50: Mysterious Skeleton, Breakthroughs

[Aside from Su Qingyun, your youngest daughter, Su Qingning, is also progressing rapidly.]

[Possessing dual Ice and Metal Spiritual Roots, her cultivation speed is second only to Su Qingyun, and she now has a cultivation level of the eighth layer of the Golden Core.]

[As for your Dao Companions, their improvements are relatively minor.]

[After all, their cultivation Realms are already quite high, and making further progress requires much more time.]

[During your closed-door cultivation, only Xue Lingyun broke through to the Golden Core Realm.]

[However, it is worth mentioning that besides your Dao Companions and children, one of your granddaughters has also broken through to the Golden Core Realm.]

[She is Su Mingya, the eldest daughter of your second son, Su Qingya.]

[Possessing only a triple Spiritual Root, she Cultivates exceptionally hard.]

[With the abundant resources of the Su Family, she managed to form her Golden Core just before reaching a hundred years of age.]

[During this period, the contracted Spirit Beast you once tamed, the Green Scaled Flood Dragon, also successfully broke through to the fifth Rank.]

[Unfortunately, although its Breakthrough allowed the Great Wilderness Beast God Scripture to feedback a large amount of cultivation to you, this was completely useless to you.]

[From the moment you burned your cultivation, you could no longer Cultivate.]

[Even if it is a ninth-Rank Cultivation Technique, it cannot break this restriction.]

[Your current Realm is entirely derived from the Power of Leadership.]

[With its help, your cultivation has recovered to the second layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.]

[As for yourself, through these years of bitter cultivation, you have raised your Body Refining Realm to the fifth Rank Middle Stage.]

[The overall strength of the Su Family has reached a new Rank.]

[Year 236.]

[While happily cultivating, you suddenly hear a series of urgent calls.]

[Following the sound, you find Su Qingfeng waiting anxiously outside your closed-door cultivation Immortal Cave.]

[You step out of the Immortal Cave and ask him what the matter is.]

[It turns out that before entering the Divine Sword Secret Realm, Su Qingyun had been betrothed under an agreement you set, but he fled the wedding back then.]

[After you gave that family some compensation, they left with their daughter.]

[In the days that followed, Su Qingyun married He Lianxin, the daughter of the Pavilion Master of the Pill King Pavilion, and had children.]

[And so, you forgot about this matter.]

[However, the woman who had been jilted has come knocking on your door today.]

[You furrow your brows, realizing that things are not as simple as they seem.]

[At the same time, your Crisis Awareness, which had not alerted you for a long time, actually begins to fluctuate faintly.]

[You rise and head toward the main hall, intending to meet this woman.]

["Su Qingyun, what do you have to say for yourself now?"]

["Hahaha... You didn't expect this, did you? The Xiao Yunxi you once looked down upon has awakened the Bloodline Power of the Xiao Family and successfully returned to her ancestral clan!"]

[As soon as you step into the main hall, you are struck by this shocking opening statement.]

[Just moments ago you couldn't be sure, but now you are one hundred percent certain that this Xiao Yunxi is not simple.]

["Yunxi, but I really... *sigh*!"]

[Su Qingyun is not good with words. Seeing this, you immediately step forward to diffuse the situation, saying, "Niece Yunxi, please do not be like this. Back then, my son..."]

["Shut up, old man! What right do you have to speak here? If you hadn't insisted on badgering my father for a marriage alliance back then, how could things have ended up like this today?!"]

[Your face darkens, but a genial smile remains on your lips.]

[You look at the people standing behind Xiao Yunxi.]

[Two Nascent Souls and three Golden Cores; it seems this person is not highly valued in the Xiao Family.]

[She is likely just of a low-grade Xiao Family Bloodline.]

[Even if you kill her, the Xiao Family would not dare to make a move on the territory of the Great Abyss Dynasty.]

["Ningshuang, Xuanji!"]

[As soon as the words leave your mouth, Mu Ningshuang and Feng Xuanji appear outside the main hall.]

[They strike together with you, instantly suppressing everyone in the main hall.]

["You... how... how could you?!"]

[Xiao Yunxi is greatly shocked.]

[She cannot understand how you possess such strength. According to the current rumors outside, the Su Family's Old Ancestor had his cultivation crippled, and even if he barely managed to survive by relying on his Body Refining Realm, he shouldn't have long to live!]

[You pay her no mind; in your heart, she is already a corpse.]

[You perform a soul search on Xiao Yunxi.]

[You discover that this person seems to have absolutely no connection to Luck.]

[Although her experiences closely resemble the template of many children of Luck, upon closer inspection, they fall far short.]

[Everything was nothing more than a matter of mere Luck.]

["Kill them!"]

[In an instant, six heads roll to the ground.]

[Just as you are about to return to your Immortal Cave, at this very moment, the faint sensation from your Crisis Awareness suddenly intensifies dramatically!]

["Activate the Great Clan Protection Array!"]

[You shout loudly, and then you see a skeleton charging from afar!.]

[It is that skeleton from the Ancient Wood Realm!]

[You are utterly horrified; it turns out the source of your Crisis Awareness was not Xiao Yunxi, but him!]

["Rumble!"]

[With a wave of the skeleton's skeletal hand, the Great Clan Protection Array is instantly left teetering on the verge of collapse.]

[You want to arrange for your clansmen to evacuate, but the pressure radiating from the skeleton fills you with a sense of utter powerlessness.]

[He has reached the Void Tempering Realm!]

[Furthermore, most of his body has already regrown flesh and blood; currently, only his limbs are still ghastly white bones!]

["Bang!"]

[The Great Clan Protection Array shatters completely.]

[You died!.]

"How could it end so inexplicably?!"

Su Xuan was greatly shocked in his heart.

He did not know what was going on with this ghostly skeleton, or by what means it had found him.

But the speed of its advancement was absolutely terrifying.

From the looks of it, its target was likely Mu Ningshuang.

If it were to devour and refine Mu Ningshuang as well, to what level would its cultivation grow?

And at that time, what would it do?

[Beginning settlement of this simulation's rewards.]

[Since you killed two people possessing Luck in this simulation, you may choose any three of the following options.]

[Option One: Second layer Nascent Soul cultivation.]

[Option Two: Fifth Rank Middle Stage Body Refining Realm.]

[Option Three: The talent used in this simulation.]

[Option Four: Central Profound Island Master Token.]

[Option Five: Memoirs of Dan Juezi.]

"As expected, Xiao Yunxi had no Luck on her."

Su Xuan curled his lips, and in the end, without any hesitation, he chose the cultivation, the Body Refining Realm, and the talent used in this simulation.

In an instant, Su Xuan felt his entire body and limbs constantly strengthening.

They let out bursts of explosive popping sounds.

An endless stream of power emerged, causing his Physical Body to undergo transformation after transformation.

At the same time.

Waves of spiritual energy tides also appeared before Su Xuan's eyes.

Spiritual energy was frantically absorbed by Su Xuan's Qi Sea.

His cultivation continuously climbed.

Finally, a miniature figure appeared inside his body.

The Nascent Soul... was formed!

But this was not the end.

Because Su Xuan's Qi Refining and Body Refining had respectively reached the second layer of the Nascent Soul and the fifth Rank Middle Stage.

After breaking through a major Realm, his body continued to absorb Spiritual Qi to undergo frantic changes.

It only slowly ground to a halt after half an hour.