Chapter 336: Training Ground and Spiritual Herb Field
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Translated by Frog in the Well
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As a result of making the wish.
【Lifespan】: 313 / 2801
His lifespan, which had been 6,301 years, decreased to 2,801 years.
It meant that 3,500 years of lifespan had been consumed to make the training ground and the spiritual herb field.
Although slightly more than half was consumed, he was curious whether they were made well according to his wishes.
Pondering on which of the two facilities to examine first, he headed to the training ground.
‘Its appearance is ordinary.’
It was exactly the appearance that came to mind when one said a training hall or a martial arts hall .
It was a pavilion built with gray stone-paved ground, reddish-brown wooden pillars, and black roof tiles.
The outer appearance did not look like much, but it was too early to be disappointed.
Was it not a place made by consuming half of his lifespan?
Following the stone steps in the front, he went up and opened the main gate. The moment he passed the courtyard and entered the pavilion.
The wind brushing past his cheeks smelled of soil.
A clear sky, pure white puffy clouds, and an endlessly unfolding earth filled his vision to the brim.
‘It is wide.’
An endlessly wide field lay inside the room. It was wide enough that he could run wild to his heart’s content without any issues, bringing a natural nod to his head.
The effect of this place, the training ground, was exceptionally intuitive.
It could be explained in just a single sentence.
Time flows three times faster than outside.
It meant that even if he spent three days in the training ground, only one day passed outside.
Although it was a rustic and simple effect, its performance was like a miracle.
Because just by utilizing this place, he could grow three times faster than others.
‘If I train here… I can become a Void Refinement stage Great Circle cultivator in eight or nine years.’
And on top of that.
An extremely, extremely important change occurred, which pleased him to the point of ecstasy.
That change was precisely.
‘The recovery speed of my Supreme Great Ability became three times faster.’
Originally, his Supreme Great Ability recovered on a monthly cycle, but with the creation of the training ground, it changed to a ten-day cycle.
Merely ten days.
In a time not even lasting a fortnight, his completely depleted Supreme Great Ability came to be filled to the brim.
This was truly…
“Haha.”
The laugh that burst out could not be stopped.
He had been troubled because there were increasingly more places to use his Supreme Great Ability, but a vast leeway arose.
Looking at the endlessly unfolding plains, the training ground, he nodded his head for a long time.
Once his excitement settled, he saw a few points to improve.
‘It is good that it is wide, but it will be inconvenient for several people to use it together.’
First, he divided the endlessly unfolding earth into about two hundred sectors.
He separated the spaces entirely so that they wouldn’t affect each other, and even made separate entrances.
After a while.
The outer appearance of the training ground changed drastically.
Its scale, which was at the level of a detached house, expanded to about the size of a massive training field, and the room which had been exactly one also increased to about a hundred.
Room 1, Room 2, Room 3… Room 100, Room 101…
Since countless rooms were lined up, it looked like a large inn.
As he adjusted the concentration of the world Qi differently for each room, even low-realm cultivators became capable of using it comfortably.
Smiling in satisfaction, he summoned the clones whose main duty was training and gestured with his chin.
“From now on, train over there.”
“Understood.”
Looking at the clones scattering and entering each room, he fell into thought for a moment.
In truth, there was one fatal disadvantage he had realized the moment he saw the training ground.
No, should he call it a natural price rather than a disadvantage?
If he used this training ground, he would age three times faster, and that was slightly bothering.
‘I should ponder on what to do…’
This time, he headed to the spiritual herb field.
Going to the existing spiritual herb field where Wuji’s nest was located, he saw a field he hadn’t seen before.
It was a spacious field of about a thousand pyeong, but it was covered in a milky-white barrier, distinguishing it from other fields.
Just what kind of ability would this field possess?
Since the Secret Realm of the Mind was a divine ability engraved in his soul, he generally got a feel for it.
‘It is a field where time can be accelerated by consuming my Supreme Great Ability.’
Ruminating on the various pieces of information floating in his mind, he took a step.
Passing through the milky-white barrier and entering the spiritual herb field, even the air was different.
With every breath, dense world Qi filled his lungs to the brim, and the soil on the ground was Rank 7 spiritual soil fully harboring world Qi.
‘Indeed…’
It was an excellent environment where ordinary spiritual herbs would grow well by simply planting them.
With shining eyes, he immediately opened his spatial pocket and scattered Rank 7 spiritual herb seeds.
They were seeds contained in the storage pouches he had obtained for all sorts of reasons, but since cultivating them directly would take too much time, he had kept them as seeds.
‘This much is enough.’
As he scattered roughly 300 seeds, about one-tenth of the field was filled.
Although most of the field was empty, he did not force himself to fill it.
‘Since I am doing this as a test.’
Passing through the milky-white barrier, he came out of the spiritual herb field.
Pondering on how much of his Supreme Great Ability to use, he consumed only about one billion as a test.
The moment he accelerated the time of the spiritual herb field.
Green sprouts shot up from the flat soil.
The stems that burst through the soil grew at an immense speed, and even cotyledons the size of fingernails bloomed.
To think they sprouted in only a few seconds…
It felt like watching a recording played rapidly. Around the time he was admiring the miracle-like scenery.
The spiritual herbs that were growing at a rapid pace came to a sudden halt.
Realizing that the time acceleration had ended, he entered the field and examined the spiritual herbs.
Examining closely the spiritual herbs whose cotyledons had just sprouted, he got a feel for how much time had passed.
‘They grew about ten years. Does one billion Supreme Great Ability allow ten years of acceleration?’
Comparing the information floating in his mind with the scenery before his eyes, he was able to tell that it was half right and half wrong.
If he filled the spiritual herb field with Rank 7 spiritual plants, the consumption of his Supreme Great Ability would increase.
‘If I fill the field… one billion Supreme Great Ability will accelerate it by about one year.’
He scanned the surroundings.
Although it would differ according to the types of spiritual herbs, it seemed he could plant roughly three to four thousand stalks if he filled the field.
He calculated carefully what this meant.
Based on when the field was filled, consuming one billion Supreme Great Ability accelerated it by one year.
It meant that to accelerate it by ten thousand years, ten trillion of his Supreme Great Ability was required.
To summarize it in a single word…
if he consumed ten trillion of his Supreme Great Ability, he could obtain three to four thousand stalks of ten-thousand-year-old Rank 7 spiritual herbs.
‘Does it mean that for one ten-thousand-year-old Rank 7 spiritual herb, roughly three billion of my Supreme Great Ability is consumed?’
It was immensely efficient. It was incomparable to copying spiritual herbs one by one.
He became capable of obtaining training resources in large quantities which could not be obtained even by pouring vast fortunes.
‘Mmm.’
The smile formed on his lips did not fall.
Training ground and spiritual herb field. Both pleased him perfectly.
As expected of facilities made by pouring more than half of his lifespan, the effects were absurdly outstanding.
Just as he was nodding his head.
A sudden curiosity arose. What would happen if he trained inside the spiritual herb field?
Wouldn’t he be able to achieve a thousand years’ worth of training in only a few seconds?
Simultaneously with his question, he realized that it wouldn’t work.
If an intelligent entity was inside the spiritual herb field, the consumption of his Supreme Great Ability would soar rapidly, making it utterly impossible to bear.
‘Hmm… I generally know how to use it.’
It was a facility meant to rapidly cultivate high-rank spiritual herbs when training resources were needed in large quantities.
Conducting all sorts of experiments, he left the place.
Since the medicinal pills he had to consume during the Void Refinement stage were sufficient, there was no need to use the spiritual herb field now.
He was about to go to the training ground just like that, when he paused.
‘Just what is this fellow Geum-cheong doing to be so quiet?’
The fellow who usually flew in a rush whenever he came to the Secret Realm of the Mind was unusually unresponsive.
Was she sleeping?
Going to her nest, the Jade Light Spring, he was able to tell immediately why she hadn’t come.
Rumble!
The lightning that dyed the sky blue made a roaring sound.
A storm composed of thunder Qi instead of wind, and Geum-cheong who settled in the middle of it was sucking in the lightning.
Looking at her constantly absorbing the lightning, he realized.
‘She is breaking through to the Void Refinement stage.’
Although he was slightly worried, he did not rashly approach.
Looking at Geum-cheong who closed her eyes in the middle of the blue lightning, he slowly retreated and watched quietly.
How much time had passed?
Peeeeeep!
The moment the phoenix cry clearly heard even in the midst of thunder resounded.
Rumble!
The lightning splashing in all directions contracted in reverse, then swirled centered on Geum-cheong.
The endlessly gathered thunder Qi grew progressively denser, and turned like an egg.
In a split second of silence.
Boom!
Geum-cheong, who spread her massive wings and shattered the egg, soared into the sky, and the shattered, scattering lightning followed behind her.
As the phoenix with long tail feathers flapped her wings, blue lines were engraved in the sky.
The trajectory of light left behind like an afterimage was like a meteor traversing the firmament.
An admiration escaped him naturally. It was a feeling of witnessing the birth of a legendary phoenix.
The golden phoenix swam the sky with blindingly brilliant lightning, and
drawing a gentle curve, landed right before him.
Swish!
Spreading her wings enveloped in lightning and loftily lifting her beak, looking at the fellow acting rather arrogantly made him honestly deeply touched.
‘To think the peeping chick grew up like this…’
She was incredibly laudable.
Just as he was nodding his head in deep emotion, perhaps she didn’t like that reaction.
Geum-cheong, who tilted her head, scattered the lightning enveloped in her wings in all directions.
Enveloped in brilliant light, she strained to spread her wings even slightly wider.
Looking at her appearing as if telling him to praise her quickly made him smirk.
“You look magnificent. Congratulations on rising to the Void Refinement stage.”
“Peep! It’s not magnificent, it’s beautiful. And rising to the Void Refinement stage is nothing much. It is only natural.”
Contrary to her haughty speech, her voice was full of fatigue.
“I get it, so rest first.”
“I am not tired, though?”
He scratched the beak of the fellow who had shrunk to the size of a sparrow and perched on his shoulder before he knew it.
“Still, since you broke through a major realm, you must rest.”
“Peeep…!”
As he fed her a small stick made by condensing his Supreme Great Ability and thunder Qi into her complainingly peeping beak, her half-closed eyes popped open.
Swallowing the small stick fed to her beak, she wore a satisfied look in her eyes.
“If you insist to that extent. Understood.”
Flying to her nest, the Jade Light Spring, she settled on the water, floated like a duck, dozed off, and fell asleep just like that.
To prevent the newly asleep fellow from waking up, he quietly retreated and headed to the training ground.
‘By the way… what should I do about this.’
The training ground where time flowed three times faster.
It was truly good, but exactly one thing was on his mind.
To age three times faster. He felt he would be uncomfortable the entire time he used it.
Pondering while tapping the sheath of his sword, he nodded his head.
‘I indeed must improve it.’
How could he resolve this issue?
He could make a wish blindly, but to reduce the lifespan consumption, it was good to set the direction of improvement.
“Ah!”
A formation perfectly suitable for this situation came to mind.
Heaven and Earth Nourishing Youth-Returning Formation .
It was a formation he had obtained from the Taixu Sect, one of the three great human sects.
To simplify the effect of this formation, it was a formation that allowed one to age slowly by synchronizing with heaven and earth while staying inside the formation.
Although it had the disadvantage that one could do nothing while receiving the effect of the formation, if he improved only this part with his Supreme Great Ability, he would be able to resolve the disadvantage of the training ground.
【Lifespan】: 313 / 2801
‘Should I use about a thousand more years?’
At any rate, once he rose to the Unity stage, his lifespan would increase by tens of thousands of years. It did not matter even if he used up all of his remaining lifespan.
Closing his eyes, he concentrated.
He checked if he could improve the training ground by utilizing the principle of the Heaven and Earth Nourishing Youth-Returning Formation…
‘It is lacking?’
He realized that a thousand years of lifespan was utterly insufficient. Even scraping together all his remaining lifespan wouldn’t do.
To eliminate the disadvantage of the training ground was far more difficult than he had thought.
‘Indeed, if this worked, it would be no different from his lifespan tripling.’
Just as he was continuing his thoughts while tapping the sheath of his sword.
Suddenly, his thoughts reached one of the treasures in his spatial pocket.
A treasure capable of extending even the life of an Unity stage Dao Sovereign whose lifespan had reached the limit.
Heavenly Lifespan Life-Extending Stone .
If he utilized the immense life force contained in this, wouldn’t he be able to improve the disadvantage of the training ground?
Checking immediately…
a conclusion came out that it seemed possible.
‘Should I use the Heavenly Lifespan Life-Extending Stone?’
It was a decent solution, but there was a point on his mind.
He had heard that if one rashly took the Heavenly Lifespan Life-Extending Stone, they would undergo all sorts of disasters as if cursed.
He couldn’t help but ponder, when suddenly such a thought also occurred.
‘Would the side effects also arise if I consume the life force contained in the Heavenly Lifespan Life-Extending Stone as my Supreme Great Ability?’
It was unknown.
“Mmm…”
How much time had passed? Jin So-myeong, who weighed the pros and cons, made his decision.
To try it.
Although the outcome was unclear, what of it?
Originally, the future was something unknown. Until one took a step forward, that was.
And,
even if a disaster struck, it did not matter. Since he just had to overcome it.