Kryptonian fate deduction, invincibility starts from killing monsters

The rewind of time ended, and everything returned to the state it was ten breaths ago.

A gentle breeze brushed his face, but Shen Lin couldn't regain his senses for a long time.

Immediately afterward, a sharp, intense pain erupted in the center of his brow.

Shen Lin felt a darkness before his eyes and almost fell to the ground.

The Dao Principle Secret Art was, in theory, something he shouldn't have been able to use at his current stage.

Only because the Intercepting Heaven Skill was too special was Shen Lin able to use it at the Aperture Realm stage.

But even so, its consumption was extremely terrifying.

At this moment, the stinging sensation at the center of Shen Lin's brow came like a tide, wave after wave.

The side effects caused by the depletion of his divine soul power were not comparable to physical pain.

It felt as if his soul was being torn apart again and again, with icy coldness and scorching heat intertwined, causing Shen Lin to be covered in sweat in an instant.

After some time, perhaps because his divine soul power gradually recovered a bit, Shen Lin finally felt a little better.

He staggered to his feet and returned to the house.

He had successfully mastered the Dao Principle Secret Art and even snatched his life back from the jaws of the giant snake.

Shen Lin couldn't help but let out a long sigh, wryly smiling as he clutched his chest, still shaken.

He had imagined countless possibilities for how the Intercepting Heaven Skill could intercept a glimmer of life.

But everything that had just happened was completely beyond his expectations.

Who exactly was that gray-robed man?

It was their first meeting, yet he had directly given him such a precious talisman.

No, it couldn't be said to be given.

It was a transaction.

Logically speaking, what he had offered in return didn't seem ordinary either.

The Saint Realm...

With the system in hand, Shen Lin was very confident in his future cultivation path.

It's just that this Saint Realm didn't sound easy to reach.

But now, he might have to break through twice in the future.

He didn't know how many years of demon beast lifespan it would take.

But when he thought about how he had managed to snatch his life back from that terrifying snake, Shen Lin felt somewhat relieved.

Consider it a loan.

If he had died just now, then any future realm would be meaningless.

However, he needed to be more cautious in the future.

What if he was discovered next time...

Well, it didn't seem like a big deal.

Shen Lin sensed the speed of his divine soul's recovery.

He felt that as long as another month or so passed, his divine soul would be able to recover to its peak state.

At worst, he could just use the Intercepting Heaven Skill again then.

Thinking of this, Shen Lin's expression relaxed a little.

However, with such a powerful giant snake watching him covetously, he needed to speed up his cultivation.

Thinking of this, he took a deep breath and muttered, "Then let's start with breaking through to the Constellation Realm!"

"System, start deducing the Burning Heaven Boiling Sea Art, invest a thousand years of demon beast lifespan!"

【Year 1: You begin cultivating the Burning Heaven Boiling Sea Art. The spiritual energy within the 180 acupoints in your body is abundant, and you begin to attempt to break through to the Constellation Realm.】

【Year 37: Because you experienced Constellation Realm cultivation when you previously cultivated the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art, you believe that this breakthrough will be a natural process.】

【However, when you begin compressing the spiritual energy within your body, you discover that the difficulty is much greater than you imagined.】

【The Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art had a powerful physical body as an aid, making it convenient to compress the power of qi and blood within the body.】

【But your main body's strength is completely inferior to the Heavenly Demon's body, so you can only compress the spiritual energy within your body little by little.】

【Otherwise, a single carelessness could cause the spiritual energy to run wild, resulting in irreparable damage.】

【Fortunately, you have no shortage of time.】

【Year 370: Your progress gradually slows down. Because the spiritual energy within your body has now been compressed to a certain realm, the spiritual energy has become very solid, like a gel.】

【Year 1000: The speed of compressing spiritual energy slows down again, and you discover that it is extremely difficult to go any further at this moment. Your previously extraordinary storage of spiritual energy has now become an obstacle.】

【You discover that the more abundant the spiritual energy, the greater the difficulty in compressing it.】

【Deduction complete!】

Shen Lin had originally thought that a thousand years of demon beast lifespan would be enough to push his cultivation to the Constellation Realm.

After all, the lifespan of a normal human in the Aperture Realm was only five or six hundred years.

If a thousand years wasn't enough, then how did so many Constellation Realm martial artists in Great Wei come about?

But clearly, he had underestimated the difficulty of breaking through to the Constellation Realm.

However, after seeing the system's last sentence, Shen Lin suddenly understood.

When he was in the Aperture Realm, his spiritual energy storage was greater than that of ordinary people.

Therefore, compressing spiritual energy naturally became much more difficult than for others.

But if that was the case, how could those geniuses who cultivated earth-grade, or even heaven-grade, cultivation techniques break through so quickly?

Shen Lin recalled Gao Shenghan's mother.

She was less than a hundred years old this year and was already in the Constellation Realm.

Moreover, she wasn't an ordinary Constellation Realm cultivator, and was likely in the later stages.

How did she do it?

Could it be...

Is my talent really that bad?

Impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

It must be that I laid too good a foundation, which is why my subsequent cultivation has slowed down.

With a firm look in his eyes, Shen Lin immediately closed his eyes and invested another thousand years of demon beast lifespan to begin deducing again.

What he didn't know was that those famous sects all had their own unique secret methods to speed up the compression of spiritual energy within the body.

Like Hundred Refinements Valley, they had a giant cauldron refined using secret methods.

Cultivating within it could increase the process of compressing spiritual energy exponentially with the help of external flames.

But Shen Lin didn't know this.

When Gongsun Ge was giving Shen Lin information, he subconsciously overlooked this point.

After all, wasn't this the most basic knowledge for top sects?

No one would break through to the Constellation Realm honestly without relying on external objects, right?

【Year 1: You concentrate your mind and gather your qi, beginning to compress the spiritual energy within your body little by little.】

【Year 400: The spiritual energy within your body seems to have been compressed to the extreme, all gathered in one acupoint.】

【You can feel that there is only a layer of window paper between you and condensing liquid into a core.】

【Year 700: After sitting for three hundred years, you have exhausted your efforts to compress the spiritual energy within your body, but there has been no progress.】

【However, you are not without any gains. In the process, you have become more familiar with the spiritual energy within your body, and your understanding of spiritual energy utilization has reached the pinnacle.】

【Year 825: Just as your mind was numb and you were subconsciously trying to compress the spiritual energy within your body, a flash of insight suddenly occurred.】

【The spiritual energy within your body, which had not changed for a long time, finally changed.】

【The irregular spiritual energy trembled and collapsed inward, turning into a round solid spiritual core.】

【Naturally, you finally compressed the spiritual energy within your body into a solid, breaking through to the Treasure Liquid Realm.】

【Year 1000: You continue to cultivate, absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth around you, wanting to condense another spiritual core. But because the surrounding spiritual energy is too thin, and there are no spirit crystals to provide spiritual energy, the progress is very slow.】

【Deduction complete!】

【Congratulations, you have cultivated to the Constellation Realm!】