Others Level Up, but I Pursue Cultivation!

[The refining of the Essence-Nourishing Pill is not much more difficult than the Essence-Nourishing Pill, but your alchemy skills have improved significantly, and you quickly mastered the refining of the Essence-Nourishing Pill.]

[Another three months passed. During these three months, you attempted to refine over a hundred batches of Essence-Nourishing Pills, but only twenty batches formed successfully. After that, you painstakingly researched the Essence-Nourishing Pill, and your skills gradually became more proficient.]

[In the seventh year, you had joined the Descending Sect for more than a year. During this time, you seemed to be diligently helping the Descending Sect refine pills, but in reality, you were using the sect's resources to improve your alchemy skills.]

[Due to the ample supply of medicinal herbs, you almost never lacked Essence-Nourishing Pills this year. Hundreds of Essence-Nourishing Pills made your spiritual energy more solid, and you felt your strength had more than doubled compared to before.]

[But what benefited you the most was the Essence-Nourishing Pill. You could feel your divine sense constantly growing stronger, although it had not yet reached the point where it could take shape. However, you had already achieved effortless inner sight and had far greater control over your internal spiritual energy, meridians, and dantian than before.]

[Of course, most crucially, as your divine sense grew stronger, your alchemy skills also progressed rapidly. Your grasp of the timing and heat control in alchemy became more exquisite.]

Su Xing was satisfied as he nodded. Refining the Essence-Nourishing Pill strengthened his divine sense, which in turn improved his alchemy skills. This further enhancement in alchemy allowed Su Xing to produce more and higher quality Essence-Nourishing Pills, creating a positive feedback loop.

The sufficient supply of Essence-Nourishing Pills made Su Xing's spiritual energy even more solid and his Golden Core more perfect. Perhaps, Su Xing was not far from achieving a top-grade Golden Core?

Moreover, what shocked Su Xing was that the Descending Sect's control over spiritual medicine and the cultivation world was obviously far superior to the Great Xia Military, significantly aiding his cultivation level improvement.

It seemed as if Su Xing was working for the Descending Sect, but in reality, the sect was providing Su Xing with cultivation resources for free!

"I just wonder, aside from these spiritual medicines, does the Descending Sect have resources like spirit stones?"

Su Xing felt a slight desire. He was usually reluctant to use spirit stones for cultivation because the number of spirit stones he had was always insufficient. Using them would leave him without enough spirit stones for simulations.

But even so, Su Xing had to use a few spirit stones when refining elixirs.

Over the past month, Su Xing's number of spirit stones had dwindled to less than a thousand, with no source for resupply. If his spirit stones were to run out completely, Su Xing would indeed find it difficult to make any progress.

"The spirit stones on hand should suffice for another year and a half... If used sparingly, perhaps over a year. But before they are completely used up, I must find another source of spirit stones."

Su Xing thought this and then continued the simulation.

[One day, after you provided a new batch of two hundred Organ Refining Pills, that Shadow Protector sought you out again. He did not hold back in praising you, stating frankly that you had the potential to become the leader of the new generation in the Descending Sect.]

[In front of hundreds of disciples, the Shadow Protector announced that you had become the eighteenth elder of the Descending Sect, bestowing upon you the title of "Medicine." Other disciples within the sect began respectfully addressing you as Elder Medicine.]

[After becoming an elder of the Descending Sect, you had significantly more authority than before. You not only had the right to form your own team but also gained the qualification to enter the sect's treasure vault!]

[You requested that the elder you had previously met transfer Wang Qingxuan under your command. You were extremely popular, and the other elders, respecting you greatly, naturally agreed to such a trivial request.]

[With Wang Qingxuan's assistance, you found your tasks much more manageable. Wang Qingxuan not only secretly helped you investigate the overall strength of the Descending Sect but also made your life much happier.]

[After completing your monthly alchemy tasks, you prepared to explore the Descending Sect's treasure vault with Wang Qingxuan.]

Su Xing wore a strange expression on his face upon seeing this. He had actually become an elder of the Descending Sect—and was even called Elder Medicine?

At the same time, Su Xing was very surprised. He knew that the elder he had previously encountered was at least at the Heavenly King level, and he was now the eighteenth elder...

This indicated that there were at least seventeen Heavenly King-level experts in the entire Descending Sect!

Not to mention the protectors above the elders, who were likely at the Martial Emperor level!

Martial Emperor level experts numbered only a few hundred in the entire Great Xia Country, yet the Descending Sect had such experts, which highlighted how extraordinary this sect was.

Of course, what intrigued Su Xing the most at this moment was the so-called treasure vault of the Descending Sect.

"The sect's treasure vault... Could the second part of the Changchun Technique be in there?"

Su Xing felt a tinge of desire as he continued the simulation.

[Only elders of the sect were qualified to enter the treasure vault, and they must be accompanied by a protector to enter the vault.]

[Led by the Shadow Elder, you entered the locale of the sect's treasure vault. To your surprise, the so-called treasure vault seemed not to be in the real world but in a special duplicate realm.]

Su Xing felt a stir in his heart upon seeing this. Establishing the treasure vault in a special duplicate realm seemed too bold.

He knew that clones had a risk of disappearing. If one day the duplicate realm vanished, wouldn't the Descending Sect's treasure vault be lost entirely?

Su Xing wanted to see with his own eyes what this so-called sect treasure vault looked like.

With this thought, he said,

"I want to redeem an hour of immersive simulation!"

[Ding, you are about to spend 100,000 points for an hour-long immersive simulation. Remaining points: 693,000 points.]

The simulator's voice rang in Su Xing's ears.

Su Xing felt his vision change and found himself in an unfamiliar place.

Clearly in the wilderness, with beautiful mountains and rivers, distant overlapping peaks, and occasionally glimpses of rabbits and deer running in the forests.

This was evidently not the real world, as with the development of technology, no area on Blue Star was preserved so perfectly in nature anymore.

Beside Su Xing were several companions wearing masks, clad in long robes that covered them completely.

Among them, a petite figure caught Su Xing's eye immediately—Wang Qingxuan.

"Elder Medicine, what's wrong?"

A black-robed person walking ahead turned back and asked. It was a very magnetic and neutral voice, making it difficult to discern gender.

Having just entered the simulator, Su Xing was momentarily stunned by the sudden question but quickly responded.

He smiled and said,

"I was just thinking that the scenery of this duplicate realm is truly beautiful! In the real world, you can't see such a view anymore!"

Hearing Su Xing's words, the Shadow Protector's voice had a hint of surprise, and they asked in confusion:

"Could it be that Elder Medicine wants to join our Nature Faction?"

Su Xing was puzzled by the remark. What was the Nature Faction? Was this the factional division within the Descending Sect?

So Su Xing asked,

"Shadow Protector, what is the Nature Faction?"