After storing the items, Su Xing prepared to set up the Spirit Gathering Array.
First, he disassembled the previous Spirit Gathering Array's core, then reconfigured the basic Spirit Gathering Array.
He then combined two basic Spirit Gathering Arrays to form a primary Spirit Gathering Array...
Finally, he set up a mid-level Spirit Gathering Array!
Just setting up one mid-level Spirit Gathering Array took Su Xing a full three days.
This was assuming Su Xing had a very good grasp of the Spirit Gathering Array, otherwise it would have taken even longer.
"Let's set up one first...then dedicate a few days each week to setting up Spirit Gathering Arrays, we don't need to rush..."
With this in mind, Su Xing began his routine alchemy.
Due to limited time, Su Xing was only able to refine three thousand elixirs.
On October 14th, after disguising and concealing his aura, Su Xing went to find Jin Congxue.
In the private room of the villa, Su Xing and Jin Congxue sat facing each other.
After a meal, Su Xing handed over the elixirs he had refined during the week to Jin Congxue and received the week's goods in return.
After the transaction, Su Xing covertly returned to the Spirit Field Cave.
The new week's goods provided Su Xing with nearly a billion points of energy.
Thus, Su Xing's simulated energy once again reached 590 million!
Su Xing nodded to himself and murmured:
"Although there were no high-rank exotic metals left after purification...with the growing business of the Tarot Society...one billion a week is not bad!"
A billion a week, that's a total of four billion a month!
Although for Su Xing, a month's energy was just barely enough to advance a few levels in the Broken Void Realm.
But this was a stable and consistent income of energy. If Su Xing occasionally did some side tasks, it would just about suffice.
On October 14, 2024, Su Xing started a new round of simulation on time.
[Ding! This simulation consumes 5700 points of energy, remaining energy: 612.33 million points, remaining simulation attempts: none.]
[Drawing a purple talent costs 100k energy points, drawing a gold legendary talent costs 1 million energy points, draw?]
"Draw gold talent!" Su Xing silently chanted.
[Ding, congratulations, you've drawn a purple talent: Touch of Gold; your next chance of drawing a gold-quality talent is 35%...]
As expected, it was a purple talent.
Su Xing was not disappointed. Given the simulator's disheartening lottery odds, drawing a gold talent with a 70% probability still meant being very fortunate.
"Touch of Gold... what kind of talent is this?"
Su Xing looked at the talent description.
[Touch of Gold]: Purple talent, as the name suggests, you possess the talent to turn stone into gold by consuming a certain amount of spiritual power.
"Consume spiritual power, and turn stone into gold!?"
"Hiss~ This seems like a top-tier moneymaking talent!"
Su Xing's eyes brightened. On Blue Star, gold, as a precious metal, had a price of around 400 Great Xia Coins per gram.
If he could get enough gold, Su Xing could easily amass large amounts of money in a short period.
"Let's test this talent's effect first!"
Su Xing looked at the simulation panel.
[In the Spirit Field Cave, you realized you were in a simulation.]
[You went to a large mountain outside Kyoto City and brought back a stone.]
[You attempted to activate the spiritual energy talent to turn the stone into gold.]
[You spent a day turning this stone into a full ton of gold.]
Seeing this, Su Xing raised his eyebrow. Obtaining a ton of gold in one day, this talent seemed very strong!
But after a brief calculation, Su Xing found this talent somewhat underwhelming.
On Blue Star, a gram of gold was worth 400 Great Xia Coins.
A kilogram was worth forty thousand...
A ton of gold was worth four billion!
Four billion seemed like a lot, but Su Xing's daily profits from refining elixirs far exceeded this figure.
After a quick calculation, Su Xing shook his head and said:
"Unfortunately, this talent is currently useless...I wonder if, at higher realms, the speed of converting gold might get faster?"
However, if Su Xing's strength reached that level, money might indeed just be a number for him.
"Never mind, my current goal is to obtain spiritual liquid and enhance my Body Refinement cultivation...whether this talent is good or bad doesn't matter."
Since he needed to accumulate spiritual liquid, he naturally couldn't waste it on enhancing his Qi Refining cultivation.
Thus, simultaneously enhancing his Body Refinement cultivation seemed like the most cost-effective method.
Su Xing consoled himself, looking at the simulation panel.
[You realized that the Touch of Gold talent wasn't very useful to you.]
[So, you began setting up a composite Spirit Gathering Array and a Water Gathering Array in the Spirit Field Cave.]
[You spent three weeks setting up these formations.]
[At this moment, the Spirit Field Cave had already been promoted to a middle-grade cave.]
[Thus, the Spirit Field Cave would provide you with three thousand drops of spiritual liquid each week, saving you the time of collecting spiritual liquid.]
[After setting up the Spirit Gathering Array, you went to find Luo Shuying as agreed.]
[On Luo Shuying's recommendation, you joined the Descending Sect.]
[With your talent for Success, you quickly attracted a large number of loyal followers.]
[You stayed in the Descending Sect for two years, during which you spent all your time refining elixirs, accumulating sixty days of "Great Wisdom State."]
[In the third year, you refined a total of 200,000 elixirs, nearly draining Descending Sect's treasure vault dry.]
[You felt the time was ripe, so you defected from the Descending Sect.]
[You joined the Great Xia Military, and with the elixirs you refined, you helped Great Xia Country give birth to a large number of strong cultivators.]