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    “Let me see how much simulated energy these goods are worth this week.”

    Su Xing’s heart moved, and he took out the storage ring Jin Cong Xue had given him.

    【Ding! Detecting white-quality equipment, total energy value: 7.38 million points…】

    【Ding! Detecting a large amount of energy material, total energy value: 8.97 million points…】

    【Ding! Detecting a large amount of energy ore, total energy value: 13.04 million points…】

    Su Xing quickly calculated that the goods this week had provided a total of 29.39 million simulated energy!

    Of which, the Strange Metal alone was worth 13.09 million energy points!

    Nearly half the total!

    “Holy moly, this Strange Metal is truly an excellent substance for providing simulated energy!”

    Su Xing exclaimed in amazement.

    The Strange Metal in this storage ring was almost all first-order Strange Metal.

    One kilogram was worth about 20 simulated energy points, and one ton was 20,000 simulated energy points!

    And the Tarot Chamber of Commerce currently had two mining area copies that could mine Strange Metal, meaning they could mine 650 tons of Strange Metal per week!

    Although it sounded like a lot, the Strange Metal had a high density, so it didn’t seem that big.

    The most important thing was that this source of simulated energy was stable.

    Moreover, the cost was extremely low. Su Xing only needed to pay the annual lease fees for the two copies and the wages of the workers.

    And these two Strange Metal mines were enough for Su Xing to mine for twenty years!

    “Wow, looking at it this way, Strange Metal is really the big source of simulated energy!”

    “Perhaps I should talk to Jin Cong Xue… In the future, I’ll find a way to acquire more Strange Metal, so I can get more simulated energy!”

    Su Xing thought to himself, then turned his attention to the simulation panel.

    “The mining area copy can wait, it’s time to start a new round of simulations!”

    New Era 2024, July 15th, afternoon, Su Xing promptly started the forty-fifth simulation.

    “Start simulation!”

    【Ding! This simulation consumes 4,500 energy points, remaining energy: 198.47 million points, remaining simulation times: unlimited.】

    【Simulation starts!】

    【Draw green talent for 1,000 energy points, blue talent for 10,000 energy points, draw purple talent for 100,000 energy points, draw now?】

    Su Xing didn’t hesitate, he silently said:

    “Draw purple talent!”

    【Congratulations on obtaining the purple talent: Array Dao Prodigy!】

    “Hmm? Array Dao?”

    Su Xing was slightly puzzled, his eyes looking at the simulation panel.

    【Array Dao Prodigy】: Purple talent, your understanding of Array Dao far surpasses ordinary people, making it easier to become a respected Array Dao Grandmaster.

    After seeing the new talent, Su Xing couldn’t help but mutter:

    “Wow, you’re really going for all-round talent, aren’t you? All that’s left is a Talisman Dao Prodigy talent, right?”

    Su Xing couldn’t help but complain. The simulator’s talents were clearly pushing him towards being a well-rounded genius.

    While there was nothing wrong with that, Su Xing’s current priority was still cultivation.

    He could learn these side skills later when his cultivation was sufficient, or when he needed them.

    “Well, as expected, I didn’t get the purple Spiritual Root talent… Looks like I’ll have to find a way to get more Spiritual Liquid this time.”

    “As for this Array Dao talent, I’ll just put it in the talent pool for now.”

    Su Xing’s heart moved, and he clicked on the simulation panel in front of him.

    The original simulation text turned into a retro-style lottery machine.

    This lottery machine was the prize pool function unlocked during the second simulator upgrade.

    Specifically, Su Xing needed to spend a certain number of points to enter prize pools of different levels.

    For example, if he wanted to draw a white talent, each draw would cost 100 simulated energy points.

    The goal of the draw was to get white talents he had drawn before but didn’t bring out.

    For green, it was 1,000 points, blue 10,000 points, purple talent 100,000 points…

    According to the simulator, once he entered the purple prize pool, the probability of drawing any purple talent was equal.

    Su Xing currently had more than ten talents in his purple talent pool, meaning if he was unlucky, he could get them all in just over a million energy points.

    This was quite reasonable.

    After drawing the existing talent, Su Xing could designate it as the talent choice for the next simulation.

    That way, he could choose to bring the talent out after the simulation.

    “However, these existing talents don’t seem to have any opportunities to use them for now, so I’ll designate them later when it’s appropriate?”

    Su Xing mumbled to himself, then officially prepared to start the simulation.

    He looked at the simulation panel.

    【In the Spiritual Field Heaven, you realize you are in a simulation.】

    【You immediately set up a Spirit Gathering Array to accelerate the accumulation of Spiritual Liquid.】

    【After a week, Spiritual Liquid begins to be produced in the Spiritual Field Heaven.】

    【The amount is not much, only about 150 drops a day, but you still cherish it.】

    【You get a thousand drops of Spiritual Liquid each week, which accumulates over time. A year is more than 50,000 drops of Spiritual Liquid, you are very satisfied.】

    【You plan to join the Descent Sect as soon as possible, so you disguise yourself and head to Shuangqing City, Southwest Province.】

    【You are lucky and soon find Elder Dog.】

    【After a series of operations, you successfully join the Descent Sect, and use a Life-Prolonging Pill to exchange for a lot of medicinal herbs from Elder Dog.】

    【After joining the Descent Sect, you keep a low profile and contact Luo Shuying, obtaining a large number of spirit herbs from her.】

    【After that, you cultivate according to plan and collect the Spiritual Liquid produced in the Spiritual Field.】

    【You showed Elder Dog a small bottle of Spiritual Liquid (around 10,000 drops), Elder Dog’s eyes almost popped out.】

    【Obviously, from his reaction, you also understand that in this era, Spiritual Liquid is precious.】

    【Elder Dog says he is willing to trade his divine powers for your Spiritual Liquid, you are somewhat tempted and ask what kind of divine powers he can offer.】

    【Elder Dog takes out evil techniques like “Soul-Snatching Technique”, “Poison Heart Technique”, “Blood Sacrifice Technique”.】

    【These techniques are not only low-grade, have side effects, but also extremely cruel, often requiring the sacrifice of souls.】

    【You naturally don’t like these techniques, but you know Elder Dog won’t trade with you sincerely and won’t bring out his best stuff, so you can only let it go.】

    Su Xing saw this and shook his head slightly, cold snorting:

    “You cunning Elder Dog, you actually want me to become a demonic cultivator like you? You are truly vicious!”

    “But it doesn’t matter if you’re unwilling to trade now… When I kill you in reality, all those treasures and techniques in your storage artifact will be mine!”

    Su Xing felt that it didn’t matter if he traded with Elder Dog or not.

    When he killed him in reality, everything in Elder Dog’s storage artifact would eventually belong to Su Xing.

    “However, the value of this Spiritual Liquid is really beyond expectations… If I really find the cultivation world in the future, in this era of depleted spiritual energy, Spiritual Liquid could probably be exchanged for a lot of treasures!”

    Su Xing thought to himself, then looked at the simulation panel.

    【You fail to trade with Elder Dog, you secretly covet each other’s treasures, but on the surface you still pretend to be friendly, as if you were old friends.】

    【For the next year, you spend most of your time in the Spiritual Field Heaven cultivating, either learning the Thousand Flame Scripture, increasing your mastery of spiritual force, or refining elixirs.】

    【During this year, you have collected nearly 50,000 drops of Spiritual Liquid.】

    【You put them in special jade bottles, each containing 10,000 drops of Spiritual Liquid, about 50 milliliters.】

    【The second year, your understanding of the Earth-Rank technique Thousand Flame Scripture breaks through to the second layer.】

    【At the same time, you refine a large number of elixirs, and most of the spirit herbs in the Descent Sect’s treasury are pocketed by you.】

    【You believe the time is right, so you escape from the Descent Sect with Luo Shuying.】

    【You directly contact the Great Summer military. With your elixirs and strength, you hold a high position in the Great Summer military.】

    【Even if the Descent Sect wants to pursue you, they are powerless.】

    【A fire in the city gate will affect the fish pond, and Elder Dog becomes the scapegoat and starts to flee for his life.】

    【The third year, you refine tens of thousands of elixirs in a year, adding tens of thousands of Grandmaster-Level Cultivators to the Great Summer Country.】

    【In the same year, your mastery of the Thousand Flame Scripture enters the third layer.】

    【This year, you have nearly 150,000 drops of Spiritual Liquid, but you don’t use a single drop, saving it all.】

    【Apart from spending an hour collecting Spiritual Liquid every day, you spend the rest of your time cultivating your spiritual force and the Thousand Flame Scripture.】

    【This leaves you with several hours of free time, so you prepare to expand the scale of the Spirit Gathering Flowers to harvest more Spiritual Liquid.】

    【You plant 500 Spirit Gathering Flower seeds. Just taking care of these seeds requires several hours of your time each day.】

    【If you plant more, it will affect your cultivation.】

    【The fourth year, your mastery of spiritual force makes a small breakthrough, approaching the level of external release mastery.】

    【The spiritual force armor around your body becomes stronger, and your spiritual force becomes more abundant.】

    【This year, your Spiritual Liquid amount reaches 200,000 drops!】

    【The fifth year, the 500 Spirit Gathering Flowers you planted mature, slightly increasing the spiritual energy in the Spiritual Field Heaven.】

    【Your weekly harvest of Spiritual Liquid reaches about 1,100 drops, and in a year, you harvest nearly 60,000 drops of Spiritual Liquid.】

    【You plant another 500 Spirit Gathering Flowers and wait for them to mature in two years.】

    【The sixth year, your mastery of the Earth-Rank technique Thousand Flame Scripture makes a breakthrough, reaching the fourth layer!】

    【Unfortunately, your mastery of spiritual force is still stuck at the peak of the Entangled Level, you desperately want to break through further.】

    【This year, you collect nearly 60,000 drops of Spiritual Liquid again, your total Spiritual Liquid amount reaches 360,000 drops!】

    【The seventh year, the second batch of Spirit Gathering Flowers you planted mature, slightly increasing the spiritual energy content in the Spiritual Field Heaven.】

    【This year you harvest 63,000 drops of Spiritual Liquid!】

    【You skillfully plant a new batch of Spirit Gathering Flower seeds.】

    【The eighth year, you harvest 63,000 drops of Spiritual Liquid, your total Spiritual Liquid amount reaches nearly 490,000 drops.】

    【The ninth year, the new batch of Spirit Gathering Flowers mature, making the spiritual energy content in your Spiritual Field Paradise even more abundant.】

    【This year your harvest of Spiritual Liquid increases again, reaching 64,000 drops.】

    【You also discover that as the number of Spirit Gathering Flowers keeps increasing, the spiritual energy in the Spiritual Field Heaven is increasing, but it is difficult to break through a bottleneck.】

    【It seems to be stuck at the level of a junior Heaven, unless there is a major change, otherwise this Spiritual Field Heaven will be difficult to evolve.】

    【So you stop planting Spirit Gathering Flowers, instead focusing on collecting Spiritual Liquid and devoting more energy to cultivating your technique and spiritual force.】

    Su Xing nodded slightly when he saw this.

    Although the Spirit Gathering Flowers were rare celestial treasures, their effect on the spiritual energy in a certain area was not endless.

    Unless the number of Spirit Gathering Flowers was truly enormous, like the Luo Tian Sect’s 129,600 Spirit Gathering Flowers.

    Such a large number might be able to achieve a qualitative change through quantitative change, allowing the Spiritual Field Heaven to further elevate its level.

    Or, maybe setting up a large-scale Spirit Gathering Array, combined with a high-level spiritual vein, might also significantly increase the quality of spiritual energy, thereby elevating the level of the Spiritual Field Heaven.

    “However, these conditions are too demanding for me now… I just don’t have that much simulated energy!”

    Su Xing sighed and mumbled:

    “But now I’m producing over 60,000 drops of Spiritual Liquid a year, which is enough. If I have more, I might not have enough simulated energy to exchange for them later…”

    He looked at the simulation panel.

    【The tenth year, the Spiritual Liquid you have accumulated over the past ten years has reached a staggering 610,000 drops. You store them in small jade bottles and carefully place them in a box.】

    【Seeing the number of jade bottles increasing, you feel a sense of accomplishment.】

    【The eleventh year, your mastery of spiritual force becomes more proficient, you feel that you are not far from reaching the third level of external release.】

    【In the same year, your Spiritual Liquid amount reaches 670,000 drops!】

    【The twelfth year, on a quiet afternoon, you finish your meal and start practicing your spiritual force as usual.】

    【You wrap your spiritual force around every inch of your skin, constantly experiencing the wonders of spiritual force.】

    【Suddenly, you feel the shackles that have been plaguing you quietly open. Your mastery of spiritual force reaches the third level, External Release, effortlessly.】

    Su Xing saw this and let out a sigh of relief, muttering:

    “Finally, my spiritual force has broken through to the third level… From the peak of Entangled Level to External Release… It took twelve years of natural cultivation without the help of enlightenment?”

    Su Xing nodded slightly.

    This speed wasn’t slow, but it was within Su Xing’s expectations.

    【After your spiritual force breaks through to External Release, you can’t wait to experience it.】

    【You cultivate your Elixir Field, beginning to control the two forces within your body, spiritual force and spiritual energy…】

    【You keep the spiritual energy inside your body, cover your body with spiritual force, and control them to slowly move away from your body.】

    【In your perception, the spiritual force slowly extends from your fists, finally stopping ten centimeters away from your fists.】

    【Although you have just entered the External Release level, your spiritual force has only just left your body, but you can already feel the power of this thin layer of external spiritual force.】

    【You take a piece of fourth-order Strange Metal and control your spiritual force to smash it!】

    【Boom! This seemingly light punch instantly shatters the entire piece of fourth-order Strange Metal into powder!】

    【Note that you didn’t even use much force, this kind of brute force destruction is solely from the power of spiritual force!】

    【You quickly understand that if your spiritual force cultivation is strong enough, it can extend several feet or even several yards, which will be the nightmare of all Qi Refining Cultivators!】

    【Later, you try wrapping spiritual force around the Ink Ice, but currently, you are just starting out in External Release and can’t control it at will.】

    【To prevent the Ink Ice Sword from being destroyed, you can only pause the attempt, intending to try again when your mastery of spiritual force is more proficient.】

    【The thirteenth year, after your spiritual force breakthrough, you focus more on cultivating the Thousand Flame Scripture.】

    【Over the past ten years, your understanding of the Thousand Flame Scripture has rapidly improved, nearly reaching the fifth level.】

    【In the same year, your total collected Spiritual Liquid amount reaches 800,000 drops!】

    【The fourteenth year, the Thousand Flame Scripture also breaks through effortlessly, reaching the fifth level.】

    【After cultivating the Thousand Flame Scripture to the fifth level, combined with the Blazing Fire Technique, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy is even faster than the Eternal Spring Technique.】

    【So you make the Thousand Flame Scripture your main cultivation technique, slightly increasing your cultivation speed.】

    【The fifteenth year, although you haven’t used Spiritual Liquid to aid your cultivation over the years, fifteen years of accumulation have still allowed your cultivation to take a big step forward from the Divine Transformation seventh level, and it’s not far from the Divine Transformation eighth level.】

    【The sixteenth year, you still diligently collect Spiritual Liquid every day, this year, your total Spiritual Liquid amount breaks through one million drops!】

    【The seventeenth year, your Qi Refining cultivation progresses further, you become a Divine Transformation eighth level Cultivator!】

    Su Xing saw this and furrowed his brow slightly, muttering:

    “Sure enough, Divine Transformation Stage cultivation is harder than I imagined… Especially in the later stages of Divine Transformation, it’s extremely difficult to make progress!”

    “Without the aid of Spiritual Liquid, relying solely on natural cultivation, it took seventeen years to break through one level?”

    Su Xing knew this speed wasn’t slow, but he wasn’t satisfied.

    “Fortunately, with the help of Spiritual Liquid in the future, my cultivation speed should improve even further?”

    Su Xing thought to himself, then looked at the simulation panel.

    【The eighteenth year, with your continuous hard work, your mastery of the Thousand Flame Scripture is on par with the Eternal Spring Technique.】

    【The advantage of fire-attribute techniques makes the Blazing Fire Technique’s power significantly stronger, and your offensive methods are much more powerful.】

    【The nineteenth year, with years of hard work, your mastery of spiritual force becomes more proficient.】

    【You can now safely release your spiritual force and wrap it around your spirit sword, but it cannot be maintained for too long, otherwise, it will consume a lot of your spiritual force.】

    【But spiritual force-infused spirit energy still significantly increases your strength!】

    【The Sword Intent you comprehend from Sword and Man Unity, combined with spiritual force attached to the Ink Ice, becomes your strongest offensive method.】

    【With this trump card, your strength increases by more than 30%!】

    【The improvement in strength gives you tremendous confidence. You can’t wait to try if you can defeat the puppet guarding the ancient tomb ruins.】

    【But there are still six years left until the twenty-five-year deadline, if you lose to the puppet, wouldn’t that be a waste of time?】

    【So you decide to play it safe and collect enough Spiritual Liquid before challenging it.】

    【The twentieth year, your Spiritual Liquid amount reaches an astonishing 1.25 million drops.】

    【In the same year, you go to the Immortal Martial Era copy.】

    【You don’t plan to go directly to the ancient tomb ruins, but instead, you visit the three major sects and get the three jade fragments and techniques in your hands.】

    (End of Chapter)

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