Boundary Ray Beast, Five Viscera Ascensionist

The two beasts seemed unwilling to yield to each other as they jointly pushed a purple-white orb, resembling a Night-Shining Pearl, above the water's surface.

Although they had indeed shaken hands and made peace a second ago, getting along quite harmoniously, neither was willing to give way when it came to claiming credit. Both insisted they had found it first.

Sensing the two beasts secretly competing, Su Mu smiled. "All right, all right. You found this treasure together. You both deserve credit."

Only then did the two beasts stop secretly trying to outdo each other.

Su Mu picked up the purple-white Night-Shining Pearl and held it in his palm, examining it carefully.

The pearl was about the size of a fist. Its exterior was translucent white, like amber, and it contained some flowing liquid. He had no idea whether it was water or something else, but it was purple-black in color.

Su Mu picked up the Night-Shining Pearl and gave it a shake, discovering that the purple-black water inside formed little bubbles.

Though he did not know what it was, once he held it in his palm, he could sense an immensely vast energy sealed within.

After circulating his cultivation method, a powerful suction force spread from his palm and drew toward the Night-Shining Pearl.

The next second, a faint stream of blood energy was drawn from the pearl. It flowed through Su Mu's palm and spread throughout his body.

As that faint blood energy entered his flesh, Su Mu's pupils shrank. He felt his qi and blood surge wildly, instantly more than doubling! Not only that, he could clearly feel the bottleneck restraining him loosen. If this happened a few more times, he might be able to truly step into the Transformation Spirit Realm.

This Night-Shining Pearl was likely a magic treasure that assisted cultivation.

After putting away the Night-Shining Pearl, Su Mu prepared to properly reward his two beloved generals.

"Come here, come here. You've rendered great service in finding treasure, so I'll reward you well."

Upon hearing this, Kong Yao and Little Mahi both revealed expectant expressions.

Spend "10" Favor Points to heal the water beasts contracted by the host?

"Yes."

Su Mu first spent ten Favor Points to heal the injuries on the two beasts.

They had fought that fiercely? It actually took ten points to heal them.

The next second, the injuries on both beasts were instantly restored, and their auras returned to normal.

Kong Yao, who was somewhat slow-witted by nature, widened its eyes, its face full of disbelief. It had not expected its master to heal such severe injuries so effortlessly and so quickly.

Seeing Kong Yao's ignorant expression, Little Mahi snorted coldly. Didn't I tell you our master was all-powerful? Dumbfounded now, aren't you? Also, I was the first to follow Master. From now on, I'm First Brother and you're Second Brother. First Brother will protect you from now on! Little Mahi had already begun securing its position as First Brother.

After healing the two beasts, Su Mu planned to spend some Favor Points to feed them.

After Su Mu fed Little Mahi last time, it had grown from fifty centimeters to one meter long. Kong Yao, meanwhile, was only forty centimeters long, making it seem tiny beside Little Mahi.

But do not let its small size fool you—it was vicious in a fight! Just now, it had smacked a huge bloody lump onto the head of Little Mahi, which was a full size larger than it.

Spend 100 Favor Points to feed "Boundary Ray Beast"?

Su Mu froze upon hearing that.

Boundary Ray Beast? Was that Kong Yao?

In this world, Little Mahi was called the No-Loach Dragon, while Kong Yao was called the Boundary Ray Beast.

That name sounded so intimidating, yet it looked so dim-witted.

After being fed, Kong Yao's body grew a full size. It doubled from forty centimeters to eighty centimeters long, and no longer looked quite so tiny.

Not only had it grown larger, but Kong Yao's tail had turned purple-black, and dense scales had appeared upon it.

After sensing the changes in its body, Kong Yao remained stunned in the water, somewhat dazed.

At that moment, Little Mahi swished its tail and slapped Kong Yao on the head, jolting it awake.

Second Brother, are you stupid? What are you standing there for?

Hurry up and thank Master! The next second, Kong Yao excitedly flipped over, its belly facing the surface as it blew bubbles. This was a special way their kind expressed respect and gratitude.

It was like how a stray cat would expose its belly for you to pet if it wanted you to take it home.

Little Mahi watched Kong Yao go from standing there like a wooden chicken one second to being so good at currying favor the next!

Disgusting!

Truly disgusting!

Spend "100" Favor Points to feed No-Loach Dragon?

"Yes."

The next second, Little Mahi's body grew another ten centimeters or so. The scales on its body turned pale gold, while nothing else changed much.

After sensing the changes in itself, Little Mahi circled Su Mu's legs and even kissed his foot.

Seeing this, Kong Yao said, Just who is the disgusting one here??

"All right, go play."

"If you see any treasures, bring them back. You two brothers must help each other and stop fighting. If I catch you secretly fighting, I won't go easy on you."

"Also, there are plenty of big fellows in this river. You're still considered small, so be careful. Don't provoke those big fellows."

Just a few days ago, Su Mu had seen a fish three meters long leap from the middle of the river. He had chased after it, but it vanished almost immediately.

It had annoyed Su Mu for quite some time. That fish was three meters long and gleamed golden all over. One look told him it was a treasure fish.

Thus, at the sizes of Little Mahi and Kong Yao, they could only be considered small. If they encountered a fish of that level, they might be swallowed whole with one careless moment.

After giving them his instructions, Su Mu let them leave.

Over the next two days, whenever Su Mu had free time after his routine patrols, he cultivated using the Night-Shining Pearl.

Actually, there was one thing Su Mu found deeply puzzling.

The Qi and Blood Power he absorbed from this Night-Shining Pearl was actually fresh Qi and Blood Power!

This fresh Qi and Blood Power felt as though it had been directly extracted from a living creature.

But the Night-Shining Pearl was merely an ordinary magic treasure. It contained only unknown purple-black liquid, so how could there be a living creature inside?

Su Mu did not dwell on it too much. After all, there were countless magic treasures in the world, each with its own peculiarities. If they were not peculiar, how could they be called magic treasures? Today, brimming with vitality, Su Mu planned to improve himself.

His luck had been exploding lately. Once good fortune arrived, it truly could not be stopped. Just like yesterday, when Su Mu's gambling itch had flared up and he used ten Favor Points for a draw. He struck gold in one shot, triggering a multiplier reward that increased it one hundredfold, turning ten points directly into one thousand!

If it had been the old Su Mu, he would definitely have been annoyed. Why had he not drawn with one hundred points? One hundred points multiplied a hundredfold would have been ten thousand points! That was in the past. Now, Su Mu would not think that way. He had already figured out this lottery system. If he had drawn with one hundred points yesterday, he might have gotten nothing at all.

Thus, one could never be too greedy.

He had accumulated quite a few Favor Points recently, and adding yesterday's thousand, he had already saved six thousand Favor Points! With a thought from Su Mu, his attribute panel appeared.

Host: Su Mu

Cultivation: Half-Step Transformation Spirit Realm

Controlled Divine Abilities: Water Manipulation (Level 2), Swimming (Level 2)

Mastered Cultivation Methods: Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art (Second Layer), Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength (Second Layer)

Controlled Water Beasts: No-Loach Dragon, Boundary Ray Beast

River Affinity: 0.1%

River Favor Points: 6650 points

Su Mu estimated that if he wanted to raise his River Affinity to 1%...

He was still short 0.9%, which meant he would need roughly ninety thousand Favor Points!!

Whenever he thought about it, Su Mu felt that the road ahead was pitch-black. This was only the beginning!

This was merely raising it to 1%. He did not even dare calculate how many Favor Points it would take to raise it to one hundred percent. First, he should raise his affinity.

Favor Points -5000

River Affinity: 0.1% → River Affinity: 0.15%

After saving Favor Points for a while, Su Mu used the larger portion to raise his affinity and the smaller portion to improve his cultivation methods.

That left him with 1650 points.

Since his two divine abilities, Water Manipulation and Swimming, required his affinity to reach 1% before he could continue adding points to them, he would not consider them for now.

Then he would use these remaining sixteen hundred-odd points to improve the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art and Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength.

Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art +200

Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art: Second Layer (0/100) → Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art: Third Layer (0/500)

After spending two hundred Favor Points to raise the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art to the third layer, Su Mu immediately gained the understanding and experience of its third layer in his mind.

With a wave of his hand, vast azure spiritual power transformed into an Azure Scaled Dragon Dharma Image that coiled around Su Mu's body.

This was the third layer of the Dragon Transformation Art: Azure Dragon Dharma Image.

Once the Azure Dragon Dharma Image was used in battle, his overall combat strength would receive an all-round boost.

The fourth layer required five hundred points.

Su Mu was somewhat reluctant to spend them, so he decided to leave it at that for now. He would only raise it one layer at a time, waiting until he had truly accumulated plenty of Favor Points before raising it two or even three layers at once.

Moreover, raising Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength required one thousand points.

Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength +1000

Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength: Second Layer (0/1000) → Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength: Third Layer (0/1500)

After Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength was raised, a full one hundred thousand flesh particles within his body transformed into Divine Elephant Particles.

Adding the previous ten thousand five hundred Divine Elephant Particles, he now had a total of one hundred ten thousand five hundred Divine Elephant Particles!

In an instant.

The Azure Dragon Dharma Image behind Su Mu and the phantom of a divine elephant appeared at once. Azure dragon and divine elephant reflected each other brilliantly, scattering immortal light across the sky as it gathered around Su Mu.

The next second, Su Mu's bottleneck completely shattered. His aura surged like raging floodwaters and savage beasts, breaking through the Heavenly Gate and soaring madly.

Su Mu felt as though his spirit had wandered through heaven and earth. His entire being stepped into a brand-new realm, giving him the sensation of roaming the immortal world, his heart open and his spirit refreshed.

The feeling was extraordinarily subtle. He had never experienced such a sensation when breaking through a major realm before.

Spirit Transformation contained five Divine Treasuries: the Heart Divine Treasury, Liver Divine Treasury, Spleen Divine Treasury, Lung Divine Treasury, and Kidney Divine Treasury.

This realm was exceptionally special and mysterious. One did not necessarily need to cultivate all five Divine Treasuries to break through into the Ascension Realm.

Cultivating only two Divine Treasuries met the minimum requirement for breakthrough and allowed one to step into the Ascension Realm.

Yet some cultivators were not satisfied with two Divine Treasuries. They pursued higher and greater numbers of Divine Treasuries.

Cultivating all five Divine Treasuries was the lifelong pursuit of every great Spirit Transformation cultivator.

Cultivators who cultivated all five Divine Treasuries before stepping into the Ascension Realm were called Five Viscera Ascensionists.

Generally speaking, Five Viscera Ascensionists had been rare throughout all ages. Only those with talent rarely seen since antiquity, top-tier cultivation conditions and resources, along with formidable perseverance and state of mind, had a chance to challenge the path of a Five Viscera Ascensionist.

And that was merely a chance, not a guarantee of success.

Thus, throughout the River of Time, every Ascension Realm cultivator who cultivated the Five Divine Treasuries had been a pillar of their era.

The instant Su Mu stepped into the Transformation Spirit Realm, the capillaries on his second heart increased once more.

In one instant, Su Mu directly cultivated the most difficult of them all—the Heart Divine Treasury!!

This surprised Su Mu somewhat.

It seemed that the heart he had obtained from Li Qi Ye truly was a heaven-defying treasure. He did not even need to cultivate the most difficult Heart Divine Treasury himself!

From hardest to easiest, the five Divine Treasuries were: Heart Divine Treasury, Liver Divine Treasury, Spleen Divine Treasury, Lung Divine Treasury, and Kidney Divine Treasury.

Countless peerless Heaven's Chosen throughout the ages had been unable to cultivate all five Divine Treasuries. In the end, they could only become Four Viscera Ascensionists, blocked at the most difficult Heart Divine Treasury.

Yet Su Mu had cultivated the most difficult Heart Divine Treasury from the very beginning. Now, would it not be inexcusable if he did not cultivate all five Divine Treasuries?

Su Mu had only transmigrated here a few months ago, yet his cultivation had shot upward like a rocket, from the initial Qi Refining Realm to the current Transformation Spirit Realm. Every improvement had been the rise of an entire major realm.

Every time he improved, he wanted to ask: Was cultivating immortality really that difficult? But no one could answer him.

His affinity had risen, and he had added points to his cultivation methods.

He still had 450 Favor Points remaining.

So long as Su Mu had even a little money left in hand, he could not resist becoming a gambling addict.

A voice immediately began whispering endlessly in his heart: Gamble. Gamble. Take another gamble. What if you hit the jackpot?

"I'll just gamble a little. A little gambling is good for the mood. If I draw trash, I'll stop immediately!"

As he spoke, Su Mu opened the lottery panel.

First, he would draw once with one point and test the waters!

Spend "1" Favor Point for an Ordinary Lottery draw.

Drawing...

Unfortunately, thank you for your patronage.

At the sight, an inexplicable rage immediately rose in Su Mu, only for him to forcibly suppress it.

Stop, stop. Absolutely no more gambling.

But after sitting down and resting for only a short while, Su Mu grew angrier the more he thought about it.

Then he slapped his thigh. No, one more draw!

Spend "1" Favor Point for an Ordinary Lottery draw.

Drawing...

Unfortunately, thank you for your patronage.

Spend "1" Favor Point for an Ordinary Lottery draw.

Drawing...

Unfortunately, thank you for your patronage.

Spend "1" Favor Point for an Ordinary Lottery draw.

Drawing...

Unfortunately, thank you for your patronage.

Seeing this, Su Mu was dumbfounded.

What the hell? All ten draws gave him nothing?? Though he had only lost ten points, it was extremely, extremely infuriating—extremely, extremely insulting.

Before, he only started getting nothing after drawing for a while.

But now it was not even pretending anymore, was it?? It started by giving him nothing ten times in a row, unwilling to even give him trash! Su Mu then did another ten sets of ten consecutive draws at once.

A full hundred Ordinary Lottery draws, all giving him nothing!

Su Mu was dumbfounded.

Could this be retribution?

After all, his dogshit luck had been far too good lately.

Without realizing it, Su Mu had become completely carried away.

Only when he had drawn until he had a single Favor Point remaining did he abruptly come back to his senses.

It was over. He had completely lost his head.

Sure enough, when people were extremely angry, they completely lost their reason.

Su Mu stared at his final remaining Favor Point.

Somewhere in the dark, he felt that he was about to hit the jackpot. He had once played a game called Poisoned Milk Powder, and before success, one needed sacrificial padding.

Therefore, the previous 449 points were definitely padding, laying the groundwork for the final jackpot.

One final point. You damned system, don't force me to kneel and beg you. Give me something, damn it!!

Spend 1 Favor Point. Drawing...