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

[You had been waiting for this day for a long time, so you had made preparations early.]

[Indeed, the night after, Wang Qingxuan gave you the first half of the Changchun Technique. You didn't accept it, but instead proposed to join the Descending Sect.]

[Wang Qingxuan hesitated, telling you bluntly that this would plunge you into the Endless Abyss. However, under your persistence, Wang Qingxuan agreed.]

[After lingering with each other for a day, Wang Qingxuan took you to meet an elder from her squad.]

[The elder scrutinized you carefully, seeming to think you were just a minor bronze-level professional, and so he spoke directly about your insufficient strength. But for the sake of Wang Qingxuan's face, he was willing to allow you to join reluctantly.]

[You knew it was time to prove your worth. Thus, you drew a machete and directly chopped at a member of the Descending Sect beside you.]

[Since you controlled your strength well, the sect member wasn't killed outright but ended up with a huge wound on their arm several inches long, deep enough to expose bone.]

[The elder was stunned for a moment, followed by a sudden rage. He thought you were overestimating yourself and challenging the dignity of the Descending Sect, so he ordered a dozen sect members to surround you.]

[In a desperate situation, Wang Qingxuan stood in front of you, trying to protect you.]

[You, however, reassured her, gently pushed her aside, and took out an elixir, stuffing it into the mouth of the injured sect member.]

[A miraculous scene unfolded, as the wound on the sect member's arm began to scab over rapidly, though their complexion was still fairly pale.]

[You then fed them a subpar Blood Replenishing Pill, and soon, the gravely injured sect member quickly bounced back to life.]

[The elder was taken aback by what he heard and began to look at you with a peculiar gaze.]

[You claimed you were an alchemist and that the miraculous elixirs were your creation, expressing your longstanding desire to join the Descending Sect.]

[At the same time, you announced your wish for a higher status, not wanting to start as a mere underling, and you told the elder that he wasn't qualified to decide and to call someone with more authority in the sect to come to you.]

[The elder's eyes flickered with doubt upon hearing this. Although he found your claim a bit far-fetched, he recognized your value. A master able to craft such healing sacred medicine was definitely not for him to decide.]

[So, the elder took good care of you while arranging for someone to keep an eye on you. He informed you that, at the latest in three days, a protector-level figure would come to assess you. Should you pass the assessment, you would become an elder like him.]

"Phew..."

Su Xing exhaled a heavy breath, his emotions somewhat stirred.

He had put all his chips on the table in this simulation, revealing his value to the Descending Sect. He might gain tremendous benefits or unwittingly cause the simulation to fail!

"However... since it's just a simulation, obtaining the Changchun Technique is what matters the most!"

Su Xing continued with the simulation.

[Three days later, an old man came to you, verifying the effects of the Wound Healing Pill for himself. He found it comparable to some mid-quality healing drugs, immediately realizing its value.]

[At the same time, the old man appeared very curious about how you could concoct such remarkable elixirs.]

[You openly claimed that you were a Cultivator and had fortuitously acquired alchemy skills, enabling you to produce elixirs in large quantities. Additionally, you mentioned that aside from Wound Healing Pills, you could craft several other more precious elixirs.]

[Upon hearing this, a hint of a smile appeared on the old man's face, as if he had already known this. He declared that you had told the truth, and if you had lied just now, he would have killed you on the spot.]

[Afterwards, he informed you that you could be temporarily given the position of vice elder and would undergo an inspection for one year. Following a successful inspection, they would grant you the official position of an elder!]

Upon reading this, Su Xing's expression cleared up as he murmured to himself,

"Just as I thought, the Descending Sect definitely has a profound understanding of the Cultivation World! They even know the elixirs I've been crafting are specifically for cultivators... So, could it be that they have access to an entrance to a cultivation copycat?"

Su Xing was immediately excited, realizing he still knew too little about the Cultivation World.

Especially about the cultivation techniques, he didn't have a mentor and had to fumble through everything on his own.

So if he could learn more about the Cultivation World through this Descending Sect, that would be a massive gain!

Su Xing took a deep breath and continued simulating.

[You agreed to the protector's request and joined the Descending Sect!]

[The Descending Sect couldn't operate openly like the official sects; instead, they were more like rats in the sewers, staying hidden.]

[The elder referring to himself as Shadow Protector issued you your first monthly task, demanding you to craft five hundred Wound Healing Pills and a hundred Organ Refining Pills.]

[You pointed out the lack of materials for alchemy and requested more medicinal herbs to craft the elixirs.]

[The Shadow Elder agreed to your request, and the next day he had his subordinates deliver a large batch of medicinal herbs.]

[You reported an inflated number of materials, embezzling the majority of the herbs secretly and then crafting five hundred Wound Healing Pills and a hundred Organ Refining Pills with some leftovers.]

[It seemed they were none the wiser to your subterfuge, taking it as your alchemy skills being just that, and they commented that the elixirs you produced were very potent, hence they requested more elixirs from you.]

[As you kept supplying the Descending Sect with elixirs, your status within the sect grew higher and higher; even the elder who had looked down on you before now warmly addressed you as 'Little Brother,' and you became a rising star within the Descending Sect.]

[With your status ever increasing, you gained deeper insights into some of the sect's closely-guarded secrets.]

[Half a year went by in this fashion, during which you provided the Descending Sect with thousands of Wound Healing Pills and nearly a thousand Organ Refining Pills. The sect's suspicions about you grew increasingly less, and they started considering you as one of their own.]

[As you continuously proved your worth, the higher-ups in the sect provided you with increasingly precious medicinal materials, including some spiritual medicines that were potent enough for you to attempt crafting new elixirs.]

[You secretly kept these spiritual medicines for yourself and started experimenting with the creation of a new elixir, the Essence-Nourishing Pill.]

Su Xing nodded slightly upon reading this.

The Essence-Nourishing Pill and the Essence-Nourishing Herb are both considered inferior-grade elixirs, but their effects are vastly different. The Essence-Nourishing Pill is crucial for gently nurturing a cultivator's physique and mana, enhancing spiritual energy.

But the Essence-Nourishing Pill is actually meant to boost a cultivator's Divine Sense, a concept both arcane and profound, akin to a cultivator's sixth sense.

The Changchun Technique briefly mentioned Divine Sense, indicating it is a technique that Nascent Soul Stage cultivators can grasp.

However, even at the Golden Core Stage, consuming Essence-Nourishing Pills could bring about great benefits, like enhancing control over spiritual power, and so on.

It's just that the main ingredient, the Essence-Nourishing Herb, is quite valuable, indeed even more precious than the Essence-Nourishing Herb itself.

[You swindled the Descending Sect into giving you hundreds of Essence-Nourishing Herbs and began attempting to craft the Essence-Nourishing Pills on your own!]