Chapter 181: Lifespan of Eight Hundred Years, Strength of Two Hundred Thousand Catties

Without a doubt, after gestating the second Heart Eye Insight, his ability to respond to danger had also been greatly enhanced; it was almost impossible for an enemy to assassinate him.

Moreover, by utilizing the power of Heart Eye Insight, he could even secretly eavesdrop on the divine sense conversations of countless Cultivators.

Under the Heart Eye, all the secrets of these Cultivators had nowhere to hide.

"It was not in vain that I spent five years in bitter cultivation to condense the second Heart Eye."

Zhou Sui laughed heartily, feeling very joyful.

He felt that all of this was worth it.

One must know that the Lu Family Ancestor of the past had tried every possible method, yet could not condense a second Heart Eye.

He did not even dare to continue cultivating it.

After all, the condensation of the first Heart Eye had basically exhausted all the luck and opportunities on the Lu Family Ancestor.

If it were not for the help of the Book Gu, it was highly probable that he would not have succeeded in his cultivation either.

This was simply not a technique for ordinary people to cultivate.

Of course, once successful, the benefits gained were also beyond imagination.

"Right, let me check the Virtual Panel first."

Thinking of this, Zhou Sui's heart stirred, and he immediately looked at his Virtual Panel.

【Host: Zhou Sui, Cultivation: Foundation Establishment Early Stage (70% progress), Lifespan: 29 (800) years】

【Aptitude: Sixth Grade Spiritual Root (71%)】

【Sword Dao: Second-tier Low-grade (40%)】

【Rune: Second-tier Low-grade (40%)】

【Array Formation: Second-tier Low-grade (40%)】

【Alchemist: Second-tier Mid-grade (75%)】

【Phantom Demon Transformation Art: Minor Achievement (85%)】

【Five Elements Alchemy Formula: Major Achievement (75%)】

【Seven Apertures Exquisite Book: Heart Eye Identifying Objects, Heart Eye Insight】

【Fireball Technique: Grandmaster (70%), Wind Blade Technique: Proficient, Golden Light Technique: Proficient, Cold Ice Technique: Proficient, Spring Breeze Turns to Rain Technique: Proficient, Lightning Summoning Technique: Proficient...】

【Infatuation Gu: Third-tier Low-grade, Clone Gu: Second-tier Low-grade, Wine Insect: Second-tier Low-grade, Gold-Eating Insect: Second-tier Low-grade, Book Gu: Second-tier Low-grade, Dream Soul Gu: Second-tier Mid-grade, Dragon Elephant Gu: Second-tier Low-grade, Golden Light Myriad Poison Gu: Second-tier Low-grade, Teleportation Gu: Second-tier Low-grade.】

"A lifespan of eight hundred years, not bad, not bad."

Zhou Sui felt very satisfied.

Over these five years, he had basically been tempered and baptized by the mysterious blood energy of the Dragon Elephant Gu every month.

It could be said that his physical fitness had climbed step by step, and now his physical strength exceeded two hundred thousand catties.

At the same time, his defensive power had also been greatly enhanced.

It was basically equivalent to a Low-grade Defensive Spirit Tool.

Ordinary Spirit Artifacts striking his body could have their attack power reduced by half.

If it were an attack from a Dharma Artifact, he could easily withstand it by relying on the skin of the divine elephant on his body.

This could be called invulnerable to blades and spears.

Of course, the more important thing was the increase in lifespan.

It had increased from the previous six hundred years to eight hundred years, a full two hundred years of lifespan gained.

If other Cultivators knew this, they would surely be green with envy.

If other Cultivators wanted to increase their lifespan, they basically needed to break through a major realm to be able to do so.

Or they would have to consume life-extending Spirit Medicine.

But now, by obtaining the power of the Dragon Elephant Gu, he could increase his lifespan almost every month.

And judging from this situation, his lifespan growth had not yet encountered a bottleneck.

This also meant that he was evolving in the direction of becoming non-human, gradually detaching from the ordinary life form of a Human.

However, immortal cultivation is actually such a process: from human to immortal.

The two are actually not essentially different.

"But a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Cultivator is actually only at 70% progress; the cultivation of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator is still very difficult." Zhou Sui glanced at his cultivation progress.

He was still 30% away from the Foundation Establishment Mid-stage realm.

And this was established on the condition that he constantly consumed pills and engaged in Dual Cultivation with his Dao Companion, having cultivated for a full five years to reach such fast progress.

If it were normal cultivation, it would take at least twenty or thirty years to possibly break through to the Foundation Establishment Mid-stage.

In fact, it is very common for some Foundation Establishment Cultivators to be trapped in this realm for over a hundred years.

After all, once reaching this realm, wanting to increase even a little bit of Dharma Power cultivation requires consuming a massive amount of time and resources.

Following this pace of cultivation, it is estimated that it will take at least another two or three years to possibly break through to the Foundation Establishment Mid-stage.

Of course, such a cultivation speed is already quite astonishing.

Even for a genius with a First Grade Spiritual Root like Leng Yuexi, it took ten years in the past to truly break through from the Foundation Establishment Early Stage to the Mid-stage.

However, there is actually another important reason why Zhou Sui's cultivation is so slow, and that is the burden of the Gu Insects.

Although the Gu Insects brought him powerful strength and help, it was not without side effects.

That is, he also needs to help the Gu Insects evolve.

If the Gu Insects do not evolve, then he will not easily break through.

This is equivalent to saying that it is not just Zhou Sui who needs to increase the Dharma Power in his body; those Gu Insects that have advanced to the second-tier realm also need to increase their own Dharma Power to promote evolution.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Sui has become aware of this point.

Now he will no longer easily refine Gu Insects.

Unless this kind of Gu Insect provided enormous help to his cultivation, he would not refine it.

Otherwise, refining a whole pile of Gu Insects would not only fail to help him, but would instead drag down his cultivation speed.

It would leave him not knowing when he could truly break through.

This would simply be a case of the losses outweighing the gains.

"The speed of my Spirit Root's improvement has also slowed down."

Zhou Sui stroked his chin; he looked at the evolution speed of his Spirit Root, and after five years, it had only reached 71%, still needing thirty percent more progress to truly transform to the level of a Five-element Spiritual Root.

Of course, he had long anticipated this kind of thing.

After all, the higher the Spirit Root grade, the more difficult the evolution naturally becomes.

Thinking of improving one's Spirit Root aptitude in a short time is simply a pipe dream.

However, he was not in a rush to improve his Spirit Root aptitude; in fact, a Sixth Grade Spiritual Root aptitude was already completely sufficient.

Plus, with the assistance of Pills and Dual Cultivation with a Dao Companion, his cultivation speed was actually not inferior to that of a Third Grade Spiritual Root aptitude.

He believed that after some more time, him advancing to a Five-element Spiritual Root would not be too big of a problem.

"However, my realms in Array Formation, Rune, Sword Dao, and Alchemy have all achieved astonishing improvements."

"Over these five years, besides practicing the Seven Orifices Exquisite Art, the greatest effort was spent on the hundred arts of immortal cultivation."

"Indeed, hard work pays off; I have still improved quite a bit."

Zhou Sui felt very satisfied with the improvement of his hundred arts of immortal cultivation.

Because he knew his cultivation speed had slowed down, he had put a portion of his time into learning the hundred arts of immortal cultivation.

Of course, this also benefited him greatly.

Techniques like Array Formation, Rune, Sword Dao, and so on, had all advanced to the low-grade Second-tier realm.

And his Alchemy had even improved to the mid-grade Second-tier.

Such a skill level could be considered an Alchemy Master even within the Xianxia Sect.