Chapter 76: Then I Wouldn’t Be Eating Soft Rice for Nothing!

Leaving the bedroom, Xu Xi suddenly felt his body lighten, and the summer heat began to slap his face.

He was once again convinced that he had been hearing things earlier.

“I didn’t expect the simulation to be so mentally draining. Well, considering this simulation lasted nearly a century, feeling fatigued is normal.”

Xu Xi nodded in agreement.

He took out a bottle of Qingxin Pills to refresh his mind.

After swallowing and refining them, his weary spirit was restored.

Then, Xu Xi left his home and headed to the bustling Tai Chi Bun Shop nearby, ordering three large meat buns to eat.

The food in the magic world wasn’t bad, but after staying there for so long, he couldn’t help but miss the taste of Chinese cuisine.

The noisy chatter of people and the flow of traffic surrounded him.

The steaming hot meat buns were quickly served.

“Hmm, not bad. As always, thin skin and plenty of filling.”

“The sweet tofu pudding is also smooth and tender.”

Xu Xi nodded slightly.

The warm meat juices burst on his tongue, offering an exquisite taste experience. The delicious food soothed his spirit, easing the shock from the earlier “hallucination.”

“Cultivation… magic…”

“This time, as my cultivation broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, the Withered Vine Sword I used during the Golden Core stage has become a bit outdated.”

“Perfect timing to combine it with a magic staff for crafting.”

“On the cultivation side, magical artifacts aren’t bound by fixed shapes or styles. What truly makes an artifact are the seals and Dao patterns inscribed inside and out.”

“On the magic side, magic staffs focus more on the materials used. High-quality staff materials must have excellent elemental conductivity to amplify the power of elemental magic.”

“Looking at it this way, combining cultivation and magic is totally doable.”

Taking a big bite of the meat bun, Xu Xi pondered deeply.

After two simulations, he was no longer a clueless ordinary person.

With mastery in cultivation-side artifact crafting and expert-level magic staff creation, combining the two could definitely produce a weapon usable in both cultivation and magic.

The only challenge was the materials.

Xu Xi was already a Saint Magister, at the pinnacle of the magic system, with only godhood and immortality above him.

Finding suitable materials to craft a weapon was somewhat tricky.

“Let’s see if Supernatural Home has anything.” Xu Xi took out his phone and clumsily navigated to Supernatural Home. After verification, the trading network exclusive to supernatural beings appeared before him.

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Inside Supernatural Home, the first thing that caught his eye was the variety of official hot weapons being promoted.

Further down were scattered items from individual supernatural beings, ranging from supernatural mounts to weeds from the cultivation world, all densely packed and overwhelming.

“I feel like…”

“If the real world keeps developing like this, the vibe is going to get even weirder.”

After a sigh, Xu Xi narrowed his search to wood-attribute supernatural materials.

His Heavenly Spiritual Root was wood-based, and magic staff materials were mostly wood as well, making it convenient to combine them for crafting a flying sword and magic staff hybrid.

“Remnants of a lightning-struck willow tree?”

“A withered, unnamed tree trunk with extreme hardness?”

“Just a seed, but containing an unusually high amount of wood-attribute energy?”

Xu Xi quickly scrolled through Supernatural Home.

Looking at the list of vaguely described supernatural materials, he couldn’t help but frown.

Over the years, the Supernatural Administration Bureau had collected many supernatural items of varying quality. The vague descriptions suggested even the authorities didn’t know their true value.

In the end, they set mediocre prices and listed them on the Supernatural Home trading platform to bulk up the inventory.

“Tasteless to eat, a pity to throw away. Such a dilemma…”

“Judging from the descriptions, some of these materials might be useful to me, but if I guess wrong, I’ll just waste my points.”

Xu Xi instinctively weighed the pros and cons.

But then he realized something—he could just buy them all.

In the second simulation, he had pushed the Wisdom of Mortals to its limit. While he hadn’t comprehended everything, he had indeed reached the pinnacle of mortal understanding in magic.

Full mastery of 1-9 level elemental magic.

Dragon Blood Grass cultivation techniques.

Magic staff forging optimization, magic device amplification, and spiritual energy purification secrets.

“These are outdated techniques for me, hardly useful anymore. But for the authorities, they’re priceless treasures.”

“Aside from Saint Domain-level forbidden spells and secrets about deities, I can trade all other knowledge for the items I need.”

“Mutual benefit, win-win situation.”

The more Xu Xi thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

He wasn’t afraid of exposing his knowledge and inviting trouble.

His confidence was tied to his strength.

Now, as a Saint Magister at the peak of mortal capability, hiding his power and pretending to be weak would be a waste of his simulations.

Wouldn’t that mean he wasted all that soft rice from his sister?!

What a waste!

Of course, such a sudden change in strength and trading with the authorities would need a plausible explanation.

Xu Xi closed the Supernatural Home website and scrolled through his contacts, quickly finding Zhang Yaoguo, the director of the Yanshan City Supernatural Administration Branch.

“Hello, Director Zhang?”

“Yeah, yeah, I broke through again. What, you’re asking how I did it?”

“Ah, just got lucky. I was lying at home, sleeping, and somehow broke through to the Nascent Soul stage and got a mage’s inheritance.”

Xu Xi paused.

He faintly heard a loud thud on the other end of the line, followed by hurried pill-taking and deep breaths.

After a long pause, the other side spoke in shock.

“In… inheritance?”

“You got another inheritance?!”

“This… it’s only been a few days. Even if you’re lucky, getting inheritances from dreams back-to-back is just too…”

Zhang Yaoguo’s voice was filled with disbelief.

He couldn’t believe someone could be so lucky, but soon, he began to waver.

Last time, Xu Xi’s solo annihilation of the Boundary Ruins was too astonishing.

Compared to that, getting a magic inheritance seemed almost mundane.

Thinking this, Zhang Yaoguo calmed down slightly and exhaled. “That’s really shocking, Brother Xu. What level is this inheritance you got?”

“Not much. After waking up, I’m just barely a Saint Magister.”

Life is like a dream.

Simulating life is like dreaming—it makes perfect sense.