Chapter 132 – Trading Companies Go Mad, Su Xing Strikes to Intimidate! (First Update)

【Under Baili Qi’s guidance, you successfully got to see his collection.】

【As expected, these were just ordinary dungeon artifacts, but the quantity was far too staggering…】

【Just one-third of the total was already more than five times what the Jin Commerce Group had given you!】

【Baili Qi proudly introduced each dungeon artifact as though presenting cherished family treasures, but you had little interest, casually storing the batch of artifacts into your storage ring.】

Su Xing felt a surge of excitement seeing this.

“Good heavens, just one-third alone is five times more than the Jin Commerce Group? Doesn’t that mean… this batch of dungeon artifacts is worth at least two to three hundred million simulation energy?”

Su Xing was thrilled for a moment.

If there really were that many, then Su Xing would have more than enough energy for his future breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation stage and Divine Power Realm Great Perfection!

“But the prerequisite is still refining the Life-Sustaining Pill!”

Su Xing sighed, wishing he could start refining immediately!

With that thought, Su Xing looked expectantly at the simulation panel.

【When you traded with the Baili Trading Company, you pretended to casually let slip that you had obtained this pill from a dungeon, that there was only one, and you told the old patriarch of the Baili Trading Company to keep it absolutely secret.】

【You had thought this would spare you much trouble, but trouble came knocking all the same.】

【No wall is truly impervious to wind. News of your trade with Old Patriarch Baili for the longevity elixir quickly reached every major faction.】

【In an instant, you became the eye of the storm!】

【Dozens of first-rate trading companies and over a dozen top-tier trading companies across Great Xia began contacting you, expressing that as long as you were willing to hand over the Longevity Pill, they could satisfy any demand you had.】

【But you knew that once you handed it over, you would only face even more trouble, so you insisted the pill had been obtained from a dungeon.】

【What you hadn’t expected was that multiple factions had already investigated your background thoroughly during this time—from your school and identity to your family and friends, as well as the Tarot Trading Company you had established with Jin Congxue.】

【Through clues like the Beauty-Preserving Pills and Healing Pills you had previously refined, they quickly determined there was at least a fifty percent chance you had refined this pill yourself!】

【This placed you even more squarely at the center of the storm.】

【But given your relationship with the Jin Commerce Group, many trading companies maintained a polite facade, constantly inviting you to various high-society gatherings and openly or covertly helping the Tarot Society secure more market resources.】

【For a time, the entire Tarot Society became immensely popular, even showing signs of becoming a top-tier trading company.】

【But you knew all of this was merely because they wanted to obtain news of the Longevity Pill in your possession.】

【Soon, various powerful figures began seeking to trade with you—legendary-grade equipment, fourth-tier and fifth-tier exotic metals, or even nation-toppling beauties… as long as you were willing to offer a single Longevity Pill, all of it would be yours!】

【Of course, some factions also began making veiled threats, with some even suggesting they could provide your parents and sister with a better life, and telling you that your friends could advance in rank sooner—all if you were willing to hand over the Longevity Pill.】

Su Xing’s brow furrowed deeply at this.

These people were bringing up Su Xing’s parents and friends. It looked like they wanted to make a deal, but in reality, they were using those people as leverage, weren’t they?

The underlying message was: We already know everything about you, kid. If you don’t want your loved ones and friends to suffer, you’d better hand over the Longevity Pill!

“But what if I directly supply them with Longevity Pills… what would happen then?”

“If these people genuinely want to trade, the Longevity Pill could get me more resources in exchange. That might not be a bad idea…”

Su Xing’s mind stirred as he prepared to try it out.

His gaze turned to the simulation panel.

【Though you were quite disdainful of all this, you knew these trading companies were deeply entrenched. Even though you possessed Martial Emperor-level power, openly antagonizing them would bring no benefit, so you could only play along for the time being.】

【You spread the word that you did indeed still have some Longevity Pills, and that the Tarot Trading Company would hold a small auction. Anyone who wanted the pills could participate in the auction two months from now.】

【Sure enough, after you released this news, your family and friends were no longer threatened, and your Tarot Trading Company received invitations from multiple parties in a short time. You became the hottest figure in all of Great Xia.】

【One day, Jin Congxue came to you. She appeared to be struggling with something, hesitant to speak. You asked her what had happened.】

【Jin Congxue said with some embarrassment that a senior from her clan—an uncle of the elder generation—was nearing the end of his lifespan. He had asked Jin Congxue’s father for help, and her father had personally asked her whether she could request a Longevity Pill from you.】

【Having no other choice, Jin Congxue had come to ask for your opinion.】

【Of course, Jin Congxue also said that if you found it difficult, she would naturally refuse. But if you had a spare Longevity Pill, she could take one and consider it a purchase by the Jin Commerce Group.】

【You had known Jin Congxue for a long time, and she had looked after you in many ways. You naturally couldn’t refuse, so you gave her one Life-Sustaining Pill.】

【Afterward, the Jin Commerce Group sent over treasures of matching value for the Life-Sustaining Pill.】

Seeing this, Su Xing sighed:

“Alas, even Jin Congxue can’t help being caught up in circumstances beyond her control. The Jin Commerce Group is such a massive enterprise—there are naturally elders in the clan nearing the end of their lifespans. With such bonds of obligation, it’s truly hard to refuse…”

Su Xing felt helpless. The interests surrounding the Longevity Pill were simply too enormous. Those involved in this matter—even a Martial Emperor—might not be able to stay out of it.

“If the Longevity Pill really becomes public knowledge, it’ll probably cause no end of trouble!”

Su Xing sighed and turned his attention to see just how far this Longevity Pill affair would escalate.

【No wall is truly impervious to wind. The fact that you gave the Jin Commerce Group a Longevity Pill quickly caused another uproar!】

【In an instant, every major faction and person of power in Great Xia learned that you had produced two Longevity Pills in succession—and where there were two, there could be a third!】

【This meant you truly possessed the ability to refine pills!】

【In an instant, countless powerful figures personally came to visit you, all hoping to obtain a Longevity Pill. But you firmly stated that pills would be sold at the auction next month.】

【Yet there were also those with whom you were close, and whom you could not refuse.】

【One day, your good brother Yu Yan came to find you. He told you that his teacher—a Heavenly King-stage Class User—was nearing the end of his lifespan. Upon learning of Yu Yan’s relationship with you, the teacher also wished to purchase a Longevity Pill from you.】

【You were quite helpless about this. Yu Yan had helped you greatly and was your best brother from your university days, while his master had always been good to him. Yu Yan simply couldn’t refuse.】

【With no other choice, you produced a third Life-Sustaining Pill and gave it to Yu Yan.】

【Soon, word spread again, until eventually not only your friends but even your parents and sister were being approached by others, hoping they could obtain a Longevity Pill.】

【You felt helpless, knowing that matters of personal obligation were the hardest to handle. You could only pick and choose, refusing most requests and agreeing only to the small number you truly couldn’t turn down.】

【Even so, in the span of a single month, you sold five or six Life-Sustaining Pills through personal favors.】

【Fortunately, you still had a few Life-Sustaining Pills from your previous batch, and Jin Congxue had used her connections to procure some medicinal herbs over a thousand years in age for you.】

【You fired up your furnace to refine pills, and now had roughly ten Life-Sustaining Pills in hand.】

【Soon, the day of the promised auction arrived. You had announced in advance that eight Life-Sustaining Pills would be sold at this auction.】

【In an instant, every major faction across Great Xia was in an uproar. The hidden bosses behind major trading companies, the leaders of top-tier Class User guilds… even the Great Xia government sent representatives to attend the auction!】

【The auction proceeded smoothly. With eight Life-Sustaining Pills, you reaped an unimaginable fortune—enough to propel the Tarot Trading Company directly into the ranks of top-tier trading companies.】

【But what you never expected was that just as the auction was about to conclude, an incident erupted.】

【Four or five masked men stormed the auction, intending to kill and seize the Life-Sustaining Pills!】

【You were shocked. Someone actually had the audacity to rob and kill in front of all these powerful figures?】

【The moguls quickly dispatched their personal Heavenly King-stage bodyguards, and even a Martial Emperor from the Great Xia Military personally intervened.】

【But what shocked you even more was that these masked men were absurdly powerful—each one radiating an aura comparable to a Martial Emperor!】

【Seeing they were outmatched, the moguls were horrified and tried to flee.】

【With the auction descending into chaos, you naturally wouldn’t stand by idly. You chose to act, also exposing your true strength!】

【With your Divine Power Realm cultivation, you could fully contend with a Martial Emperor. If only for a short time, you could even hold off two Martial Emperors at once!】

【Thanks to your intervention, the auction held out until Great Xia Military reinforcements arrived, and the masked men reluctantly withdrew!】

【From that moment on, all the faction Elders could scarcely believe it—despite your youth, you were already a Martial Emperor-stage powerhouse.】

【They looked at you with undisguised wariness.】

Su Xing frowned slightly at this.

As far as he knew, there were very few factions in all of Great Xia capable of fielding multiple Martial Emperor-level powerhouses.

Besides the Great Xia Military, there was only the Advent Cult!

“So the Advent Cult made their move, trying to seize the Longevity Pills?”

Su Xing nodded slightly. It wasn’t impossible.

But it was also possible that some powerful faction unknown to Su Xing had made the attempt to seize the Longevity Pills.

“Sigh, it seems the Longevity Pill really does cause no end of trouble… If I want to sell them, I’ll need to be extremely careful!”

Su Xing sighed and looked at the simulation panel.

【After the auction concluded, your strength was exposed to all the major factions of Great Xia.】

【Everyone found it unbelievable—you were barely in your early twenties, yet your power was already comparable to a Martial Emperor. You were nothing short of the greatest prodigy the human race had seen in thousands of years!】

【Even the Great Xia Military extended an olive branch, hoping you would become an honorary general.】

【You had no interest in any of this, because you knew there were far more important matters awaiting you.】

【In two months, you would infiltrate the Advent Cult and obtain sufficient medicinal herbs from within. That was your true capital for extending the simulation’s duration!】

【So you declined all visitors and focused entirely on studying the refinement of the Nascent Soul Tempering Pill.】

【The two most critical primary ingredients for the Nascent Soul Tempering Pill had already been gathered. The remaining materials would need to be obtained from the Advent Cult’s treasury.】

【For the next period of time, you devoted yourself to studying pill refinement.】

【You had originally thought the storm around the Longevity Pill would quickly blow over, but unexpectedly, less than half a month later, your parents were threatened again.】

【Though your Martial Emperor-level strength was formidable enough, you couldn’t guard against every covert scheme.】

【Most critically, human greed knows no bounds. Once people learned you could truly refine Longevity Pills, some had set their sights on the formula for your Life-Sustaining Pill!】

【They wanted to threaten your parents to extract the Life-Sustaining Pill’s formula!】

【This… finally made you truly furious! You investigated in secret and eventually identified the trading company behind the threats.】

【It was called the Black Dragon Trading Company—a top-tier trading company that had rapidly expanded over the past few decades, growing from a first-rate trading company to a top-tier one in just a few short decades.】

【According to your investigation, this trading company actually had a Martial Emperor-level retainer guarding it, which explained their arrogance.】

【But you weren’t the least bit afraid. The endless stream of trouble had left you wanting to make an example of someone.】

【So you struck directly at the Black Dragon Trading Company. After battling their Martial Emperor retainer and emerging victorious, you slaughtered every senior executive who had been involved in threatening you!】

【This move instantly provoked strong condemnation from the major trading companies and factions of Great Xia!】

【Apart from the Jin Commerce Group, the Baili Trading Company, and Great Xia’s government—who were on good terms with you—many trading companies jointly denounced you, calling you utterly lawless.】

【But you scoffed at this and announced you would cease supplying Life-Sustaining Pills to these trading companies!】

【This only enraged them further, and all manner of smear campaigns and denunciations followed. But you knew all they truly wanted was the Life-Sustaining Pill formula!】

【You couldn’t be bothered with them and focused on your daily pill refinement.】

【Yet one day, someone you never expected came looking for you.】

【It was none other than Grand Protector Zong of the Advent Cult!】

【You froze for a moment upon seeing Grand Protector Zong, then instinctively went on alert. Though you now had Martial Emperor-level strength, you were still no match for him. If he meant you harm, your only option would be to flee.】

【Grand Protector Zong smiled and greeted you amicably, then lowered his voice to ask whether you had mastered the art of body-seizing, and whether this young man was the body you had seized?】

Su Xing frowned slightly at this and muttered:

“What does Old Dog Zong mean by that? He’s saying I body-seized… myself?”

But then Su Xing understood.

It must be that Su Xing’s strength was simply too overwhelming. Nascent Soul Stage, Grand Perfection plus Divine Power Realm… even the most talented cultivator couldn’t possibly reach that in their early twenties.

That was why Old Dog Zong assumed he had body-seized himself.

“What is that old dog really after?”

Su Xing was rather curious and turned back to the simulation panel.