Chapter 104 – Becoming a Farmer, Spirit Energy Becomes Abundant!
by spirapiraSu Xing’s heart stirred when he heard this.
A special constitution that increased spirit plant maturation speed several times over — wasn’t that exactly Su Xing’s Plant Affinity talent?
“As for using wood-attribute spiritual power to accelerate spirit plant maturation… how did I never think of that?”
“Once enough Spirit-Gathering Flowers are planted and the Blessed Spirit Field has no shortage of spiritual energy, I can indeed use wood-attribute spiritual power for acceleration. At most it would just consume more spiritual power and be a bit more tiring!”
Su Xing carefully memorized all the cultivation methods that Martial Uncle Shennong had explained, preparing to pay extra attention when nurturing the Divine Power Vines later.
Soon, Su Xing escorted Shennong Youtian back to his master’s side. At this point, less than an hour remained before the immersive simulation ended.
Su Xing rushed to the Scripture Repository, picked up a copy of 《Records of Curiosities from the Cultivation World》, and began reading with great interest.
This book recorded common knowledge about the cultivation world, its various schools and sects, and was very helpful for broadening Su Xing’s horizons.
Soon, the immersive simulation time ended, and Su Xing’s consciousness returned to the real world.
Two hundred thousand energy in exchange for the chance to ask one question, plus gaining a wealth of knowledge about the cultivation world — this was truly a worthwhile trade.
“Excellent, I’ve successfully obtained the method for rapidly cultivating Divine Power Vines. Let me see just how effective this method really is…”
Su Xing murmured, his gaze turning to the simulation panel.
【After emerging from the Luotian Assembly dungeon, you gained new insights into cultivating Divine Power Vines.】
【As it happened, the technique you practiced was the wood-attribute Eternal Spring Art, so you began spending time each day channeling wood-attribute spiritual energy into the Divine Power Vines.】
【Under your meticulous care, the Divine Power Vines grew rapidly, but the spiritual power consumption was considerable — each day the Divine Power Vines drained you dry.】
【One day, Wang Qingxuan sought you out. After a passionate night together, you joined the Advent Cult.】
【You directly revealed your buffs to the Advent Cult — your strength that overwhelmed Heavenly King-stage opponents and your talent for alchemy — allowing you to successfully establish a foothold within the cult.】
【Luo Shuying and Old Dog Zong both contacted you simultaneously. You joined Luo Shuying’s faction without hesitation.】
【The next day, you spoke the secret code to Luo Shuying, earning her trust.】
【With Luo Shuying’s help, you successfully harvested a massive quantity of rare treasures from the Advent Cult’s vault.】
【But you were not satisfied. Your goal was to empty the Advent Cult’s vault within three years, then flee the cult together with Luo Shuying.】
【In the second year, the five Divine Power Vines you planted had already sprouted green buds. You specially constructed an area suited for the Divine Power Vines’ growth.】
【That same year, you became a highly respected Elder within the Advent Cult, gaining partial freedom of movement.】
【But you continued your daily alchemy and cultivation, in no rush to act.】
【Working with Luo Shuying, you secretly emptied the Advent Cult’s medicinal herb reserves. The number of pills you had accumulated was approaching fifty thousand.】
【In the third year, you had over one hundred thousand successfully refined pills — Essence Nurturing Pills, Organ Tempering Pills, and others — along with tens of thousands of unprocessed raw herbs.】
【You believed the time was ripe to defect from the Advent Cult, so you contacted the Great Xia Military and fled the cult together with Luo Shuying.】
【You were hunted by the Advent Cult, but thanks to Luo Shuying and the Great Xia Military’s assistance, you arrived safely in the Capital City.】
【That same year, your first batch of planted Spirit-Gathering Flowers matured. You began pollinating them and obtained seven Spirit-Gathering Flower seedlings.】
【In the fourth year, aside from your daily alchemy, you devoted more energy to cultivating Spirit-Gathering Flowers. Under your care, the flowers thrived.】
【This year, thanks to your help, Great Xia gained tens of thousands of additional Grandmaster-stage Class Users.】
【In the fifth year, you began refining Mind-Condensing Pills. As your alchemy skills continued to improve, your success rate for Mind-Condensing Pills reached sixty percent.】
【You gave the completed Mind-Condensing Pills to Luo Shuying, hoping to raise the Spirit Clan’s overall strength.】
【In the sixth year, although you had rarely tempered your body these past few years, thanks to an ample supply of Primordial Martial Pills and Demon King Blood Essence, your Body Tempering cultivation successfully broke through to the Primordial Martial Realm, Ninth Layer.】
【This year, Luo Shuying successfully advanced to become a Legendary-stage powerhouse. She began leading teams to hunt down Advent Cult members.】
【One day, your second-generation Spirit-Gathering Flowers matured. Your total number of mature Spirit-Gathering Flowers reached ten, and you now had twenty immature Spirit-Gathering Flower seedlings.】
【In the seventh year, you refined all the pills you had accumulated over the years. Over this time, you had added fifty thousand Grandmaster-stage Class Users and several hundred Heavenly King-stage powerhouses to Great Xia.】
【You became a hero of Great Xia, revered by all, but you cared nothing for such empty titles — you only wanted to farm in peace.】
【That same year, the five Divine Power Vines you planted had grown to one chi tall. According to the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique’s records, Divine Power Vines only grow one chi every thirty years. When they reached three chi and one cun in height, they would be considered fully mature and ready for use in medicine.】
【In the eighth year, you continued your daily farming, occasionally gathering with friends and family.】
【Thanks to your influence, your good brother Yu Yan and your sister Su Nian’an both survived and became Heavenly King-stage Class Users.】
【You brought your parents and family to the Capital City, under the Great Xia Military’s protection.】
【In this simulation, you farmed at a leisurely pace with plenty of time, allowing you to spend more time by your parents’ side.】
【In the ninth year, your third-generation Spirit-Gathering Flowers matured. Your total number of mature Spirit-Gathering Flowers reached thirty, while your immature flowers grew to thirty as well.】
【In the tenth year, you lived a comfortable life — eating Demonic Beast Blood Essence every day, tending your fields. You felt the future was full of hope.】
【In the eleventh year, having grown too bored, you wanted to find some entertainment in your life. So you asked Luo Shuying and the Great Xia Military to help locate Old Dog Zong, hoping to kill him.】
【Luo Shuying hunted Old Dog Zong for an entire year, but he had too many life-saving trump cards and was excessively cautious, always managing to escape.】
【In the twelfth year, your fourth-generation Spirit-Gathering Flowers matured. Your total number of mature Spirit-Gathering Flowers reached sixty, but due to a mistake on your part, more than half of the Spirit-Gathering Flower seeds withered and died, reducing the number of seeds in your spirit field to just ten.】
【In the thirteenth year, a carefree year of farming.】
【In the fourteenth year, you continued farming. The Divine Power Vines you planted had grown to two chi tall, gradually approaching maturity.】
【In the fifteenth year, the number of Spirit-Gathering Flowers you cultivated reached seventy. To prevent accidents, you carefully tended to the immature flowers.】
【In the sixteenth year, Luo Shuying’s homeland was destroyed by foreign races. You comforted her.】
【In the seventeenth year, another year of farming.】
【In the eighteenth year, the number of Spirit-Gathering Flowers you owned reached ninety. You continued farming.】
【In the nineteenth year, farming.】
【In the twentieth year, still farming.】
【In the twenty-first year, the Divine Power Vines you planted had grown to three chi tall, not far from full maturity and readiness for medicinal use.】
【That same year, the number of Spirit-Gathering Flowers you owned broke past one hundred. The spiritual energy density in your Blessed Spirit Field reached unprecedented levels.】
【In the twenty-second year, the human race’s Demon-Sealing Pass suffered a massive demonic beast invasion, with devastating losses.】
【In the twenty-third year, you began refining Healing Pills and Fasting Pills for the human race, hoping Demon-Sealing Pass could hold out longer.】
【In the twenty-fourth year, the five Divine Power Vines you planted finally reached full maturity. You were overjoyed but chose not to refine them into pills, opting to keep them instead.】
【This year, the number of mature Spirit-Gathering Flowers you owned reached 120, with a full 27 immature Spirit-Gathering Flower seeds.】
【In the twenty-fifth year, Demon-Sealing Pass shattered and demonic beasts invaded en masse.】
【That same year, a colossal beast descended upon the real world and swallowed the entirety of Great Xia in one gulp.】
【You died!】
【Your talent Die With Eyes Open activates…】
【Ding! This simulation has ended!】
Su Xing couldn’t help but laugh and cry at the same time after watching this simulation play out.
“Looks like in this simulation, I became a full-fledged farmer! Sure enough, I really do have the heart of a farmer!”
Su Xing somewhat understood why his simulated self had made these choices.
Whether it was Spirit-Gathering Flowers or Divine Power Vines, both were extremely important to Su Xing. If he could bring these two spirit herbs out of the simulation, it would undoubtedly save him a great deal of trouble in the future.
Su Xing turned his gaze to this simulation’s rewards.
【Dragonslayer】: Purple talent, priced at 1,000,000 energy.
【Primordial Martial Realm, Ninth Layer】: Body Tempering cultivation, priced at 2,000,000 energy.
【Twenty-Five Years of Alchemy Experience】: Alchemy insights, priced at 500,000 energy.
【Spirit-Gathering Flowers x120 (Mature), Spirit-Gathering Flower Seeds x30】: Priced at 12,300,000 energy.
【Divine Power Vine x5 (Mature)】: Priced at 10,000,000 energy.
Five simulation rewards, and Su Xing had no difficulty choosing.
The purple talent Dragonslayer had decent potential, but it was of no use to Su Xing at present.
As for the Primordial Martial Realm cultivation and alchemy experience, he could claim those anytime. And since he had spent most of this simulation farming, choosing those two wouldn’t be cost-effective.
“So really, there’s no choice at all!”
The corners of Su Xing’s mouth curved upward as he said softly, “I choose to bring out the Spirit-Gathering Flowers and the Divine Power Vines!”
【You have chosen to bring out Spirit-Gathering Flowers (Mature) x120 and Spirit-Gathering Flower Seeds x30, spending 12,300,000 energy. Remaining energy: 17,531,550.】
【You have chosen to bring out Divine Power Vine x5 (Mature), spending 10,000,000 energy. Remaining energy: 7,531,550.】
The simulator’s notification chimed in Su Xing’s ears. Watching the simulation energy on the panel plummet like water flowing downhill, a pained expression crept across Su Xing’s face.
“Ugh, I worked so hard to accumulate fifty million simulation energy, and after just two simulations, it’s already used up? That’s way too fast!”
Su Xing let out a sigh. Though the energy expenditure was substantial, he knew it was all worth it.
A full 120 Spirit-Gathering Flowers plus 30 Spirit-Gathering Flower seeds — this meant Su Xing would not lack for spiritual energy needed for cultivation for a very long time to come.
Even if his cultivation realm rose in the future and demanded more spiritual energy, with thirty Spirit-Gathering Flower seeds in hand, Su Xing could rapidly accumulate massive quantities of Spirit-Gathering Flowers through just one or two simulations. After all, the base number was there.
As for the Divine Power Vines…
“Tsk tsk, just five Divine Power Vines cost 10,000,000 energy? That’s an average of 2,000,000 per vine. These Divine Power Vines are even more expensive than I imagined!”
Su Xing remarked with amazement, then looked around in all directions, but found no Divine Power Vines anywhere near him.
“Strange, where are the rewards I brought out? Why aren’t they here?”
Just as Su Xing was puzzled, the simulator’s notification sounded in his ears.
【Ding! Because spirit plant rewards are special, they have been automatically planted in suitable locations…】
Su Xing was momentarily stunned, then began searching throughout the Blessed Spirit Field.
Sure enough, in the herb garden that Su Xing had previously cleared for planting Spirit-Gathering Flowers, many palm-sized white blossoms had appeared — they were the Spirit-Gathering Flowers Su Xing had been longing for!
At this moment, these one hundred and twenty Spirit-Gathering Flowers were ravenously absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.
With each rhythmic pulse of the Spirit-Gathering Flowers’ breathing, the surrounding spiritual energy grew richer and denser.
Moreover, this spiritual energy continued spreading outward, slowly permeating throughout the entire Blessed Spirit Field dungeon, making the spiritual energy within ever more abundant.
“At this rate of spiritual energy generation, in just a few months, the spiritual energy density in the Blessed Spirit Field will probably double or triple!”
Su Xing surveyed the scene with great satisfaction. These scattered white blossoms filled him with a sense of accomplishment.
As long as he had enough Spirit-Gathering Flowers, the spiritual energy density in his Blessed Spirit Field could rival that of a true blessed land.
“One day, I’ll have more Spirit-Gathering Flowers than even the ones growing on the mountains behind Luotian Sect!”
Su Xing revealed his ambition.
Not far from the Spirit-Gathering Flowers were five Divine Power Vines, each twining around a tall pole.
Each Divine Power Vine stood three chi and one cun tall, as thick as a thumb, plain and unassuming like dried wood.
“These Divine Power Vines will be the foundation for refining Divine Power Pills in the future!”
Su Xing was brimming with motivation and began refining pills through the night.
Over the next week, Su Xing refined six thousand Beauty-Preserving Pills and Healing Pills, then found a time to hand them all over to Jin Congxue.
Jin Congxue in turn gave Su Xing the next week’s equipment and dungeon items.
Five hundred thousand white-quality pieces of equipment plus a storage ring full of dungeon items netted Su Xing a sudden surge of eight million energy.
With that, Su Xing’s simulation energy once again reached the tens of millions.
On April 1st, 2024 of the New Era, Su Xing initiated his thirtieth simulation.
“Begin simulation!”
【Ding! This simulation consumes 3,000 energy. Remaining energy: 15,803,888. Remaining simulation attempts: unlimited.】
【Simulation begins!】
【Drawing a green talent costs 1,000 energy, a blue talent costs 10,000 energy, a purple talent costs 100,000 energy. Would you like to draw?】
Without the slightest hesitation, Su Xing said quietly, “Draw a purple-quality talent!”
【Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the purple talent: Sword Maniac!】
【Sword Maniac】: You were born for the sword. With a sword in hand, you surpass all things in the mortal world. After three years of practicing the sword, your heart and blade become one. After nine years, you achieve self-taught enlightenment and comprehend the Lethal Thirteen Strikes…