Cultivation: But Not a Game

Chapter 468 - 321: Profound Immortal Erosion Moon Patriarch, Merit Golden Wheel_2

If Su Yu could personally capture the Ancestor Erosion Moon and deliver him to the Celestial Pillar Mountain base of the Celestial Court, he could earn 1500 points of Celestial Court merit.

Holding the seal that contains a trace of Erosion Moon Ancestor’s divine thoughts, Su Yu could request the Celestial Court’s Immortal Treasure to pinpoint his location at Celestial Pillar Mountain. There is a significant chance of capturing Erosion Moon Ancestor, potentially earning 500 points of Celestial Court merit.

Celestial Court merit, as the name suggests, is a reward from the Celestial Court, which can be exchanged for various good things.

Different identities come with different permissions, and the limits on the treasures that can be exchanged differ as well. Non-Celestial Court members can exchange for up to Low Grade Immortal Treasure.

Having been a part of the Profound Clarity Upper Sect for so long, Su Yu has realized that treasures of the Immortal Treasure rank are even rarer than he imagined.

In the Earth Immortal Realm, treasure ranks range from Tier One to Tier Ten Treasure, and above Tier Ten lies Immortal Treasure, also known as Immortal Artifact, with ranks from Low Grade Immortal Treasure to Middle Grade Immortal Treasure, Upper Grade Immortal Treasure, Top-grade Immortal Treasure, and Forbidden Treasure.

Forbidden Treasure is also called Acquired Treasure.

Where there is Acquired, there is Innate Immortal Treasure, which also comes in three grades of upper, middle, and lower, Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, and Innate Treasure, such as the renowned Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, Heaven and Earth Cauldron, Chaos Bell, and Immortal Slaying Four Swords, all famous Innate Treasures.

The difference between Acquired and Innate Immortal Treasures lies in two aspects: firstly, all Innate Immortal Treasures inherently carry one Dao Law, and once refined into a Natal Treasure, one directly grasps that Dao Law.

For instance, the Sea-Suppressing Pearl that Su Yu possesses is a water-based Innate Spiritual Treasure; once he thoroughly refines it, he will be able to master the Water Element Law.

The rank of the Sea-Suppressing Pearl determines the strength of the Water Element Law mastered. If its rank reaches Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, the strength of the law could exceed Golden Immortal rank, regarded as ascending in one step.

Secondly, all Innate Immortal Treasures are one grade higher than Acquired Immortal Treasures, meaning that a Low Grade Innate Immortal Treasure is equivalent to a Middle Grade Immortal Treasure, and a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure is equivalent to an Acquired Treasure.

Innate Treasures are naturally unique and surpass all Acquired Treasures.

Combining Acquired with Innate, there are only six ranks of Immortal Treasures in total.

Therefore, even a Low Grade Immortal Treasure is extremely rare, and not all Celestial Immortals possess an Immortal Treasure.

Indeed, not all Celestial Immortals have an Immortal Treasure.

Just like the Celestial Eye People Celestial Immortal whom Su Yu defeated in the Grotto Heaven fragment did not have an Immortal Treasure for protection; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been taken down so easily.

Immortal Treasures are incredibly difficult to forge, with only top sects having the legacy for such expertise; besides them, the only stable source of Immortal Treasures is the number one power of the three realms — the Celestial Court.

Therefore, Su Yu has made up his mind to hand over the Erosion Moon Blood Seal to Celestial Pillar Mountain to earn Celestial Court merit.

Exchanging a perilous Blood Seal for 500 points of merit, Su Yu finds it quite worthwhile.

Whether to continue accumulating merit to exchange for Immortal Treasures in the future, or to gather enough merit to join the Celestial Court one day.

Right now, unable to go to Celestial Pillar Mountain, Su Yu heavily seals the Erosion Moon Blood Seal for later, then turns to return to cultivation within the Sea-Suppressing Pearl.

Meanwhile, Vast Sea is opening up new spiritual fields on the Central Continent of Sea Suppressing Realm to cultivate various Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures obtained from other residences, especially those fourteen types of Tier Six Immortal Medicines and two Spirit Root seeds.

One of the Spirit Roots is the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine, which at maturity every hundred thousand years can produce up to nine Profound Heaven Immortal Fruits, capable of significantly boosting cultivation when refined.

The Spirit Root corresponds to Tier Seven Immortal Fruit, at the level of Golden Immortal.

Even the Golden Immortal level can enhance cultivation, and below Golden Immortal it is an especially valuable treasure.

The only problem is the lengthy growth period — even with a hundredfold time acceleration within Sea Suppressing Realm, it would still take a thousand years.

Yet, thinking from another perspective, by the time a thousand years have passed, Su Yu should have reached True Immortal cultivation, and the Profound Heaven Immortal Fruit would be ripe just in time, which is not bad.

The other Spirit Root seed is the core of a Peento Peach; estimated to be left by some big figure who attended the Celestial Court’s Peento Peach banquet. If it can be cultivated, it would grow into a Peento Peach tree, yielding Peento Peaches.

Of course, this Peento Peach is not comparable to those original Spirit Roots in the Celestial Court’s Peento Peach Garden but does indeed possess some divine effects, equally capable of greatly enhancing cultivation, with efficacy not inferior to the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine.

These two Spirit Roots are planted at the core of the Central Continent in Sea Suppressing Realm; Vast Sea specifically set aside an area and deployed arrays for protection.

The remaining fourteen types of Tier Six Immortal Medicines are planted nearby, each with its own designated area, waiting for future propagation to collectively cultivate.

Tier Four and Tier Five Immortal Medicines are planted further afield, all arranged.

Just managing these affairs keeps Vast Sea busy for months; she must also reforge seven Tier Ten Treasures, later study mechanical techniques, and figure out a way to activate three Celestial Immortal-level Mechanical Puppets.

"Busy, too busy."

Su Yu watches for a while, then turns back to continue cultivating.

In the following days, he spends most of his time within Sea Suppressing Realm, heading to Dragon Turtle Peak every three months to listen to Dao, then directly spending money on mission tools to complete the tasks given by his master.

It’s not that he’s lazy; it’s mainly because he earned too much from the last wave. The Immortal currency from his master’s tasks is beneath his interest now, and with this time, he’d rather spare some moments for cultivation.

Alongside routine cultivation, Su Yu allocates time to practice two new cultivation arts: Array and Mechanical Techniques.

Previously not practicing these arts was because his main focus was elevating his cultivation, but now that cultivation advancement has slowed, there’s extra time for these pursuits.

Although Vast Sea can wield array and mechanical techniques, it does not prevent him from practicing as well.

Every day he arranges half the time to absorb Spiritual Power and transform it into spiritual experience, devotes two hours to swordsmanship, and spends the remaining time split equally between array and mechanical technique research.