Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

Chapter 312: Chapter 148: Oh, there’s also a group of brown bears.
 

For the following ten days, Chen Qiu went nowhere, contently practicing in a seated position atop a mountain peak behind the Chao Tian Sect in his small world. He spent nine days enhancing his Cultivation Progress, and one day consolidating his Cultivation realm.

On the tenth day,

at dawn,

Chen Qiu, who was seated cross-legged on the mountain peak, exhaled a turbid breath as he gazed into the sky at the two Demon Lotuses nearby. His closed-door training had ended. The higher his realm, the slower his progress—it had taken him a full 11 days to advance from the eighth to the ninth layer of the Golden Core Stage.

His Cultivation had risen from the former eighth layer of the Golden Core Stage (10.7%).

Now it had reached—

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“Cultivation”: Golden Core Stage ninth layer (1.1%).

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“Finally broke through to the ninth layer of the Golden Core Stage.”

Chen Qiu’s expression was distant as he gazed towards the horizon without speaking. All he needed was another dozen days or so of closed-door training to elevate his Cultivation to the peak of the Golden Core Great Perfection, and then he could set out. Of course, he would first need to conclude his strategies with the scholar and Ji Renjian.

The reason his speed of Cultivation at the Golden Core Stage was so astonishing was mainly thanks to the daily Heavenly Dao Blessings provided by the “Heavenly Pride Leaderboard” and the Golden Core Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills. He wondered if there were similar Nascent Soul Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills available after reaching the Nascent Soul…

Yet soon, he shook his head.

He hadn’t achieved the Nascent Soul yet, and thinking about such things was premature. Besides, even if Nascent Soul Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills did exist, they were sure to be hard to come by, not so easily obtained.

He then turned his attention inward to the panel enveloped by clouds above his Dantian.

He still had one more opportunity to use a “Heavenly Dao Retrospective Talisman” during his Golden Core Stage, an opportunity that would be completely forfeited upon reaching the Nascent Soul. That meant if the three choices of entries he was presented with did not contain anything he particularly wanted,

he would choose the Pink Entry “Merit Saint” that he had previously discarded.

Kill a demon beast, receive one point of merit.

Although he felt this entry wouldn’t have much impact on him, given his 9.8 billion points of merit, it was better than nothing. If he didn’t randomly get an entry he wanted this time, then selecting “Merit Saint” wouldn’t be too bad.

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“The Cultivation has greatly improved, officially stepping into the ninth layer of the Golden Core Stage.”

“Please choose from the following three random entries within ten breaths.”

1:

“Entry Name”: The Sword Flies Like Time Passing Swiftly.

“Entry Level”: Yellow.

“Entry Effect”: The faster your Flying Sword is, the greater the damage it can deal.

2:

“Entry Name”: Supreme Movement Technique.

“Entry Level”: Yellow.

“Entry Effect”: The more Spiritual Energy your Dantian contains, the faster you become.@@novelbin@@

3:

“Entry Name”: Undying Loyalty.

“Entry Level”: Yellow.

“Entry Effect”: If you and your Taoist couple truly love each other, then both of you will have your spell power and movement speed doubled. However, if one dies, the other will die simultaneously. Should one of you fall in love with someone else, then all three of you will self-destruct together.”

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“…”

A glint of excitement appeared in Chen Qiu’s eyes—it was exactly what he had been looking for. His most significant shortcoming had always been just one thing: his movement technique, his speed!

Even now, at the ninth layer of the Golden Core Stage, he mostly relied on the scholar for transportation.

But now—

With the “Supreme Movement Technique” entry, this meant that his own speed would receive a significant boost, whether it was for escaping or traveling long distances.

Moreover, the Spiritual Energy he could contain would continue to increase without limit as he killed more demon beasts, which meant his speed could also keep increasing without limit. It was a virtuous cycle like a perpetual motion machine.

As for the first entry, “The Sword Flies Like Time Passing Swiftly”, it was quite suitable for the scholar; it would be quite good if he could choose that entry for the scholar. However, the third entry, “Undying Loyalty”,

was utterly useless to him.

He had no need for a Taoist couple.

The reasons most people sought a Taoist couple were few: either the couple could help each other in some way, like a Heavenly Dao Beauty, or there were no genuinely heartfelt companions, and one needed a partner to enter Secret Realms together, or they had been together from humble beginnings and had grown alongside one another.

One rarely heard of a Golden Core or Nascent Soul cultivator out looking for a Taoist couple.

Wouldn’t that be like planting a ticking time bomb for oneself?

You can’t always be walking around with Protective Spirit Qi, and your Taoist couple is the person by your pillow every day. What if one day, after a quarrel, while you’re asleep or in closed-door training, your Taoist couple stands behind you with a Thunder Summoning Technique, eyes flashing with malice, ready to strike you down?

Such a death would be truly unjust.

Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators have seen too much deceit to find a Taoist couple that they can trust completely like ordinary people. Such cultivators would either have passed on their lineage when they were young, had a prearranged marriage, or simply imprisoned a group of female cultivators inferior to them in Cultivation—yet not so low that they couldn’t handle their Spiritual Energy—lacking love, just to procreate.

Female cultivators were the same.

The most important thing is…

The benefits are mediocre, and the costs are not small.

Without any hesitation, Chen Qiu shook his head and chose the “Supreme Movement Technique” entry, discarding the other two entries. Only after that did he use a mid-grade Golden Core Heavenly Dao retrospection charm to select the Pink Entry “Merit Saint.”

He now possessed two Pink Entries.

One was “Dantian Expansion (Unique)”, and the other was “Merit Saint.”