[At age 53, you broke through to the third level of Golden Core.]
[At age 54, Tianjian Sect's preparations were complete.]
[All the sect disciples scattered outside had also been recalled.]
[On the new Tianjian Island, Venerable Moon Sword formally announced the rebuilding of Tianjian Sect and laid out plans for its future, seeking to restore the sect's strength as quickly as possible.]
[After the ceremony ended, Venerable Moon Sword summoned you.]
[For saving them this time and preserving a portion of Tianjian Sect's foundation,]
[after discussion among the Deity Transformation Venerables, they unanimously decided to reward you.]
[However, the sect's resources had been destroyed along with the sect. The next batch of resources had yet to be collected, and the available resources were insufficient.]
[Thus, Venerable Moon Sword gave you two choices.]
[First, you could receive a small amount of material rewards, with compensation made in other areas.]
[Second, you could receive part of the reward now, while most of the remainder would be owed to you and issued later once the sect had sufficient resources.]
[After pondering for a while, you chose the first option.]
[You received 3,000 high-grade Spirit Stones.]
[You received a fifth-order high-grade spiritual treasure armor, the Yin Yang Wind Cloud Armor.]
"How much? How much is that? You call this a small amount?"
Outside the simulation, Su Yang blinked.
Sure enough, his own level and horizons still could not keep up with those of Deity Transformation Venerables.
The value of 3,000 high-grade Spirit Stones was equivalent to 3 million Medium-grade Spirit Stones—30 billion low-grade Spirit Stones.
That was worth ten Lan Clan Treasure Vaults.
Not to mention the even more precious fifth-order defensive armor spiritual treasure.
Spiritual treasures possessed spirits of their own. They could absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth themselves and unleash formidable power.
Before the energy stored within a fifth-order high-grade Defensive Spiritual Treasure ran dry,
ordinary Deity Transformation Venerables could not break through its defenses at all.
Even intermediate Deity Transformation Venerables could not shatter it in a short time.
Only high-level Deity Transformation Venerables had the power to smash through the defenses of an unmanned spiritual treasure with a single blow.
But how many high-level Deity Transformation Venerables were there on Qixia Island?
Apart from Tianjian Sect, at most there were only four or five.
In other words, excluding Tianjian Sect, fewer than five people on Qixia Island could easily kill Simulated Su Yang.
Simulated Su Yang's safety had greatly increased.
The simulation continued.
[In addition, as compensation, every Deity Transformation Venerable left you a talisman.]
[Not only did they seal their strongest divine abilities within them, they also sealed a portion of their thoughts, allowing you to seek their guidance whenever you encountered problems.]
[However, those thoughts would slowly dissipate with the passage of time and excessive consultations.]
[Under normal circumstances, they would not last more than 1,000 years, and they could not be opened for consultation more than ten times.]
[Of course, while those thoughts remained, you could freely control the divine abilities within the talismans. You could even divide off a tiny portion of their power and release it.]
[Finally, Venerable Blazing Sun and Venerable Qingyuan took action, spending two years helping you cultivate the simplified divine ability, the Flame Burst Battle Body.]
[They also promised that after you reached the Nascent Soul realm, they would help you cultivate the superior divine ability of the Flame Burst Battle Body, the Blazing Flame Spirit Body, and even help you cultivate the even higher-tier supreme divine ability, the Crimson Blaze Origin Body, during the Spirit Transformation stage.]
[Your physique increased greatly. With physical strength alone, you could rival an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator.]
[By activating the Flame Burst Battle Body and using its stored Flame Burst Power, you could even rival a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator for a short time.]
[If you expended all the Flame Burst Power at once, you could barely wield the Purple Meteor Sword and unleash a Spirit Transformation strike.]
[Besides these, you felt that the quality of your inferior Fire Burning Spiritual Root had improved.]
[With the support of two genuine-grade spiritual roots, your cultivation speed increased considerably.]
[At age 58, you broke through to the fourth level of Golden Core.]
[Gu Changfeng came to find you and told you that, having reached mid Golden Core, it was time to prepare for the Nascent Soul realm.]
[You asked him what you should do.]
[He spoke frankly. While studying third-order spells and the Third-Order Origin Body Refining Technique to strengthen your foundation and origin, you also needed to decide upon the direction of your Nascent Soul formation and seek out the corresponding Nascent Soul spiritual materials in advance.]
[You took out the Nascent Soul Pill obtained from the Lan Clan Treasure Vault and asked whether it would work.]
[He shook his head and said that it was merely the most ordinary Nascent Soul spiritual material, capable only of forming an ordinary Nascent Soul.]
[With the foundation of a first-grade Golden Core, it would be far too wasteful not to take a more extraordinary path.]
[You sought his advice.]
[He told you that aside from ordinary Nascent Souls, there were three other kinds: the Human Dao Nascent Soul, Earth Dao Nascent Soul, and Heavenly Dao Nascent Soul. Yet none stood above the others; there were only differences between individuals.]
[The Human Dao Nascent Soul was the most unique. It required no Nascent Soul spiritual materials for guidance, relying entirely on one's own foundation and origin to condense. Every spell you cultivated, including simplified divine abilities, would become its aid. The stronger your foundation, Origin Spells, and divine abilities, the stronger your Nascent Soul would become.
The strong could surpass even the most exceptional Earth Dao and Heavenly Dao Nascent Souls, while the weak would be scarcely different from ordinary Nascent Souls.]
[Both Earth Dao Nascent Souls and Heavenly Dao Nascent Souls required different treasures.]
[The Earth Dao required Earth Turbid Qi, while the Heavenly Dao required Nine Heavens Pure Qi.]
[The higher the quality of the turbid and pure qi, the better.]
[The sect's treasure vault once held Pure and Turbid Qi all year round, but it had all been destroyed beneath the Pillar Reaching Heaven.]
[If you wished to take the path of an Earth Dao or Heavenly Dao Nascent Soul, you would have to find a way to gather pure qi or turbid qi in advance. Only Deity Transformation Venerables could accomplish this.]
[You went to see Venerable Moon Sword and asked whether she had Earth Turbid Qi or Nine Heavens Pure Qi.]
[She told you that she did not have any at present.]
[However, the sect had long considered this issue.]
[Two Deity Transformation Venerables had already set out.]
[One headed into the high sky to gather and condense Nine Heavens Pure Qi.]
[The other descended underground to absorb and compress Earth Turbid Qi.]
[They needed only 300 years to condense the highest-quality Pure and Turbid Qi.]
[You calculated your remaining lifespan and discovered that you could not wait that long at all.]
[You asked her whether there was a faster method.]
[Venerable Moon Sword told you that the only option was to trade for it.]
[However, the other Deity Transformation factions on Qixia Island had rather average Venerables and would find it difficult to gather high-grade pure qi and turbid qi.]
[To obtain them, you would have to leave Qixia Island. It would be best to look around the territory of the Seven Islands Alliance.]
"The Seven Islands Alliance?"
"A new map beyond Qixia Island?"
"And from Venerable Moon Sword's words, it should be even more prosperous than Qixia Island."
"I wonder what it's like!"
Su Yang was looking forward to it as well.
Perhaps once he reached the Seven Islands Alliance, he would be able to uncover the truth behind the Pillar Reaching Heaven.
[Venerable Moon Sword continued, saying that if you could not wait, she would make a trip to the Seven Islands Alliance.]
[You felt that this could not have been better.]
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