Chapter 2: Your Spirit Root is Unusual

Upon reading this, Su Xing was stunned.

Su Nian'an was his sister, and they had grown up together. How could she suddenly be dead?

With doubts, Su Xing continued reading.

[Your parents told you that Su Nian'an died during a dungeon leveling session.]

[You were devastated, drinking to drown your sorrows and living a life of debauchery.]

[Your good friend Yu Yan found you, feeling sorry for your sister's death.]

[He comforted you, and you gradually recovered from your grief.]

[He gave you a large sum of money, which you used to invest in a professional equipment store.]

[You soon made a fortune and became a well-known second-hand equipment dealer in Kyoto.]

[Three years later, a terrible piece of news came: your good friend Yu Yan also died.]

Su Xing fell silent upon reading this.

Yu Yan was his college roommate and his best friend in college.

Moreover, Yu Yan was a hidden profession practitioner, a top talent in the entire Kyoto Professional University. How could he just die like that?

[You attended Yu Yan's funeral.]

[At the funeral, you learned that Yu Yan died in a dungeon.]

[From your classmates, you learned that most of your fellow classmates had died in dungeons over the years.]

[You were shocked. What kind of dungeon could kill hundreds of powerful practitioners?]

[But they were unwilling to reveal more.]

[Your sense of crisis exploded unprecedentedly, and you decided to focus on cultivation.]

[You spent a year and advanced to the ninth level of Body Tempering.]

[You continued to cultivate, but your progress was slow.]

[Reluctantly, you shifted your focus to your business.]

[A sudden market fluctuation caused the price of recovery potions to skyrocket, while your equipment went unsold.]

[You went bankrupt. At this point, you were thirty-two years old, no longer the ambitious youth you once were.]

[With three million in savings, you planned to retire in the countryside.]

[Four years later, you became a well-known wealthy man in the village.]

[The village matchmaker, seeing you were single, wanted to introduce you to a girl named Ruhua.]

[You glanced at Ruhua and politely declined.]

[You thought life would continue peacefully from then on.]

[One day, while cooling off in the yard, you looked up and saw a giant beast blocking the sky.]

[In a daze, you saw several golden figures fly up and attack the beast.]

[The beast opened its mouth and swallowed the entire Daxia Kingdom.]

[You died at the age of thirty-six!]

[This simulation has ended!]

[First simulation reward: Choose one from the following: Spirit Root Holder (Talent) or Ninth Level of Body Tempering (Cultivation)]

Looking at the simulation results, Su Xing fell into deep thought.

Fifteen years later, a powerful demonic beast would descend into the real world and swallow the entire Daxia Kingdom!

Such a powerful demonic beast was unheard of by Su Xing.

It was likely that no human practitioner could resist it at present.

Thinking of this, Su Xing smiled bitterly.

"So, the end of the world comes in fifteen years... Sigh, I didn't expect that after over a thousand years of resistance, the human race would still be destroyed by the demonic race."

Su Xing sighed but then shook his head.

"Who knows what will happen in fifteen years... I should focus on the present!"

Su Xing looked at the two rewards he could choose from, feeling conflicted.

Should he choose the Spirit Root Holder talent or the Ninth Level of Body Tempering cultivation?

After some hesitation, Su Xing made up his mind.

"I choose the Spirit Root Holder!"

At the same time, Su Xing seemed to undergo an invisible change, his senses becoming sharper.

"So this is what it feels like to have a spirit root?"

Su Xing suddenly noticed something and then secretly glanced down.

Sigh~

He didn't expect that being different from others could have such a good side effect.

Su Xing felt a surge of joy.

He chose the spirit root because this talent was randomly obtained, and he still had a desire for cultivation, which he couldn't let go of.

As for the Ninth Level of Body Tempering cultivation, although it was also good for the current Su Xing, he could re-cultivate to that level by continuing to simulate in the simulator.

After choosing the talent, Su Xing wanted to continue simulating but received a system prompt.

[Ding, this simulation consumed 200 energy points. Current energy: 0. Simulation on cooldown. Please recharge energy and simulate again in one week.]

Su Xing then remembered that each simulation required energy and had a one-week cooldown period.

The cooldown period was easy to solve; he just needed to wait a week.

But how could he obtain the energy?

[Ding, this simulator can absorb any substance containing energy and convert it into simulation energy!]

Su Xing's heart raced, and he quickly rummaged through a dozen white equipment items.

"Absorb!"

[Detected white equipment: Sharp Dagger. Absorption successful. Gained 5 energy points.]

[Detected white equipment: Little Princess's Gloves. Absorption successful. Gained 8 energy points.]

[Detected white equipment...]

[...]

[Simulator remaining energy: 103 points.]

Su Xing's face darkened upon receiving the prompt.

A dozen white equipment items provided a maximum of 9 energy points and a minimum of 2 energy points each, only restoring the simulator's energy to 103 points, which was still nearly half short of 200 points!

"Damn it, each white equipment item costs at least 1000 Daxia coins. This has cost me tens of thousands in a blink!"

Su Xing felt a pang of pain but still took out another dozen equipment items, recharging the energy to 205 points.

"Sigh, I've spent most of the equipment I've collected over the past three years. If I recharge again, I'll have to spend money!"

Su Xing sighed, but fortunately, he had earned a few million over the past three years by frequently running dungeons and proxying for others.

"I should buy more white equipment and convert it into energy!"

Su Xing took out his phone and spent several hours.

He bought over a hundred white equipment items on the professional equipment trading platform and converted them all into energy.

[Simulator remaining energy: 713 points.]

Looking at the energy displayed in the simulator, Su Xing felt a sense of satisfaction.

"All I need to do now is wait a week!"

Knock, knock, knock!

At that moment, a chubby figure walked into the dormitory.

"Old Su, there are six freshmen waiting for you outside the dorm... One of them is quite a looker! Hehe, you're quite the player!"

The speaker was Yu Yan, nicknamed Yu Fatso, a hidden profession practitioner and a Blazing Mage!

Su Xing knew the freshmen were there for proxy services and looked at Yu Fatso with a complex expression.

"Got it, they're here for me to take them through a dungeon for leveling. I'll be back tonight, remember to save me some dinner!"

Su Xing patted Yu Fatso's shoulder and left the dormitory building.

At the dormitory entrance, Su Xing saw six freshmen dressed up beautifully.

Su Xing spoke straightforwardly,

"Do you understand the rules? For the next dungeon, it's 2000 coins per person, and all the equipment and items we get are mine!"

The freshmen nodded in agreement, except for one with delicate features and a simple, fresh look, who seemed hesitant.

Su Xing sensed this but didn't press the issue, only saying,

"Follow me then!"

Soon, they arrived at a dungeon outside the city called "Ten Mile Slope."

This dungeon was home to a type of demonic beast called "Wild Boar Spirit," ranging from Bronze Level 5 to 10. For newly promoted practitioners, the experience was decent, but the difficulty was significant.

However, for Su Xing at the sixth level of Body Tempering, it was like slicing through butter.

An hour later, the freshmen all leveled up.

Su Xing received the expected 10,000 coins in payment and then looked at the hesitant freshman who was struggling to come up with the money.

"Um, senior... I'm a bit short on cash right now, could you..."