I Have a Cultivation Simulator

"The president... formed his core?"

You Rou read every single word on the communication talisman over and over until she finally processed it.

"A Master! A Golden Core Master!"

The news hit You Rou so hard she felt dizzy. It took her a long while to fully grasp the reality of it.

In the Taiyuan Region, a core formation master was a true heavyweight.

Even a False Core Master could dominate a region unchallenged.

Take Master Xuangui, for example. He founded the Beast Taming Mountain and ruled a radius of ten thousand li all by himself.

And if one went a step further and became a Golden Core Master?

That was even more incredible.

They could also found a sect that would be passed down for hundreds, even a thousand years.

Or they could build a large-scale chamber of commerce to trade across multiple great regions.

The areas between the great regions belonged to the Savage Wilderness, where spiritual energy was violently chaotic and bandit cultivators ran rampant.

Without the protection of a Golden Core Master, passage was impossible.

"To think that I, You Rou, would have the chance to serve a Golden Core Master in this life..."

You Rou took a deep breath. Her emotions were a tangled mess of pleasant surprise, excitement, fanaticism, and sheer disbelief.

Purple Bamboo Forest Cave Abode.

You went straight to the cave abode's basement.

After extracting Li Yan's first wisp of yin-essence qi, you had your puppets carry her down there to rest.

You had specially modified the basement of the Purple Bamboo Forest Cave Abode so that even a core formation master's divine sense could not pry inside undetected.

Even if a Master risked a fight to the death with you and forcefully swept their divine sense underground, they would at most spot a few puppets and Li Yan.

As to whether they could tell that Li Yan possessed a yin-essence physique... that was impossible to determine just from a divine sense scan.

"Master..."

Li Yan had mostly recovered. The moment she saw you, she threw herself into your arms.

"Yan'er."

You gently returned her embrace.

Li Yan had played a massive role in your successful formation of a Flawless Golden Core.

Without that wisp of yin-essence qi, you would have had to pin your hopes on a core dissolving secret art, or on an initial anchor simulation.

In truth, choosing not to inherit your cultivation base and skills after the simulation ended was also an option. However, giving up a cultivation level of at least an Upper-Grade Golden Core was a loss you were unwilling to swallow.

"Master, Yan'er missed you so much."

Li Yan pressed against your chest, her adoration and reliance on you absolute.

You cuddled with Li Yan for a while.

"You're a Master now, Master, so Yan'er will have to cultivate hard too!"

Li Yan said earnestly. The gap between the Foundation Establishment Realm and the Core Formation Realm was simply too massive.

You had just hugged her lightly, without leaking a shred of your aura, yet the sheer difference in your fundamental life essence still made her soul tremble.

If just a hug did this, then going a step further and doing that sort of thing...

Li Yan's face flushed bright red.

"If you want to cultivate, Yan'er, I will naturally support you with everything I have," you said immediately.

Even after the first wisp of yin-essence qi was extracted, a yin-essence physique would continue to nurture new yin-essence qi.

It simply wouldn't possess the same miraculous bottleneck-breaking effects as that very first wisp.

Even so, the subsequent wisps of yin-essence qi still provided a significant boost to daily cultivation.

The exact degree of this boost depended on both the physique host's cultivation level and the time spent nurturing it.

If a Foundation Establishment Realm yin-essence physique nurtured a wisp of yin-essence qi for ten years and you extracted it, it would probably equate to a month of bitter cultivation for you.

But if it came from a Golden Core yin-essence physique, ten years of nurturing would equal two or three years of your own hard practice.

And if it was a Nascent Soul Realm yin-essence physique, a ten-year wisp of yin-essence qi taken by a Golden Core Early Stage Master like yourself would likely rival decades of bitter cultivation. It might even rocket you straight to the peak of the early stage.

Such cultivation gains carried absolutely no hidden risks and burned none of your own potential. A woman like this was simply the dream Dao companion of any male cultivator.

Therefore, you were extremely supportive of Li Yan's desire to cultivate.

The higher her cultivation grew, the more she could help you. If she could also step into the Core Formation Realm, your overall cultivation speed would increase by twenty to thirty percent.

You couldn't underestimate that twenty to thirty percent. Given a Golden Core Master's lifespan of five hundred years, that percentage translated to a century or two.

After encouraging Li Yan for a while longer, you returned to your cave abode.

'Is this what it feels like to be a cultivation genius?'

With just a brief session of practice, you felt a slight rise in your cultivation base. The tier-three spiritual energy within the cave abode surged into your body, passed through the Flawless Golden Core, and instantly refined into pure Golden Core magic power.

Back in your Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment days, even swallowing pills wasn't this efficient.

Yet now, this was merely your baseline cultivation speed. If you supplemented it with pills, it would jump up another level entirely.

'A Flawless Golden Core!'

Your heart surged with exhilaration.

This boost in cultivation speed was just one of the Flawless Golden Core's many abilities.

Truthfully, there were plenty of external methods that could increase cultivation speed—demonic cultivators were especially skilled at that.

The Flawless Golden Core's greatest advantage lay in breaking through bottlenecks.

Setting aside the leap from Core Formation to Nascent Soul, just the hurdles from the Core Formation Initial Stage to the Core Formation Middle Stage, and from the middle stage to the Core Formation Late Stage, had trapped an untold number of Masters.

In the Taiyuan Region, it wasn't uncommon for Masters with Lower-Grade Golden Cores or Middle-Grade Golden Cores to remain stuck at the Golden Core Early Stage until they died of old age.

The jump from the Core Formation Middle Stage to the Core Formation Late Stage was even worse.

Not every Golden Core Master managed to traverse the entire Core Formation Realm and earn the chance to attempt Nascent Soul.

But you... with the aid of the Flawless Golden Core, the odds of getting stuck at the initial-to-middle or middle-to-late stage bottlenecks were virtually nonexistent.

During the Foundation Establishment Realm, you had overcome your bottlenecks by burning your own potential with Stage-Breaking Pills.

But now? You merely needed to cultivate step by step. The Flawless Golden Core would shatter all obstacles for you, carrying you straight to Core Formation Completion.

'The shanhai dao body...' You began to comprehend this secret technique.

Once the Shanhai Lineage was cultivated to the Core Formation level, one could condense the shanhai dao body.

The shanhai dao body was an acquired dao body, but its boost to a Shanhai Lineage Master's combat prowess could not be ignored.

(Condensing the shanhai dao body was quite time-consuming, requiring roughly ten years to form completely.)

Normal cultivation was not your only focus.

You began attempting to comprehend the art of alchemy.

Having stepped into the Core Formation Realm, you would naturally continue popping pills.

As such, you naturally needed alchemical skills to support this habit.

You pondered it for only a moment.

The alchemical knowledge that once seemed obscure and difficult to grasp rapidly made sense to you.

'Tier-three alchemy!'

You realized that your alchemical proficiency had fully reached the third tier.

You just needed to concoct a batch of tier-three pills to confirm it.

Clatter—

You immediately pulled out your Pill Furnace and began concocting.

A few days passed.

Four perfectly round tier-three pills smoothly emerged from the furnace.

"Not bad, not bad."

You nodded slightly.

Concocting tier-three pills this time felt incredibly easy and relaxed. The entire process was completed in one smooth breath.

'This is probably also because of the Flawless Golden Core...'

You thought to yourself.

Forming a Flawless Golden Core was a complete remodeling of your overall aptitude and innate talent.

Your comprehension and other faculties had improved accordingly.

The resulting feedback in other fields manifested exactly like this.

'Let's take a look at talisman crafting...'

You moved on to comprehending your tier-three talisman inheritance.

'So that's how it is.'

Looking thoughtful, you pulled out a piece of beast hide and began drawing a talisman.

The better part of a day later, a tier-three talisman took shape. Heavy worldly power and your Shanhai magic power were entirely sealed within the beast hide.

Once activated, this beast hide talisman would unleash a strike equivalent to a Master's attack.

'A tier-three talisman master!'

A smile spread across your face. Your accumulated foundation in talismans couldn't compare to alchemy.

Yet, merely relying on the elevated perspective of a Flawless Golden Core Master, you had successfully taken this step anyway.

'Just entering the Golden Core stage, and I already possess tier-three skills in both alchemy and talismans!'

Your mood was fantastic.

Tier-three alchemists and tier-three talisman masters were exceptionally rare even among core formation masters, much less someone who held both titles.

'Let's look at the others...'

You began to comprehend the art of divination.

'Tier Two Mid-Grade already?'

After only a short session, your hexagram casting skill crossed into Tier Two Mid-Grade.

Having invested ten years of your lifespan twice, your divination skill had already reached the peak of the low-grade of the second tier.

Now that you had stepped into the Core Formation Realm, breaking through was perfectly natural.

'Divination is great. Divination needs to be studied...'

Having experienced two simulations, you naturally understood the importance of divination. Predicting fortunes and disasters, pursuing good luck and avoiding evil—although it drained your lifespan a bit, its weight in your mind had already risen to the same level as alchemy and talismans.

'Should I toss in another few decades of lifespan to push it to Tier Two High-Grade?'

The itch in your heart was tempting, but in the end, you suppressed the urge.

Burning lifespan to upgrade your hexagram skills was a method of absolute last resort.

Throwing in decades of lifespan just to reach Tier Two High-Grade?

Even without that sacrifice, decades from now, your Flawless Golden Core comprehension would highly likely push your divination to Tier Two High-Grade anyway.

And simply living those decades wouldn't just improve your hexagrams. It would advance your cultivation base, your other skills, and allow for meticulous planning for the decades ahead.

'The Nether Realm Trial secret technique...'

Silver seal characters resembling tadpoles instantly surfaced in your mind.

Before your breakthrough to Core Formation, these silver scripts had looked like heavenly scripture to you. Forget comprehending them; just reading them had taken every ounce of your strength.

But now, under the Flawless Golden Core's boost to your comprehension, the previously obscure silver text slowly became simple and easy to understand.

You finally saw a clear hope of fully comprehending and mastering it.

Two months passed.

Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce stronghold.

You sat casually in the main seat on the raised platform, while You Rou and the other chamber executives stood respectfully below.

"Congratulations, President, on stepping into the Great Dao of the Golden Core!"

You Rou and the others bowed to you. This was your first appearance at the merchant chamber since stepping into the Core Formation Realm.

"How are the preparations for the Core Formation Ceremony?" you asked casually.

You Rou immediately began reporting the outside world's information over the past two months.

Over these two months, the news of your breakthrough and ascension to a Golden Core Master had spread rapidly throughout the Taiyuan Region.

Because you had given advance notice to Master Jianxin, Master Hanyu, and the other Masters, the outside world didn't find your breakthrough too unbelievable.

After all, you had obtained the ancient Shanhai Lineage, and that very same lineage had produced a Golden Core Master two or three hundred years ago.

You were very satisfied with this reaction.

Your background, after all, could not withstand scrutiny.

Before this simulation started, there was no trace of your growth trajectory in the Taiyuan Region or any of the surrounding great regions.

If you hadn't taken the initiative to reveal your Shanhai Lineage, the five major sects—to say nothing of the Taiyuan Palace—definitely wouldn't have been at ease with you.

Another month passed.

Your Core Formation Ceremony was drawing closer and closer.

"President, Master Huangwen of the Huangwen Chamber of Commerce wishes to visit..."

You Rou reported, then added, "This Master Huangwen is a False Core Master. Before you stepped into the Core Formation Realm, President, the Huangwen Chamber of Commerce suppressed us multiple times and stole our trade routes..."

Indignation leaked into You Rou's tone.

Back then, the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce had no choice but to swallow the Huangwen Chamber of Commerce's tyranny. After all, they couldn't afford to offend a False Core Master.

"I see."

You nodded slightly, instantly understanding the situation.

"Let him in."

You waved a hand.

It did not take long.

A chubby figure in yellow robes walked up.

"Greetings, Master Qingyuan!"

Master Huangwen immediately spoke with a face full of smiles, keeping his posture exceedingly low.

"Mm."

You cast a glance at Master Huangwen but said nothing more.

"Upon hearing that the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce is a force under your command, Master, I questioned my subordinates and only just learned that there was a misunderstanding with my chamber a while back..."

Master Huangwen immediately stated his purpose.

Clearly, Master Huangwen was here to bow his head and admit his mistakes.

He was merely a False Core Master. He could throw his weight around against a Foundation Establishment-level faction.

But against a Golden Core Master? Master Huangwen didn't dare act tough in the slightest.

"This is my compensation. I hope Master will let bygones be bygones—"

Master Huangwen immediately pulled out a Storage Bag and forced a smile as he offered it to you.

You gave it a look and swept your divine sense inside. A thousand middle-grade spirit stones were arranged neatly within.

A thousand middle-grade spirit stones were equivalent to a hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones.

Your expression remained calm, and you stayed silent.

Seeing this, Master Huangwen's mouth twitched, and he pulled out a second Storage Bag.

Just like the first, it held another neatly arranged thousand middle-grade spirit stones.

You remained silent.

Master Huangwen could only bite the bullet and pull out another Storage Bag.

You said nothing.

Master Huangwen pulled out another.

This continued until the number of Storage Bags in front of you reached ten.

That was ten thousand middle-grade spirit stones—one million low-grade spirit stones.

Only then did you wave a hand, sweeping all the Storage Bags away. "Daoist Friend Huangwen, there's no need to be so polite..." you said with a smile.

"As long as Master does not mind..."

Master Huangwen's heart was bleeding. A million low-grade spirit stones took a very long time to earn, even for a False Core Master.

Time passed.

Over the next few months, several more False Core Masters who had bullied the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce came to your door to apologize and pay reparations.

Your income from this alone reached several million low-grade spirit stones.

In the blink of an eye, the day of the Core Formation Ceremony finally arrived.

Factions from all over the Taiyuan Region, whether sects or chambers of commerce, sent representatives to congratulate you.

Those who had ties with you, such as Hall Master Mu of the Alchemy Hall and Master Jianxin of the Golden Sword Sect, even came in person to offer their blessings.

Even the Taiyuan Palace sent an envoy.

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