"Bei Chenguang, who is two thousand years old and at the seventh realm, besides his heaven-defying luck, probably spent eighteen hundred years of his life going through countless life-and-death experiences, narrowly escaping death and surviving... to reach that level!"
"I would never go through all that extreme struggle to obtain the resources necessary for maximizing my cultivation at this level and leveling up that quickly!"
Yun Shou was very firm on this point. He thought that if he fought desperately for a few years or even a decade, he would die, which would not improve his strength much.
As long as he stays steady, living for several hundred years will have the same effect. And if his strength increases too slowly one day, he can still work on his essence. Once he reaches his essence, his cultivation speed will increase again.
"A supreme lifespan of four thousand years, forty times the essence... that means one can live to twenty-five thousand years, and it will increase even more in the future!"
[You have learned that in the Hall of Supreme Beings, the ultimate goal for over 50% of the human race's Supreme Beings is to reach the Intermediate Human Supreme Being level.]
They can reach the Venerable level around 2,000 to 2,500 years old. After that, with the help of good fortune and resources, it will take another 1,000 years to advance to the middle level. As for the upper human level, there is no hope of that in this lifetime.
"It seems Ye Ranyi is quite outstanding," you remarked. Ye Ranyi is still below 3,600, yet she has already reached the Upper Human level for over a hundred years, and has a chance to advance to the Earthly Sovereign level in this lifetime.
After several trials on several Supreme Beings and confirming there were no issues, the Supreme Hall unanimously decided to awaken one of the Kings of the Century and have you begin to enhance Xu Shuanghua.
She is nearly ten thousand years old. If it weren't for her slumber slightly slowing down her aging process, she would only have two or three hundred years left before her lifespan ends—she still has a little over two thousand years left.
[According to the human race's plan, Xu Shuanghua should remain conscious for twenty years. Although the fortune she consumes during those twenty years of consciousness could create five or six Supreme Beings, you can amplify her essence more than tenfold!]
[At that time, with her combat power increased tenfold, she only needs to make a slight move to cripple the Black Dragon Demon King, or even kill the two great demon kings.]
"Poor Thorn Demon King, the human race didn't even think of going after you."
"Yeah, after all, Xu Shuanghua, with only one-time the essence, can easily crush you."
[But an unexpected event occurred: after the essence only increased by 103%, Xu Shuanghua keenly noticed that her consumption of luck had also increased!]
[Through this point, you also realize that your 40x multiplier is essentially an external amplifier and won't actually require 40x the resources.]
But the "true essence" requires it.
[The true nature of the upgrade is 1.03 times; the resources required for the upgrade are also 1.03 times!]
"Uh..."
Yun Shou thought about it and felt it was acceptable: the real essence was 10 times that, and it required 10 times the resources to upgrade.
Because this is relatively reasonable.
In some normal cultivation novels, the protagonist needs to spend thousands of times more resources to condense the "Heavenly Dao Foundation" and the "First-Grade Golden Core," and can defeat dozens or even hundreds of peers with normal resources.
This is still somewhat reasonable. It gets more and more difficult as you go on. The difficulty of increasing weight from 200kg to 210kg is many times greater than that of increasing weight from 50kg to 60kg!
In some abstract cultivation novels, the protagonist uses resources that can lead to becoming a true immortal to create an "invincible golden core," but at most he can fight ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators. If he encounters a peak Nascent Soul cultivator, he will have a nine-out-of-ten chance of dying. That would be a huge loss.
"With just ten times the resources, all stats will increase tenfold, and the resulting combat power is enough to defeat hundreds or even thousands of your original self!"
"Moreover, although a higher level of true essence requires more resources, its cultivation speed is also increased, so it's not a loss."
"Furthermore, increasing combat power tenfold means you can fight against thousands of your original self. The resources you can obtain from fighting monsters and raiding secret realms will increase more than tenfold. This is a sure win!"
"The only problem might be that I could consume the entire world and still not be able to break through... but I have a simulator, which means unlimited resources!"
With that thought, he felt completely at ease.
[If the essence is further improved, Xu Shuanghua will consume more and more luck, and eventually you will have to temporarily give up on improving the essence of the True King.]
[You've considered a plan: Jiang Yi, another legendary king of the human race, is not yet four thousand years old. You could first "downgrade" him to the Supreme level, so he would still have some lifespan left, which he can make up for by adding points to his essence.]
[Then you boost Xu Shuanghua to double her essence, and with double combat power, she can take on several of her previous versions at once, so 2 > 1 + 1.]
However, Xu Shuanghua politely declined, stating that while this method might work on a Supreme Being, it wouldn't work on a True King, especially one like herself with such a strong destiny!
[Because the True King is too resilient, even if her essence were doubled, she wouldn't be confident she could kill the Feather Demon King or the Barbarian Demon King before her luck ran out. At most, she could inflict more damage than when her essence was doubled, but she wouldn't be able to kill them.]
"They're insulting the Thorn Demon King again."
Yun Shou's rant.
Sometimes, deliberately ignoring something can be a form of humiliation... because it implies that mentioning it will inevitably result in negative comments.
The Feathered Demon King's defense is too high, and the Barbarian Demon King's combat power is several times that of the Feathered Demon King.
Only the weakest Thorn Demon King in the purest, unrestricted zone would truly be killed by Xu Shuanghua, whose essence is doubled, before her luck runs out.
"However, the Thorn Demon King doesn't seem to participate much in the war between humans and demons."
Even the Black Dragon Demon King couldn't defeat it; it possessed divine beast bloodline, granting it a twenty-fold power multiplier. Xu Shuanghua's Holy Body only had a fourteen-fold multiplier, and even with the double essence enhancement reaching twenty-eight times, it still couldn't easily subdue it.
[Even if the Black Dragon Demon King is pushed to the brink, he might desperately try to drag her down from the fifth realm as well, resulting in a lose-lose situation for both the human and demon races, allowing the demon race to run rampant.]
The demon race has the Black Tortoise as a safety net, but the human race does not.
[As for your "return to simplicity"?]
[Now is not a life-or-death moment, so you haven't revealed your time-based abilities. After all, you still hope to reach the sixth or seventh realm in this lifetime. If even one foot is exposed, a large number of other sixth-realm cultivators might surround and kill you, vying for the power of time, which would be disastrous.]
Although you don't know what the Sixth Realm is all about.
As for the power of essence, that is something you must use.
[Because their essence can extend lifespan, Ye Ranyi and the Water King... alas, your two pre-arranged lovers only have less than a thousand years left.]
There are also various other friends and acquaintances. If you don't want to watch the people around you die one by one, try to extend their lives as much as possible.
When it really comes down to it, we can make up reasons to raise their fundamental limitations.
[Now that the plan to strengthen the True King has failed, you will instead focus on enhancing the Supreme Being.]
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