Chapter 57

57. Chapter 57 - Escape from Life
Chapter 57: Escaping from Life
[In the Alchemy Furnace, surrounded by darkness, you feel that the temperature is still rising, and you're feeling stuffy and uncomfortable.]

[Zong Guifa's sardonic laughter could be heard outside the alchemy furnace. He told you that he was going to refine you into an unprecedentedly powerful tonic to help him break through to the Return to Void realm.]

You don't say anything, but you're still thinking of a way to get out. As long as you can get to the Spirit Field Blessed Land, you'll be able to escape this old dog's torment.

[If you want to enter the Spirit Field Blessed Land, you need spiritual power to stimulate it. But your body's spiritual power is sealed, so you can't enter.

Your storage ring has been taken away by the Sect Protector, and you don't have any spirit stones to regather your spiritual energy.

[You're in a tough spot, with no choice but to wait for things to improve. Hopefully, you'll be refined into an elixir soon.]

[I don't know how much time passed. You woke up from your coma and in your ears you could vaguely hear the voice of Patron Saint Zong. It seemed that he was uneasy about you, so he watched over the alchemy furnace at all times for fear of accidents during the alchemy process].

[Time passes day by day, and refining you into an elixir seems to take a long process. During this process, Zong Guifa is a bit bored, so he starts talking to himself.]

[From his words, you understand that you have to be refined for seventy-seven days before you are made into an elixir.]

[You breathe a sigh of relief, which means you still have a chance to escape.]

Over the following days, you kept trying to gather your spiritual energy, but there was nothing in this world. You couldn't find any.
After a few more days, you learned that today was the seventh day since you were refined into the elixir.

At the same time, you learned that Protector Zong came from a copy of the Immortal Cultivation World and was a native of that dungeon. However, that world had already reached the Age of the End of the Dharma, and there wasn't any hint of the possibility of continuing upwards in cultivation.

Protector Zong once took an elixir called the Yellow Spring Pill, which was able to put him into a deep sleep, thus prolonging his lifespan. It wasn't until a hundred years ago that the Advent Sect found him and woke him up, and Patron Saint Zong decided to join the Advent Sect to live a long life.

[Protector Zong said that his lifespan was almost over, and that only by making you into a great tonic pill would he be able to extend his lifespan and have time to find the world of cultivation].

Su Xing spent a long time looking into this in the second half of the simulation. His encounter was a bit of a disaster, but he got some pretty interesting information out of it.
Firstly, he found out that the Zong Protector came from a certain Immortal Cultivation World, but it was already the End of the Dharma Era.
This matched up with the information he'd got in a previous simulation about the Immortal Cultivation dungeon.

‘This Protector Zong must be from that copy codenamed End Dharma Era, cultivating the Evergreen Kung Fu. He must be from that sect named Evergreen Sect in the dungeon!’

‘Only this old dog Zong is actually a cultivator of the God Transformation Realm, and he has a near-life expectancy. That means he's lived for almost a thousand years.’

A YuanYing cultivator lives five hundred years, and a Transformation God lives a thousand years!

This old dog joined the Advent Sect a hundred years ago. Apart from his strong strength, the mysterious and unpredictable means of the Immortal Cultivators is his biggest card.

‘This Zong Guardian is definitely not someone to be messed with. In the future, when simulating, one should definitely not join the Frenzy Sect.’

Su Xing scratched his chin and mumbled to himself, but he was also wondering if there was more to it.

In the previous few simulations, he had also seen Zong Guardian Law, so why didn't Zong Guardian Law imprison and torture him at that time?
After all, Protector Zong also cultivated the Everlasting Spring Technique, so surely he should have seen through his own bottom at the first time.

Su Xing had an idea. Maybe it was the Shadow Protector who had been looking out for him all along. After all, the Shadow Protector's strength was pretty impressive, and it didn't even have to be Zong Protector's weak point.
‘Back then, I joined the Nature Faction, so I guess I had the Shadow Protector to protect me.’ That old dog Zong might have also dealt with the Shadow Protector, but the Shadow Protector ultimately chose to bail me out. In the end, Zong's old dog was afraid of the Shadow Protector, so he didn't dare to make a move!

‘That's right, that should be it!’ As for why the Shadow Protector helped me, maybe it's because she thinks I'm younger and more promising, or that it fits with her ideas? So it's better for me...
Su Xing scratched his chin. He'd learned a lot in this simulation, but it was making his thoughts a little muddled.
Su Xing shook his head and carried on with the simulation.

On the twenty-first day, your body began to melt a little and there were some signs that you were changing into the elixir. This made you realise that if you didn't leave the alchemy furnace, you might really be transformed into the elixir!

But you're completely powerless to resist. You can't muster a single ounce of strength, and there's still an old dog of the God Transformation Stage guarding you in the outside world.
Just when you were in despair, Zong Gu Fa uncovered a small corner of the top of the alchemy furnace and threw down a few elixir plants.

Your mind is a bit muddled. Even if it's a human alchemy, this Protector Zong actually threw down a few elixirs. This guy must not have seen the Journey to the West.
A few emerald-green elixirs are scattered around your body. You're still a bit wobbly, but you're trying to move towards the elixir.

[You're just a metre away from the elixir, but it seems like a mile. You use your head as a support and try your best to move around the elixir for more than an hour.

[You've smelled the tantalising aroma of the elixir and felt the abundant aura of the elixir.]

[Without hesitation, you opened your mouth wide and swallowed a strain of the elixir in one gulp, after which you began to desperately run your gongfu in an attempt to recover what little spiritual qi you had left in your body.]

[You succeeded, and after several hours of trying, a trace of aura was finally restored in your body.]]

[Without hesitation, you activate the Spiritual Field Blessed Land, and your entire being instantly disappears in place.]

[When you arrived in the Spiritual Field Blessed Land, your heart finally settled down. Even if the Zong Old Dog was stronger, it would be impossible for him to cross over the space and arrive in the blessed land.]]

Su Xing was relieved to see this and muttered, ‘This simulation is also too damn miserable, right? I was almost being refined into a human dan... It's clear that it's still not possible to expose the strength. Steady is the most important thing!

Su Xing's mind turned. He thought he'd broken through to the ninth level of the refining bowels realm, and his real battle strength was comparable to that of a master high-ranking professional. He was already considered to be a small strong man.

But he hadn't expected that this world was so dangerous. With his strength, it was difficult to protect himself.

‘It's in the school that is the safest. Before having absolute strength, one should never go out and take risks!’

Su Xing muttered.

Then he proceeded to simulate.

[Although Elder Zong can't come in, it seems like you've imagined the scene of the Zong Protector's angry outburst when he found out you'd disappeared. But you have no way to return to the real world...]

[You know that as soon as you go back, you'll definitely be caught by the Zong Guardian in the watch, and for a while the situation seems to be at a standstill.

(End of chapter)

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