Others Level Up, but I Pursue Cultivation!

As a basic elixir, the Wound Healing Pill wasn't difficult to refine.

With Su Xing's current alchemy skills, refining a batch in half an hour, yielding ten pills with a one hundred percent success rate, was a breeze.

Moreover, the ingredients for refining the Wound Healing Pill were quite common and could be found in larger herbal shops.

Su Xing first contacted Jin Congxue, hoping she could provide ten thousand pieces of white-quality equipment this week ahead of schedule.

"Congxue, can you get the white equipment to me a bit earlier this week? It's urgent!" Su Xing sent a message.

Jin Congxue replied instantly, as usual.

"Bro, do you think white equipment is cabbage? How can I get it so quickly on such short notice?"

Su Xing: "Please, it's really urgent! And you're our all-powerful president, isn't this small task a piece of cake for you?"

Jin Congxue: "Tsk! (disdain.jpg) I'll see what I can do! But seriously, why do you need so much equipment every week? Are you eating it or something?"

Su Xing: "Yeah, exactly! I have a superpower where eating equipment makes me stronger. But since I'm poor, I can only afford white equipment. (drooling.jpg)"

Jin Congxue: "..."

Su Xing: "Alright, no more jokes. I've developed a new Wound Healing Pill. Its effects are roughly on par with the mid-tier healing potions on the market. When you deliver the equipment in a few days, come and check it out."

Jin Congxue: "You've made another new elixir? So impressive! Rich man, please take care of me! (playful.jpg)"

After chatting for a bit, Su Xing took a Disguise Pill, went alone to a herbal shop in the center of Kyoto, and bought enough ingredients to refine five hundred Wound Healing Pills.

The cost of ingredients for one Wound Healing Pill was about fifty thousand Great Xia Coins, but once refined it could sell for five hundred thousand Great Xia Coins.

A tenfold profit wasn't too high, but for Su Xing, who was in urgent need of energy, it was a significant boost.

For the next five days, Su Xing fully immersed himself in the feeling of being a workaholic.

He spent ten hours a day refining ten batches of Wound Healing Pills, then another six hours refining six batches of Nourishing Face Pills, barely managing to gather the necessary three hundred Nourishing Face Pills and five hundred Wound Healing Pills.

After preparing the elixirs, Su Xing arranged a meeting time and place with Jin Congxue.

Upon meeting, Jin Congxue looked at Su Xing and, after a brief moment of surprise, said:

"Why do you look even better than a few days ago? Hmm, there's a certain indescribable aura about you....."

Su Xing smiled slightly. After his Qi Refinement had advanced to the Golden Core Stage, it wasn't a joke that he had refined his marrow and was immune to poisons. Plus, the ethereal aura brought by being a Golden Core cultivator made Su Xing appear increasingly extraordinary.

Jin Congxue said suspiciously: "You wouldn't be hoarding some better elixirs for yourself, would you?"

Su Xing chuckled bitterly and said:

"Dear lady, how would I dare? Didn't you already deplete nearly all of my stock?"

"Here, these are this week's elixirs: three hundred Nourishing Face Pills, five hundred Wound Healing Pills.....and this bottle of Essence-Nourishing Pill is a gift for you."

Su Xing handed several bottles of elixirs to Jin Congxue and advised:

"The appearance of the Wound Healing Pill might cause some ripples in the market. If anyone asks, just say it's an item obtained from a certain dungeon. Don't reveal anything.....and this bottle of Essence-Nourishing Pill is for your own use, don't let others see it."

Seeing Su Xing's serious tone, Jin Congxue nodded and said:

"Rest assured; I won't expose you."

Su Xing nodded slightly, trusting Jin Congxue deeply, then said tentatively:

"See if you can provide me with even more white-quality equipment each week, ideally around twenty to thirty thousand pieces."

Jin Congxue rolled her eyes and said:

"Young master, you don't really eat equipment, do you? These things don't just fall from the sky. Given the current scale of the Tarot Society, we can collect at most ten thousand pieces of white-quality equipment per week. The rest I have to purchase at a discount from the Jin Merchant Guild.....you know, at this price, the guild isn't making any profit.

If I ask for more, I'm afraid the elders of the guild won't agree."

Su Xing knew that while Jin Congxue was the heiress of the Jin Merchant Guild, such a large guild couldn't be run by a single person and there would inevitably be opposition.

After thinking for a moment, Su Xing said:

"Try to buy as much white equipment at a low price as possible. If you can't meet the numbers, slight overpricing is fine, but I need at least twenty thousand pieces of white equipment a week, thirty thousand would be perfect."

Su Xing estimated that twenty thousand pieces of white equipment would cost about two hundred million Great Xia Coins.

But thirty thousand pieces would be tough, possibly costing up to 350 million Great Xia Coins.

Jin Congxue was a bit surprised at why Su Xing needed so much equipment, but still nodded and said:

"Alright! I'll try my best to get you thirty thousand pieces of white equipment.....the Tarot Society is gradually developing, I'll invest the remaining 400 million into the guild weekly."

Su Xing nodded in agreement with Jin Congxue's plan.

Jin Congxue also handed a storage ring to Su Xing and said:

"Time was tight, so I could only gather fifteen thousand pieces of white-quality equipment this week. Here you go, 'eat' to your heart's content! Don't go hungry!"

Jin Congxue emphasized the word "eat" playfully.

Su Xing awkwardly accepted the storage ring and said:

"Ahem, I've been eating so much equipment that my teeth are getting bad; I need a better diet.....not sure if the young lady would honor me with a meal?"

Jin Congxue burst out laughing and extended her fair, delicate hand: "Sure, I'll generously give you face!"

After a meal together, their relationship deepened.

The next day, Su Xing returned to his dorm in high spirits. Taking advantage of being alone, he entered the Spirit Field Blessed Land dungeon.

Su Xing first converted the twenty thousand pieces of white-quality equipment into simulated energy, which gave him nearly 1.1 million points of energy.

Adding the remaining eight hundred thousand points from before, his simulated energy reached an astonishing 1.9 million points.

With sufficient energy, Su Xing chose without hesitation to redeem rewards.

"I choose to redeem the blue talent Dual-Attribute True Spiritual Root of Wood and Fire, and the Great Perfection cultivation of the Golden Core Stage!"

As Su Xing's voice fell, the simulator's notification sounded in his ear.

[Ding, you have chosen to bring out the blue talent Dual-Attribute True Spiritual Root of Wood and Fire, costing 100,000 points of energy. Remaining energy: 1.8 million, 4396 points.]

[Ding, you have chosen to bring out the Great Perfection cultivation of the Golden Core Stage, costing 1,000,000 points of energy. Remaining energy: 800,4396 points.]

As Su Xing's voice fell, a mysterious energy enveloped him.

First, his spiritual root talent changed, evolving from Dual-Attribute Pseudo Spiritual Root to Dual-Attribute True Spiritual Root. Su Xing felt his senses becoming more acute, and even found that the Spiritual Energy in the air was being absorbed by his body automatically.

"No wonder it's a blue-quality True Spiritual Root!"

Su Xing exclaimed, then his expression changed slightly as his cultivation aura began to surge.

(Due to moving, the update schedule was unstable. Now it's adjusted to one chapter at midnight, and one chapter at 6 pm~ sob ~ Also, I'm a new author and asking for monthly votes and recommendations, let me feel your enthusiasm~)