NOVEL NEXT Chapter 45 – Wildlands Sect Assassination
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[Year 49, you encountered a large tribe and learned from them that the Great Wilderness is a desert connecting several major regions.]
[Its area is even comparable to the total of all the major regions combined.]
[You learned from this tribe that leaving the Great Wilderness to reach other regions is not something that can be accomplished in a short time.]
[So, you stopped your journey, chose a secluded spot, and built a residence to focus on your cultivation.]
[You thought that since it would take too much time, you might as well give up for now. After all, improving your strength is the most important thing.]
[You didn't want to waste the simulation time you earned by escaping from the Southern Regions.]
[Year 50, you worked hard on your cultivation and made some progress.]
[Year 60, you continued to cultivate diligently.]
[Year 70, after decades of persistence, your Wind Chasing Art finally reached the Great Accomplishment stage.]
[At this point, when you activated the Wind Chasing Art, you moved like the wind, your speed increasing several times.]
[Year 100, while refining your Golden Core, you triggered a random enlightenment, increasing your cultivation speed tenfold and making your thoughts more active.]
[This enlightenment lasted for half a year.]
[When the enlightenment ended, you discovered that your Golden Core had finally developed a faint new pattern.]
[Although the pattern was not yet clear, you could roughly see that it connected the nine upper patterns with the dragon pattern at the bottom, just as you had imagined.]
[This made you extremely excited.]
[With a clear hope in sight, you became even more motivated and diligent in your cultivation.]
[Year 120, you noticed that the eleven patterns on your Golden Core were completely connected, although the newly appeared pattern was still not very clear.]
[Year 138, your Eleven-Grade Golden Core was fully formed.]
[Now you only needed to use spiritual energy to build a bridge between heaven and earth, connecting your meridians with the Golden Core, to break through to the Core Formation stage.]
[You would be the first ever to reach the Core Formation stage with an Eleven-Grade Golden Core. Thinking of this, you laughed out loud: "Who else can compare?"]
[You prepared to make a breakthrough in one go to the Core Formation stage.]
[You began to continuously absorb spiritual energy, preparing to build the bridge between heaven and earth.]
[As you built the bridge, various phenomena started to appear in the sky.]
[High above you, several elders in the Tribulation Crossing stage saw the phenomena and their expressions changed.]
[They knew you were preparing to break through, and the commotion clearly indicated that you had refined a high-quality Golden Core.]
[One of the elders in the Tribulation Crossing stage sighed and said to the others: "I'll take care of it!"]
[Not long after, as you were building the bridge to break through, you saw a giant seal descending from the sky, aiming to crush you.]
[You didn't know what was happening, but you knew someone was attacking you.]
[You didn't have time to think and immediately activated the Teleportation Jade Plate to escape, but this time the teleportation failed.]
[After activating the Teleportation Jade Plate, you weren't teleported away, as if the surrounding space had been sealed.]
[Your feeling was correct; this attack was not a coincidence but a premeditated assault, with the area around you already sealed off.]
[You didn't know that during your nearly hundred years of cultivation here, the calamities caused by your Calamity Physique had brought great disasters to the surrounding thousands of miles.]
[This situation had long been reported to the Wildlands Sect in the Great Wilderness.]
[You had been under the surveillance of the Wildlands Sect for a long time, with all your actions monitored.]
[If not for the ancient texts recording that those who killed someone with the Calamity Physique would meet a bad end, the people of the Wildlands Sect would have acted long ago, and you wouldn't have survived.]
[But now, your breakthrough attempt made the elder feel that he couldn't wait any longer. The higher the cultivation level of the Calamity Physique, the greater the range of its disaster effects.]
[As a righteous sect, the Wildlands Sect couldn't allow the Calamity Physique to grow, or the entire Nine Mystic Realm would suffer.]
[In an instant, the giant seal descended. Even though you had the Calamity Physique and were resilient, you had no hope of surviving an attack from the Tribulation Crossing stage.]
[You died at the age of 158!]
[This simulation has ended.]
[You can choose two rewards from this simulation: Calamity Physique (Talent), Wind Chasing Art (Great Accomplishment), Cultivation Level (Perfect Foundation Establishment).]
[Calamity Physique (Talent)]: Price 1 million energy value.
[Wind Chasing Art (Great Accomplishment)]: Price 20 million energy value.
[Cultivation Level (Perfect Foundation Establishment)]: Price 100 million energy value. (Note: Includes Eleven-Grade Golden Core.)
"What a pity!"
Jiang Yifeng sighed inwardly.
This simulation had actually lasted quite long.
But Jiang Yifeng knew it could have lasted even longer if not for the Calamity Physique.
He was eliminated by those righteous cultivators.
This made Jiang Yifeng quite frustrated. He hadn't done anything evil; it was all because of his talent. Why did they have to kill him?
Of course, he was just venting. He knew how detestable this talent was.
But looking at the rewards from this simulation, Jiang Yifeng couldn't help but smile.
An Eleven-Grade Golden Core.
Although he hadn't broken through to the Core Formation stage, there was still time for that next time.
The hardest part was over.
Jiang Yifeng roughly calculated that just refining the Golden Core had taken him three or four simulation attempts.
The total time spent had already exceeded 200 years.
He had experienced enlightenment, used spirit stones to accelerate, and had some fortuitous encounters.
Considering all this, it was no wonder that someone who could refine a Ten-Grade Golden Core during the Foundation Establishment stage only appeared once in millions of years.
After all, the lifespan during the Foundation Establishment stage was only 300 years, and one had to subtract the time spent in early cultivation and reserve the golden period for breaking through to higher realms.
There wasn't much time left to refine the Golden Core.
Although Jiang Yifeng had an Eleven-Grade Golden Core, he knew that most of his time was spent refining the tenth pattern.
The dragon pattern on the Golden Core was, to be precise, a stroke of luck.
So, the actual time he spent refining the Golden Core was only enough to produce a Ten-Grade Golden Core.
Without further thought, Jiang Yifeng made his reward selection.
"I choose Cultivation Level and Wind Chasing Art (Great Accomplishment)."
Although the Calamity Physique talent had helped him escape the Southern Regions, Jiang Yifeng still didn't choose it.
In the simulation, it didn't matter much, but in reality, Jiang Yifeng felt he couldn't handle it.
If he took it, it would easily expose him and harm his friends and family, even everyone around him.
Jiang Yifeng didn't want to end up alone in the world after many years.
[Ding, Cultivation Level extracted successfully, deducting 100 million energy value, remaining energy value 11 billion...]
[Ding, Wind Chasing Art (Great Accomplishment) extracted successfully, deducting 20 million energy value, remaining energy value 11 billion...]
Soon, Jiang Yifeng felt the changes in himself.
Before long, the eleventh pattern appeared on the Golden Core in his Qi Sea.
As for the Wind Chasing Art (Great Accomplishment), Jiang Yifeng couldn't immediately feel the improvement; he estimated he would only sense it when he used the body technique.
With everything done, Jiang Yifeng saw that it was already bright outside.
He stretched and walked out, muttering to himself: "Another beautiful day."
As expected, he went to the Pleasure House to listen to music again.
