[Activate talent: I Want It All?]
"Activate!"
The next moment, Su Ming's cultivation rose directly to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
The Great Void Sword Intent reached the realm of Sword Heart Clarity, and the Sword Dao Supreme talent allowed him to truly feel his understanding of the Sword Dao.
At the same time, the Sinister Worm within his body attacked his Primordial Spirit once more.
Seeing this, Su Ming let out a cold snort.
The Great Void Sword Intent directly dispersed the Sinister Worm's aura, but strangely, no matter how he searched within his body, he could not find where the Sinister Worm was hiding.
It felt as though the Sinister Worm had never existed at all, yet it returned every time he broke through, staging a comeback.
"Forget it. Once my cultivation is higher, perhaps I'll learn the reason."
Su Ming glanced at the Simulator's cooldown timer.
[Simulation cooldown: fifteen days]
"Hm? It takes fifteen days after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm...?"
Looking at the fifteen-day cooldown, a trace of helplessness flashed through Su Ming's eyes.
Unable to simulate now, and with no new missions appearing, he did not know what to do for the moment.
"Should I... just head to You Prefecture?"
After turning it over in his mind, Su Ming felt that going to You Prefecture was the best course of action for now.
At this stage, he did not want to go to the Qin Kingdom and directly kill Lin Qi and Ye Chuxue, who lived next door.
He wanted to see what the next simulation's outcome would be.
With that in mind, he went straight to find Ye Chuxue.
"Chu Xue, I'm going to You Prefecture for a while. At the shortest, two years; at the longest, five or six."
Ye Chuxue looked at his cold gaze, and the words that had reached her lips were swallowed back down.
She did not know why he had changed so drastically in such a short time. Hearing that he was going to You Prefecture, she did not ask why, merely nodding in response.
Unlike in the simulation, Su Ming did not leave her the resources he had seized from the Azure Cloud Sect.
A month later, Su Ming arrived at the Sword Pavilion in You Prefecture.
The scene before him was the same as in his simulation. The Sword Pavilion was recruiting disciples.
Su Ming concealed his aura and suppressed his cultivation to the ninth level of Qi Refinement.
Three hours later, it was finally his turn to undergo the examination.
Lin Tian led him before a stone stele, and the examination began at once.
Looking at the stone stele before him, Su Ming's lips curved slightly upward. The instant he closed his eyes, he resonated with the Sword Qi within the stele.
Lin Tian had just turned to leave when he suddenly sensed a familiar Sword Qi and sharply spun around.
The moment he turned, he saw Su Ming looking at him with a smile.
"Damn, you connected with the Sword Intent inside the stele the moment you came up?"
Lin Tian looked at Su Ming as though he had seen a monster.
"Is it difficult? I just closed my eyes and sensed the stele. I don't know how, but I resonated with it!"
"I..."
"Come with me!"
The next second, Lin Tian dragged Su Ming without stopping toward the Sword Pavilion's residence.
"Pavilion Master! I've brought you an unparalleled genius this year! The Sword Pavilion finally has a new member again!"
"Pavilion Master! Pavilion Master?"
"Alright, Eighth. I already know. You may withdraw first."
As soon as the words fell, a white-haired old man entered the main hall.
Su Ming looked at the old man before him. He perfectly matched the image of the Sword Pavilion Master in his memories.
"Young friend! Talent like yours is something this old man has rarely seen in his life. But before me, there is no need for you to hide your cultivation. At such a young age, you have already reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage."
Upon hearing this, Su Ming smiled bitterly inwardly.
Sure enough, the Sword Pavilion Master had seen through his cultivation at a glance.
"Pavilion Master, you have sharp eyes. This junior merely wishes to join the Sword Pavilion and resist the Sinister Worm together with you."
Hearing this, the Sword Pavilion Master looked at Su Ming in astonishment.
"You already know?"
"Of course. I know that the Sinister Worm cannot cultivate Sword Intent."
Su Ming met the Sword Pavilion Master's eyes and spoke confidently.
"Very good! Welcome to the Sword Pavilion!"
"There is a stone wall on the Sword Pavilion's Back Mountain, covered with the Sword Intents cultivated by generations of practitioners. I suggest you go there and cultivate for a while."
After Su Ming left the main hall, Lin Tian led him to a thatched cottage.
"Junior Brother! This will be your residence from now on. At present, only the Pavilion Master and I are in the Sword Pavilion. The other senior brothers and sisters are away."
"Alright, Senior Brother Lin. Go attend to your work first."
After entering the cottage, Su Ming casually sent Lin Tian away.
He had something very important to do. The fifteen-day simulation cooldown had already passed during his journey; by now, a whole month had gone by.
He did not want to waste any more time.
"Begin the simulation!"
[Simulation begins!] [Drawing a random talent!] [Congratulations, you have obtained the Orange Talent: True Sight!] [True Sight: Allows you to see through every truth in the world!] [After obtaining True Sight, you suddenly saw many things clearly.] [The first thing you discovered was the trace of the Sinister Worm within your own body. Before this, you had racked your brains and still failed to find any trace of it.] [Looking at the Sinister Worm that had already fused with your dantian, despair suddenly filled your heart.] [You sighed, no wonder you had been unable to find it before—your dantian was the entire Sinister Worm.] [After seeing this reality clearly, you were at a loss.] [You discovered that the Sinister Worm could not be killed at all. Killing it meant having your cultivation crippled.] [Even if you could cultivate again, you would still face the predicament of being parasitized by the Sinister Worm once more.] [In the first year, you buried yourself in cultivation at the Sword Pavilion for an entire year, but your cultivation still did not break through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.] [That day, you found Lin Tian and asked him about the whereabouts of Fifth Senior Sister Gu Xinyue.] ["Fifth Senior Sister? If I remember correctly, she seems to be at the Pill Sect..."] ["But Junior Brother, why are you looking for Senior Sister Gu?"] [Lin Tian looked at you curiously. You had only been here for a year, and aside from him, you had not met anyone else from the Sword Pavilion.] [For a moment, you did not know how to answer, so you simply made up an excuse.] ["Well, I think I met Fifth Senior Sister before, but I didn't know she was from the Sword Pavilion."] [Lin Tian looked at you suspiciously, clearly not quite believing your explanation.] ["I advise you to give up, Junior Brother. Senior Sister Gu not only possesses extraordinary Sword Dao talent, her talent in alchemy is no less impressive."] [At this point, Lin Tian patted your shoulder and tried to persuade you.] ["So! Junior Brother, you'd better not go looking for Senior Sister Gu. Ordinary people cannot enter the Pill Sect!"] [You looked at Lin Tian before you and calmly said one sentence.] ["Senior Brother Lin, I am also an alchemist, and a Third-grade Alchemist at that!"] ["Oh, I know you're an alche... What? You're a Third-grade Alchemist?"] [Lin Tian stared at you in shock. He had thought your Sword Dao talent was already rare throughout all ages, but he had not expected your talent in alchemy to be so high as well.] ["Fifth Senior Sister is only a Fourth-grade Alchemist, yet you're already a Third-grade Alchemist?"] [After being praised by Lin Tian like that, you felt somewhat embarrassed.] [You really wanted to tell him that he had neglected alchemy for a long time. Otherwise, he would at least be a Fifth-grade Alchemist by now.] ["That's exactly why I want to find Senior Sister Gu!"]
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