Chapter 31 – Talent: Flash of Inspiration — The Pills Are… Rounder?
by spirapiraSu Xing nodded after hearing this.
Although it was a win-win situation for both parties, Jin Congxue had genuinely helped him quite a bit in this matter — one could say she had gone above and beyond.
So Su Xing produced several more Beauty-Preserving Pills from his person and said:
“These are the premium version of the ‘Sugar Mama Bliss Pill.’ The effects are thirty percent stronger than the previous batch, and they last three months. Consider them a gift!”
Jin Congxue accepted the pills with smiling eyes, but said:
“This little token isn’t nearly enough to get rid of me… How about you treat me to a fancy dinner tonight?”
Su Xing didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He’d thought Jin Congxue had some kind of condition — turns out she just wanted a meal!
Su Xing naturally wouldn’t refuse, so he said:
“I’d be delighted!”
The next day, Su Xing returned to the dormitory feeling refreshed and invigorated.
He had already delivered fifty Beauty-Preserving Pills to Jin Congxue, who said she could have them auctioned off within a week.
And the unit price for these fifty Beauty-Preserving Pills would be at least fifty million yuan each!
For this, Jin Congxue had even paid Su Xing a deposit of twenty million.
Su Xing didn’t take the money directly. Instead, he purchased twenty million yuan worth of white-grade equipment from the Jin Commerce Group.
A full twenty-two thousand pieces of white-grade equipment, converting to over 130,000 simulation energy points!
This replenished Su Xing’s previously tight simulation energy reserves once again.
On the afternoon of December 17th, Su Xing chose to run a simulation in the dormitory.
“Begin simulation!”
【This session consumes 1,500 energy points. Remaining energy: 143,000. Remaining simulations: unlimited.】
【Simulation begins!】
【Drawing a white talent costs 100 energy points; a green talent costs 1,000 energy points. Do you wish to draw?】
“Draw a green talent!”
Now that Su Xing had a stable source of income — a guaranteed several hundred thousand energy points per week at minimum — he would naturally choose green talents.
【Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the green talent: Flash of Inspiration!】
【Flash of Inspiration】: Green talent. Your mind is more active than the average person’s. When facing difficulties, you can occasionally have a flash of inspiration to solve problems.
Su Xing’s eyes lit up when he saw the newly drawn green talent.
Flash of Inspiration? This was clearly a comprehension-type talent!
Perhaps when he encountered difficulties studying alchemy, this talent could help him quickly break through bottlenecks?
After drawing the talent, Su Xing didn’t rush into the simulation. Instead, he thought about his objectives for this run.
Clearly, the Flash of Inspiration talent would be of considerable help in cultivating alchemy.
Therefore, Su Xing planned to devote the majority of his efforts in this simulation to pill refinement.
“Hopefully I can advance from rudimentary-level alchemy to Beginner-level?”
Su Xing looked at the simulation interface.
【In the dormitory, you wait until no one is around, then enter your portable Blessed Spirit Field.】
【You spend three days refining a full five furnaces of budget Beauty-Preserving Pills and ten furnaces of Fasting Pills.】
【You refine next week’s batch of Beauty-Preserving Pills ahead of schedule, then begin attempting to learn how to refine a new pill.】
【You set your sights on a pill called the Disguise Pill. The Disguise Pill can alter a person’s appearance, yet it is merely an unranked pill, so the required materials are easy to gather.】
【A few more days pass, and you receive the remaining payment from Jin Congxue for the Beauty-Preserving Pills — a whopping eighty million! You use this eighty million to purchase enough materials to refine several hundred Disguise Pills, as well as enough Beauty-Preserving Pill ingredients to last a long while.】
Su Xing was stunned when he saw this. Eighty million for the remaining balance?
Adding the twenty million deposit from before… didn’t that mean each Beauty-Preserving Pill had sold for a full two million?
That was far higher than his previous price!
Su Xing continued the simulation.
【Half a year later, leveraging your existing alchemy experience, you successfully advance your Disguise Pill refinement proficiency to Mastery-level. Even Heavenly King-stage powerhouses would find it difficult to see through your altered appearance.】
【You have now mastered four types of unranked pills, yet you still lack the confidence to refine Organ Tempering Pills.】
【One year later, you learn the unranked Healing Pill as well, and advance the Qi-Gathering Powder you previously learned to Mastery-level.】
【One day, Wang Qingxuan approaches you. She confides her intention to join a certain mysterious organization. In this simulation, you don’t want to get too entangled with the Advent Cult — you just want to refine pills in peace — so you feign ignorance.】
【One night later, Wang Qingxuan drops out of school. You suspect she has joined the Advent Cult.】
【You continue devoting yourself to pill refinement. Since you sell over fifty Beauty-Preserving Pills each week, you are never short on funds and can purchase plenty of ordinary medicinal ingredients.】
【Alongside your alchemy, you also attend to improving your cultivation. Your Qi Refinement cultivation remains stuck at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, but your Body Tempering cultivation has broken through to Bone Forging Third Layer.】
【Each day, you still set aside two hours to tend to the spirit herbs in your field and care for the Spirit grain.】
【Year three. Over these two years, you have successively learned the Breath-Holding Pill, Strength Pill, Swiftness Pill, and other unranked pills, advancing all of them to Mastery-level.】
【At this point, you have mastered seven types of unranked pills. Moreover, in your previous simulation, you had already achieved a beginner understanding of Organ Tempering Pill refinement.】
【Therefore, you decide to enter seclusion, devoting yourself entirely to Organ Tempering Pill refinement.】
【You first deliver the Beauty-Preserving Pills you’ve accumulated to Jin Congxue in advance, informing her that you will be in seclusion for half a year.】
【You harvest some spirit herbs that you’ve been growing in the Spirit field for a long time.】
【Once all preparations are complete, you enter the Blessed Spirit Field, take out the pre-prepared Organ Tempering Pill materials, and begin refining in earnest.】
【Month one: You attempt twenty furnaces of Organ Tempering Pills in total, but every single batch is ruined.】
【Month two: Your refinement grows increasingly proficient. You refine twenty-three furnaces of Organ Tempering Pills, of which two yield viable pills. But looking at the Organ Tempering Pills in your hand, you don’t dare consume them — because in a previous simulation, you died from body explosion caused by these very pills.】
【Month three: You refine twenty-four furnaces of Organ Tempering Pills, with four successful batches. But you still don’t dare consume them.】
【Month four: You refine twenty-five furnaces of Organ Tempering Pills, with six successful batches. Your pill-refining speed grows ever faster — you can now refine nearly one furnace per day.】
【Month five: You refine twenty furnaces of Organ Tempering Pills, with eight successful batches. You begin pursuing not just quantity, but quality. Your understanding of the Organ Tempering Pill deepens.】
【Month six: You have a flash of inspiration, vaguely grasping some key principles of Organ Tempering Pill refinement. You refine ten furnaces of Organ Tempering Pills, of which nine yield viable pills.】
【You lay out all the successfully refined pills from the past six months for comparison, hoping to identify and summarize any patterns.】
【You stare at the several dozen Organ Tempering Pills before you for three days and three nights straight. You notice that the pills from the last two months seem to be somewhat rounder.】
Su Xing couldn’t help but roll his eyes at this.
“Seriously — three days and three nights of observation, and the conclusion is that they’re rounder? Am I really that stupid?”
【Suddenly, you have a flash of inspiration. You theorize that the Organ Tempering Pill’s medicinal potency was too strong, causing your body to explode — perhaps it was due to the age of the ingredients.】