Golden Body Realm Perfection, I Must Break Through

[Year twenty-six, forty-four years old.]

[The first round has entered the finals. Over forty people have already initiated the Star Transformation Body Profound Art.]

[You figured the results should be out this year, so when the forty-eighth person passed this stage, you told Shen Yufeng that you had successfully initiated the Star Transformation Body Profound Art.]

["Even you managed to initiate it?"]

["Hey? Miss, what kind of talk is that..."]

["Uh... I mean, don't you have low-grade bone roots? Even though bone roots and comprehension aren't strictly linked, usually those with low-grade bone roots have weaker comprehension."]

["Doesn't this just show that the resources provided by your Shen family are effective?"]

[Shen Yufeng looked suspicious, but she was only responsible for standing by and acting as a liaison. She reported it as required.]

[When fifty people had successfully initiated the art, the first round of competition ended.]

[The fifty eliminated individuals were immediately sent back to the surface.]

[Having witnessed the Shen family's exaggerated scale, abundant resources, and utopian lifestyle, how could they possibly be willing to go back to suffering on the surface?]

["Lord Patriarch! Please give this lowly one another chance! I will risk my life to practice!!"]

["Patriarch! My dear Patriarch! Let me stay in the Star Domain! I can even raise pigs and herd cows for you!"]

["I don't want to go back! I want to stay in the Star Domain! This place is simply a paradise! Whenever I think of the poor and chaotic state of the Five Domains, I feel ants crawling all over my body!! Just let me stay one more day, one day, just one day!"]

[Some people had gone more or less insane.]

[But the Shen family paid them no mind.]

[The Dust Bloodline had no right to enter the Star Domain in the first place.]

[These one hundred and one people only had the privilege of enjoying the Shen family's resources because they were selected to participate in the Mirror Holder competition.]

[This was also why Shen Qingshan was decisively refused when he wanted to bring his wife and daughter up here back then.]

["Congratulations to the fifty of you for entering the second stage of the Mirror Holder selection. You will receive a Heaven-rank cultivation method, the Seven Divine Steps of the Starry Sky, as a reward.

Next, the competition enters the second stage. The cultivation method you need to comprehend is the internal art, Star Martial Spirit Profound Art!

However, I must remind everyone that to master the Star Martial Spirit Profound Art, your external art must be the Star Transformation Body Profound Art!"]

[A new round of competition began.]

[This round will eliminate thirty people!]

[You returned to your own star, unhurried, and approached Shen Yufeng, who was standing guard and cracking melon seeds at your courtyard gate.]

["Miss, it's the second round. Do I have another quota for extra resources?"]

["Yes."]

["I don't need anything for now. I'll ask when I need it, is that okay?"]

["Of course. If you are willing to save some resources for the Shen family, that's even better."]

[Although the two of you didn't interact much normally, over the past few years of constantly seeing each other, you had become somewhat familiar.]

For the second round of competition, Chen Yi operated the same way outside the simulation.

First, he equipped Hard Work Always Pays Off. Once the proficiency panel recognized it, he unequipped Hard Work Always Pays Off.

[Year twenty-seven, forty-five years old.]

[The Shen family provided higher quality auxiliary resources for those of you who entered the second round.]

[The pills you take every day now are at least Earth-rank, and occasionally you are given a Heaven-rank pill to taste.]

[Your martial arts realm advanced by leaps and bounds, stepping into the ninth layer of the Golden Body Realm!]

["As long as I cultivate this final layer to perfection, I can attempt to break through to the Spirit Sea Realm!"]

[In your spare time, you also mastered the Heaven-rank cultivation method, the Seven Divine Steps of the Starry Sky.]

[Anyway, you just had to mimic the instructions in the manual. You didn't even need to understand what the technique was saying; as long as the number of practice sessions met the standard, you would naturally master it.]

[It's just that the number of times required to initiate a Heaven-rank martial art was as high as five hundred, five times that of an Earth-rank!]

[It was foreseeable that the higher the realm, the greater the gap in the required number of practice sessions would be.]

[But this was ultimately just a matter of time.]

[The Seven Divine Steps of the Starry Sky is a movement martial art.]

[It allows one to walk on thin air, much like the Moonwalk in One Piece, and also step on the void to exert force from a distance, intimidating enemies, as well as making sharp turns, switching positions, and shifting forms...]

[There is a reason why Heaven-rank martial arts are hard to learn.]

[It seems like just one martial art, but its content is incredibly rich and profound, vastly different from low-quality martial arts.]

[Year twenty-eight, forty-six years old.]

[Your sword dao and cultivation realms improved day by day.]

[With the Shen family's financial backing, your cultivation also reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Body Realm.]

[You heard that the cultivation of the other competitors was also advancing rapidly with each passing day.]

[Some people had even raised their cultivation by an entire major realm!]

[Of course, there were also those who hadn't improved much because they refused to take pills, opting for natural cultivation, believing that taking too many pills would ruin their martial arts future.]

[Chatting with Shen Yufeng, you learned that the resources your group of competitors used daily were more than what ordinary Shen family disciples received in a year.]

[Not to mention being able to request extra resources.]

[No one in this world does a losing business.]

[You felt like the Shen family was raising pigs.]

[Fattening them up to be slaughtered.]

[But you didn't care. If they wanted to slaughter you, you would fight for your life.]

[It would be best if you could fight your way out.]

[If you couldn't, the cultivation you improved over these years would be solidly inherited outside, and the martial arts you learned would also be yours.]

[Either way, it was a profit.]

[This year, people successfully initiated the internal art one after another.]

[You sought out Shen Yufeng again.]

["Miss, I want to apply to use my extra resources."]

["Uncle Yi, what do you want?"]

["I want to break through to the Spirit Sea Realm!"]

["You reached the Golden Body perfection?"]

["Exactly."]

["Even you can reach Golden Body perfection?"]

["No, Miss, I need some face too."]

[Shen Yufeng looked as if she were giving earnest advice.]

["Uncle Yi, your realm was forced up entirely by taking pills without expelling the toxins. It is very superficial and also wears down your life force. It is not a long-term solution.

In my opinion, don't think about breaking through realms or anything. How about I apply for a detox for you? Your health is important."]

["There's absolutely no need. Look at me, hale and hearty. Do I look poisoned at all?"]

["The pills of my Shen family are of high quality, so the pill toxins do not manifest externally. You feel fine now, but once they accumulate to a dangerous level, the onset will be fatal, and you might even lose all your cultivation!"]

[You insisted on breaking through the realm, and Shen Yufeng couldn't dissuade you, so she submitted the application for you.]

[Shortly after, Shen Linfeng arrived with a group of Shen family alchemists.]

[Shen Linfeng introduced you to these alchemists.]

["Everyone, please look!

This is Shen Yi, who has low-grade bone roots. For him to cultivate to the Golden Body Realm on the surface was already an act defying heaven.

After coming to our Shen family, relying on the assistance of conventional resources like pills and crystals, he actually reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Body Realm and meets the conditions to break through to the Spirit Sea Realm!]

During this period, the only thing he did himself was request the crafting of a Dao Enlightenment Banner.

Yet, according to the artifact refiner, that piece of junk banner had absolutely no function at all. It was nothing more than a Heaven-grade fire poker.

The most miraculous part was that he consumed the highest number of medicinal pills, yet there wasn't the slightest sign of pill toxicity accumulating in his body!"】