Chapter 1808: Distributing the Wealth

"Forget about that..."

He Ping continued, "The most important thing for us right now is to establish a firm foothold!"

"Once we've secured our position here, there will come a day when the Zhongxing family will obediently return everything they've taken!"

Cao Zhiwei said, "Yes, Young Master, that day will surely come!"

"Young Master, these are the divine pills I've brought for you. Do you need them?"

"This is a first-tier Ping Shen Pill, you'll need it for your cultivation!"

"This is a second-tier 【Tian Xing Divine Pill】. You'll need it when you break through to the Divine Imperial Realm!"

"And this is a divine pill for repairing spiritual sense!"

Cao Zhiwei brought over a large pile of items all at once.

The most precious among them was the Tian Xing Divine Pill.

The so-called Tian Xing Divine Pill is a pill that must be consumed before breaking through to the Divine Imperial Realm after reaching the perfection of the Divine General Realm; it serves a similar purpose to the 【Tong Ling Divine Pill】 that Cao Zhiwei had previously consumed.

It is much like the Foundation Establishment Pill in the cultivation world.

"Alright..." He Ping happened to be lacking pills as well. "Cao... get me a furnace for alchemy, and some books on alchemy!"

"I want to learn the art of alchemy as well!"

"Back in the lower realm, my alchemy skills could be said to have reached the pinnacle!"

Cao Zhiwei said, "Young Master, that is no problem."

He Ping said, "I am going into seclusion for a period of time. Have them ready for me by the time I emerge!"

Next came the seclusion.

He Ping opened the formations outside the great hall.

There were two layers in total.

The outermost was the early-warning formation, and inside that was the spirit-forbidding formation.

He Ping immediately threw another early-warning formation and another spirit-forbidding formation into the Treasure Basin.

They needed to be strengthened!

For this seclusion, he had prepared many Ping Shen Pills.

While in seclusion to improve his cultivation, He Ping also took out the Heavenly Poison Machine Crossbow.

This item was a mid-tier third-tier divine artifact.

It possessed seventy-eight layers of restrictions.

He had refined it a bit before, but he hadn't fully refined it yet.

Now was the time to refine it completely.

Cultivation knows no time!

Time flowed slowly!

In his own dojo, He Ping swallowed one Ping Shen Pill after another, and he didn't know how many times he had circulated the 【Divine Fire Expanding Sun Art】.

Finally, one day, his cultivation broke through!

He broke through from the third layer of the Divine General Realm to the fourth.

This time, it took him ninety-six thousand years!

This was very strange.

When he first broke through, He Ping refined a top-tier Ping Shen Pill and it took him over one hundred and thirty thousand years.

The second breakthrough was actually the fastest; he only used a few decades and swallowed three Ping Shen Pills to reach the second layer.

The time taken for this breakthrough was much slower again.

However, it didn't matter; after all, he was in the Divine Realm.

He Ping did not choose to emerge from seclusion, but continued instead.

But the difficulty of going from the fourth layer to the fifth soared once again.

This time, he spent a full two hundred and thirty-six thousand years before breaking through.

Afterwards, after another seven hundred thousand years, He Ping broke through to the sixth layer.

After another one million seven hundred thousand years, he broke through to the seventh layer.

After another three million four hundred thousand years, he broke through to the eighth layer.

After another eight million six hundred thousand years, he broke through to the ninth layer.

After another fourteen million years, he broke through to the tenth layer.

After another thirty-three million years, he broke through to the eleventh layer.

He Ping did not emerge; his cultivation had come all the way from the third layer of the Divine General Realm to the eleventh.

In total, it took...

Following the logic of the Immortal Realm, at this point, he should have encountered a bottleneck.

However, the rules of the Divine Realm were different.

There was no such thing as a bottleneck in the Divine Realm.

If one were to speak of bottlenecks, they would only be encountered when breaking through major realms.

For example, breaking through from the Divine General Realm to the Divine Imperial Realm could no longer be achieved by relying on Ping Shen Pills; one had to rely on the special second-tier divine pill, the 【Tian Xing Divine Pill】.

After breaking through to the eleventh layer, He Ping checked his inventory.

He was out of Ping Shen Pills!

It was time to go out and replenish them.

He planned to replenish his Ping Shen Pills, then continue his seclusion to charge directly for the twelfth layer.

After entering the twelfth layer, he could swallow a top-tier 【Tian Xing Divine Pill】 to break through to the Divine Imperial Realm.

Once he reached the Divine Imperial Realm, he would be able to do many things.

For instance, strengthening third-tier divine godheads, and strengthening the 【Heavenly Poison Machine Crossbow】.

"Young Master..." He Ping had just stepped out of his great hall when Cao Zhiwei sensed the fluctuation and appeared before him immediately.

"Young Master... you... you you you..."

"Hiss..."

Cao Zhiwei was so excited he could barely speak; he was visibly trembling all over.

"What's wrong, Old Cao?" He Ping asked.

Cao Zhiwei took several deep breaths before lowering his voice and saying, "You've reached the eleventh layer?"

He Ping nodded, "Yes... is there a problem?"

"There is a huge problem!" Cao Zhiwei looked at He Ping in disbelief and continued in a low voice, "If this old servant remembers correctly, you were at the third layer of the Divine General Realm when you went into seclusion, and this time, you only used sixty-six thousand years!"

"It's too fast... Young Master, your speed of cultivation improvement is simply outrageous..."

"Sixty-six thousand years; for an ordinary cultivator, it wouldn't even be possible to improve from the third layer of the Divine General Realm to the fourth..."

"You... you this..."

"Hiss..."

"Young Master, if this speed of cultivation were known to outsiders, it would be a disaster..."

Cao Zhiwei was both pleasantly surprised and terrified.

He Ping fell silent!

That's right!

He suddenly remembered a problem.

Back when he first entered the Divine Realm, at the Xia family in Wudaokou, Luo Qiong had once said that it took her ninety-six 'yuan' to reach the ninth layer of the Divine General Realm.

Not years!

It was 'yuan'.

How long is a 'yuan'?

It is one hundred and twenty thousand years.

Ninety-six 'yuan' would be over ten million years.