Foundation Establishment Means Death Sentence? Did My Simulator Glitch?

Chapter 75: Escaping the Desolate Island!

【You naturally understood what Jiang Yang meant.】

【“Don't worry, Senior Brother Jiang. Eldest Senior Sister already passed the complete Great Void Technique on to me. I've already cultivated it to the Minor Accomplishment Realm.”】

【Worried that Jiang Yang would not believe you, you chose to demonstrate the Great Void Technique in front of him. You vanished from where you stood in an instant, then slowly stepped out of the void behind him.】

【Seeing this, Jiang Yang took a deep breath as he looked at you.】

【“Little Junior Brother, your talent really is monstrous. Of all the geniuses I've seen, no one outside Eldest Senior Sister's family has ever managed to cultivate the Great Void Technique.”】

【Just when you thought you could successfully leave the Endless Sea Region, Jiang Yang's next words poured cold water over you.】

【Jiang Yang told you that mastering the Great Void Technique was only one of the necessary conditions for leaving this place.】

【Jiang Yang told you that with your current Initial Void Refinement cultivation, the odds of leaving the Desolate Island and returning to the Canglan Realm were extremely low.】

【You asked him what level of cultivation was needed at the very least to leave safely.】

【When Jiang Yang heard that, his eyes narrowed slightly.】

【“At the very least, Initial Integration Realm. It seems we'll still be trapped on this Desolate Island for several more decades.”】

【You were unwilling to accept that reality and asked Jiang Yang whether there was any other way.】

【“It's not that there isn't another way... it's just far too risky. If it fails, all of us will die without a burial place.”】

【When you heard Jiang Yang's words, hope ignited in your heart once again.】

【If things were truly as he said, and one had to reach the Integration Realm to leave, then you were only at Initial Void Refinement now. Who knew how long it would take before you reached Integration Realm?】

【Curious, you asked Jiang Yang what method he was talking about.】

【Jiang Yang let out a long sigh. He had not wanted to tell you this method in the first place.】

【“As everyone knows, the Endless Sea Region is dangerous because its surface is filled with deadly astral winds.”】

【“Even if you can hide within the Great Void Technique to avoid the astral winds...”】

【“The moment you come out of the Great Void Technique, in that brief interval before you cast it again, you will still be injured by the astral winds.”】

【“And I don't need to tell you how powerful those astral winds are. I'm sure you've experienced it yourself.”】

【You naturally knew how terrifying the astral winds over the Endless Sea Region were. Last time, you had only managed to flee to this island through sheer luck.】

【Even now, despite having broken through to the Void Refinement Realm, you still did not dare rashly enter the Endless Sea Region without any stored Qi and Blood.】

【Jiang Yang looked at you and continued.】

【“The method I'm referring to is this: I'll help you block one round of astral winds and buy you as much time as possible.”】

【“As for what our final outcome will be, that depends entirely on whether you can find a way out.”】

【After hearing that, you fell silent for a long time before asking Jiang Yang what the chances were of successfully escaping.】

【Jiang Yang closed his eyes, then raised two fingers and said to you,】

【“Less than twenty percent!”】

【When you heard that, your heart suddenly sank.】

【Although Jiang Yang said the odds were less than twenty percent, only you knew that with the Great Void Technique enhanced by your mastery of movement techniques, the odds could rise to thirty or even forty percent.】

【But even with thirty or forty percent odds, you still did not dare gamble.】

【“Senior Brother, what if I break through to Mid Void Refinement?”】

【You saw Jiang Yang shake his head.】

【“Breaking through to Mid Void Refinement would increase the odds by at most another ten percent.”】

【You felt somewhat disappointed. Breaking through one minor realm only raised the chances by that little.】

【In the end, you decided to remain on this Desolate Island for the time being and continue cultivating.】

【After hearing your decision, Jiang Yang was very much in favor of it.】

【And so, you and Zhou Lingxi began cultivating on the Desolate Island together with Jiang Yang.】

【Year Fifteen—】

【After many years of bitter cultivation, your cultivation finally broke through to Mid Void Refinement.】

【As you felt this powerful strength once more, you thought to yourself,】

【“I've finally caught up to my true body's cultivation!”】

【At the same time, Jiang Yang was also happy for you when he saw your breakthrough.】

【In Jiang Yang's eyes, every time you advanced by one minor realm, his chances of leaving the Desolate Island increased by another ten percent.】

【Several years passed, and Zhou Lingxi, who had previously only been at Core Formation, had now also broken through to the Nascent Soul Realm.】

【You looked at the joyful expressions on Jiang Yang's and Zhou Lingxi's faces as they celebrated your breakthrough, yet you could not feel happy at all.】

【You had been thinking too simply before and had overlooked a very important issue.】

【The reason you had been able to break through to the Void Refinement Realm so smoothly after arriving on the island was largely because you had absorbed the Qi and Blood of the Myriad Demon Sect and the Wind Thunder Sect.】

【Now that you no longer had any Qi and Blood, you would inevitably suffer backlash from the Bizarre Insects when the time came to break through to the Integration Realm.】

【The Spiritual Energy obtained by refining Qi and Blood with the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art was pure Spiritual Energy, untouched by contamination.】

【At present, with neither a Secret Realm nor any Qi and Blood, you had no hope whatsoever of breaking through to the Integration Realm.】

【At this moment, Jiang Yang keenly noticed something unusual about you.】

【“What's wrong, Little Junior Brother?”】

【“You clearly already broke through to Mid Void Refinement. Why don't you look happy at all?”】

【You let out a sigh and explained your concerns to Jiang Yang.】

【After hearing that, Jiang Yang's expression became somewhat strange.】

【“Little Junior Brother, I remember that you broke through to the Void Refinement Realm not long after arriving on the island. Aren't you some kind of special physique?”】

【You told Jiang Yang that you indeed had a special physique, but your Demonic Dao Sacred Body was somewhat special, and that it could only provide bonuses to Demonic Dao cultivation techniques.】

【Afterward, you told Jiang Yang that the reason you had been able to break through to the Void Refinement Realm before was entirely due to your cultivation technique, while your physique had only served as a supporting effect.】

【For a moment, Jiang Yang fell silent.】

【He had not expected such a complication. Before, he had unconsciously assumed that your physique could suppress the Bizarre Insects and allow you to break through to the Integration Realm. The only issue had merely been time.】

【But now, in Jiang Yang's view, there was only one way for you to leave the Desolate Island—and it was also the most dangerous way.】

【Year Twenty—】

【Five years of cultivation made your cultivation more solid, but you still had not broken through to Late Void Refinement.】

【Only then did you realize that the higher the realm, the more difficult it became to break through.】

【Before this, you had always casually refined Qi and Blood, and that had given you the illusion that your cultivation could break through at will.】

【After several years of cultivation, your foundation had become even more stable.】

【You saw that Zhou Lingxi's cultivation had now also reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection.】

【You knew this could not continue. There was no telling how long it would take before you reached Void Refinement Great Perfection.】

【You found Jiang Yang and told him that you wanted to make one attempt and leave the Desolate Island now.】

【Jiang Yang looked at your resolute eyes and knew that this time you were serious and not joking.】

【“Sigh!”】

【“I only hope your choice is the right one.”】

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