Chapter 413 – Simulator Version 7.0 Update, Major Changes!

Feeling the celestial glow descend upon him from above, Su Xing was in an exceptionally wonderful mood.

“The Golden Immortal realm! I’ve finally reached it!”

Su Xing gently closed his eyes and carefully contemplated the changes in his body.

The inexhaustible immortal power within him, a physical body approaching Perfection — everything embodied two words: powerful!

And then there was his increasingly full divine soul. With but a single thought, Su Xing could sense the movements across half the Star Realm.

Within the range of Su Xing’s divine soul, no disturbance, however small, could escape his notice.

“Right now, just how powerful has my divine soul become?”

Curious, Su Xing willed it and released his divine sense in full.

His divine sense spread outward like a tide.

A hundred thousand li (50,000 km)… five hundred thousand li (250,000 km)… a million li (500,000 km)…

Three million li (1,500,000 km)… five million li (2,500,000 km)…

In the end, Su Xing’s divine sense actually reached a range of eight million li (4,000,000 km)!

“A full eighty-fold increase over before! So this is the divine soul power of a Golden Immortal?”

Su Xing drew a deep breath, suppressing the excitement in his heart.

This kind of power was something Su Xing had never experienced before!

He was now completely certain that his strength was absolutely on par with a cultivator at Golden Immortal Great Perfection!

“The only thing that’s less than ideal…”

Su Xing looked at his remaining origin energy — a mere five million and change…

This left Su Xing feeling completely devoid of any sense of security!

“Just over five million origin energy… that’s not even enough for a single breakthrough within the Golden Immortal realm, and breaking through to the Great Shaman Body Forging Art, Sixth Layer for my physical body would be equally difficult!”

“Sigh, I’ll have to leave the Star Realm and make a trip to Earth…”

“There are only about three more months before Blood Three reaches Earth. I must make thorough preparations!”

Su Xing glanced at the time. It was time to leave the Star Realm.

With that thought, Su Xing took a single step forward and appeared within the Purple Star Tribe.

The moment he arrived at the Purple Star Tribe, he saw Xingnu, who had been waiting for quite some time.

Xingnu was visibly emotional, his eyes glistening as though on the verge of tears.

He dropped to one knee before Su Xing and exclaimed with fervor:

“Congratulations to the Lord of the Stars for recovering your power and advancing to the Golden Immortal realm! May the Lord of the Stars live as long as the heavens, with boundless power…”

Hearing the old man go on and on with his flattery, Su Xing somewhat awkwardly rubbed his nose and said:

“Ahem, just a small improvement in my cultivation. Nothing worth mentioning…”

Without even needing to think, Su Xing knew it was because the commotion from his Golden Immortal breakthrough had been so immense that even Xingnu, a hundred thousand li (50,000 km) away, had sensed it.

A breakthrough to the Golden Immortal realm naturally carried tremendous force. Even with the simulator’s concealment, the heavenly tribulation still couldn’t descend.

Had Su Xing broken through on Earth, it would certainly have caused unnecessary trouble.

“It seems that in the future, the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal breakthrough can’t take place on Earth either…”

Su Xing murmured.

Xingnu, standing before him, grew even more deeply impressed upon hearing these words.

A breakthrough to Golden Immortal — such a momentous event — yet the Lord of the Stars treated it as not even worth mentioning…

Su Xing, unaware of Xingnu’s thoughts, simply said:

“I’ll be leaving the Star Realm for a while. It may be several months before I return…”

“How many Star Stones have you collected over the past few days? Hand them all over.”

Xingnu promptly produced a storage bag and placed it in Su Xing’s hands, then added:

“Lord of the Stars… this humble one has a suggestion. In the next few days, quite a number of tribes will be arriving to present their offerings of Star Stones…”

“If my Lord is not pressed for time, perhaps you could remain in the Star Realm for just three to five more days…”

After hearing Xingnu’s words, Su Xing considered for a moment.

His travel speed was now extremely fast. Reaching the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm and Earth would take an estimated ten days, so it wouldn’t delay things too much.

So he nodded in agreement. “Very well, I’ll wait a few days in the Star Realm then.”

…

Five days passed quickly.

Su Xing received another storage bag from Xingnu.

The two batches of Star Stones combined provided Su Xing with approximately five million origin energy.

Though not a small amount, for Su Xing as he was now, it still fell short.

After securing this batch of origin energy, Su Xing departed the Star Realm and headed for the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.

…

Ten days later, in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.

Inside White Emperor City, Su Xing sought out his previous business partner, Bai Xuan.

As a veteran immortal at the late Earthly Immortal stage, Bai Xuan still had that same “run-down” look about him, though his overall demeanor had improved considerably compared to a year ago.

It seemed that since partnering with Su Xing, he’d been skimming no small amount of profit.

Bai Xuan was as respectful toward Su Xing as ever, greeting him courteously:

“Brother Su! It’s been a while since we last met! What have you been busy with lately?”

“Here — these are the Exotic Metal Ores I’ve collected during this period… care to take an inventory?”

Su Xing gave a slight nod and accepted the storage bag, then willed the contents to be converted into origin energy.

The simulator’s Chime sounded in his ear.

【Ding — detected… value of 2,347,098 origin energy points. Absorb?】

Su Xing smiled slightly. In two months, over two million origin energy had been secured.

It seemed Bai Xuan hadn’t been slacking off during this time.

In good spirits, Su Xing patted Bai Xuan on the shoulder and said:

“I’ve made a small breakthrough in my cultivation recently…”

“Here are fifty million high-grade spirit stones… consider it a deposit for your ore acquisitions over the next few months.”

“Even if the prices run a bit high, that’s fine… what matters most is that the quantity is guaranteed!”

Su Xing casually handed over a storage bag containing fifty million high-grade spirit stones.

Bai Xuan froze. After confirming the spirit stones inside the storage bag, his legs nearly gave out from shock.

This was fifty million high-grade spirit stones!

Forget a minor Earthly Immortal like himself — even Celestial Immortals or even True Immortals would be green with envy at the sight!

“Su… Brother Su, such an enormous sum of spirit stones… you’re really… not worried?”

Bai Xuan swallowed hard, looking nothing like a dignified Earthly Immortal cultivator.

With fifty million high-grade spirit stones in hand, the entirety of the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm would be open to him — where couldn’t he go?

It would even be enough to force a breakthrough to Celestial Immortal!

Bai Xuan was genuinely curious — wasn’t this mysterious “Brother Su” afraid he’d take the money and run?

Su Xing smiled faintly.

Fifty million high-grade spirit stones would indeed have been an enormous fortune to him two months ago.

But over the past two months, Su Xing had discovered several Luo Tian legacy sites one after another and had also claimed the Yellow Sand Daoist’s hidden treasure.

These mere fifty million high-grade spirit stones no longer meant much to Su Xing.

The reason Su Xing had produced such a large quantity of spirit stones wasn’t to show off — it was to encourage Bai Xuan to ramp up his ore collection efforts.

The general message was: your buddy here isn’t short on cash — whatever stock you’ve got, bring it all!

As for whether Su Xing was worried about Bai Xuan absconding with the funds?

Su Xing gave a slight smile at the thought, looking at Bai Xuan who still didn’t understand the situation. With a mere thought, he released a single wisp of his aura and let it envelop Bai Xuan.

In an instant, Bai Xuan felt his entire body drenched in sweat. His eyes went wide as he stared at Su Xing — under the weight of Su Xing’s pressure, he couldn’t even draw breath!

The whole ordeal lasted about half a minute before Su Xing retracted his aura, returning to his harmless demeanor. He patted Bai Xuan on the shoulder and said:

“Brother Bai, our partnership has been going so well… you wouldn’t want any unpleasantness, would you?”

With that, Su Xing gave Bai Xuan one meaningful look before leaving the Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion’s private room.

After Su Xing departed, Bai Xuan could hold back no longer and collapsed onto the ground in terror.

His legs trembled uncontrollably.

“This… this…”

“This Brother Su… no, Senior Su — what level of cultivation does he actually have!?”

Bai Xuan swallowed hard. Under Su Xing’s aura just now, he’d had absolutely no thought of resistance whatsoever!

As an Earthly Immortal with extremely wide connections, Bai Xuan’s clan was considered quite prominent in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.

The True Immortal realm city lord of White Emperor City was, in fact, Bai Xuan’s uncle by marriage!

It was precisely because of this that Bai Xuan could idle about in White Emperor City yet still command such an extensive network.

He had therefore witnessed True Immortal powerhouses in action. But whether in terms of aura or oppressive force, none of them could hold a candle to what Su Xing had just displayed.

“So this Senior Su is a great cultivator of the True Immortal realm? Or… even higher!?”

At this thought, Bai Xuan’s breathing grew strained. How could he possibly dare harbor even the slightest thought of embezzling Su Xing’s spirit stones?

Now he had only one thought — even if he had to go without food, drink, or the company of women, he would make sure Senior Su’s business was handled perfectly!

…

Meanwhile, after leaving White Emperor City, Su Xing didn’t linger and headed straight back to Earth.

Half a day later, Su Xing arrived outside Earth’s restrictive barrier and carefully performed a divination to confirm there was no danger.

Only after employing techniques to mask his aura did he safely return to Earth.

His first stop was Great Xia. Su Xing was quite certain that at this point in time, Blood Three had not yet detected Earth’s existence.

So Su Xing first sought out Jin Congxue and Luo Shuying, withdrawing the past two months’ profits from the Tarot Trading Company in full.

He then visited the puppet organizations distributed across various locations on Earth.

The two combined brought Su Xing another two million origin energy in earnings.

At this point, the amount of origin energy in Su Xing’s possession had once again approached fifteen million!

…

In a great mountain on the outskirts of the Capital City, Su Xing quietly awaited Grandpa Lu’s arrival.

“This time returning to Earth, I must make thorough preparations… because the next time I come back, Blood Three may already be lying in ambush here!”

“This means that until I possess the absolute strength to defeat Blood Three head-on, I cannot return to Earth again.”

“Therefore, I must take every last bit of origin energy I can bring with me…”

“Given how cautious I’ve been, Blood Three shouldn’t know my true identity… but if my true body were on Earth, Blood Three would surely sense it!”

Su Xing’s mind churned ceaselessly, devising layers of contingencies and backup plans.

…

Before long, a figure appeared in the mountains — it was Lu Yuanwu.

Lu Yuanwu had rushed here in great haste. Upon seeing Su Xing, he quickly said:

“Senior, what did you need me for?”

Su Xing didn’t state his purpose immediately, but instead asked:

“These past three months, things should be going well for Xia’s military, correct?”

Lu Yuanwu nodded repeatedly upon hearing this and said:

“It’s all thanks to you, Senior… Our military’s overall strength has risen once again!”

“In fact, Great Xia is about to produce a second Emperor-level powerhouse… and that other person has also gained some hope of a breakthrough!”

Su Xing nodded slightly. He knew who Lu Yuanwu was referring to.

It should be the Peak Emperor powerhouse at Demon-Sealing Pass.

Though such strength was no different from an ant in Su Xing’s eyes, for Great Xia and the human race of Earth, that person was truly a pillar of stability.

After confirming that his pills had already taken effect, Su Xing said:

“For the foreseeable future, I need to make a long journey — at least half a year, at most a year…”

“Therefore, I need you to provide a sufficient quantity of exotic metal!”

Hearing Su Xing’s words, Lu Yuanwu thumped his chest and said:

“No problem, Senior. I’ll have people prepare it right away. A hundred thousand tons of fourth-order exotic metal has already been set aside…”

Upon hearing Lu Yuanwu’s words, Su Xing shook his head slightly and said:

“Not enough!”

Lu Yuanwu was stunned for a moment. A hundred thousand tons of fourth-order exotic metal wasn’t enough?

So he asked: “Then what does Senior have in mind?”

Seeing his reaction, Su Xing held nothing back:

“I need all the exotic metal that Xia’s military can mobilize… along with every dungeon item you have!”

“The sooner, the better!”

After a brief pause, Su Xing continued:

“As for the price…”

Su Xing produced a storage ring and said:

“Inside this storage artifact, there are one hundred eighth-order Rebirth Pills, one thousand seventh-order Rebirth Pills, ten thousand sixth-order Rebirth Pills… and ten ninth-order Rebirth Pills!”

“I trust these should help boost Great Xia’s strength considerably…”

Hearing Su Xing’s words, Lu Yuanwu finally lost his composure entirely.

Eighth-order Rebirth Pills — each one was enough to elevate an Emperor-level powerhouse to Saint-stage!

One hundred Rebirth Pills — given enough time, Xia’s military could cultivate more than ten Saint-stage powerhouses!

Not to mention the one thousand seventh-order Rebirth Pills and ten thousand sixth-order Rebirth Pills…

As for the ten ninth-order Rebirth Pills — that was something Lu Yuanwu wouldn’t have dared to even dream of!

Without the slightest exaggeration:

With this batch of pills, Xia’s military could increase its strength tenfold within the next decade!

And this was growth in top-tier combat power!

“Senior… you’re saying you want all of Xia’s military exotic metal reserves and dungeon items?”

Lu Yuanwu still felt somewhat uncertain.

Though the fortune before him was immense, mobilizing every last piece of exotic metal and dungeon item from Xia’s military was beyond even Lu Yuanwu’s authority.

But the opportunity was right here!

Such a staggering quantity of pills, such a perfect opportunity — how could mere exotic metal even compare?

If he let this chance slip by, Lu Yuanwu suspected he would regret it for the rest of his life.

And so, Lu Yuanwu gritted his teeth and said:

“Senior, give me one month. I’ll do everything I can to mobilize all the exotic metal and dungeon items in Great Xia’s national reserves…”

“This matter is too significant — I’ll need to consult with that person at Demon-Sealing Pass…”

After hearing this, Su Xing considered for a moment. One month — he could certainly afford to wait that long.

So he nodded and said:

“Very well. Mobilizing the exotic metal does require time… Then let us meet here again in one month.”

With that, Su Xing took a single step and vanished from the spot.

…

Inside the spirit field grotto-heaven, Su Xing glanced at his remaining simulation attempts.

“Three simulation attempts left, and 15 million origin energy…”

“That should be enough to push my cultivation a bit further, right?”

By now, Su Xing had gathered all the origin energy he could obtain in the short term.

As for Xia’s military — obtaining that origin energy would require waiting another month.

Su Xing naturally couldn’t waste this month.

Therefore, he planned to use up his three remaining simulation attempts.

“After breaking through to Golden Immortal, my Qi Refinement cultivation probably won’t advance much further in the short term…”

“So next, I need to make a trip to the Nine Heavens Domain — to the Seventh Heaven…”

“Only in the Seventh Heaven can I find information about the Celestial Primordial Tree…”

“…And there’s the Luotian Mirror. I wonder how much of it can be repaired with Golden Immortal cultivation.”

“I also need to advance my spatial Dao comprehension to the sixth realm as soon as possible…”

Su Xing listed out several objectives for his upcoming simulations.

Before formally beginning the simulation, Su Xing glanced at his current attribute panel.

【Name: Su Xing】

【Age: 24】

【Profession: Immortal Cultivator】

【Cultivation: Golden Immortal, First Layer; Great Shaman Body Forging Art, Fifth Layer (Perfection)】

【Techniques: Ruyi Visualization Diagram, Luotian Immortal Transformation Art, Zhengyi Breath Absorption Art, Great Shaman Body Forging Art, Lesser Celestial Cycle Star Observation Method】

【Talents: Five Elements Holy Physique, Xenomorph, Heaven-Sent Fortune, Plus One, Innate Dao Physique, Spatial Origin Body, Late Bloomer, No Martial Virtue, Heaven Devourer, Innate Sword Physique, Unkillable Cockroach…】

【Skills: Void Slash (Minor Mastery), Spirit Domain (8,000 li (4,000 km)), Alchemy Art (Major Mastery), Five Elements Immortal Burst (Perfection), Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique (Perfection), Divine Sense 8,000,000 li (Celestial Unity Realm), Protective Sword Aura (6,400 strands), Eight Trigrams Divination Art (Perfection), Formation Dao (Major Mastery), Sword-Controlling Technique (Perfection), Dao of Puppetry (Major Mastery), various immortal techniques…】

【Dao Comprehension: Great Dao of Thunder (fifth realm), Five Elements Dao (fifth realm), Great Dao of the Sword (fifth realm), Dao of Speed (fifth realm), Dao of Strength (fourth realm), Great Dao of Destiny (fifth realm), Great Dao of Karma (fifth realm), Spatial Dao (fifth realm), Great Dao of Killing (fourth realm)…】

【Special Physique: Heavenly Thunder Sacred Body】

Now that Su Xing had formally entered the Golden Immortal realm, the talents, skills, and techniques on his panel could only be described as luxurious.

It was precisely these talents and Dao comprehensions that gave Su Xing the confidence to contend with Peak Golden Immortals despite having only just entered the Golden Immortal realm!

“However, there aren’t many empty talent slots left… and my strength growth has temporarily hit a bottleneck.”

“The ideal scenario would be to earn enough origin energy… but if that’s truly impossible, I can only prioritize advancing my Dao comprehension!”

So Su Xing thought to himself.

Having confirmed his objectives for this simulation, Su Xing silently intoned:

“Begin simulation!”

As the words fell, the familiar lottery interface did not appear.

Instead, the system’s Chime sounded by Su Xing’s ear.

【Ding! Detected that the host has broken through to the Golden Immortal realm. The simulator version can be further upgraded. This upgrade costs 10,000,000 origin energy. Proceed with upgrade?】

Hearing this notification, Su Xing was momentarily stunned.

The long-awaited new version of the simulator had finally arrived!

But seeing that ten million origin energy price tag… Su Xing immediately felt a twinge of pain.

“Damn, I’ve only got just over fifteen million origin energy on hand…”

“But this simulator upgrade is absolutely necessary!”

Su Xing steeled his resolve. If his remaining origin energy truly wasn’t enough to break through to the Great Shaman Body Forging Art, Sixth Layer, he would simply have to prioritize improving his Dao comprehension instead.

As for cultivation advancement — he would wait until the origin energy from Xia’s military came through.

And so, Su Xing drew a deep breath and silently intoned:

“Confirm upgrade!”

The simulator’s voice echoed by his ear.

【Ding! You have spent 10,000,000 origin energy. Remaining origin energy: 5,237,856…】

【Simulator version upgrading…】

【Please wait…】

【Version upgrade successful!】

The moment the upgrade success notification sounded, Su Xing couldn’t wait to check the new features.

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【Ding! Simulator Version 7.0 update features are as follows:】

【1. Lottery odds increased. Probability of drawing a gold legendary talent is now 100%. Probability of drawing a red mythical-grade talent is now 20%.】

【2. Talent slot upper limit removed…】

【3. Simulation storage capacity increased. Unused simulation attempts can now be stored up to a maximum of five.】

【4. New reward storage feature: unclaimed rewards can be stored in the reward pool by spending a certain amount of origin energy, with a maximum of three stored rewards.】

【5. New time-point preset feature: actions before a specified time point can be preset in advance, allowing simulation to begin directly from that time point…】

【6. New time regression feature: the host will randomly retain partial strength and memories and be transported to a certain point in the past… Everything experienced during the regression will have no effect on reality…】

【7. Optimized talent reward pool lottery…】