Chapter 489 - 254: Thirty Bottles of Realm of Ascension, Drinking the Divine Medicine Until Bursting

Chapter 489: Chapter 254: Thirty Bottles of Realm of Ascension, Drinking the Divine Medicine Until Bursting

After leaving the Nest, Lu Cang continued to grind Dungeons...

He wanted to ensure he could farm as many "Realm of Ascension" Potions as possible.

So, Lu Cang ramped up his efficiency even further.

Upon entering a Dungeon, he would instantly summon the "Pure White Tree," which could completely wipe out an entire Insect Nest Dungeon.

These Insect Nest Dungeons, after being subjected to Sacrifice, typically contained around 10,000 to 20,000 Tier Six Demons, mostly Lord and King Level. Nation Destruction and Submerged Land Level Demons were pitifully few.

Insect Nest Dungeons were often numerous, but their quality was never that high.

And all Lu Cang needed was quantity, not quality.

He would walk into a Dungeon, scan the area, confirm no one was around, summon the tree, and end the battle in five seconds.

This number of Demons would net him around 1.2 million points in a single wave...

Collecting the loot was actually what took more time, about a minute or so. After leaving the Dungeon and sacrificing more souls, the entire process would be complete.

A single cycle took about two minutes.

Over a million points in two minutes.

Ten hours had passed since the start of this frenzy. During that time, Lu Cang had even gathered another Demon tide to form a new batch of Dungeons.

He had also run into some unexpected situations.

For example, one time when he entered a Dungeon to perform a Sacrifice, he happened to see a shadow army composed of countless dark figures fighting the Demons inside the Insect Nest!

’So this is the so-called war the Dark Church waged against the Insect Nests?’

Lu Cang watched with great interest for a while, but unfortunately, he was pressed for time with an important task at hand.

This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Lu Cang couldn’t afford to stay and watch for too long.

After pausing for a moment, he returned to his grinding rhythm.

...

「Muddy Sea」

Yelieya stared at the leaderboard above her. "That guy... What in the world did he do?"

On the leaderboard, the number one spot no longer belonged to Rhine.

It was... Lu Cang.

"First Place: Lu Cang — Score: 285,994,547"

Two hundred and eighty million points?

Yelieya glanced back at her own score.

Ten hours had passed, and her score had only just broken three hundred thousand.

With the help of Rhine’s magical luck, she had managed to find quite a few powerful Dungeons.

After clearing out the Demons in every Dungeon, she had ultimately killed just over 4,000 Tier Six Demons, and that even included quite a few Tier Five Demons.

All that had only amounted to three hundred thousand points.

Her rank was considered pretty high.

However, finding so many Dungeons was almost entirely thanks to Rhine’s help.

But this...

What the hell was two hundred and eighty million points?

It was even higher than that guy who had inexplicably gained two hundred million points!

Yelieya said, "I didn’t see any sign of him after we got back. I have no idea where he went."

Rhine scratched his head. "I think he probably solved an important riddle and found a special way to get points."

That was the most likely explanation.

Otherwise, there was no way he could have manually grinded two hundred and eighty million points, right?

"There are special ways to get more points?"

Rhine shrugged and looked up at the number above his head. His score of two hundred million and fifteen hundred points seemed utterly absurd.

Yelieya said, "Fine, apparently there are."

Rhine also laughed. "I think he might have just found a special point-scoring mechanic."

"It’s a shame we don’t know where he was teleported."

"If we could find Lu Cang, maybe we could ask him about his special method for farming points."

...

「Twelve hours later.」

After grinding his score to three hundred and twenty million, Lu Cang finally stopped.

At this moment, numerous Potion vials floated around Lu Cang, each one glowing with a special luster.

"Ultimate Perfect Ascension Realm"

For twelve hours straight, excluding the two he’d spent listening to that person ramble, Lu Cang had been grinding non-stop for Demon drops.

He felt like he was back in his past life, pulling all-nighters to play video games.

Whenever an online game had an event, he would just bury his head and grind. For events with no acquisition cap, he was always afraid the event would end before he was done.

"Thirty bottles of Realm of Ascension. On average, one bottle dropped for every ten million points."

"One thousand Longevity Flowers. On average, one flower for every three hundred thousand points..."

"And as for special materials like Melting Sacred Flame, Body-Penetrating Stinging Water, Shattered Dream Ice, and High Viscosity Living Soil, I’ve gotten quite a lot of those too."

None of these items were unique.

This Melting Sacred Flame...

With a casual raise of his hand, over a thousand fire seeds appeared in Lu Cang’s palm.

’If I leave here, I’m afraid I’ll become a wholesaler.’

He had grinded over three hundred million points so far.

He pretty much knew what these monsters would drop by now.

It was just the same treasures dropping over and over. Ever since he hit one hundred million points, nothing new had appeared.

However, his goal wasn’t any of those other things.

His main purpose was the "Realm of Ascension."

"Thirty bottles."

"Anyway, I’ll start by drinking ten and see what happens..."

The effect of the "Ultimate Perfect Ascension Realm" Potion only started to diminish after the fifth bottle, and it didn’t just become instantly ineffective.

Drinking more should still be useful.

’I just don’t know how much of an effect it will have.’

Lu Cang opened a bottle of "Ultimate Perfect Ascension Realm," and the Potion floated out of the exquisite vial.

It hovered in mid-air, coalescing into a perfect glob of liquid.

Lu Cang swallowed the glob in one gulp.

GULP~

Lu Cang instantly felt...

An extremely wondrous sensation washed over him. He felt as if he had grown closer to the Source... Although there was no concrete proof, his Spirituality gave him a premonition.

Lu Cang felt that his Life Level seemed to have ascended to a certain degree.

His very existence had grown closer to the Source of various Professions.

It wasn’t a feeling of following a certain principle, but of becoming the principle itself.

"So that’s how it works..."

After drinking the Potion, Lu Cang suddenly understood its principle in his heart.

It turned out the principle behind the "Realm of Ascension" was simple.

It simulated one’s own existence in relation to the Source, deceiving the Source to a certain extent. It made it seem as if the person had followed its principles perfectly, while also weakening the presence of other Professions.

This made ascension much simpler.

In other words... it was more like an act of deceiving the heavens.

And in fact, it could actually succeed.

But now, this "Ultimate Perfect Ascension Realm" was no longer about disguise and deception, but... a true metamorphosis of his Life Level, bringing him closer to the Source.

Naturally, it also lowered the requirements for ascension.

Downing one bottle brought a feeling of lightness, which quickly faded.

The effect was definitely still there.

’Next up, the second bottle.’

Lu Cang opened the second bottle. A golden glob of liquid floated out, and he swallowed it down again~

The second bottle, the third, the fourth...

After the fifth bottle.

Lu Cang felt a peculiar change in his body. His current existence seemed like a part of some innate Source, extremely close to every Profession he possessed.

The principles for the Warrior Profession no longer required him to fight people to advance.

An intense and satisfying battle with a sufficiently powerful Demon would be enough to meet the ascension requirements.

He no longer had to face life and death. Even fleeing after realizing he was outmatched would now suffice.

The requirements were much lower than before.

The requirements for Decryption Scholar had also dropped significantly... Lu Cang felt that he probably only needed 50,000 Decryption Points now.

’It really did drop by a lot.’

But Lu Cang didn’t stop there. He continued to drink the next bottle...

GULP~ GULP~ GULP~

Finally, after ten bottles.

Lu Cang sat cross-legged on the spot, quietly sensing the changes within himself.

Starting from the sixth bottle, the Potion’s effect was only about 80% of the original.

The seventh bottle was only 60%.

The eighth was 30%.

The ninth bottle’s effect was only 10%.

And the tenth bottle’s effect was down to just 5%.

In other words, the five bottles he drank after the initial five only added an effect equivalent to drinking less than two more at full strength.

However, the requirement for the Decryption Scholar’s principle had already dropped to 40,000 Decryption Points.

This was almost equivalent to the requirement for his own Level 4 to Level 5 advancement.

Moreover, back then, he was only a Level 1 Prophet and didn’t have the Pharmacist Profession.

Now, with both a Level 1 Prophet and a Pharmacist Profession, the requirement for the Decryption Scholar’s Level 5 to Level 6 advancement was still only 40,000 Decryption Points...

The effect of this Realm of Ascension Potion was truly terrifying.

Of course, his newly unlocked Divine Talent also played a role. It seemed that with the Potion’s effect, he could even take on a few more compatible Professions.

As for the remaining twenty bottles.

He decided not to drink them for now and keep them as samples instead.

He didn’t know if there would be room for further improvement on this Potion in the future.

Lu Cang glanced at the Dungeon beside him. There were still two days and twelve hours left.

’Might as well keep grinding. Even though I already have a lot of these materials, I don’t know when I’ll get another chance to obtain Longevity Flowers and the Elixir of Eternal Youth.’

An event like this doesn’t come around often.

’Since I’ve already grinded so much, a little more or less doesn’t matter.’

’I’ll just go all out and max out my gains. Even if I can’t use them right away, there’s no harm in stockpiling rare medicinal ingredients and Longevity items.’