Chapter 6 – Talent: Die With Eyes Open!
by spirapira【He kept searching your body for something, and eventually took away that half-copy of the “Eternal Spring Art.” Before leaving, he stomped your head until it burst.】
【You lost your eyes. The Die With Eyes Open talent has been nullified.】
【This simulation has ended!】
【You may select one of the following rewards: Die With Eyes Open (Talent), Half of the Eternal Spring Art (Cultivation Method)】
【Die With Eyes Open (White Talent)】: Price: 1,000 energy points.
【Half of the Eternal Spring Art (Cultivation Method)】: Price: 3,000 energy points. The most common wood-attribute immortal cultivation method, capable of extending one’s lifespan and accelerating spiritual energy absorption.
“I actually didn’t survive until the apocalypse? Killed by some mysterious person?”
Su Xing’s expression turned grave.
“That mysterious person took the Eternal Spring Art that Wang Qingxuan gave me… Perhaps he’s also part of the mysterious organization?”
Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly, then noticed the simulation rewards for this run.
“It really is an immortal cultivation method!”
“Even just half of the Eternal Spring Art costs three thousand energy points?”
Su Xing fell into a dilemma, murmuring:
“So should I pick the Die With Eyes Open talent, or the Eternal Spring Art?”
Three thousand energy points — Su Xing didn’t have that much on hand.
But as long as he spent a few hundred thousand more buying white equipment and then converted it into energy, he could afford it.
However… Die With Eyes Open was clearly a godlike ability in simulations too! At the very least, Su Xing would be able to learn his cause of death, and might even discover what actually happened on the day of the apocalypse!
“Hoo…”
Su Xing rubbed his temples and murmured:
“I can still get the Eternal Spring Art in the next simulation, but this Die With Eyes Open talent — who knows how long it’d take to randomly roll it again…”
Su Xing gritted his teeth and chose the Die With Eyes Open talent.
【Ding! You have chosen to bring back the Die With Eyes Open talent from the simulation. 1,000 energy points consumed. Remaining energy: 782 points.】
Only 782 energy points left.
Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly. He had already planned ahead for the next simulation.
The plan was to bring back the Eternal Spring Art!
But redeeming the Eternal Spring Art required 3,000 energy points.
And the energy cost for each simulation increased by 100 points, so the next one would cost 400 energy points, plus another 100 for drawing a talent.
He needed to save up at least 3,500 points to bring back the Eternal Spring Art! That meant a gap of nearly 3,000 energy points.
At an average of 5 energy points per piece of white equipment, he’d need to buy at least 600 pieces.
The cheapest white equipment cost at least 1,000 to 2,000 coins each.
In other words, he’d need to spend at least 600,000 Yuan to accumulate that much energy.
“Ugh, what a headache… But I absolutely have to get the Eternal Spring Art!”
“The key is still making money and building up resources!”
So over the next week, Su Xing worked day and night running dungeons as a power-leveler, occasionally checking in on Wang Qingxuan.
In one week, Su Xing frantically cleared dungeons 50 times and earned over 500,000 Yuan! Combined with his previous savings of one million, Su Xing now had over 1.5 million on hand.
However, after purchasing 600 pieces of white equipment, his savings plummeted back down to 700,000 Yuan.
“Start simulation!”
【400 energy points consumed. Remaining energy: 3,282 points. Remaining simulations: unlimited.】
【Simulation begins!】
【Drawing a white talent costs 100 energy points. Drawing a green talent costs 1,000 energy points. Would you like to draw?】
“Draw a white talent!”
【Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the white talent: Calm and Composed!】
【Calm and Composed】: No matter how turbulent the storms inside your heart, your surface remains perfectly serene. In layman’s terms — resting poker face.
Seeing this talent, a look of bemused exasperation crossed Su Xing’s face.
What the hell — even having a poker face counts as a talent now? Was he supposed to be some scheming old fox, some stone-cold emperor?
Su Xing shook his head and murmured:
“Why am I even thinking about this? Let’s just get on with the simulation!”
【You arranged in advance to take your junior schoolmates dungeon-leveling. You headed out.】
【Looking at the girls’ fair, shapely legs and attractive figures, your heart blossomed with joy, but your face betrayed nothing — you maintained the perfect image of an upstanding gentleman.】
【Over the next year, you took the girls dungeon-leveling and monster-hunting every day. Faced with their flirtatious advances, your expression remained Calm and Composed while you struggled to restrain yourself inside.】
【In one year, you earned 25 million Yuan.】
【At the same time, you didn’t forget to check in on Wang Qingxuan regularly.】
【But fearing you might disrupt the previous simulation’s course of events, you deliberately kept a certain distance from her.】
【One day, Wang Qingxuan came to find you. She told you about the mysterious organization.】
【You followed the script from your memory and tried to persuade her not to join.】
【That night, you tried a new position.】
【The next day, Wang Qingxuan dropped out of school and disappeared.】
【You knew Wang Qingxuan had joined the mysterious organization, so you weren’t worried.】
【That year, you failed to graduate due to insufficient strength.】
【Over the next four years, you ceaselessly ran dungeons to farm gold, amassing a fortune worth hundreds of millions.】
【As expected, you were expelled.】
【You left the school and founded the Tarot Society, starting a second-hand equipment trading business in the Capital City.】
【You quietly waited for Wang Qingxuan to come find you.】
【One day, Wang Qingxuan indeed showed up at your door.】
【After one night together, she departed, leaving behind half of the Eternal Spring Art!】
【You memorized the entire contents of the Eternal Spring Art and attempted to cultivate it several times.】
Seeing this, Su Xing’s expression turned excited as he clenched both fists.
“Just as I thought — as long as I follow the previous simulation’s timeline, I can obtain the Eternal Spring Art!”
Su Xing continued the simulation.
【You still couldn’t cultivate, so you stopped dwelling on it and chose instead to investigate the whereabouts of spiritual energy.】
【You dispatched Tarot Society members across the entirety of Great Xia, tasking them with helping you track down leads on spiritual energy.】
【Two years passed, and you still hadn’t found a single clue about spiritual energy.】
【But your business grew ever larger, and you had amassed a fortune worth tens of billions.】
【This year, you knew your sister would die, and there was nothing you could do to stop it.】
【So you spent a fortune purchasing a Grandmaster-grade piece of equipment, hoping it might help keep your sister alive.】
【Before Su Nian’an departed for Demon-Sealing Pass, you went home and gave her the equipment, spending a long time talking with her.】
【One month later, news of your sister’s death arrived.】
【You were filled with grief, yet utterly powerless.】
【Three more years passed. Fortune favored you — your business grew even larger, and Tarot Society members now spanned every corner of Great Xia.】
【You knew the next to die would be Fatty Yu.】
【So the day before Fatty Yu was to leave for Demon-Sealing Pass, you went to drink with him.】
【That night, you drank heavily, and Fatty Yu carried you home.】
【Not long after, you attended Yu Yan’s funeral.】
【That year, you invested all your capital into the pharmaceutical industry. You made an absolute killing, your net worth reaching hundreds of billions.】
【But anxiety gnawed at your heart, because you knew the mysterious person would come for you in one year.】
【So you prepared to flee to another country. Before leaving, you sold off the vast majority of your enterprises.】
【However, something unexpected happened.】
【Lady Luck smiled upon you — a few days before your departure for America, you received a lead about spiritual energy…】