Begging Alms at Xuanqing Immortal Palace

Inside the room, the heavenly treasures piled into a small mountain had already been completely used up.

Yet as Chu Sheng looked at the system panel that had appeared before him, his brows furrowed tightly.

"I knew my aptitude was mediocre, but even an entire thousand years' worth of resources wasn't enough? Isn't this a little ridiculous!?"

[This is not an issue with the host's aptitude. Rather, the host's immortal body is excessively overbearing, and the energy required for tempering far exceeds that of cultivators at the same level.]

[For an ordinary Half-Step Immortal Double cultivator, these resources would be sufficient to help them break through. But for the host, they are merely a cup of water against a cartload of firewood.]

"What exactly am I still short of?" Chu Sheng asked directly.

[If quantified numerically, current progress is only 20%. To make up the remaining gap, 8 billion Justice Points must be consumed.]

"Gasp—"

Chu Sheng sucked in a cold breath.

His original plan had been to rely on Lieyang Immortal Sect's Millennial Resources to advance to Half-Step Immortal Triple.

Then, at the Ascension Tournament, he would directly draw down the heavenly tribulation.

Even if he could not kill that True Immortal sect master of the Myriad Star Immortal Sect, he could still slaughter Myriad Star Immortal Sect members to reap an enormous number of Justice Points, then ride the momentum to break through another realm.

By then, even against a True Immortal, he should have the strength to fight.

But a gap of 8 billion Justice Points was simply far too enormous.

What was more, this was already nearly half of Lieyang Immortal Sect's stockpile.

Even if he squeezed every last resource out of the remaining half of Lieyang Immortal Sect, it would at