I have a cultivation simulator

Chapter 73 Silent Blood Sea

"Finally advanced to a mid-grade second-tier alchemist..."

Even outside the simulation, Zhou Qing, observing from an absolutely objective perspective, couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

In this simulation, I became a second-tier low-grade alchemist in the first year.

It wasn't until the fifty-sixth year that he was promoted to the middle grade of the second rank.

It took a full fifty-five years.

Comprehending a skill is not like being stuck in a bottleneck in cultivation.

If you really lack patience, you can also break through by taking a Breakthrough Pill.

It's nothing more than burning and consuming its own potential.

If you want to overcome a skill bottleneck, you can only persevere and work your way up slowly.

Fifty-five years have passed, spanning from the lower second rank to the middle rank...

This is because Zhou Qing has an excellent mindset. When he encounters a bottleneck, he studies other skills, with the attitude that if it doesn't work this time, he'll try again next time.

If it were any other second-tier low-grade alchemist, having been stuck at this bottleneck for so many years, they would probably have given up hope long ago.

"Foundation Establishment stage cultivators can only live for a little over two hundred years..."

"Fifty-five years..."

Zhou Qing thought for a moment, "Oh, it's the fifty-five years in the simulation..."

The fifty-five years in the simulation were, for Zhou Qing, just a fleeting moment in reality.

If Zhou Qing chooses to end the simulation now, he will immediately become a mid-grade second-tier alchemist.

A seventeen-year-old mid-grade second-level alchemist... Even a True Monarch would probably fall silent if he knew.

"Keep going, keep going."

Zhou Qing composed himself and looked again at the ever-changing illusory characters.

After refining the first batch of mid-grade second-tier pills, you went on to refine several more batches of other types of mid-grade second-tier pills, thoroughly stabilizing your mid-grade second-tier skill level.

So far, alchemy remains your most accomplished skill, while talismanic arts, also at the second tier, have now reached a bottleneck, making further progress difficult.

But you don't care at all.

Having experienced the breakthrough in alchemy techniques just now, you realize that even the most solid bottlenecks will loosen and disappear in the face of a long period of time.

You have multiple simulation opportunities, and the most you have is time.

[Half a day later, you successfully refined the Divine Soul Treasure.]

You clearly feel the pendant appear deep within your consciousness, radiating a purple aura.

[Under the blessing of the purple aura, your sea of ​​consciousness becomes incredibly stable.]

Even your spiritual sense has been enhanced by 20% to 30% as a result.

Both the intensity and the coverage area have increased by 20% to 30%.

"With a divine soul treasure protecting my sea of ​​consciousness, coupled with my innate talent 'Unyielding Will,' even if the sea of ​​blood hadn't been sealed for two or three hundred years, it couldn't do anything to me..."

[You thought to yourself]

[A Core Formation cultivator is indeed very powerful, but if only the essence remains, most of his abilities are unusable. In addition, your multiple preparations have locked down the only soul attack that Blood Sea cultivator can use.]

Basically, they can't cause any more trouble.

[The current Blood Sea Immortal can't even break the sealed jade box, let alone face you who are fully prepared.]

"An indomitable will..."

Over the years, you've conducted numerous tests and have roughly figured out the use of this talent.

The first type of attack is spiritual attack and soul attack.

With the blessing of this talent, all your soul attacks and spiritual attacks will be several times stronger.

Secondly, your defenses regarding your soul and consciousness are significantly enhanced, as are your ability to resist external attacks on your soul and consciousness.

Even a full-force spiritual attack from an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator would have virtually no effect on you.

Even a divine sense attack from a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator would only slightly affect you, not even enough to cause a brief, blurred perception.

[It should be noted that the reason why a major overhaul in the late Foundation Establishment stage poses such a terrifying threat to early and mid-Foundation Establishment cultivators is primarily due to its ability to attack with spiritual sense.]

A spiritual attack from a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator is enough to render an unprepared mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator unable to perceive the outside world for even a single breath.

Under such circumstances, facing the attack of a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, an ordinary mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator would be severely injured, even if they didn't die.

However, thanks to your innate indomitable will, you are able to gain significant immunity to the spiritual attacks of late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Furthermore, you cannot be certain whether the innate talent of unyielding will has any other uses or applications.

But the aforementioned enhancements alone are enough to justify this purple-level talent.

......

After meditating for several days, you soon arrived at the third floor of the Danlou.

[The Pill Tower is connected to the third-tier defensive array of the Immortal City, and the third level is naturally the same.]

[However, several years ago, you had Shen Lingxiu secretly modify the three floors of the Pill Pavilion specifically for you, connecting them to the grand array of the Immortal City.]

Shen Lingxiu is a guest elder of the Immortal City's Array Hall and has personally maintained the Immortal City's defensive array, which is why she was able to secretly open a back door for you.

[The renovated third floor of the Pill Pavilion, with a single thought from you, can mobilize the suppressive power of the Immortal City's grand formation to a certain extent.]

This is also a way out you're leaving for yourself.

[In case that Blood Sea True Man is unreasonable, even if he only has a wisp of his soul left, even if he has been sealed for two or three hundred years, he can still sweep away all your preparations.]

Then you will mobilize the power of the Immortal City's grand formation without hesitation.

[You do not have the authority to activate the Immortal City's grand formation. Even if you used a back door, if you rashly activate it, it is still possible that the third-tier formation master in charge of the formation will discover it.]

[But since it's come to that point, even if you're discovered, so be it. You have the status of a guest elder of the Pill Hall, and you've been refining pills for the Pill Hall for decades. Even if you're found out that you secretly used the power of the great formation, at most you'll only be punished, which is acceptable.]

[We absolutely cannot let Blood Sea Immortal escape.]

......

You sit cross-legged, and with a slight thought, sealing talismans float around you.

These sealing talismans were all purchased by you over the past few decades.

[Mainly high-grade second-tier items, plus four third-tier sealing talismans]

[Sealing talismans, as long as they are well preserved, can be sold at the original price even if they are no longer needed.]

It won't cause any waste.

[You take out the sealed jade box]

[Slowly remove the sealing talisman affixed to it]

These removed sealing talismans also floated up, and with just a thought, they could unleash terrifying sealing power.

[Soon, dozens of sealing talismans were removed.]

Only the original sealed jade box remains.

[And the Mountain and Sea Ring inside the sealed jade box]

You did not open the sealed jade box yourself.

Instead, they were separated by ten meters, opened remotely using magical power.

[Click—]

The white, sealed jade box slowly opened.

A sky-blue ring, with subtle hints of crimson, sits inside a jade box.

After the sealed jade box was opened, the Mountain and Sea Ring did not react in any way, as if it were just a simple ring.

"Trying to trick me with sweet talk?"

Seeing this scene, you secretly speculated.

Based on your experience in the second simulation, you are certain that Blood Sea Immortal possesses the ability to perceive the outside world.

"Aren't you coming out yet?"

[You suddenly spoke, your voice traveling through divine sense to the Mountain and Sea Ring.]

[Splash]

In an instant, the sky-blue of the Mountain and Sea Ring was completely replaced by crimson clouds, rolling like a sea of ​​blood.

A streak of blood-red light shot out from the Mountain and Sea Ring, attempting to escape in a certain direction.

But the next moment...

The streak of blood-red light then stopped.

A crimson figure materialized.

The crimson figure looked up at the more than one hundred sealing talismans floating in the surrounding air, each imbued with an incredibly heavy sealing power.

[And further away, the aura of an even more terrifying and vast suppressing array could be faintly discerned.]

[They fell silent]