[The Golden Core True Persons still on the road mostly revealed looks of surprise, not knowing what had happened.]
[Only a few Golden Core True Persons had faces full of shock and horror.]
"Damn, this Vitality Divine Palace really had no martial virtue. He only cleared a single Foundation Path, yet it caused such a huge commotion."
"Simulated Su Yang would definitely draw attention now."
Outside the simulation, Su Yang grumbled before continuing the simulation.
[You were also startled by the commotion from the Vitality Divine Palace, and even your mind went blank for an instant.]
[When you came back to your senses, you found that the scene before you had changed.]
[You were no longer at the end of the Foundation Path. Instead, you had arrived in a space surrounded by boundless whiteness, where only a towering crimson pagoda stood before you.]
[A voice rang out beside your ear.]
[Congratulations. You have passed the Foundation Path, one of the basic trials left behind by my master. Will you now undertake the advanced trial?]
[You asked where this place was, who he was, who his master was, and what the advanced trial entailed.]
[The voice answered that this was the Trial Land, that he was merely a tiny spiritual intelligence of the Trial Land, and that his master was known to the world as the Origin Lord, one of the great mighty beings who roamed heaven and earth. As for the advanced trial, you would understand once you challenged the tower.]
[You decided to give the advanced trial a try.]
[You entered the crimson pagoda.]
[You were beaten out.]
[The guardian of the advanced trial was actually a humanoid lifeform at the Nascent Soul Overlord level.]
[Even though you had made the best possible preparations, you still could not withstand a single move from him.]
[The voice appeared again, informing you that you had failed the advanced trial and would soon be teleported back to the Vitality Divine Palace.]
[When you came back to your senses, you found yourself at the exit of the Vitality Divine Palace.]
[There was also an inconspicuous storage ring in your hand.]
[You opened the storage ring and looked inside.]
[You found 100 Third-Order Origin Qi Crystals, 100 Fourth-Order Origin Qi Crystals, 10 Fifth-Order Origin Qi Crystals, a large cauldron-shaped treasure, and a divine ability manual.]
[You carefully examined the large cauldron.]
[You learned the cauldron's information.]
[This cauldron was named the Origin Qi Cauldron. It was a special-type treasure capable of reversing any spiritual qi into origin qi, though its efficiency was not particularly high.]
[You examined the divine ability manual.]
[You discovered that it recorded a divine ability: the Heavenly Origin Body.]
[It was an extremely special auxiliary cultivation divine ability that could greatly increase the speed at which one absorbed origin qi, thereby improving one's cultivation speed.]
[Overjoyed, you checked its cultivation requirements.]
[You learned that the Heavenly Origin Body could only be cultivated after reaching at least the Nascent Soul Realm.]
[You did not meet the requirements and felt somewhat disappointed.]
[At that moment, Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable suddenly asked you, "Weren't we at the end of the Foundation Path? When did we arrive at the exit of the Vitality Divine Palace?"]
[You were astonished and asked Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable about the situation.]
[You discovered that Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable did not know that you had ever left the Vitality Divine Palace.]
[Yet you clearly remembered that the ring containing Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable's remnant soul had remained on your hand the entire time.]
[You thought of something.]
[You checked the current time.]
[You discovered that compared to when you had passed the Foundation Path, not much time had changed.]
[You understood that time inside the trial space you had just entered stood still relative to the outside world.]
[You were amazed by the Origin Lord's unfathomable abilities.]
"To be able to create a space where the flow of time was completely different from the outside world, this Origin Lord should be an expert above the Immortal Realm."
"Another immortal. The waters of this world are getting deeper and deeper." Su Yang sighed.
[Three months later, the Vital Energy Secret Realm officially closed, and you were expelled from the Vital Energy Secret Realm.]
[You found Venerable Gantu and retrieved your belongings.]
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[You told Venerable Gantu that you wished to travel around Minghuang Island and were not in a hurry to return to the Tianjian Sect.]
[Venerable Gantu had no objections. He also told you that every twenty years, ships from Qixia Island traveled to and from Minghuang Island. If you wished to return, you needed to arrive at the docks on time and wait.]
[You nodded, indicating that you understood.]
[Venerable Gantu left with the others.]
[You asked Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable where you should go now.]
[Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable named a location: Fire Source City.]
[Two months later, you arrived in Fire Source City.]
[Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable gave you a token and told you to use it to enter Fire Source Academy and seek out its headmaster.]
[You found the headmaster of Fire Source Academy.]
[You discovered that she was a mature female cultivator with a fiery figure.]
[She wept as she looked at the token in your hand, hurriedly asking where it had come from.]
[Just as you were about to answer, Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable impatiently appeared.]
[The mature female cultivator was beside herself with excitement as she looked at Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable's illusory remnant soul.]
[It turned out that she was Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable's daughter.]
[Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable had wanted to come to Minghuang Island precisely to see her.]
[The mature female cultivator was only a Nascent Soul True Lord, and there was not much time left before her lifespan reached its limit.]
[You left the ring containing Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable's remnant soul with the mature female cultivator, allowing the father and daughter to spend more time together.]
[You wandered around Fire Source City by yourself.]
[Three days later, Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable returned to your side and brought you a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire.]
[The Skyfall Fire within your body sensed the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire and began to stir restlessly.]
[You fed the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire to the Skyfall Fire.]
[Half a month later, the Skyfall Fire advanced to the fourth order ahead of schedule.]
[Your simplified divine ability, Bright Flame Qi, grew stronger.]
[Your alchemy improved, and your alchemy broke through to the peak of the third order.]
"Bringing Ancient Yuan Dan Venerable to find his daughter actually brought an unexpected delight."
"With the divine ability Bright Flame Qi strengthened, Simulated Su Yang's combat power should now be close to the Nascent Soul Late Stage."
"And with alchemy breaking through to the peak of the third order, the success rate of refining third-order top-grade Vitality Pills would increase greatly as well."
"This was truly a double blessing at the door."
Su Yang smiled.
[You refined a batch of third-order Vitality Pills, producing 20 pills, five of which were top-grade.]
[You consumed a third-order top-grade Vitality Pill. For the next three months, your cultivation speed increased.]
[One month later, you consumed the seventy-second True Yang Flower. Your True Yang Spirit Body rank rose from (light green) to (true green).]
[Your cultivation talent increased.]
[However, you also sensed that the True Yang Spirit Body's rank had reached its limit. Further improvement was no longer something True Yang Flowers could accomplish.]
"My previous guess was right. If one already possessed a True Yang Spirit Body, consuming True Yang Flowers truly still left room for improvement, though not much—just one minor rank."
"But obtaining a true green physique talent without relying on a simulated identity was already quite good. One should not be too greedy."
Su Yang was still easily satisfied.
[For the time that followed, you continued cultivating diligently in Fire Source City.]
[With your continuous consumption of third-order top-grade Vitality Pills, your cultivation speed was extremely fast.]
[At age ninety-four, you broke through to the sixth layer of the Golden Core Realm.]
[At age one hundred, you broke through to the seventh layer of the Golden Core Realm.]
[At age one hundred and three, all your third-order elemental spells broke through to perfection.]
[At age one hundred and five, one of your Third-Order Origin Body Refining Techniques broke through to perfection.]
[At age one hundred and seven, you broke through to the eighth layer of the Golden Core Realm.]
[At age one hundred and eight, the ship from Qixia Island was about to arrive, and you headed to the docks in advance.]
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