Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 223 - 134: Heaven-Granted Dao Companion, Divine Concord Knot
Su Yu glanced at the panel prompt, then at the previous Heavenly Dao prompt. He looked back, not seeing anything, but it didn’t stop him from raising his eyebrows and breaking into a bright smile, nodding without hesitation:
"I am willing!"
The next second, he looked up at the sky, and an invisible power descended from heaven, gathering at the foreheads of both him and the Vast Sea, quickly condensing into a strange pattern that looked like a heart-link knot.
Heart-link Knot (Divine Artifact): The heart-link knot of a Heaven-bestowed Dao companion.
Attributes: Heart-link, mental communication unhindered by distance.
Attributes: Interconnection, when one party is harmed, the other immediately senses it. If one party is near death, they can be instantly transported to their Dao companion’s side, and if one party dies, they can revive beside the Dao companion, triggering once each month.
Attributes: Heaven-bestowed Dao companion, witnessed by the Heavenly Dao, forming Dao companions.
At the moment this heart-link knot was formed, Su Yu looked up at Vast Sea, and the two blinked at each other as if with a tacit understanding.
"This harmony..."
Su Yu inexplicably thought of Luo Qingchan. They were not Dao companions, but had very high rapport, as intuitive as if they shared a mental link, understanding each other with just a glance.
Thanks to her, only innate spiritual beings could form a Heaven-bestowed Dao companion and obtain this divine artifact, a heart-link knot. Normal cultivators forming Dao companions did not have this benefit.
Such beings as innate spiritual beings only existed when heaven and earth first opened; they increasingly diminished afterward, and now there is absolutely no chance of new innate spiritual beings being born. Nowadays, it’s estimated that only theirs is this one case.
It is worth mentioning that he and Vast Sea as a Heaven-bestowed Dao companion refer to fellow travelers on the path of cultivation supporting each other, not the lovers or spouses imagined by ordinary people.
"With this, I’ll have an absolute life-saving method available every month."
Vast Sea is just taking shape and will definitely remain within the Sea Suppressing Realm, not venturing out until she becomes an immortal. She’ll simply transport into the Sea-Suppressing Pearl at the slightest danger, maximizing safety.
Indeed, Vast Sea won’t come out until she becomes an immortal.
A fully formed innate spiritual being, an initial mythical template. Once she becomes an immortal, she’ll have the immortal template, and her chance of achieving immortality is almost 100%. What does this mean?
If she ventured out and was discovered by experts, they would undoubtedly hunt her down worldwide, erase her consciousness or seize her body, or refine her into an external incarnation.
No one can resist such a temptation.
Therefore, before becoming immortal, she won’t recklessly go out.
But with her talent, becoming immortal is as easy as turning your hand. Once she becomes an immortal, she’ll definitely be much stronger than an ordinary immortal.
After becoming Dao companions, Vast Sea is obviously closer to him.
Especially since after her birth, she’s only seen Celestial Cangtian’s avatar and Su Yu—one imprisoned her, the other rescued her, and formed a Heaven-bestowed Dao companion with her, making her completely open to Su Yu, with a visible dependency that’s closer than a couple.
Su Yu certainly doesn’t reject it, thoroughly enjoying the goddess’s closeness with pride.
The innate water spirit, her touch refreshing to the bone, soothing one’s heart and mind.
Being together, skin contact allows the innate spiritual being’s water Dao’s charm to permeate the body, suppressing inner fire and heart demons. She is the most excellent dual cultivation partner.
After completely taking shape, the innate water spirit can now cultivate.
She is currently practicing the innate supreme tier great magic, and aside from water Dao-derived Gui Water Divine Thunder and Water Escape Skill, she also possesses many water-related techniques not listed in the Dao Magic column.
And as her cultivation improves, various water-related magic and forbidden techniques, even divine techniques, will automatically derive from the water Dao, meaning she theoretically doesn’t need extra magic allocation.
Su Yu understands this, so he’s prepared a few lifestyle professions for her.
Upon returning from within the Vast Sea Realm, he immediately purchased alchemy, artifact refining, array, talisman crafting, spirit plant, and other common lifestyle profession conversion tools, and spent nearly five hundred gold acquiring a large quantity of practice materials, enough for her to practice for a long time.
Anyway, she cannot come out from the Vast Sea Realm before becoming an immortal, and with plenty of spare time apart from cultivation, engaging her in these professions helps pass the time.
It is worth noting that after the Vast Sea successfully took form and was named Vast Sea by the Heavenly Dao, she possesses a player-like attribute panel instead of a simplified panel like a field monster or NPC, thus enjoying the same privileges as players.
She can quickly study Dao magic, kill monsters to level up, use the player’s regional channel, form teams with players, etc.
In short, she has everything a player has, and players don’t necessarily have what she has.
She is practically a daughter favored by the Heavenly Dao.
Upon realizing this, Su Yu took a whole day to personally teach her about some player matters, and advised her to browse the regional channel to pass the time.
After two full days’ work, Su Yu finally has time to handle other matters.
First, he opens the prompt panel, scrolling up to find a Heavenly Dao prompt he hadn’t had time to view yet:
"Heavenly Dao Prompt: You assisted the innate spiritual being Vast Sea in successfully taking form, earning you merit with heaven and earth, rewarding you with 10,000 merit points, Heavenly Mind +1, and condensing the Merit Golden Wheel Prototype."
He noticed this when Vast Sea was taking form, feeling something happening, though the Merit Golden Wheel Prototype is not visible to the naked eye and he was too busy to investigate further at the time.
The sudden 10,000 merit points—he was previously thinking about how to gather up enough for 10,000 merit, and now he has them already.
Besides this, Heavenly Mind increased by +1. This effect is passive and hidden, so its change is not apparent yet.
But surpassing 10,000 merit allows him to clearly sense some benefits based on having 10,000 merit.
First, advance condensation of the Merit Golden Wheel Prototype. By continually filling it with merit, it will eventually solidify, and once amassed to 10 million merit, it will completely take shape.
It’s called advance condensation because normally 100,000 merit is needed to possibly start condensing.
Yes, possibly—the specific amount varies.
Some only require 100,000 merit to start condensing, while others need hundreds of thousands or even millions of merit to condense the Merit Golden Wheel, and 10 million merit to fully condense into form.
Normally, Su Yu’s 10,000 merit is entirely insufficient to condense the Merit Golden Wheel Prototype, but with a Heavenly Dao reward, it can be condensed in advance.
Merit Golden Wheel Prototype Effect: Blessing +10, Immune to All Skill below Loose Immortal level.
If you accumulate 10 million merit to condense the Merit Golden Wheel, it’s equal to a True Immortal level Immune to All Skill.
Moreover, this is not the limit, because the Merit Golden Wheel can continue to overlap, after condensing one layer, it can condense two layers, three layers, until it reaches perfection at nine layers.
As for what effect it has after reaching perfection, and whether it can continue to improve, Su Yu doesn’t know yet.
It’s not important, that’s too far away, it’s too difficult to accumulate merit, and it’s uncertain if even one layer can be condensed before becoming immortal.
Closing the hint panel, Su Yu went to the Spiritual Field in the Vast Sea Realm, seeing the lush and leafy Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit Tree in the center of the field, with thirty-six bright red fruits hanging, with a faint fruit fragrance wafting in the air, refreshing and pleasant.
He used a jade box to pick all the fruit from the tree and stored them, taking two to swallow down.
"Hint: Consuming the Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit, innate root and bone +2, mana limit +1000, lifespan limit +20."
"Hint: Consuming the Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit, innate root and bone +2, mana limit +1000, lifespan limit +20."
Two prompts consecutively.
Since a maximum of three fruits have an effect, he had already taken one before.
There are 34 left, which can be...
"Keep some for gifting, and some... as a reserve."
This kind of good thing is too precious to sell, although one can sell for 300 gold, it still doesn’t feel worth it; it’s better to exchange it for other things or give it as a favor rather than selling it directly.
Su Yu planned to give three pieces each to his second brother, second sister-in-law, and Luo Qingchan, reserving 25 pieces.
Coming out from the Vast Sea Realm, Su Yu headed straight to the main campsite of the second group of the Canglan Association, where his second brother resided on Jinjiao Island.
After dinner, he took out two jade boxes, placing them on the table and pushing them in front of his second brother and second sister-in-law.
"Little brother, what’s this?"
Both were a bit surprised, Su Huan took the box and opened it casually, seeing the three Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruits inside, asked with a smile:
"Is this a gift for me?"
Su Yu nodded:
"Second brother and sister-in-law both have."
Meng Siyi’s heart was slightly moved, her impression of this little brother-in-law changed a bit, adding a ’grateful’ label to him in her mind.
Su Yu sincerely said:
"Second brother and sister-in-law have taken good care of me, which I remember in my heart, it’s just that I didn’t have anything good to give before, but coincidentally, I obtained a batch of mature Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruits a while ago, so I thought of giving them to second brother and sister-in-law."
Su Huan paused for a moment, then nodded and said:
"Since it’s little brother’s intention, your second brother and I will accept it."
While resting at night, Meng Siyi extended her hand to Su Huan and said:
"The Vermilion Fruits, give them to me."
Su Huan handed the box to her casually and asked:
"Are you going to use it yourself or put it in the guild’s exchange warehouse?"
She shook her head and said:
"I plan to refine a batch of Primordial Infinite Elixirs in a few days and give a few to little brother when you return from the Sword Palace."
"Have the materials been prepared?"
"They’ve been ready for a long time, just haven’t thought about refining them."
"Oh!"
Early the next morning, Su Yu went out with his second brother to head to the east gate of Jinjiao City; a few minutes later, Luo Qingchan arrived, and the Jade Sinking Ship soared into the sky and flew towards the east.
On the flying ship, Su Yu handed a jade box to Luo Qingchan.
She blinked, accepted the jade box, and without a glance, put it into her storage space.
His second brother noticed this scene, pursed his lips and looked at the sea, smiling with an aunt-like expression.
The Jade Sinking Ship was extremely fast, quickly leaving Jinjiao Island, entering the vast sea.
Setting the flying ship to fly in a fixed direction, Su Huan sat cross-legged on the deck, explaining the situation of the Sword Palace to Su Yu:
"The Sword Palace is located deep in the sea, more than ten million kilometers from here, positioned between the Blue Mountain Archipelago, the Wanxiang Islands, and the Three Mountains Archipelago; its position is not fixed because the Sword Palace is essentially an Innate Spiritual Treasure and keeps moving."
"As a confirmed Innate Spiritual Treasure, many forces and strong individuals have been targeting the Sword Palace, wanting to subdue this top Innate Spiritual Treasure, including Celestial Immortal level powerhouses, yet none have succeeded."
Second brother Su Huan took a sip of Monkey Wine, smacked his lips, and continued:
"Some speculate that the Sword Palace is a relic of an ancient super Sword Immortal."
"Others speculate it’s a relic of a top-tier Sword Dao Immortal Sect from ancient times."
"Regardless, it can be confirmed that the Sword Palace contains Supreme Tier Sword Skills, tenth-tier Immortal Swords, and that it’s always looking for a suitable successor. Legend says that anyone who passes the highest trial of the Sword Palace and is recognized by the Artifact Spirit of the Sword Palace can command it, obtaining all the treasures within."
Su Yu took a sip from a green jade gourd of wine, then asked:
"Second brother, how difficult is the Sword Palace? It has existed for such a long time, is there no one who can meet the standards to inherit it?"
Su Huan shook his head and said:
"I don’t know exactly how difficult it is, but I have a friend who once went in, and when he came back, he only said one thing."
"Nobody can meet the standards of the Sword Palace!"
