Chapter 145 – A New Round of Simulation — The King Among the Demon Race (5k)

“Wonderful — with these Spirit-Gathering Flowers, spiritual energy will no longer be an obstacle on my path to the peak of Spirit Transformation!”

Su Xing felt a surge of joy.

Over a thousand Spirit-Gathering Flowers — even before spiritual energy had dried up in the outside world, they would have been peerless treasures.

And now, even a single Spirit-Gathering Flower was enough to make a Spirit Transformation cultivator like Old Dog Zong risk his life for it.

Yet such precious spiritual objects were visible nearly everywhere across Su Xing’s little hilltop.

Thinking of this, Su Xing’s eyes brimmed with satisfaction.

After indulging in that feeling for a moment, Su Xing did not rush out. Instead, he decided to stay in the Blessed Spirit Field for two weeks to keep a low profile.

Before acting, Su Xing had already informed Jin Congxue that their transaction would be pushed back by one week — meaning there was no need to go anywhere until the agreed time arrived two weeks later.

“In that case, I’ll spend this time quietly refining pills!”

A smile he could not suppress spread across Su Xing’s face. He took out his pill-refining furnace and began refining with practiced ease.

While Su Xing was leisurely refining pills…

At that very moment, the Black Dragon Guild was anything but calm.

The moment Su Xing had broken into the secret chamber, this Martial Emperor powerhouse had sensed it and rushed back toward the guild in a hurry.

But Su Xing had moved far too quickly. By the time the Martial Emperor returned to the chamber, Su Xing had long since fled to the Class User market and slipped into the Blessed Spirit Field.

The Martial Emperor’s expression shifted and wavered as he surveyed the scene around him, muttering, “Who… who in the world did this?”

Then his legs began to tremble uncontrollably. After hesitating for a moment, he picked up a voice-transmission jade slip and activated it.

From the other end of the jade slip came an aged voice.

“What is it?”

Hearing that voice, the Martial Emperor shook with even greater fright and said in a trembling voice:

“Lord Dragon, something has gone wrong… The Black Dragon Guild’s secret chamber has been ransacked. Over a hundred puppets are all dead, and every treasure has vanished without a trace…”

“I felt the mechanism trigger and rushed back at once, yet I was still a step too late! That person’s strength… is likely no less than my own!”

“My lord…”

The Martial Emperor explained in a panicked rush.

On the other end of the voice-transmission jade slip, Lord Dragon was silent for a moment before asking, “The ledgers and the sealed letters — are they still there?”

Upon hearing this, the Martial Emperor hurriedly opened the cabinet. Seeing the ledgers and sealed letters untouched, he breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said:

“My lord, they are here! The ledgers and sealed letters have not been touched!”

From the other end of the voice-transmission jade slip, Lord Dragon was silent for a long while before his voice slowly came through:

“Understood. Leave it for now — do not make a scene.”

The scene shifted, returning to the Blessed Spirit Field.

Su Xing had already spent one week inside the Blessed Spirit Field. During that week, he had done nothing but refine pills, without taking a single step outside.

In one week, he had refined six thousand pills!

“Phew… it’s been nearly a week, hasn’t it?”

Su Xing wiped the sweat from his forehead and muttered to himself:

“I wonder what the situation outside is like. Should I go out and test the waters?”

But then he shook his head slightly.

“Better not. Only a week has passed — the Black Dragon Guild’s informants might still be watching. I’ll lie low for another week.”

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

A week had passed, and the cooldown for a new round of simulation had finished.

New Era, June 10, 2024 — Su Xing activated a new round of simulation right on schedule.

“Begin simulation!”

【Ding! This simulation consumes 4,000 energy points. Remaining energy: 65.05 million points. Remaining simulations: unlimited.】

【Simulation begins!】

【Drawing a green talent costs 1,000 energy points. Drawing a blue talent costs 10,000 energy points. Drawing a purple talent costs 100,000 energy points. Proceed?】

“Draw a purple talent!”

【Congratulations — you have obtained the purple talent: Unstoppable Bedspear!】

【Unstoppable Bedspear】: Your sustained combat endurance in the bedroom is greatly enhanced. (Anti-censorship…)

Su Xing: “…”

Su Xing rubbed his hands together, speaking with a hint of excitement.

He glanced at it once and lost interest. Although this talent was formidable, it was not something he had any use for right now!

Turning his gaze back to the simulation panel, Su Xing was already thinking through his plan for this simulation.

“The Demon-Sealing Pass dungeon… a passage connecting reality to the Demon Realm?”

Su Xing felt a stirring in his heart. If he could truly escape into the Demon Realm through Demon-Sealing Pass, perhaps he could avoid calamity — evade being devoured by the great beast!

Even if only Su Xing alone could escape, it would greatly extend the simulation’s duration.

“Well then — let’s give it a try!”

【Inside the Blessed Spirit Field, you become aware that you are in a simulation.】

【Rather than leaving the Blessed Spirit Field in haste to return to reality, you remain inside for another week.】

【During this week, you continue refining pills and tending to the spirit plants growing in the spirit field.】

【A week later, you leave the Blessed Spirit Field and return to the real world. No one notices your return. You contact Jin Congxue and meet with her.】

【You ask Jin Congxue about any unusual activity from the Black Dragon Guild recently, but she indicates that nothing appears out of the ordinary.】

【The anxiety you had been carrying finally eases. You resume your daily cultivation and farming.】

【Although the spiritual energy within the blessed land has grown considerably richer, breaking through as a Spirit Transformation cultivator is extremely difficult, and your cultivation yields little progress.】

【So you take time to check on Wang Qingxuan several times, confirming that she will not fall in with the Advent Cult, before you begin searching for traces of the Advent Cult.】

【After spending several months searching, you finally discover that the Advent Cult’s main base is located in Shuangqing City, Southwest Province.】

【You travel to Shuangqing City and deliberately unleash your divine sense to sweep broadly across the city.】

【Sure enough, half a month later, Old Dog Zong comes looking for you.】

【When Old Dog Zong sees how young you look, he is startled — but then it dawns on him that you must have seized this body through body-seizing.】

【After a battle of wits and nerve with Old Dog Zong, you use two Life-Sustaining Pills to obtain some spiritual medicines from him, and you earn yourself the opportunity to join the Advent Cult.】

【Under Old Dog Zong’s recommendation, you quickly become an Elder of the Advent Cult.】

【Afterward, you begin covertly making contact with Luo Shuying, eventually gaining her trust.】

【With Luo Shuying’s help, you quickly obtain a large supply of spiritual medicines.】

【You wait patiently — on the surface playing the role of sworn brothers with Old Dog Zong, while secretly refining spiritual medicines and building up your strength.】

【Before long, two years have passed.】

【In the third year, you have accumulated close to two hundred thousand pills. You judge that the time has come — it is time to defect from the Advent Cult together with Luo Shuying.】

【Before defecting, you do not forget to throw mud on Old Dog Zong’s name, politely inviting him to share a meal with you.】

【After your defection, you and Luo Shuying head to the Capital City of Great Xia. You bring out all two hundred thousand pills at once, easily earning the Great Xia Military’s trust and becoming a core figure within it.】

【From that point on, you begin continuously refining higher-grade pills — Dragon Spirit Pills, Primordial Martial Pills, Mind-Condensing Pills, and more — adding ever greater numbers of powerful cultivators to Great Xia.】

【That same year, the Advent Cult discovers your betrayal and begins hunting you down.】

【However, because you and Luo Shuying are now sheltered within the Great Xia Military, the Advent Cult can only direct its fury at Old Dog Zong.】

【Old Dog Zong once again embarks on his journey of flight.】

【In the fourth year, with your assistance, Luo Shuying successfully advances to become a Legendary-stage powerhouse.】

【At the same time, your Primordial Martial Pills, Divine Power Pills, and other medicines have added several hundred Heavenly King-stage and dozens of Martial Emperor-stage powerhouses to Great Xia.】

【In preparation for your future plans — and to better advance your own cultivation — you decide to join Demon-Sealing Pass.】

【Although those throughout the human faction unanimously oppose this, your mind is made up. You are willing to start as a nameless nobody, and you begin fighting on the battlefield.】

【When you first joined the battlefield, your lack of combat experience meant you could only bring out half your true strength.】

【But even so, Demon King-class demonic beasts were no match for a single exchange, and Demon Emperors could only barely fight you to a draw.】

【As your combat experience grew more refined, you gradually began to unleash the true power of a Divine Power Realm cultivator.】

【With Elemental Force Entwinement active, Heavenly King-class demonic beasts couldn’t even withstand three of your punches.】

【An ordinary Demon Emperor, after taking a hundred punches, would be left vomiting blood with severe injuries.】

【In a mere half year, you had slain dozens of Demon Kings and three Demon Emperors.】

【With an ample supply of Demon Emperor Blood Essence, your Body Tempering cultivation began to climb rapidly.】

【Year five. You had been at Demon-Sealing Pass for a full year, having fought in hundreds of battles large and small. Under such high-intensity combat, you could now unleash your full strength without reservation.】

【Every day you consumed five jin of Demon Emperor Blood Essence, your power and cultivation visibly advancing.】

【Year six. This year you slew ten Demon Emperors and over a hundred Demon Kings.】

【Your strength alone was comparable to ten Martial Emperors on the battlefield.】

【Every day you consumed five jin of Demon Emperor Blood Essence, then through sustained high-intensity combat, rapidly absorbed this pure energy and converted it into cultivation.】

【Year seven. You began killing with a sword. Wherever the Three Talents Sword Art passed, not a single Demon King survived.】

【You gradually built a reputation at Demon-Sealing Pass, earning the title of the Pass’s greatest Sword Emperor.】

【Year eight. You continued to fight with the sword, and through endless slaughter, your mastery of the blade advanced even further.】

【Over these years, you had killed dozens of Demon Emperors and hundreds of Demon Kings. Now, every Demon King who saw you fled in terror.】

【Year nine. With the daily supplement of Demon Emperor Blood Essence, you felt yourself drawing ever closer to the fifth layer of the Divine Power Realm.】

【Year ten. Your Body Tempering cultivation finally broke through—you became a fifth-layer Divine Power Realm cultivator!】

【Year eleven. After years of fighting with the sword, you began experimenting with the application of your elemental force.】

【Entwinement-level elemental force, coating your fists, could greatly enhance both their striking power and durability.】

【But the consumption was staggering. Once your elemental force was depleted, your stamina would plummet rapidly, and only through thorough rest could you slowly recover your elemental force.】

【You discovered that consuming Demonic Beast Blood Essence could accelerate your elemental force recovery.】

【Through ceaseless battle, your cultivation, combat experience, and mastery of elemental force all improved at a rapid pace.】

【Three years passed in the blink of an eye. Year fourteen—your practical combat experience had improved dramatically, and your grasp of battle techniques far exceeded ordinary cultivators.】

【Not only could you fluidly employ your swordsmanship, elemental force, and other abilities, but through your exceptional combat techniques, you could even bring out fighting power that slightly exceeded your actual cultivation level.】

【Year fifteen. You had been at Demon-Sealing Pass for over a decade.】

【In these years, no fewer than two hundred Demon Emperors had fallen by your hand, nearly a thousand Demon Kings, and Grandmaster-stage and below demonic beasts beyond counting.】

【In Demon-Sealing Pass’s millennia of history, below the Legendary stage, you were the strongest warrior to have ever slain the most Demon Emperors and Demon Kings.】

【You were awarded the Hero’s Medal of Demon-Sealing Pass’s human race, and became a general whose status was comparable to a Legendary-stage cultivator!】

【Though given your status, these honors were merely icing on the cake, it was still a cause for celebration—this was others’ recognition of your strength.】

【Year sixteen. With the ceaseless battles and the endless supply of blood essence, you felt that you were not far from the sixth layer of the Divine Power Realm.】

【Through over a decade of bloody combat, you felt your will become incomparably resolute. Like most soldiers, you had forged an ironclad, unyielding temperament as firm as bedrock.】

【At times, without meaning to, the killing intent in your gaze and the murderous aura emanating from your body would leave lower-ranked demonic beasts too terrified to breathe.】

【You comprehended the embryonic form of killing intent!】

【Year seventeen. Your Body Tempering cultivation broke through once more—you became a sixth-layer Divine Power Realm cultivator!】

Su Xing drew a deep breath at this.

“He actually comprehended the embryonic form of killing intent!”

Su Xing recalled that in a previous simulation, he had fought at Demon-Sealing Pass for over a decade and similarly comprehended the embryonic form of killing intent through slaughter.

Based on Su Xing’s speculation, this was likely a special ability that could be comprehended once one had killed a sufficient number of enemies.

It was also a form of recognition for one’s experience in killing!

Su Xing murmured:

“It seems it’s time to choose practical combat experience. Only with sufficient real combat experience can I maximize the advantages of my Divine Power Realm cultivation!”

“But still…”

Su Xing paused, then sighed with some emotion:

“This Demonic Beast Blood Essence truly is the ultimate cultivation treasure for Body Tempering cultivators!”

“In just over a decade, I broke through from Body Tempering fourth layer to Body Tempering sixth layer. If other Body Tempering cultivators knew about this speed, their jaws would drop!”

One had to understand—cultivation for Body Tempering cultivators was even harder and more time-consuming than for Qi Refinement cultivators.

An ordinary Spirit Transformation stage cultivator needed twenty to thirty years to break through a single layer, meaning a Divine Power Realm cultivator would need at least thirty-plus years!

Yet Su Xing, on average, broke through a layer in under ten years!

Beyond the bonuses from his purple talents “Strength to Uproot Mountains” and “King of Gluttons,” the Demon Emperor Blood Essence was the most critical factor!

Thinking this, the corners of Su Xing’s mouth curled slightly upward.

“Perhaps, in this simulation, I can break through to the seventh layer of the Divine Power Realm!”

The seventh layer of the Divine Power Realm—that would place him in the late stage of the Divine Power Realm, no longer far from the peak of Divine Power.

His gaze returned to the simulation panel.

【Year eighteen. On the battlefield, you began consciously tempering your killing intent.】

【Though you didn’t know the specific method of cultivation, you understood that you only needed to keep slaying enemies to strengthen your killing intent, and by wielding it, you could master it more quickly.】

【Using the most primal method of cultivation, you released your aura on the battlefield, and all Silver-stage demonic beast fodder didn’t even dare approach.】

【This year, you slew ten Demon Emperors, over a hundred Demon Kings, and Grandmaster-stage and below demonic beasts beyond counting…】

【Year nineteen. As your reputation grew ever more resounding, your name echoed not only throughout Demon-Sealing Pass, but even among the demon tribes, where many demonic beasts had come to know of you.】

【Weaker demonic beasts avoided you at all costs, terrified of crossing your path.】

【But there were also some exceptionally powerful demons who began seeking you out deliberately.】

【One day, you finally encountered a peculiar demon. This beast stood no more than ten meters tall, yet its form closely resembled that of a human, and it possessed the strength of a late-stage Demon Emperor.】

【What surprised you even more was that this demonic beast could actually speak human language, and seemed remarkably well-informed about Earth’s affairs.】

【He proclaimed himself a member of the demon race’s royal tribes—the Fierce Rhinoceros Tribe!】

【Curious, you asked why his body was so much smaller than that of ordinary demons.】

【A look of disdain flashed across the Fierce Rhinoceros tribesman’s face. He declared that only inferior races had such enormous bodies—nothing but dead meat.】

【Between his mocking words, his gaze locked tightly onto you. He said your strength was passable, and that your name had been spreading within the royal tribes, so he had come to put an end to you.】

【With that, the Fierce Rhinoceros tribesman attacked. You were no pushover either, and immediately met his assault.】

【After barely a dozen exchanges, you could already feel the vast difference between this Fierce Rhinoceros tribesman and ordinary demonic beasts.】

【This Fierce Rhinoceros Demon Emperor was the strongest enemy you had encountered in over a decade.】

【Growing from his forehead was a single silver-red horn, incomparably hard. Even when you wrapped your fists in elemental force and clashed with it head-on, the web between your thumb and forefinger would split open.】

【What surprised you even more was that this Fierce Rhinoceros tribesman could actually use fire-type spells. The beam of flame that shot from his horn, though inferior to the Separation Fire Technique, was far beyond any ordinary flame.】

【You fought the Fierce Rhinoceros tribesman for over a hundred rounds. After gradually adapting to his attack patterns, you began to gain the upper hand.】

【Your battle raged from dusk all the way through to dawn the next day.】

【After hours of intense combat, you had left hundreds of wounds on the Fierce Rhinoceros beast’s body, and you too were panting with exhaustion.】

【The Fierce Rhinoceros beast’s demeanor shifted from calm composure at the start, to astonishment, and finally to fear.】

【You could tell he was preparing to flee, so you launched your final offensive. After hundreds more exchanges, you finally cut him down!】

【After the Fierce Rhinoceros beast died, to avoid any complications, you dragged his corpse into the Blessed Spirit Field, then returned to Demon-Sealing Pass’s fortress and entered the Blessed Spirit Field.】

【After meditating for several hours to regulate your breathing, you began examining what made the Fierce Rhinoceros tribe different from ordinary demons.】

【You discovered that the rhinoceros horn on his forehead was extraordinarily hard—not inferior to fourth or fifth-grade exotic metal.】

【This fierce rhinoceros horn was a top-tier material for weapon forging.】

【What astonished you even more was that this Fierce Rhinoceros tribesman, standing less than ten meters tall and weighing only a few dozen tons, contained a full three hundred-plus jin of blood essence within his body!】

【This amount of blood essence was over three times that of an ordinary Demon Emperor!】

【Moreover, you found that the Fierce Rhinoceros tribe’s blood essence was more potent than that of ordinary Demon Emperors, brimming with an even richer concentration of energy.】