Free Web NovelChapter 172: Chapter 170: Bizarre Seed
[Synthesis Successful: Standardization Triggered]
[Enlightenment Leaf (Evolution): After consumption, for one hour, ordinary leaves will grow on your head.]
"What the fuck!"
Su Qing cursed, displeased.
’This one is even worse. The Comprehension-boosting effect is completely gone!’
Fuck it.
’I was hoping to trigger a good Standardization before synthesizing again.’
But this is what I got instead.
!!!
Su Qing immediately went on a synthesizing frenzy.
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The few lonely trees on Cold Extremity Peak were out of luck.
He synthesized for half the day.
A ton of Standardizations occurred.
Su Qing took the Standardized leaves with effects he disliked and threw them all back into the Synthesizer to be Standardized again.
In the end,
out of more than one hundred and fifty Enlightenment Leaves,
Su Qing managed to synthesize eight that permanently increased his Comprehension.
The rest were synthesized over and over.
Ultimately, he obtained this:
[Bizarre Leaf: When you consume it, hold it in your hand, cover your eyes with it, keep it in your mouth, stroke the leaf... your Comprehension will be blocked, your five senses will be sealed, your vision will turn black and white, you will lose your sense of taste... Lasts for one month.]
’Great, just great.’
Su Qing didn’t even dare to extract it.
He wanted to make the thing disappear.
’After all, it’s nothing but negative effects. What good could possibly come of it?’
Simply touching the leaf would trigger its negative effects.
’I might as well try a Mutation and see what happens.’
Su Qing tossed in a few Spirit Stones, a few wisps of Immortal Qi, and a wisp of a Fire Seed.
With a hint of anticipation, he silently commanded, ’Synthesize.’
[Synthesis Successful: Mutation Triggered]
[Bizarre Seed: All is bizarre nothingness, all is but a fleeting dream. This world needs the bizarre, this world belongs to the bizarre! A creation-level seed. Host, please handle with extreme caution. The moment the Bizarre Seed leaves the Synthesizer, it will take root and sprout in whatever it attaches to! The world will gain Bizarre Rules.]
"A Bizarre Fire Seed?" Su Qing read the description, then glanced at the Bizarre Seed’s appearance.
Although it was called a seed, it actually looked like a wisp of transparent flame.
’Bizarre?’
Su Qing thought of the horror movies from his previous life. ’Don’t tell me this would cause extremely strange phenomena to occur?’
This world was already influenced too much by Demon Fiends.
Looking at the seed,
Su Qing didn’t extract it.
Instead, he decided to make it disappear from the world entirely.
He was no misanthrope.
He casually tossed in a single Spirit Stone.
[Synthesis Failed: Item Destroyed]
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Su Qing didn’t hesitate.
He had synthesized eight Immortal Enlightenment Leaves.
Four of them permanently increased his Comprehension by 200 times.
The other four, Su Qing put through a normal synthesis.
Their attributes doubled, becoming Unknown Leaves that increased Comprehension by 400 times.
Su Qing felt he had to endure the effects.
Su Qing consumed the second Immortal Enlightenment Leaf.
The effect was still excellent.
Su Qing absorbed it completely.
With the third leaf, the effects began to diminish.
It was only about a 150-fold increase.
By the fourth leaf, it was down to about a 100-fold increase.
In total, his Comprehension had increased by 650 times.
However, two months had passed.
Su Qing went out again to clear out Demon Fiends.
This would also be his last time doing so.
’The Sect Lord probably only wanted me to clear out the Demon Fiends that one time,’ Su Qing mused. ’He likely didn’t want to be bothered with it afterward, which is why he gave me the Enlightenment Tea leaves so quickly.’
「Two more months passed.」
The area around the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sacred Land now looked like an enlarged version of Zhengxuan City.
The construction was astonishingly fast.
’I don’t care what the Sect Lord is thinking.’
Su Qing didn’t need to concern himself with such things.
He just had to focus on his Cultivation and follow his own rhythm.
’My Pill Patterns haven’t even reached a thousand yet. There’s still a long way to go.’
’I also haven’t finished opening all my Micro Acupoints, which will take a considerable amount of time.’
Still, the combination of his current Comprehension and cultivation aptitude brought Su Qing a great deal of satisfaction.
For one, his God Demon Summoning Day had actually reached the Perfection stage.
It had been far too easy.
Now, Su Qing could casually unleash the God Demon Summoning Day at its maximum power, summoning a Great Sun with a radius of dozens of miles.
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Su Qing then proceeded to consume the Unknown Leaves.
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「Three months passed.」
Su Qing fully digested the Unknown Leaves.
The four leaves increased his Comprehension by more than 1,250 times.
Added to his previous gains, his total increase was around 1,900 times.
With such an increase, even a fool could become a genius.
Now, with his immensely powerful Comprehension, the Skill Level of his Visualization Technique increased by about 0.12 every three days.
That was quite good.
At the same time, Su Qing’s Spirit Platform had reached Perfection.
In the three months it took to assimilate the Unknown Leaves, he had perfected the Three Realms of Soul.
Su Qing was only about thirty years old, yet he was at the peak of the Three Realms. In this world, among the entire Human Race, perhaps only a so-called Demon-level prodigy could match his achievements.
Even his own junior sister couldn’t compare to his strength!
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「On Cold Extremity Peak.」
Having finished increasing his Comprehension, Su Qing treated himself to a delicious meal.
With his higher Comprehension, his culinary skills had improved by several levels. The food was insanely good.
The only downside was the slightly more troublesome preparation process.
’Right now, the God-Falling Sword is inferior to the God Demon Summoning Day.’
’It’s time to synthesize it. With my current Comprehension, I should have no problem cultivating an even higher-level Swordsmanship technique.’
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[Synthesis Successful: Immortal Transformation Triggered]
[Immortal God Sword: Not even an Immortal God can resist this sword. Requires comprehending the intent to defy Immortal Gods. Nurture the technique with this intent. With one strike of the sword, Immortal Gods will fall.]
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[Synthesis Successful: Demonization Triggered]
[Reversing Life Sword: No matter the existence, none can resist this sword. Requires comprehending a wisp of Fearless intent. Nurture the technique with this intent. With one strike of the sword, all things will perish.]
...
He synthesized it with Evolution three times.
Su Qing felt that was enough.
[Synthesis Successful: Evolution Triggered]
[Unknown Swordsmanship: No matter the existence, none can resist this sword. Requires a Fearless heart. Nurture the Swordsmanship with heart and intent. With one strike of the sword, all things will perish.]
"Rename to Reversing Life Sword."
"Extract."
Su Qing quickly comprehended the Reversing Life Sword.
With his current level of Comprehension, all Su Qing could say was that it was more than enough.
Once his Immortal Enlightenment Tree King grew, Su Qing could pick its leaves and continue synthesizing. It was a form of sustainable development.
The future was promising, and the present was pretty great, too.
Every time Su Qing mentally practiced the Reversing Life Sword in his mind, its Skill Level would increase slightly.
However, once it reached the Mastery stage, it stopped increasing.
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「One month later.」
"Sect Lord?" Su Qing said, recognizing the visitor.
Su Qing was sunbathing at the time.
"Su Qing, do you wish to join the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sacred Land?" Ji Qianqiu asked, his expression serious and earnest.
"Haven’t I always been a member of the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sacred Land?" Su Qing asked in confusion, looking at Ji Qianqiu with a puzzled expression.
"It’s different. You haven’t sworn the oath."
"In the past, the oath of the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sect had loopholes. Now, read the oath on this paper and swear it once, exactly as it’s written."
Su Qing took the paper.
On the paper, it read: I, [Name], swear to the Celestial Dao that I will pledge my allegiance to the current Ten Thousand Tribulations Sacred Land, led by Ji Qianqiu. I will never betray the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sacred Land, nor will I, by any means, harm or destroy the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sacred Land.
Su Qing fell silent. It was true; he had never sworn an oath.
"And if I don’t swear, Sect Lord?" Su Qing asked, looking up. ’This feels like signing my life away,’ he thought.
"If you don’t swear? Your status as a True Inheritor will be revoked, and you will become an Outer Disciple."
"No, according to the current terminology of the Sacred Land, you would be called a Scholar."
Ji Qianqiu remained composed. He turned to look at the scenery on Cold Extremity Peak and began to speak slowly. "Although you are in the Golden Core Realm, and the Elders Within the Sect rate your combat prowess highly,"
"I do not want a repeat of the Six Extremes Master incident."
Ji Qianqiu spoke very slowly, his tone perfectly calm. Since Su Qing had not taken the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sect’s Golden Core Chapter of the Ten Thousand Tribulations Divine Body, Ji Qianqiu wasn’t afraid of his relative combat strength.
Furthermore, the fact that Su Qing hadn’t cultivated the Golden Core Chapter of the Ten Thousand Tribulations Divine Body indicated he had abandoned the cultivation path of the Body Refining Lineage. Ji Qianqiu couldn’t care less about a True Inheritor who would throw away his own future.
If someone wasn’t loyal to the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sacred Land under his leadership, nothing else mattered.
But Su Qing could hear the extremely domineering undertone.
"Think of your master and your fellow female disciples."
"They have all sworn the oath. I will give you time to think about it, Su Qing. I won’t say much about a Golden Core Realm cultivator possessing the combat power of a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator. However, it is absolutely impossible for you, when you are in the Nascent Soul Realm, to rival someone at the Divinity Transformation Realm."
"Consider it carefully. I will come find you in seven days. If I cannot find you, I will assume you have defaulted and abandoned your status as a True Inheritor of the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sect."
Ji Qianqiu didn’t force Su Qing to make an immediate decision.
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