God Ascension Nectar

The God Ascension Nectar is a golden, honey-like cultivation substance believed extinct everywhere except within a poisonous wasp obtained by Su Ming. Its name comes from the exaggerated legend that it could turn a mortal into a god, but even minute doses can force breakthroughs, flood a body with life force, and draw ferocious beasts into a frenzy. Its extraordinary potency is also its central danger: an amount too large to refine becomes fatal poison. (Chapters 702, 908–910)

History

A living reservoir from the World of Nine Yin

Su Ming obtains the sleeping wasp in the World of Nine Yin and preserves it inside a sealed stone. Suspecting that the nectar contains a mysterious form of World Plane power, he leaves his Brand on the creature and nurtures it rather than killing it for an immediate harvest. More than a thousand years later, it wakes in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. By then it is close to Su Ming and obeys his thoughts, but the nectar has fused inseparably with its poison. The only practical extraction method is a controlled sting. (Chapters 702, 765, and 908)

Su Ming delays use even after the wasp awakens. He has no suitable vessel in which to store the nectar outside its bearer and does not know how long refinement will take, so he orders the wasp to preserve rather than absorb it. The decision keeps the nectar in its perfect living reservoir and prevents an uncertain transfer from wasting an irreplaceable resource. (Chapter 774)

Breakthrough and the Waves of Tears disaster

On the galactic warship, Su Ming finally directs the wasp to inject a carefully limited dose. After poisoned blood drains away, a thin golden thread remains in his body. Nine cycles of cultivation break the barrier between the initial and middle stages of World Plane Realm, but he melts less than three-tenths of even that tiny dose before his soul and physical potential reach their limits. His Ecang clone must preserve consciousness and guide the process; without it, his body would explode. He seals the remainder in his finger rather than continue. (Chapters 908–910)

The nectar's fragrance escapes the warship and attracts a vast swarm of Waves of Tears. Su Ming accepts responsibility and forces some of the unrefined power out as a combat force, but that release makes the creatures even more frantic. After escaping the immediate disaster, he suppresses the residue through seals and the warships' screens. He later exploits the same attraction deliberately by giving the Bald Crane a minuscule dose and using its scent to lure a sea of beasts, then seals the aura until the crane unexpectedly absorbs it completely. (Chapters 910–918 and 955–959)

Emergency power, healing, and later experiments

The nectar becomes a dangerous reserve rather than routine medicine. Su Ming injects it while resisting the Fifth Furnace's pressure and while protecting the Resentful Wei, where its life force binds together damaged organs and soul injuries long enough for him to outlast an opponent. A later dose taken before the earlier residue is fully refined nearly destroys him, although the crisis contributes to a transformation of his Ecang clone alongside the Seed of Life Extermination. The text attributes that transformation to their interaction, not to the nectar alone. (Chapters 996–1011)

During Morning Dao Sect's Anointment Ceremony, Su Ming orders an amount hundreds of times greater than his first dangerous dose to force the manifestation of a fifth finger. He begins bleeding and expects his body to burst within breaths; success comes through deliberately converting a lethal surge into a breakthrough attempt. Later, one drop arrests the movement of one hundred thousand gray threads, which devour both nectar and poison within a dozen breaths. The wasp and its remaining contents survive in Su Ming's protected storage bag, but the corpus never states how much nectar is left. (Chapters 1105 and 1165–1166)

Abilities and properties

• Cultivation amplification: A tiny golden thread rapidly increases circulating cultivation and breaks Su Ming from peak initial World Plane Realm into the middle stage after nine cycles. The result depends on the recipient's existing foundation and ability to refine it; the legend that it directly makes a mortal into a god is explicitly treated as exaggeration. (Chapters 908–909)
• Domineering life force: The nectar accelerates recovery and can hold together severe bodily, organ, and soul injuries. It lets Su Ming remain standing when he otherwise could not, but it does not make him immune to damage or replace the need to fight and endure. (Chapters 998–1003)
• Living extraction mechanism: The substance is fused with the wasp's poison and is delivered through a precisely controlled sting. Without Su Ming's long nurturing and control, the wasp would inject enough venom to turn the attempt from an opportunity into mortal danger. (Chapter 908)
• Extremely low safe dose: Even a very small portion makes Su Ming burn, scatters his consciousness, threatens to explode his body, and begins damaging his cultivation potential. Fast use requires tiny amounts; a fuller drop would need prolonged refinement. Taking another dose before suppressing the first produces a cumulative overload. (Chapters 908–910, 1010, and 1166)
• Irresistible scent to many life forms: Its fragrance drives Waves of Tears and other Divine Essence beasts into a frenzy and can spread indirectly through cultivators who inhale it. Seals reduce this signature, but using full power can loosen the suppression. The Bald Crane and the gray threads are unusual in being able to absorb a small quantity rapidly. (Chapters 908–921, 955–959, and 1165–1166)
• Prestige and risk of theft: Reverend Zi Long identifies it from a mere trace of fragrance, and the narration states that even the four Great True Worlds would seek the wasp if its existence became known. Secrecy is therefore a practical protection as important as physical containment. (Chapters 908 and 1025–1027)

Ownership and custody