I awakened my god-tier passive skill early on and took off instantly

The "Divine Soul Separation Technique" has extremely high requirements for the strength of divine consciousness. Lu Xin's current level of divine consciousness is generally at the Refining Void stage.

Therefore, he has only practiced the first six layers of the nine-layer cultivation method.

He can split out six strands of divine consciousness and refine six doppelgangers of the same level as him.

These refined doppelgangers will usually have dormant consciousness. When needed, their consciousness can be awakened and sent out to handle matters for him.

Even if they die, it won't affect his original body.

It's an essential divine technique for those who prefer a cautious approach, but he's too lazy to find the materials to refine them right now. He'd rather improve his cultivation first.

He sat down cross-legged and took out a few bottles of fifth-order pills that assist in refining Qi from his storage bag.

These were obtained from Yin Kui Palace and the storage bags of the two people who ventured into the ruins with him.

He has been using them intermittently and is almost out, with only these remaining.

He directly took out one and threw it into his mouth.

He immediately felt a familiar and immense spiritual energy spreading within his body, and he quickly circulated his cultivation technique to refine it.

In the blink of an eye, three years passed.

This day, Lu Xin opened his eyes because he received a message.

The fifth and sixth-order spiritual herbs that he had people cultivate from the ruins had grown on a large scale.

Therefore, he had to pause his cultivation and directly flashed to the fifth floor of the Exquisite Pagoda.

"Greetings, Ancestor!" Peak Master Wu Chengfeng of the Pill Refining Peak quickly saluted.

"Rise."

Lu Xin casually said, then turned his gaze to the Three Yang Spiritual Leaf Grass and Jade Dragon Celestial Fungus, which had been planted on a large scale.

Some had already matured, while others had just been newly sown and only had sprouts.

However, he was already very satisfied with this effect in just over three short years.

"You've done well."

"It's all thanks to the Ancestor's powerful spiritual treasure. We only did the planting."

Wu Chengfeng humbly spoke, but his heart was already overjoyed. Being praised by the Ancestor meant that his hard work during this period was not in vain.

Although Lu Xin didn't know his little thoughts, he also understood the principle that if you want a horse to run, you have to give it more grass to eat.

He glanced at his realm, the mid-stage of Golden Core.

So he allowed him to take some spiritual herbs from the third floor for his own use.

He was immediately overjoyed.

Then, Lu Xin went to the sixth floor to take a look. This place was planted with the only sixth-order spiritual herb, the Thousand Spirit Flower, which grew much slower than the fifth-order spiritual herbs below.

Only new sprouts had just grown.

Fortunately, he wasn't in a hurry to use it. He went to the seventh floor to take a look at the Amethyst Star Pattern Fruit tree that had been transplanted.

Although this place couldn't accelerate its growth very quickly, it was still a little faster than outside.

In the three years, it had grown much taller.

Without looking much, he returned downstairs, took away the mature fifth-order spiritual herbs, as well as some auxiliary materials, and directly returned to the secret room.

He was going to refine pills himself.

Those guys at the Pill Refining Peak were only third-order alchemists at best. Giving them fifth-order spiritual pills would waste a lot of spiritual herbs even if they succeeded in refining them.

So he could only do it himself.

Fortunately, he had obtained a jade slip recording many pill formulas in the Sea Demon Ruins.

Generally, pill formulas would record refining techniques.

In addition, he had both the [Focus] passive to easily master knowledge and a powerful divine consciousness to control details, making it difficult to fail.

So after directly taking out a pill furnace, he began searching in the jade slip.

He quickly found a pill formula with Jade Dragon Celestial Fungus as the main ingredient, named Jade Dragon Pill.

He finished reading the contents, prepared various auxiliary materials according to the pill formula, and then summoned the Nether Blue Ice Flame.

He officially began his first pill refining in life.

A day passed in the blink of an eye.

Like all first times, he was a little nervous at first.

But he quickly stabilized his mindset and performed exceptionally.

In just one day, he successfully refined the first batch of pills.

Looking at the six dragon-eye-sized Jade Dragon Pills floating in the pill furnace, Lu Xin reached out and sucked one into his hand, carefully examining it.

The quality was okay. According to the jade slip's records, it was considered mid-grade.

Above that, there were also high-grade and top-grade.

The higher the quality, the better the effect.

He wasn't disappointed. After all, it was his first time, and he would become more and more skilled later.

So after collecting all six pills, he began the second batch of refining.

Now he still had eleven Jade Dragon Celestial Fungus, enough to refine eleven batches.

Nine days later, he obtained sixty-six Jade Dragon Pills.

Without stopping, he took out the Three Yang Spiritual Leaf Grass and began refining the Three Yang Spiritual Pill.

Then there were Blood Spirit Pills, Earth Spirit Pills…

It wasn't until more than four months later that he exhausted all the spiritual herbs, obtaining a total of four hundred and fifty-six fifth-order pills.

"Is this enough for me to break through to the Refining Void stage?"

Looking at a storage bag full of pills, Lu Xin's face was full of exhaustion. Without rushing to cultivate, he walked out of the secret room, planning to take a good bath and rest for a day.

Then he would go into seclusion again.

Soaking in the bathtub, he looked at the system panel:

[Host: Lu Xin]

[Lifespan: 81 / 30150]

[Realm: Late-stage God Transformation (Six million five hundred thousand / Sixty million)]

[Cultivation Technique: True Yang Subduing Evil Demon Slaying Art Fifth Layer]

[Convertible Mana: Twelve million (continuously increasing)]

[Dao Companion Ji Yue provides convertible mana: One million (One-click conversion available.)]

[Passive Skills: Breathing, Heart of the Sword, Heart of Self, Bonds, etc.]

[Warm Reminder: The counting method has been officially changed for the convenience of the host.]

He found that the panel data had changed greatly, and thought that the system had been infected with a virus. Fortunately, he understood after seeing the warm reminder.

Then he focused his gaze on Ji Yue's column and found that she had already provided him with more than one million mana.

"She should be about to break through to the Nascent Soul stage."

Lu Xin compared it to his own situation back then. It took him more than a year to reach Nascent Soul, with a total of 1.2 million mana.

And Ji Yue had now spent nearly four years, with an unlimited supply of third-order pills.

But looking at the accumulation of mana, she was still a little short of breaking through to Nascent Soul.

"Even if her spiritual root isn't as strong as the [Breathing] passive, it shouldn't be so slow, right?"

He was a little puzzled.

Then he quickly realized that he had a system, and breaking through to the next realm was a matter of course. He would break through when the data met the standard.

But others had bottlenecks.

Sometimes, a bottleneck could last for many years.

"As expected, it's better to have cheats."

Lu Xin muttered, and put away the panel.

Then he quickly finished bathing, came to the outside of Ji Yue's secret room, and added another formation to prevent people from disturbing her.

Then he walked into his own secret room.

He was too lazy to rest, so he cultivated directly.

Two years passed in the blink of an eye.

During this time.

Due to the thickening of the surrounding spiritual energy and the production of many spiritual herbs from the Exquisite Pagoda, the overall strength of the Seven Luminaries Sect had taken a step forward.

So everything was stable.

However, on this day, the originally sunny weather suddenly became windy.

"What's going on? Could it be that the Ancestor has broken through again?"

Everyone came out to check, and soon found a woman's phantom rising above the Demon Subduing Peak.

"It's the Master's wife!"

The elders and disciples who had seen Ji Yue recognized her.

"That's great, our Seven Luminaries Sect has another strong person to protect us."

Murong Xin was overjoyed and quickly notified everyone in the sect not to make any noise.

Before long, the phantom dissipated.

"She finally broke through?"

In the secret room, Lu Xin opened his eyes and glanced, sent her a voice transmission, and closed his eyes again.