NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 10
Chapter 10: First Acquisition of Spiritual Stones, Stepping on the Path of Immortality!
Translator: yikaii Editor: yikaii
【Jin Congxue hesitated for a moment before telling you that the Demon Subjugation Pass is the lifeline of humanity. Humanity faces extremely powerful enemies, and the situation at the Demon Subjugation Pass is currently not optimistic.】
【You wanted to ask more, but Jin Congxue refused to continue talking.】
【The next day, you sent Jin Congxue off to the Demon Subjugation Pass.】
【A month later, you attended Jin Congxue’s funeral. You felt neither joy nor sorrow, only a desire to enhance your strength as much as possible.】
【You chose to sell all your assets, obtaining over 50 billion in cash.】
【You used this money to purchase a large number of body-strengthening items, aiming to break through to the second level of the body refinement realm: the Bone Refinement Stage.】
【Three years passed, and your body refinement progress continued to improve, but you always felt just a bit short of the Bone Refinement Stage. Despite your efforts, you couldn’t break through.】
【Finally, the familiar day from your memories arrived.】
【A colossal beast covering the sky appeared above the Great Xia Country.】
【Countless citizens of the Great Xia Country were terrified, and several golden figures soared into the sky to attack the beast!】
【They failed, and the colossal beast swallowed the entire Great Xia Country in one gulp.】
【Before being swallowed, you widened your eyes and flipped off the beast in the sky.】
【You died at the age of thirty-six!】
【You activated the Unyielding Gaze talent!】
【Swallowed into the beast’s stomach, you realized not everyone died immediately.】
【The beast’s stomach was extraordinarily vast, like a world of its own.】
【The ground started to tremble constantly, and an unknown energy began to corrode all life and matter around it…】
【Your eyes were digested into part of the beast, rendering the Unyielding Gaze talent ineffective!】
【Ding, this simulation ends!】
【You can choose one of the following rewards: You’ve Gone Bald, But Not Stronger (Talent), Half-Step Bone Refinement Stage (Cultivation), Second Level of Qi Refining Stage (Cultivation), Two and a Half Spiritual Stones (Item)】
Here it is! Bringing out the Spiritual Stones was successful!
Su Xing, suppressing his excitement, checked the costs of these rewards.
【You’ve Gone Bald, But Not Stronger】: White Talent, costs 1000 energy.
【Half-Step Bone Refinement Stage】: Cultivation, costs 500 energy.
【Second Level of Qi Refining Stage】: Cultivation, costs 100 energy.
【Two and a Half Spiritual Stones】: Item, costs 2500 energy.
Su Xing touched his thick hair, not even glancing at the ridiculous talent.
However, the Half-Step Bone Refinement Stage cultivation caught his attention for a moment.
From the simulator’s description, it seemed that in this simulation, he was genuinely just a hair’s breadth away from breaking through to the Bone Refinement Stage, but couldn’t do so.
Perhaps it was due to a lack of talent, body refinement techniques, or suitable body refinement materials?
Su Xing couldn’t be sure, but the Spiritual Stones he desired the most were right in front of him.
“Surprisingly cheap…”
Su Xing raised an eyebrow. He understood that Spiritual Stones might not be particularly valuable items, just extremely scarce in the real world.
“Redeem Two and a Half Spiritual Stones!”
【Ding, you have chosen to bring back the Spiritual Stones from the simulation, consuming 2500 points of energy. Remaining energy: 18,940 points.】
Three thumb-sized Spiritual Stones appeared in Su Xing’s hand.
The Spiritual Stones were crystal clear and warm like jade. Just being close to them made Su Xing feel refreshed.
Two of the stones were as large as thumbs, while one was only the size of a pinky finger, likely having been partially consumed in the simulation.
“Calculating it this way… a Spiritual Stone is worth about 1000 energy points…”
Su Xing began to study the Spiritual Stones in his hand.
First, he asked the simulator about the recycling price of the Spiritual Stones.
【Ding, detected one low-grade Spiritual Stone, recycle price: 100 energy points. Recycle?】
Su Xing: ???
What the heck!
It cost me 1000 energy points to bring it out, and the recycle price is only 100 energy points? This simulator is a rip-off!
“Damn it, if only there were no unscrupulous second-hand dealers making a profit in the world!”
Su Xing complained.
Then, he held the half-Spiritual Stone in his palm, sat cross-legged, and began to circulate the Everlasting Spring Technique.
A gentle, warm aura flowed from the Spiritual Stone into his palm, spreading throughout his body, making him feel mentally refreshed and completely comfortable.
“Hiss~ Is this the feeling of absorbing spiritual energy?”
Su Xing’s eyes widened. As the spiritual energy entered his body, he could feel subtle changes occurring within himself.
Su Xing continued cultivating for an hour before feeling that his meridians could no longer absorb any more spiritual energy.
At the same time, the Spiritual Stone in his hand had shrunk by about one-twentieth.
“Indeed, one Spiritual Stone should probably be enough for me to cultivate for half a month!”
Su Xing’s eyes were filled with desire, but he chose not to continue absorbing the energy.
The few Spiritual Stones he had could be put to better use!
For the next week, Su Xing continued his usual routine of training, farming dungeons, and earning equipment, accumulating another fifty thousand coins in just a week.
During this time, he did not absorb any more Spiritual Stones for cultivation.
One day, the cooldown period for the simulator reset.
Su Xing took a deep breath and held the Spiritual Stone, ready to test a theory.
“Start simulation!”
【Simulation consumes 600 energy points, remaining energy: 18,340 points, remaining simulation attempts: none.】
【Simulation begins!】
【Drawing a white talent costs 100 energy points, drawing a green talent costs 1000 energy points. Proceed?】
“Draw a white talent!”
【Ding, congratulations on obtaining the white talent: Fitness Enthusiast.】
【Fitness Enthusiast】: You have a greater talent for physical training compared to ordinary people.
Su Xing was momentarily stunned upon seeing this talent, then realized and murmured:
“Could this Fitness Enthusiast be a talent for body refinement?”
This unexpected talent disrupted Su Xing’s plan, but he decided to continue with the simulation to see how it played out.
【In your dorm, you stared blankly at the two and a half Spiritual Stones in your hand.】
【You began absorbing the spiritual energy from the Stones. As the energy entered your body, your Qi Refining cultivation improved slightly.】
【Over the next month, you spent your days taking freshman girls to dungeons to level up and make money, and in your spare time, you absorbed the Spiritual Stones to enhance your cultivation.】
【With a decent Qi Refining technique and sufficient Spiritual Stones, your cultivation advanced rapidly.】
【In just one month, your cultivation reached the fourth level of the Qi Refining stage.】
【On November 10, 2023, you left Beijing Awakened University and bought a high-speed train ticket to Nanjing.】
【By the following evening, you successfully arrived in Nanjing.】
【You spent a week searching outside the western part of Nanjing, hoping to find the dungeon that Jin Congxue had mentioned.】
【But you found nothing and did not locate the dungeon named “Azure Cloud Spiritual Field.”】
【You did not give up and continued searching.】
【A few days later, outside the western part of Nanjing, you encountered a woman who was exceptionally beautiful but appeared very cold.】
【You had a premonition that this woman might be Jin Congxue!】
(End of the chapter)