Chapter 136: Lack of Experience for the First Time

Upon seeing the spiritual energy cost required to unlock the cultivation progress, Su Ji'an's brow furrowed immediately.

"This is so expensive!?"

Su Ji'an pondered for a moment and decided to unlock only a portion of the cultivation progress first. Once his spiritual energy value became abundant later, it wouldn't be too late to max out the progress.

Immediately afterward, Su Ji'an spent sixty thousand spiritual energy points directly to unlock sixty percent of the cultivation progress.

Although he did not need to practice cultivation personally, the shared cultivation base still had to be refined through his own hands. After switching to the Emergence Immortal Scripture, the rate at which his cultivation improved would undoubtedly yield twice the result with half the effort.

[Current remaining spiritual energy value: 187,235]

The remaining spiritual energy value should be sufficient for his upcoming needs in practicing spells.

However, Su Ji'an was not doing this to unlock offensive divine abilities and spells. To him, if his cultivation base was insufficient, no matter how fancy the divine abilities and spells he practiced might be, they would ultimately be meaningless. Even if he exchanged for divine abilities such as Land-Shrinking into Inches or Law Manifestation of Heaven and Earth, it wouldn't be enough to change his current situation.

To deal with Chen Luo, he had to make good use of the spiritual energy value on hand, as it was hard-earned after all. As the saying goes, high-grade steel must be used on the blade's edge.

[Incarnation Outside the Body: Can enhance the strength of the divine soul. Once the divine soul cultivation reaches a certain stage, one can forge an identical true self body.]

[Do you want to spend 40,000 spiritual energy values to unlock?]

Su Ji'an did not hesitate and immediately unlocked the method of the Incarnation Outside the Body. This spell was not only useful in the present but would also be of great benefit for breaking through to the Deity Transformation Realm in the future.

[Every one percent of progress requires 500 spiritual energy values to unlock. Please edit the spiritual energy value to unlock progress, Host.]

Is the progress for this thing also this expensive?

Unlocking only a portion this time wouldn't work; otherwise, if the divine soul strength didn't improve sufficiently, it would very likely cause the forging of the incarnation outside the body to be completely wasted.

But matters had reached this point, so expensive or not, he had to unlock it. Without the method of the Incarnation Outside the Body, his plan could not be executed.

After spending fifty thousand spiritual energy points, Su Ji'an's divine soul strength had grown to a remarkably solid degree. Having only the cultivation base of the Nascent Soul Realm, he was already able to clearly perceive the existence of his divine soul.

Immediately, with a thought in his mind, Su Ji'an directly obliterated the primordial spirit generated by Yu Ming's puppet pill. Yu Ming's physical body subsequently collapsed to the ground.

His intention was precisely to assume Yu Ming's identity and head to the Human Dao Academy. He couldn't rely entirely on Shen Qingyan for such matters. Although the other party was currently consumed with thoughts of exacting revenge on Chen Luo, she might not necessarily act according to his wishes. After all, the other party harbored deep resentment toward him as well.

However, this was not irreconcilable. Given Shen Qingyan's intelligence, he had managed to deceive her eight times in a row.

Subsequently, Su Ji'an sat cross-legged. In front of him, Yu Ming's physical body sat facing him. All the insights regarding the method of the Incarnation Outside the Body were now firmly memorized in his heart.

Su Ji'an skillfully formed hand seals; next, he needed to split off a portion of his divine soul. This process was far from comfortable, and it disguisedly weakened his own divine soul power, making the replenishment process a very lengthy one. However, relevant pills could shorten this time. Therefore, the forging of an incarnation outside the body could not be done casually.

As the spell was cast, a wave of intense pain suddenly arose, relentlessly piercing his divine soul as if thousands of scorching sharp needles were passing through it. The heart-wrenching pain caused his entire body to be instantly covered in cold sweat.

Su Ji'an clenched his teeth secretly; at this point, taking any pain-relieving pills was useless. Immediately, he took out a handful of Soul-Strengthening Pills and Nourishing Golden Pills and consumed them.

His divine soul began to improve, and without further hesitation, he hurriedly drove the split portion of his divine soul into Yu Ming's sea of consciousness.

Yet this was only the beginning; the crucial part was yet to come. Although Yu Ming's Deity Transformation Realm cultivation base remained, his primordial spirit no longer existed. He now needed to refine the split-off divine soul into a primordial spirit. It would inevitably be much weaker... but he would just have to make do with it.

He had no prior experience with the first attempt, but in terms of theoretical insights, he was invincible.

Divine lights were seen flowing across Yu Ming's body, revolving around his entire person in a formless manner. Occasionally, a wisp of spiritual rhyme rose from his body.

After an unknown period of time, within Yu Ming's sea of consciousness, a flash of spiritual light appeared, and a new primordial spirit came into being, though it was much more illusory compared to ordinary primordial spirits. In this state, it would definitely fail to unleash the full strength of the Deity Transformation Realm.

Su Ji'an did not hesitate and successively took out several handfuls of pills, driving his incarnation outside the body to consume them all. After adapting for a moment, the primordial spirit of the incarnation outside the body became much more solid, and divine light suddenly emerged.

After moving around simply, it felt somewhat stiff at first, but before long, it became flexible and agile. Controlling the incarnation outside the body required constantly releasing one's mind and attention. Multi-tasking by splitting one's mind in two would not work here.

By then, his original body would still need to be in an absolutely safe environment. Although his consciousness could return at the very first moment, the incarnation outside the body would inevitably be affected. If any flaws were openly exposed within the Human Dao Academy, all his previous efforts would be completely wasted.

This was far more sophisticated than soul possession. It was equivalent to gaining an extra life, though this incarnation outside the body had limited potential and might struggle to grow continuously, which was somewhat underwhelming in the end. Perhaps a solution could be found within the creation mode. But this was not a problem to consider right now.

Su Ji'an did not continue unlocking other divine abilities and spells, still for the same reason as before: with insufficient cultivation, everything else was futile.

He directly spent forty thousand spiritual energy points to unlock all the remaining progress of the Emergence Immortal Scripture.

[Current remaining spiritual energy value: 57,235]

At this very moment, Su Ji'an felt an unprecedented ease throughout his entire Purple Palace. He tried operating the Emergence Immortal Scripture to cultivate a little, and the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy seemed to have discovered its soulmate, scrambling to converge toward him.

Simultaneously, a transcendent and untrammeled temperament emanated from within him to the outside.

Su Ji'an stopped cultivating and couldn't help sighing to himself: "What is the use of this natural talent of mine..."

The primary function of aptitude was to enable one to cultivate a cultivation method to an extremely profound realm. The progress he had maxed out would save him at least several hundred, if not a thousand, years of bitter cultivation.

Immediately afterward, with a flick of his mind, Su Ji'an began searching Yu Ming's sea of consciousness. He needed to completely eliminate hidden dangers and prevent a recurrence of an incident like the one with Shen Qingyan.

A moment later, Su Ji'an withdrew his consciousness. Yu Ming's sea of consciousness was filled with deathly stillness and showed no abnormalities.

Subsequently, he contacted Zhao Qianxue. Since he had already decided to leave Lingxiu Village, Zhao Qianxue naturally had no need to return there.

After a brief communication, Su Ji'an learned that Zhao Qianxue had already settled all matters concerning the Immortal Guest Mansion. At this moment, she was taking advantage of her leisure time to cultivate in the newly purchased courtyard.

Zhao Qianxue naturally had no objections to Su Ji'an's instructions.

Next, Su Ji'an did not leave immediately. Before departing from Lingxiu Village, there were still two matters that needed to be resolved.