I Have a Cultivation Simulator

The Late Golden Core Stage was a major watershed in the Core Formation realm.

Once a true person of the Core Formation realm reached this level, they became known as a Great True Person.

Aside from the obvious leap in strength over a mid-stage cultivator, every Late-Stage Great True Person theoretically had a chance to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm.

Though the hope of success was slim, it was still hope.

If forced to choose between dying of old age and dying from a failed Nascent Soul breakthrough, some cultivators would choose the latter without hesitation.

Feeling a surge of excitement, you carefully inspected the changes in your body.

Upon reaching the Late Golden Core Stage, the most obvious improvement was the quality and volume of your dharma power.

Both had more than doubled.

What did this mean?

After all, during the Mid Golden Core Stage, your Flawless Gold Core had already allowed you to rival an ordinary Late-Stage Great True Person.

In addition, your spiritual sense had undergone a massive upgrade.

During the Mid Golden Core Stage, your spiritual sense could cover a radius of fifty li.

Now, in the late stage? That range had exploded to a radius of one hundred and fifty li.

In other words, with a mere thought, everything within this area became crystal clear to you.

‘A normal Late-Stage Great True Person’s spiritual sense covers a radius between fifty and a hundred li. I only just entered the late stage, and my range is already a hundred and fifty?’

You pondered this; an increase of this magnitude far exceeded reasonable bounds.

‘It’s the Indomitable Will talent...’ You realized you had underestimated this purple-grade talent.

Spiritual sense originated from the soul, and the core of the soul was willpower. The stronger the will, the greater the enhancement to the soul.

‘With my current strength, I should have few rivals beneath the Nascent Soul realm, unless I run into another Late-Stage Great True Person with a Flawless Gold Core.’

You evaluated yourself. The advantage a Flawless Gold Core true person held over an ordinary Golden Core true person was simply too immense.

‘Of course, that only applies to righteous path cultivators. If it were a demonic cultivator... even a late-stage flawless core demonic cultivator... they would still be crushed by me.’

You were in an excellent mood. The Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators talent gave you a crushing, suppressive advantage against demonic cultivators in the same realm.

‘Nascent Soul!’

Your gaze sharpened. Having stepped into the Late Golden Core Stage, you could finally set your sights on the Nascent Soul realm.

In the near-ancient era, the peak combat strength in the Human Realm was the Nascent Soul True Monarch—or, more accurately, the late-stage Nascent Soul Great Cultivator.

As for beast kings with a True Spirit Bloodline, most could only grow to the peak of the early fourth tier. A small fraction might luckily step into the mid fourth tier, and an exceedingly rare few—thanks to a particularly dense and special True Spirit Bloodline—had hope of reaching the late fourth tier.

Beast kings with a True Spirit Bloodline weren’t genuine True Spirit immortal beasts; they merely possessed a thin trace of that bloodline flowing in their veins.

And Deity Transformation Heavenly Monarchs? Suppressed by heaven and earth, they couldn’t even unleash their full power.

“A hundred and forty years old, Late Golden Core Stage!”

Outside the simulation, Zhou Qing clenched his fists.

In reality, he was still a Foundation Establishment cultivator, rather inconspicuous in the Taiyuan Region. Any random False Core True Person could send him fleeing for his life.

But in the simulation? He was in the Late Golden Core Stage—with a Flawless Gold Core, no less. He could be considered one of the strongest Great True Persons beneath the Nascent Soul realm.

“A Golden Core cultivator enjoys a lifespan of five hundred years. Even after sacrificing over a hundred years of my life to the art of Divination, I still have two to three centuries left. That’s more than enough time to attempt a Nascent Soul breakthrough.”

Zhou Qing estimated silently.

The Golden Core level of the Mountain Sea Art, combined with being a Third-Tier Body Cultivator, pushed the point of your vitality’s decline much closer to your natural lifespan limit.

As long as you attempted the Nascent Soul breakthrough before then, there wouldn’t be any problems.

After advancing to the Late Golden Core Stage, you returned to the slow, steady cultivation routine of the past few decades.

Profound King Island’s spiritual vein environment was excellent, more than enough to satisfy your cultivation needs in the Late Golden Core Stage.

In the 125th year, you were 141 years old.

Your cultivation continued to progress, edging closer to the Core Formation Perfection Stage.

In the 126th year, you were 142 years old.

Of the thirty dharma talismans nourished in your dantian, twenty had already reached the absolute limit of the high-grade third tier in power.

The other ten were extra slots gained after you entered the Late Golden Core Stage and improved the quality and quantity of your dharma power.

In the 130th year, you were 146 years old.

You ended your closed-door seclusion, stepped out of your immortal cave, and gazed into the distance toward the Taiyuan Region.

According to the intelligence you had gathered during your third simulation, there were two opportunities throughout the entire two-region war where you could easily obtain a Nascent Soul condensation spiritual item.

The first opportunity was that wisp of Nine Heavens Clear Wind, which was already in your hands.

As for the second opportunity, the time was now.

During the most intense period of the war between the two regions, a mysterious third-tier poison master emerged on the Jiuyou Region’s side.

The third-tier spiritual poison crafted by this master made the Golden Core true persons of the Taiyuan Region suffer miserably.

The third-tier spiritual poison was colorless and odorless, spreading through the collision of dharma power. Even Mid Golden Core Stage true persons would suffer massive dharma power loss if they accidentally contracted it during a magical battle.

Because of this third-tier poison master, over ten Golden Core true persons from the Taiyuan Region had been severely wounded and were unable to return to the battlefield in the short term.

Three Golden Core true persons had even perished because of it.

On its own, the third-tier spiritual poison wasn’t fatal; at most, it drastically drained a Golden Core true person’s dharma power and plummeted their combat strength.

They just needed to retreat and rest for a while to recover.

But on the frontlines, where multiple Golden Core true persons were locked in brutal slaughter, what would happen if one side suddenly lost their dharma power? The consequences were obvious.

Taiyuan Palace was overwhelmed, left with a burned head and battered forehead by this third-tier spiritual poison. Late-Stage Great True Persons could forcefully resist it, but just how many Late-Stage Great True Persons were there?

The third-tier physicians nurtured by Taiyuan Palace attempted to formulate an antidote to counter the poison, but their efforts yielded little result.

Thus, Taiyuan Palace issued a public bounty. It didn’t matter who the cultivator was—a local from the Taiyuan Region, an expert from another major region, or even a cultivator from the Jiuyou Region.

As long as someone could provide a method to crack this third-tier spiritual poison, they could choose any Nascent Soul condensation spiritual item as their reward.

However, one or two decades passed, and the poison created by this third-tier poison master remained unsolvable.

It wasn’t until twenty-nine years later that Taiyuan Palace finally lost all patience. A high-grade third-tier Divination master personally sacrificed his lifespan to divine the poison master’s approximate location, and multiple Late-Stage Great True Persons teamed up to lay an ambush.

After paying a tragic price, they finally captured the third-tier poison master and extracted the antidote formula through Soul Searching.

In the late stages of the two-region war, that antidote formula wasn’t a secret. Because of that, you had also acquired a copy through Zhou Hai, who was fighting on the frontlines at the time.

‘The Dao of Poison...’

You marveled inwardly.

As one of the hundred cultivation arts, the Dao of Poison was extremely obscure. The circulation of a cultivator’s dharma power alone was enough to ward off a hundred common poisons.

But high-quality spiritual poisons were enough to give even Golden Core true persons a headache.

There were even specific infant poisons designed to target Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

You had purchased quite a few poison path inheritances in the past, but you hadn’t spent much energy comprehending them.

‘Taiyuan Palace has already issued the bounty now, but there’s no rush. I’ll wait a few more years before taking the antidote formula to Taiyuan Palace to claim the reward...’

You thought to yourself.

It would seem a bit too abrupt if you showed up with the antidote right after the bounty was posted.

Waiting a few years and posing as a foreign cultivator who had just heard the news would be a safer way to claim a Nascent Soul condensation spiritual item.

In the 131st year, you were 147 years old.

Inside the cave, with a slight shift of your thoughts, a spirit altar appeared before you.

On the altar sat a spirit tablet, carved with the blood-red words ‘Moon Demon’.

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

Smoke curled around the tablet, faintly obscuring the words ‘Moon Demon’ and making them impossible to read clearly.

However, after burning for several decades, this stick of purple incense was nearly extinguished.

Heaven’s Secret Incense. Once ignited, it could shroud a specific target’s heavenly secrets, making them extremely difficult to deduce.

A purple-tier Heaven’s Secret Incense couldn’t be bypassed by anyone beneath a fourth-tier Divination grandmaster.

If you hadn’t used True Person Biyue’s aura as a medium and sacrificed a century of your lifespan, it would have been impossible for you to divine her exact location.

In the art of Divination, grade boundaries weren’t strictly defined.

Unlike the Dao of Alchemy, where a third-tier alchemist could absolutely never refine a fourth-tier medicinal pill.

But in Divination? Theoretically, as long as a third-tier Divination master sacrificed enough lifespan, they could glean snippets of information about a fourth-tier true lord.

Of course, the amount of lifespan required would make a normal Golden Core true person despair. If a Divination master actually dared to try, they would likely drop dead the very instant they glimpsed that sliver of information.

‘The Heaven’s Secret Incense is about to burn out. It’s time for True Person Biyue to die,’ you thought to yourself as you watched the slowly smoldering purple incense.

To prevent True Person Biyue from dying prematurely and triggering unnecessary variables, you hadn’t killed her back then, instead forcing her into a deep slumber.

Now, it was about time to put an end to this matter once and for all.

Once the purple Heaven’s Secret Incense burned out, True Person Biyue’s heavenly secrets would be exposed. If a high-grade third-tier Divination master attempted a reading, there was a chance they could learn her current condition.

Therefore, she had to die before the incense was completely exhausted.

Upon true death, karma would dissipate, and even the most powerful diviner wouldn’t be able to deduce a thing.

In the third simulation, you had been 190 years old when you heard the news that True Person Biyue had opened the Moon Demon Domain in the savage wastelands.

Now, you were in your 140s. If she died at this time, it would most likely be assumed that she had failed her Nascent Soul breakthrough.

The plan was flawless, like heavenly clothes with no seams.

With this thought in mind, you took out a jade box.

Opening the box revealed a gloomy, dark Golden Core resting inside.

This was True Person Biyue’s Golden Core, and her soul was slumbering within it.

Staring at this Golden Core, the thought of performing Soul Searching surfaced in your mind.

You were now in the Late Golden Core Stage, and the strength of your spiritual sense surpassed that of an ordinary Great True Person.

Coupled with the Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators talent... Soul Searching True Person Biyue wasn’t without hope.

‘Forget it...’

After a moment of thought, you abandoned the idea.

Once Soul Searching began, it would stimulate True Person Biyue’s soul.

That would lead to her soul regaining a flash of consciousness.

This, in turn, would give her a chance to react.

True Person Biyue was a Late-Stage Great True Person, and she had deep ties with the Jiuyou Cult.

Who knew what kind of tricks she could pull off in that brief window of time?

You held absolute superiority now, and the Heavenly Infant Fruit was already in your hands. Her memories weren’t strictly necessary.

There was no need to take such a risk.

Thinking of this, you raised your right hand and lightly swiped over her dark Golden Core.

Buzz—

True Person Biyue’s soul was completely annihilated, dying out mid-slumber.

This female true lord—who, in the third simulation, sold out a city full of cultivators to step into the Nascent Soul realm—perished silently.

‘In future simulations, once I step into the Nascent Soul realm, I could try controlling and enslaving True Person Biyue...’

You mused silently.

To you, her greatest value was simply that Heavenly Infant Fruit.

However, a single Heavenly Infant Fruit naturally paled in comparison to having a completely loyal female true lord as a subordinate.

The Heavenly Infant Fruit was indeed a high-grade Nascent Soul condensation spiritual item, but even if a High-Grade Gold Core true person consumed it, their chances of ultimately becoming a true lord remained abysmally low.

True Person Biyue was the only future female true lord you currently knew of and had hope of controlling.

Actually, you also knew the exact point in time when True Lord Seven Fiends broke into the Nascent Soul realm, but that involved the Jiuyou Cult’s secret realm, which you had no way of controlling.

Of course, enslaving True Person Biyue was something you would only consider after reaching the Nascent Soul realm yourself, when the Heavenly Infant Fruit would be of no use to you anyway.

In the 132nd year, you were 148 years old.

As usual, you headed to the Jiang Family estate to sip tea.

Over the years, your relationship with Jiang Jixue had rapidly heated up, and you had engaged in physical contact on several occasions.

You knew Jiang Jixue’s goal. The Jiang Family Matriarch, who had ruled for many years, certainly hadn’t fallen for you unconditionally.

Rather, having an intimate relationship with you greatly benefited her continued rule over the Jiang Family.

The same went for you.

Establishing a close relationship with her bolstered your standing on Profound King Island.

Furthermore, your future Nascent Soul breakthrough would require the use of Profound King Island’s fourth-tier spiritual vein.

You and Jiang Jixue were more like paramours, mutually benefiting each other.

You weren’t averse to Jiang Jixue.

Even though Li Yan surpassed Jiang Jixue in every aspect, from looks to temperament...

...eating the main course too often meant having a side dish occasionally was a nice diversion.

Moreover, her aura as the Jiang Family Matriarch only heightened your sense of conquest.

Back in the Jiang Family’s guest reception hall.

With a wave of her hand, Jiang Jixue closed the hall doors and activated the grand array, isolating them from outside prying eyes.

She then walked down gracefully.

“Alchemist Wang...”

Jiang Jixue sat on your lap with extreme boldness, revealing her pale thighs through the slits of her dress.

You could faintly glimpse the enticing sights half-hidden beneath her smooth, delicate neck.

“You are truly beautiful today, Jixue...”

You naturally knew what she meant by this.

Over the past few years, you and Jiang Jixue had engaged in physical contact multiple times.

But it had always been strictly limited to that; there had never been any further intimacy.

Now, after several years of building rapport, she clearly intended to take the final step.

You wrapped an arm around her soft waist, lifted her, and placed her onto the desk in front of you.

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