Break Through the Alchemical Pill, Mortal Bones Unleash Power

【Year Forty-Four, Age Sixty-Eight.】

【Extracting a trait…】

【Extraction successful!】

【“Become a Pig Head” (White, Common): When your weight exceeds 100 jin, you will turn into a pig’s head.】

【Would you like to adjust the trait?】

【Yes/No】

【You chose yes.】

【You replaced “Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger” with “Bad News from the Martial Artist Community.”】

【Refining a third-grade pill is completely different from refining every pill you made before.】

【Its greatest characteristic is that it takes a very long time to form, requiring patient tempering.】

【This is partly because the pill’s quality is so high, and partly because this is the Real Realm, where the laws of heaven and earth are different.】

【Throughout the process, you must also circulate your true qi with your cultivation art to assist the pill in taking shape.】

【You cannot afford to be even the slightest bit careless.】

【Although you had previously relied on the Jiuzhou Cauldron to refine pills automatically and had little practical experience,】

【your skill in alchemy was still right there. In the end, you did not waste the hard-won materials and successfully refined a Void-Returning Origin Pill.】

【You had already been knocking on the gates of Core Transformation for quite some time, and “Bad News from the Martial Artist Community” further enhanced the pill’s effects.】

【Therefore, the moment you swallowed the pill, it pushed you into the Core Transformation Realm without the slightest suspense!】

【Congratulations! Your true cultivation has broken through to the Core Transformation Realm!】

【You can equip three additional traits!】

【The probability of drawing high-quality traits has increased!】

【Under your inner vision, your semitransparent core now possessed a perfectly solid form. It rose and sank within your dantian, like a lonely star.】

【Shen Yifeng had given you a special warning.】

【The core of a cultivator who has just broken through to the Core Transformation Realm is still unstable. You must avoid severe stimulation or intense battles, and consolidate your cultivation in time. Otherwise, there is a risk that your core may disintegrate.】

【Therefore, for the following year, you went nowhere and cultivated in seclusion.】

“Finally, I’ve reached Core Transformation!”

This time, Chen Yi had reached the Core Transformation Realm through his own strength, not through “Eternal Half-Emperor”!

“Can I use ‘Mortal Bone’ now?”

Chen Yi repeatedly read through the effects of Mortal Bone.

Thinking back to his previous failed attempt, he suspected that it might have been because he had not replaced his root bone with a low-tier one.

When it was time to change his traits next year, he would have to equip the “Low-Tier Root Bone” trait, which he had not used in a very long time.

Divine abilities were a more advanced form of combat. Since cultivators in the Core Transformation Realm could already master them, an opponent in the Desolation Realm would lose their greatest advantage.

A low-tier root bone would reduce his cultivation speed, and at such a high realm, he might even be unable to advance any further.

But he could first comprehend several divine abilities and make use of them before switching back to a high-tier root bone.

Besides, comprehending divine abilities and cultivating could not be done at the same time anyway.

“The Five Realms Sacred Pill made my body immune to all poisons. I wonder whether that counts as a transformation of my constitution. If it does, Mortal Bone probably won’t work…”

There was only one way to find out.

【Year Forty-Five, Age Sixty-Nine.】

【Extracting a trait…】

【Extraction successful!】

【“The Essence of Everything Is Concentrated” (Purple, Epic): Whenever your body is about to change size, you may choose to maintain your original form. This effect does not interfere with the bonuses provided by the change in size.】

【Furthermore, if one of your equipped traits has an effect such as “increases your size,” that trait may take effect automatically without being equipped.】

【Would you like to adjust the trait?】

【Yes/No】

“This trait is great!”

Getting bigger was certainly cool.

But sometimes, it could be troublesome.

For example, in one of his previous simulations, Chen Yi had needed to board a starship while being surrounded by enemies.

He could not possibly avoid using “Heart of Steel” in a group battle, but activating it caused his body to grow larger.

Once he became too big, the starship could not hold him at all.

Although he could give up his accumulated stacks to return to his normal size, doing so would also remove the bonuses.

“The Essence of Everything Is Concentrated” perfectly solved problems like this—and it did not even take up an equipment slot.

【You equipped “The Older, the Luckier.”】

【You equipped “Serious Punch.”】

【You equipped “Hulk.”】

【You replaced “High-Tier Root Bone” with “Low-Tier Root Bone.”】

【You replaced “Infinite White Porridge” with “Mortal Bone.”】

【Name: Chen Yi】

【Lifespan: 69/1040】

【Realm: Core Transformation, Fourth Turn (True Realm: Core Transformation, First Turn)】

【Cultivation Arts:

——Qi Refinement Art: Undying Heavenly Flame Scripture (Fifth Grade, Returning to Simplicity)

——Body Refinement Art: Vermilion Bird Flame Scripture (Fifth Grade, Returning to Simplicity), omitted

——Soul Refinement Art: Ten Thousand Dragons Divine Art (Fifth Grade, Returning to Simplicity), omitted

——Spell: Divine Armament Revelation (Fourth Grade, Mastery), omitted

——Killing Move: Galaxy Divine Art (Fifth Grade, Mastery), omitted】

【Equipped Traits (26/26):

Mythic—Mastery, Simulator, Enhancement!, Calamity of Ten Thousand Races, Simulated Clone

Gold—The Harshest Father of the Foreign Races, Materialist Warrior, Heart of Steel, Super Saiyan, Eternal Half-Emperor, Get Stronger Just by Breathing!, Wolverine, Bane of Dragons, Trait Slingshot, Mortal Bone

Purple—Irritable Constitution, Qilin Arm, Traffic Light, Photographic Memory, My Knowledge Is All Over the Place, Reverse Engineering, Bad News from the Martial Artist Community, Hulk

Green—The Older, the Luckier, Serious Punch, Low-Tier Root Bone】

【Traits Acquired (429): Chinese Succubus [Gold], Leader’s Aura [Gold], omitted (including traits consumed by the effects of other traits; they are still displayed but unavailable)】

【Current Trait-Draw Probabilities by Quality:】

【White, Common 20%; Green, Rare 45%; Purple, Epic 25%; Gold, Legendary 9%; Prismatic, Mythic 1%】

Chen Yi saw that the probability of drawing a mythic trait had now reached one percent.

“One percent. In a gacha game, that’s incredibly high. I’d like to see whether, after another hundred years, I can get a guaranteed mythic.”

The trait system had no pity mechanic.

In other words, even with a ninety-nine-percent probability, it was still possible to draw a one-percent result a hundred times in a row—though such a thing was highly unlikely.

【You left your place of seclusion and returned to Firewood Town.】

【Along the way, you took your time, traveling with the leisurely attitude of someone sightseeing.】

【You attempted to comprehend a divine ability.】

【Just how were divine abilities supposed to be comprehended?】

【Shen Yifeng had once told you the basic principle.】

【“Copy the gourd by drawing the ladle.”】

【Cultivators in the Desolation Realm could only comprehend the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Divine Abilities.】

【Therefore, you first had to know what those seventy-two abilities were, then guide your insights as close as possible to one of them.】

【If you could not grasp the essentials after a long time, you would switch to another. Once you gained some insight, you would continue. If it still did not work, you would switch again.】

【The meaning of a divine ability was profound and multifaceted. If each one were recorded in detail, it could fill an entire extraordinary book.】

【However, everyone’s methods, paths, and results of comprehension were different, so other people’s experiences were not necessarily suitable for you.】

【Still, you had to know what divine abilities existed instead of attempting to comprehend them aimlessly.】

【You took out the list of Earthly Fiend Divine Abilities Shen Yifeng had given you. It had been compiled through the exchanges of generations of cultivators and was widely circulated throughout the Real Realm.】

[—Communing with the Nether: The ability to communicate with spirits, ghosts, and even living beings that do not exist in this world.]

[—Shouldering Mountains: The ability to lift mountains with one’s shoulders, granting immense strength.]

[—Water Banning: …]

[This is merely an index; the descriptions of the supernatural abilities are incomplete.]

“Let’s try something related to spiritual sense first?”

“‘Mortal Bone’ begins to exert its power!”