Others Level Up, but I Pursue Cultivation!

Su Xing slowly approached the rock and reached out to touch it, his brows furrowed slightly as he said,

"This exotic metal is actually mixed with other ores... doesn't this mean that it requires refinement to become pure exotic metal?"

Su Xing silently thought it was a miscalculation.

In this several-meter-tall boulder, the proportion of the red exotic metal was probably only three to five percent.

If he wanted to purify it into exotic metal, he didn't know how much time it would take...

Su Xing felt somewhat disappointed; the exotic metal ore needed to be refined and purified to be fully obtained.

And those below the Heavenly King Level couldn't enter the depths of this demon cave, thus they couldn't refine and purify the exotic metal.

Things... seemed to have reached an impasse.

"Hold on... who said you need to go through refinement to convert it into simulator energy?"

Su Xing suddenly realized.

His simulator absorbed all substances containing energy, not just pure exotic metal.

This meant that Su Xing could completely absorb the exotic metal along with the accompanying rock!

"Right! I can totally just absorb this whole block of rock... no need to refine it!"

"The only problem is that I'm currently in a simulation and can't use the simulator's abilities..."

"But I can still mine all these ores containing exotic metal first!"

Su Xing said and did, taking out the Ink Ice Sword, attaching Origin Force to it, and began attempting to mine.

The Ink Ice Sword cut through the giant rocks as if slicing through tofu.

Su Xing sliced them into standardized cubic rocks with the length, width, and height of one meter each and loaded them into the Spirit Field Cave.

Each piece of rock was exactly one cubic meter.

After over ten hours of hard work, Su Xing successfully mined close to a thousand cubic meters of ore, all of which he put into the Spirit Field Cave.

"Next, I just need to see how much energy this batch of rocks mixed with exotic metal is worth..."

Su Xing's lips curved slightly upward.

As for the testing method, it was simple. Although Su Xing could not use the function of converting material into energy during the simulation,

after the simulation ended, he only needed to check how much energy this batch of ore was worth,

then, after removing the middleman's profit margin, he would know the energy value contained in the batch of ore.

Soon, the simulation time ended, and Su Xing returned to the real world.

"A full thousand cubic meters of ore mixed with exotic metal should be worth quite a bit of energy, right?"

Su Xing murmured, stroking his chin.

His gaze fell upon the simulation panel.

[In the Red Lotus Demon Cave, you acquired a total of one thousand cubic meters of ore mixed with exotic metal.]

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

[In the time that followed, you continued to refine Elixirs and practice your Sword Control Technique every day.]

[Until a month later, you set off for Shuangqing City.]

[You disguised yourself and concealed your presence, thus shielding your fate from Damned Zong, preventing him from sensing the threat you posed to him.]

[You suppressed your Divine Sense and fearlessly swept through Shuangqing City, attempting to draw out Damned Zong.]

[Finally, three days later, Damned Zong found you.]

"Finally, you've come, Damned Zong! Before killing you in the real world, I still need to simulate first..."

As Su Xing read this, he murmured to himself,

"Activate immersive simulation function, duration one hour!"

[Ding, you have successfully used the immersive simulation, spending 100,000 points of energy, with 147.56 million points of energy remaining.]

Su Xing's reason for using the immersive simulation function again was naturally that he harbored the intent to kill Damned Zong.

And to kill Damned Zong in the real world, he cautiously decided to rehearse it in the simulation first.

The next second, Su Xing's surroundings changed, and he found himself in the wilderness.

"Senior! May I ask which Cultivation World you come from?"

Behind Su Xing, an elder in a black robe spoke with a raspy voice.

His tone still contained respect for Su Xing.

"Is... this Damned Zong?"

Su Xing's mind stirred as he looked toward Damned Zong.

Damned Zong had an unremarkable appearance, looking like an ordinary elderly man.

But Su Xing immediately saw that this person was also disguised after a transformation.

"Oh? You're asking me where I come from in the Cultivation World?"

Su Xing did not directly answer, but instead asked in return.

Damned Zong's heart jolted at once, as he seemed to sense something ominous in Su Xing's tone.

However, the Eight Trigrams Fortune-Telling Technique he had relied on for many years sent him no warnings.

Damned Zong felt somewhat reassured, and thus plucked up his courage to say:

"Senior, it must be after a major disaster that... you have slept for a long time, not too familiar with this world, right?"

"I woke up one or two hundred years earlier than you... I can just be a guide for you!"

Damned Zong smiled, his tone becoming even more respectful.

Because in Damned Zong's eyes, Su Xing now seemed like a Return to Void Realm cultivator with an incredibly mighty Divine Sense!

Seeing Damned Zong's humble demeanor, Su Xing instead smiled.

The next second, he suddenly erupted with force!

Origin Force wrapped around his fists, unleashing a million tons of strength as he hammered directly into Damned Zong's body.

Boom!

Damned Zong's face still held a look of shock just before his death.

He seemed not to understand why Su Xing suddenly attacked, nor why his thousand-year reliance on the Eight Trigrams Fortune-Telling Technique didn't provide any premonition.

Damned Zong's body burst open on the spot, turning into a mist of blood in the sky.

And Su Xing also picked up Damned Zong's Storage Magical Artifact.

Afterward, Damned Zong's Divine Soul rushed out of his orifices, desperately fleeing into the distance.

But Su Xing promptly trapped him with the Li Fire Technique.

Before his death, Damned Zong's Divine Soul still could not believe it and said:

"Senior, we don't know each other, there is no enmity... Why kill me?"

After hearing this, Su Xing let out a cold laugh and said:

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

Without another word, Su Xing directly crushed Damned Zong's Divine Soul.

Thus, Damned Zong's Divine Soul was completely obliterated, disappearing from the world.

"Things... seem to have gone too smoothly!"

Su Xing frowned slightly, opened up the Storage Magical Artifact, and only after confirming that all of Damned Zong's treasures were there did he breathe a sigh of relief.

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

Su Xing hadn't quite come back to his senses for a moment.

Half a year ago, Damned Zong was an insurmountable mountain for Su Xing.

He tormented Su Xing, nearly refining him into a Human Pill.

Now, Su Xing, with just one punch, instantly killed Damned Zong!

This was the disparity brought by absolute power!

"Indeed, it's been a little too smooth..."

Su Xing had always been cautious, feeling as though there were traps waiting for him.

But immediately he shook his head.

"That's right, I've been thinking about Damned Zong not for one or two days... I have simulated this scenario dozens of times; with a calculated mind against an unsuspecting one, isn't his death a certainty?"

Su Xing concluded.

This time, he won with a prepared mind against an unguarded one and by striking unexpectedly.

Although Damned Zong was at the pinnacle of Divinity Transformation, the habits developed over thousands of years made him overly reliant on his Eight Trigrams Fortune-Telling Technique for crisis premonitions.

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

It was even enough to render Damned Zong's Fortune-Telling Technique ineffective, and thus, Su Xing finally killed him.

After killing Damned Zong, Su Xing didn't linger and prepared to leave on his sword.

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

At this moment, all around was quiet, with only the chirping of birds coming through the mountains.

But Su Xing's brow was furrowed as he spoke loudly toward the empty surroundings:

"Since you have come, why not show yourself?"