Upgrade, System 2.0!

Mu Xingqi's goal for tonight's New Year's Eve dinner was to improve the relationships between his family members. After all, they were all busy with clan affairs, which had caused their once close-knit family to grow distant.

However, he hadn't expected to resolve his father's inner turmoil; that was a pleasant surprise.

"Father is currently still condensing his Spirit Platform. According to his original fate, he wouldn't successfully reach Foundation Establishment until January of the fourth year."

"I'm now reforming the family's industries ahead of schedule, which means the family members will enjoy more resources."

During his last simulation, he had used some high-quality spiritual herbs obtained from the clan elders to speed up the process of condensing his Spirit Platform. Although condensing the Spirit Platform relied entirely on a cultivator's divine sense, certain spiritual herbs could enhance divine sense, thereby accelerating the process.

However, he hadn't heard of any spiritual herbs that could enhance divine sense within Jinzhou County. But there were spiritual herbs available in Jinzhou County that could temporarily boost divine sense, like injecting an stimulant into it.

The problem was that their prices had always been inflated, so the Mu Family, which had always lived frugally, naturally couldn't afford to buy them with Spirit Stones.

But now, things were different.

"Perhaps Father can also break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm ahead of schedule! Then we'll have three Foundation Establishment cultivators!"

"Mother just broke through to the eighth level of Qi Cultivation, and Xing'er only recently broke through to the fifth level of Qi Cultivation. The path to Foundation Establishment is long and arduous."

He would naturally find ways to improve his mother's and Xing'er's cultivation so they could also reach Foundation Establishment as soon as possible.

At the very least, on the path to Foundation Establishment, he wouldn't abandon any of his family members.

Regarding the clan, he needed to improve the welfare of the elders and disciples as much as possible at this stage, ensuring everyone in the clan had sufficient cultivation resources.

However, he wouldn't cultivate those who lacked ambition. He would definitely revise the clan rules later on.

For those who strove for progress, he would personally crown them!

He needed to build a powerful immortal cultivation family!

"Simulator, activate!"

Mu Xingqi shouted, summoning the Simulator.

He then poured all the Spirit Stones he had into the Simulator. These were rewards for being promoted to Young Clan Leader, along with a considerable share from helping the clan's industries become incredibly profitable.

However, he had bought a Yellow Grade Mid Rank storage bag, which cost him two hundred.

Even after pouring everything into the Simulator, he had:

[Simulation Points: 126]

"This should be enough for me to simulate three or four times!"

"No more having to endure the hardship of completing tasks every month just to simulate!"

"Begin simulation!"

[Simulator initializing]
[Detected host cultivation level increase, meeting system upgrade conditions. Do you wish to upgrade the system?]

"?"

"The system can be upgraded?"

"Do I need to ask? Upgrade it directly!"

[System upgrading...]
[System upgrade successful!]
[Simulated Life System 2.0 loaded!]
[System upgrade optimizations: 1. Simulated Talent Slot +1; 2. Random Simulated Talent probability increased (White 50%, Green 40%, Blue 9.9%, Purple 0.1%); 3. Can consume Simulation Points to refresh random Simulated Talents. Refresh cost equals initial Simulation Point deduction. 4. Settlement rewards increased from three to four.]

"Oh!"

"There are optimizations? An unexpected bonus!" Mu Xingqi exclaimed.

"This Simulated Talent Slot +1 is very useful. There were several occasions before where I was really tempted by the Simulated Talents I encountered! Now I don't have to agonize over them anymore!"

"And this probability increase, it's like it wasn't increased at all. Could it be that before it was 90% White, 9.9% Green, and 0.1% Blue? That's entirely possible. No wonder all the Simulated Talents I randomly got before were White!"

"And this refresh Simulated Talent is quite useless. The main issue is that the refresh cost equals the initial Simulation Point deduction. This means refreshing once is equivalent to restarting, so he might as well just restart.

"As for the fourth point, what's the use of adding one more optional reward? It doesn't let me choose an extra reward."

"Never mind, never mind. It's good enough that there are optimizations."

"Continue simulation." With that, Mu Xingqi looked at the simulation panel.

[Detected unsaved previous simulation talent. Do you wish to move Simulated Talent "Business Acumen (White)" into a Talent Slot?]
[Remaining Talent Slots: 1]

"Yes!"

He could always replace it later. Why not use the available Talent Slot now?

[Talent Slots: Simulated Memory (Blue), Business Acumen (White)]
[Simulator initializing]
[Deducting 100 Simulation Points]

[Simulating...]

[Randomly drawing simulation talent...]

[Drawing simulation talent: Proficient in Alchemy (Green)]

[Congratulations on obtaining the green simulation talent: Proficient in Alchemy!]

"Huh? No!"

What surprised Mu Xingqi wasn't that he had drawn a green simulation talent, but why it directly deducted 100 simulation points from him.

Could it be that because his cultivation had improved, the simulation points required were now more?

Last time, when he broke through from the early stage of Qi Condensation to the middle stage, it only increased by 10 simulation points. Even breaking through to the late stage of Qi Condensation only increased it from 20 to 30, a mere 10 points. But now, breaking through to Foundation Establishment required 100 simulation points?

This was simply robbery, and he couldn't even call the police.

"What a bandit system!"

He had just been thinking he could simulate three or four times, but now he'd been slapped twice. The face-slapping came so fast!

Curses aside, the simulation had to continue.

[Proficient in Alchemy (Green): You are passionate about learning alchemy knowledge, have your own views on the path of alchemy, and your intuition regarding alchemy has always been accurate. Your speed in learning pharmacology and alchemy is more than twice that of ordinary people.]

"Not bad, I can finally refine pills."

His mother was the head of the Pill Hall, so he naturally learned some alchemy knowledge from a young age, but he never had the chance to systematically study the art of alchemy.

However, he had always yearned for alchemy, especially refining pills by himself.

[Early morning, you wake up from your bed!]

[You subconsciously wipe the sweat from your forehead, feeling drenched all over.]

[You had a nightmare!]

[It felt so real, you thought it wasn't a dream.]

[You dreamt: After greatly reforming the family business, your Mu Family's Healing Powder successfully monopolized the entire market of Jinzhou County. But you were still not satisfied. Perhaps it was your inner desire for Spirit Stones, or perhaps it was your plan for the family to overcome difficulties. You unscrupulously promoted Mi San and Half Mi San, harming a large number of Rogue Cultivators in Jinzhou County for your selfish desires.]

[The Rogue Cultivators hated you deeply and even pooled money to hire assassins to kill you. Perhaps your actions truly went against the Heavenly Dao. The assassins coincidentally attacked you just as you were about to break through. Although your Grandfather discovered them in time and forced the assassins to commit suicide, your spiritual platform developed cracks. Later, with the help of your family, you spent a considerable price to repair your spiritual platform.]

[But this sudden change disrupted your original plan, forcing you to advance your schedule and travel with your Grandfather to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion in Lin Commandery City to purchase Spirit Treasures. Your Grandfather successfully brought back two Thunder Pearls and a Spirit Guarding Formation Flag. You had already anticipated the appearance of the old man, the Fire Cloud Evil God, and even made thorough preparations. You thought that as long as the old man, the Fire Cloud Evil God, dared to come, you would ensure he never returned!]

[Time flies, and August of the fourth year soon arrives. You have long been prepared to welcome the old man, the Fire Cloud Evil God, and he indeed arrives as scheduled!]

[But...]