuously consolidated and reviewed them, that number increased to ten thousand one hundred Divine Elephant Particles.

At this point, Su Mu had to say something.

Dragon Country had an old saying: "Review the old to learn the new; then one may become a teacher."

That day, while Su Mu was patrolling, he suddenly felt a gust of wind blow from the upstream river surface.

Wearing a bamboo hat and straw rain cape, Su Mu slowly raised his head and looked toward the river's upper reaches.

The next second, he seemed to see something pitch-black floating downstream from upstream along the river channel.

Seeing this, Su Mu set down the shovel in his hand, stepped onto the water, and moved at incredible speed.

Very soon, he arrived at the middle of the river channel, facing upstream.

When he clearly saw what was floating toward him, Su Mu's pupils shrank. Startled, he said, "W-what the hell is that??"

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