I Have a Cultivation Simulator

"Qi Refining Sixth Layer!" Zhou Qing's eyes lit up.

In theory, given the cultivation speed of a cultivator with a Low-Grade Spirit Root, the Qi Refining Sixth Layer was the absolute limit.

Normally, by the time cultivators with a Low-Grade Spirit Root reached that layer, they would be nearly seventy years old, teetering on the edge of their twilight years.

Once they entered those twilight years, their vitality and blood would decline, making the hope of taking another step forward into the Qi Refining Late Stage infinitely slim.

Cultivators with a Mid-Grade Spirit Root, however, had a chance to reach Qi Refining Ninth Layer Completion before hitting that seventy-year mark.

"In this simulation, even if my luck is terrible, I'll at least reach the Qi Refining Late Stage."

"If my luck is a bit better, breaking through to Foundation Establishment won't be a pipe dream."

Zhou Qing was in a fantastic mood.

He was only twenty-eight years old now.

Forty-two years. Given that much time and a steady supply of pills to swallow, even a pig could probably break through to the Qi Refining Late Stage.

"The Qi Refining Late Stage..."

Anticipation filled Zhou Qing's face.

Whether it was the Qi Refining Realm, the Foundation Establishment Realm, or the Core Formation Realm.

The late stage of any realm was a major threshold, and cultivators at that level were considered grand cultivators of their respective tier.

For instance, a cultivator in the Qi Refining Late Stage was a grand cultivator of the Qi Refining Realm.

A late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator was a grand cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

The same applied to the Core Formation Realm.

The reason for this distinction was simple.

Compared to the early and middle stages, a late-stage cultivator experienced a significant leap in combat power.

[You broke through to the Qi Refining Sixth Layer and were in high spirits.]

[You planned to attempt refining a batch of high-grade pills to push for the rank of a High-Grade Alchemist.]

[Several years ago, your alchemy skills had already reached the peak of the mid-grade level.]

[Although you had no clue how to break through to the high grade, you wanted to use the momentum of reaching the Qi Refining Sixth Layer to give it a try.]

[The high-grade pill you attempted to refine was the Qi Nourishing Pill. It was considered one of the easier high-grade pills to make.]

[Your refinement failed, leaving you with a furnace full of waste dregs.]

[Through this failure, you calmed down.]

[You began to seriously reflect on the experience.]

[The gap between a Mid-Grade Alchemist and a High-Grade Alchemist often took ten years or more to cross, even for naturally gifted alchemists.]

[Alchemist Yun had been stuck at the Mid-Grade Alchemist level for nearly twenty years.]

[And Alchemist Yun had the guidance of a Tier Two Alchemist as his teacher.]

[By analyzing your failure, you gained some insights, taking another step closer to the skill level of a High-Grade Alchemist.]

[In the fourteenth year, at twenty-nine years old, you gradually developed a resistance to the Qi Nourishing Pill due to constantly consuming it.]

[Your talent, Nemesis of the Alchemic Dao, allowed you to ignore most pill toxicity, but it couldn't erase your body's built-up resistance to the pills themselves.]

[Consuming too much of any pill would inevitably build resistance, causing its effects on you to diminish over time.]

[As a daily cultivation pill for the Qi Refining Middle Stage, the fact that it took this long for the Qi Nourishing Pill to trigger a resistance was already quite impressive.]

[You switched to a different mid-grade pill for your daily cultivation.]

[Its effects were no different from the Qi Nourishing Pill.]

[After all, there were simply too many varieties of daily cultivation pills suited for the Qi Refining Middle Stage.]

[In the fifteenth year, at thirty years old, you walked into the courtyard of your cave dwelling and looked at Dachun sitting cross-legged on the ground.]

[During your fifteen years in Wushan Market, you had also managed to find a path for Dachun.]

[Dachun didn't have a spirit root and couldn't cultivate immortality, but he could refine his body.]

[You found him a manual called the "Blazing Sun Body Refinement Art".]

[Compared to Qi Refining, body refinement required enduring immense pain. The flesh had to undergo constant tempering and refinement just to improve at a slow pace.]

[Furthermore, Qi Refining cultivators had an all-encompassing array of methods, with an endless stream of magical treasures and divine abilities.]

[Body refinement was much simpler. At least in the early stages, aside from survivability and close-quarters combat, it didn't offer any real advantages.]

[When a body refiner faced a Qi Refining cultivator of the same level, the former could easily be kited to death by the latter.]

["Young Master!"]

[Seeing you step out, Dachun quickly stood up, his face full of excitement.]

["Young Master, I've already cultivated that body refinement art to the fourth level!"]

[Dachun said excitedly.]

["The fourth level? That fast?"]

[You were quite surprised.]

[From what you understood, the fourth level of the "Blazing Sun Body Refinement Art" was equivalent to the Qi Refining Fourth Layer.]

[Dachun possessed innate divine strength and naturally had a massive advantage in body refinement, but you never expected him to reach the fourth level this quickly.]

["Try attacking me."]

[You said.]

["Alright!"]

[Dachun immediately nodded.]

[Over the past dozen years or so, you had frequently sparred with Dachun.]

[Dachun's figure blurred. Your expression shifted slightly, and a red protective shield surfaced over your body.]

[An instant later, Dachun's fist slammed into the shield.]

[In the blink of an eye, the shield faintly began to burn, and Dachun's fist retreated the moment it made contact.]

["Young Master..."]

[Dachun looked at his slightly charred fist, a pained expression crossing his face.]

[If he had pulled back a fraction of a second later, it wouldn't have been as simple as a charred fist.]

["Not bad at all."]

[You nodded.]

[With the speed and power Dachun just displayed, an ordinary Qi Refining Fourth Layer cultivator would undoubtedly suffer a huge loss if caught off guard.]

[You had just broken through to the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, resulting in a massive boost to your magical power. If you were still at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer, even you might have been left looking a bit ragged.]

["Keep cultivating diligently."]

[You looked at Dachun, a smile surfacing on your face.]

[Originally, you didn't have high expectations for him.]

[Given the unwavering loyalty Dachun had shown in the first simulation, you figured it wouldn't hurt to just provide for him in this one.]

[But looking at it now, if Dachun continued to progress in body refinement, he might actually be of help to you in the future.]

[In the sixteenth year, at thirty-one years old, there were still four years left until the secret realm outside the market opened.]

[You began to reduce the frequency of refining other types of pills and focused heavily on making healing and life-saving pills.]

[Having the experience from your previous simulation, you knew very well that once the secret realm appeared and hordes of cultivators flooded in, the demand for healing and life-saving pills would skyrocket.]

[This would cause the prices of these pills to surge by several dozen percent.]

[What you were doing right now was hoarding these pills to make a fortune in four years' time.]

[As for why you didn't hoard them earlier? Pills had a shelf life. The medicinal efficacy of standard daily pills could only be maintained for about four or five years.]

[Of course, certain precious pills, like the Foundation Establishment Pill, had more sophisticated storage methods that could preserve their medicinal properties for decades or even centuries.]

[However, those storage methods were incredibly expensive, and using them on ordinary pills would be a complete waste.]

[In the seventeenth year, at thirty-two years old, you successfully cultivated three tracking spells to great completion in a row.]

[In the eighteenth year, at thirty-three years old, Alchemist Yun brought you another alchemy inheritance. You benefited immensely after comprehending it.]

[In the nineteenth year, at thirty-four years old, your observations revealed that Ye Feng's timeline hadn't deviated at all from the first simulation. The only difference was that without your help, Ye Feng was having a very hard time among Alchemist Yun's apprentices.]

[In the twentieth year, at thirty-five years old, you looked up toward a certain direction outside the market.]

[The secret realm had appeared.]

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