Others Level Up, but I Pursue Cultivation! - Chapter 157

Chapter 157: Chapter 135 The Fear Threshold, The Fear in Su Xing’s Heart?
 

“Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could I be such a shameless person?”

Su Xing saw himself living freely in the simulator, and it made him grind his teeth in frustration.

“Good grief, so this is how you are experiencing worldly trials? You’re really giving it your all!”

Su Xing wished he could directly launch the immersive simulation and replace himself.

“Sigh, oh well… let me see how effective these worldly trials turned out to be.”

After hesitating for a while, Su Xing still looked at the simulation panel.

[After entangling with Luo Shuying for several months, your lower back strength -3, resistance to beauties +10.]

[But you still felt uneasy, so you went to see Wang Qingxuan again…]

Su Xing: “…”

[After a year of repeated trials, you believed your resistance to lust was adequate, so you officially prepared to seclude yourself, beginning to break through the lust trial!]

[You took two Enlightenment of Heart pills and sat cross-legged in front of the grass hut. You united with the Nascent Soul and your entire mind slowly immersed.]

[Soon, your consciousness drifted away, and when you awoke again, you found yourself on your previous life’s Earth.]

[It seemed that everything was a dream. In this life, you were a playboy, indulging in beauty every day, finding joy among various beauties.]

[You wasted time, drinking and making merry day after day, forgetting your duties.]

[And so, ten years passed.]

[One day, you looked at your girlfriend of two weeks, just about to break up, when you suddenly found her somewhat familiar. Then, you remembered everything…]

[Because your girlfriend in front of you looked exactly like Jin Congxue.]

[Memories surged into your mind like a tide, and you quickly realized that you were simulating and going through one of the five trials of Divinity Transformation: the lust trial!]

[When you realized all this, you successfully walked out of the illusionary realm, returning to the real world.]

[When you returned to the real world, you found that a whole month had passed.]

[But the memories of those ten years in the illusionary realm were imprinted in your mind as if experienced. Your state of mind had improved.]

[Congratulations on successfully overcoming one of the five trials of Divinity Transformation, the lust trial!]

Su Xing saw this and a look of doubt flashed in his eyes.

“Just this? One of the five trials of Divinity Transformation, the lust trial, doesn’t seem that hard!”

“And… the key to passing is realizing you are in a simulation?”

Su Xing’s eyes were filled with confusion.

With just the simple simulation text, it was hard for Su Xing to imagine what he had gone through in the lust trial.

“But… passing is good. Passing the first trial so easily, the other trials shouldn’t be hard either, right?”

“Weird, why does this difficulty differ from what’s described in ancient texts? Could it be… that I’m a genius?”

For a moment, Su Xing was a bit excited and directed his gaze towards the simulation panel.

The second of the five trials was the trial of fear!

“So, what’s my greatest fear?”

Su Xing pondered.

[After passing the lust trial, although you stayed in the illusionary realm for ten years, only a month had passed in the real world.]

[In that month, the real world had not changed at all; everything outside remained the same.]

[You began preparing for the trial of fear that was to come, but after much thought, you still did not feel you had anything in particular to fear, so you prepared to start the trial.]

[In the seventh year, you chose an auspicious day, united your mind, and started the trial of fear.]

[The fear trial was vastly different from the lust trial; you entered a void where you could not sense the passage of time or yourself…]

[When you woke up again, you found yourself back in the real world, seemingly having successfully passed the fear trial.]

[Everything was identical to before.]

[In the following year, you swiftly overcame the three trials one by one and entered the Divinity Transformation stage!]

[After stepping into Divinity Transformation, you were at ease, effortlessly killing the damned Zong and obtaining his inheritance.]

[After digesting this inheritance, your power increased tremendously. In just ten short years, you broke through to the peak of Divinity Transformation!]

[Then, you entered the Demon-Subduing Pass, where, using your formidable strength, you continuously killed demons and even slew legendary demon beasts, accruing a large amount of flesh essence.]

[In just five years, you advanced your body refinement cultivation level to the perfection of the Divine Strength Realm!]

[Afterward, it seemed as if the heavens favored you, the Son of Destiny.]

[You accidentally received news that the Great Xia Country had found a mysterious cultivation-oriented dungeon, so you entered the dungeon to explore.]

[Half a year later, you came out, having gained countless spirit stones and cultivation techniques, and within a few short years, you broke through again, entering the Return to Void Realm!]

[Everything seemed to be developing positively…]

[After breaking into the Return to Void Realm, you sought the path to higher realms and activated the Qingyun Sect token, entering the world where your master, Qing Yunzi, resided.]

[Qing Yunzi held you in high regard, and you received his inheritance. In less than ten years, you broke through again and became an Integration Phase cultivator!]

[After entering the Integration Phase, you returned to the real world, where the Human Race was facing extinction, and you took action!]

[You supported the Great Xia as it crumbled, defeating countless foreign races solo at the Demon-Subduing Pass.]

[Alone, you extended the destiny of the Human Race for a hundred years. The world seemed to return to peace, and demonic beasts became myths among profession users.]

[In this century, you successfully broke into the Mahayana Realm, ultimately becoming an immortal.]

[Just as you were full of ambition, the entire sky darkened, and a giant beast covered the heavens. Countless demons climbed out of the abyss.]

[The foreign race seemed never to have left, silently waiting for the opportunity.]

[But you disdainfully faced them. Now that you were an immortal, you considered yourself invincible in the world.]

[However, no matter what divine skills or mana you used, you could not harm a single hair of the giant beast in front of you…]

[You were utterly scared. Could it be that even becoming an immortal could not drive away the foreign races?]

[Suddenly, a thought surfaced in your mind: When you realize no matter how hard you try, you can’t change anything, will you still persist?]

[You chose to give up, and fear swallowed you…]

[The giant beast swallowed you whole. You died in the beast’s belly, filled with intense fear…]

[You died!]

[Ding, due to the failure to sever the fear trial, your primordial spirit shattered… this simulation ends!]

Su Xing paused for a moment.

“What the heck? So everything that just happened… was indeed in the illusionary realm?”

“My greatest fear… comes from this?”

Su Xing frowned slightly.

Halfway through the simulation, he noticed something was wrong.

Because everything went too smoothly, it wasn’t until the end of the simulation that Su Xing realized.

“So… if this simulation directly became immortal, wouldn’t it be too hasty…”

“So everything was fake! I was just trapped in the illusionary realm of the fear trial. Everything that followed was created by my greatest fear and imagination?”

Su Xing was slightly shaken. Unable to personally experience the fear trial, he found it hard to imagine how it all happened.

“So, one needs to realize they are in the illusion, then dispel inner delusions, and confront it directly to pass the trial?”

Through two simulations, Su Xing realized the key to passing the trials.

Then he looked towards the rewards for this simulation.

[Benefit Over Harm]: Purple talent, price 1 million energy points.

[Six Years of Alchemy Experience]: Alchemy insights, including some Mahayana Level Infant Tempering Pills, price 1 million energy points.

[Half-Step Divinity Transformation (Fear Trial)]: Cultivation level and state of mind insights. Purchasing it will directly break through the lust trial and grant the memories and experiences of passing the fear trial, price 3 million energy points.

Su Xing slightly frowned. Because he failed to pass the trial, the rewards were fewer.

“Tsk, tsk, with only three rewards, it’s easy to choose!”

Su Xing thought to himself.

“I choose the talent Benefit Over Harm and the Half-Step Divinity Transformation cultivation level!”

[Ding, detecting your talent slots are full, you can spend 1 million energy points to expand to a third talent slot, expand?]

“A million? Ten times the previous amount… but I can afford it!”

Su Xing thought to himself:

“Expand the extra talent slot!”

Then, a prompt sounded in his ear.

[Ding, congratulations on successfully expanding an extra talent slot, costing 1 million energy points, remaining energy 43.88 million points.]

[You successfully acquired the talent Benefit Over Harm, costing 1 million energy points, remaining energy 42.88 million points.]

[You successfully acquired Half-Step Divinity Transformation (Fear Trial) cultivation level, costing 3 million energy points, remaining energy 39.88 million points.]

With the simulator’s prompts, two streams of energy flowed into Su Xing’s body.

Immediately, Su Xing’s body underwent subtle changes, and his control over nature’s spiritual energy seemed more effortless. With a simple breath, he could draw in a large amount of nature’s spiritual energy.

Not only that!

This was Su Xing’s most peculiar breakthrough!

Besides the cultivation level improvement, many memory fragments flooded Su Xing’s mind.

These were the scenes he saw when breaking through the lust trial and fear trial!

Su Xing closed his eyes and began to digest the memory fragments in his mind.

In the first memory, Su Xing, indulging in beauties from the beginning, every scene from those ten years rushed into his mind as if he had experienced it himself.

Finally, Su Xing saw through the illusion and gained an enhancement in his state of mind.

Looking at everything in the memory, Su Xing indeed had an eye-opening experience.

However, the second memory wasn’t as exhilarating.

In this memory, Su Xing swept through everything in the first half, becoming an immortal like the Son of Destiny.

But after giving his all, he still failed. That sense of powerlessness, that fear and terror, Su Xing could deeply relate to.

Su Xing closed his eyes for a long time. When he opened them again, two tears fell from the corners of his eyes.

After personally experiencing the fear trial, Su Xing realized how terrifying it was to face his greatest fears.

It was like someone afraid of snakes waking up in a snake pit, surrounded by poisonous snakes and pythons, utterly helpless and terrified…

After a long while, Su Xing’s tone carried a trace of weariness:

“The five trials of Divinity Transformation, so this is how it is… Facing the truest part of oneself in the illusion to break through the true self and achieve Divinity Transformation…”

Su Xing was somewhat grateful. Without the simulator, breaking through the five trials would be like cheating, indescribably difficult. The possibility of passing the five trials seemed nearly impossible.

“No wonder, so many brilliant talents in the cultivation world fell at the five trials of Divinity Transformation. Out of a hundred with the potential for perfect Nascent Soul formation, ninety-nine likely couldn’t pass…”

“And once failed, death is the only outcome!”

“Fortunately, I have the simulator, enabling me to simulate and restart repeatedly. Passing the five trials is merely a matter of time for me!”

For Su Xing, digesting this insight.

Not only did he gain confidence in passing the fear trial, but he also felt more assured about the remaining three trials!

“I strive to break through several trials in the next simulation and soon enter the Divinity Transformation stage!”

Su Xing clenched his fists, feeling full of motivation.

After the simulation ended, Su Xing, as usual, refined elixirs.

In a week, six thousand elixirs were completed!

Then Su Xing went to the villa. That week, Jin Congxue was on a business trip. After retrieving the new goods for the week, Su Xing returned to the Spirit Field Blessed Land.

This batch of goods was worth around 15 million energy points.

“Tsk, tsk, weekly earnings of 15 million energy points feel pretty good!”

Su Xing slightly smiled.

On May 27, 2024, Su Xing promptly launched his thirty-eighth simulation.

“This time, I will definitely break through the fear trial!”

After digesting the insights from the previous simulation, Su Xing was exceptionally confident, looking at the simulation panel.

“Begin simulation!”