Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 290 - 200: Upgrading Sword Formulas, Unlocking the Ultimate Move: Time Sword—Overdrawing the Future
The big city is indeed great; as long as you have money, you can buy any information.
Su Yu spent a mere 500 merit points and purchased the information he wanted.
Upon the first glance, he was utterly shocked.
"To establish the Immortal Foundation, one must possess the Supreme Tier Qi Refining Heart Skill!"
"No way!"
Su Yu was dumbfounded; this condition alone immediately ruled him out.
Scratching his head, he patiently spent more than ten minutes reviewing all the information and has now quite a good understanding of the Immortal Foundation situation.
There’s no change from the back; the Supreme Tier Qi Refining Heart Skill is an absolute prerequisite. Without it, establishing the Immortal Foundation is impossible, whether looking at the ten-thousand-year history of the Human Race or the records of other player civilizations, and the local sect’s documentation - no one has established an Immortal Foundation with just sect-level Qi Refining Heart Skill, not even one.
Besides this, there are two other prerequisites, missing any one of them won’t do.
One is age, which must not exceed 100 years.
This isn’t really a problem; those who are fast can undergo tribulation within 10 years, 100 years is definitely sufficient.
The third prerequisite is to undergo the strongest Heavenly Tribulation.
The types of the first Great Celestial Tribulation are actually many; they are roughly divided into three levels in terms of difficulty, and if you want to establish the Immortal Foundation, you must undergo the strongest level.
Theoretically, Heavenly Tribulation is random, but if your strength meets the condition for establishing the Immortal Foundation, it will inevitably be the strongest level Heavenly Tribulation. If you survive it, you might establish the Immortal Foundation; if not, then it’s game over.
As the strongest Heavenly Tribulation, the death penalty is also the harshest, once you fail and perish under it, you need to consume 300 years of lifespan to remold your body.
For those who haven’t established the Dao Foundation, the lifespan limit is 300 years, and the death penalty is 300 years - this means if you don’t have a powerful lineage to extend the lifespan limit, one wave will be a direct GG.
And the above are just prerequisites; whether one can establish the Immortal Foundation actually depends on personal strength and accumulation.
For instance, the innate attributes, which Su Yu has already supplemented with five Immortal Bones, are surely ample now.
As for acquired attributes, with the Supreme Dragon Transformation Bone and numerous Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, his physical strength and Qi and Blood, Mana are far beyond ordinary people.
And then there are the various Dao Techniques practiced, which seemingly don’t have much impact; there is no conclusive evidence to determine whether the practiced Thunder Skill, Forbidden Skill, Divine Techniques grade would affect the ability to establish the Immortal Foundation, although all who have established the Immortal Foundation are strong in Dao Techniques, so it’s tentatively counted.
Then there are innate talents, lineages, special physiques, Spirit Roots, etc., which all could affect whether there’s enough potential to establish the Immortal Foundation.
Overall, the more and stronger these things are, the better.
Su Yu is considered lucky; the Nameless Daoist Scripture unexpectedly opened Nine Heavens Bone Forging Skill, coupled with double talent bonus, making his numerous accumulations on par with those super geniuses.
Once the five Immortal Bones merge into the Nine Heavens Battle Immortal Body, the potential might meet the standard for establishing the Immortal Foundation.
The only flaw is the Supreme Dao Technique.
"Seems like I still need to find a way to get the other half of the Profound Court Manual."
"Of course, swapping for another Supreme Tier Qi Refining Heart Skill would work too."
But the Profound Court Manual is a sect inherited Heart Skill; unless necessary, it’s better not to swap.
Su Yu pinched his chin in deep thought for a long time, before exhaling lightly.
"Let’s think of a way first, and consider swapping only if it really doesn’t work."
Though it might disappoint the ancestor, if there’s a chance to establish the Immortal Foundation, then it cannot be helped.
After all, the Immortal Foundation is not just about whether one can become an immortal, but also involves life post-immortality.
Even without reading the information, anyone could tell that the potential of post-immortality from the Immortal Foundation is definitely stronger than that of a top-tier Dao Foundation.
Closing the information, Su Yu first glanced at the remaining 11.38 billion Spiritual Energy Experience and slaughter experience mixed together in the experience pool, as well as 12,220 Dao Practice points, before focusing his gaze upon the panel of various techniques.
"The Immortal Bones have already been condensed, next is the Dao Techniques."
"The Qi Refining Heart Skill is at eighty layers, temporarily enough, let’s enhance the Sword Formulas first."
Actually, being enough is one aspect; mainly, elevating the Heart Skill to a hundred layers will trigger the Heavenly Tribulation. He considered that some unexpected opportunities might directly elevate the Dao Techniques, so if the reserved layers are insufficient and it directly enhances to a hundred layers, that would be disastrous.
"Destiny Reincarnation Sword Technique, enhance!"
As he willed, an enormous amount of Spiritual Energy Experience and Dao Practice accumulated in the experience pool surged into the Sword Techniques like flowing water, driving the Sword Techniques to elevate level by level.
1,245 million Spiritual Energy Experience and 450 Dao Practice points elevate to fifty-one layers.
1,290 million Spiritual Energy Experience and 450 Dao Practice points elevate to fifty-two layers. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
Just elevating one layer, the Spiritual Energy Experience consumed has surpassed ten million, and this is under the condition where innate root has reduced 25% experience and 10% of Dao Techniques, extremely exaggerated.
Destiny Reincarnation Sword Technique involves two supreme Dao Laws of Time and Reincarnation, inherently being the pinnacle Supreme Sword Techniques, the demand for experience is immensely exaggerated.
Two hours later, Su Yu spent a total of 4.125 billion Spiritual Energy Experience and 4,500 Dao Practice points, elevating the Destiny Reincarnation Sword Technique to sixty layers, and successfully deriving a new Sword Dao technique [Reincarnation Sword Formation].
Reincarnation Sword Formation: Consumes a large amount of Mana to condense Sword Qi and set up the Sword Array, each layer of Sword Technique +100 Dao Sword Qi, characteristic: Reincarnation.
Reincarnation: The fragmented Sword Qi can reassemble once.
No need to hesitate, keep improving.
He glanced at the remaining experience points in the experience pool, feeling it wasn’t enough, so he took out all 6 billion Spiritual Qi experience accumulated over two months from the Spirit Gathering Bottle and continued to improve.
After another two hours, a total of 8.1 billion Spiritual Qi experience and 6,750 Dao points were consumed, and the Destiny Reincarnation Sword Formulas advanced to the seventieth level, once again deriving a new sword dao [Time Sword—Overdraw Future].
Time Sword—Overdraw Future: Use the Power of Time to borrow strength from the future, attack power and attack speed +100,000, lasts 15 seconds, cooldown 1 month, trait: Time.
Time: The Power of Time is ubiquitous, the Time Sword ignores realms, ignores defense damage reduction and realms, each strike deals true damage and cannot be exempted by any means.
"Wow, adding 100,000 to attack and speed, ridiculous."
With this set added, the burst damage is unimaginably exaggerated, capable of handling anything below Earth Immortal, or even Earth Immortal itself, as this borrowed attack comes with the Power of Time, ignoring realm, resistance, and damage reduction.
Earth Immortal, without realm suppression and high defense and damage reduction, is just a tankier boss.
"Strong!"
He couldn’t help but smack his lips and then looked at the sword formulas, seventieth level Destiny Reincarnation Sword Scripture: Flying sword damage +21,000, attack speed +14,000, sword control speed +14,000 km/h.
"Too strong!"
Su Yu grinned widely and contentedly closed the panel.
"Continue to slay monsters!"
Seeing his strength visibly increasing, the sense of satisfaction filled him with energy, and now he particularly wanted to find a level 150+ boss to test his sword.
But after leaving the Heavenly Fire City, he encountered only small bosses, who didn’t require him to use his ultimate move and could be taken out in a few strikes.
He pushed forward all the way, continually slaying until he reached the boundary of the Ancient Battlefield, yet still didn’t encounter an opponent worth using his big move, which left him very disappointed.
"Damn it, let’s go look inside the Ancient Battlefield."
With his strength enormously enhanced and gaining the ultimate skill but having no chance to test it, it’s like wearing brocade robes at night, feeling intensely uncomfortable.
He couldn’t bear it.
Decisively turned around, crossed the boundary, and entered the Ancient Battlefield.
Once inside, Su Yu’s powerful six senses clearly felt the changes in the laws of the heavens and earth, the battlefield’s surroundings remained intact, but under his strong perception, the heavens and earth became extremely distorted, upended, and the space was very fragile, filled with small hidden space rifts as if on the verge of collapse.
Logically, in such an environment where space is shattered like a broken mirror, it should directly collapse.
But this battlefield seems to have an invisible force constraining the space making it stable.
However, this stability wasn’t as firm and stable as imagined; he could sense that it was on the verge of collapse, feeling very contradictory.
"Really peculiar."
He shook his head, looked up at the collapsing heavens and earth ahead, and raised the Cyan Cloud Cover to slow down and flew over.
In this area, not only the space had collapsed, but even the land had crumbled, everywhere were collapsed lands and mountains, floating in the air, underneath was an endless fragmented abyss with countless flames and lava flowing, water and wind columns mixed.
And amidst this chaos, everywhere were twisted spirit monsters refreshed by the distorted laws.
Like now, only a few kilometers away from him, an upside-down land measuring over a hundred kilometers was floating. The mountains and lakes on this side were upside down, but the water did not flow into the abyss below, and in the lake were a large number of twisted aquatic race spirit monsters, each level above 100.
In the center of this lake with a diameter of over thirty kilometers, a large and vaguely visible dragon beast resided.
Partly a flood dragon, partly the twisted body of other spirit monsters.
Level 168, terrifying template, health over ten million, enough for him to test the power of the supreme sword technique’s newly derived ultimate move.
With a thought, Su Yu soared into the air towards the upside-down land, midway the treasure light shook violently from time to time, and defense kept decreasing.
Because the battlefield was filled with small space rifts barely visible to the naked eye, each contact inflicted 10,000 points of defense-ignoring tearing damage, if a larger space rift the damage could be 20,000 or 30,000, or even more.
Therefore, one cannot fly fast in here, or within moments when encountering dozens or hundreds of small space rifts, even seventh-tier defense treasures would instantly collapse.
A minute later, Su Yu arrived in front of the suspended land, instantly feeling the heavens and earth overturn, previously upside-down mountains now appear normal.
Like a normal world.
Except ignoring the abyss-like dark sky above with gigantic space rifts within, and the lava flames and water dragon wind columns flowing throughout the abyss.
"What a magical world!"
Su Yu summoned two sword qis, one purple and one blue, suspended in his palm, with sharp sword light flickering.
He flicked his fingers repeatedly, shooting the two sword qis into the lake, soon blood stains floated up, and two fish-like spirit monsters rushed out.
Testing waters for the first time, he dared not circle too many at once, if unlucky and encountering twisted law monsters, it’s over.
Several sword strikes swept over, the two spirit monsters were encircled by the flying swords, unable to break free.
Su Yu was reassured; evidently, these two weren’t law monsters, just ordinary twisted monsters.
Though just experience monsters, their health, defense, and strength were far superior to normal experience monsters outside, also being baseline hundred-level monsters, it took him some effort to take them down.
Then, without a pause, he again mobilized the flying swords, circling in the nearby dozen or so experience monsters.
