Chapter 63 – Condensing a Superior Golden Core, the Revenue Plan!

Su Xing saw this and nodded slightly, murmuring:

“Although I can’t stay in the outside world, the Blessed Spirit Field is safe, and I have enough pills left to cultivate for several more years. I just hope that after providing enough pills, Great Xia and Demon-Sealing Pass can hold out a little longer.”

The exposure from providing Essence Nurturing Pills to Great Xia was actually within Su Xing’s expectations. After all, it was tens of thousands of pills — once they flooded in, they were enough to significantly compensate for Great Xia’s shortage of mid-tier forces.

And with such a massive quantity of pills, it would be easy for the Advent Cult to detect something amiss.

“But how exactly was the information leaked?”

Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly.

There were two possibilities for the leak. The first was that thousands of Class Users had taken the pills — with such a massive number of people, it would be impossible to keep it secret.

The second possibility was that there were Advent Cult spies among Great Xia’s upper echelons, and these spies had exposed the fact that Su Xing was providing pills.

“I just hope it’s not the second possibility…”

Su Xing muttered to himself. Advent Cult spies among Great Xia’s leadership would absolutely not be good news.

Su Xing continued the simulation.

【Year Thirteen: Your Golden Core grew brighter and brighter, shifting from its original pale gold to a rich, deep gold. The spirit pill became more sentient than ever before.】

【Because you were the only person in the Blessed Spirit Field, you were not disturbed by the outside world, and your cultivation speed was actually thirty percent faster than before. The only thing you found hard to bear was the loneliness — over two years, not daring to go outside and having no one to talk to, you had almost forgotten how to speak.】

【Fortunately, there was still a flock of spirit chickens in the Blessed Spirit Field. Watching them boast and squabble every day became the sole pleasure in your life.】

【Year Fourteen: Through your relentless cultivation, your Golden Core finally broke through to superior golden core. You could feel that the amount of spiritual energy within you was more than double that of an ordinary cultivator at Golden Core Stage, Grand Perfection.】

【New Era, March 8, 2038: You felt a tremor in the space around you. You returned to the real world just before the Blessed Spirit Field shattered.】

【A heaven-blotting, sun-eclipsing colossal beast swallowed the entirety of Great Xia. You died at the age of 38!】

【You activated the talent Die With Eyes Open, but saw only endless darkness.】

【Ding — this simulation has ended!】

The simulation ended, and Su Xing snapped back to reality from the simulation panel before his eyes.

“The apocalypse on March 8, 2038… If I remember correctly, when I was helping the Advent Cult before, the apocalypse was on September 23, 2037, wasn’t it?”

Su Xing nodded slightly and said:

“So it seems that helping the Great Xia Military increase its strength really can effectively delay the destruction of the real world!”

Su Xing felt a surge of joy. As long as the future wasn’t set in stone, then as Su Xing grew stronger and his alchemy skills grew more refined, he could further delay the destruction of the real world.

And the later the real world’s destruction came, the more time Su Xing would have to increase his own strength, forming a positive cycle.

Su Xing was like a butterfly whose wings could shift the trajectory of the future, subtly altering the course of things to come.

“After this simulation ends, I can basically confirm that working under Protector Shadow won’t be life-threatening. Although Protector Shadow always wants me to modify my body, she’s still a decent superior overall…”

Su Xing thought this to himself. In this simulation, it was because Su Xing had betrayed the Advent Cult first that he was put on the cult’s wanted list. Moreover, when confronted face-to-face by Protector Shadow, her look of disappointment was genuine.

After carefully reviewing the details of this simulation and confirming he hadn’t overlooked anything, Su Xing murmured:

“Now it’s time to choose this simulation’s rewards…”

【Wood-Fire Dual True Spirit Root】: Blue talent, priced at 100,000 energy points.

【Golden Core Stage, Grand Perfection】: A naturally perfect superior Golden Core, with spiritual energy density double that of an ordinary cultivator, only one step away from Nascent Soul stage. Priced at 1,000,000 energy points.

【ten years of alchemy experience】: Alchemy insights, priced at 100,000 energy points.

【1,000 Essence Nurturing Pills】: Low-grade pills capable of refining spiritual energy and enriching magical power. Priced at 10,000,000 energy points.

The choice of simulation rewards this time was almost a foregone conclusion. The Wood-Fire Dual True Spirit Root could vastly improve Su Xing’s cultivation talent — a must-pick.

And the Golden Core Stage, Grand Perfection cultivation level could increase Su Xing’s strength by roughly fifty percent — also a must-pick.

“It’s just a shame that my current energy is less than 800,000, still short by over 300,000…”

Su Xing frowned slightly. As his number of simulations increased and his cultivation level grew higher, the energy cost to bring out cultivation levels and items kept rising as well.

Even though Su Xing now had a stable weekly income of energy, it was still stretched thin.

“Since energy is a bit insufficient, I need to find ways to increase revenue and cut costs… Cutting costs isn’t an option — after all, it concerns my cultivation growth. If I slow down the consumption of simulation energy, my strength will grow much more slowly…”

“In that case, I can only find ways to increase revenue! The Tarot Trading Company has just started up, so these next two or three months will be the difficult part. After that, things should improve a lot.”

Su Xing tried to think of a solution.

“Perhaps I could increase the batch of Beauty-Preserving Pills I refine? Provide five hundred Beauty-Preserving Pills per week?”

But Su Xing quickly rejected this idea.

He currently provided Jin Congxue with three hundred Beauty-Preserving Pills per week, of which nearly one hundred were premium quality, capable of preserving youth for three months.

At one million yuan per ordinary Beauty-Preserving Pill and three million yuan per Premium Beauty-Preserving Pill, these three hundred pills could sell for close to 500 million yuan.

By that calculation, 1,200 Beauty-Preserving Pills would flood the market every month — the market was already approaching saturation.

And if Su Xing expanded his production of Beauty-Preserving Pills, the oversupply might actually drive down the market price, which would be counterproductive.

“Since I can’t increase Beauty-Preserving Pill production, perhaps I can refine a new batch of different pills to diversify my income sources?”

Su Xing carefully went through all the pill formulas he had currently mastered: Disguise Pill, Strength Pill, Beauty-Preserving Pill, Fasting Pill, Qi-Gathering Powder, Healing Pill, Swiftness Pill, Organ Tempering Pill, Essence Nurturing Pill, Spirit Nurturing Pill…

Tallying them up, even Su Xing was somewhat astonished. In just two or three short months, he had already mastered the refining methods for nearly twenty types of pills.

“Unfortunately, the vast majority of pills I’ve mastered aren’t suitable for openly selling on the market — especially the Essence Nurturing Pills, Organ Tempering Pills, and the like…”

“Besides the Beauty-Preserving Pills, perhaps I could also sell some Fasting Pills and Healing Pills?”

Su Xing chose these for two reasons: first, similar medicines and items already existed on the market; and second, these two pills had low production costs and could be refined without spirit herbs.

The Healing Pill’s effects were similar to the healing potions produced from dungeons, but superior to ordinary low-grade healing potions — practically equivalent to mid-grade healing potions.

Mid-grade healing potions were primarily used to treat injuries sustained by Gold-stage, Master-stage, and Grandmaster-stage Class Users, with excellent results.

And the market price for mid-grade healing potions was generally over 500,000 yuan, with very strong sales.

“Then let me start by refining a batch of Healing Pills…”

Su Xing quickly made his decision.