I Have a Cultivation Simulator

The space inside True Person Biyue's storage ring was a full half-li in radius.

It didn't contain many treasures or resources.

You weren't surprised by this. To maintain her reputation, True Person Biyue had sacrificed much of her profit over her three hundred years managing the immortal city. After deducting her own cultivation expenses, she hadn't actually accumulated that much wealth.

To build a good reputation, one had to sacrifice certain interests.

You had no interest in her resources anyway. Your only goal was the Heavenly Infant Fruit.

Soon, you found a jade box tucked into a corner of the storage ring.

'A box made of Azure Jade?'

Your heart skipped a beat. Azure Jade was a Tier 4 material, naturally capable of completely isolating and blocking any aura.

You didn't take the Azure Jade box out. Instead, you kept it inside the storage ring and used your spiritual sense to slowly pry it open.

In a daze, you felt a vague sensation that this infant-shaped fruit was still alive, faintly breathing.

'The Heavenly Infant Fruit!'

You snapped the Azure Jade box shut and withdrew your spiritual sense, your mind buzzing with excitement.

A top-tier spiritual item for Nascent Soul formation! The Heavenly Infant Fruit!

Countless Late Core Formation Stage grand cultivators thirsted for this very item. True Person Biyue had hidden her identity and carefully built up her reputation in the Taiyuan Region for three hundred years just for this fruit.

'Hope for the Nascent Soul! There is hope for the Nascent Soul!'

You steadied your mind. With your Flawless Gold Core, the Heavenly Infant Fruit, and a few ordinary Nascent Soul formation materials...

...your chances of breaking through to the Nascent Soul Stage would be no less than thirty percent.

A thirty percent chance of forming a Nascent Soul... Even the prime candidates heavily nurtured by Nascent Soul factions only had a thirty to forty percent chance of a successful breakthrough.

'If I could just get a Nascent Soul Formation Pill...'

You calmed yourself and dismissed the thought.

Getting the Heavenly Infant Fruit was already a stroke of immense luck. A Nascent Soul Formation Pill? At least in this simulation, your hopes of obtaining one were incredibly slim.

So far, you hadn't even heard rumors of where to find a Nascent Soul Formation Pill, let alone found a channel to obtain one.

Taiyuan Palace might have Nascent Soul Formation Pills, but they reserved those exclusively for their own prime candidates. You certainly wouldn't get a share.

With your current strength, even if you were willing to join Taiyuan Palace and reveal your Flawless Gold Core aptitude, they still wouldn't invest much in cultivating you.

Your age was a limiting factor, and your foundation was already set.

Nascent Soul factions like Taiyuan Palace poured their resources into prime candidates they had adopted as children, ensuring their deep emotional ties to the sect.

Only after closing the Azure Jade box did you extract it and place it inside your own storage ring.

As for True Person Biyue's storage ring, you inspected it several times and even performed Divination on it. Only after confirming it was safe did you put it away.

"Fellow Daoist Qingyuan..."

True Person Blood Sea approached. He glanced at True Person Biyue's headless corpse, his heart filled with a myriad of complex emotions.

"Fellow Daoist Blood Sea, Demoness Biyue cannot die just yet," you said, looking at him.

You had only sealed True Person Biyue's Gold Core, stopping short of killing the grand true person of the demonic path.

Right now, True Person Biyue was only physically dead. Her soul still slumbered inside her Gold Core, meaning she was technically alive.

Sparing her life for now was the result of several considerations.

First, if True Person Biyue died, would the Seven Killings Demon Lord in the Jiuyou Region know about it?

It had only been two or three years. In such a short time, she definitely wouldn't have attempted a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage, nor had there been any celestial phenomena indicating one.

Therefore, if she died now, it could only mean she had been killed by someone else.

Would that provoke True Lord Seven Fiends into investigating?

Second, upon her death, her karma would dissipate. Any diviner attempting to calculate her fate would sense the anomaly and potentially deduce the truth of her demise.

For you, that would mean adding even more unpredictable variables.

Your current plan was to keep her technically alive, maintaining the situation from the previous simulation where she vanished without a trace for decades or even a century.

This would in turn buy you more time.

Next, you and True Person Blood Sea set about cleaning the battlefield.

You erased as many traces of True Person Biyue's techniques as possible.

"Hmm?"

You arrived in front of the house where True Person Biyue had been staying.

Your battle with her had reduced a radius of several li to rubble, yet this house had barely sustained a scratch.

'Protected by a Tier 3 array...' you thought, noticing the array fluctuations around the structure.

You immediately sent a puppet inside to investigate.

Although you had already suppressed True Person Biyue and any leftover traps couldn't seriously threaten you...

...it never hurt to be cautious.

With the Heavenly Infant Fruit now in hand, you intended to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage, regardless of whether you ultimately succeeded.

Even if the breakthrough failed, the attempt would yield invaluable experience for your next simulation.

The Tier 3 puppet strode into the house and entered a room housing a spirit tablet.

'This is... Heavenly Secret Incense? And it's the purple-grade variety. Without a Tier 4 divination grandmaster, no one could calculate her fate...'

You looked at the burning purple Heavenly Secret Incense and the spirit tablet—shrouded in its smoke and carved with True Person Biyue's true Dao title—and instantly understood.

It was by relying on this very stick of incense that True Person Biyue had masked her information, forcing you to burn a century of your lifespan just to pinpoint her location.

In truth, without this Heavenly Secret Incense, the Heavenly Infant Fruit wouldn't have fallen into your hands anyway. Both it and True Person Biyue would have been captured by True Monarch Zixu long ago.

Without its protection, determining True Person Biyue's general location would have been a trivial matter for any top-tier Tier 3 divination master.

'What a pity... Even the strongest heavenly secret wondrous item has its limits...'

You shook your head slightly. If True Person Biyue had been a top-tier Tier 3 divination master herself—or even just a mid-tier one—

—she would have sensed your attempt to divine her exact location and fled early, or prepared other countermeasures.

Instead, she had relied far too much on this heavenly secret wondrous item.

You carefully gathered up the Heavenly Secret Incense and the smoke-shrouded spirit tablet.

You planned to keep them exactly as they were, allowing the Heavenly Secret Incense to continue masking True Person Biyue's fate.

Once you were certain the battlefield was thoroughly scrubbed, you finally left with True Person Blood Sea and Xiao Hei.

Nearly half a year later, you smoothly arrived back at Profound King Island.

Only then did you finally relax.

You knew very well that the journey back to Profound King Island had been the most perilous phase after securing the Heavenly Infant Fruit.

Had the Jiuyou Region left behind some failsafe to monitor True Person Biyue's status or the fruit's location...

...you would have walked straight into an ambush by a horde of true person demonic cultivators from the Jiuyou Region.

It wasn't even entirely impossible that the Seven Killings Demon Lord might have struck personally.

Although the Heavenly Infant Fruit was useless to him, a natural treasure of this caliber could easily be traded with other true lords for vital resources.

Now that you had entered Profound King Island, you were more or less safe.

Even if news of you killing True Person Biyue and claiming the Heavenly Infant Fruit leaked right now, you wouldn't have to worry about a true lord attacking you personally.

Profound King Island was under the protection of Venerable Xuan.

You just needed to hide out on the island.

The only thing left to consider was how to placate the Jiang Family in exchange for the island's continued protection.

At worst, you could simply offer up the Heavenly Infant Fruit in exchange for a slightly inferior Nascent Soul formation material...

Although Profound King Island was considered a Nascent Soul faction, Venerable Xuan slumbered year-round. Unless a foreign true lord approached, he rarely woke.

Dealing with Profound King Island was much easier than interacting with a true Nascent Soul faction.

Year eighty-five. You were one hundred and one years old.

You had long since arranged for True Person Blood Sea to return to the Taiyuan Region to watch over the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce.

Over this period, no rumors concerning True Person Biyue had surfaced in the outside world.

Your heart finally settled. You were certain that, up to this point, no one knew you had killed True Person Biyue.

'The reason True Person Biyue hid in the Zixiao Domain was likely for that cross-region teleportation array. She planned to wait for the heat to die down, then use it to flee to another distant region...'

You pondered the situation.

Based on your experiences in the third simulation, you were absolutely certain she hadn't attempted her Nascent Soul breakthrough in any nearby domain.

'I will wait a few decades until the Heavenly Secret Incense burns out. Then I will wipe out her soul, making it look like she died during a failed breakthrough...'

You carefully calculated the timing of True Person Biyue's death.

You hadn't subjected her soul to Soul Searching.

True Person Biyue was a Late Core Formation Stage grand cultivator. Even backed by your body cultivation divine ability Eruption and the Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators talent, you were only marginally stronger than her. Forcing a Soul Search would only stimulate fierce resistance, making it highly unlikely you would glean anything useful.

Unless, of course, she voluntarily submitted to a Soul Search—but you deemed that essentially impossible.

True Person Blood Sea had allowed you to search his soul because of his all-consuming obsession with taking revenge on her.

But True Person Biyue? Her obsession was likely your death.

So, you decided it was best to simply let her fade into nothingness during her slumber.

Year eighty-six. You were one hundred and two years old.

The war between the Taiyuan Region and the Jiuyou Region broke out.

Countless cultivators slaughtered one another along the borders of the two great regions. Up in the clouds, true persons faced off in tense standoffs, while higher still, True Lord Seven Fiends clashed with True Monarch Zixu.

Compared to your previous simulation, this time you sat securely on Profound King Island, commanding the numerous chambers of commerce in the alliance to trade with both great regions. Your status and rate of wealth accumulation far eclipsed your past efforts.

At the same time, you didn't neglect your operations in the Taiyuan Region.

True Person Blood Sea was currently maneuvering through the Taiyuan Region on your behalf.

Year eighty-seven. You were one hundred and three years old.

You visited the Jiang Family as usual, utilizing their earth fire to concoct Tier 3 pills.

You also took the opportunity to discuss the commercial alliance's profits on Profound King Island with the Jiang Family Matriarch, Jiang Jixue.

With the war between the Jiuyou Region and the Taiyuan Region, both great regions officially used Profound King Island as a transit hub to purchase massive quantities of war resources—including, but not limited to, pills, talismans, and war machines.

On the surface, the two great regions were trading with Profound King Island, but in reality, they were trading with the surrounding great regions.

The many chambers of commerce situated on the island hailed from those neighboring great regions.

Essentially, Profound King Island served as a transit point, providing a safe venue where both sides felt comfortable conducting transactions.

Inside a brightly lit palace hall, you met with the Jiang Family Matriarch, Jiang Jixue, and the Jiang Family Patriarch.

Jiang Jixue sat elegantly at the head of the hall. Reclining slightly, she displayed her graceful curves. Her hair was piled high like clouds, her slender eyebrows curved elegantly, and her fair, delicate neck caught the light, radiating a soft, seductive charm.

The Jiang Family Patriarch sat to the lower right. He frowned slightly, looking up at the alluring Jiang Jixue at the head of the hall as though he wanted to speak but held his tongue.

Seeing this scene, you naturally knew what the Jiang Family Patriarch was thinking.

He was simply worried about someone taking advantage of his dao companion.

Although the Jiang Family Patriarch was only Jiang Jixue's dao companion in name, in reality, he had never even set foot inside her private boudoir or immortal cave.

Yet, he had long viewed Jiang Jixue as his own woman. He genuinely believed that time bred affection, and that as long as he stayed by her side, he would eventually win the beauty's heart.

You kept your gaze straight, not lingering on Jiang Jixue for even a second.

Even if the Jiang Family Patriarch was nothing more than Jiang Jixue's puppet, you weren't going to needlessly offend him over this.

After all, he had managed the Jiang Family for many years. He might not have the final say on major decisions, but he could certainly find ways to make your life difficult.

Furthermore, you didn't know Jiang Jixue's true attitude toward the Jiang Family Patriarch. Naturally, you had no interest in wading into the murky waters of this superficial dao companion relationship.

Right now, your plan on Profound King Island was to exploit the great region war to gather enough resources to cultivate to Gold Core completion, and then attempt a Nascent Soul breakthrough.

As for everything else? It all took a backseat.

The Jiang Family Patriarch seemed slightly satisfied with your unwavering gaze.

He deduced you were likely an ascetic cultivator with little interest in women.

Over the decades you had resided on Profound King Island, the Jiang Family Patriarch had never once heard of you inviting a female cultivator into your immortal cave.

Half an hour later, you concluded your discussion with Jiang Jixue and rose to leave.

As you stepped out of the palace, you faintly heard the Jiang Family Patriarch complaining, "Xue'er, in the future, please don't act like this in front of outsiders..."

Jiang Jixue replied casually, "Alchemist Wang is hardly an outsider..."

You had no habit of eavesdropping. This was the Jiang Family, covered by massive arrays. If you lingered for even a moment, Jiang Jixue would undoubtedly notice.

Year eighty-eight. You were one hundred and four years old.

Outside of your standard cultivation, you focused heavily on comprehending the art of Divination.

Several years prior, you had burned an entire century of your lifespan in a single go to divine True Person Biyue's exact location.

In doing so, you had simultaneously pushed your Divination skill to the very peak of the low-tier Tier 3 level.

Now, you wanted to take it a step further and reach the mid-tier Tier 3 Divination realm.

Thanks to your experience with True Person Biyue, you valued Divination more than ever.

A Divination master—or a Divination grandmaster—could manipulate and nudge a person's fate to an absolutely terrifying degree.

You trained bitterly in this art not to manipulate the fates of others, but to ensure that if someone ever tampered with yours, you would at least know exactly what was happening.

Half a year later, after painstaking study and burning another two or three years of your lifespan, your Divination skill finally broke through to the mid-tier Tier 3 level.

'Mid-tier Tier 3 Divination!'

Your eyes shone with vigor, your mood exceptionally good.

This was the third mid-tier Tier 3 skill you had mastered.

Whether it was alchemy, talismans, or now Divination, as long as you reached the necessary realm, their utility would not be limited to a single simulation.

You could inherit these proficiencies in reality, building a permanent foundation for countless simulations to come.

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