Others Level Up, but I Pursue Cultivation!

Selling Nourishing Face Pills could absolutely bring enormous profits to Su Xing.

However, Su Xing still did not know the specific profit margin. Once he could successfully bring the Li Fire Alchemy out from the simulator and refine a batch of Nourishing Face Pills, he would know.

[In the fifth year, due to your low-quality version of the Nourishing Face Pills, you achieved financial independence. You decided to continue deepening your research on Li Fire Alchemy.]

[Your perseverance was astonishing. You spent a year memorizing the three hundred and sixty pill recipes of Li Fire Alchemy and memorized all the steps. However, due to a lack of Spiritual Medicine, you were unable to successfully refine the pills.]

[In the sixth year, one day, Wang Qingxuan found you. Over the years, Wang Qingxuan had rarely contacted you, afraid of being exposed.]

[Wang Qingxuan brought you the first half of the Changchun Technique. You felt puzzled inside and asked her about the whereabouts of the second half.]

[Wang Qingxuan stated that her authority was not sufficient. She needed to reach the rank of Elder before she could exchange for the second half of the Changchun Technique.]

Su Xing was overjoyed upon seeing this. Although he could not obtain the second half of the Changchun Technique, it at least proved that the Descending Sect indeed had the second half of the Changchun Technique!

As for needing the Elder rank to exchange for it, according to previous simulations, the strength of an Elder in the Descending Sect needed to be at the Heavenly King Level.

Although obtaining the second half of the Changchun Technique was currently impossible for Su Xing, he had plenty of time and could conduct many simulations. Sooner or later, he would be able to access it.

Thinking this, a heavy weight in Su Xing's heart was lifted.

After all, only by possessing the second half of the Changchun Technique could he hope to become a Return to Void Realm cultivator. By then, he could go to the Qingyun Sect to find his cheap master Qing Yunzi.

[You gave Wang Qingxuan some Nourishing Face Pills. She liked your gift very much. That night, you tried new positions.]

[You didn't choose to join the Descending Sect but continued to focus on studying Immortal Techniques.]

[In the seventh year, after seven years of cultivation, your Spirit Chickens had already reproduced to the seventh generation. The intelligence of the seventh generation of Spirit Chickens was significantly high, even comparable to some high-IQ canines.]

[You ate Spirit Rice every day and could eat several Spirit Chicken eggs. Although you hadn't cultivated much over the years, you still became a cultivator at the ninth level of the Bone Forging Realm.]

[You began planning how to break through to the third major realm of Body Cultivation, the Organ Refining Realm.]

[One day, you heard of your little sister's death and attended her funeral.]

[You knew that Su Nianan died in the Demon-Subduing Pass dungeon, but with your current strength, you were still unable to change anything, so you immersed yourself in studying Immortal Techniques to improve your strength.]

[You struggled due to the lack of Body Refining Techniques, so you could only continue exploring the path of Body Cultivation.]

[One day, while researching Li Fire Alchemy, you suddenly remembered a type of elixir in the pill recipe called the Organ Refining Pill, which seemed to be able to strengthen the human body's five internal organs. Perhaps the Organ Refining Realm required the strengthening of these organs, so you began attempting to refine the Organ Refining Pill.]

[According to the description of Li Fire Alchemy, the Organ Refining Pill was different from the previous Nourishing Face Pills and Fasting Pills. It ranked in the lower grade among the three hundred and sixty kinds of pills, indicating a significant difference in difficulty compared to the previous pills of no grade.]

[In the eighth year, you painstakingly studied the Organ Refining Pill for a year, simulated countless refining practices in your mind but still lacked an ingredient called Yellow Immortal Essence.]

[Yellow Immortal Essence was the main ingredient of the Organ Refining Pill. Consuming it had the effect of replenishing qi and nourishing yin, benefiting the spleen, moisturizing the lungs, and benefiting the kidneys. It was tremendously beneficial to the five internal organs of the human body.

However, the Shennong Spiritual Nurturing Technique also mentioned that cultivating Yellow Immortal Essence was not easy; it loved Yin Water and required at least three years to mature.]

[So, in the next three years, you simultaneously learned the Shennong Spiritual Nurturing Technique while cultivating Yellow Immortal Essence.]

[In the eleventh year, after three years of cultivation, you successfully grew a few Yellow Immortal Essence plants and started attempting to refine the Organ Refining Pill.]

[Although you had simulated the refining process of the Organ Refining Pill hundreds of times in your mind, when you truly started, you found it much more difficult than imagined.]

[First, you didn't have enough control over the Li Fire Technique. Refining a batch of Organ Refining Pills required several hours of simmering, but the spiritual energy and mana within you were insufficient to sustain you for that long.]

[So, you held a Spirit Stone to replenish your spiritual energy while using the Li Fire Technique to refine the Organ Refining Pills.]

[You barely managed to sustain it for several hours but ended up exhausted. When you opened the furnace to retrieve the pills, you discovered that the Organ Refining Pills had not formed at all. Due to your poor control of the heat, the Organ Refining Pills had become a lump of black sludge.]

Su Xing was speechless when he saw this and muttered:

"The difficulty of refining the Organ Refining Pill cannot be compared to that of the Nourishing Face Pills and Fasting Pills at all… Given my alchemy level in the simulator, refining the Organ Refining Pill is still too difficult. Perhaps it would be better to start by learning to refine some other types of pills?"

Su Xing felt a spark in his heart and continued the simulation.

[You temporarily gave up on refining the Organ Refining Pill and began learning some other low-grade pills. Through your research, you discovered that you could currently refine a low-grade pill called the Gathering Qi Powder.]

[Gathering Qi Powder was powdery and required Spirit Stones, Spiritual Spring, and Spirit Rice for refining. Additionally, some other herbs were needed as auxiliary ingredients.]

[Gathering Qi Powder could slightly increase the spiritual energy storage capacity of a cultivator in a short period.]

[You devoted yourself to researching Gathering Qi Powder. Thanks to your previous alchemy experience, your learning progress of Gathering Qi Powder was quite rapid.]

[In the twelfth year, you successfully refined Gathering Qi Powder. After consuming a dose, you felt that the spiritual energy in your body increased by about ten percent, maintaining for roughly a quarter of an hour.]

[In the thirteenth year, after a year of improvement, you were able to refine high-quality Gathering Qi Powder, increasing spiritual energy by twenty percent and maintaining for half an hour.]

Su Xing saw this and nodded with satisfaction. The ingredients for Gathering Qi Powder were abundant, and he still had several thousand pieces of spiritual medicine on hand! Moreover, the effects of Gathering Qi Powder were indeed excellent, not only enhancing his combat power but also making elixir refining smoother.

Su Xing continued to simulate.

[One day, a dignified middle-aged man found you and informed you of Jin Congxue's death.]

[Sadness welled up within you when the man revealed his purpose. He had found Fasting Pills among Jin Congxue's belongings and stated that these pills were of great use to the Great Xia Military. He asked if you could provide more Fasting Pills.]

[You hesitated for a moment, then admitted that the Fasting Pills were your own creation, presenting a thousand Fasting Pills, which you had accumulated over the years.]

[Jin Congxue's father excitedly took the Fasting Pills and gave you a reward of two billion Great Xia Coins, requesting you to refine a batch of Fasting Pills, amounting to a hundred thousand pieces.]

[Curious, you asked him why he needed so many Fasting Pills.]

[He hesitated briefly before explaining that the human race's situation at the Demon-Subduing Pass was increasingly dire, and there was a particular shortage of profession users. These Fasting Pills could ensure that master-level profession users would not feel hungry for three days, playing a significant role on the battlefield.]

[You agreed to help the Great Xia Military refine Fasting Pills but also put forward a condition: you wanted to meet the high-ranking officers of the Great Xia Military.]

[Under the arrangements of Jin Congxue's father, you successfully met a high-ranking officer of the Great Xia Military…]

(ps: Sorry for the mistake in the previous uploads; it has been corrected.)