Quasi-Immortal-Grade Spiritual Root, Chaos Seeded with Blue Lotus, God-Grade Creation Fruit

To describe the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce's Genius Cultivation Program in one word, it was insanely generous!

Not only did this program essentially cover all cultivation resources, but it also offered absolute protection, resolving any enemy he couldn't handle himself.

Crucially, they wouldn't interfere with his cultivation at all, would keep his secrets, and would even protect his path. Before he fully grew, he didn't need to do anything in return.

This was truly no different from getting resources for free.

“As expected of a colossus. This vision and grandeur is truly awesome,” Ye Lin couldn't help but mutter after reading the letter's entire contents.

He could completely accept these terms, so he decided to participate in the program.

Having made his decision, he turned his gaze to the dozen or so Earth-grade natural treasures in the distance. All of these were obtained by exploiting a bug on Senior Zhu Xuanwei's clone.

In terms of value, they were probably worth tens of millions of mid-grade spirit stones.

Looking at the piles of cultivation resources before him, he activated the trait 【Random Replication】 without hesitation.

The familiar virtual red roulette wheel emerged before him. The pointer spun rapidly, finally landing on a replication multiplier of one thousand.

Once the replication multiplier was set, all the cultivation resources in front of him were completely replicated a thousand times. Adding the original, that made 1,001 copies.

With the replication complete, he gained over thirty million low-grade spirit stones and more than one billion mid-grade spirit stones.

“This should give my talent and physique a massive boost.”

Casually taking out his damaged supreme treasure, the 'Cauldron of Creation', Ye Lin threw all the spirit stones inside to refine them furiously.

The Cauldron of Creation shook, and a wisp of profound, golden Qi of Creation appeared before him.

Seeing this wisp of Qi of Creation, Ye Lin immediately chose to use it to upgrade his damaged Chaos Spiritual Root.

(Note: Because these spirit stones were already replicated, the resulting Qi of Creation was also considered replicated in essence, meaning it could not be replicated again.)

As he confirmed his target for the upgrade, the wisp of golden Qi of Creation instantly merged into his body.

【Ding! It has been detected that you are using the Qi of Creation to upgrade your Spiritual Root. The 'Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness' trait has been activated. The upgrade effect is being amplified by a hundredfold.】

Just as the Qi of Creation entered Ye Lin's body, the notification of the trait's amplification rang in his ears.

Immediately after, he felt an extremely violent and profound change occurring within his body. He wasn't sure of the exact details, only feeling as if he were bathing in sunlight, warm and comfortable.

More than one shichen later, the warm feeling slowly dissipated. He quickly opened his game panel to check his Spiritual Root information.

【Talent: Chaos Spiritual Root (Damaged)】

【Grade: Above Heaven-grade, below Saint-grade】

【Description: An incomplete Chaos Spiritual Root. Increases base combat strength by 20 times.】

“So many spirit stones, plus a hundredfold boost, and it only went up by a bit over one major grade?”

Seeing that the Qi of Creation condensed from over a billion mid-grade spirit stones and thirty-odd million low-grade spirit stones only upgraded his Chaos Spiritual Root from Earth-grade to above Heaven-grade, Ye Lin couldn't help but click his tongue.

This crappy talent was already such a money sink in the early stages; the later stages would probably be even more terrifying.

But fortunately, he relied on cheats and stats to cultivate, and talent was merely the icing on the cake. Otherwise, if he truly had to rely on talent alone, he probably wouldn't even be able to catch the exhaust fumes of those peerless geniuses.

“Forget it. Spending this many spirit stones to increase my base combat strength by ten times is still very good.”

“Anyway, I still have over thirty-seven billion high-grade spirit stones on me. I can easily take out twenty billion to squander, and save the rest for a rainy day.”

Shaking his head, Ye Lin stopped overthinking. Once his plan was set, he waved his hand and retrieved twenty billion high-grade spirit stones from the second layer of the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda, the Myriad Treasures Heaven.

This was equivalent to two hundred billion mid-grade spirit stones, all of which had been snatched from the Tribulation Transmutation cultivator Su Mo and replicated. With this many spirit stones, he refused to believe he couldn't raise this crappy talent.

All the retrieved high-grade spirit stones were refined by the Cauldron of Creation, and a blood-red wisp of Qi of Creation immediately floated before Ye Lin.

This time, his chosen target for reinforcement was still the Chaos Spiritual Root.

Of course, this time still triggered the hundredfold returns of the 【Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness】 trait.

The familiar feeling struck once more, but this time it was no longer warm. Instead, it felt like being burned in a furnace.

With every passing moment, his body, meridians, and bones were bursting and shattering.

In just an instant, he was turned into a bloody figure.

“Damn it, luckily my Circulating Heaven Stellar Physique increases my recovery speed by forty times and allows my flesh to regenerate.”

“Otherwise, with such a sudden ordeal, I would definitely have fainted from the pain today.”

Ye Lin, who had been turned into a bloody mess, cursed through gritted teeth before immersing himself in the cycle of destruction and rebirth.

A day later, Ye Lin had already become numb to the pain. Just as he was wondering how much longer this state would last, an incomparably holy radiance suddenly erupted from his body.

Clearly, the upgrade of his Spiritual Root was complete.

Ignoring the numbness in his body and soul, he quickly opened the game panel to check.

【Talent: Chaos Spiritual Root (Damaged)】

【Grade: Quasi-Immortal-grade】

【Description: An incomplete Chaos Spiritual Root. Currently equivalent to quasi-immortal-grade, but it can suppress the vast majority of quasi-immortal-grade talents. If its attributes are completely filled, one can reign supreme among those of the same realm.】

【At the current grade, it provides 50 times base combat strength, increases cultivation speed by 50 times, and grants the damaged Chaos Physique vision: Chaos Seeded with Blue Lotus.】

“Awesome! It wasn't in vain that I consumed so many spirit stones and suffered so much. It was all worth it.”

Seeing that his Spiritual Root had finally been directly upgraded to quasi-immortal-grade, granting him such powerful boosts and even a damaged vision, Ye Lin's mind instantly relaxed, and he fainted directly from exhaustion.

This was equivalent to undergoing a complete rebirth, so experiencing pain was naturally unavoidable.

Fortunately, his Circulating Heaven Stellar Physique acted like a silent protector, continuously repairing various damages to his body and quickly dispelling his mental fatigue.

【Ding! You are the first player in this game to transcend mortality and successfully upgrade your talent to quasi-immortal-grade. You have triggered a God-grade reward and obtained one Spiritual Root Creation Fruit.】

【Consuming it allows a person to gain an additional elemental Spiritual Root, which starts at God-grade.】

More than two shichen later, Ye Lin was woken up by the game notification suddenly ringing in his ears.

“Having cheats is great. After a sleep, the injuries on my body and all my fatigue have completely vanished.”

Climbing up from the ground and stretching thoroughly, Ye Lin directly claimed the Spiritual Root Creation Fruit he had just obtained.

With a flash of light, a purplish-black fruit carved with the sun, moon, and stars instantly appeared in his hand.

This fruit was only the size of a baby's fist, and it looked a bit like the black plums from his memory.

Involuntarily, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, wondering if this thing was sour.

Without any hesitation, he directly activated the 【Random Replication】 trait to perform a thousandfold replication on this God-grade Creation Fruit.

‘Let's do this!’

Looking at the 1,001 Creation Fruits before him emitting powerful auras, Ye Lin didn't care if they were sour or not. He started devouring them one by one.

Fortunately, this thing wasn't sour at all and had no taste. As soon as they entered his mouth, the fruits transformed into wisps of pure power of creation, merging into his Spiritual Root.

As the new power of creation entered, a violent reaction immediately occurred within his Spiritual Root.

Wisps of dark power emerged out of thin air, like black holes that could swallow everything, spreading frantically inside his Chaos Spiritual Root...