Chapter 231: Chapter 2: Dao 1 Central Celestial Secret Calculation Hub
Time passed. Soon, Shao Shuangyue had died a dozen times at the triple Demon General battle. She was completely disheartened. "Sob sob sob, I can’t do this anymore!"
"No, I have to go to the forums and see how the experts beat this!"
She switched screens and typed in the address for the game’s forum. Since the game had only been out for a few days, there were no guides yet, so Shao Shuangyue had no choice but to post for help. Shao Qiming volunteered to write the post for his sister. The tone was so humble and the language so sincere, it was almost pitiful. Even a random passerby would probably shed a tear of sympathy upon reading it.
But in the time it took Su Zhou to go downstairs and eat two tubs of ice cream, and for Shao Shuangyue to die a few more times, the post still hadn’t received a single reply.
Instantly, the girl’s composure shattered. "Aaaargh! It’s been so long, why won’t anyone help me?!"
Shao Qiming was also baffled. He scratched his head and said, "This shouldn’t be happening. With such a sincere post, plus the perfectly feigned cute-girl tone, someone should have been willing to help by now, right?"
"Sigh. These days, a sincere request for help just makes you look like a freeloader to everyone else." Su Zhou glanced at the post the siblings had written together and couldn’t help but shake his head. "Besides, everyone online assumes that people who talk with a cute-girl tone are actually gross old dudes."
"Here, let Brother Zou show you how a real ’request for help’ post is written."
Shao Shuangyue and Shao Qiming both made way for him. Su Zhou cracked his knuckles, and the moment his fingers touched the keyboard, the two of them could have sworn they saw a faint glow envelop his body, as if the god of keyboards himself had descended upon him.
[Thread Title: Garbage Game, Garbage Design, Gong Qiying the Second Has Lost His Touch!]
[To be honest, Immortal Tribulation is a step down from the previous Dark Wolf games. Both the monster and boss designs have fallen into the cliché of being difficult just for the sake of being difficult. A moronic stage like the triple Demon General battle is just there to piss people off. It’s completely impossible for anyone to beat it!]
[Gong Qiying the Second has definitely lost his touch, resorting to this kind of thing to gatekeep players!]
In less than a minute, Su Zhou expertly typed out the entire message, then clicked "Post" under the dumbfounded gazes of the Shao siblings.
"Just wait," he said, turning back to them with brimming confidence.
Sure enough, just a few minutes later, a series of notifications chimed: [XX has replied to your post].
Back in her chair, Shao Shuangyue raised a trembling hand and refreshed her post. Instantly, she saw a horde of experts posting detailed guides with images to prove her wrong, along with all sorts of taunts like, ’OP is a noob,’ ’You can’t even beat this, and you call yourself a fan of the Dark series?’ and ’Practice for a few more years before you get back online!’
"It works like that?!"
Easily ignoring all the taunts, Shao Shuangyue felt as if she had received a divine revelation. In that instant, she felt she had learned another trick of the keyboard warrior trade. "I get it now! So powerful! The path is at my feet!"
Meanwhile, having roughly figured out how information disturbance worked in the Otherworld and the real world, Su Zhou stopped watching Shao Shuangyue play her game.
Shao Qiming also returned to his room to continue his Cultivation. Even though the Holy Ascension Selection Test was over, he didn’t slack off, continuing to read and cultivate every day.
Of course, Su Zhou was no different. It was just that the Cultivation of a Tier One Extraordinary was not as simple as that of the Awakening Tier.
’The Spiritual Power within an Extraordinary Tier Cultivator’s body is affected by their Spiritual Power Organs, becoming more refined. It’s like having an internal purifier; the more Spiritual Power Organs you have, the higher the level of refinement.’
’Using the terminology of the Divine Wood World’s ’Innate’ system makes it easier to understand. The Spiritual Power of the Awakening Tier is all Postnatal Qi, while the Spiritual Power of the Extraordinary Tier is Innate Qi. The latter completely dominates the former.’
’Back then, when the Demon Emperor had just advanced, his Innate Qi hadn’t been fully converted yet, which is why he couldn’t even transform into his Coiling Dragon True Form. A Coiling Dragon is a Divine Beast overflowing with Innate Qi from birth, so it’s probably at the Mid-Innate level the moment it’s born.’
Su Zhou divided the Extraordinary Tier into four levels.
The first level was for those who had just advanced to the Extraordinary Tier and hadn’t yet condensed a Spiritual Power Organ. Although they held the title of Extraordinary, they lacked the substance. Their foundation was strong, but if they were suppressed by an Awakening Peak master wielding Divine Soldiers, they could still be defeated.
The second level was for those who had condensed at least one Spiritual Power Organ. At this level, a Cultivator’s Spiritual Power could connect with the surrounding nature’s spiritual energy. For every bit of power they exerted, they could draw upon the surrounding energy to produce three times the effect, or even more.
The third level was when the entire body was filled with Spiritual Power Organs, forming a perfect, grand circulation. At this point, one could be considered an Extraordinary High-tier, having achieved Innate Great Success.
And the last, the fourth level, should be the ’Great Cycle of Heaven and Earth Wind Armor’ realm described in the ’Whole Body Mist Armor Technique.’ At this stage, one could condense an external Gale Seed outside the body. This meant the range of the Cultivator’s control over their Soul and Spiritual Power was no longer limited to their own physical form! This was the limit of the Innate realm. Any further advancement would inevitably lead to becoming a true Extraordinary Creature, capable of founding a sect and establishing a legacy that could last for thousands of years.
In fact, having already reached Tier Two of the Extraordinary Tier, Su Zhou could clearly feel that his Spiritual Power was already capable of interacting with the nature’s spiritual energy around him, influencing his surroundings and producing so-called ’Anomalies.’
He had experimented before. If he relaxed the seal his perfect body placed on his Spiritual Qi and allowed it to interact naturally with the surrounding nature’s spiritual energy, his powerful Fire Element Enhancement Spiritual Power would naturally reinforce the ground he stepped on, leaving faint, glowing footprints that looked almost as if they were burning.
