Cultivation: But Not a Game

PS: Brothers, at the end of the month, vote for the monthly ticket or it will expire.

All these servants are Spirit Puppets, part of the Dao grounds’ facilities, able to maintain the grounds as new even after a thousand or ten thousand years.

All the buildings and spirit fields on Tianying Island were left by the previous island master; they can be used directly or dismantled for reconstruction.

Su Yu certainly wouldn’t dismantle and rebuild; that would be too wasteful.

Holding the Tianying Immortal Talisman, he parted the formation and entered the Dao grounds. Immediately, Spirit Puppets came to pay respects, and Su Yu, holding the talisman, smoothly obtained control over these Spirit Puppets before taking over the entire Dao grounds.

When he fully took over the Dao grounds, he quickly discovered a huge surprise.

This Dao ground had been ownerless for over a thousand years, automatically maintained and operated, harvesting a batch of spirit grains and spiritual medicines annually. Now, the warehouse was piled high with an ocean of spiritual medicines, including numerous extremely precious millennia-old medicines.

Preliminary estimates placed the total value of the spiritual medicines in the warehouse at four to five hundred thousand taels of gold.

"Goodness, an unexpected delight."

All these stocks were at his discretion, with no need to contribute them to the sect.

Besides, within the Dao grounds are ten Spirit Vein nodes, one that is large and nine that are small. The central core Spirit Vein can accumulate up to 300 million Spiritual Qi experience and 100 Dao practice points daily.

Yes, it was the first time Su Yu saw that Spirit Vein cultivation could also gain Dao practice points; just this fact makes this Dao ground much stronger than the Thousand Star Cave Heaven.

This means that cultivating here needs not leave, and one can continuously gain cultivation points and Dao practice to enhance strength.

The nine smaller Spirit Vein nodes can accumulate 100 million Spiritual Qi experience and 20 Dao practice points daily.

Moreover, the entire Dao ground’s immortal island is extremely rich in Spiritual Qi. Cultivating at any location on the island allows refining nearly ten million Spiritual Qi experience daily, but not gaining Dao practice.

However, the island’s Spiritual Qi is limited and cannot accommodate too many cultivators practicing in the Dao grounds.

As the Dao child and master of the Tianying Dao grounds, Su Yu can choose up to nine cultivators to cultivate within the Dao grounds.

He already had an idea about this in his mind.

After staying in the Dao grounds for half a day, Su Yu took out the Tianying Immortal Talisman. With a thought, a ripple of space fluctuation spread, and he disappeared like a bubble.

Tianying Immortal Talisman (Ninth Grade): A precious item, the exclusive token of a Dao child of the Xuanzhen Immortal Sect (soul-bound).

Dao Child Permissions: This item is the credential of the Dao child identity and the control core of the Tianying Dao grounds. Holding it allows free entry and exit of the Profound Truth Cave Heaven and Tianying Dao grounds, free teleportation within the sect, and entrance and exit of the sect’s restricted areas.

Holding this item yields 100,000 sect contributions, 3 small merits, 1 large merit annually, and every hundred years yields 1 immortal merit.

Monitoring and Assessment Permissions: This immortal talisman can observe disciples’ cultivation, record their virtues, enroll them into the sect, or expel sinful disciples from the sect.

Immortal Power Protection: The talisman contains a trace of immortal power; when a Dao child perishes, the founder’s immortal power protects, transmitting the Primordial Spirit back to the sect, to regroup the flesh. After consuming the immortal power, the talisman needs to be enshrined in the Founder’s Hall for a month to regenerate immortal power.

Great Teleportation: Consumes 100,000 mana to activate the talisman, teleporting to any place once visited within 10 seconds, with no distance restriction, and a cooldown of one year.

Sub-talisman: Can split into up to nine sub-talismans for others. Holders possess permissions to enter and exit the Dao grounds and teleport within the sect.

All of the Dao child’s many permissions are implemented relying on this immortal talisman, soul-bound and unusable or droppable by others.

Su Yu teleported directly to Xuankong Mountain Fengyun Daoist School. Both senior martial brother and sister were there, but the master was absent. When he inquired, he was speechless.

"Master has been busy lately, going to drink every day."

Su Yu rubbed his temples and sent the master a message:

"Master, I have important business to discuss. Please return quickly."

Soon after sending the message, Jin Yinian’s voice sounded from behind:

"What is it that you need to discuss with me?"

Then a figure landed at the door and walked in with big strides.

Seeing his disciple, Jin Yinian wore a smile, patted his shoulder, and said:

"Disciple, you are more advantageous than I imagined. Since you have already crossed the tribulation and established the Dao Foundation, consider yourself graduated. But if you have any more questions in the future, feel free to come to me."

Su Yu was speechless. Sometimes this kind of effortless success evokes envy and resentment.

Others take in a disciple, investing effort and resources, yet find it hard to raise them up, and here he is, with a disciple who came up with hardly any exertion.

But luck is an uncontrollable thing; one can only say it’s fate.

Su Yu didn’t say much more. With a wave of his hand, space altered, and the four of them simultaneously appeared on the Profound Truth Cave Heaven’s Tianying Island.

The few of them marveled at the dense Spiritual Qi in the void and the island’s scenery, all with astonished expressions.

"Disciple, where is this?"

"Profound Truth Cave Heaven, Tianying Dao grounds."

"Profound Truth Cave Heaven? How could you bring us here... hissing!"

Jin Yinian realized it, his face showing a shocked expression:

"Disciple, have you become the Dao child of our sect? Did you previously establish a super-grade Immortal Foundation?"

Shi Chunan and Jin Qianyue were similarly shocked, their mouths agape.

Su Yu nodded and said:

"Indeed, I have established an Immortal Foundation and have notified the founder, becoming the Dao child of our sect, granted Tianying Immortal Island as my Dao grounds. However, most of the time I’ll be cultivating outside; the Dao grounds need caretaking. Please, Master and senior brothers and sisters, cultivate here while helping manage the Dao grounds."

"No problem!"

Jin Yinian came out from the palace overlooking the entire immortal island, laughing heartily:

"Disciple, rest assured, Master will take good care of your home."

Third senior brother Shi Chunan also said earnestly:

"Rest assured, junior brother, I will look after it for you."

Su Yu nodded with a smile:

"The grounds will largely remain the same; just upgrade the medicinal fields with some valuable spiritual medicines, primarily focusing on cultivation. I hope next time I return, senior brother will be ready for the tribulation."

Shi Chunan nodded vigorously, feeling warmth in his heart.

Originally treating my junior brother with sincerity has now yielded unimaginable rewards.

With the continuous support of cultivation points and Dao practices in this field, I can cultivate more Dao techniques and Secret Skills to increase my accumulation. After ten or twenty years of accumulation, I will definitely have enough assurance to overcome tribulations.

After arranging several senior brothers and sisters, Su Yu urged them not to spread the matter externally.

The senior brothers and sisters are fine, but he fears his master will talk too much and spread it everywhere.

Of course, it is impossible to completely conceal this, as the higher-ups of the sect will eventually know about it, but as long as it doesn’t become a heated topic, that’s fine.

After handling affairs at the sect, Su Yu sought out his second elder brother, sister-in-law, and Chu Xinyue, and told them the news as well.

Second Brother was overjoyed after hearing:

"I couldn’t imagine, little brother, your potential and talent are truly terrifying. A super-grade Immortal Foundation, an Earth Immortal is a certainty in the future, and there’s great hope for being a Celestial Immortal. Could the Su Family possibly become an immortal family?"

Second Sister-in-law was much calmer, but only outwardly calm, her excited eyes couldn’t be hidden.

As for Chu Xinyue, she was indeed calm. Su Yu looked at her, and she looked back, eyes slightly raised and smiling, softly saying:

"Congratulations!"

Su Yu directly walked up to her, suddenly reached out to grab her hand, her small hand slightly trembled wanting to break free, but being held by his two hands made it difficult to escape.

Second Brother’s mouth opened wide seeing this, wanting to say something but was pulled away by Second Sister-in-law, exiting the room quietly.

"Why are you pulling me?"

Meng Siyi glared at him:

"Are you stupid, can’t you see what’s going on?"

Second Brother scratched his head, saying:

"Isn’t little brother in a pair with Miss Qingchan, why is it now..."

"So what? If all three parties agree, they can completely be together."

"Ah this..."

"Miss Qingchan wouldn’t agree, would she?"

"Do you know she wouldn’t agree? Why are you meddling in their affairs?"

Su Huan.....

Inside the room, Su Yu reached out to hold onto Chu Xinyue’s warm soft hand, and whispered:

"Sister Xinyue, you know my heart, and I know your heart, there’s no need to avoid it."

"I..."

Chu Xinyue’s heart trembled, asking herself inwardly, she indeed didn’t feel opposed.

She didn’t know when her heart began to change, clearly she liked Qingli, at first she just wanted to cultivate an assistant, later after growing closer, she considered him a brother. It’s unclear when these feelings began to change.

Since the fall of the Thousand Feather Association?

After the establishment of the Thousand Star Hall?

Or was it this journey, becoming increasingly excellent, and increasingly strong in strength and potential that attracted her?

Or was it the long companionship on outings over the years that developed into feelings?

She is not clear when the change happened, but she knows she indeed has feelings for him.

Su Yu gently pulled her hand, she sighed lightly in her heart, following her feelings to lean into his embrace, whispering:

"How should I explain to Qingli?"

Su Yu held her in his arms, carefully feeling the delicate curves of the beauty, softly saying:

"Don’t worry, we’ll face it together."

"Hmm!"

He nodded lightly, nestled in the embrace without more words.

"Sister Xinyue, later go cultivate a Secret Skill."

"What Secret Skill?"

"Dual cultivation technique."

".....Hmm!"

A quarter of an hour later, at the Tianying Field, the main hall, Su Yu took out a Tianying Immortal Talisman sub-talisman and handed it to Chu Xinyue:

"In future when I go out, you can cultivate here."

"Hmm!"

She didn’t refuse, accepting the sub-talisman

The Immortal Talisman sub-talisman only has transmission functions within the sect and control rights over Spirit Puppets in the field, without authority to monitor disciples or Daoist authority. This item can be divided into at most nine, the master and senior brothers and sisters each have one, they were each assigned a spirit eye by Su Yu, the main spirit eye certainly cannot be divided out.

On top of the core spirit eye of the main hall, the two stood facing each other, cultivating separately, Su Yu’s panel popped open, displaying the sect treasure library exchange list.

He now has 10 great merits and 1 immortal merit in hand, keeping them won’t produce children, of course they must be used to enhance strength.

After becoming a Loose Immortal, a cultivator’s overall strength undergoes a qualitative change.

The Dao Foundation condensed from all his cultivation needless to say, after Foundation Establishment all Dao techniques can break through the limits.

For instance, the Celestial Ghost Transformation Skill originally could only be raised to a hundred layers before it could no longer be increased, now it can be further advanced to Dao Foundation-level Celestial Ghost Transformation Skill.

The Geng Metal Sword Fiend and Hundred Eyes Divine Light as well, though Hundred Eyes Divine Light is only at thirty layers now, it needs to be raised to a hundred layers first before advancing.

Additionally, Su Yu also plans to co-cultivate a Body Refining Skill.

With the Nine Heavens Battle Immortal Body building his immortal foundation, his Qi and Blood physique is even stronger than a same-level BOSS, wouldn’t it be a waste not to co-cultivate a Body Refining Skill with this battle strength?

Moreover, all his Dao techniques and Sword Skills derived from the Qi Refining Heart Skill and Sword Formulas have been enhanced along with his Foundation Establishment.