Chapter 56 - Chapter 56: 056 Third Rank (1/2)
Chapter 56: 056 Third Rank
Translator: 549690339
Up front driving the carriage, Zhang Xiao Hai suddenly felt a wave of heat coming from behind. He couldn’t help but glance over his shoulder at the carriage. He was puzzled. What was the young master doing?
Cultivating?
He had no idea that Gu Yang had given up his own cultivation level just to save Ling Ling. This matter was extremely confidential, only the two of them knew about it, and no one else was told.
However, Zhang Xiao Hai did not ask any questions, instead he focused on driving.
He was still new to driving, so he didn’t dare be distracted.
In the carriage, Gu Yang was calculating the time needed to practice the “Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens” techniques.
Practicing to reach the peak of the Ninth Rank would take five years.
After the rebirth through Nirvana, he would have to start over from Ninth Rank to reach the Eighth Grade, which would still take five years. And then it would take eight years to reach the peak of the Eighth Grade. After that, the Second Nirvana will take place.
In total, during the eighteen years of time, he underwent two nirvana’s, each time returning his True Qi to zero, leaving him at only the Ninth Rank in terms of his cultivation level.
To reach Seventh Grade, it would take another thirteen years, and even then, he didn’t know how long it would take to reach the peak of the Seventh Grade…
After calculating all of these, he realized that it would take hundreds of years to reach the First Rank, even under optimal conditions.
“This can’t possibly be a Daoist cultivation method, can it?”
Gu Yang highly doubted that this method was intended for humans to cultivate.
Even beings with extremely high talent levels like Liu Zhe constantly face odds that make reaching the First Rank within their lifetime a major question mark.
Given his existing Fourth Rank Realm and advanced Martial Arts cultivation, and the assistance of the excellent Cultivation Furnace in Su Qingzhen, even then, his rate of progress was slow.
If it weren’t for his special ability, he would have never chosen a cultivation method with a seemingly impossible path to success.
Gu Yang started the second simulation.
[ …Thirteen years later, you breakthrough to the Seventh Grade Realm. Five years later, Ling Ling makes a breakthrough into the Divine Power Realm, but she was besieged by several First Ranks…you died, aged forty.]
[ …Eight years later, you reach the peak of the Seventh Grade, and you start the Third Nirvana…you died, aged forty.]
After numerous simulations, Gu Yang died every time at the age of forty.
Whenever Ling Ling was on the brink of breaking through into the Divine Power Realm, a few First Rank powerhouses would appear on time and kill him.
He had also tried not to be together with Ling Ling on that day, but each time he would still be pursued and killed by a First Rank powerhouse, regardless of his cultivation level at the moment.
And every single time, Xu Ruomei would appear on time.
Sometimes, he would be killed on the spot.
On other occasions, he would be gravely injured, and then Xu Ruomei would take him back to the Sword Palace for help, only to receive cold rejection every time.
It seemed almost like a gate to the underworld.
Gu Yang knew that even if he too reached the First Rank, he would probably not be able to escape this fate.
The opponent didn’t abide by any martial arts ethics and would launch a siege by several First Rank fighters right off the bat.
The only way to break free from this situation was for him to step into the Divine Power Realm, where he could naturally eliminate all those First Rank fighters.
He wasn’t sure how long it was.
Gu Yang watched the nearly identical scenes over and over, until his eyes almost grew tired.
Moreover, after each simulation, his cultivation level was not the same, it kept fluctuating.
One moment, he was at Sixth Grade, the next he would drop back to the Ninth Grade. It was a strange feeling.
Just when Gu Yang was about to grow numb, a prompt appeared, [ …you broke through to the Third Rank Realm, four years later, Ling Ling tries to breakthrough into the Divine Power Realm…]
When his eyes caught the phrase “Third Rank”, his heart leaped. Upon a closer look, it indeed was Third Rank.
“Finally reached Third Rank.”
Oh, the thrill in his heart.
What was this, the how many-eth simulation?