Chapter 150 – Simulation Energy Shortage, Su Xing’s Plan (5k)
by spirapira“Finally… Human Sword has reached Perfection…”
Su Xing let out a breath of relief at the sight, a faint smile playing at the corners of his lips.
“In this simulation, there’s less than five years remaining. Breaking through to Spirit Transformation stage Great Perfection is probably unrealistic…”
“But achieving Perfection in Human Sword is a pleasant surprise in itself — the boost to my combat power is nothing short of enormous!”
With Human Sword at Perfection and Sword Momentum comprehended, Su Xing could even take on two royal-bloodline Demon Emperors by himself! With such strength, dealing with Old Dog Zong might not be a guaranteed victory, but it was damn close to one.
His gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【After comprehending Sword Momentum, you did not linger, but returned to Demon-Sealing Pass.】
【You did not grow complacent. Instead, you turned your attention to the Earth Sword of the Three Talents Sword Art.】
【The Earth Sword borrows the power of heaven and earth. If mastered to Major Mastery, fighting Legendary-stage powerhouses above your level would be well within reach!】
【However, cultivating the Earth Sword proved far more difficult than you imagined. Previously, you had merely memorized the cultivation methods by rote, unable to truly comprehend their meaning.】
【And so you could only spend vast amounts of time trying to grasp the essence of Earth Sword cultivation.】
【In the twenty-first year, you spent four hours each day slaying enemies at Demon-Sealing Pass to relieve pressure on the soldiers. The rest of your time was devoted to comprehending the key principles of Earth Sword cultivation.】
【Gradually, you grasped some surface-level understanding of the Earth Sword, and your swordsmanship improved further.】
【In the twenty-second year, your comprehension of the Earth Sword deepened. Though you had not yet reached entry-level mastery, you were no longer relying on rote memorization — you could now perceive the profound mysteries within the Earth Sword.】
【In the twenty-third year, you fought enemies on the battlefield with your sword every day, further deepening your understanding of the Earth Sword through real combat.】
【In the twenty-fourth year, despite consuming Demon Emperor Blood Essence daily, your cultivation remained stuck at the ninth layer of the Divine Power Realm. Knowing a breakthrough was hopeless, you devoted even more energy to comprehending the Earth Sword.】
【In the twenty-fifth year, the situation at Demon-Sealing Pass grew increasingly dire, with more and more human powerhouses falling in battle. But fortunately, you alone were worth dozens of Martial Emperor-stage warriors, keeping Demon-Sealing Pass from imminent collapse.】
【You continuously refined your understanding of Earth Sword cultivation principles through real combat, finally absorbing all the knowledge you had previously memorized by rote. Your comprehension of the Earth Sword successfully reached entry level.】
【That same year, hundreds of Legendary-stage demon beasts assaulted Demon-Sealing Pass. Even giving everything you had, you could barely hold off a single one. In the end, Demon-Sealing Pass fell, and you perished with it.】
【Your primordial spirit left your body, but was immediately crushed by a Legendary-stage demon beast.】
【Your talent Die With Eyes Open activates…】
【Ding! This simulation has ended!】
After the simulation ended, Su Xing let out a long breath.
In this simulation, Su Xing had not chosen to investigate the Slaughter Battlefield, but instead opted to steadily improve his own strength.
After all, the Slaughter Battlefield was far too dangerous. With his current level of power, going there would be nothing but a waste of effort.
At minimum, he would need Legendary-stage strength before he could explore it.
“Although I didn’t break through to Divine Power Realm Great Perfection, achieving Human Sword Perfection and successfully reaching entry level in Earth Sword — that’s quite respectable!”
Su Xing nodded with satisfaction and turned his gaze to this simulation’s rewards.
【Wisdom in Foolishness】: Purple talent. Price: 1,000,000 energy.
【ten years of alchemy experience】: Alchemy insights. Price: 500,000 energy.
【Divine Power Realm, Ninth Layer】: Body Tempering cultivation. Price: 20,000,000 energy.
【Twenty Years of Demon-Sealing Pass Combat Experience】: Enhances combat ability and slightly improves comprehension of killing intent. Price: 10,000,000 energy.
【Three Talents Sword Art (Human Sword: Perfection, Earth Sword: Introductory)】: Contains partial insights into the immortal-grade sword cultivation technique “Three Talents Sword Art,” including first-stage Human Sword Perfection and second-stage Earth Sword introductory insights. Learning it grants comprehension of Sword Momentum. Price: 30,000,000 energy.
Su Xing scanned the reward list, a look of understanding crossing his face.
“As I thought — combat experience can be accumulated! Not only does it enhance practical combat ability, it also improves future comprehension of killing intent… As for the energy cost, it should be determined based on the degree of improvement it provides me…”
Though he didn’t know what use further advancement of Embryonic Killing Intent would bring, Su Xing’s intuition told him it would prove invaluable in the future.
“Besides that…”
Su Xing’s gaze fell on the final entry — the Three Talents Sword Art reward — and a gleam of sharp light appeared in his eyes.
“So the Three Talents Sword Art is actually a sword cultivation technique? Indeed — the sword art states that upon achieving Heaven Sword Perfection, one can attain Sword Immortal status. It’s actually true!”
Excitement flickered in Su Xing’s eyes. This was sword cultivation!
The path of sword cultivation differed from Body Tempering and Qi Refinement — it was rooted in one’s comprehension of the sword!
Yet upon reaching a certain level, a sword cultivator could slay even immortals!
“A Sword Immortal should rank among the most powerful existences even among immortals, right?”
Su Xing nodded slightly. Without much hesitation, he silently declared:
“I choose to extract the talent Wisdom in Foolishness, and the Three Talents Sword Art cultivation insights!”
【You have successfully extracted the purple talent Wisdom in Foolishness. Cost: 1,000,000 energy. Remaining energy: 37,930,000.】
【Detected existing talent of the same type: Flash of Inspiration. Auto-replacing…】
【You have successfully extracted Three Talents Sword Art insights (Human Sword: Perfection, Earth Sword: Introductory). Cost: 30,000,000 energy. Remaining energy: 7,930,000.】
As the notifications fell silent, two streams of mysterious power flowed into Su Xing’s body.
The next second, a flood of memory fragments appeared in Su Xing’s mind.
These memory fragments contained insights into the Human Sword, reaching all the way to the Perfection level! At the same time, the Earth Sword cultivation knowledge Su Xing had previously memorized gradually became clear and comprehensible. Though he couldn’t yet execute it in practice, he had gained an extremely deep understanding of the Earth Sword.
Afterward, a mysterious aura rose from Su Xing’s body.
Sword Momentum!
Growing rapidly from the faint Embryonic Form of Sword Momentum, in just a few breaths, Su Xing had completely mastered Sword Momentum!
With that, Su Xing sat with his eyes closed for a long while before slowly opening them.
“So that’s how it is… The Human Sword is the sword for facing enemies. What it cultivates is Sword Momentum — an unstoppable force of ‘the sword is in my hand, and I advance without retreat!'”
“The Earth Sword, on the other hand, borrows the power of heaven and earth, channeling it into the sword in hand. Every strike and every move carries boundless might!”
The corners of Su Xing’s lips curved upward.
This simulation’s harvest had exceeded his expectations. Not only had he cultivated Human Sword to Great Perfection, but his comprehension of Earth Sword ran quite deep as well.
Afterward, Su Xing glanced at the Blackice sword at his waist, unclasped it, and held it in his hand. Instantly, a feeling of intimate familiarity surged through his heart.
As the spirit sword left its sheath, Su Xing’s aura transformed dramatically, and wind stirred around him from nowhere.
This continued for several breaths, but Su Xing still didn’t swing the sword.
“Damn, I nearly couldn’t stop myself from striking! If I’d actually swung this sword, the entire mountain in the Blessed Spirit Field would probably have been cleaved in two!”
Su Xing patted his chest with lingering fear.
By now, Su Xing was no longer the clueless newcomer who had first entered the cultivation world. He had learned a thing or two about the origins of the Blessed Spirit Field.
The Blessed Spirit Field was actually a relatively stable pocket world drifting within chaotic spatial currents.
The interior of this pocket world maintained a mysterious equilibrium — stable enough not to be torn apart by the turbulent currents, and quite firmly anchored.
With Su Xing’s level of power, he naturally couldn’t destroy the Blessed Spirit Field’s spatial fabric.
But within the Blessed Spirit Field, the mountain was just an ordinary mountain. If Su Xing brought his sword down on it, the trouble would be enormous.
Not only would the spirit fields be destroyed in one stroke, but the spirit-gathering formation within the mountain would likely be damaged as well.
“Come to think of it… my cheap master Qingyunzi’s power truly is unfathomable!”
Su Xing sighed with emotion and murmured:
“Even if this pocket world of the Blessed Spirit Field already existed… to stabilize it, capture its spatial coordinates, and develop it into a personal blessed land… the level of comprehension over the Great Dao and the power of rules required must be extraordinarily profound!”
“To possess such power… perhaps only the immortals of legend could accomplish it?”
Su Xing clearly remembered that Qingyunzi had once mentioned the words “three thousand worlds.”
Perhaps Qingyunzi was one of those supreme beings capable of traversing between different worlds?
“If I had my cheap master’s capabilities, what would there be to fear from those demon tribes at Demon-Sealing Pass?”
Su Xing felt a pang of envy, but then shook his head.
The simulator was already a heaven-defying stroke of fortune.
With this cheat in hand, as long as Su Xing was willing to lay low and develop steadily, driving out the demon tribes and surpassing Qingyunzi was merely a matter of time.
“Sigh, although the simulator accelerates power growth incredibly fast, it burns through money like water!”
“Now I’ve got less than ten million simulation energy left… I can’t even afford the energy for a breakthrough to Spirit Transformation in the next simulation!”
Su Xing did some rough calculations. Breaking through to Divine Power Realm Perfection would require 30,000,000 energy.
The Tarot Trading Company could supply him with goods worth just over 15,000,000 energy per week. Adding the few million he had left, there was still a massive gap to reach 30,000,000!
At this thought, Su Xing’s face scrunched up with worry as he sighed:
“Sigh, killing people and stealing their treasures really is the fastest way to make money!”
“When I robbed the Black Dragon Guild before, I got over a hundred million simulation energy in one go. If I had to save that up on my own, how long would that take?” Su Xing felt somewhat helpless, wondering if he could go shake down the Black Dragon Guild again.
But doing that sort of thing too often would inevitably leave traces. Walk along the river long enough, and your shoes are bound to get wet.
Just then, Su Xing suddenly remembered something and hurriedly retrieved two jade boxes from his storage ring.
Opening the jade boxes, a refreshing medicinal fragrance wafted out.
Thousand-year ginseng and thousand-year lingzhi!
“Right, I almost forgot about this! The Baili Trading Company still has dungeon props worth several hundred million energy!”
Su Xing’s eyes lit up slightly.
In a previous simulation, he had used a supreme-grade Life-Sustaining Pill to trade with Baili Qi for a massive batch of dungeon props. That batch was probably worth several hundred million simulation energy!
The only regret was that after selling the Life-Sustaining Pill, Su Xing had been exposed, ultimately attracting quite a bit of trouble.
In a later simulation, Su Xing had tried disguising himself before conducting the trade, but the Baili Trading Company had still planted a tracker among the goods, discovering his trail.
“But here’s the thing! During the simulations, I didn’t have the ability to use the simulator… whereas in reality, as long as I convert that entire batch of props into energy…”
“Heh heh, then how will you deal with that, sir? I refuse to believe… that with all the goods gone, you could still track down my location.”
Su Xing pondered for a moment, then began analyzing the feasibility of trading with Baili Qi.
Before long, Su Xing reached his conclusion.
Feasible!
But it would require careful planning!
Su Xing thought it over, then took out a map of Great Xia.
Capital City was located in the north of Great Xia, serving as the north’s political and financial center.
Guang Province, on the other hand, was in the far south of Great Xia, over ten thousand kilometers away!
Su Xing studied the map carefully and began planning his route to Guang Province.
“Hmm, if I travel on my own using my cultivation, I’d still need to rest along the way. It would probably take two or three days to arrive… But doing that, a living person flying through the sky would be far too conspicuous…”
“But if I just take a plane directly to Guang Province, that would also take about a day… The problem is, flight records are easily discovered, leaving behind clues!”
Su Xing pointed at several cities on the map with his finger and quickly found the most secure approach.
“Perhaps I could fly to a city near Guang Province first, then cover the remaining few hundred kilometers on foot using my physical abilities. That way, it would be the most covert!”
Su Xing nodded slightly, put away the map, and looked at the medicinal ingredients before him.
“Then next up, it’s time to refine Life-Sustaining Pills!”
With a thought, Su Xing took out his pill furnace and began refining.
Refining Life-Sustaining Pills was not difficult; even among low-grade pills, they were considered simple.
The hard part was finding the ingredients. Thousand-year ginseng, polygonum multiflorum, and other such herbs were exceedingly rare in the mortal world.
He added the ingredients, poured in an appropriate amount of spirit spring water, and channeled spiritual energy to catalyze the process…
In less than two hours, Su Xing had refined a furnace of plump, lustrous Life-Sustaining Pills.
When the refinement was complete, Su Xing opened the pill furnace, and his eyes immediately lit up.
“Not bad luck at all! Seven pills total, and three of them are actually supreme-grade Life-Sustaining Pills!”
The Life-Sustaining Pills were the size of longan fruits, pale green on the surface, radiating a rich vitality.
Su Xing hurriedly took out a jade box and placed the pills inside to prevent the medicinal properties from dissipating.
Afterward, Su Xing spent another half hour refining a furnace of Voice-Altering Pills.
The Voice-Altering Pill was just an unranked little trinket. Its effect was to allow the user to freely change their voice.
Even a man could produce a woman’s voice without the slightest trace of abnormality.
The Voice-Altering Pill, combined with the Breath-Concealing Pill and the Disguise Pill — even if the Heavenly King himself showed up, he wouldn’t be able to uncover Su Xing’s identity!
Having finished all of this, Su Xing exited the Blessed Spirit Field, took out his phone, and prepared to buy a plane ticket to Fudong Province, which was the closest province to Guang Province.
But after searching for a while, he discovered that all tickets from Capital City to Fudong Province were sold out.
Su Xing was immediately dumbfounded and sighed, “Damn, one oversight out of a hundred!”
Just then, a text message from Jin Congxue popped up on Su Xing’s phone.
“Boss, I’m heading back to Jinling City~ Bye bye~”
Seeing this message, Su Xing’s mind stirred, and he asked:
“How are you getting back to Jinling City?”
Jin Congxue replied instantly: “Private jet, of course~ (wink.jpg)”
As expected, outrageously wealthy!
Su Xing checked for plane tickets from Jinling City to Fudong Province.
Sure enough, there were still tickets available for tonight!
So Su Xing replied to Jin Congxue:
“Wait for me. I have business in Jinling City. Mind if I hitch a ride?”
Jin Congxue quickly replied: “Sure! Waiting for you~”
So Su Xing hastily packed up and headed to the meeting point he and Jin Congxue had agreed upon.
The plane took off shortly after…
Inside the luxurious private jet, Jin Congxue wore a set of casual loungewear, looking utterly languid and alluring.
“Oh my, big boss… what business do you have in Jinling City?”
Looking at Jin Congxue’s captivating face, Su Xing cleared his throat twice. He decided it was better if Jin Congxue didn’t know for now, so he said:
“Ahem, nothing much… just going for fun…”
Jin Congxue knew Su Xing was just being evasive, so she rolled her eyes and didn’t press further.
Along the way, Su Xing and Jin Congxue chatted casually, their feelings growing warmer once again.
Soon the plane arrived in Jinling City. Su Xing bid a quick farewell to Jin Congxue and rushed to the airport without stopping.
…
Several hours later, Su Xing found himself in a mountain range in Fudong Province.
Su Xing looked up at the sky. It was only early afternoon.
He then began his disguise, swallowing the Disguise Pill, Voice-Altering Pill, and Breath-Concealing Pill. Using the special techniques of a Body Tempering cultivator, he slightly altered his bone structure and height.
A few minutes later, Su Xing had completely transformed his appearance. There was not the slightest trace of his original self.
After repeatedly confirming there were no oversights, Su Xing oriented himself and rushed toward Guang Province without delay.
An hour later, Su Xing stood outside the Baili estate, gazing at the magnificent complex of buildings before him with some admiration.
“Truly worthy of a top-tier trading company, a noble family with a thousand-year heritage… Such outrageously extravagant style!”
After a brief moment of admiration, Su Xing extended his divine sense. Every movement within the entire Baili estate was instantly laid bare to him.
“Hiss, as expected of a top-tier trading company. I never imagined the Baili estate would be hiding three Martial Emperor-stage powerhouses!”
Su Xing’s mind stirred, understanding that trading companies of this caliber all had their own trump cards and backers.
Martial Emperor-stage powerhouses were essentially the publicly known peak combat power of the human race. Those above Legendary-stage would not act lightly.
These Martial Emperors were clearly retainers of the Baili Trading Company.
They were either top freelance experts hired at great cost, or cultivated through the family’s own lineage.
“Indeed, not a single top-tier trading company is simple!”
Su Xing sighed softly, then began searching for the aura of the Baili estate’s family head, Baili Qi.
Moments later, in the deepest part of the Baili estate, Su Xing detected a decaying aura, one whose lifespan was nearing its end.
“Hmm… judging by this aura, this person has lived over five hundred years and is approaching their final days. They’ve probably consumed quite a few life-extending medicines… which is the only reason they’ve hung on until now.”
“This must be Baili Tu!”
Su Xing’s mind stirred as he stealthily infiltrated the estate, heading toward Baili Tu’s location.
Soon, Su Xing arrived outside Baili Tu’s chambers. Bypassing two Heavenly King-stage guards, he slipped into the room with ease.
Looking at the old man lying on the bed, barely breathing, his life force all but spent, Su Xing thought to himself:
“This must be the current head of the Baili family, Baili Tu.”
Just as Su Xing was about to take the initiative and propose a trade with Baili Tu—
The seemingly spent Baili Tu suddenly snapped his eyes open, and a feeble voice reached Su Xing’s ears.
“I wonder… what business brings the esteemed senior here in person?”