Chapter 48 – Blue Talent, Innate Divine Strength!

Chapter 48 – Blue Talent, Innate Divine Strength!

Beyond all that, the whereabouts of the second half of the Eternal Spring Art had also been confirmed.

After the next simulation, Su Xing could perhaps consider becoming an Elder under Grand Protector Zong. When the time came, he should be able to successfully bring out the second half of the Eternal Spring Art.

“Everything is going according to plan. All I need to do now is accumulate energy…”

Su Xing took a deep breath and continued diving into the Blessed Spirit Field dungeon to farm and refine pills.

Currently, Su Xing’s primary source of energy was still the Beauty-Preserving Pill. Although he could refine other pills to earn energy, selling Beauty-Preserving Pills was less likely to attract unwanted attention, and other pills required higher-grade ingredients that Su Xing couldn’t yet procure.

Over the next week, Su Xing first spent two days refining a full thirteen batches of Beauty-Preserving Pills, his efficiency improving with each batch.

As Su Xing’s pill-refining skills advanced, the probability of producing high-quality Beauty-Preserving Pills had grown steadily higher. Out of every ten pills, nearly three would turn out to be “premium Beauty-Preserving Pills.”

“Perhaps the premium Beauty-Preserving Pills can be put up for auction too… A single pill that maintains youth for three months should fetch over three million!”

After refining all the Beauty-Preserving Pills he intended to sell, Su Xing spent each day planting Spirit seeds, cultivating his Spirit field, consuming Spirit rice, and tempering his body.

Su Xing couldn’t bring himself to use Spirit stones for cultivation. His supply was dwindling, and saving them for use within the simulator was the best approach.

A week passed quickly.

During this week, Su Xing’s Body Tempering cultivation had advanced further, reaching the second level of Bone Forging.

A second-level Bone Forging cultivator, in terms of raw combat power, was even considerably stronger than a second-level Foundation Establishment Qi Refinement cultivator.

Su Xing’s pure physical strength had already approached hundreds of thousands of jin. Obliterating a Silver-stage dungeon monster with a single punch was no difficult feat.

Since Jin Congxue was busy establishing the Tarot Trading Company, she hadn’t personally delivered the compensation, but instead entrusted a close aide to deliver this week’s white equipment.

A full 110,000 pieces of white-quality equipment — once converted into simulation energy by Su Xing, his energy value broke through one million points for the first time, reaching 1.1 million points!

On the afternoon of January 7th, New Era 2024, Su Xing activated the simulator once again.

“Begin simulation!”

【This simulation consumes 1,800 energy points. Remaining energy: 1,107,000 points. Remaining simulations: unlimited.】

【Simulation begins!】

【Drawing a white talent costs 100 energy points, a green talent costs 1,000 energy points, a blue talent costs 10,000 energy points. Do you wish to draw?】

With ample energy now, Su Xing would naturally choose to draw a blue-quality talent. If he happened to draw a useful blue talent, it would be an enormous windfall.

“Draw a blue talent!”

【Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the blue talent: Innate Divine Strength!】

Innate Divine Strength?

This seemed to be a Body Tempering talent!

Su Xing’s heart stirred, and he hurriedly checked the talent description.

【Innate Divine Strength】: Blue talent. Your strength far exceeds that of ordinary people. You possess extraordinary talent in physique and Body Tempering!

Indeed — a Body Tempering talent!

Joy surged in Su Xing’s heart as his mind raced.

“It seems I’ll need to change the objective of this simulation…”

Su Xing had originally planned to infiltrate the Advent Cult and bring out the second half of the Eternal Spring Art. But since he had drawn an unexpected talent, his Body Tempering cultivation should be able to advance even further!

Su Xing quickly formulated a plan and began the simulation in earnest.

【Within the Blessed Spirit Field, you realize you are in a simulation.】

【You discover that your body has become far stronger than before. At merely the second level of Bone Forging, your physical strength is already comparable to a Body Tempering cultivator at the fourth or fifth level of Bone Forging.】

【You begin attempting to cultivate. Thanks to your extraordinary Body Tempering talent, your Body Tempering cultivation advances rapidly. Each day you consume several bowls of Spirit rice, along with a few spirit chicken eggs per meal, and every other day you stew a pot of spirit chicken soup to sustain your cultivation.】

【You begin expanding the number of spirit chickens in your blessed land, raising more to provide additional spirit chicken eggs and meat.】

【In the second year, your Body Tempering cultivation reaches Bone Forging Great Perfection.】

【Looking at your vitality-rich body, you have a premonition that perhaps you won’t need an Organ Tempering Pill — your Body Tempering talent alone might be enough to break through to Organ Tempering!】

【You continue cultivating in an orderly fashion. Beyond pill refining and farming, you devote the majority of your time to Body Tempering cultivation.】

【One day, Wang Qingxuan comes to find you. She tells you she’s going to join a certain mysterious organization.】

【After a passionate night together, you tell her plainly that you also want to join this organization, and ask her to introduce you!】

【After hesitating for a long time, Wang Qingxuan agrees to your request.】

Joy swelled in Su Xing’s heart. Joining the Advent Cult five years earlier meant he could gain access to the cult’s precious spiritual medicines sooner and break through to higher realms faster!

Su Xing deliberated. He planned to once again join under Protector Shadow’s command, since based on the previous simulation, serving under Protector Shadow was relatively safe — as long as he didn’t venture into the Cult treasury, there wouldn’t be any major problems.

With his decision made, Su Xing continued the simulation.

【Under Wang Qingxuan’s guidance, you are introduced to a certain Elder within the cult — the very same subordinate of Protector Shadow you had encountered before.】

【This Elder tells you that once you join the Advent Cult, you can never betray it. Furthermore, he will subject you to a six-month evaluation period, during which you will serve only as peripheral members.】

Su Xing frowned slightly at this. Why hadn’t there been this so-called six-month evaluation in the previous simulation?

But then it hit him.

“Of course — in the last simulation, Wang Qingxuan was already a core member of the cult. Her recommendation would have carried a certain degree of credibility. But now, both she and I are newcomers, so naturally we’d be subjected to scrutiny…”

Su Xing nodded slightly, deciding not to rush things and to observe the situation first.

【Over the next six months, you build up your strength, training your body diligently every day while completing the tasks assigned to you by the cult on schedule.】

【You can sense that you are only one step away from Organ Tempering, yet you remain unable to achieve the breakthrough.】

【After much deliberation, you begin to demonstrate your value. You start refining Healing Pills, gifting several to other cult members, and “inadvertently” allow word of the Healing Pills to reach the cult’s upper echelons.】

【Three days later, Protector Shadow arrives with several of his Elders to find you.】

【He produces the Healing Pills you had previously refined and asks you about their origin.】

【You feign indecision. Protector Shadow tells you that if you reveal the pills’ origin, the cult will not treat you unfairly.】

【Only then do you reluctantly admit that you refined these Healing Pills yourself. You also mention that you are capable of refining several other types of pills, but currently lack the ingredients…】