65: Waste of waste

Your heart stirred, and you immediately calmed your mind and focused on carefully sensing that subtle feeling.

At this moment, the world seemed to have completely changed. You felt countless tiny light specks appearing around you. These light specks cautiously approached you, and you immediately realized that these were spirits!

You tried to communicate with the spirits, guiding them into your body, but this was also not a simple matter. This process took you another ten years.

In your twenty-fifth year, you finally attracted the first spirit into your body, but you didn't feel any changes in your body. However, after what you had experienced before, you knew this matter wasn't so simple, so you patiently began to absorb the spirits.

Unbeknownst to you, another fifty years passed. The number of spirits you had absorbed was already immense. A subtle, imperceptible, yet distinctly felt restriction was keenly detected by you.

Through the impact of the spirits, you successfully broke through this restriction. Your Aptitude improved, transforming from a Trash among Trash into a Trash.

Ding, the first stage of the Spirit Guiding Scripture has been Cultivated.

Ding, do you wish to continue Cultivating the second stage of the Spirit Guiding Scripture? This Cultivation will cost ten years of demon beast lifespan per year.

Ding, remaining demon beast lifespan: four hundred ninety-two years!

Shen Xi smiled bitterly, somewhat helplessly, as he looked at the continuous prompts from the System.

Only then did he finally realize that his Aptitude before was actually a Trash among Trash.

No wonder it took seven hundred years, and he still couldn't Breakthrough from Great Accomplishment of Yuanqi to Yuan Qi Transformation Realm.

If it weren't for the System, even stepping into the Yuanqi Realm would have been a luxury for him.

And the Spirit Guiding Scripture was real!

Just the first stage of the Spirit Guiding Scripture elevated his Aptitude by one level, turning him into a Trash... How embarrassing!

Even with Shen Xi's thick skin, he couldn't help but want to cover his face at this moment.

No, he had to at least get rid of the title of Trash.

Thinking of this, Shen Xi firmly stated, "Continue!"

The second stage of the Spirit Guiding Scripture begins!

Year one, you are Cultivating.

Year five, you are still Cultivating!

Year twenty, you finally achieved some results. Your Aptitude improved slightly, but it was not enough to shake off the title of Trash.

Year thirty, you could clearly feel your Aptitude steadily improving. Although the magnitude of improvement was not high, the joy of feeling your own progress still excited you.

Year forty-five, the second stage of the Spirit Guiding Scripture was successfully Cultivated. Your Aptitude improved again, transforming from a Trash into an ordinary person.

Ding! Realm is insufficient; unable to comprehend the third stage of the Spirit Guiding Scripture. The practice is forcibly ended.

Ding, remaining demon beast lifespan: 42 years!

Finally!

Shen Xi was in tears of joy!

He had finally become an ordinary person.

Who knew how he had lived his life before?

Throughout his entire life, he would only ever reach Blood Refining and Energy Transformation. This kind of Aptitude was simply outrageous.

Although almost all the demon beast lifespan obtained from hunting in the Two-Headed Sheep Territory this time had been used up, Shen Xi's gains definitely outweighed his expenditures.

The improvement in Aptitude alone made it worth the price.

Not to mention the gains of One Sword Eight Desolations, Sword Intent, and Great Accomplishment of Yuanqi.

It could be said that he had made a fortune this time.

"There are forty-two years left. I wonder if I can also Cultivate the Indestructible Glazed Body to the Perfection Realm?"

Shen Xi said, feeling quite tempted.

Practice begins!

Year one...

Year forty, the Indestructible Glazed Body reached the Perfection Realm.

Practice ends, feedback begins!

In an instant, Shen Xi felt his physique rapidly improving.

If the original him could withstand a single blow from a Yuan Qi Transformation Realm expert, now, even against an Initial Stage of Acquired Realm expert, he could directly take their attacks.

This was the terrifying aspect of the Perfection Indestructible Glazed Body.

The gap between Perfection and Major Achievement was simply a world apart.

A single blow and attacks also had some fundamental differences.

Simply put, Shen Xi, relying solely on the Indestructible Glazed Body, was inherently invincible.

Unless an Initial Stage of Acquired Realm expert had some special means, let alone killing him, even injuring him was unlikely.

Coupled with One Sword Eight Desolations and the first stage of Sword Intent, Shen Xi even felt that he could contend with Houtian Lesser Stage experts.

"However, the speed of Cultivating the Indestructible Glazed Body this time was much faster than before."

Shen Xi said thoughtfully.

Logically speaking, the difficulty from Major Achievement to Perfection should be more than ten times higher than from Minor Achievement to Major Achievement.

And it only took Shen Xi hundreds of years of demon beast lifespan to Cultivate the Indestructible Glazed Body to Major Achievement; it should have taken at least three hundred years to reach Perfection.

Yet, he only took forty years to achieve it.

This speed was so fast that Shen Xi felt a little unconfident.

"It must be because the Spirit Guiding Scripture raised my Aptitude to the level of an ordinary person. Additionally, my Realm improvement should also have helped."

Shen Xi quickly understood this point.

With improved Aptitude, Cultivation speed increases, and the speed of mastering Martial Arts also becomes faster.

As for Realm improvement, this is like the difference between a dwarf and a giant.

Looking at the same scenery, a dwarf can only see the immediate area, but a giant can even see the scenery dozens of miles away.

As the saying goes, the higher you stand, the farther you see. For the same Secret Manual, the higher the Realm, the easier it is to comprehend.

So, Shen Xi only took forty years to successfully Cultivate the Indestructible Glazed Body to Perfection.

"Oh dear!"

As if remembering something, Shen Xi couldn't help but slap his thigh.

"If I had known this, I should have Cultivated the Spirit Guiding Scripture first, and then the Incomplete Manual of Martial Dao, which would have saved a lot of demon beast lifespan."

Shen Xi had an expression of having suffered a great loss.

This was at least a loss of hundreds of years of demon beast lifespan.

This also made Shen Xi understand a truth: on the path of a Martial Artist, making the right choices is also crucial.

Shaking his head, Shen Xi didn't continue to dwell on it. There was no need to dwell on things that had already happened.

"Open the System panel!"

Name: Shen Xi

Realm: Great Accomplishment of Yuanqi

Martial Arts: Benlei Eight Styles (Perfection), Meteor Step (Perfection), Purple Flame Eyes (Perfection), Indestructible Glazed Body (Perfection), One Sword Eight Desolations (Perfection)

Secret Techniques: Spirit Guiding Scripture (Second Stage)

Concept: Sword Intent (First Stage)

Aptitude: Ordinary Person

Lifespan: Three years

demon beast lifespan: Two years

This was the current Shen Xi.

He was no longer on the same level as he was before coming to the Two-Headed Sheep Territory.

With Shen Xi's current strength, even facing a Houtian Lesser Stage, he was confident in competing.

"Grrr!"

Suddenly, Shen Xi's stomach growled.

Only then did he realize that two days had already passed!