Chapter 292: Chapter 180: Re-entering the Red Lotus Demon Cave Instance, Gathering Alien Metal Minerals (5k)_3
Su Xing slowly approached the rock and extended his hand to touch it. After a moment, he frowned slightly and said,
“This alien metal is actually mixed with other minerals… Doesn’t that mean it needs to be refined before it turns into pure alien metal?”
Su Xing secretly thought he had miscalculated.
In this huge rock, which was a few meters tall, the proportion of the red alien metal was probably only three to five percent.
If he wanted to purify it into alien metal, who knew how much time it would take…
Su Xing was somewhat disappointed. The alien metal ore needed to be refined and purified to be completely obtained.
And profession users below the Heavenly King Level were unable to enter the depths of this demonic cave, where it was impossible to refine and purify alien metal.
The situation… seemed to have reached an impasse.
“Wait… who said it needs to be purified before it can be converted into simulated energy?”
Su Xing suddenly realized.
His simulator absorbed all energy-containing substances, not just pure alien metal.
This meant that Su Xing could totally absorb the rock along with the alien metal!
“Yeah! I can completely absorb this whole rock directly… No need for refinement!”
“It’s just that right now I’m in a simulation, so I can’t use the simulator’s capabilities…”
“But I can harvest all these alien metal-containing ores first!”
Su Xing decided to take action. He then took out the Ink Ice Sword, infused it with Origin Force, and began trying to mine.
The Ink Ice Sword cut through these huge rocks as if they were tofu.
Su Xing cut them into standard cubic meter blocks and stored them in the Spirit Field Cave.
Each block of ore was exactly one cubic meter.
After working for more than ten hours, Su Xing successfully mined nearly a thousand cubic meters of ore, all of which he stored in the Spirit Field Cave.
“Next, I just need to see how much energy this batch of mixed alien metal rock is worth…”
Su Xing’s lips curled up slightly.
As for the testing method, it was very simple. Although in the simulation, Su Xing couldn’t convert absorbed substances into energy.
Once the simulation ended, Su Xing only needed to see how much energy this batch of ore was worth,
Then subtract the profit taken by unscrupulous middlemen, which was the energy value contained in this batch of ore.
Soon, the simulation time ended, and Su Xing returned to the real world.
“A thousand cubic meters of ore mixed with alien metal should be worth a significant amount of energy, right?”
Su Xing touched his chin and muttered.
He looked towards the simulation panel.
[In the Red Lotus Demonic Cave, you obtained a total of a thousand cubic meters of ore mixed with alien metal.]
[The next day, you left the Red Lotus Demonic Cave instance and returned to Kyoto City.]
[In the days following, you continued to refine elixirs and practice the Sword Control Technique daily.]
[After a month, you set off for Shuangqing City.]
[You disguised yourself and concealed your breath, blocking your Heavenly Secrets. Thus, Damned Zong couldn’t sense your threat to him.]
[You suppressed your Divine Sense and rampaged through Shuangqing City, trying to draw out Damned Zong.]
[Finally, three days later, Damned Zong came to you.]
“Finally here, Damned Zong! Before I kill you in the real world, I must simulate it first…”
Seeing this, Su Xing was moved and muttered again,
“Use the immersive simulation function for one hour!”
[Ding, you successfully used the immersive simulation function, spending 100,000 points of energy and leaving 147.56 million points of energy remaining.]
The reason Su Xing used the immersive simulation function again was naturally because he had murderous intent towards Damned Zong.
And wanting to kill Damned Zong in reality, Su Xing prudently prepared to practice in the simulation.
In the next second, Su Xing’s environment changed, appearing in a wilderness.
“Senior! May I ask where you are from in the Cultivation World?”
Behind Su Xing, a hoarse voice spoke from an old man in a black robe.
His tone was filled with respect for Su Xing.
“Is this… Damned Zong?”
Su Xing was moved, looking at Damned Zong.
Damned Zong’s appearance was unremarkable, like an ordinary old man.
But Su Xing immediately saw that this was also a disguised appearance.
“Oh? You’re asking where I’m from in the Cultivation World?”
Su Xing didn’t answer directly but asked in return.
Damned Zong’s heart skipped a beat, sensing the ominous tone in Su Xing’s voice.
But his relied-upon Eight Trigrams Fortune-Telling Technique didn’t warn him.
Feeling reassured, Damned Zong boldly said,
“Senior, after the Great Cataclysm… You must have been asleep for a long time and are unfamiliar with this world?”
“I awakened one or two hundred years earlier than you… I can guide you!”
Damned Zong smiled, his tone becoming more respectful.
In Damned Zong’s eyes, Su Xing was now a cultivator in the Return to Void Realm with an extremely powerful Divine Sense!
Seeing Damned Zong’s humble appearance, Su Xing also smiled.
In the next second, he suddenly erupted!
Origin Force wrapped around both fists, and he punched Damned Zong’s body with a million tons of force.
Boom!
Damned Zong’s face still showed a look of astonishment in his final moments.
He couldn’t understand why Su Xing suddenly attacked, nor why his relied-upon Eight Trigrams Fortune-Telling Technique gave no warning.
Damned Zong’s body exploded, turning into a mist of blood.
Su Xing picked up Damned Zong’s Storage Magical Artifact.
Then Damned Zong’s Divine Soul tried to escape urgently, but Su Xing trapped it with the Li Fire Technique.
In his final moments, Damned Zong’s Divine Soul incredulously said,
“Senior, we are strangers, with no grievances or grudges… Why did you kill me?”
Su Xing sneered coldly,
“Heh, you don’t know me… But I’ve known you for a long time!”
Having said this, Su Xing didn’t waste words and directly crushed Damned Zong’s Divine Soul.
Thus, Damned Zong’s Divine Soul was completely obliterated, disappearing entirely from this world.
“Things… seem to have gone too smoothly!”
Su Xing frowned slightly, then opened the Storage Magical Artifact. Confirming that all the treasures of Damned Zong were inside, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“So, Damned Zong was really killed so easily by me?”
Su Xing was momentarily stunned.
Six months ago, Damned Zong was still an insurmountable mountain for Su Xing.
He tormented Su Xing and nearly refined him into a Human Pill.
But now, Su Xing killed Damned Zong with just one punch!
This was the difference brought by absolute strength!
“Indeed, it was a bit too smooth…”
Su Xing, always cautious, felt like there was a trap waiting for him.
But then Su Xing shook his head.
“Anyway, I’ve planned for this moment for a long time… I simulated it dozens of times, with a plan and surprise, wasn’t he bound to die?”
Su Xing concluded his thoughts.
This time, he won with a calculated plan and an unexpected attack.
Though Damned Zong was at the Divinity Transformation Peak, his habits formed over millennia made him overly reliant on his Eight Trigrams Fortune-Telling Technique for crisis warnings.
He encountered Su Xing, who had planned for hundreds of simulated years to kill him.
Even rendering his Eight Trigrams Fortune-Telling Technique ineffective, thus finally defeating him.
After killing Damned Zong, Su Xing didn’t linger and prepared to leave using the Sword Control Technique.
About half an hour later, Su Xing, flying high in the sky, suddenly stopped and flew towards a deep mountain.
At this moment, it was quiet all around, and the mountains echoed with birdsong.
But Su Xing frowned, then spoke loudly to the empty surroundings,
“Since you’ve come, why not show yourself?”