Chapter 12: Exploiting Good Friends as ATMs - Surging Energy!
"With a physique at the Quintuple Forging Stage, your strength has significantly surged!"
Witnessing this, Su Xing clenched his fists tightly. The fact that at Quintuple Forging Stage he could dominate a Silver-tier boss indicated that the potential and combat capability in cultivating immortality far surpassed that of ordinary professionals! To think, a regular Silver-tier team usually requires a lineup consisting of a tank, warrior, mage, priest, and other classes just to barely defeat a Silver-tier boss.
Yet here he was, effortlessly dominating alone!
"So, this is the benefit of concurrently cultivating body and Qi…"
Su Xing was content and continued reading.
"Your business grew, and your wealth exceeded a billion."
In that year, Wang Qingxuan sought him out, offering the first half of the Longevity Technique. He declined and asked her to find the second half instead.
Two years later, his sister passed away, and he attended her funeral.
Three years later, his good friend, Fatty Yu, also passed away, and he was equally helpless.
During a market fluctuation a year later, he amassed vast wealth, surpassing tens of billions.
He found Jin Congxue and sought to buy the ten pieces of spirit stone from her.
Rather than asking for money, Jin Congxue made a request.
He took away her first time and they were entangled for several months.
She was summoned, and a month later, news of her death reached Su Xing.
Four years later, the colossal beast that blotted out the sky and sun reappeared.
He raised a middle finger at it, and it swallowed the entire Da Xia Kingdom in one gulp.
He died at the age of 36!
"Your talent does not go unnoticed!"
He witnessed the tragedy within the beast's belly.
"Ding, simulation completed!"
"You can choose one reward from the following: Fitness Enthusiast (Talent), Quintuple Forging Stage (Cultivation), Five Layers of Qi Refinement (Cultivation), Forty spirit stones (Items)."
Su Xing took a deep breath, containing his excitement, and looked at the rewards.
"Fitness Enthusiast": White-tier talent, priced at 1000 energy points.
"Quintuple Forging Stage": Cultivation, priced at 4000 energy points.
"Five Layers of Qi Refinement": Cultivation, priced at 400 energy points.
"Forty spirit stones": Item, priced at 40,000 energy points.
Su Xing pondered for a moment.
Fitness Enthusiast was undoubtedly a good talent, enhancing his physical potential, but currently useless.
The Quintuple Forging Stage would instantly elevate his strength, indeed tempting.
As for the Five Layers of Qi Refinement, Su Xing completely overlooked it.
However, what Su Xing truly wanted to acquire was those forty spirit stones!
Because with these forty spirit stones, Su Xing could fully utilize them in future simulations, rapidly advancing his strength!
Most importantly, the "青云灵田" (Qingyun Spirit Field) simulation would close in less than a month. If Su Xing didn't retrieve the spirit stones now, he might not have another chance to acquire them in the future...
Readjusting his thoughts, Su Xing made up his mind.
But there was a problem: he didn't have enough energy points at the moment.
With only 18,240 energy points, even if he used all the money he had to buy white-tier equipment, he would barely reach 2,000 energy points.
Almost half of the required amount was still missing.
"Sigh... There's only one way!"
Su Xing sighed and dialed Yu Yan's phone number.
"Hey, Fatty, are you there?"
"Yeah, I was about to enter a dungeon! You scared me... What's up?"
"Well, I'm a bit tight on cash these days. Could you lend me some money?"
"How much?"
"Up to how much do you have?"
Yu Yan exploded over the phone, "Are you treating me as an ATM? One billion? Why not just dream big?"
Su Xing: "..."
"How much do you have now?"
"I can lend you 50 million at most! Not a cent more!"
"Alright, transfer it now!"
Click
Ten minutes later, Su Xing received a transfer of 50 million in his bank account.
Looking at the considerable sum in his account, Su Xing felt grateful. Including the previous 5 million borrowed from Yu Yan, he now owed him 55 million!
Yu Yan, though a prodigy, had an average family background. Most of his money came from school rewards and personal gains from dungeon runs.
Aside from personal expenses on equipment and enhancing his strength, this 50 million was probably the most substantial sum Yu Yan could afford. After all, Yu Yan probably hadn't reached the level of a Master-tier professional yet.
Su Xing, upon receiving the 50 million, didn't hesitate. He immediately headed to the largest low-tier professional equipment trading market in Kyoto and placed a massive order.
Su Xing placed an order for 50,000 pieces of white-tier quality equipment.
This was undoubtedly a large order, and thus, the market's boss personally handled it and sold the items to Su Xing at the lowest rate of 1,000 yuan per piece.
However, due to the extensive quantity, the boss mentioned a one-week delivery time.
Consequently, after paying the deposit, Su Xing only obtained ten thousand pieces of white-tier equipment for the time being.
Su Xing converted all these white-tier equipment into energy points. As a result, his energy points surged from 18,000 to a whopping 70,000!
"Fortunately, I can claim rewards anytime before the next simulation... Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to save up this much energy."
Without hesitation, Su Xing spent 40,000 energy points to retrieve the forty spirit stones.
Acquiring these forty spirit stones filled Su Xing's heart with a sense of security.
These stones would serve as his cornerstone for future prosperity and strength!
However, forty spirit stones were still insufficient! Su Xing narrowed his eyes, planning to select the spirit stone reward in the following simulations to accumulate his starting capital.
Because, as far as he knew, this was the only source of acquiring spirit stones in this simulation.
Moreover, this particular simulation would reopen in less than a month.
Hence, Su Xing needed to accumulate as many spirit stones as possible before the "青云灵田" (Qingyun Spirit Field) simulation officially resumed.
"It's coming... with enough spirit stones, and the aid of the simulator, my cultivation will undoubtedly skyrocket!"
Su Xing's heart raced but quickly steadied.
"No... I can't be reckless! Even in the future, Grandmaster-tier experts will be cannon fodder... Fifteen years later, it'll be the end of the world. The gap to change all this is still too wide!"
Su Xing's mindset became even more composed.
Soon, a week passed, and it was time for Su Xing to simulate once again.
During this week, Su Xing diligently helped new junior sisters level up and acquire equipment by taking them through dungeons. However, due to their increasingly higher levels, fewer and fewer of these students sought Su Xing's guidance.
In that week, Su Xing barely earned half a million.
Thankfully, the equipment market boss timely delivered the remaining forty thousand pieces of equipment.
Su Xing's energy points skyrocketed again, reaching a staggering 250,000!
For a short period, Su Xing wasn't concerned about running out of energy points.
Glancing at the date, it was the New Era of 2023, October 21st.
Considering all was set, Su Xing opted for simulation.
"Begin Simulation!"
"Cost: 700 energy points. Remaining Energy: 250,107. No more simulations left."
"Simulation starts!"
"Drawing a white-tier talent costs 100 energy points, green-tier talent costs 1000 energy points. Would you like to draw?"
"Draw a green-tier talent."
"Ding! Congratulations, you've acquired the green-tier talent, Longevity."
(End of this Chapter)