Chapter 497

Chapter 497: The Sixth System Upgrade, Powerful Features

Li Xiaojun exclaimed in surprise because he discovered that the system absorbed the spiritual energy from this chaotic spirit stone much faster than from a superior grade immortal essence stone.

After doing some quick calculations, Li Xiaojun found that using this chaotic spirit stone to replenish energy value was over ten billion times faster than a superior grade immortal essence stone.

This meant that this chaotic spirit stone was at least five levels higher than a superior grade immortal essence stone.

It was likely, just as Li Xiaojun had guessed, that spiritual energy is followed by innate spiritual energy, and then above that is chaotic spiritual energy.

If this is the case, innate spiritual energy should also have energy crystals and could become innate spirit stones.

A low-grade innate spirit stone should be comparable to one hundred superior grade immortal essence stones.

A mid-grade innate spirit stone could match ten thousand superior grade immortal essence stones.

A high-grade innate spirit stone would equal one million superior grade immortal essence stones.

A superior grade innate spirit stone should be equivalent to one hundred million superior grade immortal essence stones.

The chaotic spirit stone, which ranked two levels higher than the superior grade innate spirit stone, would then be equivalent to ten billion superior grade immortal essence stones.

The energy from ten billion superior grade immortal essence stones drove Li Xiaojun completely crazy.

The system absorbing this chaotic spirit stone not only did it do so at a speed increased by ten billion times compared to a superior grade immortal essence stone, but the total energy of one chaotic spirit stone equated to one hundred billion superior grade immortal essence stones.

One hundred billion superior grade immortal essence stones were equivalent to the total amount Li Xiaojun had stolen from the demon tribe’s superior grade immortal essence stone vein last time.

Although refining chaotic spirit stones was somewhat troublesome and would take about a decade to refine one, their abundance made them worthwhile.

One superior grade immortal essence stone equated to one hundred trillion energy value.

So how much energy value would one hundred billion superior grade immortal essence stones be?

An astronomical number.

With such an energy value, Li Xiaojun estimated that he would only need to absorb ten chaotic spirit stones to upgrade the system.

Thinking of the sixth system upgrade, Li Xiaojun felt a strong expectation rise within him.

Thus, Li Xiaojun decided to continuously refine chaotic spiritual energy in the Demon Realm and strive to upgrade the system as quickly as possible.

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He acted on his thoughts.

Sensing that the nearby chaotic spiritual energy became somewhat thin due to his continuous refinement, Li Xiaojun flew out one trillion kilometers to a place with denser chaotic spiritual energy.

Then, Li Xiaojun used his divine sense to attract all the spiritual energy he sensed.

This spiritual energy rushed towards him quickly, drawn by Li Xiaojun’s call.

At the same time, Li Xiaojun was constantly extracting the chaotic spiritual energy from this spiritual energy.

Li Xiaojun was able to refine chaotic spiritual energy mainly relying on the system space.

He only needed to collect the spiritual energy into the system space, and the system space would naturally strip away the chaotic spiritual energy.

Unfortunately, the system space could not directly absorb chaotic spiritual energy; it needed to compress it into chaotic spirit stones first.

A decade flashed by in an instant.

Ten years later, Li Xiaojun compressed another fist-sized chaotic spirit stone.

After Li Xiaojun compressed the chaotic spiritual energy, he had almost purified most of the spiritual energy he sensed.

There was hardly any chaotic spiritual energy left, only pure spiritual energy remained.

At the same time, many demons perceived by Li Xiaojun suddenly found that their cultivation speed had increased by at least ten times.

On that day, two demon tribe Da Luo were delighted.

"Wow! Such rich demonic spiritual energy," one of the demon tribe Da Luo exclaimed.

Hearing this, the other demon sensed it and responded in surprise, "The toxic spiritual energy is gone from the demonic spiritual energy."

"Indeed, there really is no toxic spiritual energy!"

"What happened? Why is there no toxic spiritual energy in this demonic spiritual energy?"

"I don’t know, but this is a good thing. When cultivating using demonic spiritual energy that has toxic spiritual energy, one has to find a way to remove the unusable demonic spiritual energy, which wastes a lot of cultivation time."

"Now that the toxic spiritual energy is gone, we might be able to find a place to cultivate. The demonic spiritual energy here is even denser than in the Kunlun Realm, which is fantastic for cultivation."

"Yes, we should definitely find a place to cultivate."

Soon, the two demon tribe Da Luo found a location to begin their cultivation.

Meanwhile, Li Xiaojun had already traveled twenty trillion kilometers away and began to extract chaotic spiritual energy again.

…

From then on, every decade, Li Xiaojun would change locations.

Time passed quickly, and a hundred years went by.

On this day, Li Xiaojun finally heard the long-awaited system upgrade notification.

【System Notification: The system has met the upgrade conditions. Would you like to upgrade?】

To ensure the safety of the upgrade, Li Xiaojun did not upgrade in the Demon Realm, as the system’s functions would be disabled during the process.

He was afraid of being discovered by the demon tribe Da Luo during the upgrade.

Thus, he chose to teleport to Earth before starting the upgrade.

"Upgrade!"

After arriving on Earth, Li Xiaojun did not hesitate and directly chose to upgrade.

【System Notification: Upgrading…】

Ten years later.

【System Notification: System upgrade successful.】

Upon hearing that the upgrade was successful, Li Xiaojun quickly checked the new features of the upgraded system.

This time, there were no new features introduced, but it had strengthened four existing functions.

Although it was merely an enhancement of existing functions, it was extraordinary.

First, it strengthened the function related to merits.

Before, the merits Li Xiaojun gained could only add points to himself.

However, Li Xiaojun relied mainly on system cultivation points for his cultivation growth, so merits did not hold much significance for him.

But now it’s different. After the system update, Li Xiaojun can directly use merits to enhance the cultivation level of his children.

Merit can be used to improve cultivation directly, with no side effects, and it makes the cultivation even more stable.

If the merits are abundant and combined with Primordial Purple Qi, one can even achieve sainthood through merits. Although this is not as powerful as becoming a Primordial Supreme Golden Immortal through the power of the rules, it can easily crush lower-level Pure Golden Immortals.

After this system upgrade, Li Xiaojun can directly use merits to enhance his children’s cultivation without any side effects.

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In addition to directly enhancing cultivation, merits can also be consumed to comprehend the power of the rules.

While this function doesn’t hold much significance for Li Xiaojun, it is extremely important for his children.

For example, if Li Xiaojun uses merits for Yan Qingling to comprehend the power of the rules, then her speed of understanding the rules will increase by over a hundred times.

With the power of the rules from the Creation Jade Plate fragments, she can quickly elevate her understanding to a higher realm.

Moreover, merits can be used to refine treasures comparable to innate supreme treasures. One simply needs to inject merits into the weapon, and the merits will cultivate on their own.

However, it takes a long time for merits to nourish treasures of merit.

In addition, merits can condense the merit golden wheel, which is a formidable divine ability. If someone kills a being that possesses a merit golden wheel, the amount of merit that being had will be deducted from the killer’s merits.

If the killer has no merits, it will diminish their fortune.

When a person’s fortune is too low, their cultivation and comprehension of the rules will become sluggish.

They will also frequently encounter misfortunes and face the strongest lightning tribulation when undergoing tribulation.

Thus, generally, as long as a being isn’t completely out of their mind, they won’t eliminate beings with a merit golden wheel.

Sadly, once merits are used to condense the merit golden wheel, the merits consumed to form a group chat of merit golden wheels can no longer be used to enhance cultivation or for comprehension again.

It essentially traps the merits.

The sixth system upgrade, specifically the enhancement regarding merits, truly astonished Li Xiaojun.

He had already stored a large amount of human merit and was struggling to find a way to use it.

Now, after the system upgrade, he finally had a place to use these merits.

…

Aside from the enhancement in the functions related to merits in the sixth system upgrade, the second enhanced function is the system teleportation function.

Previously, Li Xiaojun could only teleport to his children’s side, or allow his children to teleport to him, or let them teleport to each other.

Now, with the system upgrade, these functions remain unchanged, but an additional feature allows the host to teleport to any bloodline descendant’s side.

Previously, Li Xiaojun could only teleport to his children’s side.

Now, he can teleport not just to his children, but also to his grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, and to any descendants with his bloodline, no matter how many there are.

This feature is incredibly powerful.

In other words, for every bloodline descendant Li Xiaojun has, he essentially possesses that many teleportation coordinates.

Li Xiaojun himself doesn’t even know how many trillions of bloodline descendants he has now, and this number is rapidly increasing each year.

Just in the Kunlun Realm, Li Xiaojun’s bloodline descendants have already spread across various tribes.

Moreover, many newly born demons in the Demon Realm also carry Li Xiaojun’s bloodline.

All of these can become the teleportation coordinates for Li Xiaojun.

…

Next is the third function, which is the final one.

This function enhances the strength of the system map.

In the past, the system map only recorded the places Li Xiaojun had visited.

Now, after the system upgrade, the system map not only records the places Li Xiaojun has been, but also records the places his bloodline descendants have visited.

This means that wherever Li Xiaojun’s bloodline descendants go, the system map will keep a record.

This function doesn’t have much significance for Li Xiaojun, but it further improves the functionality of the system map.

It’s like no one person can walk the entire Earth, but over eight billion people can explore most of its corners.

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Of course, in this system update, the most significant enhancement for Li Xiaojun is still the improvement related to merits.

Li Xiaojun looked at the merits he had collected; he had about eighteen billion merit points.

After some thought, Li Xiaojun directly summoned Yan Qingling to his side.

“Dad, why did you teleport me here?”

Yan Qingling had been in seclusion in her cave dwelling and was surprised to find herself next to Li Xiaojun.

“I plan to quickly enhance your cultivation level,” Li Xiaojun said to Yan Qingling.

“You want to enhance my cultivation? How will you do that?” Yan Qingling asked in astonishment.

“I have my ways; just tell me if you want it or not,” Li Xiaojun replied to Yan Qingling.

“Is there any side effect to this quick enhancement?” Yan Qingling asked with some concern.

If there were side effects, she preferred to improve at a steady pace.

“There won’t be any side effects; it will actually strengthen your foundation,” Li Xiaojun assured her.

“Then, alright,” Yan Qingling nodded.

She knew her biological father wouldn’t harm her, and that was enough for her.

Seeing Yan Qingling agree, Li Xiaojun wasted no time and began to allocate merits to her, then helped her enhance her cultivation level.

As Li Xiaojun allocated merits to Yan Qingling, she suddenly felt countless immortal essences appearing in her body.

These immortal essences were very pure and had no spiritual marks.

All she needed to do was imprint her own spiritual mark on these immortal essences, and she could rapidly enhance her cultivation.

Yan Qingling naturally did just that; sensing the unclaimed immortal essences within her body, she quickly sat cross-legged to cultivate.

Compared to absorbing spiritual energy to convert into immortal essence, directly marking the essence as her own was much quicker.

Her cultivation speed was now comparable to tens of thousands of times faster, even hundreds of thousands of times faster than before.

One year later,

Yan Qingling’s cultivation level broke through to mid-Golden Immortal.

Another year later, Yan Qingling’s cultivation level broke through to late Golden Immortal.

A year later, Yan Qingling’s cultivation reached great perfection in the Golden Immortal Realm.

“Dad, my understanding of the laws isn’t sufficient, and I can’t cultivate further,” Yan Qingling opened her eyes and said to Li Xiaojun.

“It’s fine, enter the bloodline space to comprehend the laws. I will help you enhance,” Li Xiaojun said to Yan Qingling.

“Okay.”

Yan Qingling nodded and immediately immersed herself in the system subspace, beginning to comprehend the laws on the Creation Jade Plate fragments projected by the system.

While Yan Qingling was understanding the laws, Li Xiaojun continued to expend the Power of Merits to assist her.

Five years later,

Yan Qingling’s cultivation suddenly skyrocketed, breaking through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm.

After breaking through to Taiyi Golden Immortal, three flowers gathered above her head, and if it weren’t for Li Xiaojun’s confinement, this phenomenon could have spread throughout the entire galaxy.

After reaching the Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm, Yan Qingling’s cultivation level was now comparable to Li Xiaojun’s.

However, becoming a Taiyi Golden Immortal was not Li Xiaojun’s goal.

Of course, Li Xiaojun mainly realized that after helping Yan Qingling break through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm, he had used only about five hundred million of the Power of Merits, leaving him with over one hundred seventy billion.

“Continue cultivating,” Li Xiaojun said to Yan Qingling.

As he spoke, he once again consumed merits to enhance Yan Qingling’s cultivation.

“Alright.”

Yan Qingling nodded and continued to cultivate.

After breaking through to Taiyi Golden Immortal, Yan Qingling’s consumption of merits increased several times compared to before.

Three years later,

Yan Qingling broke through to mid-Taiyi Golden Immortal.

Another three years later, Yan Qingling broke through to late Taiyi Golden Immortal.

By the tenth year, Yan Qingling achieved great perfection in the Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm.

“Dad, my understanding of the laws is insufficient.”

“Then continue to comprehend the laws,” Li Xiaojun said to Yan Qingling.

To break through to Da Luo Golden Immortal, she needed to understand one law to fifty percent, and then comprehend five laws to thirty percent.

Thus, for the next nearly fifty years, Yan Qingling struggled to reach the required level of understanding for all the laws.

“Dad, I feel like I need to undergo the lightning tribulation. What should I do?” Suddenly, Yan Qingling opened her eyes and said to Li Xiaojun.

“Undergo tribulation? Are you confident?” Li Xiaojun didn’t expect breaking through to Da Luo Golden Immortal would require undergoing tribulation.

“I am confident; merits can reduce the difficulty of the tribulation,” Yan Qingling told Li Xiaojun.

“Then it’s no problem; we have plenty of merits,” Li Xiaojun nodded and added, “Do you want to undergo tribulation in the Immortal Realm or the Kunlun Realm?”

“I’ll go to the Immortal Realm.” Yan Qingling didn’t hesitate at all.

The Kunlun Realm had other Da Luo Golden Immortals, and who knew if she would face a being’s tribulation there.

If there were a being’s tribulation, her dad couldn’t possibly withstand the attacks of a Da Luo Golden Immortal.

But the Immortal Realm was different; its strongest being was only a Golden Immortal.

“Alright, then let’s go to the Immortal Realm.”

Li Xiaojun showed no hesitation and directly teleported Yan Qingling to the Immortal Realm.

Moreover, when he teleported to the Immortal Realm, he did not arrive in the territory of the Human Race, but instead close to the territory of the beast tribe near the galaxy.

Here, undergoing tribulation should not impact the Human Race in the Immortal Realm.