Chapter 173 : Chapter 173

Chapter 173: Red Talent—Great Dao Clarity!

“You you you... how is this possible?”

In the end, the Hun Family’s Fifth Elder died at Su Ming’s hands in utter despair.

It took Su Ming only a very short time to deal with the Hun Family’s Fifth Elder. When he returned to the Hun Family once more, those who had just fled in panic were horrified to discover that Su Ming had already come back.

...

This time, dealing with the Hun Family was much the same as dealing with the Jun Family. It took only a single day.

Su Ming’s External Incarnation gathered Blood Qi, while Su Ming himself entered the Hun Family treasury to collect cultivation resources.

“As expected, there still isn’t any...”

With a sweep of his hand, Su Ming directly took all the cultivation resources from the Hun Family’s entire Underground Treasury.

One week later!

Su Ming and his External Incarnation stood before the Xiao Family estate, both frowning as they looked at the Xiao Family, which had already become a pile of ruins.

“How could this be?”

“Why hasn’t the Random Mission been completed yet?”

Su Ming looked at the Simulator panel with a puzzled expression.

For a moment, he had no idea where things had gone wrong.

The Four Great Aristocratic Families of the Eastern Region had clearly all been destroyed by him, and he had not let a single Bizarre Insect escape either.

Su Ming stood motionless before the ruins of the Xiao Family, his mind constantly replaying everything that had happened during this period, searching for anything he might have overlooked.

A long while later, Su Ming’s eyes suddenly widened.

He abruptly thought of something.

“Huangzhou!”

Su Ming suddenly remembered that although the Xiao Family estate had been destroyed by him, the Xiao Family itself had not truly been wiped out.

Among the Four Great Aristocratic Families, part of the Xiao Family’s forces had long been stationed at the passage between Huangzhou and Central Continent.

At that thought, Su Ming immediately used the Great Void Technique and brought his External Incarnation to the Huangzhou passage.

Half a month later!

Within the Huangzhou passage in the Endless Sea, blood splashed everywhere as every last member of the Xiao Family was slaughtered.

【Ding! Congratulations on completing the mission: Wipe out all Bizarre Insects among the Four Great Aristocratic Families of the Eastern Region of the Central Continent.】

【Mission reward is being issued!】

【Congratulations, you have obtained Simulation Attempts ×1】

Even after seeing the mission completed, Su Ming was still a little surprised.

After arriving at the Huangzhou passage, he had been thinking about one question the entire time.

The mission had told him to kill all the Bizarre Insects among the Four Great Aristocratic Families, yet remnants of those families still existed in Qingzhou and Youzhou. He would only be able to deal with them after returning.

Yet what Su Ming had not expected was that once he dealt with the Huangzhou passage, the mission was immediately completed.

For a moment, Su Ming was still unclear about the mission’s exact scope, but he quickly stopped dwelling on it.

Right now, the mission was complete and the Simulation Attempts had been obtained. He had to leave Central Continent immediately.

Three months later!

Su Ming returned to the Sword Pavilion with his External Incarnation.

After returning, Su Ming distributed all the cultivation resources he had taken from the Four Great Aristocratic Families among everyone.

Gu Xinyue, Ye Chuxue, and the others had never expected Su Ming to take out so many cultivation resources at once, and they could not help asking where he had gotten them.

Su Ming knew there was no way to conceal this matter. News would soon spread from Central Continent anyway.

“A while ago, I went to Central Continent and wiped out the Four Great Aristocratic Families of the Eastern Region. I brought these back from them while I was at it.”

The moment those words were spoken, everyone looked at Su Ming as if they were looking at a monster.

They all knew of the Four Great Aristocratic Families of the Eastern Region.

In the Canglan Realm, as long as the Holy Lands did not act, the Four Great Aristocratic Families were top-tier powers with absolute authority.

Although the Four Great Aristocratic Families did not have any mighty experts of the Tribulation Realm, they had far too many Mahayana Realm experts to count.

They simply could not imagine how Su Ming, with only Mid Mahayana Realm cultivation, had managed to wipe out the Four Great Aristocratic Families of the Eastern Region all by himself.

What shocked them even more was that he had erased the Four Great Aristocratic Families so quietly that, even now, no news of them had spread.

Hearing this, Su Ming shook his head.

“This matter has probably already been exposed by now. It won’t be long before the news reaches Youzhou!”

After distributing the resources, Su Ming hurriedly left the Sword Pavilion and headed for the Blood Demon Secret Realm.

He planned to take the remaining cultivation resources there and distribute them among the few people who were still inside.

...

Su Ming sat cross-legged in the Blood Demon Secret Realm and looked toward the Simulator.

【Simulation cooldown: five years!】

【Simulation Attempts: 1】

“Start simulation!”

【Simulation begins!】

【Drawing random talent!】

【Congratulations, you have obtained a Red Talent: Great Dao Clarity!】

【Great Dao Clarity: You are born with a clear and lucid Dao Heart. Your affinity with the Laws of Heaven and Earth is increased by 100%, your cultivation speed is increased by 100%, and every time you meditate, there is a 30% chance of triggering a “Special Enlightenment”—allowing you to instantly understand a detailed bottleneck in your current cultivation technique, or gain a new insight into Heaven and Earth.】

【Basic Trait: When reading ancient texts or studying cultivation techniques, you can automatically strip away the surface of the words and directly touch the creator’s state of Dao comprehension at the time, quickly absorbing the cultivation experience contained within.】

【Note: The effect is equivalent to the accumulation of insights from “ten years of bitter cultivation.”】

【Special Ability: During battle or secluded cultivation, you may actively consume 100% of your current spiritual power to enter the “Void-Clarity Meditation” state—the duration weakens according to the strength of your spiritual power.】

【Note: It can currently last for one hour!】

【Void-Clarity Meditation: During this period, your perception of the Laws of Heaven and Earth increases by 1000%, and no attack or disturbance can interrupt your cultivation state. If you come into contact with a new cultivation technique or Divine Power during this time, you can directly comprehend 30% of its essence.】

【Unique Skill: Dao Heart Clarity】

【Dao Heart Clarity: When you encounter a bottleneck in cultivation, you may actively burn 1,000 years of your lifespan to forcibly trigger a “Great Dao Enlightenment,” allowing you to directly perceive the “Barrier of the Dao” of your current realm.】

【Note: This skill can only be used three times in your lifetime!】

“Another Red Talent?”

Su Ming stared at the talent he had drawn from the Simulator and froze in place.

He had drawn Red Talents several times in a row now, to the point that he almost suspected he was cheating.

At the very beginning, whenever he drew a Red Talent once, he would go through a stretch of bad luck afterward and draw white or blue talents for a while.

Yet in these recent simulations, every talent he drew gave him an unreal feeling.

And this talent, Great Dao Clarity, shocked Su Ming even more.

For the Su Ming of his current stage, this talent could not have been more suitable.

He had many cultivation techniques that still needed to be cultivated, whether they were ordinary techniques, the Taixu Ancient Dragon Blood Essence within his body, or even better techniques he might encounter in the future.

However, Su Ming was a little hesitant to use this talent’s Unique Skill.

Using it would burn a thousand years of lifespan. Although Su Ming, who cultivated the Azure Emperor Longevity Art, could absolutely afford to burn a thousand years of lifespan, he could not guarantee whether doing so would leave behind any aftereffects.

Unless he was truly forced into a corner, he would not use it.

Or perhaps... he could use it inside the simulation.

Immediately afterward, Su Ming sat down cross-legged once again and continued looking at the Simulator.

【After drawing Great Dao Clarity, you excitedly began testing its effects at once.】

【You began cultivating the Heavenly Evolution Art.】

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