Chapter 181 Enter the Red Lotus Cave Dungeon Again and Collect Exotic Metal Ores (5k)

After some explanation, Su Xing realized that he had made a big mistake, and he felt embarrassed.

So he quickly changed the topic and said:

"Ahem, Sister Xue, how is the Tarot Club's business lately? Do you need my help?"

Jin Congxue's attention was instantly drawn away as soon as the business matter came up.

"The business of the Tarot Club has been good recently... According to your instructions, I will focus more manpower on the mining of white equipment and exotic metals..."

After saying that, Jin Congxue paused and said with some sadness:

"But there are thousands of employees just mining the six different metal dungeons... This is a huge amount of money every month..."

"The current main source of income for our chamber of commerce is beauty pills. Nowadays, the number of people buying beauty pills is basically saturated, and the sales of beauty pills are not as good as before, so the capital turnover is slightly poor..."

Su Xing nodded slightly after hearing this.

He provides thousands of beauty pills a week, which is 20,000 to 30,000 pills a month.

Coupled with a beauty elixir, it can guarantee a beautiful appearance for one to three months.

Some rich women even stock up on dozens of beauty pills. Indeed, the market is slightly saturated.

After thinking about it, Su Xing said:

"Here, I can also refine a high-end version of the beauty elixir that can last for one year or even three years!"

"Not only can I keep my appearance, but I can even look ten years younger! I will give you the elixir later, and I should be able to earn a lot of money..."

What I refined before I woke up was always a low-end version of the beauty elixir.

All common ginseng is used.

But now a large number of ten-year-old spiritual ginseng in the Su Xing Ling Field has matured. If those are used to refine it, it can be enough to refine a real beauty pill.

I don’t know how much more effective the medicine is than the low-end version. It’s no different from a fairy medicine to mortals!

Jin Congxue's eyes lit up after hearing this, obviously very interested.

"Ten years younger... looks good for one to three years?"

"Hiss~ If such a pill really existed, it would be extremely hard to find, and the price would be ten times or even dozens of times higher!"

"But... we can't sell this high-quality beauty elixir on a large scale like before. We have to be hungry for marketing!"

Jin Congxue is indeed a strong business woman, and she quickly made several plans to sell beauty pills.

Su Xing was very satisfied with what he saw. With Jin Congxue's help, Su Xing was very confident about the development of the Tarot Society.

After Jin Congxue thought for a moment, he said:

"Big boss~ I have recently thought about expanding overseas markets... The United States, Huangdao Kingdom and other six countries and twelve regions will all be very fond of the beauty pill!"

“The domestic market is saturated, but there is still a big blue ocean in the international market!”

After hearing this, Su Xing nodded slightly and said:

"I'll leave these matters to you. If you have any questions, just discuss them with me..."

After talking about the business, Su Xing walked around in a circle skillfully, and after some exploration with his spiritual consciousness, he returned to the dormitory and entered the blessed land of the spiritual field.

The new week's goods were converted into simulated energy, worth more than 90 million.

In this way, the awakening energy returns to the level of 150 million.

On the afternoon of September 9, 2024 in the new era, Su Xing started a new round of simulation on time.

"Start simulation!"

【Ding! This simulation consumes 5,200 energy points, leaving 150.16 million energy points, and no remaining simulation times. 】

【Simulation begins! 】

[It costs 10,000 energy points to extract blue talents, and 10,000 energy points to extract purple talents. Do you want to extract them? 】

"Extract the purple talent!"

Su Xing said silently.

[Ding, congratulations on getting the purple talent, I am not the rain god! 】

[I am not the God of Rain]: Purple talent, whenever you sing loudly and the number of onlookers exceeds 10,000, the probability of rainfall in that place within seven days is 100%. (Have a ball~come to the desert to have a concert!)

Su Xing curled his lips after seeing the new talent and muttered:

"Good guy, is it another conceptual talent? Is it a mandatory talent to ask for rain...but this thing seems to be of no use!"

Su Xing shook his head slightly, and for a moment he didn't think of the appropriate use scenario for this talent.

Look at the simulation panel.

[In Lingtian Cave, you realize that you are in a simulation. 】

[You stayed in Kyoto City for a few days, and then left to prepare for the northern border area of ​​Daxia. 】

[You disguise yourself and gather your breath, use the art of shielding the heavenly secrets on yourself, and fly with your sword at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters. 】

[Half an hour later, you arrived at Mai City, Northwest Province. 】

[Following the information in your memory, you quickly found a heavily guarded dungeon, the Red Lotus Demon Cave! 】

[You cast a few spells, successfully evaded these guarding professionals, and entered the Red Lotus Demon Cave instance. 】

Seeing this, Su Xing nodded slightly and said:

"During the previous simulation, I found a small high-level exotic metal mining area in the Red Lotus Demon Cave copy..."

"I wonder how many different metals are contained in this copy?"

Su Xing was thoughtful. He was seriously lacking in simulation energy at this time. If he could not obtain simulation energy through new means.

The energy supply of less than 100 million for that week alone was definitely not enough for the awakening and subsequent cultivation.

Therefore, Su Xing set his sights on the copy of the Red Lotus Demon Cave that he had discovered before.

This mining dungeon might give Su Xing a big surprise?

However, for the sake of safety, Su Xing planned to simulate it in advance in this simulation to see if there were any risks.

Thinking of this, Su Xing silently said:

"Use the immersive simulation feature for 24 hours!"

[Ding, you successfully used immersive simulation, spent 2.4 million energy points, and have 147.66 million remaining energy points. 】

As the simulator beep sounded, Su Xing's vision changed.

The next second, Su Xing appeared in a strange environment.

The temperature in the air suddenly rose by more than fifty degrees, directly reaching a high temperature of nearly eighty degrees Celsius.

Su Xing frowned slightly, feeling the heat wave in the air.

Of course, this temperature will have no impact on waking up.

"Is this the copy of the Red Lotus Demon Cave?"

Su Xing looked at the surrounding environment. He was surrounded by rocks that were red under the high temperature, and his hands felt a little hot when he placed them on them.

The space in the cave is not large, barely enough for one person to stay awake.

Su Xing looked forward, only to see a bottomless cave beneath his feet, which seemed to point directly to the depths of the earth.

"According to the description in the previous simulation text... there should be a Balrog deep in the Red Lotus Demon Cave copy. Defeat him and go deeper... you can find the foreign metal mining area."

Su Xing thought thoughtfully. He used the immersive simulation exploration this time to practice in advance for future exploration in the real world.

Su Xing no longer hesitated, and with a thought in his heart, he used Yuanli Armor and Body Protecting Qi at the same time to protect Su Xing.

"Then... let's explore deeper..."

Awakening activated his spiritual power and flew quickly towards the cave at his feet.

The further down the cave goes, the higher the surrounding temperature becomes.

About ten minutes later, Su Xing estimated that he had reached a depth of dozens of kilometers underground.

At this moment, the surrounding temperature is getting higher and higher, rising from the original eighty or ninety degrees to more than five hundred degrees.

"This Red Lotus Demon Cave is really bottomless..."

Su Xing frowned slightly, speeded up and continued to explore deeper.

More than an hour passed like this, and Su Xing estimated that he was at least a few hundred kilometers away from the ground.

At this time, it was already dark and lightless, with only a high temperature of one to two thousand degrees Celsius. Ordinary creatures could not survive here at all.

Along the way, Su Xing actually encountered some special monsters living in such extremely high temperatures.

Most of these monsters were at the master level. The awakening only slightly stimulated the vitality and killed them easily.

"It's already hundreds of kilometers away from the ground... How deep is this Red Lotus Demon Cave?"

Su Xing sighed, could it be that this devil's cave is a thousand kilometers away from the ground?

The speed of awakening is getting faster and faster, and ordinary monsters encountered along the way are instantly killed.

It wasn't until a few hours later that Su Xing felt that the space was getting wider and wider, and the surrounding temperature reached an astonishing 3,000 degrees Celsius.

A faint light came from the special ore on the stone wall.

The awakening slowed down slightly, and his consciousness was released like a tide.

Sure enough, thousands of meters away, I felt a monster with an extremely powerful aura.

"Then...is it the Balrog?"

Su Xing was stunned for a moment.

In his spiritual perception, the appearance of this Balrog was somewhat similar to that of the Hell Demon in Western mythology.

It has two horns on its head, its body is made of magma, and there are two blazing flames in its eye sockets.

He was ten meters tall and had an evil aura all over his body.

"Judging from the aura...this flame demon is indeed the peak strength of the Martial Emperor..."

Su Xing frowned slightly. He felt that the environment in the Red Lotus Demon Cave instance was too harsh for ordinary professionals.

"Thousands of degrees of high temperature and an environment with weak oxygen... Even a master-level professional might not be able to survive in such a place..."

Su Xing had a bad premonition.

Such a harsh environment cannot be entered by low-level professionals, which also means that Su Xing cannot recruit a large number of people to mine ores.

You can't ask a king-level expert to mine ores, right?

This... seems a bit unrealistic.

"Forget it... let's deal with this Balrog first, and we'll figure out how to mine the exotic metal ores later..."

Su Xing's heart moved and he flew towards the Balrog rapidly.

"Ho ho ho~"

As if sensing Su Xing's rapidly approaching aura, Balrog roared loudly at Su Xing, beating his chest with both hands, as if declaring his ownership of the territory...

However!

Su Xing acted as if he didn't see it. After quickly approaching the Balrog, his energy wrapped around his fists.

Nothing fancy!

A terrifying punch!

boom!

A million tons of huge force punched the Balrog directly on the chest.

The two blazing flames in Balrog's eyes slowly extinguished...

With just one punch, the Balrog at the peak of the Martial Emperor died!

"Huh~"

"With my current strength combined with Yuanli entanglement... I can't even catch a punch under the legend!"

Su Xing raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and then quickly spread his consciousness, trying to detect whether there were any hidden enemies around him.

After confirming that there were no enemies, Su woke up and went to the Balrog's lair. As expected, he found a cave that was several feet wide and bottomless.

"This cave...should lead to the magma pool, right?"

Su Xing murmured.

He had bathed in this magma pool in a previous simulation and wanted to break the limit, but unfortunately he failed.

And that foreign metal mining area is near the magma pool.

Su Xing's heart moved and he walked towards the magma cave.

As the awakening approaches the magma layer, the surrounding temperature also rises sharply.

Soon it soared to over 5,000 degrees Celsius.

Su Xing's brows furrowed even more tightly. With such high temperatures, professionals below the Heavenly King level would not be able to survive.

Soon, Su woke up and reached the magma layer.

This is a relatively open, flat rocky area.

In front of you is a steaming magma pool, and there are many black rocks next to the magma pool.

The rocks are mixed with some special red ores.

It's a different metal!

Su Xing slowly approached the rock, stretched out his hand to touch it, and frowned slightly:

"This foreign metal is actually mixed with other ores... Doesn't this mean that it needs to be refined before it can be turned into a pure foreign metal?"

Su Xing secretly thought that there was some miscalculation.

Among these huge rocks several meters high, the proportion of red exotic metals is probably only 3% to 5%.

If you want to purify it into a different metal, you don't know how much time it will take...

Su Xing was a little disappointed. The exotic metal ore needed to be refined and purified to obtain it completely.

Professionals below the Heavenly King level cannot enter the depths of this devil's cave, and therefore cannot refine and purify exotic metals.

Things...seem to be in an unsolvable situation.

"Wait...who said it needs to be purified before it can be converted into simulated energy?"

Wake up and suddenly wake up.

His simulator absorbs all energy-containing substances, not just pure foreign metals.

This means that Awakening can be absorbed along with the accompanying rocks of the alien metal belt!

"That's right! I can completely absorb this entire rock directly... No need to refine it!"

"It's just that I am in a simulation at the moment and cannot use the simulator's capabilities..."

"But we can mine all the ores containing foreign metals first!"

Su Xing just did what he said, then took out the Mo Bingjian, and after attaching the Yuanli, he started to try mining.

Mo Bingjian cut through these huge rocks like tofu.

Su Xing cut them into standard cubes of ore one meter long, one meter wide and one meter high, and put them into the Lingtian Cave.

Each piece of ore is exactly one cubic meter.

After working for more than ten hours, Su Xing successfully dug nearly a thousand cubic meters of ore, all of which was loaded into the Lingtian Cave by Su Xing.

"Next, just look at how much energy this batch of rocks mixed with foreign metals is worth..."

Su Xing raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

As for the detection method, it is very simple, although the function of absorbing substances and converting them into energy cannot be used in the simulation.

But after the simulation is over, Su Xing only needs to see how much energy this batch of ore is worth.

After excluding the price difference earned by the unscrupulous middlemen, it is the energy value contained in this batch of ore.

Soon, the simulation time ended and he woke up and returned to the real world.

"A thousand cubic meters of ore mixed with foreign metals should be worth a lot of energy, right?"

Su Xing rubbed his chin and murmured.

Look at the simulation panel.

[In the Red Lotus Demon Cave, you obtained a total of one thousand cubic meters of ore mixed with foreign metals. 】

[The next day, you left the Red Lotus Demon Cave instance and returned to Kyoto City. 】

[In the following time, you will still refine elixirs and practice sword control every day. 】

[It wasn’t until a month later that you left for Shuangqing City. 】

[You disguise yourself and hold your breath, and you shield your own secrets, so that the old dog of the sect cannot sense the threat you pose to him. 】

[You suppressed your spiritual consciousness and swept through Shuangqing City unscrupulously, trying to lure out Zong Laogou. 】

[Finally, three days later, Zong Laogou found you. 】

"It's finally here, Old Dog Zong! Before I kill you in the real world, I still have to simulate it first..."

Su Xing saw this movement in his heart and said silently again:

"Use the immersive simulation feature for one hour!"

[Ding, you successfully used immersive simulation, spent 100,000 energy points, and have 147.56 million remaining energy points. 】

The reason why Su Xing used the immersive simulation function again was naturally because he had murderous intentions towards Zong Laogou.

If you want to kill Zong Laogou in reality, for the sake of caution, Su Xing prepares to practice in the simulation.

The next second, the environment in front of Su Xing changed and he appeared in a wild place.

"Senior! May I ask where you come from?"

After waking up, an old man in black robe said in a hoarse voice.

There was still respect for Su Xing in his tone.

"This... is the old dog of Zong?"

Su Xing's heart moved and he looked at Zong Laogou.

Zong Laogou looks ordinary, like an ordinary old man.

But Su Xing could tell at a glance that this guy was also disguised in disguise.

"Oh? Are you asking me where I come from?"

Su Xing did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically.

Zong Laogou was suddenly startled, as if he noticed that Su Xing's tone was not good.

But the Bagua arithmetic he had relied on for many years did not warn him.

Zong Laogou felt a little more relieved, so he bravely said:

"Senior, you must have been asleep for a long time after the Great End of Heaven and Earth. Are you not very familiar with this world?"

"I woke up a hundred or two hundred years earlier than you...just enough to be your guide!"

Zong Laogou smiled and his tone became more respectful.

Because in the eyes of Zong Laogou, Su Xing is now a Void Return Realm monk with extremely powerful spiritual consciousness!

Seeing Old Gou Zong's humble look, Su Xing smiled instead.

The next second, it suddenly exploded!

Yuanli wrapped around his fists, and millions of tons of power directly hit Zong Laogou's body.

boom!

Before Zong Laogou died, there was still a look of shock on his face.

It seemed that he didn't understand why Su Xing suddenly took action, and he didn't understand why he didn't send an early warning based on his thousand-year-old Bagua arithmetic skills.

Zong Laogou's body exploded on the spot, turning into a mist of blood.

And Su Xing also picked up Zong Laogou's storage magic weapon.

Then Zong Laogou's soul left his body and fled for his life in the distance.

But when he was awakened, he was directly trapped by the Lihuo Technique.

Before he died, Zong Laogou's spirit still said in disbelief:

"Senior, we are strangers to each other and have no enmity... Why did you kill me?"

Su Xing sneered after hearing this:

"Haha, you don't know me...but I have known you for a long time!"

Having said that, Su Xing didn't hesitate and directly crushed Zong Laogou's soul.

At this point, Zong Laogou's soul was completely destroyed and he completely disappeared from this world.

"Things... seem to be developing too smoothly!"

Su Xing frowned slightly, opened the storage magic weapon, and after confirming that all the treasures belonging to Zong Laogou were in it, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"So, Old Dog Zong was really killed by me so easily?"

After waking up for a while, he still didn't come back to his senses.

Half a year ago, Zong Laogou was still an insurmountable mountain.

Torturing Su Xing, he almost refined Su Xing into a human elixir.

But now, Su Xing killed Zong Laogou instantly with just one punch!

This is the gap caused by absolute strength!

"Indeed, it went too smoothly..."

Su Xing has always been cautious, always feeling that there is some trap waiting for him.

But then Su Xing shook his head.

"Yes, I don't think it's just a day or two for the old dog... I have performed this simulation dozens of times. Isn't it inevitable that he will die if he is doing mental calculations or not?"

Su Xing concluded.

This time, he won because of calculations and surprise.

Although Zong Laogou was at the peak of his divine transformation, the habits he had developed over thousands of years made him overly trust his own Bagua arithmetic to warn of crises.

But he met an old man like Su Xing, who had been planning to kill him for hundreds of years (in the simulator).

He even made his Bagua arithmetic useless, and finally killed him.

After killing Zong Laogou, Su Xing did not stay long, but prepared to leave with his sword.

About half an hour later, the awakening in the sky suddenly stopped and flew towards a deep mountain.

At this time, the surroundings were quiet, and only the chirping of birds could be heard in the mountains.

But Su Xing frowned and said loudly to the empty surroundings:

"Since your Excellency is here, why don't you show up?"