[You frowned slightly, just about to leave, when you heard someone say, "That kid just came out of the secret realm, let's not let him go!"]
[Focusing, you saw the speaker, a black-robed cultivator at the late Earth Immortal Realm. It was the very person with whom you had a grudge from a previous simulation.]
[You frowned again, and soon several late Earth Immortal Realm cultivators vaguely surrounded you, saying, "Everyone gets a share of Heaven and Earth Treasures."]
[If it was just one late Earth Immortal Realm cultivator, you naturally wouldn't be afraid.]
[But five late Earth Immortal Realm cultivators, with your current strength, would indeed be hard to contend with.]
[Moreover, the corpse of the Void Beast wasn't your goal this time.]
[Thus, gritting your teeth, you threw out the Void Beast's corpse... then prepared to escape far away.]
[Unexpectedly, that black-robed cultivator fixated on you, relentlessly pursuing you. He knew you might have a Space Spirit Stone on you and thought you, a Human Immortal Realm cultivator, were easy prey.]
[He chased you alone for a thousand miles. You endured, showing weakness to mislead him.]
[At a critical moment, you used the Unethical in Martial Conduct technique, combined with sixteen hundred Sword Qi Barriers... A rainbow of swords pierced the sun, seriously injuring him in one blow!]
[Just as you were about to finish him off, he unexpectedly turned into a black light and escaped at a speed comparable to a Heavenly Immortal...]
[You tried to pursue him for a while but could hardly catch up, so you had to give up...]
[However, you still obtained four Space Spirit Stones, feeling satisfied, you continued to return to your cave to cultivate.]
Su Xing saw this and rolled his eyes, muttering:
"Alright, another cunning old fox!"
"Inciting conflicts, stirring trouble... bullying with power, and running away when knowing they can't win..."
Su Xing felt somewhat helpless, as the majority of cultivators in the cultivation world were .
Never mind that Earth Immortal Realm cultivators were considered unattainable in the eyes of low-rank cultivators.
But when it came to their lives, they ran faster than anyone else...
"Tsk tsk, an escape speed comparable to the Heavenly Immortal Realm... It's a pity. If my proficiency in Sword Dao were higher, maybe my Sword Control Technique could reach such speeds too?"
Su Xing stroked his chin, looking at the simulation panel.
[In your spare time between cultivation, you went to White Emperor City and sold the information about the sneak attack on the Great Demon at the Heavenly Immortal Realm.]
[Afterwards, you returned to the Spirit Field Cave and continued to cultivate...]
[Another thirteen years passed .]
[In the eightieth year, you successfully emerged from seclusion, having advanced to the late third layer of the Human Immortal Realm.]
[Three years ago, you triggered the Great Talent Maturing Late, doubling your cultivation speed again!]
[At this moment, you still had millions of drops of high-grade Spiritual Liquid, and tens of millions of drops of low-grade Spiritual Liquid...]
[To avoid being found early by the Descending Sect, you directly joined the military in Heavenly Demon City.]
[As before, you rose to the position of Ten Thousand Commander due to your status as an eleventh-tier Great Grandmaster of formations.]
[Every day, besides completing formation tasks, you had ample time to cultivate...]
[Seven more years passed .]
[In the eighty-seventh year, your cultivation level reached the peak of the third layer of the Human Immortal Realm.]
[You attempted to break through from the early to the middle phase of the Human Immortal Realm...]
[Unsurprisingly, you failed...]
[After the failure, you summarized your experience and accumulated your foundation, silently awaiting the next breakthrough.]
[In the ninety-fifth year, you attempted the breakthrough to the fourth layer of the Human Immortal Realm again.]
[This time, you succeeded!]
[Congratulations on becoming a mid-phase Human Immortal cultivator!]
In the real world, Su Xing saw this and let out a sigh of relief, but he also felt a headache.
"Spiritual Root aptitude! In the end, it's still not enough... If only I could draw a Golden Spiritual Root!"
Su Xing realized that Divine Bodies and such didn't significantly help with breaking through cultivation bottlenecks.
At least not for Five Element Divine Bodies...
Only with sufficient Spiritual Root aptitude could the path of cultivation be smooth...
"Breaking through to the mid-phase of the fourth layer of the Human Immortal Realm in the ninety-fifth year, the following time should be enough to reach the later phase of the fourth layer, right?"
Su Xing looked forward to it, glancing at the simulation panel.
[After breaking through to the mid-phase of the Human Immortal Realm, you felt that the mana in your body was more than twice as thick as when you were in the first layer of the Human Immortal Realm!]
[The stream of immortal power in your body was now as wide as thirty feet, comparable to the mana thickness of an ordinary late-phase or even peak Human Immortal!]
[Despite the breakthrough in cultivation, you remained humble and calm, focusing on your cultivation.]
[You knew that there were many traps waiting for you outside the city, and many foreign races and traitors wanted to assassinate you.]
[So you stayed safely inside the city, feigning illness to avoid going out on missions, only cultivating and setting up formations within the city.]
[For this reason, you were even demoted from a Ten Thousand Commander to a Chiliarch...]
[But you didn't regret it because staying alive was the real deal!]
[Fifteen more years passed ...]
[In the one hundred and tenth year, your cultivation reached the middle phase of the fourth layer of the Human Immortal Realm.]
[As your cultivation level increased, you felt that cultivation became increasingly difficult.]
[Estimating that Qing Yunzi would find news of you in another ten years, you grasped the time to cultivate even more diligently...]
[One day, you took the Spirit Awakening Pill, activated the Great Wisdom State, and prepared to comprehend the Body-Protecting Sword Aura...]
In the real world, Su Xing felt a stir in his heart, silently chanting:
"Use Immersive Simulation..."
The next moment, Su Xing's vision changed, and he appeared in Heavenly Demon City.
"Body-Protecting Sword Aura, I currently master sixteen hundred of them, but the destructive power is still limited... not enough to kill a late Earth Immortal Realm cultivator!"
"If I could advance further, reaching the mastery of two thousand Body-Protecting Sword Auras, maybe I could fully possess the power to kill a late Earth Immortal Realm cultivator?"