Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard”

The two of them fell into a tacit silence.

Su Yuan had long guessed that the Abyss Will’s kindness in helping him refine the puppet definitely had some ulterior motive.

But the interior of the Tear of Eternity was his territory, and no trick could escape his detection!

The Abyss Will turned its head away and flew into the distance.

Su Yuan casually tossed out two Chaos Beast crystal cores, throwing them to the Abyss.

The Abyss Will turned around, caught them without ceremony, scooped up the two Chaos Beast crystal cores, ran off into the distance, resumed its form as a massive abyss, swallowed the two Chaos Beast crystal cores into the abyssal rift, and began digesting this rare harvest.

On the other side.

The Gaoyu Tribe high-level meeting commenced.

Seven Wuji Realm Great Powers gathered together.

The seven sat in a circle, with a mirror suspended in the center. Through the mirror, they could see the scene within a hundred million light-years around Gaoyu.

They saw Chaos Beasts covering the mountains and plains, rapidly marching toward the Gaoyu Tribe. Each one had a formidable aura, and occasionally, Tai Chi Realm Chaos Beasts flashed past in the image!

All seven watched the scene in the mirror with grave expressions.

“The situation has changed;

the scale of the beast tide is much larger than imagined!” The Great Elder pointed at several locations in the image where the view was shrouded in shadow, the secrets hidden within unknown.

“What exactly is going on?” Demon Subduing Venerable asked.

The Seventh Elder said, “I went to investigate. The reason is this: the Eternal Nation launched a conquest war, defeated and occupied the Ancient God Kingdom. The remnants of the Ancient God Kingdom scattered and fled, with one group arriving in our nearby area and establishing several tribes. Many Chaos Beasts were driven away by them, leading to a migration phenomenon among the Chaos Beasts. Several waves of Chaos Beast tides merged together and coincidentally arrived in our territory!”

Everyone frowned in unison.

“It can’t be such a coincidence!” Demon Subduing Venerable stated.

The Great Elder narrowed his eyes: “It’s likely due to manipulation by other tribes. We not only have to deal with the beast tide, but our Chaos Crystal mine might also be coveted!”

Everyone nodded. The tribe’s location wasn’t chosen randomly;

beneath the tribe lay a Chaos Crystal mine unique to the Chaos Continent, which could supply cultivation needs for the Wuji Realm.

There was no upper limit to the growth of Wuji Realm magical power, which also meant that the Wuji Realm would always need Chaos Crystals!

A mineral vein that could continuously produce Chaos Crystals was enough to attract the interest and action of powerful individuals from other tribes.

“We must strictly investigate the cultivators who have joined the tribe recently to prevent spies from infiltrating! That newly joined artifact refining master is very suspicious!” The Sixth Elder spoke up at this point.

Demon Subduing Venerable frowned and looked at Sixth Elder Jing Chenzi, saying, “Old Six, do you doubt my appraisal ability?”

Jing Chenzi said calmly, “Not at all. He is indeed an artifact refining master, but artifact refining masters aren’t easily trained. He could be a spy, and there’s another possibility…”

He paused and said, “He could be a remnant of the Ancient God Kingdom! You must know, the Eternal Nation won’t let these people go!”

Demon Subduing Venerable was stunned, not expecting Jing Chenzi to think so far ahead.

Demon Subduing Venerable secretly sent a mental message to Dao Immortal: “Immortal Emperor, should we tell them Su Yuan’s identity?”

“Tell them. At this critical moment, we can’t conceal it anymore!” Dao Immortal Human Emperor replied.

The Great Elder also seemed hesitant, as if considering expelling this talent.

At this moment, Demon Subduing Venerable spoke up: “He is actually a fellow countryman of mine, Dao Immortal, and Nine Nethers, also originating from the same God Realm Sea, following the marks we left behind. He obtained the legacy we left, and coupled with his exceptional talent, having this level of artifact refining skill is perfectly normal.”

Jing Chenzi was somewhat surprised but still said, “So he’s a fellow countryman of the Third Elder. But the situation is special now. I think we should temporarily not keep him in the tribe. It wouldn’t be too late for him to return after we survive the beast tide!”

Suddenly, a soaring aura erupted from within the tribe!

Everyone’s expressions changed simultaneously.

They instantly teleported out together, appearing above the tribe.

They saw a puppet bursting out from Su Yuan’s courtyard. The sky above churned with wind and clouds as the Chaos Will gathered thunderclouds and unleashed a Chaos True Thunder!

Great Elder Jing Hunzi exclaimed in astonishment, “A Wuji Realm puppet! This is a newly refined Wuji Realm puppet? Who refined it?”

Everyone looked toward the courtyard.

Su Yuan stood steadily, hands behind his back. Seeing everyone’s gazes, he cupped his hands in salute and said, “Su Yuan pays his respects to all Elders!”

Demon Subduing Venerable gasped sharply: “Su Yuan, did you refine this?”

“Indeed. Thanks to the Wuji Realm Chaos Beast crystal core provided by the Elder, I fortunately succeeded with one!”

Jing Hunzi looked at Demon Subduing Venerable: “How many did you give him? I saw the exchange record;

you exchanged three!”

“I only gave him three in total!” Demon Subduing Venerable replied.

Then he asked Su Yuan: “How many Chaos Beast crystal cores did you use?”

“Three!” Su Yuan said regretfully. “The first one actually succeeded, the following ones were wasted!”

Jing Hunzi fell silent. He could tell Su Yuan wasn’t lying;

he truly only used three to refine one Wuji Realm puppet.

Yet he himself had spent ten Chaos Beast crystal cores to succeed with just one! His success rate was completely crushed!

Demon Subduing Venerable still found it hard to believe: “I remember you only just obtained the puppeteer legacy, didn’t you?”

He couldn’t care about exposure anymore and directly asked in public, he was simply too astonished.

“I previously refined Tai Chi Realm puppets and failed 49 times in a row. I had a premonition that my next refinement would bring good luck, so I tried it and indeed succeeded!” Su Yuan sighed. “It’s not that my skill is good, mainly that my luck was good!”

Everyone fell silent.

The Chaos True Thunder in the sky continued to rumble!

This was the Chaos Will’s test for Wuji Realm creations. Usually, once one truly reached the Wuji Realm, failure wouldn’t occur.

Sure enough, after nine Chaos True Thunders dissipated.

The puppet had successfully passed the Chaos True Thunder tribulation.

Su Kui Yi flashed to stand before Su Yuan, ready to await his commands at any moment.

Great Elder Jing Hunzi heard Su Yuan’s “refining experience” and couldn’t help but wonder to himself: Could there be some truth to this? Could the success rate increase after failing forty-nine times in a row? He must definitely try this later!

At this moment, Demon Subduing Venerable seized the opportunity to say, “I propose we list Su Yuan as a tribe reserve elder! With a Wuji Realm puppet, he already counts as a Wuji Realm existence!”

Great Elder Jing Hunzi frowned. Under normal circumstances, he wouldn’t relent at all, but with the current uncertain situation, an additional Wuji Realm combat force was indeed very important for the tribe.

He said, “Since that’s the case, I’ll call for a vote. Who agrees? Who opposes?”

Demon Subduing Venerable spoke up: “I agree!”

“I agree!” Dao Immortal Human Emperor said.

“I also agree!” Nine Nethers Human Emperor said as well.

The agreement of these three didn’t surprise Jing Hunzi.

At this point, the Seventh Elder also expressed his stance: “I agree. You haven’t seen that beast tide, tsk tsk!”

Four votes in favor! This basically meant approval.

So Jing Hunzi also said: “Fine. Since that’s the case, then list Su Yuan as a reserve elder. Once his contributions are sufficient, he will automatically become a tribe elder!”