Harvesting Alchemy Insight, First Refinement of Rich Lady Happy Pills!

Lu Yuanwu sent you back. Looking at his calm face, you understood that the shocking scene you had just witnessed might be happening every day.

You knew there was only so much you could do—at most, refine more Grain Abstinence Pills to help those soldiers fight.

You threw yourself wholeheartedly into refining Grain Abstinence Pills, and your skill at refining them grew increasingly polished.

Half a year later, you could already refine eighty Grain Abstinence Pills every day.

In the fourteenth year, Lu Yuanwu came to find you one day and told you it was time to leave Demon Suppressing Pass.

Understanding dawned on you. You opened your mouth, but no words came out.

You followed a small group of Professionals out of Demon Suppressing Pass. You understood that Demon Suppressing Pass had fallen, and it was only a matter of time before the Alien Races invaded the Real World.

You returned to the Capital and continued your painstaking research into Alchemy Techniques.

You tried refining a Mansion Refining Pill. Unsurprisingly, you failed, but you did not give up.

In the fifteenth year, one day, after who knew how many failures, you finally refined a finished Mansion Refining Pill.

Overjoyed, you carefully swallowed the Mansion Refining Pill.

The qi and blood throughout your body surged madly. You felt pain in every inch of your meridians, five viscera and six bowels, and skin... Then, with a boom, your entire body exploded on the spot.

You died!

This simulation had ended!

You could choose two of the following rewards: Good Luck Streak (Talent), Bone Forging Great Perfection (Cultivation), Rudimentary Li Fire Alchemy Technique (Insight)

Good Luck Streak: Green Talent, priced at 10,000 Energy.

Bone Forging Great Perfection: Cultivation, priced at 11,000 Energy.

Rudimentary Li Fire Alchemy Technique: Alchemy experience below Entry Level, containing refinement insights for Grain Abstinence Pill (Great Accomplishment Stage), Beauty Pill (Great Accomplishment Stage), Qi Gathering Powder (Minor Accomplishment Stage), and Mansion Refining Pill (Entry Level), priced at 130,000 Energy.

Su Xing stood stunned for a long while before recovering from this simulation. He finally understood what Demon Suppressing Pass meant, and why that Giant Beast would descend upon the Real World fifteen years later and destroy humanity.

The Giant Beast had always existed; it had merely been held back beyond Demon Suppressing Pass. Once Demon Suppressing Pass fell, those Giant Beasts would descend into reality and destroy everything.

Su Xing took a deep breath and muttered:

"Good thing there are still fifteen years left. There's still time for everything... Damn it, if I can't save the world with fifteen years and hundreds of simulations, I might as well be a useless fool!"

But then Su Xing realized the cause of his death and complained:

"Fuck, an alchemist getting eaten to death by his own pills—this is just ridiculous!"

Su Xing felt rather helpless. He did not know why the Five Organ Pill he had refined had caused him to explode. Perhaps he had failed to control its medicinal properties properly?

"But the Simulator says my Mansion Refining Pill has already reached Entry Level. It should be because I didn't control the medicinal properties properly, right?"

Su Xing estimated that the Mansion Refining Pill needed to reach at least the Minor Accomplishment Stage before the pills it produced could avoid causing him to explode.

After adjusting his mindset, Su Xing began considering this simulation's rewards.

Without question, he had to bring back the Alchemy Technique. As for the remaining choice, it was between cultivation and the Good Luck Streak Talent.

After hesitating for a while, Su Xing still chose the Good Luck Streak Talent. After all, it could increase his chances of refining Top-grade Pills, which was effectively another way for him to earn Energy.

Once he had enough Energy, bringing back cultivation would naturally be easy.

Besides, Su Xing was currently at Kyoto Vocational University, where he was unlikely to encounter anything dangerous. His Foundation Establishment Stage Great Perfection cultivation was enough for now.

"I choose the Good Luck Streak Talent and the Li Fire Alchemy Technique!"

At the same time, a notification sounded in Su Xing's mind.

Ding! You have chosen to bring out the Green Talent "Good Luck Streak." Remaining Energy: 139,200 points.

Ding! You have chosen to bring out rudimentary Li Fire Alchemy Technique insight. Remaining Energy: 9,200 points.

As the notification faded, Su Xing felt countless pieces of knowledge and images instantly appear in his mind.

They were images of Su Xing in the Simulation studying Alchemy Techniques diligently day and night. As this knowledge entered his mind, Su Xing's Alchemy Insight rapidly improved.

A moment later, Su Xing felt as though he had truly refined countless pills with his own hands, and he understood all 360 Pill Recipes within the Li Fire Alchemy Technique like the back of his hand.

Of course, the only pills he could actually refine were those four kinds.

Looking at the mere 9,200 Energy remaining in the Simulator, Su Xing rubbed his temples and muttered:

"Next, I still need to make money!"

And what was the fastest way to make money? For the current Su Xing, it was undoubtedly refining the Low-Grade Version of the "Rich Lady Happy Pill"!

After all, Grain Abstinence Pills were not suitable for sale yet. They could easily attract unwanted attention.

Beauty Pills were different. They could make money without drawing too much notice.

More importantly, all the ingredients for the Low-Grade Beauty Pill could be bought.

Ginseng, peach kernel, Sichuan lovage, rehmannia root, angelica sinensis, and the like were all common medicinal herbs found in traditional medicine shops.

After deciding on his goal, Su Xing immediately took action, bringing the remaining five hundred thousand he had and making a trip to a medicinal herb shop in the Capital.

By evening, Su Xing had returned to his dormitory. Taking advantage of his roommates' absence, he entered his portable Spiritual Field Blessed Land.

Su Xing took out the battered Alchemy Furnace and placed it in the open space before the Thatched Cottage.

"These medicinal herbs should be enough for five or six batches, right?"

Su Xing estimated, then precisely divided the herbs he had bought into six portions, as though he had practiced it countless times before.

Then Su Xing began refining pills. The order in which each medicinal herb was added mattered, and even being two or three seconds too slow could result in failure.

Su Xing first placed the main ingredient, ginseng, into the Alchemy Furnace, then began using the Li Fire Alchemy Technique.

A scorching flame appeared in Su Xing's palm. He controlled the Li Fire as it rose and fell beneath the Alchemy Furnace, regulating the flames.

At one moment, fortune and spirit arrived, and Su Xing added another medicinal herb.

After adding the herbs, Su Xing continued controlling the Li Fire. From time to time, he even extinguished the flames to regulate the temperature within the Alchemy Furnace.

Two hours later, Su Xing successfully refined his first batch of Low-Grade Beauty Pills.

Those two hours of pill refinement were a tremendous test of mental focus. Beyond the order and timing of adding medicinal herbs, control over the Li Fire was also exceptionally important.

Sometimes the flames needed to be fierce, sometimes moderate, and sometimes low. Only by maintaining an overall temperature balance within the Alchemy Furnace could the refinement succeed.

After the refinement ended, Su Xing impatiently opened the furnace to see whether the Beauty Pills had been successfully refined.

As expected, there were eight or nine round, lustrous Beauty Pills inside the Alchemy Furnace, while one or two others were slightly damaged.

"Ten Beauty Pills in one batch, and eight or nine finished pills is already pretty good..."

Su Xing nodded with satisfaction.

At the same time, he looked at the battered Alchemy Furnace in surprise. His Li Fire could melt even metal and stone, yet this unremarkable Alchemy Furnace had not been damaged in the slightest.

"Looks like this Alchemy Furnace is a treasure too!"

Delight appeared on Su Xing's face. After resting for a moment, he began refining pills again.

Over the following week, Su Xing refined one batch of Beauty Pills and one batch of Grain Abstinence Pills every day.

Seven days later, Su Xing had accumulated a full fifty Low-Grade Beauty Pills. Three of them were especially effective and could maintain a youthful appearance for three months.

Su Xing calculated in his heart and muttered:

"Fifty-three Rich Lady Happy Pills are worth at least fifty-three million!"

Just as Su Xing was rejoicing, a message from Jin Congxue arrived on his phone.

"I'm at the entrance of Kyoto Vocational University. Want to meet up? Didn't you say you were going to give me the Spirit Rice?"

Su Xing realized that Jin Congxue had come to the Capital on business, and this was the perfect chance to sell the Rich Lady Happy Pills to her!

So Su Xing quickly replied:

"Where are you? I'll be right there! Besides the Spirit Rice, I've got something good here too!"