Chapter 524 - 523: Life Wheel Realm, King Realm at Last
In the Qin Family’s underground treasure vault.
The three most conspicuous treasure halls were the Spiritual Artifact Hall, the Spiritual Plant Hall, and the Spirit Medicine Hall that Qin Wudao had introduced!
Chu Sheng went to the Spirit Medicine Hall first! Each treasure hall was sealed with a Barrier, but for him, who possessed the Realm-Breaking Claw, it was no obstacle at all.
Upon entering the Spirit Medicine Hall, the rich fragrance of Elixirs and dense Spiritual Qi washed over him. The entire hall was filled with all sorts of Top-Grade Elixirs and Demon Beast Essence Blood!
Chu Sheng took a casual glance... Earth-tier Top-Grade... Celestial Tier Lower-Grade Elixirs. The worst of them were still Earth-tier Top-Grade!
And the Essence Blood! The worst of the Demon Beast Essence Blood was from creatures at the Peak of King Realm... He flew directly to the deepest part of the hall and even found a drop of Emperor-level Demon Beast Essence Blood!
He’d struck it rich! Totally rich!
Although all this Essence Blood combined might not match the Qi Blood from the Mosquito Daoist’s clone, that clone was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and absorbing from the Mosquito Daoist was no easy task.
Unlike here, where it was an all-you-can-eat buffet, ready whenever he was!
With a full month left, Chu Sheng was in no hurry to start absorbing. He opened his system panel:
[Host: Chu Sheng]
[Current Qi Blood: 9,908,808]
[Current Mental Power: 9,900,000]
[Current Evolution Points: 1,908,808]
[Notice: The next full evolution requires reaching a Qi Blood Value of 10,000,000 (King Realm), Mental Power of 10,000,000 (King Realm), consuming 1,000,000 Evolution Points, and having three types of Realm Comprehension reach the Origin Realm.]
Chu Sheng’s plan for the month was to break through to the King Realm and complete his tenth full evolution!
So, as things stood.
He was about one hundred thousand shy in Qi Blood. With a month’s time and this much Demon Beast Essence Blood, it was more than enough.
He already had enough Evolution Points! But you could never have too many! Therefore, he definitely wouldn’t miss the Spiritual Plant Hall. He would absorb as many Evolution Points as he could!
As for Realm Comprehension, two had already reached the Origin Realm: the Fire Realm and the Spatial Realm!
Several of his other Realm Comprehensions were also very close to the Origin Realm. It shouldn’t be difficult to absorb some Realm Power from the Top-Grade Demon Beast Essence Blood.
Finally, there was Mental Power, which also wasn’t an issue.
He had already finished absorbing Xiaobai’s Divine Soul Power. As for the Divine Soul Power left behind by that "Gu Yuexi" from ten thousand years ago, he should be able to absorb it after his Qi Blood reached the King Realm.
Just like with Xiaobai, it should automatically raise his Mental Power to match his Qi Blood value... He just didn’t know how much Divine Soul Power there was.
With his thoughts organized, Chu Sheng didn’t dally any longer. It was time to get absorbing!
The first thing he absorbed was that drop of Emperor-level Demon Beast Essence Blood!
DING!
Accompanied by the system’s delightful notification tone, Chu Sheng’s Cultivation in the Qin Mansion’s treasure vault officially began.
...
「Meanwhile.」
In Secret Realm Zero at Jing University.
Gu Yuexi had once again entered the Still Forest on the second level.
Jing University had begun to gradually open up access, allowing students to enter Secret Realm Zero for Cultivation. Gu Yuexi planned to spend the next month cultivating within this Secret Realm.
Currently, she was the only one who could enter the second level.
Deep within the Still Forest, the flow of time was nearly twice as slow as in the outside world. In other words, one month of Cultivation here was equivalent to two months.
An extra month, for an existence like Gu Yuexi, was an absolutely terrifying advantage!
...
In what felt like the blink of an eye, half a month passed!
In the Qin Family’s underground treasure vault.
Chu Sheng had been here, absorbing until he was practically smoking!
But unexpectedly, he still hadn’t managed to break through to the King Realm!
At his current rate of absorbing Qi Blood, even with the limits of his constitution and digestion speed, he could still absorb about two to three hundred thousand a day.
At that rate, he should have broken through to the King Realm in a single day.
However, he hadn’t expected that breaking through to the King Realm would be far from simple.
It was similar to the Qi Blood Melting Furnace Realm that one encountered when breaking through from Third-Grade to Fourth-Grade. Breaking through from Ninth-Grade to the King Realm also had an additional minor realm—the Life Wheel Realm!
Its meaning: The turning of fate, the beginning of a king.
Below Ninth-Grade, one cultivates "power," but to become a king, one must first cultivate "fate."
Only upon reaching the King Realm does the Human Race gain the initial ability to change their fate—the most direct manifestation of which is an increase in Lifespan.
Below the King Realm, even between Ninth-Grade and First-Grade, there might not be a significant difference in Lifespan. At most, due to better physical constitution, one might live a few extra decades.
But the cap would almost never exceed one hundred and fifty years.
But things were different upon reaching the King Realm!
The Lifespan of the Human Race could easily break through the shackle of one hundred years.
Additionally, from the perspective of Cultivation itself, the Life Wheel Realm was actually a realm for consolidating the foundation of the King Realm.
The stronger the foundation, the higher one’s future cultivation ceiling and the greater one’s abilities.
Of course, this was only for ordinary Cultivators.
For Chu Sheng, it was still just a matter of stacking stats.
However, the numbers were a bit much!
For an ordinary person’s Life Wheel Realm, cultivating an extra five hundred thousand Qi Blood was generally enough, and also the limit.
But the system directly required Chu Sheng to absorb an extra five million Qi Blood!
Five million! That was equivalent to an entire Grand Realm! And this five million was a hidden value.
[Current Qi Blood: 9,999,999 (Peak of Ninth-Grade)]
It looked like he was just one point short, but he was actually five million short!
Chu Sheng was speechless!
Fortunately, the Qin Mansion’s treasure vault was impressive enough; otherwise, where would he get an extra five million Qi Blood!
...
For the past half-month, Chu Sheng had been absorbing day and night, accumulating over 4.5 million, just a little bit short.
And while digesting the Qi Blood, he would also go to the Spiritual Plant Hall to absorb the Spirit Grass inside. Over the fifteen days... his Evolution Points also increased by several hundred thousand.
[Current Evolution Points: 2,269,633]
To be honest, Chu Sheng’s crude "cultivation" method consumed an enormous amount of resources!
Even the Qin Mansion’s treasure vault couldn’t withstand such abuse.
The resources in the Spirit Medicine Hall could have supplied the entire Qin Family for several generations of Cultivation, but now, the various types of Essence Blood were almost gone. Only the Elixirs, which Chu Sheng had little use for, remained in large quantities.
The Spiritual Plant Hall was in an even more sorry state; it was basically empty.
At this moment, Chu Sheng was in the Spirit Medicine Hall.
Today, he was preparing to officially break through to the King Realm! Time to absorb!
[DING! Divine Wind Blood Tiger Demon Beast Essence Blood detected. Absorbing...]
[DING...]
Under Chu Sheng’s relentless absorption, finally...
[DING! Qi Blood +10,000]
He had enough extra Qi Blood for the Life Wheel Realm!
[Current Qi Blood: 10,000,000 (King Realm Early Stage)]
BOOM!
In that instant, Chu Sheng felt as if his very plane of existence had leaped to a new level! The sensation was somewhat similar to how he felt after each evolution!
It was a complete metamorphosis. Looking back at his former self from just a moment ago, it felt like an adult looking at a child.
No matter how strong a child was, they were still a child! They couldn’t compare to a true adult. This was the feeling of breaking through from the Peak of Ninth-Grade to the King Realm!
Although it wasn’t an intense feeling, it was undeniably an ascension to a higher level of life!
’King Realm, I made it!’
[DING! Automatically absorbing Divine Level Divine Soul Power...]
[Current Qi Blood: 10,000,000 (King Realm Early Stage)]
[Current Mental Power: 10,000,000 (King Realm Early Stage)]
[All conditions for the tenth full evolution have been met. Initiate?!]