Fireworks Bloom, Energy Required to Redeem Simulation Times

The Medicine Gang members cursed angrily, then rose to their feet in fury.

Fists clenched, they intended to teach Su Yang a good lesson.

And to force him to reveal where the Spirit Stones were hidden.

This had already wasted half the night for them.

If Su Yang hadn't hidden the Spirit Stones so secretly, they would be embracing their little wives in their sleep right now.

As for what would happen to Su Yang after they found the Spirit Stones?

Did they even need to ask? Of course, they'd kill him and dispose of the body.

After all, according to Qingye Market's records, Su Yang was already dead.

"Kid Su, I'll give you a chance. Talk properly, where did you hide the Spirit Stones? We'll go easier on you when we beat you later."

"Exactly, your identity in Qingye Market is already that of a dead man. Hand over all the Spirit Stones, and we'll spare your life. Otherwise, even if we kill you, no one will know."

"Kid Su, you don't want to escape death only to die again so soon, do you?"

The Medicine Gang members pressed in aggressively.

But Su Yang merely shook his head slightly.

"I just don't understand. You're afraid of ghosts, why aren't you afraid of me?"

"What do you mean?" they asked, taken aback.

Then, they saw Su Yang's gaze sweep over them.

Immediately after, they felt their bodies begin to swell and expand from within, unable to stop it no matter how hard they tried.

Until.

With a bang.

The first flesh-and-blood firework was born.

Then came the second, the third...

After a single breath, over ten flesh-and-blood fireworks had bloomed.

Of the dozen or so people from the Medicine Gang, only two remained standing.

One was Old Wang, whom Su Yang had deliberately left alive.

The other was that young man.

He was a martial artist, his body several times tougher than an ordinary person's.

It would take Su Yang some effort to detonate his body using only the divine sense power triggered by his gaze.

There was no point in doing that.

Su Yang flicked his finger lightly, and a faint stream of Magical Power shot out, integrating into the young man's body.

Moments later, he too exploded into an even larger flesh-and-blood firework.

Su Yang's gaze fell upon Old Wang.

Old Wang immediately fell to his knees with a thud, kowtowing incessantly.

"Kid Su, no, Young Master Su, Grandpa Su, please don't kill me, don't kill me! I've always taken great care of you!

If I hadn't guided you to become an outer member of the Medicine Gang back then.

How would you have...?"

Old Wang paused, unsure what else to say.

Should I say how you were almost kicked to death by a cultivator? He definitely couldn't say that!

Brain dead, hurry up and think! Old Wang cursed inwardly.

But soon, he realized that in the two years he had known Su Yang, he hadn't actually done anything to benefit Su Yang or shown him any loyalty.

Instead, he had done plenty of things to exploit and harm him.

For example, the house Su Yang lived in was rented through a broker Old Wang found. The landlord asked for two Spirit Stones a year, and the broker took one, making it three Spirit Stones in total. But Old Wang quoted Su Yang five Spirit Stones a year, pocketing the extra two himself.

Another example, the Medicine Gang's commission for herb pickers was forty percent. But he had always taken forty-five percent from Su Yang, with the extra half-percent also going into his own pocket.

It's over, I'm dead.

The more Old Wang thought about what he had done to Su Yang, the more his spirit sank, until he was on the verge of despair.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you now. But you have to help me with something."

Su Yang's words pulled him back from the brink of hell to paradise.

"Okay, okay! As long as I can live, I'll agree to anything!" Old Wang nodded repeatedly.

Under the threat of death, Old Wang felt he could do anything.

"It's very simple. You'll help me deliver a message to the Medicine Gang's higher-ups. Tell them to wait in the Gang Leader's courtyard. I'll be there in an hour to take their lives, understand?"

"Got it, got it, got it!"

Old Wang nodded repeatedly, not daring to believe that Su Yang would let him go just for delivering a message.

"Then get lost!"

Old Wang scrambled away from Su Yang's house.

Then he took off running as fast as his legs could carry him.

He was afraid Su Yang would go back on his word.

As for delivering the message?

He would certainly do it.

But not to follow Su Yang's orders.

It was to prepare the gang, so Su Yang would have nowhere to hide.

Although Su Yang had shown superhuman strength, he didn't believe Su Yang could compare to the Medicine Gang's vice leader and leader.

The three of them had been cultivators for decades, and they had a record of killing other cultivators.

What could a teenage boy, even if he luckily became a cultivator, possibly compare to?

After confirming Old Wang had left, Su Yang smiled slightly.

Everything was proceeding according to the simulation. Old Wang would be a very good messenger.

As for now?

He wasn't like in the simulation, brewing a cup of clear tea and waiting.

Instead, he swept his divine sense, picking out all the spirit stones from the Medicine Gang members who had died here.

Not many, less than 50.

He flicked his finger again, using his magical power to dig up the spirit stones his previous self had buried under the second date tree in the backyard. There were exactly 40.

Adding them up, it was over 80 spirit stones.

"I wonder how many spirit stones it will take if I convert energy into simulation counts now. Let's try."

"System, convert these spirit stones into energy points."

[Converting...]

[Conversion complete. Gained 87 energy points.]

"87 energy points. It looks like one spirit stone converts to about one energy point."

"System, convert all energy into simulation counts!"

[Exchanging...]

[Exchange failed.]

"30,000 points, that's so much!"

Su Yang was greatly shocked.

He had expected that becoming Foundation Establishment Layer 3 would require a lot of simulation energy, but he hadn't expected it to be this much!

30,000 simulation energy points, according to the exchange rate between energy and spirit stones, that would be 30,000 spirit stones.

The original host had worked hard for over two years. If not for his later good luck and finding a precious spirit herb, he had only earned 60 spirit stones.

At the original host's earning speed, it would take 500 years to get 30,000 spirit stones.

Great Cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage could only live up to 300 years at most.

Even if Su Yang gave his current lifespan to the original host, the original host wouldn't be able to earn enough spirit stones for one simulation before dying.

"If I exchanged simulation counts multiple times at the Qi Refining Realm and used them for the Foundation Establishment stage, it would be much more cost-effective."

Su Yang had an idea, but it was too late.

However, finding a way to earn more spirit stones at the Foundation Establishment stage and exchanging them for simulation counts to use for the later Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages would have the same effect.

Anyway, with his current identity, obtaining a large number of spirit stones shouldn't be a problem.

[Detected that you have thoughts of exploiting a loophole. We hereby inform you that the loophole you are thinking of does not exist. When your major realm breaks through, all simulation counts exchanged with energy will be returned to energy.]

"So ruthless, not giving me any chance at all!" Su Yang looked at the subtitles that suddenly appeared before him, wanting to cry but having no tears.

This simulation system was too unfeeling.

[However, when a minor realm breaks through, the simulation counts previously exchanged will not be converted back into energy.]

"Does the system mean that breaking through a minor realm will also increase the energy required to exchange for simulation counts?"

[Yes.]

"So, if I were at Foundation Establishment Layer 1, the simulation energy required wouldn't be 30,000 points, but 10,000 points."

[Your intelligence is truly admirable.]

"Then, if I were at Qi Refining Layer 1, how much energy would be required for the first simulation count exchange of the month?" Su Yang asked.

[Requires 100 points.]

"What about the second time in the same month?"

[200 points.]

"The third time?"

[400 points.]

Su Yang finally understood.

This Identity Simulation System was a big bug, it wouldn't let him get stuck, but it would actively leave some small loopholes for him.

For minor realm breakthroughs, the simulation count wouldn't be converted back into energy because the energy cost for each subsequent use within the month increased exponentially. You couldn't take too much advantage of it.

It was like it was actively giving him a few small favors.

But major realms were different. The energy converted from simulation counts for major realms was 100 times that of the previous realm.

You want to exploit this bug? That's not allowed.

"Damn it, why does this system feel like the capitalists from my past life, understanding how to manage people?" Su Yang scratched his head.

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