Chapter 184

Chapter 181 - Re-entering the Red Lotus Demon Cave Dungeon, Collecting Alien Metal Ore (5k)
Chapter 181 - Re-entering the Red Lotus Demon Cave Dungeon Copy, Collecting Heterometallic Ore (5k)

After some explanation, Su Xing realised that he had made a big mess, and was embarrassed.

So he hastily changed the topic and said:
‘Ahem, Sister Snow, how is the business of the Tarot Club these days? Do you need my help with anything?’

As soon as business was brought up, Jin Congxue's attention was instantly drawn away.

‘The Tarot Club's business has been fine lately ...... According to your instructions, I've been focusing more manpower on white equipment, as well as the mining of exotic metals ......’

Said Jin Congxue as he paused and said with some sadness:

‘But just mining the six replicas of alien metals has thousands of employees ...... which is another considerable amount of expenses every month ......’

‘And our Chamber of Commerce is currently the main source of economic or skin-raising pills, nowadays the crowd of people who buy skin-raising pills is basically saturated, skin-raising pills sales are not as good as in the past, so the turnover of funds is a little bit not week ......’

Su Xing nodded slightly after hearing this.

He had to provide thousands of Face Nourishing Pills a week, which was 20,000 to 30,000 a month.

Plus, a single Face Nourishing Pill was able to guarantee one to three months of good looks.

Some rich women even hoarded dozens of face nourishing pills in their hands, so it was true that the market was slightly saturated.

After thinking about it, Su Xing said:

‘Here, I can also refine a high quality version of the Face Nourishing Pill that can maintain your looks for a year, or even three years without aging!’

‘Not only will you be able to maintain your appearance, you will even be able to be more than ten years younger! Afterwards, I'll give the elixir to you, and I should be able to earn quite a bit of funds ......’

What Su Xing had refined before had been the low-grade version of the Face Nourishing Pill.

The ones used were ordinary ginseng.

But now the ten years of spirit ginseng in Su Xing's spirit field had matured into a large batch, if those were used to refine it, it would be enough to refine a true Face Nourishing Dan.

The efficacy of the medicine was unknown how much higher than the low-mixed version, and it would be no different from an immortal medicine for mortals!
Jin Congxue's gaze brightened slightly after hearing this, clearly interested.

‘Ten years younger ...... appearance maintained for one to three years?’

‘Hiss ~ if there is really such a pill, absolutely ten thousand gold is hard to find, the price is ten or even dozens of times higher than that!’

‘However,...... this High Match Facial Nourishment Pill, we wouldn't be able to sell it on a large scale like before, we need to starve the marketing!’

Jin Congxue was worthy of being a strong businesswoman, and quickly formulated several plans regarding the sale of the Facial Nourishing Pill.

Su Xing was very satisfied, with Jin Congxue's help, Su Xing's development of the Tarot Club was a million percent.

Jin Congxue pondered for a moment and then said:
‘Big Boss ~ I recently also have the idea to expand the overseas market ...... Mi, Yellow Island country and the rest of the six countries and twelve domains, I think they will all be in favour of the Nourishing Face Pill!’

‘The domestic market is saturated, but the international market still has a large blue ocean!’

Su Xing nodded slightly after hearing this:
‘I'll leave all these things to you, just discuss with me again if there are any problems ......’

After chatting about business, Su Xing skilfully circled around, and after some divine sense probing, he returned to the dormitory and entered the Spiritual Field of Bliss.

The new week's goods were exchanged into analogue energy, which was again worth more than ninety million.

With this, Su Xing's energy then returned to the 150 million slot.

On the afternoon of the 9th of September, 2024 of the New Era, Su Xing opened a new round of simulation on time.

‘Starting simulation!’

[Ding! This simulation has consumed 5200 points of energy, remaining energy 150.16 million points, remaining simulation times none].

[Simulation begins!

[Extracting a blue talent costs 1w energy points, extracting a purple talent costs 10w energy points, do you want to extract it?

‘Extract purple talent!’

Su Xing said silently.

[Ding, congratulations on obtaining the purple talent, I'm not the Rain God!

[I am not the rain god]: purple talent, whenever you sing loudly and the number of onlookers is more than 10,000, the probability of rain falling in that place within seven days is one hundred per cent. [Balls up~ Come to the desert for a concert!)

Su Xing skimmed his mouth when he saw the new talent and muttered:

‘Good lord, another conceptual talent? Mandatory rain-seeking talent?...... Only, this thing doesn't seem to have much use!’

Su Xing shook his head slightly, not thinking of a suitable usage scenario for this talent for a while.

His eyes looked towards the simulation panel.

[In the Spiritual Field Cave, you realised that you are in the middle of a simulation.]

[You stayed in Kyoto City for a few days, and then moved to prepare to head to the northern border region of Great Xia.]

[You changed your appearance and restrained your breath for a while, applying the art of shielding the sky to yourself, and flew with your sword at a height of tens of thousands of metres.]

[Half an hour later, you arrived in the Northwest Province, Ma Yi City.]

[You followed the information in your memory and quickly found a heavily guarded dungeon, the Red Lotus Devil's Cave!

[You cast a slight spell and managed to evade these guarding professionals and entered the Red Lotus Demon Cave dungeon.]]

Seeing this, Su Xing nodded slightly and said:
‘When I simulated before, I found a small high-grade foreign metal mine from this Red Lotus Devil Cave copy ......’

‘I wonder just how much foreign metal is contained in this dungeon?’

Su Xing pondered, he was seriously short of simulation energy at this time, if he couldn't get simulation energy through new means.

With only that weekly energy supply of less than 100 million, it was definitely not enough for Su Xing's next cultivation needs.

Therefore, Su Xing hit his idea into this Red Lotus Demon Cave dungeon that he had previously discovered.

This mine dungeon copy might give Su Xing a not-so-small surprise?

However, just to be on the safe side, Su Xing was prepared to simulate a bit in advance in this simulation, wanting to see if there were any risks or not.

Thinking so, Su Xing silently said:

‘Use the Immersion Simulation function, duration 24 hours!’

[Ding, you have successfully used the immersive simulation, spending 2.4 million points of energy, with a remaining energy of 147.66 million points.]

As the simulator tone fell, Su Xing's vision changed for a moment.

In the next second, Su Xing appeared in an unfamiliar environment.

The temperature in the air had steeply risen by more than fifty degrees, directly reaching a temperature close to eighty degrees Celsius.

Su Xing frowned slightly, feeling the heat wave coming from the air.

Of course, this temperature naturally had no effect on Su Xing.

‘Here, is this the Red Lotus Demon Dungeon copy?’

Su Xing surveyed his surroundings, surrounded by reddish red rocks under the high temperature, and his hand was still a little hot when placed on it.

The space within the cave was not large, barely enough for Su Xing to fit in alone.

Su Xing looked forward, but saw that underneath his feet was a deep, bottomless cave, which seemed to point straight to the depths of the earth's core.

‘According to the description in the previous analogue text ...... the depths of this Red Lotus Demon Cave copy, there should be an Inferno Demon, defeating him and then going deeper ...... will be able to find that iso-metal mining area.’

Su Xing pondered, his use of immersive simulation exploration this time was to give an advance rehearsal for exploration in the real world afterwards.

Su Xing no longer hesitated, and with a movement in his heart, Yuan Power Armour and Body Protector Deity were used at the same time, protecting Su Xing.

‘Then ...... let's explore a bit deeper ......’

Su Xing catalysed his spiritual energy and flew rapidly towards the cave at his feet.

The further down this cave went, the higher the surrounding temperature became.

After about ten minutes, Su Xing estimated that he had already arrived at the depths of dozens of kilometres under the ground.

And at this moment, the surrounding temperature was also getting higher and higher, rising from the original eighty to ninety degrees to over five hundred degrees.

‘This Red Lotus Demon Cave, it's really bottomless ......’

Su Xing frowned slightly and increased his speed to continue exploring deeper.

So after another hour or so, Su Xing estimated that he was at least a few hundred kilometres away from the ground.

At this time, this place was already dim and lightless, with only a high temperature of up to one or two thousand degrees Celsius, ordinary organisms were simply unable to survive here.

And along the way, Su Xing actually ran into some special monsters that lived in this extreme heat.

Most of these monsters were at the Zong Shi level, Su Xing only slightly stimulated his Yuan Qi, and then he killed them easily.

‘It's already several hundred kilometres from the ground ...... Just how deep is this Red Lotus Devil Cave?’

Su Xing sighed, could it be that, this Devil Cave is a thousand kilometres from the ground?
Su Xing's speed was getting faster and faster, and all the ordinary monsters he encountered along the way were killed in seconds.

Until several hours later, Su Xing felt that the space was becoming more and more spacious, and the temperature around him reached an astonishing three thousand degrees Celsius.

Faint light came from the special ore on the stone wall.

Su Xing slightly slowed down his speed, and his divine sense was released like a tidal wave.

Sure enough, thousands of metres away, he sensed a monster with an extremely strong aura.

‘Is that ...... the Inferno Demon?’

Su Xing froze for a moment.

In his divine sense sensing, the appearance of this Inferno Demon was somewhat similar to the Hell Demon in Western mythology.

The head was born with two horns, the body was made up of magma, and there were two roaring flames in the eye sockets.

With a height of ten metres, an evil aura emanated from its body.

‘From the aura ...... this Inferno Demon is indeed at the peak of Martial Emperor strength ......’

Su Xing frowned slightly, he felt that this Red Lotus Devil Cave dungeon environment was just a little too harsh for ordinary professionals.

‘Thousands of degrees of heat, weak oxygen environment ...... This kind of place, even if it's a Grandmaster level professional, I'm afraid that they won't be able to survive ......’

Su Xing had an unpleasant premonition.

Such a harsh environment, where low level professionals could not enter, also meant that Su Xing had no way to invite a large amount of manpower over to mine the ores.

There was no way to invite Heavenly King level powerhouses to come and mine the ores, right?

This ...... seemed a little unrealistic.

‘Let's just say ...... it's better to solve this Inferno Demon first, and think of a way to mine foreign metal ores later ......’

Su Xing's heart moved, and flew towards the Inferno Demon in a hurry.

‘Roar roar roar~’

Seemingly sensing Su Xing's rapidly approaching aura, the Inferno Demon hissed loudly towards Su Xing, his hands continuously beating his chest, seemingly declaring his ownership of the territory ......

However!
Su Xing, however, as if he didn't see it, after rapidly approaching the Inferno Demon, he directly wrapped Yuan Power around both fists.

There was nothing fancy about it!
A terrifying fist blasted out!
Boom!
The huge force of a million tonnes directly punched on top of the Inferno's chest.

The two blazing flames in the eye sockets of the Inferno Demon slowly extinguished ......

With just one punch, the peak Martial Emperor Yan Demon, was dead!

‘Hoo~’
‘With my current strength in conjunction with the Yuan Power Entanglement ...... under Legend can't catch a single punch at all!’

The corner of Su Xing's mouth rose slightly, and then his divine sense was quickly spread out, wanting to probe the surroundings to see if there were still any enemies lurking around.

After determining that there are no enemies, Su Xing came to the middle of the Inferno Devil's lair, and indeed found a several zhang wide, bottomless deep cave.

‘This cave ...... should be the one that leads to the magma pool, right?’

Su Xing muttered.

He had bathed in this magma pool in his previous simulation, wanting to break the limit with this, but unfortunately he was unsuccessful.

And that xenometal mining area was near the magma pool.

Su Xing moved in his heart and walked towards the magma cave.

As Su Xing approached the magma layer, the temperature around him rose dramatically.

It soon soared to over five thousand degrees Celsius.

Su Xing frowned even tighter, with such high temperatures, it would be even more impossible for a Heavenly King level professional or below to survive.

Soon, Su Xing arrived at the magma layer.

This was a relatively open and flat rocky area.

In front of him was a magma pool with hot air bubbling outwards, while beside the magma pool were many black rocks.

Among the rocks, there were some reddish special ores mixed in.

It was clearly a foreign metal!

Su Xing slowly approached the side of the rocks, and after stretching out his hand to touch it, he slightly frowned:

‘This iso-metal is actually mixed in other ores....... Doesn't this mean that it still needs to be refined a bit to become pure iso-metal?’

Su Xing secretly said that there was some miscalculation.

In this several metres high huge rock, I'm afraid that the proportion of that red iso-metal is only three to five percent.

If you want to purify it into a foreign metal, you don't know how much time it will take. ......

Su Xing was a little disappointed, the iso-metal ore needed to be refined and purified in order to be obtained in its entirety.

And Heavenly King level professionals below could not enter the depths of this magic cave, and would not be able to refine and purify the iso-metal.

Things ...... seemed to have fallen into an unresolved situation.

‘Wait ...... who said that it needs to be purified before it can be converted into analogue energy?’

Su Xing snapped out of it.

His simulator was to absorb all substances that contained energy, it wasn't like it could only absorb pure foreign metals.

This meant that Su Xing was completely capable of absorbing even the foreign metals with accompanying rocks!

‘Right! I can totally just absorb this entire rock directly ...... without refining it!’

‘But I'm in a simulation at the moment, so I can't use the simulator's ability ......’

‘But it's possible to mine all of these ores that contain foreign metals first!’

Su Xing said that he would do it, and then took out the Ink Ice Sword, and after attaching his Yuan Power, he began to try mining.

The Ink Ice Sword sliced through these huge rocks like tofu.

Su Xing sliced them into standard square-shaped ores of one metre in length, width and height, and loaded them into the Spiritual Field Cave Heaven.

Each piece of ore, was exactly one cubic metre.

After working for more than ten hours, Su Xing managed to dig up close to a thousand cubic metres of ore, all of which were loaded into the Spiritual Field Cave Heaven by Su Xing.

‘Next, just see how much energy this batch of rocks laced with foreign metals is worth ......’

The corner of Su Xing's mouth rose slightly.

As for the method of testing, it was very simple, although Su Xing could not use the function of absorbing substances into energy during the simulation.

But after the simulation was over, Su Xing only had to see how much energy this batch of ores was worth...
Subsequently, after removing the difference in price earned by the black-hearted middlemen, it is the value of the energy contained in this batch of ores.

Soon, the simulation time ended, Su Xing returned to the real world.

‘A full thousand cubic metres of ore mixed with foreign metals, it should be worth a lot of energy, right?’

Su Xing stroked his chin and muttered.

His eyes looked at the simulation panel.

[You obtained a total of one thousand cubic metres of ore laced with foreign metals in the Red Lotus Demon Cave.]

[The following day, you left the Red Lotus Demon Cave dungeon and returned to Kyoto City.]

[For the rest of the day, you continued to refine pills and train in the Sword Art every day.]

[Until a month later, you left for Shuangqing City.]

You disguised yourself and shielded yourself from the sky, so that Old Dog Zong could not sense the threat you posed to him.

You suppressed your divine sense and swept through Shuangqing City in a reckless attempt to lure out Zong Lao-dog.

[Finally, three days later, Zong Old Dog approached you.]

‘Finally, it's here ah Zong Old Dog! Before I kill you in the real world, I still have to simulate it first ......’

Su Xing's heart stirred when he saw this, and he once again silently chanted:
‘Use the immersive simulation function, duration one hour!’

[Ding, you have successfully used Immersive Simulation, spending 100,000 points of energy, remaining energy 147,560,000 points].

The reason why Su Xing used the Immersive Simulation Function again was naturally because he had murderous intentions towards Zong Old Dog.

And wanting to kill Zong Old Dog in reality, to be cautious, Su Xing was prepared to rehearse in the simulation.

In the next second, Su Xing's immediate environment changed, appearing in a field.

‘Senior! Dare I ask from which Immortal Cultivation Realm you come from?’

Behind Su Xing, an old man in a black robe said with a hoarse voice.

There was still respect for Su Xing in his tone.

‘This ...... is Zong Old Dog?’

Su Xing's heart stirred as he looked towards Zong Old Dog.

Zong Old Dog had this plain look, as if he was an ordinary old man.

However, Su Xing could tell at a glance that this one also looked like a disguise after a disguise.

‘Oh? You asked me from which cultivation world?’

Su Xing did not answer positively, but instead asked in return.

Zong Lao Dog was instantly startled in his heart, as if he had sensed the unpleasantness of Su Xing's tone.

However, the Eight Trigrams Fortune Calculating Technique that he had relied on for many years did not send him a warning.

Zong Old Dog was a little more relieved, so he bravely said:

‘Senior, I think that after the heaven and earth were greatly eliminated ...... you also slept for a long time, and you are not too familiar with this side of the world, right?’

‘I woke up one or two hundred years earlier than you ...... just can be a guide for you!’

Zong Old Dog smiled, his tone becoming more and more respectful.

Because in Zong Old Dog's eyes, Su Xing was now a Return to Void realm cultivator with an incomparably powerful divine sense!
Seeing this humble appearance of Zong Old Dog, Su Xing smiled back.

In the next second, suddenly stormed up!

Yuan power was wrapped around both fists, and a million tonnes of power directly whacked at Zong Lao Dog's body.

Boom!
Zong Lao Dog still had a look of shock on his face before he died.

He didn't seem to understand why Su Xing suddenly struck out, nor did he understand why the Eight Trigrams fortune telling technique that he had relied on for thousands of years didn't send a warning in advance.

Zong old dog's body exploded in place, turning into a sky of blood mist.

And Su Xing also picked up Zong Old Dog's storage artefact.

Afterwards, Zong Lao Dog's divine soul exited his body and hurriedly fled towards the distance.

However, he was directly trapped by Su Xing with the Fire Separation Technique.

Before dying, Zong Old Dog's divine soul also incredulously said:
‘Senior, we have never known each other and have no grievances ...... Why did you kill me?’

Su Xing sneered after hearing this and said:

‘Oh, you do not know me ...... but I can know you for a long time!’

Said Su Xing also did not nagging, directly pinch burst Zong old dog's divine soul.

At this point, Zong Old Dog's divine soul was extinguished, completely disappeared in this world.

‘Things ...... seem to be developing too smoothly ah!’

Su Xing frowned slightly and opened his storage artefact, determining that this was all of Zong Old Dog's treasures within it, before he breathed a sigh of relief.

‘So, Zong Old Dog was really killed by me so easily?’

Su Xing hadn't come back to his senses for a while.

Half a year ago, Zong Old Dog was still an insurmountable mountain for Su Xing.

Torturing Su Xing, he nearly refined Su Xing into a human dan.

But now, Su Xing had killed Zong Old Dog with just one punch!

This, was the gap brought about by absolute strength!
‘Indeed, it went a little too smoothly ......’

Su Xing was always cautious, and always felt that there was some kind of trap waiting for him.

But then Su Xing shook his head.

‘Also, I think what Zong old dog is not a day or two ...... This simulation I have already carried out dozens of times, there is a mind to count, he is not bound to die?’

Su Xing summarised.

This wave, he won in having the intention to count without intention and surprise.

Although Zong Old Dog was at the peak of the Transformation God, the habits he had developed over thousands of years made him overly trust in his Bagua fortune-telling technique's early warning of crises.

However, he met Su Xing, such an old six, who had been planning for hundreds of years to kill him (in the simulator).

He even made his Bagua fortune-telling technique ineffective, and only then did he finally kill him.

After killing Zong old dog, Su Xing didn't stay long, but prepared to leave with his sword.

After about half an hour, high in the air, Su Xing suddenly stopped and flew towards a deep mountain.

At this time, the surroundings were quiet, and only a burst of birdsong came from the high mountains.

However, Su Xing frowned and said aloud to the empty surroundings:
‘Since Your Excellency has come, why don't you show yourself?’

(End of chapter)

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