Chapter Thirty: The Difficulty of Achieving an SS Rating
Lin Qiye’s voice was steady yet resonant, echoing across the nation, stirring hundreds of millions of people in Xia. They clenched their teeth in frustration, discussing heatedly among themselves.
“We can’t just sit and wait to die! But what should we do? We can't cultivate at all… If only every one of us could cultivate, how wonderful that would be!”
“Is there any way for ordinary people to gain the power of immortals? We must defend our homeland!”
“If we can't fight on the front lines, then let’s support logistics, ensuring the immortal cultivators at the front never lack supplies.”
The people clenched their fists.
They understood that only a portion of the enemies had been eliminated for now. The barrier of the universe had been breached, and even stronger invaders would surely come.
Xia had no way out!
As for the three hundred thousand cultivators, their outrage surpassed even that of the common people.
They had trained bitterly for five years. They had soared to greatness, basked in glory, and seized their own destinies.
Yet, a single slap from the alien invaders had shattered all of that.
They had been beaten until their teeth were broken.
The feeling of watching the world collapse before their eyes, utterly powerless and trembling, the humiliation of being unable to protect even their loved ones—these feelings cut deep, wounding both their hearts and their pride.
“We must cultivate! Cultivate, and then fight our way forward to avenge the greatest humiliation of our world’s downfall!”
The cultivators looked up at Lin Qiye, their gazes fierce as wolves, their cries thunderous as tigers.
Upon the city walls, Lin Qiye’s gaze swept over the three hundred thousand cultivators.
At this moment, one phrase surfaced in his mind: Army of tigers and wolves.
Yes.
These three hundred thousand cultivators, having tasted humiliation and now fired with resolve, already possessed the soul of a true, formidable army.
If their strength could be raised—
They would make the enemy tremble at their coming!
Lin Qiye’s brow rose slightly, a restrained yet commanding smile appearing on his face.
“Good! May all citizens of Great Xia hone their swords and steel their resolve, so that one day we may ascend to the heavens and wash away this humiliation in blood!”
As his words fell, the entire capital seemed to shudder.
A tidal wave of roaring voices surged toward the sky.
“Sharpen our swords, ascend to the heavens!”
“Sharpen our swords, ascend to the heavens!”
The chilling aura of military might swept over the city.
Lin Qiye’s features remained cold and resolute.
“The entire nation is roused by my words. The emergence of Golden Core experts should accelerate.”
“But to create a new chapter in history still remains a daunting challenge.”
Lin Qiye shook his head inwardly.
“I’m currently rated S+. To reach SS, I must forge three new chapters in history… only then will I have a chance to raise my score to SS.”
“Now, with the invasion from the other world and the two worlds colliding, the difficulty of forging new history has skyrocketed! I fear that only by counterattacking into the Divine Tiger Clan’s universe and conquering more than half their lands would it be considered true history-making.”
Following his sharp intuition, Lin Qiye analyzed silently.
“The Divine Tiger Clan sent five hundred Golden Core experts just to invade a micro-universe. The entire clan must have several million peak Golden Core experts.”
His instincts told him that beyond the breach lay a wall of steel.
Even if Lin Qiye reached the peak of the Golden Core realm, he could not shatter it.
Because, ultimately, Lin Qiye stood alone in Xia.
If ten thousand peak Golden Core experts chose not to fight him, but simply destroyed the world outright, there was nothing he could do to stop them.
He could kill all ten thousand, yes—but it would take half an hour, perhaps even longer!
As for breaking through the Golden Core realm and entering the Nascent Soul stage, gaining the power to annihilate all with a single sweep…
Lin Qiye could not achieve this. After all, the ceiling of the Divine Tiger Universe was the peak of the Golden Core realm.
To force a breakthrough would require Ji Qinghuan to burn two thousand years of her life.
But Ji Qinghuan no longer had two thousand years to give.
Nor was Lin Qiye willing to put her at risk again.
At this, Lin Qiye felt a wave of frustration.
“The difficulty of attaining an SS rating is truly monstrous.”
“In fact… it may well be impossible!”
“But—only with an SS rating can I take away two supreme treasures.”
A look of contemplation flickered in Lin Qiye’s eyes.
“I must first ensure that Xia has ten thousand Golden Core experts. Otherwise, nothing else matters.”
“And to nurture Golden Core experts… I need resources. When I advanced from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core, I used fifty thousand spirit stones.”
“Where can I possibly find several million, even tens of millions of spirit stones?”
Lin Qiye sighed softly.
It was fine for him to cultivate alone, but building a nation of cultivators was harder than reaching the heavens itself!
Suddenly.
A thought struck Lin Qiye, and his spirits lifted.
“That’s right. There are still five hundred Golden Core corpses yet to be looted.”
The moment the idea arose, he immediately gathered the five hundred corpses into the capital’s scientific research laboratory.
The five hundred bodies lay peacefully on the lab tables.
On their furry, disc-shaped tiger faces, a mixture of shock, terror, regret, and awe mingled, leaving their expressions twisted in death.
Lin Qiye meticulously examined each corpse.
He stripped five hundred storage rings from them!
Each ring contained the life’s fortune of a Golden Core expert.
A rough tally revealed—
Spirit Stones: 12 million.
Heavenly treasures: 20,000 specimens.
Weapons: 5,300 pieces.
Techniques: 1,700 volumes.
Pills: 80,000.
Various silks, jades, and miscellaneous items as well.
Sorting through all the spoils, Lin Qiye could not help but feel a surge of delight.
“To think, back then, fifty thousand spirit stones drove Ji Qinghuan to struggle for four years.”
“But now, the spirit stones in my spoils number over ten million.”
Lin Qiye couldn’t help but sigh.
“The ancients were right—there’s a golden belt for those who kill and loot. If you want to get rich, you can’t play nice!”
“Moreover… among the spoils is a rather impressive spatial technique.”
Lin Qiye picked up a pristine white bone inscribed with the technique “Stride the Earth in an Instant.”
He read through the spell’s principles on the bone.
As a ‘Universal Observer,’ Lin Qiye’s comprehension was extraordinary.
In no time, he mastered ‘Stride the Earth in an Instant.’
When employed, he could cross planetary distances in a single step, far surpassing the speed of a nuclear sage who could leap ten meters in one stride.
Pleased, Lin Qiye gave a satisfied nod.
He immediately used the technique.
In a single step, he spanned the breadth of a micro-universe and arrived at the boundary of the Angel Universe.
“The barrier here is completely shattered. It will take time for the universe to heal itself, perhaps three years for full recovery.”
“But… where is the Divine Tiger Universe? Why can’t I sense it? Is it just that the universes are far apart and it will take time for them to arrive?”
“That must be it. I just wonder, how many will come in the second wave, and how long will it take?”
Adhering to the doctrine of knowing oneself and one’s enemy for certain victory, Lin Qiye knew he had to find out.
Thus.
He quietly initiated the Genesis Simulation.
[This simulation will consume 5,000 Action Points (100,000 remaining).]
Five thousand points? That’s a bit steep.
But Lin Qiye was now a wealthy man with a hundred thousand Action Points to his name!
So.
He didn’t even blink, burning five thousand points without hesitation.
[Simulation successful: The Divine Tiger Universe will dispatch five thousand Golden Core experts, arriving in this world three months from now.]
Reading the result, Lin Qiye couldn’t help but frown.
“So, it truly is hell difficulty…”