After Su Xing asked the question in his heart, he soon received a rare answer from the simulator.

[Ding, after the host has obtained ten talents, he can spend simulated energy to expand the talent slot. Talents with the same function but higher quality will automatically replace them. The host can also freely replace talents of different quality.]

Su Xing heaved a sigh of relief after hearing the simulator's answer. The upper limit of the talent column is more than ten, which gives Su Xing a higher growth potential.

"Oh, from now on, I have to work hard day and night to generate energy!"

After the awakening simulation ended, he did not sit idle, but chose to continue refining the elixir without stopping.

The main task is to refine beauty pills, and at the same time refine a small batch of healing pills.

Soon, a week passed.

Su Xing spent a week refining 3,000 beauty pills and healing pills.

The reason why the refining speed is so fast is that, firstly, it is easy to refine low-grade pills, and secondly, after Su Xing broke through the Nascent Soul stage, his spiritual awareness and spiritual power increased greatly. He can refine three thousand pills in a week and even have some energy left over.

Su Xing was refining the elixir while thinking:

"I can already do two things at once when refining inferior elixirs. Maybe I should build a few more alchemy furnaces, so that the speed of refining elixirs will be greatly increased!"

Su Xing's mind moved. He once tried to multitask and refine multiple furnaces of pills at the same time in a simulation. Although the rate of furnace explosion and failure would increase, the overall speed of refining pills would definitely be greatly improved.

For example, if Su Xing was refining three batches of pills at the same time, even if one batch failed, his efficiency in refining pills would double.

"Alas, the only headache is that ordinary metal forging furnaces can't withstand the high temperature of the fire. The alchemy furnace might explode before the elixir is finished... I remember that in the simulation, Lu Yuanwu seemed to have specially built a batch of alchemy furnaces for me. I think they used some kind of exotic metal?"

"I'll ask Jin Congxue when I see him later, what is the origin of this strange metal?"

Su Xing put the refined pills into his storage ring, and went to the small villa where he and Jin Congxue often met.

Jin Congxue was wearing a light blue dress today, with her long hair casually scattered, bright eyes and white teeth, and she still had the fragrance of having just taken a bath.

Seeing Su Xing stunned for a moment, Jin Congxue rolled her eyes coquettishly and said:

"Why, you only come to see me once a week, and it's for work. If you think I'm pretty, then why don't you come and see me more often~"

Su Xing felt his whole body soften when he heard Jin Congxue's charming voice. He could only smile bitterly and said, "Alas, work is more important... I have been refining pills as soon as I open my eyes these days. How can I have time to see you?"

After Su Xing finished speaking, he handed the pill he had prepared in advance to Jin Congxue.

After Jin Congxue took the pills, he counted the number and raised his eyebrows and said:

"Your alchemy skills have improved again, it seems?"

Su Xing nodded and said, "These pills should be worth three or four billion. In two weeks, the first batch of funds for the acquisition of Lingyun Chamber of Commerce will be almost ready!"

Jin Congxue nodded after hearing this, and handed Su Xing a storage ring and said:

"We only bought 100,000 pieces of white quality equipment this week, and the remaining 20,000 pieces were bought by our subordinates themselves. After all, we don't have enough funds to acquire the industries of Lingyun Chamber of Commerce..."

Su Xing took the storage ring and nodded, half-jokingly saying, "Then I will be hungry for the next two weeks. When can I have a full meal?"

Jin Congxue remembered what Su Xing said last time about eating equipment, and was immediately amused and burst out laughing, covering his mouth and laughing:

Su Xing's eyes lit up after hearing this. If Jin Congxue could even name a large number of them, then the number must be quite a lot.

Su Xing still has 2 million energy on hand. If he doesn't exchange it for cultivation, it will be enough for the time being. After all, it takes 1 million energy to improve one level of cultivation in the Nascent Soul stage...

As long as he can survive these two weeks, a large amount of energy will be credited to him, so Su Xing will be able to hold on.

After Su Xing and Jin Congxue chatted for a while, he asked, "By the way, Xue, do you know about this thing called alien metal?"

After listening to this, Jin Congxue nodded and said:

"Alien metal is one of the metals that are necessary for making high-quality equipment. Even the lowest-level first-order alien metal can be used to make blue-quality equipment. However, this thing is quite expensive. Why are you asking this?"

Su Xing's eyes lit up after hearing this. He had never thought that this alien metal could be used to make equipment? Doesn't that mean that the alien metal might also contain considerable energy?

Su Xing was still unsure, so he said, "I plan to build two new alchemy furnaces, so that I can make alchemy faster, but ordinary metals can't be used to make them, so I thought of different metals..."

After hearing Su Xing's words, Jin Congxue nodded slightly, then took out a palm-sized piece of alien metal from the storage ring and handed it to Su Xing.

"This is a second-level exotic metal, enough to refine orange rare quality equipment. Can you see if it can be used to build the alchemy furnace you need?"

Su Xing took the strange metal in his hand, and immediately felt a heaviness in his hand.

This palm-sized piece of alien metal probably weighs hundreds of kilograms. What is the density of this metal? Su Xing's mind moved, and he tried to absorb the alien metal as simulated energy.

A reminder sound came to Su Xing's ears.

[Ding, 300 kg of second-order alien metal was found, which can be converted into 60,000 points of simulated energy. Do you want to convert it? ]

Su Xing was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then he was ecstatic. Such a small piece of second-order alien metal contained 60,000 points of simulated energy? This is definitely an excellent substance for providing simulated energy!

Su Xing suppressed his excitement and asked:

"Xiaoxue, how much does this piece of second-level exotic metal cost in the market?"

Jin Congxue thought for a moment and said, "The market price of a second-level exotic metal is about 50,000 yuan per kilogram. This 300-kilogram piece of exotic metal will probably be sold for more than 15 million Great Xia coins..."

"Of course, this is the market price. Exotic metals are special minerals produced in some copies. The output is rare and the market demand is high. If you buy them directly from professionals, these are probably second-level exotic metals. One kilogram is about 40,000 yuan..."

Upon hearing this, Su Xing did some calculations in his mind. One kilogram of the exotic metal could be converted into 200 points of simulated energy, and one point of simulated energy required two hundred Daxia coins on average.

The energy exchange ratio is similar to that of white equipment. A piece of white quality equipment costs 700 yuan and can produce about five points of energy. If you are lucky, you can even get six points of energy.

But the problem is that the demand for awakening white-quality equipment is too great, and this alien metal is smaller in size and not easy to attract attention. A palm-sized piece of second-level alien metal can produce 60,000 energy points.

"Perhaps this second-level exotic metal will be a good substitute for white-quality equipment in the future?"

Su Xing muttered to himself, and then asked, "Then, do you have a first-level exotic metal?"

(End of this chapter)