"An opportunity for Spirit Transformation?"
Su Yang had understood this long ago.
A Nascent Soul breakthrough into Spirit Transformation was completely different from all previous breakthroughs.
For earlier realms, as long as one's mana had accumulated to its peak, whether the breakthrough succeeded or not, there would at least be a chance to make the attempt.
But when a Nascent Soul broke through into Spirit Transformation,
if one did not sense the corresponding opportunity,
one would not even have the chance to attempt a breakthrough.
"I wonder when Simulated Su Yang will sense the opportunity for Spirit Transformation?" Su Yang muttered.
"Still, as long as I keep building up my foundation, the opportunity for Spirit Transformation will appear sooner or later."
The deeper one's foundational origin, the closer one's connection with heaven and earth, and the greater one's chance of comprehending an opportunity for Spirit Transformation.
It was said that as long as one's foundation reached perfection and one Intent was also comprehended to perfection, one would certainly comprehend an opportunity for Spirit Transformation within a hundred years.
Continue the simulation.
[You checked your spell cultivation progress.] [Of your six fourth-tier sword techniques, one had been cultivated to perfection, while five had reached mastery.] [Of your three fourth-tier attribute spells, two had reached mastery and one had reached minor mastery.] [Of your three fourth-tier Origin Body Refining Techniques, one had reached mastery and two had reached minor mastery.] [You checked your Intent comprehension progress.] [Your Sword Intent had reached mastery.] [Your Fire Intent had reached mastery.] [Your Sun Intent had reached minor mastery.] [Your Vital Energy Intent had reached minor mastery.] [Your Wind Intent had reached the beginner stage.] [Your Ice Intent had reached the beginner stage.] [Your Water Intent had reached the beginner stage.] [Your Metal Intent had reached the beginner stage.] [You decided to continue cultivating in seclusion, diligently practicing spells and comprehending Intents.] [You spent Sect Contribution to travel to Sword Cold Mountain.] [This was a cultivation holy land that the sect had established within the past few centuries.] [Its main body consisted of the vast majority of the Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Marrow obtained back then.] [Here, a Nascent Soul True Lord's lifespan consumption would be one-fifth of normal, a Spirit Transformation Venerable's lifespan consumption only half of normal, and even a Void Returning King could extend their lifespan by twenty percent.] [However, because the Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Marrow slowed the passage of life, it also suffered a certain degree of consumption.] [To ensure this treasure land's continued existence, Tianjian Sect disciples had to pay a great deal of Sect Contribution to cultivate here.] [You calculated your Sect Contribution.] [You could remain here for approximately two thousand years.] [You cultivated bitterly in Sword Cold Mountain.] [At the age of 800, your second fourth-tier Origin Body Refining Technique broke through to mastery, and your origin increased.] [At the age of 928, your second fourth-tier sword technique reached perfection.] [At the age of 967, your Vital Energy Intent broke through to mastery.]
"Something's not right."
Seeing this, Su Yang recalled something.
He clearly remembered that during the fourth simulation, when he was over nine hundred and fifty years old, True Monarch Mingyang, who had become a Venerable, had told him something.
At the time, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth had been in a state of fluctuation. A great age of cultivation might have been about to arrive.
Yet it had not happened this time.
Had some variable in this simulation caused it?
But Su Yang could not understand what sort of variable could affect the entirety of heaven and earth.
No matter how he turned it over in his mind, in this simulation, Simulated Su Yang's influence was negligible—not just upon all heaven and earth, but even within the Seven Islands Alliance.
"Could it be related to that Strange Lifeform commander that escaped?"
"Or was it because Tianjian Sect moved away that mountain of Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Marrow?"
Su Yang shook his head again. He did not think so.
Even if Tianjian Sect had not moved the mountain of Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Marrow, it would have been taken away by that group of Sea Beasts.
Although the Strange Lifeform commander was powerful, having reached the sixth-tier Void Returning realm, and perhaps even the seventh-tier Fusion realm after so many years,
what did that amount to in this world where True Immortals still resided?
How could it possibly affect the changes in the cultivation environment of the entire world?
"I can't figure it out. I just can't figure it out." Su Yang rubbed his temples.
With no other choice, he could only continue the simulation.
[At the age of 1011, all your attribute spells broke through to mastery.] [At the age of 1147, your third Origin Body Refining Technique broke through to mastery.] [At the age of 1221, your third fourth-tier sword technique reached perfection.] [At the age of 1345, your Fire Intent broke through to perfection. You could attempt to cultivate a top-tier fire-attribute divine ability.]
"With a minor mastery Intent and a large number of treasures, it may be possible to cultivate ordinary divine abilities, but top-tier divine abilities require at least a perfected Intent."
"I wonder what the cultivation requirements for Great Divine Abilities are?"
"Beyond Intent?"
Su Yang still did not understand.
Great Divine Abilities seemed to be something only Spirit Transformation Venerables had any hope of cultivating.
If going beyond Intent was the only requirement, there would always be peerless geniuses capable of elevating their Intent beyond perfection while still at the Nascent Soul realm.
Yet he had never heard of any Nascent Soul True Lord successfully cultivating a Great Divine Ability.
[You did not choose to cultivate a top-tier divine ability. Instead, relying on your perfected Fire Intent, you easily cultivated a fire-attribute bodily divine ability, Blazing Flame Spirit Body, to perfection.] [Your physical body strength increased, and your strength increased.]
"This choice isn't bad. With only one perfected Intent, cultivating a top-tier divine ability is still far too difficult."
"But if it is used to cultivate ordinary divine abilities, it becomes exceptionally easy."
"Even the various materials required to cultivate divine abilities will be greatly reduced, or may not be needed at all."
[You relied on your perfected Fire Intent and master-level Sword Intent to cultivate the explosive attack-type divine ability, Burning Heaven Crimson Radiance Sword.] [Your attack power rose drastically.] [You cultivated the fire-attribute speed burst divine ability, Extreme Flame Burst Speed.] [Your speed increased drastically.] [Your overall strength increased. You were now sufficient to stand shoulder to shoulder with the most ordinary Spirit Transformation Venerables.]
"I finally have Spirit Transformation strength! It really wasn't easy. I wonder if I can obtain the title of Sun Sword True Lord now!"
Sun Sword True Lord was the highest honor for Nascent Soul True Lords who came from Sun Sword Peak.
If he had the opportunity, Su Yang naturally wanted to try and obtain it.
[You left Sword Cold Mountain and applied for the Sun Sword True Lord title challenge.] [Your challenge was approved.] [You arrived at the Ancestral Hall.] [You saw the Heavenly Sword Record being enshrined.] [It emitted a beam of light and drew you inside.] [You saw the projections left behind by Nascent Soul True Lords throughout Sun Sword Peak's history who had once attained Spirit Transformation strength.] [There were seven in total.] [You chose one of them to fight.] [You discovered that this was a Nascent Soul True Lord who had cultivated a top-tier explosive attack divine ability, and whose Nascent Soul quality was at least high-grade.] [His explosive attack power was even stronger than yours.] [However, although his other aspects were enhanced by a top-tier divine ability, they were still somewhat inferior to an ordinary Spirit Transformation Venerable.] [After a fierce battle, you achieved victory.] [You chose the second one.] [The process was much the same. In one aspect, he likewise surpassed an ordinary Spirit Transformation Venerable, but his other aspects were slightly lacking.] [You achieved victory.] [After several battles, aside from the final Nascent Soul True Lord projection, who had cultivated two top-tier divine abilities and caused you immense trouble,] [you achieved victory against all the other projections.] [As for the last one, only after a long battle, once you had exhausted the power of his projection, did you finally achieve victory.] [But that still counted as defeating him.] [You obtained the title of Sun Sword True Lord.]
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