I Have a Cultivation Simulator

Within a cave dwelling brimming with spiritual energy, you stared at the palm-sized Tier 3 turtle shell before you, lost in thought.

You had waited nearly a century for this day. If you counted the time spent in your previous simulation, it was almost two hundred years.

It was time for that Heavenly Infant Fruit to return to its rightful owner.

"Let's begin."

Without hesitation, you took hold of the Tier 3 turtle shell—a Divination wondrous item—and began divining True Person Biyue's whereabouts.

The heavenly secrets were hazy and shrouded, making it impossible to glean any useful information.

Before True Lord Seven Fiends appeared in the Taiyuan Region, your Divination skills would have yielded at least some results when tracking True Person Biyue—even if they weren't critical details.

But now?

The heavenly secrets concerning True Person Biyue were exceptionally blurred and obscure.

You weren't surprised by this at all.

If True Person Biyue could truly be tracked down so easily through Divination, how could she have possibly escaped True Monarch Zixu's pursuit?

As a Nascent Soul True Monarch and the master of Taiyuan Palace, True Monarch Zixu might not be able to enlist a Tier 4 Divination grandmaster.

But he could absolutely hire a high-grade Tier 3 Divination master.

Yet in the third simulation, True Person Biyue still managed to break through to the Nascent Soul Stage and become a true lord. She had clearly evaded True Monarch Zixu's tracking.

'Did she rely on a heavenly secret wondrous item for protection?' you silently speculated.

Heavenly secret wondrous items could conceal a person's presence, preventing them from being located through Divination arts.

These items fell into two categories. The first was a standard heavenly secret wondrous item, which provided constant protection against anyone trying to calculate the heavenly secrets.

The second type was a temporary heavenly secret wondrous item. Once activated, it could shield one's heavenly secrets for years or even decades before eventually losing its effectiveness.

You believed True Person Biyue was relying on a temporary heavenly secret wondrous item for protection.

If she had a standard one, you wouldn't have been able to glean even a sliver of information about her over the past few decades.

Whether temporary or standard, the item would mask her heavenly secrets for at least the next few decades, right up until she attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul Stage.

Even a high-grade Tier 3 Divination master would struggle to glean any useful clues.

'A high-grade Tier 3 Divination master...'

Your eyes narrowed slightly. Your own Divination skills were only at low-grade Tier 3.

Naturally, you couldn't compare to a high-grade Tier 3 Divination master.

But you possessed two advantages that even those high-grade masters lacked.

At that thought, you tapped your storage bag, summoning a wooden box before you.

You slowly opened it, revealing a wisp of almost tangible aura tightly sealed inside.

Over the past few decades, you had instructed True Person Huanglang to secretly collect items that True Person Biyue had used.

You had then extracted and refined this aura from that massive pile of objects.

This wisp of aura was deeply connected to True Person Biyue, making it the perfect medium in the eyes of any Divination master.

When divining the myriad things in the world, having a medium versus not having one completely changed the difficulty level.

Having her aura as a medium was an advantage that even a high-grade Tier 3 Divination master lacked.

As for your second advantage... you dared to sacrifice your own lifespan to perform a deep-level Divination.

Any Divination master capable of reaching high-grade Tier 3 would be at least three to four hundred years old. Even if they were a Core Formation True Person, they wouldn't have much lifespan left.

A Divination master at the Core Formation Stage would have undoubtedly burned through a massive amount of their lifespan honing their craft, meaning their maximum lifespan would be far lower than the usual five hundred years.

Therefore, a high-grade Tier 3 Divination master would absolutely refuse to sacrifice their lifespan to divine True Person Biyue's whereabouts.

With the upcoming regional war, even if Taiyuan Palace had nurtured a high-grade Tier 3 Divination grandmaster, they would save that master's lifespan for the battlefield.

And as for True Person Biyue... even if a high-grade Tier 3 Divination master burned away a huge chunk of their lifespan to find her exact location... what if that location turned out to be the Jiuyou Cult?

Wouldn't that make the entire Divination a waste?

This was the biggest risk.

True Person Biyue was a demonic cultivator. After selling out a city full of cultivators, it would be entirely normal for her to flee back to the Jiuyou Region to lay low.

But you were different.

Your lifespan reset with every simulation.

Even if you discovered she was hiding in the Jiuyou Cult, the worst-case scenario was simply trying again in the next simulation.

Your cost for trial and error was remarkably low.

Furthermore, drawing on your experience from the third simulation, you deduced that True Person Biyue hadn't returned to the Jiuyou Region.

If she had hidden in the Jiuyou Region, her breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage couldn't possibly have been kept a secret.

A Nascent Soul heavenly tribulation was a massive, sweeping phenomenon; it couldn't occur without making a sound.

You speculated that she had broken through to the Nascent Soul Stage in some other region in a distant land.

In the Taiyuan Region and its neighboring domains, any peak Core Formation cultivator attempting to form a Nascent Soul would inevitably cause a disturbance that couldn't be completely covered up.

'Divining at the cost of my lifespan...'

You took the wisp of aura out of the wooden box and closed your eyes once more.

Unlike other Divination masters who burned their life away, the intelligence you gathered from your sacrifice could be carried over into future simulations.

For instance, if you spent your lifespan to divine her location in this simulation, you wouldn't need to do it again in the next one, or the one after that. You could just go straight to her.

Buzz—

The instant you began your Divination, the aura in front of you started to deplete.

At the same time, you began feeding your own lifespan into a deep-level Divination.

Your consciousness elevated infinitely, merging with the massive web of heavenly secrets that enveloped all living things. Using the aura as a guide, you attempted to pinpoint True Person Biyue's exact location.

You sacrificed one year of lifespan.

You sacrificed five years of lifespan.

You sacrificed ten years of lifespan.

You sacrificed twenty years of lifespan.

The information you divined remained hazy and incredibly blurry, as if walled off by some unknown method.

Your expression remained calm as you continuously poured your lifespan into the spell.

You sacrificed thirty years of lifespan.

You sacrificed forty years of lifespan.

You sacrificed fifty years of lifespan.

You sacrificed sixty years of lifespan.

The black hair at your temples faintly began to turn white.

It was the physical manifestation of burning away so much of your lifespan.

You sacrificed seventy years of lifespan.

You sacrificed eighty years of lifespan.

You sacrificed ninety years of lifespan.

You sacrificed one hundred years of lifespan.

Boom!

It felt as if you had broken through some invisible limit.

The previously hazy heavenly secrets within your Divination instantly sharpened into focus.

"So that's where she is..."

You opened your eyes and took a soft breath.

In an instant, your graying temples faded back to pitch black.

Even after burning away a century of your lifespan, you still had two to three hundred years left. Among Core Formation True Persons, you were still considered young.

"A hundred years of lifespan... Demoness Biyue, what incredible methods you have!"

You let out a soft sigh, finally understanding how True Person Biyue had managed to escape True Monarch Zixu's tracking.

Even utilizing her aura as a medium, it had still cost you a hundred years of lifespan to divine her exact location.

Even for a high-grade Tier 3 Divination master divining out of thin air, it would be impossible to obtain any useful information without sacrificing eighty or ninety years of their lifespan.

By using the aura medium, you had drastically lowered the difficulty of the Divination, making your attempt roughly equivalent to a high-grade Tier 3 Divination master working without a medium.

Eighty or ninety years from a high-grade Tier 3 Divination master? It was questionable whether such a master even had that much time left to live. Why would they risk dying of old age just to obtain a piece of information that might not even be useful?

'I suppose I didn't come away empty-handed in other aspects either...'

You closed your eyes again, carefully sensing your condition.

After pouring a hundred years of your lifespan into that deep-level Divination, your Divination skills had reached the peak of low-grade Tier 3. You were on the verge of breaking through to mid-grade Tier 3 at any moment.

Entering that state of deep Divination had provided a massive boost to your mastery over the craft.

Peak low-grade Tier 3 Divination skills? Given your talent in Divination, it would have been very difficult to reach that level without spending decades, if not a century, fully dedicating your mind and body to comprehending it.

The heartache of losing all that lifespan lessened slightly.

"Zixiao Domain..." The information you had just divined surfaced in your mind.

True Person Biyue was currently hiding in the Zixiao Domain, at a specific location bordering the Taiyuan Region.

"Let's go!"

You stood up immediately and left the chamber of commerce stronghold.

At present, the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce on Profound King Island was well-established. Even if you left for a while, no problems would arise.

Three months later.

On the border of the Zixiao Domain, you stood atop a towering mountain, gazing intently at a small town hundreds of li away.

That town was located in a mortal territory. Its spiritual energy was incredibly thin, and there were no traces of cultivators anywhere.

"Demoness Biyue is hiding there?"

Behind you, True Person Blood Sea was also looking toward the town. He hadn't expected Demoness Biyue to actually choose a mortal land as her hiding spot.

"Yes."

You gave a slight nod.

This was the exact result you had obtained after burning away a century of your lifespan in Divination.

In truth, for True Person Biyue right now, hiding in a mortal area was indeed a viable option.

Back then, above Biyue Immortal City, True Lord Seven Fiends had tossed her a Heavenly Infant Fruit. You weren't the only one who had seen it; all the true persons in the immortal city had witnessed it as well.

Faced with the temptation of an opportunity to form a Nascent Soul, numerous Late-Stage Great True Persons were likely investigating her whereabouts in secret.

At a time like this, hiding in any place populated by cultivators ran the risk of exposure.

"Wait a moment..."

You instructed True Person Blood Sea on what he needed to do next.

Donglai Town was a small settlement with a population of tens of thousands.

In the early morning, an elderly woman with thinning white hair slowly walked down a street in a corner of the town.

Adults and children alike on both sides of the street greeted her when they saw her, calling her "Granny Hua."

Granny Hua walked all the way back to her house.

Even after closing the door, Granny Hua's demeanor didn't change at all as she made her way into one of the rooms.

The room was completely empty save for an elevated platform in the center, upon which rested a spirit tablet.

The words "Moon Demon" were written on the spirit tablet in bright red letters, as if written in fresh blood.

In front of the tablet, a stick of purple incense was burning.

Wisps of curling smoke faintly obscured the words "Moon Demon" on the tablet, blurring its heavenly secrets and making it impossible to calculate.

Granny Hua carefully inspected the purple incense. Confirming it was still burning, she breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Naturally, Granny Hua was True Person Biyue. As for the purple incense, it was a heavenly secret wondrous item known as the "Heavenly Secret Incense."

As long as the incense burned, it could conceal a cultivator's heavenly secrets. It would hold unless a high-grade Tier 3 Divination grandmaster sacrificed a century of their lifespan, or a Tier 4 Divination grandmaster personally performed a Divination.

Otherwise, True Person Biyue's true information would remain masked by the heavenly secrets, completely unable to be calculated.

This was exactly where True Person Biyue's confidence in evading True Monarch Zixu's tracking came from after acquiring the Heavenly Infant Fruit.

As far as she knew, there were no Tier 4 Divination grandmasters in the Taiyuan Region or any of the neighboring domains.

Tier 4 Divination grandmasters were far rarer than even Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

"I'll hide here for another ten years, and then head to the Wujian Region... to prepare for my Nascent Soul heavenly tribulation..."

Granny Hua stared at the Heavenly Secret Incense, her thoughts in turmoil.

The Wujian Region was tens of millions of li away from the Taiyuan Region and the Jiuyou Region.

The only hope of reaching it was through the cross-domain teleportation formation in the Zixiao Domain.

The Taiyuan Region had extremely low influence in the Wujian Region. Because of the vast distance, most cultivators there had never even heard of the Taiyuan Region.

True Person Biyue reined in her thoughts and left the room.

The next day.

Following Granny Hua's usual routine, True Person Biyue slowly walked out of the house.

Just then.

Several figures approached her head-on.

To prevent exposing herself, True Person Biyue would never send out her divine sense to probe her surroundings.

"Hmm?"

It wasn't until those figures were right in front of her that she realized something was wrong.

Whoosh—

The figures attacked immediately, terrifying spiritual pressure instantly exploding outward.

True Person Biyue's hands were instantly locked down.

"Not good!"

True Person Biyue's heart leaped in shock.

She immediately realized she had been exposed.

The auras radiating from these figures had reached the threshold of Late-Stage Great True Persons.

Rumble—

Since she knew her cover was blown, True Person Biyue naturally had no intention of keeping up the disguise. Surging waves of magic power erupted from her, easily knocking back the approaching figures.

"Three puppets... high-grade Tier 3 puppets?"

The senile, white-haired Granny Hua was gone, replaced by the graceful, peerlessly elegant True Person Biyue.

True Person Biyue glanced at the three puppets she had just knocked back.

Screech!

A dark shadow violently burst forth, piercing straight toward True Person Biyue.

True Person Biyue extended her right hand. A moon-wheel dharma treasure gently spun to life, instantly blasting the dark shadow away.

"A Third-Tier Great Monster?"

True Person Biyue looked at the dark shadow, her elegant brows knitting together.

"Demoness—"

A low roar echoed as eerie ghost qi instantly flooded the area. True Person Blood Sea's attack arrived in the blink of an eye.

The boundless ghost qi heavily intensified, faintly bursting with the lethal power of a Late-Stage Great True Person.

True Person Biyue's expression grew slightly grave. The moon-wheel dharma treasure in front of her vibrated continuously, melting away the incoming ghost qi.

True Person Biyue was just about to counterattack when an indescribable soul attack slammed down on her.

True Person Biyue's expression changed wildly. Within her sea of consciousness rested a jade pendant radiating a dense soul aura, acting as an anchor.

This jade pendant was a rare, quasi-Tier 4 divine soul secret treasure. It was strong enough to easily help her block the full-force soul attacks of several Late-Stage Great True Persons.

Yet at this moment, the jade pendant was instantly covered in cracks. The terrifying soul attack pierced straight through it, crashing directly into her sea of consciousness.

True Person Biyue felt her sea of consciousness roar, teetering on the verge of total collapse.

And this was after the jade pendant had absorbed the majority of the attack's power. She didn't even dare imagine the consequences of taking the full strike head-on.

Would she have been directly and severely wounded?

"I have to run!"

Powerless to do anything else, True Person Biyue's graceful figure shot off into the distance, fleeing in a single direction.

At the same time, the blood vitality across her entire body rapidly began to burn.

Clearly, she had activated a forbidden escape art that burned her essence blood.

Once fully unleashed, it would carry her hundreds of li in an instant.

"Sigh... why are you running, Fellow Daoist?"

A powerful hand gripped True Person Biyue's pale, smooth ankle. The heavy aura it brought with it completely froze the surrounding air.

Invisible blood vitality swept outward like a heaven-spanning savage beast. The hand tightened its grip on her smooth, delicate ankle, and then—

Yanked hard.

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