Chapter 34 – A New Simulation Round, Contact with the Great Xia Military

After saying goodbye to Jin Congxue, Su Xing returned to the dormitory alone.

He first converted all ninety thousand pieces of white-grade equipment in his storage ring into energy.

Su Xing’s luck wasn’t bad—these ninety thousand white-grade items brought him close to 500,000 energy points in total.

With that, Su Xing’s energy reserves once again reached 510,000 points.

With sufficient energy in hand, Su Xing chose to simulate without hesitation.

December 24th, Year 2023 of the New Era. With less than fifteen years until the Colossal Beast apocalypse, Su Xing began his sixteenth life simulation.

“Begin simulation!”

【Energy consumed this session: 1,600 points. Remaining energy: 508,000 points. Remaining simulation attempts: unlimited.】

【Simulation begins!】

【Drawing a white talent costs 100 energy points. Drawing a green talent costs 1,000 energy points. Would you like to draw?】

“Draw a green talent!”

Without question, Su Xing chose to draw a green-grade talent.

【Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the green talent: Commanding Physique!】

【Commanding Physique】: Green talent. You are more robust than others and more capable of attracting the opposite sex’s favor.

Su Xing blanked for a moment when he saw this green talent, then came to his senses and cursed under his breath: “The hell? What use is this talent! …Do I even need this?”

Su Xing began the simulation.

【In the dormitory, you become aware that you are in a simulation.】

【Your spirit root talent has already made you far superior to ordinary people in this regard.】

【Taking advantage of the fact that no one is around, you enter the Blessed Spirit Field.】

【You begin refining Beauty-Preserving Pills. Over five days, you produce twenty-two furnace batches of Beauty-Preserving Pills—these are your preparations for next week’s trade with Jin Congxue.】

【After finishing the pill refinement, you begin your daily cultivation. Thanks to your exceptional talent and ample supply of spirit rice, it takes you only two days to break through to the first level of Bone Forging.】

【Two days later, Jin Congxue comes to find you. You hand over two hundred Beauty-Preserving Pills to Jin Congxue, and she gives you over a hundred thousand pieces of white-grade equipment.】

【However, since you are currently in a simulation, you know that white-grade equipment is useless to you, so you ask Jin Congxue to invest all the proceeds from sales into building the Tarot Society.】

【Jin Congxue is puzzled but nods in agreement.】

【Over the next month, you spend two hours each day tempering your physique, four hours refining pills, and another two hours planting and tending the fields.】

【One month later, your Body Tempering cultivation has risen to the second level of Bone Forging.】

【Thanks to the substantial capital you’ve injected and the help of Jin Congxue—a woman with maxed-out business talent—the Tarot Society is officially established.】

【You have Jin Congxue serve as the Tarot Society’s boss in name, while you remain hidden behind the scenes.】

【A year passes. Your Body Tempering cultivation has risen to the fifth level of Bone Forging, and you have also mastered the refinement of two additional unranked spirit medicines.】

【One day, Wang Qingxuan comes to find you. She reveals to you information about the mysterious organization.】

【After one night, Wang Qingxuan drops out of school and joins the Advent Cult.】

【You continue your methodical cultivation and study of new pill formulas. In your spare time, you learn about growing spirit plants and raise spirit chickens.】

【In the fourth year, your Body Tempering cultivation breaks through to the ninth level of Bone Forging. The number of unranked pills you’ve mastered now exceeds fifteen, and since the Separation Fire Alchemy Art records a total of sixty unranked pill formulas, you plan to continue your studies.】

【The spirit chickens you’ve bred have reached the seventh generation. The spirit chicken meat is quite delicious—you eat one or two spirit chicken eggs daily and slaughter one spirit chicken per month to supplement your nutrition.】

【In the fifth year, your Body Tempering cultivation breaks through to the Bone Forging Great Perfection realm. However, drawing from previous experience, you still don’t dare attempt to consume an Organ Tempering Pill. Instead, you refine one or two furnace batches of Organ Tempering Pills each week, hoping to reach the mastery level with them as soon as possible.】

【One day, Wang Qingxuan comes to your door. She brings you the first half of the Eternal Spring Art, but you do not accept it, instead telling her that you hope she can help you find the second half.】

【After one night, she prepares to leave.】

【But you stop her. You give her over a dozen Beauty-Preserving Pills of excellent quality, along with some recently refined Organ Tempering Pills. You tell her the pills are extremely potent—she can only take one per month, and the process may be somewhat painful. Finally, you emphatically warn her to never reveal the existence of these pills to anyone.】

【Wang Qingxuan agrees and quickly departs.】

Su Xing nodded slightly at this. Wang Qingxuan was one of the few people he considered trustworthy.

Moreover, Wang Qingxuan was already a Grandmaster-stage powerhouse at this point, so her physique was certainly far superior to his own at the Bone Forging realm. There was no danger in her consuming the Organ Tempering Pill.

The only concern was whether Wang Qingxuan might expose the pills, but since this was all within the simulator, even if they were exposed, the worst that could happen was a restart.

So this counted as a bold experiment on Su Xing’s part.

Su Xing continued with the simulation.

【Over these years, thanks to Jin Congxue’s business talent, the Tarot Society’s commercial influence has grown ever larger, reaching a scale of nearly a hundred billion and earning the title of “rising star of the Capital City business world.”】

【You summon Jin Congxue and give her several Organ Tempering Pills, along with instructions on how to take them. Jin Congxue spends several intimate days with you before leaving.】

【In the sixth year, you continue studying alchemy as always. The variety of pills you’ve mastered grows ever larger, and your alchemy techniques become increasingly refined.】

【One day, Jin Congxue comes to find you. She looks very excited and tells you that her physical constitution has improved tremendously compared to before, and her overall strength has increased by nearly thirty percent.】

Su Xing nodded slightly at this. Jin Congxue was a magic-type class. Although she was at the Grandmaster stage, her physical constitution didn’t exceed Su Xing’s by too much.

Therefore, the Organ Tempering Pill’s boost to her physical constitution was a certainty.

【You are glad to see Jin Congxue’s improvement in strength. You give her over a dozen more Organ Tempering Pills, along with ten thousand Fasting Pills, and ask her to deliver them to the empire’s chief, Lu Yuanwu.】

【Jin Congxue asks if you aren’t afraid of exposing yourself. But you shake your head and say you have your own plan.】

【A few days later, Chief Lu Yuanwu personally approaches you, accompanied by Jin Congxue.】

【Lu Yuanwu appears to hold you in particularly high regard. He wants to hire you as a special consultant for the military, specifically to supply these pills. He offers the astronomical price of 200,000 per Fasting Pill.】

【You say you don’t lack money. What you want is higher-level clearance, along with access to special items and equipment produced in dungeons.】

【Lu Yuanwu hesitates. He says frankly that while these Fasting Pills you refine are very useful, they don’t quite warrant that level of clearance. However, he adds that for Jin Congxue’s sake, he can grant you additional access.】

【You’re curious and privately ask Jin Congxue what her relationship with him is. Jin Congxue says that Lu Yuanwu is her mother’s father—her maternal grandfather.】

Su Xing was momentarily stunned by this. No wonder Lu Yuanwu thought so highly of him… so it was a family connection all along. Grandpa-in-law through the furnace?