Chapter 349 – Heaven-Sent Fortune Shows Its Might, Wildly Earning Four Million Origin Energy!
by spirapiraSu Xing was quite delighted.
His original combat power was already formidable among Mystic Immortals.
And with the Great Shaman Body Forging Art advancing to the fourth layer, Su Xing’s ability to withstand attacks was greatly enhanced!
Being able to regenerate severed limbs in a short time meant that as long as Su Xing avoided vital areas, he could fully adopt a strategy of trading injury for injury, fighting enemies to the death. His combat power had undoubtedly risen considerably.
“Besides limb regeneration… my physical strength and bodily power have also increased by more than twofold!”
Su Xing felt the godlike power coursing through his body and estimated:
“Now, if I threw a punch with everything I had… I’m afraid the entire continental plate would crack apart and sink into the ocean?”
“Even… with the power of the Great Dao, destroying an entire world wouldn’t be impossible?”
Su Xing took a deep breath. Strictly speaking, Earth was already roughly the size of a lesser chiliocosm.
And Mystic Immortal realm cultivators already possessed the power to destroy an entire lesser chiliocosm!
As for ordinary lesser worlds… because of their spatial fragility, True Immortal realm cultivators could probably destroy them…
Just as Su Xing was immersed in his explosively increased power, he felt new energy emerging within his body.
The increase in Qi Refinement cultivation had arrived!
First level of the True Immortal realm… second level of the True Immortal realm…
Third level of the True Immortal realm!
Su Xing’s cultivation surged all the way to the mid-stage of the third level of the True Immortal realm before finally stopping.
Feeling the explosive aura radiating from his body and the torrential spiritual power surging within, Su Xing took a deep breath, excitement flashing in his eyes.
“From the first level to the mid-stage of the third level of the True Immortal realm… the density of spiritual power within me has increased by at least a full forty percent!”
“As expected, the further you advance… the greater the gap between realms!”
If not for Su Xing’s solid foundation and the various fortuitous encounters he had obtained, wanting to possess Mystic Immortal realm combat power while still at the True Immortal realm would have been nothing but a fool’s dream!
After all, cultivation was the foundation of everything!
After Su Xing spent some time adapting to the explosive increase in spiritual power within his body, he nodded with satisfaction.
“Third level of the True Immortal realm cultivation is sufficient for now!”
“At the very least, when supplying spiritual power to the Luotian Mirror in the future… I won’t have to worry about the danger of my realm dropping!”
After this simulation, Su Xing’s Body Tempering and Qi Refinement cultivation had both improved, and his overall strength had climbed another step.
“Now then… it’s time to plan for the next simulation!”
Su Xing fell into thought.
Going forward, he planned to focus all his efforts on improving his Body Tempering cultivation!
From the introductory stage of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art’s fourth layer to Perfection, there were three bottlenecks in between.
Each layer of the Great Shaman Body Forging Art required 600,000 origin energy points, and reaching Perfection would require a total of 1,800,000 origin energy…
That was a full 900,000 origin energy points cheaper than improving his Qi Refinement cultivation.
Therefore, Su Xing decided to prioritize improving his Body Tempering cultivation.
“However, even 1,800,000 origin energy is no small sum for me!”
Su Xing felt somewhat helpless. As his cultivation grew ever higher, the energy required for each realm increased explosively.
Yet Su Xing’s speed of acquiring origin energy was relatively stretched thin.
“Currently, I have roughly 360,000 origin energy points on hand, which leaves a gap of a full 1,500,000 points from the 1,800,000 target…”
“This 1,500,000 origin energy… over the next month, the Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion should be more than capable of providing it.”
“But that would merely ensure my Body Tempering cultivation improves… what about selecting other rewards?”
“Even with this origin energy secured, how will I provide the energy needed for the future Mystic Immortal realm?”
Su Xing felt anxious. Once the energy supply became insufficient, his future rate of power growth would inevitably plummet — and that was obviously not what he wanted to see.
After pondering for a long while, Su Xing let out a long sigh and said:
“As things stand, the only option is to try finding other substances containing large amounts of energy, and figure out ways to earn more spirit stones…”
After forming a plan in his mind, Su Xing began disguising his appearance and concealing his aura.
Moments later, Su Xing had transformed into the appearance of a scholarly swordsman — looking to be in his early thirties, with white jade and a longsword hanging at his waist, his bearing quite distinguished.
“Hmm, besides Su Ye… I need other aliases!”
“For this identity… I’ll go by the name Ye Tian!”
“As for the cultivation level I display? Early-stage Celestial Immortal realm… that should be passable?”
Su Xing stepped forward, wielding the power of space, and in the span of a breath appeared thousands of li away.
Next, Su Xing drew a top-grade immortal treasure longsword, stepped onto the flying sword, and flew toward Lesser Azure Cloud City!
That’s right — Su Xing’s destination was Azure Cloud City!
Azure Cloud City was quite far from White Emperor City, separated by tens of millions of li.
Therefore, the commerce of White Emperor City and Lesser Azure Cloud City was relatively independent, and the Earthly Immortal Bai Xuan’s influence did not reach here either.
But as one of the most prosperous cultivator cities in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, Azure Cloud City surely had no shortage of goods.
Su Xing planned to visit Azure Cloud City and make some purchases, hoping to find alternative metals.
At Su Xing’s current travel speed, even while concealing his strength, he could reach Azure Cloud City in a mere three days.
…
Three days later, on the twenty-seventh day of the second month, Su Xing arrived smoothly at Azure Cloud City.
Outside Azure Cloud City, Su Xing put away his flying sword and walked calmly into the city.
The scene inside Azure Cloud City was somewhat different from White Emperor City.
White Emperor City was a gathering place for rogue cultivators, filled with bold, freedom-seeking practitioners, and occasional brawls and disorder between cultivators.
But Azure Cloud City was vastly different!
The cultivators in this city were either outer disciples of the Azure Cloud Sect, or family members of outer disciples or some other disciple…
Or managers of the Azure Cloud Sect’s various enterprises in this city, along with their families.
In short, virtually everyone had some connection to the Azure Cloud Sect.
Even the most distant connection would be rogue cultivators hoping to join the Azure Cloud Sect, living in this city and waiting to participate in the sect’s entrance examination held every few years.
Because of this, the cultivators here were relatively well-mannered and restrained, seldom fighting. However, the prices of cultivation resources in Azure Cloud City were rather steep.
Su Xing strolled through the city for a while, a look of surprise appearing on his face:
“Strange — Azure Cloud City is this prosperous? It seems to have more than double the number of cultivators compared to White Emperor City!”
As Su Xing’s words fell, a street vendor nearby chimed in:
“You must be from out of town, friend? The Azure Cloud Sect’s recruitment assembly, held once every few years, is about to begin… so quite a few rogue cultivators have come. Lots of talent around!”
Hearing this, Su Xing turned to look at the vendor.
Peak Spirit Transformation stage cultivation, with quite a few demon beast materials and spiritual plants and medicines laid out on his stall.
Perhaps a rogue cultivator preparing to join the Azure Cloud Sect? Making some money on the side by doing business here, earning cultivation resources?
Su Xing nodded at him kindly, then asked:
“Friend, where would be the best place to purchase supplies?”
The rogue cultivator replied:
“The biggest shop in Azure Cloud City is naturally the Azure Cloud Pavilion… not only can you buy ordinary cultivation supplies there, but occasionally they even have good stuff from the Azure Cloud Realm!”
“Of course, prices at the Azure Cloud Pavilion are a bit high. If you have patience, you could browse around the market stalls in this area.”
“Quite a few rogue cultivators have set up stalls here. Perhaps you’ll find something to your liking?”
Hearing this, Su Xing glanced around.
On both sides of the bluestone road, vendors lined the way, stretching for what must have been no less than ten li (5 km)!
Su Xing estimated that at least tens of thousands of rogue cultivators had set up stalls here!
“Hmm…”
The rogue cultivator’s words had given Su Xing an idea.
“That’s right! I don’t necessarily need to buy from the big trading houses… these small stalls might also have quite a few valuable treasures?”
“While trading with the big houses, I could also make purchases here — perhaps I can earn quite a bit of energy?”
With this thought in mind, Su Xing swept the surrounding stalls with his divine sense.
At the same time, Su Xing continuously monitored the energy contained in these goods, strings of data scrolling past his eyes.
Moments later, Su Xing actually found several good items.
Su Xing walked over to the vendor who had just given him the tip and casually picked out a few items.
A stone that was pitch-black all over, half of a damaged jade slip, and a small fan that was already somewhat broken.
Su Xing asked casually:
“Friend, how much are these three items worth?”
The Spirit Transformation vendor glanced at them and said offhandedly:
“That stone is ten mid-grade spirit stones, the jade slip is thirty mid-grade spirit stones… the fan is thirty-eight mid-grade spirit stones…”
“If you take all three, I’ll charge you just seventy mid-grade spirit stones…”
This Spirit Transformation vendor had clearly seen through Su Xing’s intentions. Buying this kind of broken junk from a street stall — wasn’t that just what people called a “treasure hunter”?
There were always those who believed themselves inherently extraordinary, that they were a Child of Destiny, convinced that any random broken item they picked up from a stall was some ancient treasure.
Or perhaps that there was an Artifact Spirit or some old master sealed inside…
This Spirit Transformation vendor had seen far too many people with such delusions over his thousand years!
Therefore, he didn’t bother to expose it. His prices were only slightly inflated — he had no intention of fleecing Su Xing.
Su Xing nodded slightly after hearing. Three items for seventy mid-grade spirit stones wasn’t particularly expensive.
So Su Xing casually tossed down seven high-grade spirit stones, left the stall, and headed toward the next one.
At the same time, a thought stirred in Su Xing’s mind, and a notification sound rang in his ears:
【Ding — energy-containing substance detected. Value: 312 origin energy points. Absorb?】
“Yes!”
Su Xing answered without hesitation.
“Tsk tsk, seven high-grade spirit stones for three hundred points of origin energy… what a steal!”
Su Xing was in an excellent mood. The profit margin on earning energy this way was far higher than buying low-grade exotic metals!
The only pity was that Su Xing couldn’t obtain energy in large, stable quantities this way…
Buying from these small vendors meant limited quantities and a rather tedious process.
Even so, Su Xing was unwilling to pass up this opportunity to earn extra income.
Over the next four days, Su Xing swept through Azure Cloud City, wandering from stall to stall.
What Su Xing hadn’t expected, however, was that this endeavor actually brought him a considerable amount of origin energy!
…
The date arrived at March 3rd, New Era 2026.
This should have been the day Su Xing ran his simulation, but this time he chose not to simulate immediately, instead continuing to purchase goods throughout Azure Cloud City.
That day, Su Xing looked at the origin energy on his simulation panel.
“503,768 points of origin energy! In just four short days, I’ve acquired over 140,000 origin energy!”
Su Xing stared at the energy displayed on his simulation panel, momentarily finding it hard to believe.
“Tsk tsk… my luck is just too good!”
“No, I should say… the Heaven-Sent Fortune talent is truly goddamn overpowered!”
Su Xing did some rough calculations.
In these mere four days, Su Xing had been discovering hundreds of goods containing origin energy per day on average!
Ranging from items worth a mere ten-odd points of energy… to others worth several thousand points!
The biggest steal Su Xing had found in those four days was purchasing a damaged jade pendant containing 8,000 points of origin energy for just ten high-grade spirit stones!
That jade pendant was indeed extraordinarily unusual. Su Xing estimated it was likely the remnant of some high-grade immortal treasure, still containing a residual consciousness within.
But treasures of that caliber couldn’t catch Su Xing’s eye.
Too lazy to bother repairing it, he simply converted it directly into origin energy.
“Tsk tsk, four days, spending less than ten thousand high-grade spirit stones in total, yet harvesting 140,000 origin energy — what an absolute killing!”
Su Xing was in excellent spirits, murmuring to himself:
“I’ve only covered less than a fifth of that ten-li (5 km) market district. If I browsed through the entire thing, wouldn’t I be able to get my hands on a million origin energy?”
Calculating in his head, Su Xing’s smile grew increasingly impossible to hide.
“Fortune-related talents really are the way to go!”
Su Xing smacked his lips. He didn’t plan to simulate today, instead preparing to save up for another two or three weeks until he had enough energy before simulating.
At the same time, Su Xing was also planning to make a trip to the Azure Cloud Pavilion!
“The Azure Cloud Pavilion probably has quite a few resources containing energy too… even if the cost-effectiveness isn’t as good as those three types of ore, they’re still worth purchasing!”
With that thought, Su Xing headed toward the Azure Cloud Pavilion.
After entering the Azure Cloud Pavilion, Su Xing began searching everywhere for items of considerable energy value.
In the end, Su Xing actually found two types!
One was a special metal called dark gold — a fist-sized piece sold for 100 high-grade spirit stones but contained a full ten points of origin energy!
The other was a metal called three-yang stone — one piece sold for 300 high-grade spirit stones and contained 20 points of origin energy!
Su Xing directly spent five million high-grade spirit stones, purchasing 10,000 pieces of three-yang stone and 20,000 pieces of dark gold from the Azure Cloud Pavilion.
After converting them into origin energy, Su Xing had earned a cumulative total of 400,000 origin energy!
Of course, the Azure Cloud Pavilion’s two types of metallic ore had also been essentially bought out by Su Xing.
At the same time, Su Xing also sold 2,000 Spirit-Gathering Flowers and three sword-related supernatural art manuals to the Azure Cloud Pavilion.
He earned ten million high-grade spirit stones to fund his future expenditures.
Every step Su Xing took was carefully calculated.
His alias “Ye Tian” possessed early-stage Celestial Immortal realm cultivation.
With Celestial Immortal realm cultivation, a single transaction of ten million high-grade spirit stones wouldn’t attract the attention of unsavory characters.
After all, Celestial Immortal realm cultivation was more than sufficient to safeguard such wealth.
After the transactions were complete, the origin energy in Su Xing’s possession reached just over 900,000!
But Su Xing didn’t rush to simulate. Instead, he continued hunting for bargains in Azure Cloud City’s market district, purchasing small trinkets from stalls each day to earn origin energy.
On average each day, Su Xing could find several hundred items containing energy, worth over 30,000 origin energy!
……
In the blink of an eye, half a month passed!
The date arrived at March 17th.
Su Xing looked at the origin energy on his simulation panel, unable to stop the corners of his mouth from curling upward.
“Nearly 1.5 million origin energy!”
“All my hard work over nearly a month has not been in vain!”
Su Xing blinked. Over the past half month and more, he had visited nearly every stall in the ten-li (5 km) market district.
It could be said that virtually all items containing energy had fallen into Su Xing’s hands.
Having spent roughly 200,000-plus high-grade spirit stones, he had already achieved such remarkable gains!
“Tsk tsk, the accumulated origin energy is about right. Counting the days… White Emperor City should have collected quite a bit of goods by now too, right?”
Su Xing estimated that if he added in the goods from White Emperor City, his origin energy would exceed three million!
Such an enormous sum would be enough for Su Xing to simulate multiple times in one go!
“Currently I’ve accumulated three simulation chances… the next simulation chance falls on March 24th. I must get back before then to simulate early, otherwise it’ll be wasted…”
Su Xing cast a lingering, reluctant glance at the ten-li (5 km) market district behind him, murmuring:
“The Azure Cloud Sect’s recruitment is less than three months away… many more merchants will be coming to the market district!”
“If I come back in another month or two, perhaps I can harvest another wave of energy!”
With that thought, Su Xing left Azure Cloud City with satisfaction and headed toward White Emperor City.
Another three days passed.
On March 20th, Su Xing smoothly returned to White Emperor City.
During the journey, Su Xing had switched identities, reverting back to his Su Ye appearance.
He then went to the Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion to find his business partner, Bai Xuan.
Sure enough, with nearly a month having passed, Bai Xuan had acquired large quantities of the three metals.
Inside the Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion, Bai Xuan still had that kidney-deficient look about him as he said with a beaming smile:
“Brother Su, your little brother here has practically run his legs off these past days!”
“I mobilized every connection I have… and gathered all the Iron Essence, Fire Copper, and Spirit Iron from dozens of cities within a million-li (500,000 km) radius!”
“This time, you’ll definitely be satisfied with the quantity!”
As he spoke, Bai Xuan removed the small pouch from his waist and scattered its contents on the table — over a dozen storage rings!
Su Xing’s eyes lit up at the sight, and he nodded:
“Don’t worry, Brother Bai!”
“As long as they meet the requirements… you won’t be short on spirit stones!”
With that, Su Xing extended his divine sense into the storage rings and began inspecting the goods.
Though he had come prepared, the sheer quantity of goods still gave Su Xing a shock.
The dozen-plus storage rings contained a total of over 100 million pieces of Iron Essence, more than 50 million pieces of Fire Copper, and close to 10 million pieces of Spirit Iron!
Such quantities obviously couldn’t have been mined in a mere month.
These were surely goods that other cities had stockpiled over centuries, all bought up in one fell swoop by that crafty Bai Xuan.
Su Xing then paid another ten million high-grade spirit stones in deposits and price differences before acquiring all three types of metal from Bai Xuan.
Su Xing’s heart stirred as the simulator’s notification chimed in his ears.
【Ding — large quantity of energy-containing materials detected, total value: 2,483,657 points of origin energy. Absorb?】
Su Xing decisively thought: “Yes!”
As the massive quantities of three metals vanished, Su Xing’s origin energy surged to over four million points!
“Good heavens, four million points of origin energy! That should be enough for my Great Shaman Body Forging Art to advance to the fifth layer!”
Su Xing couldn’t help but feel excited. This trip to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm had truly been worthwhile!
In just over two short months, Su Xing had earned four to five million origin energy!
The corners of Su Xing’s mouth turned upward as he addressed Bai Xuan:
“Brother Bai! Our previous agreement still stands!”
“I’ll buy however much of those three ores you can get!”
“Your little brother here needs to go into seclusion for some cultivation… I’ll be troubling you to handle the transactions in the meantime!”
With that, Su Xing produced another five million high-grade spirit stones as a deposit and handed them to Bai Xuan.
Bai Xuan was naturally overjoyed. In this single month of trading with Su Xing, the spirit stones he’d earned rivaled over a hundred years of his painstaking business dealings!
And so Bai Xuan nodded with a laugh:
“Hahaha, Brother Su, consider it done!”
……
After exchanging pleasantries with Bai Xuan for a while longer, Su Xing returned to his dwelling. After confirming that his protective wards hadn’t been disturbed, he entered the spirit field grotto-heaven with peace of mind, ready to begin his simulation!
Inside the spirit field grotto-heaven, Su Xing brewed himself a pot of tea and said contentedly:
“Tsk tsk, I’ve saved up a full three simulation chances! And in four more days, there’ll be another simulation chance!”
“So from here on out, this will be my period of explosive cultivation growth!”
Su Xing’s heart stirred as he thought:
“Begin simulation!”
【Simulation #128 initiated. Current remaining origin energy: 4,014,399 points… Remaining simulation chances: 2.】
【Simulation begins!】
【Drawing a gold legendary talent costs 1 point of origin energy. Draw?】
Su Xing pondered for a moment but did not choose to draw a new talent. Instead, he selected a talent he had drawn before.
The gold talent Blood Sacrifice Forging!
Spending a few points of origin energy, Su Xing successfully drew this gold talent from the prize pool. Then, Su Xing prepared to begin the simulation!
【Ding — congratulations on obtaining the gold talent Blood Sacrifice Forging… Simulation begins!】
【Inside the spirit field grotto-heaven, you become aware that you are in a simulation!】
【After staying in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm for half a month, you choose to sell intelligence about Earth and Red Moon to the Celestial Secrets Pavilion.】
【Upon learning this intelligence, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion tells you to wait patiently while they verify the information’s authenticity.】
【During this time, you first return to Earth, exterminate the Advent Cult, and seize the Advent Cult’s treasury.】
【Afterward, you begin constructing a dwelling within the spirit field grotto-heaven, preparing for the migration of Earth’s human race…】
【In the blink of an eye, two years pass. During this time, you travel between Earth and the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm dozens of times, relocating the vast majority of ordinary people and some Class Users from Great Xia to the vicinity of White Emperor City.】
【In the third year, you receive word from the Celestial Secrets Pavilion and prepare to bring two Supreme Unity Golden Immortals to Earth.】
【After bringing the two Supreme Unity Golden Immortals to the Endless Abyss, you continue your efforts to migrate Earth’s population.】
【In the fifth year, Great Xia and civilians from some other nations on Earth successfully complete the migration. They establish a new nation in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, naming it Xia.】
【Over the following years, you impart some cultivation techniques and provide resources to Great Xia’s civilians.】
【Having done all this, you seek out Fairy Ziling without a shred of guilt and gain entry to the Azure Cloud Sect through her.】
【Atop Three Immortals Peak, you successfully complete your transaction with Qingyunzi…】
【After obtaining the Dao-Enlightenment Tea, you don’t hesitate and head directly for the Nine Heavens…】