While Others are Leveling Up, I Alone Will Cultivate Until Mahayana Before Making My Move

[Compared to before, your engravings of the Minor Spirit Gathering Array had matured significantly. From here on, it was just a matter of continuous attempts until you ultimately succeeded.]

[Thus, over the next year, you engraved Minor Spirit Gathering Arrays on spirit fish daily.]

In the real world, Su Xing saw this and nodded slightly, sighing:

"Sure enough, the Minor Spirit Gathering Array, though nominally an array, was essentially a culmination of the Dao of Arrays, Talismans, and the Dao of Spirit Qi. Only by merging these three could you create a sufficiently effective Spirit Gathering Array!"

Su Xing held great expectations for the future development of the Spirit Gathering Array.

"Also, the Dao of Puppets was much the same... So, practicing all three paths simultaneously didn't seem like a bad idea and might prove useful in many areas in the future!"

After a pause, Su Xing thought with some frustration:

"However, the size of the Descending Sect had still somewhat exceeded my expectations... If I wanted to become a faction leader, I might need to secretly spur things along!"

His gaze turned to the simulation panel.

[In the twelfth year, you finally succeeded in placing a Minor Spirit Gathering Array on a spirit fish.]

[According to True Person Wan Mu's classification, this Minor Spirit Gathering Array was just a low-rank Grade One, belonging to a basic array.]

[You held the spirit fish with the successful engraving in your hands and carefully observed it, discovering that the speed at which it gathered spirit energy was not fast. It was approximately equivalent to the cultivation speed of a Four Elements Mixed Spiritual Root cultivator, and even within such cultivators, it wasn't strong.]

[Through continuous calculations, you came up with a vivid metaphor.]

[With your mutated Dual Elements Heavenly Spirit Root, plus the mutated Lightning Spirit Root, your basic cultivation speed was roughly 150 levels.]

[An ordinary Heavenly Spirit Root cultivator's speed was 100 levels.]

[A True Spiritual Root was 50 levels! Dual, triple, and four elements mixed spiritual roots decreased in order...]

[The lowest, the Five Elements Mixed Spiritual Root, had a cultivation speed of about 0.8 to 1.5 levels.]

[The Minor Spirit Gathering Array, once successfully engraved, could increase a cultivator's speed by about 0.5 levels.]

[You were not very satisfied with this speed, as such a minimal improvement was almost useless to you.]

[Therefore, you decided to further study the engraving of the Minor Spirit Gathering Array.]

[In the thirteenth year, you expanded the size of the spirit fish in your pond, with nearly ten thousand spirit fish present.]

[You attempted the engraving of the Minor Spirit Gathering Array daily, gradually increasing your success rate from 10% to around 50%.]

[In the fourteenth year, your Spirit Field Cave pond already contained over six thousand spirit fish with engraved Minor Spirit Gathering Arrays.]

[On this day, you believed the number of spirit fish was sufficient and decided to further experiment with the placement of the Minor Spirit Gathering Array.]

[You took out a spirit fish and placed it in the palm of your hand, carefully observing the flow of spirit energy within.]

[Then, you took out a spirit brush, dipped it in spirit ink, and began modifying the palm-sized Minor Spirit Gathering Array on the back of the fish, aiming to further enhance its power.]

[Boom! Unsurprisingly, a few minutes later, you failed, and the spirit fish in your hand exploded into a cooked fish.]

[You didn't get discouraged, instead taking out another spirit fish to continue your attempts.]

[In this way, several months passed, and nearly a thousand spirit fish had died in your hands.]

[One day, you were suddenly struck with inspiration and began modifying the array on the back of the spirit fish with a fluid motion.]

[A quarter of an hour later, you put down your brush, and the Minor Spirit Gathering Array on the back of the spirit fish had already changed dramatically.]

[It was still a Grade One Minor Spirit Gathering Array, but it had improved significantly compared to before!]

[You tested its spirit energy absorption efficiency and were surprised to find that the operation speed of the Minor Spirit Gathering Array had nearly doubled.]

[It had gone from 0.5 levels to a full level of improvement.]

[This was almost equivalent to the efficiency of a Five Elements Mixed Spiritual Root cultivator cultivating non-stop for 24 hours a day!]

Seeing this, Su Xing couldn't help but feel a surge of joy, muttering to himself:

"Finally, it was a success!"

"Just a Grade One Minor Spirit Gathering Array, equivalent to the cultivation speed of a Five Elements Mixed Spiritual Root cultivator... If it reached a higher grade, wouldn't that be amazing?"

What concerned Su Xing the most,

was that the Minor Spirit Gathering Array operated 24 hours a day. As long as there was spirit energy around, the Minor Spirit Gathering Array could automatically cultivate.

This was like gaining experience while being idle, capable of stacking buffs!

"Not bad. Next, I should attempt making more advanced Minor Spirit Gathering Arrays..."

With this thought, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

[In the next few months, you modified the Grade One Minor Spirit Gathering Arrays on all those spirit fish.]

[Several months later, you had 5,000 spirit fish engraved with excellent Grade One Minor Spirit Gathering Arrays.]

[In the fifteenth year, you prepared to attempt engraving a Grade Two Minor Spirit Gathering Array.]

[You researched day and night, trying daily, and a few months later, more than a thousand spirit fish had perished in your hands.]

[Through your continuous experimentation, you finally succeeded in engraving your first Grade Two Minor Spirit Gathering Array.]

[According to your measurements, a Grade Two Minor Spirit Gathering Array was equivalent to three levels of cultivation.]

[In other words, having a Grade Two Minor Spirit Gathering Array engraved on a cultivator could passively grant them nearly the cultivation speed of a Four Elements Spiritual Root cultivator...]

[Additionally, you discovered each grade of the Minor Spirit Gathering Array was divided into ordinary and excellent levels.]

[You surmised that if the Grade Two Minor Spirit Gathering Array were further refined, it could reach an excellent Grade Two level, with a spirit energy speed equivalent to nearly five levels! This was almost at the pinnacle of Four Elements Mixed Spiritual Root cultivator's aptitude.]

[One day, just as you were about to continue exploring the advancement of the Minor Spirit Gathering Array, you suddenly received an important mission.]

[The mission's specific requirement was to go to the Demon-Subduing Pass and assassinate a legendary profession user...]

[This mission included the current leader of the Nature Faction, a legendary peak-level strongman, as well as four legendary protectors, including yourself and Luo Shuying.]

[Upon receiving this mission, you immediately realized it was a perfect opportunity to eliminate the leader of the Nature Faction!]