Cultivation: But Not a Game

Chapter 511 - 334: Golden Core Grade 4, Five Element Extinction Divine Ray, and the Legend of the Dragon Prince

Back at Dragon Castle, Su Yu first sold off the massive amount of black ice iron he had acquired, totaling 28,600 celestial currency.

Adding the previous income, there is now a total of 88,172 celestial currency.

Returning to the dojo, he took out the life longevity fruit, tossed it into the air, and pointed his finger, causing the fruit to split in two.

One piece retained 77,500 years of lifespan, while the other could only increase lifespan by 5,000 years.

Next, he proceeded similarly, effortlessly dividing a total of five 5,000-year life longevity fruits, with the larger fruit left with 57,500 years of lifespan.

Then....

Su Yu anonymously placed an order with a local force called the Celestial Pavilion, to monitor the top master of the Snake-man civilization, Yu Jun, over the long term.

Not to act immediately, but to first understand his habits before finding an appropriate moment to strike.

As for now, he would honestly stay in Dragon Castle to cultivate.

He spent a total of four major achievements to exchange a Supreme Dao Skill for Xia Xiaoyue, Yue Qingsi, Cui Yunxian, and Yan Qiubai within Dragon Castle— the Purple Mansion Star River Scripture with True Interpretation, replacing their original skills.

Originally, only Xia Xiao practiced the Supreme Ten Thousand Laws Celestial Book, while the other three practiced sect-level Heart Skills, with Yan Qiubai practicing the profound-level Five Elements Scripture.

The original plan was to use the Power of Heavenly Dao to elevate the Five Elements Scripture to a Supreme level, but plans change, and now it seems better to directly switch to a Supreme Dao Skill.

Switching cultivation is simple, as Dragon Castle provides a place for such transitions, and Su Yu himself can host the great array for their switch.

After completing the switch, Su Yu spent 40,000 celestial currency, equipping each of them with three Tier Ten Treasures with potential to advance to Immortal Treasures, plus they each already had one piece, so each held four Tier Ten Treasures, among which Yue Qingsi had three Tier Ten Treasures plus two Tier Ten Flying Swords.

Next, they just needed to stabilize their cultivation after switching and elevate their level to 199 to prepare for the second heavenly tribulation.

This won’t take too long, as they are already above level 190, and cultivating in the Sea Suppressing Realm will allow them to reach completion in about a year.

If they want it to be faster, they can directly take the Purple Mansion Heaven Essence Pill to swiftly complete their foundation.

During their cultivation, Su Yu also kept himself busy, starting his closed-door training at Dragon Castle.

He didn’t need to cultivate slowly, directly absorbing and refining a large number of Purple Mansion Heaven Essence Pills.

Each pill refined provided a whole 100 billion cultivation points or 10,000 Tao points, with his natural talent doubling it to 200 billion cultivation points or 20,000 Tao points.

In the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, there are a total of 1,000 Heavenly Fruit Trees, maturing every three years, each bearing 36 fruits, totaling 36,000 fruits from 1,000 trees.

Two batches have already matured, totaling 72,000 fruits, of which 60,000 were sold, leaving 12,000, all refined by Cang Hai into Purple Mansion Heaven Essence Pills.

Each furnace of Purple Mansion Heaven Essence Pills requires three heavenly fruits and yields 3-9 pills.

Cang Hai’s alchemy skills are exceptionally high, with initial failures slowly turning into continuous successes, eventually stabilizing at nine pills per furnace. From 12,000 heavenly fruits, 25,420 Purple Mansion Heaven Essence Pills were refined.

Each pill was valued at 10 celestial currency, meaning this batch of heavenly fruits, costing 60,000 celestial currency, produced pills worth a total of 250,000 celestial currency, over fourfold profit.

As Cang Hai refines the next batch, ensuring a 100% success rate, profits will reach sixfold by then.

The next batch of heavenly fruits will mature quickly, with less than a year to go.

"Next, first cultivate, and after the fruits mature in a year, refine them all into pills, sell half for maximum profit, and use the other half to enhance my own strength."

"During this period, see if there’s a chance to catch the solitary Yu Jun; if there’s a chance, act decisively, otherwise continue cultivating, he’ll come out eventually."

"As long as I can seize the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, refining it into my Sea-Suppressing Pearl, Cang Hai can cross the Celestial Human Tribulation ahead of time."

Although the Sea-Suppressing Pearl belongs to Su Yu, Cang Hai, as its artifact spirit and heavenly Tao, can fully unleash its power.

A lower-grade Innate Immortal Treasure is comparable to a middle-grade Innate Immortal Treasure. Combined with the Tribulation Crossing Platform, and Cang Hai’s strength, the success rate of crossing the Celestial Human Tribulation will be exceedingly high.

"After Cang Hai crosses the tribulation, we can establish an ancient teleportation array here at Dragon Castle to return to Blue Mountain."

"With my current strength, sweeping across Blue Mountain is absolutely no problem."

"With a stable rear, I can then attempt to bring over a batch of already Foundation Establishment subordinates from Blue Mountain."

Blue Mountain is a small place, and the level of the Cyan Immortal Domain far surpasses Blue Mountain, making it certainly dangerous for them, but the opportunities are greater.

"Exhale, cultivate!"

Opening his mouth to inhale, a Purple Mansion Heaven Essence Pill was swallowed and directly shattered in his stomach, converting into a surging medicinal power that was refined into a complete 200,000 Tao points.

"Continue!"

With Su Yu’s current physical body, he could continuously refine, processing 240 pills a day, needing a day of rest each time to cleanse the pill toxins from within, taking nearly eight months to refine all 25,420 Purple Mansion Heaven Essence Pills.

Approximately half, or 12,000 pills, converted into cultivation points, totaling 2,200 trillion cultivation points.

13,240 pills were converted into Tao points, totaling 23.48 million Tao points.

The normal gains from refining these Purple Mansion Heaven Essence Pills should have been much higher; the reason for being smaller is due to resistance to medication.

Yes, refining so many has developed resistance to the medication.

Cultivation points fell short by 200 trillion, and Tao points by 20 million from expectations.

Considering this situation, Su Yu estimated that consuming another 50,000 or so Purple Mansion Heaven Essence Pills would halve the medication’s potency.

He estimated a maximum of 100,000 pills could be consumed before resistance would reduce the medication’s potency to one-third, at which point a change to higher-grade pills would be necessary.