Chapter 108 – You Call THIS a Human Nuclear Bomb?

Chapter 108: You Call THIS a Human Nuclear Bomb?

After bidding farewell to Jin Congxue, Su Xing quickly returned to school and deftly entered the Blessed Spirit Field.

First, he converted the equipment and dungeon items he’d received into simulation energy.

Su Xing’s luck wasn’t bad — the equipment and items Jin Congxue had given him this time contained nearly nine million energy points in total.

On April 8th, 2024 of the New Era, Su Xing punctually initiated a new round of simulation.

“Begin simulation!”

【Ding! This simulation consumes 3,100 energy points. Remaining energy: 18,301,527 points. Remaining simulation attempts: unlimited.】

【Simulation begins!】

【Drawing a green talent costs 1,000 energy points, a blue talent costs 10,000 energy points, and a purple talent costs 100,000 energy points. Would you like to draw?】

“Obviously, draw the purple talent!”

Su Xing said without hesitation.

【Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained a purple talent: Human Nuclear Bomb!】

【Human Nuclear Bomb】: You are an undisputed human nuclear bomb. At the moment of your death, energy equivalent to ten thousand Tsar Bombas will erupt from your body, annihilating everything in your surroundings.

Upon seeing the purple talent before him, Su Xing’s entire forehead went dark.

“Hey, hey, hey — so THIS is what ‘Human Nuclear Bomb’ means?! What the hell, I’m already dead by then! Even if I blow up all the demon beasts, what good does that do me?”

Ten thousand Tsar Bombas’ worth of explosive yield — Su Xing had no idea how powerful that actually was, but no matter how powerful, it was useless, wasn’t it?

With that kind of mood, Su Xing began the simulation with a black look on his face.

【Within the Blessed Spirit Field, you realize you are in a simulation.】

【You feel a mysterious energy surging within your body. You rush to the bathroom…】

【You carefully consider what to do next. After some thought, you decide to start by refining pills.】

【Over the next six months, you diligently cultivate every day while guaranteeing Jin Congxue a sufficient supply of pills. In your spare time, you also reach out to your junior schoolmate Wang Qingxuan to build your relationship.】

【Thanks to the abundant Spirit-Gathering Flowers planted in the Blessed Spirit Field, your strength steadily improves.】

【One day, Wang Qingxuan comes to find you. After spending a night together, you join the Advent Cult under her guidance.】

【After joining the Advent Cult, you choose not to hide yourself. Instead, you directly reveal your strength and pill-refining talent.】

【Luo Shuying and Old Dog Zong both extend olive branches to you. Without hesitation, you join Luo Shuying’s faction.】

【You confess everything to Luo Shuying and speak the secret passphrase.】

【Luo Shuying chooses to believe you and asks what you need her to do.】

【You decisively tell her to help you obtain the vast stockpile of medicinal ingredients from the Advent Cult’s treasury. Luo Shuying agrees.】

【In the second year, you successfully rise to the rank of Elder in the Advent Cult. Thanks to your excellent performance over these past months, the Cult’s leadership trusts you greatly.】

【You do not betray their trust — within six months of becoming an Elder, you embezzle a considerable amount of medicinal ingredients each month.】

【Each month you refine Dragon Spirit Pills and Primordial Martial Pills, using them to assist your own cultivation. In your spare time, you also refine Organ Tempering Pills and Essence Nurturing Pills, preparing to gift them to the Great Xia Military.】

【That same year, thanks to your abundant supply of spiritual energy, your cultivation advances to the second layer of the Nascent Soul stage.】

【In the third year, you feel the time is ripe. Over the past two years, you’ve essentially embezzled the Advent Cult’s treasury dry. You prepare to flee with Luo Shuying. Before leaving, you don’t forget to relocate your junior schoolmate Wang Qingxuan to a safe location.】

【As expected, the Advent Cult’s leadership launches a pursuit against you and Luo Shuying. Several Protectors are dispatched, and the one leading the hunt is none other than your nemesis, Old Dog Zong.】

【Fortunately, you arranged in advance for Lu Yuanwu and other Great Xia leaders to come as reinforcements. Not only do they successfully escort you both to the Capital City, they even slay three Protectors on the spot!】

【The only regret is that Old Dog Zong merely lost an arm and ultimately escaped with his life.】

【After joining the Great Xia Military, you begin mass-producing Essence Nurturing Pills and Organ Tempering Pills. In just one year, you refine sixty thousand pills. Combined with the tens of thousands of pills you’d stockpiled previously, you add over twenty thousand Grandmaster-stage warriors to Great Xia’s ranks.】

【At the same time, you don’t neglect your own cultivation. Your Body Tempering and Qi Refinement progress in tandem.】

【In the fourth year, you refine another fifty thousand pills, adding another ten thousand Grandmaster-stage warriors to Great Xia.】

【That same year, thanks to your ample supply of Primordial Martial Pills and Demon King Blood Essence, your Body Tempering cultivation advances to the Primordial Martial Realm, Eighth Layer!】

【In the fifth year, the Great Xia Military’s newly added Grandmaster-stage warriors surpass fifty thousand. This is the most Grandmaster-stage warriors Great Xia has ever had in its history, and marks the pinnacle of the nation’s strength.】

【The people of the Great Xia Military call you a hero of humanity, a savior in the war against the foreign races. Many citizens hold unprecedented hope for the future, believing they can decisively defeat the foreign races.】

【But you know the gap in strength between your side and the foreign races is simply too vast. Everything you’ve done is merely to buy time.】

【In the sixth year, you spend a full year refining over ten thousand Spirit Martial Pills and Dragon Spirit Pills. You keep half for your own cultivation, and hand the rest to the Great Xia Military, hoping to produce more Heavenly King-stage warriors.】

【This year, the Great Xia Military gains nearly five hundred new Heavenly King-stage warriors.】

【In the seventh year, you begin refining Mind-Condensing Pills. Your proficiency in refining Mind-Condensing Pills has reached the Minor Mastery level, allowing you to maintain a fifty to sixty percent success rate. You hand all several thousand completed Mind-Condensing Pills to Luo Shuying, helping to bolster the strength of Luo Shuying and her Spirit Clan.】

【That same year, your Qi Refinement cultivation breaks through to the Nascent Soul Stage, Third Layer!】

Seeing this, Su Xing nodded slightly. The simulator truly was capable of reflecting his inner thoughts.

When he hadn’t drawn a good talent in this simulation, Su Xing had already figured out exactly what he wanted to accomplish.

That was to raise his strength as much as possible, then bring out sufficiently powerful cultivation!

Only by doing this could Su Xing ensure that the moment he successfully refined the Divine Power Pill, he’d be able to break through to become a Divine Power Realm cultivator!

“Reaching Primordial Martial Realm, Grand Perfection in this simulation shouldn’t be difficult. The question is how far my Qi Refinement cultivation can advance.”

A glimmer of anticipation shone in Su Xing’s eyes.

For a Nascent Soul stage cultivator, breaking through a single minor realm could easily take ten years, or even decades.

It was only because Su Xing possessed dual-element True Spirit Roots, combined with a sufficient supply of Dragon Spirit Pills to accelerate his cultivation, and even the spiritual energy within the Blessed Spirit Field being so abundant — only all of this together allowed Su Xing to maintain a pace of one breakthrough every few years.

But cultivation only grew harder the further one progressed. Su Xing wasn’t sure whether he could maintain such an astonishing rate of improvement after entering the later stages of the Nascent Soul period.

Su Xing turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.

【In the eighth year, Luo Shuying successfully breaks through to become a Legendary-stage warrior. The Great Xia Military specifically sets aside an area within Demon-Sealing Pass for the Spirit Clan to inhabit.】

【With the Spirit Clan’s addition and humanity’s growing strength in recent years, the situation at Demon-Sealing Pass gradually improves.】

【But you don’t let your guard down. You continue to remind Luo Shuying and the soldiers to proceed with caution.】

【For your own safety, you choose not to join the fighting at Demon-Sealing Pass in this simulation. Instead, you remain in the real world to cultivate steadily. You reside in the safest district of the Capital City, spending the vast majority of your time cultivating within the Blessed Spirit Field.】

【In the ninth year, you recall that the soldiers will be ambushed by the demon race in the future, leading to supply shortages.】

【So you begin preparing in advance. Besides your daily cultivation, you set aside two hours each day to refine Healing Pills and Fasting Pills.】

【In the tenth year, both your Qi Refinement and Body Tempering cultivation break through simultaneously. You become a fourth-layer Nascent Soul stage cultivator, while your Body Tempering cultivation advances to the Primordial Martial Realm, Ninth Layer.】

【After reaching the Primordial Martial Realm, Ninth Layer, you clearly feel that the rate of improvement in your physical strength and power has slowed. You therefore request Demon Emperor-grade blood essence from the Great Xia Military.】

【In the eleventh year, Luo Shuying brings you one hundred jin of Demon Emperor blood essence. You express your gratitude, then begin tempering your body with even greater dedication to advance your Body Tempering cultivation.】

【The Demon Emperor blood essence is far more potent than the Demon King variety. Your Body Tempering cultivation resumes its rapid pace.】

【In the twelfth year, sure enough, the foreign races launch a surprise attack on humanity at Demon-Sealing Pass, cutting off frontline supplies.】

【Just as the Great Xia leadership grows anxious, you step forward. You produce the hundreds of thousands of pills you refined years in advance, which are delivered to the Demon-Sealing Pass frontline by Legendary-stage warriors, resolving the supply shortage.】

Seeing this, Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly and murmured:

“The twelfth year? I could’ve sworn it wasn’t this year before… Strange. The demon race’s ambushes on the frontline troops seem to follow no pattern — or perhaps there is a pattern I just haven’t discovered yet.”

Su Xing shook his head. He didn’t really care which year it happened.

As long as he prepared in advance and refined enough Healing Pills and Fasting Pills, the frontline wouldn’t suffer major losses.

With that thought, Su Xing continued looking at the simulation panel.

【In the thirteenth year, as your cultivation grows more refined, you find training increasingly intuitive. You begin looking for ways to improve your cultivation efficiency.】

【The Dragon Spirit Pill is specifically designed to increase the cultivation of Nascent Soul stage cultivators. Its primary function is actually to expand a cultivator’s ability to absorb the surrounding heaven-and-earth spiritual energy.】

【This means that the denser the spiritual energy concentration, the greater the Dragon Spirit Pill’s boost to cultivation speed.】

【Although the spiritual energy within the Blessed Spirit Field is already quite dense, you discover a way to increase it even further.】

【That method is the Minor Spirit-Gathering Formation!】

【You know that for you, learning the Minor Spirit-Gathering Formation and setting it up yourself would take too much time. So you decide to restructure the layout of the Blessed Spirit Field instead.】

【According to the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique, the Spirit-Gathering Flower is extremely fragile during its juvenile phase, with very high environmental requirements. But once it enters maturity, the Spirit-Gathering Flower becomes remarkably hardy — it can survive on spiritual energy alone, and thrives even more in areas of abundant spiritual energy.】

【So you decide to transplant the Spirit-Gathering Flowers into the spirit-gathering formation beneath the Blessed Spirit Field!】

【You waste no time. Between cultivation sessions, you spend three months learning the basic principles of the Minor Spirit-Gathering Formation, then another month transplanting the Spirit-Gathering Flowers into the focal point of the underground Minor Spirit-Gathering Formation.】

【Although the Minor Spirit-Gathering Formation’s range is limited and the underground soil isn’t particularly fertile, the Spirit-Gathering Flowers tenaciously survive and grow increasingly vigorous.】

【With the Spirit-Gathering Flowers planted within the underground formation, they continuously release spiritual energy, which the formation constantly condenses. It’s like creating an artificial miniature spirit vein, continuously providing power to the formation.】

【You discover that after transplanting the Spirit-Gathering Flowers underground, the spiritual energy concentration around the underground Minor Spirit-Gathering Formation has nearly doubled. So you construct a cultivation chamber underground, dedicated entirely to your own cultivation.】

【During the day, you come above ground to temper your body and advance your Body Tempering cultivation. At night, you cultivate in the underground chamber.】

【You find that this arrangement makes your cultivation efficiency far greater than before.】

【In the fourteenth year, between cultivation sessions, you decide to try your luck.】

【Each day you spend two hours refining one batch of Divine Power Pills. Although you never succeed, you still hope to get lucky and trigger your “Spontaneous Epiphany” talent. If triggered, there’s a strong chance you’d instantly master the refinement of the Divine Power Pill.】

Seeing this, Su Xing nodded slightly and murmured:

“Exactly. Since the Spontaneous Epiphany has a low trigger chance, I just need to keep trying. If I dedicate a fixed amount of time each day to pill refining and it doesn’t work out, the loss is minimal. But if I succeed — that’s an enormous gain!”

Su Xing’s plan was to first cultivate to Primordial Martial Realm, Grand Perfection before worrying about the Divine Power Pill.

But if he achieved an epiphany on the Divine Power Pill’s refinement first, it would undoubtedly save him far more effort.

“But as for transplanting the Spirit-Gathering Flowers into the underground formation…”

Su Xing glanced at the Spirit-Gathering Flowers in the distance and shook his head slightly.

For him, he’d only acquire more Spirit-Gathering Flowers over time. He’d seen the underground space — it couldn’t accommodate more than a few hundred plants.

The reason his simulated self had done it that way was simply to skip the time needed to set up the Minor Spirit-Gathering Formation.

In reality, Su Xing could learn the Minor Spirit-Gathering Formation properly and then set it up above ground. That would clearly be far more useful.

With that thought, Su Xing turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.

【In the fifteenth year, unsurprisingly, after a full year of attempts, you still haven’t triggered the lottery-like Spontaneous Epiphany talent.】

【But the good news is that this year, your Body Tempering cultivation breaks through once again. You become a Primordial Martial Realm, Grand Perfection cultivator!】

【That same year, your Qi Refinement cultivation also breaks through again. You become a fifth-layer Nascent Soul stage cultivator!】

【In the sixteenth year, after your Body Tempering cultivation reaches Primordial Martial Realm, Grand Perfection, you’re surprised to discover that Demon Emperor blood essence still provides considerable benefit. Consuming it continues to strengthen your power and physical body, though the improvement is significantly less than before.】

【To build a solid foundation for your future breakthrough to the Divine Power Realm, you continue tirelessly strengthening your physical power.】

【What gives you some headache, however, is that your supply of Demon Emperor-grade blood essence has been completely exhausted.】