[Activate talent: I Want It All?]
"Activate!"
In the next moment, Su Ming's cultivation directly rose to the Mid Nascent Soul stage.
His Taixu Sword Intent reached the realm of Sword Heart Clarity, and the talent Sword Dao Supreme allowed him to truly perceive a deeper understanding of the Sword Dao.
At the same time, the Bizarre Insect inside his body once again launched an attack toward his Nascent Soul.
Seeing this, Su Ming snorted coldly.
The Taixu Sword Intent instantly dispersed the Bizarre Insect's aura. However, something strange happened—no matter how he inspected his body, he could not find where the Bizarre Insect was hiding.
It felt as if the Bizarre Insect had never existed in the first place, yet every time he broke through, it returned again.
"Forget it. When my cultivation becomes higher in the future, I might discover the reason."
Su Ming glanced at the cooldown timer on the simulator.
[Simulation Cooldown: Fifteen Days]
"Hmm? After reaching Nascent Soul, it requires fifteen days..."
Looking at the fifteen-day cooldown, a trace of helplessness flashed in Su Ming's eyes.
Now that he could not simulate, and there were no new missions appearing, he suddenly did not know what to do.
"Should I... just go to Youzhou?"
After thinking it over, Su Ming felt that going to Youzhou was currently the best plan.
At this stage, he did not want to go directly to the Qin Kingdom to kill Lin Qi and Ye Chuxue, who lived next door.
He wanted to see what the result of the next simulation would be.
Thinking of this, he immediately went to find Ye Chuxue.
"Chuxue, I am going to Youzhou for a period of time. It may be as short as two years or as long as five or six years."
Ye Chuxue looked at your cold expression. The words that had reached her lips were swallowed back down.
She did not know why you had changed so much in such a short time. After hearing that you were going to Youzhou, she did not ask for the reason and simply nodded.
Seeing this, Su Ming did not leave the resources he had stolen from the Qingyun Sect for her like he did in the simulation.
...
A month later, Su Ming arrived at the Sword Pavilion in Youzhou.
The scene before him was exactly the same as in his simulation. The Sword Pavilion was currently recruiting disciples.
Su Ming concealed his aura and suppressed his cultivation to the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining.
Three hours later, it was finally his turn for the assessment.
Lin Tian brought him to a stone stele, and the examination immediately began.
Su Ming looked at the stone stele before him. The corners of his mouth curved into a faint smile. The moment he closed his eyes, he resonated with the Sword Aura within the stele.
Lin Tian had just turned around to leave when he suddenly sensed a familiar Sword Aura and abruptly turned back.
The moment he turned around, he saw Su Ming looking at him with a smile.
"Damn! You connected with the Sword Intent inside the stele the moment you stepped up?"
Lin Tian looked at Su Ming as if he were staring at a monster.
"Is it difficult? I just closed my eyes and tried to feel the stele. Somehow, I resonated with it."
"I..."
"Come with me!"
In the next moment, Lin Tian grabbed Su Ming and hurried toward the Sword Pavilion hall.
"Pavilion Master! This year I recruited a peerless genius for you! The Sword Pavilion finally has a new member again!"
"Pavilion Master! Pavilion Master?"
"That is enough, Old Eight. I already know. You may withdraw."
As soon as the voice fell, a white-haired old man walked into the hall.
Su Ming looked at the old man before him. He perfectly matched the image of the Sword Pavilion Master in his memory.
"Young friend, your talent is something I have rarely seen in my life. However, in front of this old man, there is no need to hide your cultivation. At such a young age, you are already at the Mid Nascent Soul stage."
Hearing this, Su Ming could only smile bitterly inwardly.
As expected, the Sword Pavilion Master had seen through his cultivation at a glance.
"Pavilion Master, you truly have sharp insight. This junior only wishes to join the Sword Pavilion and resist the Bizarre Insects together."
SWISH!
When the Sword Pavilion Master heard this, he looked at Su Ming in surprise.
"You already know?"
"I naturally know that Bizarre Insects cannot cultivate Sword Intent."
Su Ming looked directly into the Sword Pavilion Master's eyes and spoke confidently.
"Very good! Welcome to the Sword Pavilion."
"There is a stone wall on the Back Mountain of the Sword Pavilion. Upon it are the Sword Intents cultivated by generations of cultivators. I suggest that you go there to train."
...
After Su Ming left the hall, Lin Tian brought him to a small grass hut.
"Little Junior Brother, this will be your residence from now on. At present, only the Pavilion Master and I are in the Sword Pavilion. The other Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters are not here."
"Alright, Senior Brother Lin. You can go ahead and take care of your matters."
After arriving at the hut, Su Ming immediately brushed Lin Tian off.
He had something very important to do right now. The fifteen-day simulation cooldown had already passed while he was traveling.
He did not want to waste any more time.
"Start simulation!"
[Simulation begins!]
[Drawing random talent!]
[Congratulations! You obtained the orange talent: Eye of Truth!]
[Eye of Truth: Allows you to see the truth of everything in the world.]
[After obtaining the Eye of Truth, you suddenly saw many things clearly.]
[The first thing you noticed was the trace of the Bizarre Insect inside your body. Previously, you had searched thoroughly but could never find it.]
[Looking at the Bizarre Insect that had already fused with your Dantian, despair suddenly filled your heart.]
[You finally understood why you could not find it before—because your Dantian itself was the entire Bizarre Insect.]
[After seeing this reality clearly, you were somewhat at a loss.]
[You discovered that the Bizarre Insect could not be killed at all. Killing it would mean your cultivation would be crippled.]
[Even if you could cultivate again, you would still face the problem of being parasitized by the Bizarre Insect once more.]
[First Year: You trained in seclusion at the Sword Pavilion for an entire year, but your cultivation still did not break through to the Late Nascent Soul stage.]
[On this day, you went to find Lin Tian and asked him about the whereabouts of Fifth Senior Sister Gu Xinyue.]
["Fifth Senior Sister? If I remember correctly, she seems to be at the Pill Sect..."]
["But Little Junior Brother, why are you looking for Senior Sister Gu?"]
[Lin Tian looked at you curiously. After all, you had only been here for a year and had not met anyone else from the Sword Pavilion besides him.]
[For a moment, you did not know how to answer, so you casually made up an excuse.]
["Well... I think I encountered Fifth Senior Sister before, but I did not know she was from the Sword Pavilion."]
[Lin Tian looked at you suspiciously, clearly not convinced by your explanation.]
["I advise you to give up, Little Junior Brother. Senior Sister Gu not only possesses extraordinary talent in the Sword Dao, but her Alchemy skills are also no less impressive."]
[At this point, Lin Tian patted your shoulder and advised you.]
["So, Little Junior Brother, you should not try to find Senior Sister Gu. Ordinary people cannot enter the Pill Sect."]
[You looked at Lin Tian calmly and said a single sentence.]
["Senior Brother Lin, I am also an alchemist. And I am a Third-Grade Alchemist."]
["Ah, I know you are an alche—what? You are a Third-Grade Alchemist?"]
[Lin Tian stared at you in shock. He had thought your Sword Dao talent was already unprecedented, yet he had not expected your talent in Alchemy to be just as terrifying.]
["Senior Sister Gu is only a Fourth-Grade Alchemist, and you are already a Third-Grade Alchemist?"]
[Being praised like this by Lin Tian made you feel somewhat embarrassed.]
[You really wanted to tell him that your Alchemy practice had been neglected for a long time. Otherwise, you would have at least reached Fifth-Grade Alchemist by now.]
["That is why I want to find Senior Sister Gu."]
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