Chapter Summaries

Su Xing drew a Wood-Fire Dual Variant True Spiritual Root and used his accelerated cultivation and alchemy skills to earn the Advent Sect’s trust. He became its Eighteenth Elder, Elder Medicine, while reaching the Golden Core Stage Fifth Level.

• Su Xing gained 700,000 Simulation Energy from Jin Congxue’s equipment and drew the Blue Talent Wood-Fire Dual Variant True Spiritual Root.
• Su Xing cultivated in the Spiritual Field Blessed Land and advanced to the Golden Core Stage Third Level within a year.
• Su Xing and Wang Qingxuan joined the Advent Sect, where he earned Guardian Shadow’s attention while concealing his alchemy Talent.
• Su Xing revealed that he could refine Healing Pills and Essence Nurturing Pills, then negotiated with Guardian Shadow for herbs and a supply of ingredients.
• Su Xing spent half a year refining pills and cultivating, reached the Golden Core Stage Fifth Level, and was appointed the Advent Sect’s Eighteenth Elder, Elder Medicine.

Su Xing rose to Elder in the Advent Sect, secretly gave the Great Xia Military a large cache of pills to help humanity resist the Alien Race, and was exposed. He escaped into the Spiritual Field Blessed Land, where he continued tempering his Golden Core.

• Su Xing became an Elder, appointed Wang Qingxuan as his secretary, and spent several years cultivating until he reached Golden Core Stage Great Perfection.
• Su Xing refused Guardian Shadow’s offer to alter his organs with a Shadow Beast and considered helping humanity as the Alien Race’s invasion accelerated.
• Su Xing disguised himself, met Lu Yuanwu with help from Jin Congxue, and secretly gave Lu Yuanwu tens of thousands of pills for the Great Xia Military.
• Guardian Shadow and Guardian Zong confronted Su Xing after discovering the pills had reached the Great Xia Military, and Su Xing fled into the Spiritual Field Blessed Land.
• Su Xing cultivated in safety, and by the twelfth year his Golden Core had improved and neared the point of condensing into a High-Grade Golden Core.

After Su Xing’s simulation showed that his High-Grade Golden Core and Essence Nurturing Pills delayed the Real World’s destruction, he chose his next rewards and considered new ways to earn Simulation Energy. He decided to start refining Healing Pills for sale.

• Su Xing’s simulation reached the fourteenth year, when his Golden Core became High-Grade, before a giant beast destroyed Great Xia on March 8, 2038.
• Su Xing concluded that helping Great Xia’s military had delayed the Real World’s destruction and reviewed the simulation’s rewards.
• Su Xing found he lacked enough energy to claim both the Wood-Fire Dual True Spiritual Root and Golden Core Stage Great Perfection cultivation.
• Su Xing rejected increasing Beauty Pill production because it could saturate the market and lower prices.
• Su Xing chose to refine Healing Pills, which were inexpensive to make and could compete with popular Intermediate Healing Potions.

Su Xing mass-produced Healing Pills and traded with Jin Congxue for White Quality Equipment, then used the equipment to gain enough Simulation Energy to advance his Spiritual Root and cultivation. The chapter ended as his newly acquired Golden Core Stage Great Perfection cultivation began surging through him.

• Su Xing asked Jin Congxue to gather more White Quality Equipment and told her about his new Healing Pills.
• Su Xing spent five days refining Beauty Pills and Healing Pills, then gave Jin Congxue the pills and a bottle of Essence Nurturing Pills.
• Su Xing asked Jin Congxue to secure at least 200,000 White Quality Equipment pieces each week, and she delivered 150,000 pieces for the current week.
• Su Xing and Jin Congxue shared a meal and spent the night together before he returned to his dormitory.
• Su Xing converted 200,000 pieces of White Quality Equipment into Simulation Energy and exchanged energy for a Wood-Fire Dual True Spiritual Root and Golden Core Stage Great Perfection cultivation.
• Su Xing's Spiritual Root evolved, and his cultivation momentum began to surge.

Su Xing reached Golden Core Stage Great Perfection after his core advanced to High-Grade, then began his twenty-first simulation with the new talent As Handsome as Pan An. In the simulation, he joined the Advent Sect, became one of Guardian Shadow’s alchemists, and eventually condensed a First Revolution Golden Core.

• Su Xing’s Golden Core became High-Grade, and his cultivation surged to Golden Core Stage Great Perfection.
• Su Xing continued refining pills, then began his twenty-first simulation and drew the Blue Talent As Handsome as Pan An.
• In the simulation’s first year, Su Xing cultivated the Nine Revolutions Golden Core method and joined the Advent Sect with Wang Qingxuan.
• In the second year, Su Xing joined Guardian Shadow’s faction and negotiated a steady supply of spiritual herbs in exchange for pills.
• In the third year, Su Xing’s Golden Core gained a profound pattern, marking his success in condensing a First Revolution Golden Core.

Su Xing’s simulated self cultivated the Nine Revolutions Golden Core, rebuilding his cultivation after each revolution while secretly supplying the Great Xia Military with Organ Refinement Pills. By year thirteen, he had reached Golden Core Stage Great Perfection again, and Guardian Shadow had unexpectedly seen his unmasked face.

• Su Xing’s simulated self completed the First Revolution Golden Core, discovered that each revolution increased his Spiritual Power quality and capacity while dropping his cultivation by one realm, and rebuilt to Golden Core Stage Great Perfection.
• He became the Advent Sect’s Eighteenth Elder, codenamed Elder Medicine, and went on to cultivate the Second and Third Revolutions, rebuilding his cultivation after each one.
• He exchanged Contribution Points for Yellow Immortal Essence and refined tens of thousands of Organ Refinement Pills while continuing to work on the fourth revolution.
• After disguising his appearance and aura, he gave Lu Yuanwu nearly thirty thousand Organ Refinement Pills and told him to attribute them to a military alchemist.
• Su Xing’s simulated self completed the Fourth Revolution and rebuilt to Golden Core Stage Great Perfection, but Guardian Shadow unexpectedly saw his face when she visited his residence.

Su Xing completed his Five Revolutions Golden Core in the simulation, then claimed its quality and the As Handsome as Pan An talent without losing his current cultivation. After preparing pills for the week, he met Wang Qingxuan, who lost her nerve when she saw how handsome he was.

• Su Xing pretended he could not refine the high-quality Organ Refinement Pill, then secretly cultivated until he formed a Five Revolutions Golden Core; the apocalypse arrived on April 7, 2038, and he died.
• Su Xing chose the Five Revolutions Golden Core quality and As Handsome as Pan An as his simulation rewards.
• Su Xing gained a Five Revolutions Golden Core while retaining Golden Core Stage Great Perfection, and realized that the talent changed how others perceived his appearance.
• Su Xing spent four days refining Beauty Pills and Healing Pills for the coming week.
• Wang Qingxuan asked Su Xing to meet her in the school woods, but became too shy to speak after seeing him.

Su Xing drew the Blue Talent Business Prosperity and used it in a simulation to rapidly expand the Tarot Merchant Association. He joined the Advent Sect with Wang Qingxuan and advanced his pill refining and cultivation before Guardian Shadow asked him to secretly prepare pills for her.

• Wang Qingxuan offered to become Su Xing's mistress after seeing him with an older woman, and Su Xing urged her not to take that path.
• Su Xing gave Jin Congxue pills and converted her 320,000 pieces of White Quality equipment into enough Simulation Energy to exceed two million points.
• Su Xing began his twenty-second simulation and drew the Blue Talent Business Prosperity.
• Jin Congxue helped Su Xing acquire the Soaring Cloud Merchant Association's assets, allowing the Tarot Merchant Association to grow tenfold and become one of the Capital's leading merchant groups.
• Su Xing joined the Advent Sect with Wang Qingxuan, caught Guardian Shadow's attention with his pill refining, and condensed a Six Revolutions Golden Core in his second year.
• Guardian Shadow asked Su Xing to refine a batch of pills for her in secret.

Su Xing accepted Guardian Shadow’s secret requests for Essence Nurturing Pills while advancing his pill-mark inscription and building a stockpile of pills. In the thirteenth year, Advent Sect leaders confronted him, and Guardian Zong accused him of betraying the sect by refining Organ Refinement Pills.

• Guardian Shadow asked Su Xing to secretly refine five thousand Essence Nurturing Pills and agreed to supply extra ingredients and Yellow Immortal Essence.
• Su Xing completed Guardian Shadow’s requests for five thousand and then ten thousand Essence Nurturing Pills, while advancing to the Seventh and Eighth Pill Marks and returning to Golden Core Stage Great Perfection between inscriptions.
• Guardian Shadow warned Su Xing not to investigate why she needed the pills, and Su Xing suspected her behavior had changed because she had guessed his connection to the Tarot Society or his identity.
• Su Xing began inscribing the Ninth Pill Mark as Guardian Shadow grew more deeply fused with the Shadow Beast, and he gave Lu Yuanwu thirty thousand Organ Refinement Pills to present as the Great Xia Military’s work.
• Four Advent Sect Guardians and more than ten Elders arrived at Su Xing’s residence, where Guardian Zong accused him of betraying the sect and claimed an Organ Refinement Pill was his work.

Su Xing’s simulated self avoided being exposed after Guardian Shadow defended him, then completed the Nine Revolutions Golden Core in the fourteenth year. He met Guardian Shadow to discuss her loyalty and learned that she was deeply fused with a Shadow Beast, while she lamented that he still had a world and home to return to.

• Guardian Zong accused the simulated self of refining the Organ Refinement Pill, but Guardian Shadow and the other Elders and Guardians helped establish that he was not responsible.
• Guardian Shadow told the simulated self, “We’re even!” as the group left, and Su Xing suspected she was not wholly loyal to the Advent Sect.
• The simulated self kept a low profile and completed the Ninth Pill Mark in the fourteenth year, forming the Nine Revolutions Golden Core.
• The simulated self planned to give his accumulated Essence Nurturing Pills to the Great Xia Military and visited Guardian Shadow first.
• Guardian Shadow removed her mask, revealed Shadow Beast scales on her neck, and said the simulated self still had a home and a world to return to.

Su Xing’s simulation revealed that Guardian Shadow might have sought pills to save his own world, while Su Xing’s late delivery of pills helped humanity delay the Real World’s destruction by six months. The simulation ended with Su Xing’s death in Spatial Turbulence, leaving him determined to aid humanity earlier and recruit Guardian Shadow in future simulations.

• Su Xing suspected Guardian Shadow came from another world and had once tried to save it with pills.
• Su Xing gave Lu Yuanwu eighty thousand Essence Nurturing Pills, and Lu Yuanwu said they would slow the invasion but could not save humanity after Demon Suppressing Pass fell.
• Su Xing returned to watch his parents, but Old Dog Zong and several Advent Sect Elders hunted him after discovering his aid to the military.
• Su Xing hid in the Spiritual Field Blessed Land, regained Golden Core Stage Great Perfection, and began attempting a Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• The world collapsed on September 1, New Era 2038, and Spatial Turbulence killed Su Xing, six months later than the simulation’s former destruction date.
• After the simulation, Su Xing resolved to provide pills earlier to help defend Demon Suppressing Pass and to make Guardian Shadow an ally.

Su Xing selected the Business Prosperity talent and Nine Revolutions Golden Core as his simulation rewards, forming a perfect Golden Core that greatly strengthened his cultivation. He then focused on raising money to acquire the Soaring Cloud Merchant Association and began refining pills.

• Su Xing chose the Business Prosperity talent and Nine Revolutions Golden Core, spending 700,000 energy points.
• Su Xing's Golden Core gained its sixth through ninth pill marks, becoming a Nine Revolutions Golden Core and greatly increasing his spiritual power.
• Su Xing realized that his perfect Golden Core would also remedy flaws from his earlier cultivation and improve his prospects for future advancement.
• Su Xing planned to acquire the Soaring Cloud Merchant Association's assets but recognized he needed tens of billions of Great Xia Coin for the initial payment.
• Su Xing bought a large supply of medicinal herbs, entered the Spiritual Field Blessed Land, and began refining pills to raise money.

After refining pills for a week, Su Xing met Jin Congxue and agreed to help her acquire the Soaring Cloud Merchant Association. Jin Congxue planned to use the Jin Clan Merchant Group’s backing and Su Xing’s steady pill income to finance the purchase over six months.

• Su Xing spent seven sleepless days refining a thousand Beauty Pills, three hundred Supreme Beauty Pills, and eight hundred Healing Pills.
• Su Xing met Jin Congxue for dinner, gave her the week’s three hundred thousand pieces of White Quality equipment, and learned the Soaring Cloud Merchant Association was selling assets.
• Jin Congxue explained that the acquisition would require at least two hundred billion Great Xia Coins, but they could buy the association in phases.
• Su Xing gave Jin Congxue fifteen hundred Beauty Pills, five hundred Supreme Beauty Pills, and one thousand Healing Pills, worth 3.5 billion Great Xia Coins.
• Jin Congxue proposed using the pills as collateral for a loan and the Jin Clan Merchant Group as guarantor, aiming to complete the acquisition within half a year.

Su Xing used his new Plant Affinity Talent to accelerate spirit-plant growth while building trust within the Advent Sect. After becoming its Eighteenth Elder, he supplied Guardian Shadow with five thousand high-quality pills, and the simulation ended with him claiming he had joined to save the shattered world.

• Su Xing converted three hundred thousand pieces of White Quality Equipment into energy and began his Twenty-Third Simulation with three million energy points.
• Su Xing drew the Plant Affinity Talent and found that his spirit plants grew much faster when he tended them.
• Jin Congxue told Su Xing that the Soaring Cloud Merchant Association had been preliminarily acquired, and he supplied her with pills each week.
• Wang Qingxuan introduced Su Xing to the Advent Sect, where he cautiously earned trust by refining pills and became its Eighteenth Elder.
• Su Xing delivered five thousand high-quality pills to Guardian Shadow, who asked why he had joined the Advent Sect.
• Su Xing told Guardian Shadow that he shared her purpose of saving the shattered world.

Su Xing won Guardian Shadow’s alliance by offering Essence Nurturing Pills in exchange for her protection and Yellow Immortal Essence. After years of cultivation and pill-making, he learned that Giant Beast Descent had destroyed Guardian Shadow’s world, then broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage amid his grief.

• Su Xing convinced Guardian Shadow to ally with him, promising her at least five hundred Essence Nurturing Pills each month in return for her help and Yellow Immortal Essence.
• From the fourth through seventh years, Su Xing refined pills and cultivated, but his progress toward the Nascent Soul Stage slowed at a bottleneck.
• In the eighth year, Su Xing refined more than thirty thousand Essence Nurturing Pills and gave them to Guardian Shadow for distribution ahead of a disaster he expected.
• In the ninth year, Guardian Shadow told Su Xing that Giant Beast Descent had brought about the End of the World and that resistance was futile.
• As Su Xing grieved over Guardian Shadow’s loss, he broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage.

Su Xing broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage, allied with Guardian Shadow to help humanity, and delivered one hundred thousand pills to Lu Yuanwu before retreating to cultivate. By the thirteenth year, he was strengthening his Spiritual Sense, but the Spiritual Field Blessed Land’s spiritual energy was running thin.

• Su Xing reached the Nascent Soul Stage, renewed his alliance with Guardian Shadow, and learned that her name was Luo Shuying.
• Su Xing spent two years refining fifty thousand Organ Refinement Pills and fifty thousand Essence Nurturing Pills.
• Su Xing gave the pills and instructions to Lu Yuanwu so the Great Xia Military could prepare for the coming fall of Demon Suppressing Pass.
• Su Xing secretly visited his parents and entered the Spiritual Field Blessed Land to focus on cultivation.
• Su Xing found Nascent Soul cultivation slow, used Spirit Nurturing Pills to develop his Spiritual Sense, and noticed the blessed land’s spiritual energy was thinning.

Su Xing discovered that the Spiritual Field Blessed Land’s spiritual energy was running out, traced the problem to an exhausted Small Spirit Gathering Formation, and began cultivating Spirit Gathering Flowers to restore it. The simulation ended in 2040 after an Alien Beast attack, leaving Su Xing relieved that the apocalypse had been delayed but worried about his lack of spiritual energy.

• Su Xing realized that dwindling spiritual energy threatened his cultivation and pill refining, then searched for a way to replenish it in the simulation.
• In the fourteenth year, Su Xing found a hidden Small Spirit Gathering Formation beneath the Thatched Cottage and replenished it with Spirit Stones, but the energy soon ran out again.
• Su Xing discovered Spirit Gathering Flowers in the Shennong Spirit Cultivation Technique, found three seeds, and planted them to generate spiritual energy.
• In the seventeenth year, Su Xing accidentally drowned one flower while watering the others, then an Alien Beast attack shattered the space around him on February 16, 2040, killing him.
• After the simulation, Su Xing learned that his alliance with Guardian Shadow had delayed the apocalypse until 2040, but he remained alarmed by the Spiritual Field Blessed Land’s shortage of spiritual energy.

Su Xing exchanged Energy for Plant Affinity and Nascent Soul Stage First Level cultivation, then advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage and formed a Golden Nascent Soul. After calming himself and checking his status, he worried that having ten Talents might prevent him from obtaining more.

• Su Xing decided he would need to secure Spirit Gathering Flowers in future simulations to maintain his spiritual energy supply.
• Su Xing exchanged 100,000 Energy for Plant Affinity and 1,000,000 Energy for Nascent Soul Stage First Level cultivation.
• Su Xing's Nine Revolutions Golden Core shattered, forming a Golden Nascent Soul and bringing his cultivation close to the Nascent Soul Stage Second Level.
• Su Xing realized his spiritual power was far greater than before, but noted that he still lacked offensive methods beyond Li Fire and the Spirit Burst Technique.
• Su Xing drank and poured water from the Spiritual Well to steady himself, then resolved to wait until the Deity Transformation Stage before seeking revenge on Old Dog Zong.
• Su Xing checked his Professional Panel and worried that his ten Talents might limit his ability to obtain new ones.

After refining thousands of pills, Su Xing met Jin Congxue to exchange goods and learned that Exotic Metal could be converted into Simulation Energy. He left considering Tier 1 Exotic Metal as a more discreet alternative to White Quality Equipment and asked Jin Congxue whether she had any.

• The Simulator told Su Xing that he could expand his Talent Slots after obtaining ten Talents and freely swap Talents of different qualities.
• Su Xing spent a week refining three thousand Beauty Pills and Healing Pills, then gave them to Jin Congxue toward funding the acquisition of the Soaring Cloud Merchant Association.
• Jin Congxue gave Su Xing a Storage Ring containing White Quality Equipment and said the acquisition would include the Association's large stockpile of unsold equipment.
• Su Xing asked Jin Congxue about Exotic Metal because he wanted to craft more durable Alchemy Furnaces, and she gave him a piece of Tier 2 Exotic Metal.
• Su Xing discovered that the 300-kilogram piece could yield 60,000 Simulation Energy and asked Jin Congxue whether she had any Tier 1 Exotic Metal.

Su Xing obtained materials for two Alchemy Furnaces and used his twenty-fourth simulation to practice refining pills while infiltrating the Advent Sect. The simulation left him with improved alchemy efficiency and confirmation that Spirit Gathering Flowers could replenish spiritual energy, though too few flowers were growing to sustain the Spiritual Field Blessed Land.

• Jin Congxue explained the costs of Tier 1 Exotic Metal, promised to look for Tier 3 material, and arranged for two Alchemy Furnaces to be made from Tier 2 Exotic Metal.
• Su Xing converted 120,000 pieces of White Quality Equipment into energy and began his twenty-fourth simulation, drawing the Blue Talent Profound Buddhist Dharma.
• Su Xing planted Spirit Gathering Flower seeds, received the two Alchemy Furnaces from Jin Congxue, and learned to refine two batches of pills at once after a month of practice.
• Wang Qingxuan visited Su Xing, and he joined the Advent Sect before earning Guardian Shadow's favor by revealing some of his Alchemy Technique.
• Su Xing used Dual Tasking to refine hundreds of pills daily for the sect while advancing his cultivation, and he discovered that three mature Spirit Gathering Flowers raised the surrounding spiritual energy.