Chapter 167: Hanging Out at the Illusory Tower!

Blade Technique!

Su Xiaobai’s eyes lit up with surprise and delight.

He had long desired a king-grade weapon-based blade technique.

However, the ‘One-Click Synthesis’ was random, and weapon techniques came in countless variations. Wanting to randomly synthesize a king-grade blade technique from so many options was about as likely as winning the lottery.

But to his surprise, he had actually hit the jackpot!

Two king-grade techniques landed in Su Xiaobai’s hands.

He quickly skimmed through them.

“’Unparalleled Return to One Blade’, a king-grade long blade weapon technique. Its greatest strength lies in ‘Unparalleled’, allowing one to unleash over ten thousand strikes in a single instant, with each strike capable of delivering maximum power! The ‘Return to One’ power burst effect, once fully mastered, can increase blade technique power by more than tenfold!”

“’Diagram of the Imperial Dragon of Great Change’, a king-grade internal body-tempering technique that reforges one’s meridians into ‘Dragon Veins’—so fierce that they can instantly drain the surrounding spiritual energy for one’s own use!”

“With these two techniques, my strength can take another huge leap forward!”

“Enough to rival even a Third-tier Martial King!”

Su Xiaobai’s eyes gleamed brightly.

The benefits of nine Transcendent-grade techniques, when taken together, still couldn’t match a single king-grade technique!

The reason was simple.

Transcendent-grade techniques—if your realm was high enough and your comprehension was decent, you could eventually master them with enough effort and energy.

But king-grade techniques were different. Even with a high realm, without sufficient comprehension or understanding of the technique, you might not even be able to understand them, let alone master them!

Now that both king-grade techniques had reached their highest level, the boost in power they offered was unimaginably terrifying!

“Comprehensive enhancements across body-tempering, power, inner strength…”

“Endless vitality and explosive blood energy…”

“And now the support of these two king-grade techniques…”

“Passing the 105th floor is just a matter of lifting my hand!”

Su Xiaobai was filled with soaring ambition.

With two king-grade techniques, he had ample confidence to break through the 105th floor!

As for the 106th floor—no need to rush…

That would require power sufficient to crush and slay a Third-tier Martial King, unless Su Xiaobai gained two more king-grade techniques, or left to return to the real world to madly purchase various strengthening materials—until all extraordinary and king-grade techniques were fully upgraded…

By then, the 106th floor would be trivial for him!

“Placement successful!”

After spending some time thoroughly etching the two king-grade techniques into his memory, he placed them directly into the One-Click Practice Space.

“I’ve still got ten thousand cultivation points left… According to the exchange rate, that’s equivalent to 11 trillion spirit coins!”

“This exchange rate… is absolutely profitable!”

“It’s a pity I don’t have enough time to keep grinding the tower repeatedly. Otherwise… Wait a second!”

Su Xiaobai suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

He seemed to have realized something—his eyes sparkled, and a look of delight and excitement gradually surfaced on his face…

“System! Can I dispatch a shadow to the Illusory Tower to continuously grind it for me?”

Su Xiaobai immediately asked.

His eyes were filled with anticipation.

For him, there were currently only two ways to obtain cultivation points:

One, clearing tower challenges and gradually earning points;

Two, exchanging cultivation or combat knowledge for cultivation points from others.

And honestly, with his current fame under the name ‘Sculpting Moon Azure Dragon’ across the entire Virtual Network, if he just made a call, there would be plenty of people eager to trade cultivation points for his insights on power enhancement or cultivation comprehension…

But that was too troublesome for Su Xiaobai.

Instead, the first method became his primary focus!

The Illusory Tower itself allowed repeated challenges if one failed—so long as each attempt showed improvement, one could earn cultivation points to strengthen themselves.

But after the 100th floor, the rules changed.

Even if your performance didn’t improve—or even got worse—you would still earn some cultivation points for each challenge attempt above the 100th floor.

It was exactly this mechanic that motivated many people to grind the tower endlessly, using the earnings to buy new techniques or combat insights!

Otherwise, how do you think the #1 ranked player racked up over 650,000 cultivation points?

By relentlessly grinding the tower day and night, of course!

Some powerful factions even dispatched people specifically to grind the tower—for every successful run by a subordinate, the faction would also receive a corresponding training point reward, according to Virtual Network rules!

Some might wonder—if the Virtual Network was constantly churning out so many cultivation points, wouldn’t the economy collapse if they were only used to buy techniques?

But that kind of thinking only existed among people in Newborn City.

Once they reached higher realms…

Unlocked higher permissions in the Virtual Network…

Explored more maps and accessed specialized features…

They would understand just how overwhelming the flow of cultivation points could be—and why demand still remained sky-high!

But Su Xiaobai didn’t need manpower to grind points laboriously.

He could just dispatch a shadow, hanging in the Illusory Tower 24/7, non-stop farming cultivation points!

“Host, you can.”

The system replied. Su Xiaobai instantly beamed with joy.

Without hesitation, he summoned Shadow No. 6.

The moment the shadow appeared, the barren world seemed to tremble slightly.

It was like a computer program suddenly encountering an inexplicable bug…

The Virtual Network almost crashed—but quickly stabilized.

“As expected, the shadow’s spirit weapon and armor can’t come in.”

“But with the Virtual Network providing substitutes, that’s nothing to worry about.”

After examining things carefully, Su Xiaobai issued a command to the shadow.

“104th floor. Restart!”

Under Su Xiaobai’s control, the shadow spoke.

Shadows could always speak—but without Su Xiaobai’s authorization, they remained silent.

In the next moment, the familiar challenge scene of the 104th floor reappeared.

Without a word, the shadow erupted with terrifying blood energy, transforming into a crimson demon god rising from a hellish abyss.

Dozens of lights and attributes from various techniques activated simultaneously…

The shadow charged forward, swinging its longblade!

“Ding! 104th floor cleared once—Reward: 14 cultivation points!”

Fourteen cultivation points per run.

That equaled 140 low-grade spirit stones.

Yes, a bit low…

But when converted into spiritual currency, that single slash by the shadow earned 14 billion spirit coins!

The speed of profit here—terrifying, to say the least!

“Repeat it. Keep grinding!”

Su Xiaobai gave the order.

The shadow faithfully obeyed.

In just one minute, Su Xiaobai had nearly 100 cultivation points from repeated shadow runs!

100 points per minute.

That’s 6,000 per hour.

Over 24 hours… that’s 144,000 points!

Which equaled 1.44 quadrillion spirit coins!

Earning 1.44 quadrillion in a day…

Just thinking about it made Su Xiaobai laugh with glee!

“Ding! ‘Diagram of the Imperial Dragon of Great Change’ has reached the highest level!”

“Ding! ‘Unparalleled Return to One Blade’ has reached the highest level!”

Double blessings arrived—

That major breakthrough brought a whole new level of return.

And now, both king-grade techniques had just finished training.

Boom!

Suddenly, Su Xiaobai’s consciousness was flooded with vast streams of information from ‘Unparalleled Return to One Blade’ and ‘Diagram of the Imperial Dragon of Great Change’!

“This… this… this really lives up to being king-grade!”

“That blade strike… absolutely spectacular!”

Su Xiaobai savored it deeply.

Just as he finished fully absorbing the knowledge of the king-grade techniques, his awareness was suddenly yanked away.

It was as if he were weightless—

He abruptly snapped awake.

Gone was the Illusory Tower—the scene in front of him was now the central building of the Virtual Network in Base No. 1!

And it wasn’t just him—

All the human geniuses who had entered the Virtual Network were back, each of them looking dazed and confused.

“Eighth Elder, there’s an anomaly in the spatial rift!”

“A large number of Martial King-level beings have crossed through the spatial rift! Due to temporal distortion, the Virtual Network connection was forcibly cut off!”