Chapter 5 – Immortal Cultivation Technique, Eternal Spring Art
by spirapira【Die With Eyes Open】: After death, you may continue the simulation for one additional day. (Damn it, let me see who killed me!)
Su Xing frowned when he saw this talent, but his expression quickly relaxed.
This talent could potentially play a tremendous role in the simulation.
For example, after his death, he would be able to see what actually happened in the world!
【Your phone rang. It turned out some junior students wanted you to carry them through a dungeon for leveling.】
【You crawled out of bed and headed out to take the job.】
【Thanks to your improved strength, you breezed through Bronze rank dungeons with ease, earning fifty thousand yuan in a single day.】
【Over the course of a year, you made a staggering twenty million yuan by endlessly grinding Bronze rank dungeons and carrying girls through leveling runs.】
【Because of your singular devotion to the Ten-Mile Slope dungeon and your ability to one-shot Bronze rank monsters, people gave you a nickname—the Sword God of Ten-Mile Slope!】
【During this year, you never forgot the junior student Wang Qingxuan whom you had met before.】
【Between jobs, you often brought her along for leveling runs and fed her inspirational pep talks.】
【Wang Qingxuan gradually fell for you.】
Seeing this, Su Xing smiled softly. From his last simulation, he knew that Wang Qingxuan wasn’t actually a bad person.
She had even sacrificed herself to save him later on, so it was only natural that he’d want to change her fate in this simulation.
Su Xing continued the simulation.
【One day, Wang Qingxuan came to find you. She seemed uneasy.】
【She told you a secret—a mysterious organization had approached her.】
【You urgently told her not to join the mysterious organization.】
【Wang Qingxuan’s expression wavered with hesitation, but she nodded.】
【That night, the two of you were tangled in passion.】
【The next day, you received news that Wang Qingxuan had dropped out of school. Her whereabouts were unknown.】
Su Xing was alarmed by this.
Had Wang Qingxuan joined the mysterious organization after all? Or had she been quietly eliminated by them for refusing to join?
With these doubts in mind, Su Xing continued the simulation.
【You worried about Wang Qingxuan and tried to investigate her whereabouts, but you came up empty.】
【That year, you failed to graduate due to your low combat strength.】
【But you weren’t discouraged and continued running your dungeon-carrying business at the school.】
【Two years passed, and you gradually accumulated your starting capital.】
【You opened an equipment shop in Capital City, selling low-tier gear.】
【Another two years passed. Without any exceptional business instincts, your business had its ups and downs, but overall your net worth reached the hundreds of millions.】
【That year, you were expelled from school.】
【But you had seen it coming. You threw yourself wholeheartedly into managing your business, founding the “Tarot Society.” The business grew steadily.】
【One day, Wang Qingxuan came to find you. She seemed to have something weighing on her mind.】
【But you were overjoyed, and immediately asked where she had been all these years.】
【She refused to say a word. You guessed it was related to the mysterious organization and pressed no further.】
【After a night of passion, she slipped away quietly, leaving something on your bedside.】
【It was an ancient text. You opened it and found it to be an immortal cultivation technique called the “Eternal Spring Art”!】
【You had a gut feeling—this was likely a genuine immortal cultivation technique! Unfortunately, it was only the first half.】
Su Xing was overjoyed. There really were immortal cultivation techniques!
Then there was hope for his cultivation!
With a heart full of anxious anticipation, Su Xing read on.
【But you were still ecstatic and began cultivating day and night without rest.】
【A month passed, and your cultivation remained at the first level of Qi Refinement.】
【You were puzzled, because you were absolutely certain this was a genuine immortal cultivation technique, and you possessed a spiritual root—yet you still couldn’t cultivate!】
【Unwilling to give up, aside from the bare minimum of business management, you devoted all your attention to this technique.】
【Two years later, you finally made a discovery. The reason you couldn’t cultivate was because this world lacked the spiritual energy needed for cultivation.】
【With no other choice, you gave up, because you knew that this was the year your sister would die in the Demon-Sealing Pass dungeon.】
【You decided to save your sister, so you returned to your rural hometown and found your sister, Su Nian’an.】
【You entrusted your business to the Tarot Society and devoted yourself entirely to keeping your sister company at home.】
【Your sister was delighted by your arrival, clinging to you every day and begging you to play with her.】
【As time went on, your sister’s attitude toward you worsened. She frequently stole your potato chips and spicy snack sticks.】
Su Xing sighed at this. His little sister was exactly like that—clingy and sweet at first.
But after spending enough time together, she’d start throwing tantrums. Wasn’t that pretty normal?
What truly excited Su Xing, however, was that he had found the reason he couldn’t cultivate!
Spiritual root, technique, and spiritual energy—all three were indispensable!
He already had leads on the first two. All that remained was the final piece: spiritual energy.
Su Xing continued the simulation.
【One day, someone claiming to be from an official government department came to your home. She approached your sister Su Nian’an and invited her to the Demon-Sealing Pass dungeon.】
【You firmly refused, insisting she must not go to Demon-Sealing Pass.】
【But your sister agreed.】
【To your astonishment, you discovered that your sister had grown into a Grandmaster rank Class User in just four years!】
【Your sister secretly told you that she was one of the nation’s sequenced geniuses, and asked you not to tell anyone.】
【You were stunned, but still didn’t want her going to Demon-Sealing Pass.】
【Left with no choice, she explained that Demon-Sealing Pass was a dungeon every Grandmaster rank Class User was required to enter, and that they had to spend at least one month there each year.】
【She said she would do everything in her power to come back alive.】
【Though your heart ached beyond measure, all you could do was remind her to be careful.】
【One month later, news of your sister’s death reached you.】
Su Xing felt a wave of despair.
No matter what he did, was there no way to change his sister’s death seven years from now?
No!
As long as he kept running simulations and grew stronger, perhaps he could prevent Su Nian’an’s death!
Su Xing pressed on with the simulation.
【You had anticipated your sister’s death. You consoled your parents, then returned to Capital City alone.】
【You managed your business while investigating any leads on spiritual energy.】
【Your business thrived, but you remained completely in the dark about spiritual energy.】
【Three years later, you tracked down Fatty Yu. You knew he would die soon.】
【You tried to persuade Fatty Yu not to go to the Demon-Sealing Pass dungeon.】
【He was surprised that you knew about the dungeon, but still shook his head, saying he had no choice but to go.】
【With no other option, you gave up. Before leaving, you borrowed a large sum of money from Fatty Yu.】
【That year, you frantically sold off all kinds of equipment while buying up recovery potions on a massive scale.】
【Another year passed. When the market fluctuated, you sold the recovery potions at a premium, raking in over ten billion Yuan.】
【You knew you only had four years left, so you sold all your assets and poured every last coin and ounce of energy into searching for spiritual energy.】
【You spent a year searching, but still came up with nothing.】
【One day, a mysterious figure approached you.】
【You asked who he was. He sneered, saying you were nothing but an ant.】
【He snapped your neck. You died—eyes wide open!】
【You activated your talent: Die With Eyes Open!】