Cheat Cultivator's Ascension

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With nothing else to do now other than recovering himself from this intense, borderline self-hurting cultivation session, Su Xiaotian decided to check out what he gains from this near torturous stunt of him, causing him to smile as numerous positive notifications starts popping up from the semi-transparent floating golden screen the moment he opens it.

[Congratulations to the user for merging with one of the Replica of the River of time created by you in the past, this is an unprecedented feat that not even the user with complete memory can predict, hence a reward shall be granted after the calculation of the significance of this feat]

[Time until the calculation ends: 35 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 10 seconds]

[Detected the existence of a new bodily system within the user's body, checking if there is any harm that this new organ system will bring to the user… No harm inducing property detected]

[The new organ system is deemed to be something helpful to the user, properties detected including: acceleration of cultivation speed, miniscule yet consistent increase in the quality of the soul, body and qi, improved reaction time, improved comprehension, improved overall recovery, immunity over certain time related techniques, unaging essence and absolute control over time techniques of certain level (the level of techniques scales with the strength and cultivation of the user)]

Reading through the notifications of the system, the immortal-like young man decided to take a look inside himself as he doesn't even have a chance to properly inspect what changes it brought into his body yet, causing him to feel an absurd surprise the moment he starts introspecting himself, his mind stupefied when looking at the changes brought about by absorbing just one Replica of the River of Time.

Inside his body, each and every single cell he have seems to be so much more energized than how it is used to before, not to mention the increased speed in its processing of everything all while it's fast aging process slows down by an absurd margin, and this is not even the biggest surprise.

Along all the paths that he decided for the temporal rules to tread, his blood vessels, meridians and nerves, a new outer coating that appears to be made from the congregation of his vitality, spirit qi and soul power is created, within this coating contained the familiar myriad colored glowing water of the River of Time, causing him to immediately understand what is the new organ system that the Universal Shop System is talking about.

"If gods have gold flowing through their veins, then what sort of being am I now?" he jokingly mutters to himself before he continues inspecting the changes that happened, all the core component of the pathways he created also changing subtly in appearance yet significantly in terms of performance, his core that processes and churns out his qi producing an even higher quality of Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi in a greater amount, the improvement in quality something that he didn't quite expect given that he thought that what he previously cultivates is already the greatest quality of the transcendent qi.

Meanwhile, the island within all his cores seems to be more complete now, seemingly affected by the temporal rule as well given how it already starts developing multiple life-producing areas in them, what the scientists back on Earth coins as the primordial soup of carbon-based life forms, causing the young man to deduce that even without comprehending it outside, he can start understanding the rules of life just from observing it in his internal realm.

He then turns to his heart that seems to be completely the same as before, however, the way it removes waste from his blood and infuses oxygen and spirit qi in it says otherwise, the way it do so making him feel way more energized than before, not to mention that he feels the miniscule increase in strength every time his blood completes a cycle all throughout his body, an infinitesimally small improvement yet an improvement nevertheless, something that will eventually pile up and become really significant in the future.

"My cultivation is just getting more and more absurd" as he though of the benefits he received from this moment of hardship, Su Xiaotian couldn't help but think just what kind of changes will take place in his body once he also absorbs the remaining Replica of the River of Time created by him with his complete memories intact, all while his wondering points out to an even bigger ambition that not even him who already reaches the pinnacle of existence dares to think of.

'If I absorb all of the replicas and improve immensely because of it, what more if I absorb the real thing?' he starts wondering before he shakes his head in this absurd thought, reprimanding himself for being too greedy yet never really dispelling this thought in his mind, as if one way or another, he will find a way to do this absurd task.

'I shouldn't be too greedy for now, let's focus on acquiring the remaining replicas first, speaking of which, are all of them in the system?' thinking of ways to get all those replicas as well, Su Xiaotian asks as he knows that all of them is more than likely in the storage of the system as a future reward for his achievements as well, something that he deduced right as they system responded the next moment.

[The system indeed has all the remaining eight replicas of the River of Time, all of them being rewards for the user comprehending a deeper level of the spatial rules] Continue reading on empire

Reading the response from the system, the immortal-like young man nodded with a satisfied smile on his face as he knows that when it is given like that, it is only a matter of time for him to acquire all the replicas given that he has complete confidence in him comprehending deeper level of spatial rules in the future, this event making him pay more attention to the spatial rules.

"Now that we know all of that, why don't I check out for myself how powerful the temporal rule is?" already having a considerably good control of the temporal rule given his experience in reigning the river in during his cultivation, Su Xiaotian then takes out a spare sword from his spatial ring before getting into a stance, infusing just a hint of the temporal rules in it to check out its effect, only for him to feel disappointed the next second, but not because the rules of time is something that is weaker than expected.

In fact, it is far stronger than what he expected it to be that just a speck of temporal rule infused in the sword causes it to entirely fall apart, rusting the moment it touches the rule and then completely decaying and leaving the world the next second, causing the immortal-like young man to shake his head in disbelief.

"Looks like I need to be careful when choosing who to use it on" he mutters to himself as he bent his knees to pick up the ashes of the sword once in a great condition, even this ashes eventually fading into nothing with just the trace of the temporal rule on them.