What I Can't Learn Is Useless to Me

There were no years in cultivation.

In the simulation, Chen Yi had passed a hundred years in the blink of an eye.

During those hundred years, Chen Yi had actually spent only half his time cultivating on Ancient Firmament Mountain.

After all, it was impossible for anyone to go a hundred years without encountering bottlenecks or shackles.

Whenever his cultivation speed slowed or came to a standstill, Chen Yi would equip the “Mortal Bone” or “Low-Grade Root Bone” set.

He would then leave Ancient Firmament Mountain and travel all over Vermilion-Purple Star to gain experience.

He called it gaining experience, but every time Ji Wuqing insisted on coming along, so their excursions essentially became trips where she dragged him around sightseeing.

Vermilion-Purple Star was more developed economically and culturally, with countless places to visit. Its bizarre and varied forms of entertainment were enough to dazzle anyone.

Whenever they left the Ji family, there was also someone else who would accompany them: Ji Xiaosong.

He just never came willingly.

Ji Wuqing claimed that she needed an attendant, and Ji Xiaosong became that lucky candidate every time.

Thus, the three of them formed a small team, traveling through scenic mountains and rivers and enjoying themselves to the fullest.

Ji Wuqing had a wonderful time, but Chen Yi was mostly wandering in a trance, searching through everything he saw and heard each day for opportunities to comprehend divine abilities and adapt them into divine arts.

During these hundred years, Chen Yi’s true cultivation had risen to the peak of the ninth turn of the Core Transformation realm. With the effect of the “Eternal Half-Emperor,” Chen Yi was, in fact, already an Absolute Land realm cultivator!

Now, breaking through this major threshold in his true cultivation was extremely difficult.

He could only devote himself to cultivation for an unknown number of years, delve deeply into the path of cultivation, and slowly comprehend the way to break through.

Looking back on his entire cultivation journey, Chen Yi felt that relying on his own comprehension to break through gave him far too slim a chance.

He had never broken through a single realm that way.

So, while traveling around with Ji Wuqing, Chen Yi learned of a method that could allow him to directly break through the Absolute Land realm.

The Blood-Replacement Secret Art!

By combining a specially designed formation, spiritual treasures, and medicinal pills, one could replace all the blood in one’s body ten times. This would cleanse the meridians and marrow, reshape the circulation of one’s meridians, and break through the shackles of the realm in one decisive step.

For this art to succeed, two conditions had to be met.

First, one’s Core Transformation cultivation had to be fully perfected.

Second, one needed a cultivator who had comprehended a divine ability to protect them during the blood replacement. That cultivator would use divine power to guide the process and stimulate the emergence of divine power within Chen Yi’s body.

Once he possessed divine power, he would naturally become an Absolute Land realm cultivator.

Chen Yi felt that, given his hundred years of friendship with Ji Wuqing, she would definitely be willing to help with such a small favor if he asked.

Over the course of these hundred years, Chen Yi had comprehended three more divine abilities.

Wind Manipulation: controlling the power of the wind to fly or accelerate.

Premonition: before something happened, one would receive a premonition or warning in the head or mind.

Heaven in a Pot: a world exists within the pot; one could open up a small blessed land or a storage space.

After comprehending Wind Manipulation, Ji Wuqing gave Chen Yi two divine arts: Ten-Thousand-Mile Windwalk and Astral Wind Force.

The former could be used for flight, while the latter was an offensive technique.

Premonition was the divine ability related to spiritual sense among the Earthly Fiend divine abilities.

Ji Wuqing also gave Chen Yi a related divine art, but Chen Yi did not use it. Instead, he adapted the divine ability himself and named the resulting art Signal Light.

Drawing inspiration from the Epic trait “Signal Light,” Chen Yi adapted the Premonition divine ability into a divine art that included the effects of a signal light while also retaining the ability to investigate with spiritual sense.

As for Heaven in a Pot, there were very few divine arts adapted from this divine ability.

Cultivators who comprehended it generally used it directly as a storage tool.

Although this divine ability could open up a blessed land, Chen Yi was obviously incapable of doing so at his current cultivation level. He could only create a small storage space.

Now that he had mastered five divine abilities, Chen Yi could clearly feel that comprehending any further divine abilities had become dramatically more difficult.

Ji Wuqing told him that although the more divine abilities one mastered, the harder it became to comprehend new ones, raising one’s cultivation realm would reduce the difficulty somewhat.

This strengthened Chen Yi’s resolve to perform the Blood-Replacement Secret Art.

He had hesitated before because the Blood-Replacement Secret Art altered one’s constitution. Once he used it, the “Mortal Bone” trait would no longer work.

But now he had decided that five divine abilities were enough for this life. He could comprehend more divine abilities in his next life.

Besides, was it really impossible to comprehend divine abilities without Mortal Bone?

It would merely be a little slower.

Without raising his cultivation realm, it was already unbearably slow.

Furthermore, who knew how long he would live in this life? Even if he had a thousand years of lifespan, that did not mean he would necessarily live for a thousand years.

It was better to raise his cultivation realm. That was what truly belonged to him.

[Year 166, age 190.]

[Drawing traits...]

[The effect of “The Older You Get, the Luckier You Become” has been triggered!]

[Draw successful!]

[“What Are Divine Inscriptions?” (Golden Legend):

Divine inscriptions? What are those?

You are incapable of mastering divine inscriptions.

At the same time, you are immune to all effects of divine inscriptions, including beneficial effects. Whenever someone uses divine inscriptions on you, they will suffer backlash from the divine inscriptions.

If I don’t understand it, it can’t affect me!]

[Would you like to adjust the trait?]

[Yes/No]

“Well, that saves me the trouble.”

In the simulation, a hundred years had passed, yet Chen Yi still had not found a way to learn divine inscriptions.

The Ji family was an enormous force, but not a single person within it knew divine inscriptions.

That was because the alien races forbade humanity from using divine inscriptions.

Someone like Granny Duobao, who had learned them through underground channels, was an exception. Chen Yi simply had not found such a channel.

The main reason was that Chen Yi had never cared all that much about divine inscriptions.

Now that he knew divine arts, whether he could use divine inscriptions or not was not particularly important.

With this trait, not learning divine inscriptions was actually a good thing.

[You replaced “Chinese Succubus” with “What Are Divine Inscriptions?”]

[After several years of searching and purchasing, you have finally gathered all the materials required for the Blood-Replacement Secret Art.]

[You begin secluding yourself to make the final preparations.]

[Year 167, age 191.]

[As a third-grade cultivation method, the Threefold Flame Body-Tempering Profound Art requires an extremely astonishing number of practice sessions each time you use “Proficiency” to raise its level.]

[Therefore, you have only managed to raise it to the Perfected realm by now.]

[That is sufficient for you to use.]

[Relying on the Threefold True Flame within your body, you successfully finished refining the formation apparatus, blood-replacement treasures, and blood-replacement pills.]

[The “Heavenly River Daily” Ji Wuqing gave you is truly a wonderful thing.]

[Every day, you spend some time reading the latest major events from the Heavenly River Star System.]

[You are not particularly curious about what happens in the outside world. Rather, you feel that there is a chance you might see the figures of old acquaintances in the news.]

[The Great Demon, Li Wentian, Shen Yang, the Sword Master, and Li Lingyue—none of them are people to be trifled with.]

[If they take action in the real world, it is highly likely to become newsworthy. You can find out about it through the Heavenly River Daily.]

[For example, several years ago, you read in it that on a second-class star called Tailan Star, every resident had been slaughtered by a great demon.]

[The entire planet had directly become an uninhabited dead star.]

[The victims had died horrible deaths. All their flesh and blood had been drained, leaving behind nothing but skin stretched over bones.]

[Because of the terrible impact of the incident, the Heavenly River Guard under the Sacred Dragon Association even dispatched a special arrest team to investigate the case.]

[In the end, they still failed to capture the great demon.]

“Could this guy be the Great Demon?”

“Without any portraits or records of his appearance, you can’t be sure.”

After all, the Realms are vast, and there are no shortage of cultivators who train through extreme methods.