While Others are Levelling Up, I Alone Will Cultivate Until Mahayana Before Making My Move - Chapter 24

Chapter 24: Learning Pill Refining, The Rich Lady’s Pill of Delights!

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Su Xing was somewhat delighted to see this.

From the beginning of his simulation until now, it had been over a dozen times, and finally, he had mastered an offensive technique.

A flame that could instantly melt gold must be quite formidable!

Su Xing continued the simulation.

【One day, Wang Qingxuan came to find you, bringing the first half of the Everlasting Spring Technique.】

【You did not accept the Everlasting Spring Technique; instead, you asked to join her organization.】

【At your request, Wang Qingxuan agreed and took you to meet an elder.】

【Learning from your previous lesson, you chose to lay low and develop steadily, completing only one or two tasks per month while focusing on learning pill refining.】

【You found that your Trigram Fire was still too weak, and the pills you refined were only semi-finished products.】

【So you devoted yourself to studying the Trigram Fire technique, and your mastery of Trigram Fire improved daily.】

【In the seventh year, you attended your sister’s funeral. After the funeral, you composed yourself and continued to study the Trigram Fire technique.】

【In the eighth year, through your relentless efforts, you achieved preliminary mastery of the Trigram Fire technique, doubling the power of Trigram Fire.】

【You felt that your mastery of Trigram Fire was sufficient to begin formally refining Fasting Pills.】

【Initially, you could only produce one or two finished pills per batch.】

【But you had enough spiritual rice to experiment with, so your proficiency in refining Fasting Pills increased.】

【By the tenth year, you had become extremely proficient in refining Fasting Pills, producing seven or eight finished pills out of every ten, occasionally creating top-quality Fasting Pills that could sustain a person for three months without eating while keeping them energetic.】

【That same year, you attended the funeral of your good friend, Yu Yan.】

【In the eleventh year, feeling that the time was ripe, you began learning to refine Beauty Pills.】

【Refining Beauty Pills was significantly more difficult than Fasting Pills, requiring over ten ingredients such as spiritual ginseng, peach kernels, Sichuan lovage rhizome, rehmannia root, and angelica root.】

【Fortunately, most of the ingredients, except for spiritual ginseng, were ordinary herbs that could be bought in the real world.】

【And you had planted dozens of ginseng plants ten years ago, which had now become ten-year spiritual ginseng through the nourishment of spiritual energy.】

【On your first attempt at refining Beauty Pills, unsurprisingly, you failed.】

【But with a determined heart, you did not give up. Within three months, you had refined Beauty Pills over a hundred times, gradually mastering the timing and techniques.】

【At this point, you had only one spiritual ginseng left, enough for three more batches of Beauty Pills.】

【Resolute, you began refining pills without hesitation.】

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【Fortunately, on your last attempt, you succeeded, producing three finished Beauty Pills.】

【You personally consumed one pill, expelling a large amount of impurities from your body. Your skin became more delicate and fair, and even the wrinkles at the corners of your eyes vanished completely.】

【You realized that Beauty Pills would be priceless treasures to wealthy ladies!】

【So you named the Beauty Pills “Rich Lady’s Pill of Delights.”】

(TL Note: This is based on a Chinese internet meme that supposes the existence of rich women who pay large sums of money to hire boy toys, then perform SM acts on them. One of the meme-jokes is that these rich women like to use steel wool pads to scrub their boy toys’ nether regions. The ‘artifacts’ used to do this are jokingly referred to as a ‘Rich Lady’s Ball of Delights’. Also, I absolutely stole this explanation from Keyboard Immortal, it’s also a novel I highly recommend and you can read it on wuxiaworld.)

【You approached Jin Congxue and sold her one Beauty Pill.】

【Nearing forty, Jin Congxue swallowed the pill. The wrinkles at the corners of her eyes gradually disappeared, and her skin became as smooth and tender as that of a woman in her twenties.】

【Jin Congxue was overjoyed and willing to pay one hundred million Great Xia Coins to purchase the pill from you.】

【She asked if you had more pills, but you had other plans for your last pill, so you shook your head.】

【After bidding farewell to Jin Congxue, you returned to Beijing and attempted to refine a lower-grade version of the Beauty Pill that did not require spiritual ginseng.】

【One day, an elder from the Adventists approached you and assigned you a task.】

【You accepted the task but soon discovered that you were not the only one assigned to it; hundreds of cult members were involved, including Wang Qingxuan.】

【You were surprised to discover that Wang Qingxuan had become a Heavenly Martial King level powerhouse and was the commander of this operation.】

【After not seeing each other for several years, Wang Qingxuan seemed much older. You gave her the last Beauty Pill you had.】

【Wang Qingxuan was very grateful for your concern. Despite the years apart, her feelings for you remained unchanged.】

【The night before the mission, Wang Qingxuan came to you and told you not to participate in this mission.】

【When you asked her why, she did not hide the truth. She bluntly told you that this mission was to cooperate with the demon race to leak human information at Demon Subjugation Pass, a mission with no chance of survival.】

【You were shocked and questioned why she betrayed humanity and joined the demon race. She gave a tragic smile and said she had no other choice.】

【She arranged for you to stay in a safe place, and you did not participate in the mission.】

【Not long after, the prices of restorative potions in the market began to skyrocket. You realized that this sudden price increase was probably related to the actions of the Adventists.】

【You felt troubled and deeply powerless, so you started working hard to develop a lower-grade version of the “Rich Lady’s Pill of Delights.”】

【A year later, after thousands of attempts, you finally succeeded in finding a way to replace spiritual ginseng with ordinary ginseng.】

【You developed a lower-grade version of the “Rich Lady’s Pill of Delights,” which had only one-tenth of the original’s efficacy.】

【You took a bottle of the lower-grade “Rich Lady’s Pill of Delights” to Jin Congxue, hoping she could tell you its value.】

【But Jin Congxue’s father told you that Jin Congxue had died in the Demon Subjugation Pass Dungeon.】

【You returned to Beijing in despair, only to be discovered by an elder of the Adventists.】

【The elder of the Adventists accused you of being a traitor. He personally killed you and crushed your skull.】

【You died, and this simulation ended!】

【You can choose one of the following rewards: Tenacity (Talent), Five Ninth-Generation Spiritual Chickens (Pet), Entry-Level Trigram Fire Technique (Technique Insight), Basics of Trigram Fire Pill Refining Technique (Pill Refining Insight).】

【Tenacity】: Green talent, priced at 10,000 energy points.

【Five Ninth-Generation Spiritual Chickens】: Spiritual pet, evolved through continuous feeding of spiritual rice, priced at 100,000 energy points.

【Entry-Level Trigram Fire Technique】: Ten years of comprehension experience, immediate preliminary mastery of the Trigram Fire Technique, priced at 100,000 energy points.

【Basics of Trigram Fire Pill Refining Technique】: Entry level pill refining experience, including mastery insights for Fasting Pills (Major Achievement) and Beauty Pills (Minor Achievement), priced at 100,000 energy points.

Su Xing was excited by the rewards this time but also gritted his teeth in frustration.

“Damn it, why can I only take back one reward?”

“I want both the entry level Trigram Fire Technique and the Tenacity talent!”

Su Xing complained in his heart. This simulation was initially to gain pill refining experience.

But unexpectedly, he obtained the overpowered Tenacity talent.

Su Xing knew very well that he overcame many difficult challenges in the simulation thanks to this talent.

For instance, the continuous ten years of day and night comprehension of the Trigram Fire Technique; without this talent, Su Xing had no confidence he could achieve it.

But choosing this talent meant he would have to relearn pill refining and the Trigram Fire Technique in the next simulation.

While Su Xing was struggling with his decision, a notification sounded in his mind:

【Ding! The host can spend 500,000 energy points to upgrade the simulator. Life Simulator 2.0 version features are as follows…】

(End of the chapter)