Chapter 123 – A New Attempt: Growing Spirit Rice!

Chapter 122: A New Attempt — Growing Spirit Rice!

【Ding! This simulation consumed 3,500 energy points. Remaining energy: 26,031,234 points. Remaining simulations: 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?】

“Draw a purple talent!”

Su Xing said without hesitation.

【Congratulations! You have obtained a purple talent: Blessed with Descendants!】

【Blessed with Descendants】: Purple talent. Your precious bodily fluids possess extraordinarily potent vitality. The probability of your “sowing seeds” succeeding is one hundred percent. By the time you reach old age, you will certainly be blessed with descendants beyond counting…

Su Xing froze when he saw this talent, then burst out cursing:

“This damn thing counts as a purple talent? What the hell kind of ‘Blessed with Descendants’ is this? Wouldn’t this be a perfect match with those ‘paying top dollar for a son’ scams?”

Su Xing’s expression darkened.

Clearly, this talent could only prove useful under extremely rare circumstances.

For example, when humanity was on the brink of extinction and Su Xing was the last man on Earth… would he need to step up and do his duty?

Or perhaps… for races with extremely low reproduction rates, it might come in handy?

“Ah, forget it! I’ll just pretend this talent doesn’t exist! Let’s get on with the simulation!”

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

【You begin considering the problem of expanding Spirit rice cultivation. You first experiment within the Blessed Spirit Field, spending a month clearing wasteland before planting more Spirit grain.】

【Next, you begin attempting to set up a spirit-gathering formation. With the spirit-gathering formation’s enhancement, the Spirit grain’s growth rate will increase even further.】

【At the same time, you hand over ten thousand jin of Spirit rice to Jin Congxue to sell. The rice sells surprisingly well — most buyers are Class Users around twenty years old, at the Bronze and Silver stages!】

【Initially, when the Spirit rice first hit the market, its price of 300,000 yuan per jin was criticized as too expensive. But then a young girl bought ten jin of Spirit rice in one go, and a month later her strength had increased by two thousand jin, allowing her to successfully advance to Silver-stage Class User!】

【After that, the Tarot Trading Company’s Spirit rice became an absolute sensation. Everyone began frantically scrambling to buy it!】

【For a time, the Tarot Trading Company’s doors were packed with customers, and sales of other products surged along with it.】

【For these Class Users, eating this Spirit rice wasn’t just eating rice — it was consuming a precious dungeon item capable of permanently increasing physical attributes! And a dungeon item that permanently boosted attributes for just 300,000 yuan per jin? That was absurdly cheap!】

【After all, dungeon items that permanently increased attributes were incredibly rare, often costing millions or even tens of millions. Only high-level Class Users could afford them, and the attribute gains were minimal. By comparison, Spirit rice was an absolute bargain!】

【Gradually, it wasn’t just Bronze and Silver-stage Class Users coming to buy Spirit rice — even Gold-stage Class Users wanted to purchase it!】

【In just one short month, the ten thousand jin of Spirit rice you had provided was completely sold out. You had no choice but to produce another thirty thousand jin and give it to Jin Congxue to sell!】

【Next, you had Jin Congxue assign her subordinates to record the repeat purchase rate of Spirit rice customers, as well as the extent of their strength gains, hoping to use this data to test the rice’s effectiveness.】

【Several months later, Jin Congxue told you that the repurchase rate for Spirit rice was nearly one hundred percent! Moreover, the vast majority of people couldn’t even get their hands on Spirit rice. On the black market, a single jin of Spirit rice had already been bid up to one million yuan!】

Su Xing was dumbstruck when he saw this.

“Good heavens, one million for a single jin of rice — who the hell can afford that?”

After all, one jin of Spirit rice, brought out from a dungeon, was worth only about 1,000 energy points — equivalent to roughly 200,000 yuan. If exchanged as dungeon items, it would be worth about 100,000 yuan…

And yet after reselling, the price could multiply tenfold?

Of course, the money was secondary — it was mainly just to recoup costs.

What Su Xing truly cared about was whether Spirit rice could be mass-produced to elevate the overall strength of the human race…

And whether doing this would put him at risk.

The primary risk, naturally, came from the Advent Cult!

With these thoughts in mind, Su Xing continued reading.

【You discover that Class Users who purchased Spirit rice all experienced varying degrees of improvement. The fastest among them managed to advance from the peak of Bronze-stage to Gold-stage within a single month.】

【Even the slowest could achieve a complete transformation in strength within three to five months!】

【However, Spirit rice soon faced suppression from several other trading companies on the market. They openly declared that the Spirit rice sold by the Tarot Society was disrupting the price order of the food market.】

【Jin Congxue then publicly announced that Spirit rice was classified as a type of dungeon item and, strictly speaking, did not qualify as food. Through Jin Congxue’s efforts, Spirit rice sales on the market actually grew even higher.】

【Countless low-level Class Users treated Spirit rice as a heaven-sent gift that could rapidly boost their strength!】

【Some experts even predicted that if Spirit rice could be sold at low prices to every citizen of Great Xia, then within ten years, Great Xia’s overall strength would rise by at least one full tier.】

【In other words, as the saying goes: Gold-stages would be everywhere, and Silver-stages would be worthless as dogs…】

【Soon, Jin Congxue told you that the Great Xia Military had contacted her, hoping to discuss the matter of mass-producing Spirit rice. Jin Congxue couldn’t make up her mind, so she came to you!】

【After some thought, you told Jin Congxue to set up a meeting — you would personally discuss this matter with Great Xia.】

Su Xing couldn’t help but focus intently when he saw this.

The official stance of Great Xia was very important. If the Great Xia government forced him to hand over the Spirit rice, Su Xing would find himself in a dangerous situation — something he absolutely could not accept.

【One day, you formally met with Great Xia’s official representative. This representative turned out to be Jin Congxue’s grandfather, Lu Yuanwu.】

【Lu Yuanwu was very cordial toward you. After exchanging pleasantries for a while, he began asking whether this Spirit rice could be mass-produced.】

【You told Lu Yuanwu honestly that it wasn’t possible yet, but in the future, annual Spirit rice production could potentially reach around twenty million jin.】

【Lu Yuanwu was slightly disappointed upon hearing this. Twenty million jin sounded like an enormous number, but for all of Great Xia, it was far from enough.】

【Spread out evenly, this batch of rice could only feed about two million people per year, with each person consuming no more than ten jin annually.】

【What the Great Xia government wanted was for this Spirit rice to feed the entire nation, thereby raising Great Xia’s overall strength!】

【Even so, Lu Yuanwu still asked whether you could cooperate with the government to grow this batch of Spirit rice and sell it at low prices. In return, Great Xia said you could name any conditions you wished.】

【You didn’t deliberate for long and agreed, but you stated that the promotion of Spirit rice would need to wait two years.】

【Though Lu Yuanwu was puzzled by this, he still accepted your condition.】

【You returned to school and continued your daily routine of farming in the Blessed Spirit Field. A new batch of Spirit rice in your Spirit field was nearing maturity.】

【One day, Wang Qingxuan came looking for you. Because of your talent, you were very careful to take protective measures.】

【Afterward, you joined the Advent Cult.】

【This time, your goal was crystal clear: to clean out the Advent Cult’s treasury.】

【You openly revealed your true strength. The overwhelming power of the Divine Power Realm immediately awed the Elders. A faction leader personally received you and stated that as long as you were willing to join the Advent Cult and performed well within three years, you could become a Protector-level figure!】

Su Xing’s heart stirred when he saw this — Protector-level!

That was equivalent to Martial Emperor-level strength in Great Xia…

The entire Advent Cult probably only had about seven or eight Protector-level members, and most of them came from other worlds, possessing bizarre and eerie abilities.

Su Xing’s Divine Power Realm strength was clearly worthy of such serious treatment from the Advent Cult.

“At the Protector level, would I be qualified to learn more of the Advent Cult’s secrets?”

Su Xing fell into deep thought.

Currently, his understanding of the Advent Cult was only average at best.

He only knew that this organization’s members were all formidably powerful, ranging from Earth’s Class Users to people from other dungeon worlds. The organization served alien races and worked against Earth’s interests.

“From what I know so far, the strongest people in the Advent Cult should be the faction leaders, who possess strength comparable to the Legendary-stage… As for whether there are even higher positions above the leaders, that remains unknown…”

Su Xing shook his head slightly. His real interest in the Advent Cult was still the batch of medicinal herbs in their treasury.

After all, those medicinal herbs could be considered the very foundation upon which Su Xing had built his fortune!

“If only I could raid the Advent Cult’s treasury directly… That would definitely yield a massive amount of energy, and my strength would absolutely undergo a qualitative leap!”

A flash of inspiration suddenly struck Su Xing, but it was quickly followed by a tinge of disappointment.

“What a pity — Protector Dragon, who guards the treasury, has unfathomably deep power. He’s definitely no weaker than a peak Spirit Transformation stage expert!”

“But my strength isn’t weak either now. Perhaps after I grow a bit stronger, I can give it a try?”

With these thoughts, Su Xing turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.

【You successfully joined the Advent Cult. For a time, every Elder and Protector in the entire Advent Cult came to see you personally — but Protector Dragon was notably absent.】

【Looking at Old Dog Zong’s hypocritical smile, you knew in your heart that he had probably long wanted to make a move against you, but was likely deterred by your strength.】

【The next day, you found Luo Shuying and confessed everything to her. By using the secret code, you gained her trust.】

【You spent several months within the Advent Cult. Because of your formidable strength, many cult members treated you with the utmost respect. However, you could also sense several presences constantly monitoring you — clearly, they didn’t fully trust you.】

【Each month, you completed the tasks assigned to you by the Advent Cult. But this time, the tasks weren’t alchemy — instead, you were sent to various dungeons to meet with sleeper agents placed within different factions. Since you were a new recruit, the tasks assigned to you were all simple ones.】

【But this meant you had even more free time. You had Luo Shuying help you exchange for large quantities of medicinal herbs. In your spare time, you stockpiled pills for future use.】

【One day, Old Dog Zong approached you. He asked which world you came from, and demanded your Spirit rice.】