Jia Nan Academy's Richest Man

"Hehe, the Dou Qi Continent really was dangerous. You could get kidnapped just walking down the road. That female Dou Emperor really was..."

Thinking about what that female Dou Emperor had done after capturing him in the Simulator, Xiao Ming could not help but twitch at the corners of his mouth.

Logically speaking, after being captured, since she was a female Dou Emperor, following her should have produced some high-level entries no matter what—things like Grade Six Medicinal Pills, high-grade Cultivation Methods, precious medicinal ingredients, and so on.

It could be said that getting captured was not entirely a bad thing. After all, it had only happened in the Simulator and could not truly affect him. At the very least, it added a little more value to the prize pool, right?

Such things were quite common for a high-level Dou Emperor. Even if he could not obtain them, she could at least mention them.

Besides, his simulated self was at least considered a high-level Alchemist on the Northwest Continent. She should have made use of him somehow, right? But look at what she had done!

During the hundreds of days he had been captured by her, his Dou Qi had been sealed from beginning to end. The thing that appeared most often was actually a Grade Two Medicinal Pill called the Vigorous Vitality Returning Pill. Other high-grade pills and Cultivation Methods had only appeared once or twice.

Damn!

The only fortunate thing was that he had not drawn that damned Vigorous Vitality Returning Pill. Just hearing its name made it sound improper. It was useless to him!

"Phew..." Xiao Ming let out a soft breath, calmed his emotions, and began making his choice from the options provided by the Simulator in his mind.

[Grade Three Medicinal Pill Marrow Cleansing Ice Spirit Liquid, six hundred thousand gold coins, Second-Tier Wind Attribute Magic Core.]

The Second-Tier Wind Attribute Magic Core was not worth considering. At most, it was worth a little over ten thousand gold coins.

It could not compare to either the Marrow Cleansing Ice Spirit Liquid or six hundred thousand gold coins.

However, Elder Huo had found the formula for the Marrow Cleansing Ice Spirit Liquid specifically to remove the Fire Poison from his body.

It was useless to him now. For a Grade Three Medicinal Pill like this, six hundred thousand gold coins could buy plenty of medicinal ingredients. He could refine several bottles himself whenever he wanted.

The choice was obvious.

"I didn't expect pure gold coins to be the best option again this time."

Xiao Ming touched the four or five Na Rings strung together by a cord and hanging around his neck. Thinking back on all his draws over the years, he sighed.

What he truly wanted were Heaven and Earth Strange Objects like Heavenly Flames and Mysterious Water.

He could no longer remember exactly how many times he had drawn over the years, nor had he ever deliberately counted. Roughly calculating now, there had probably been more than two hundred draws.

Whenever he drew an item, what appeared most frequently among the three options?

Gold coins, Cultivation Methods, Dou Skills, medicinal ingredients, pills, and weapons—the six of them appeared most often.

Because these were the most common things most cultivators needed and could afford.

Of course, after becoming an Alchemist, he interacted with many other Alchemists as well. Pill Formulas, precious medicinal ingredients, and Magic Cores had also begun appearing more frequently.

Xiao Ming collectively called them the Simulator's Eight Great Heavenly Kings.

If the items drawn from the Simulator were treated as a prize pool, then the process of Life Simulation was equivalent to adding prizes into that pool.

Even without something like a Drop Rate, the more items there were of a certain type, the greater the chance of drawing them.

With the Eight Great Heavenly Kings around, rare things like Heavenly Flames naturally had the lowest probability in a prize pool containing hundreds or thousands of items. Ever since he had drawn the Fallen Heart Flame for the first time, he had never drawn one again.

This also showed that although simulations could indeed produce good things, drawing a specific item he wanted was truly rather difficult.

Fortunately, since the Eight Great Heavenly Kings were things everyone needed and encountered most often, there were genuinely quite a few good things among them.

For example, Xiao Ming had drawn tens of thousands of gold coins like before more than thirty times. Although he had not gotten six hundred thousand every time, altogether they added up to nearly eight million gold coins.

That was right, you heard correctly. He had obtained more than eight million gold coins from the Simulator—the Xiao Family's total income over eighty years.

Many fairly powerful factions in the Black Corner Region could not even produce that amount of money.

Gold coins were only the smaller portion. The Cultivation Methods and Dou Skills he had obtained from the Simulator were the real bulk: thirty-three Profound Tier Low Grade Dou Skills and Cultivation Methods, nineteen Mysterious Rank Middle Grade Cultivation Methods and Dou Skills, and ten Profound Tier High Grade Cultivation Methods and Dou Skills.

There were three Earth Tier Low Grade Cultivation Methods and Dou Skills: the Ice Attribute Cultivation Method "Cold Heaven Ice Ground," the Lightning Attribute Cultivation Method "Nine Revolutions Startling Thunder Technique," and the Fire Attribute Dou Skill "Vast Righteous Astral Flame Sword."

One Fire Attribute Earth Tier Middle Grade Dou Skill, "Three Flame Ethereal Seal."

One Di Rank Advanced attribute-less Cultivation Method, "Spirit Nourishing Technique."

Besides those, there were also medicinal pills.

The pills obtained from the Simulator included two bottles of Grade Two Medicinal Pill Essence Cultivating Pill, five bottles of Ice Heart Pill, one Ice Spirit Pill, one bottle of Spirit Nourishing Pill, one Ice Muscle Jade Bone, two bottles of Bone Generating Pill, and one Qi Nourishing Powder.

Grade Three Medicinal Pills included Wind Walking Pill, Qi Returning Pill, Spirit Awakening Pill, Swift Wind Spirit Pill... ten bottles in total.

Grade Four Medicinal Pills included one bottle of Qi Nourishing Powder, two Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pills, one Foundation Strengthening Pill, two bottles of Beast Strength Pill, two Three-Pattern Body Green Spirit Pills, and one Spirit Raising Pill.

Grade Five Medicinal Pills included one each of King Breaking Pill, Blood Lotus Pill, and Qi Cultivation Pill.

Low-grade Grade Six Medicinal Pills included one each of Emperor Breaking Pill and Vitality Pill.

Peak Grade Six Medicinal Pills included one each of Azure Nether Longevity Pill and Qi Burning Pill.

Grade Seven and above Medicinal Pills included one each of Life Devouring Pill and Life Returning Pill.

Whenever the Life Simulator gave medicinal pills, it either gave one pill or one bottle. A standard bottle contained three pills.

There were also quite a few weapons. However, the best one he had drawn was a sword containing a Tier Five Fire Attribute Magical Core, which he had obtained on his way to Jia Nan Academy. Xiao Ming had sold all the other weapons, earning around one million gold coins.

There were six or seven precious medicinal herbs, one Fifth Tier Wood Attribute Magical Beast's Beast Flame, one Peach Blossom Flame, one four-mouthed medicinal cauldron, and one Tier Five Ice Attribute Magical Core.

Two Grade Two Medicinal Pill formulas, one Grade Three Medicinal Pill Soul Scroll for recovering Dou Qi, and one Grade Six Medicinal Pill Soul Scroll for increasing physical constitution.

Great completion cultivation experience for "Three Flame Ethereal Seal," refinement experience for the Grade Three Medicinal Pill Swift Wind Spirit Pill...

Five Na Rings, including one fiery red Intermediate Storage Ring. The rest were all Low-grade Storage Rings.

Thanks to those Na Rings, Xiao Ming had been able to store so many gold coins. After all, the gold coins given by the Life Simulator were all physical cash.

Other than that, the rest were some worthless little trinkets.

After thinking it over carefully, Xiao Ming truly realized that he had obtained quite a lot of good things from the draws.

If he sold all of them, Xiao Ming felt that he could compete for the title of Jia Nan Academy's richest man.

After all, besides the things he had obtained from the Life Simulator, Xiao Ming had also refined quite a few pills himself.

There were also the Cultivation Methods, Dou Skills, medicinal pills, Pill Formulas, and other things his teacher, Elder Huo, had given him.

All of those combined were Xiao Ming's complete fortune.

Competing for the title of Jia Nan Academy's richest man was not too much, was it?

Of course, Xiao Ming had no plans to sell these things for now. After all, he already possessed a powerful source of cash flow.

Therefore, Xiao Ming planned to keep these Cultivation Methods and Dou Skills for himself, then bring them back to the Xiao Family later to add to its foundation.

After all, the Xiao Family had actually treated him quite well. Xiao Ming was not someone who forgot his roots. If he could help a little, then he would help.

Sometimes, when Xiao Ming thought about how the Xiao Family had once been one of the Eight Ancient Clans, only to decline to this point—where its highest Fire Attribute Cultivation Method was merely Yellow Tier High Grade, and its highest-level Dou Skill was only Mysterious Rank Middle Grade, with even those restricted to the Clan Leader and elders—he felt embarrassed for them.

Of course, he also knew why the Xiao Clan had declined so badly. Aside from the Xiao Family's own lack of ambition, the Ancient Clan should bear some responsibility as well. Some of the Xiao Family's former Dou Skills had definitely ended up in the Ancient Clan.

Gu Yuan had once promised Xiao Xuan that he would look after the Xiao Family. Yet it had ended up like this, and Gu Yuan had even sent Gu Xun'er to steal the Tou She Ancient God Jade. Xiao Ming truly felt that Gu Yuan should change his name to Gu Buqun.

Unfortunately, the cultivation world was simply one where the strong preyed upon the weak.

Xiao Ming had no way to deal with Gu Yuan right now. He could only increase the Xiao Family's foundation himself.