I Have a Cultivation Simulator

"Nascent Soul True Monarch!"

Outside the simulation, Zhou Qing clenched his fists, his heart surging.

Five simulations, nearly a thousand years, and he had finally stepped into this realm.

Even among true lord seeds with a heavenly spiritual root and a Flawless Gold Core, only a small fraction ever actually reached the Nascent Soul Stage.

"A massive surge in strength, command over my own fate, a thousand-year lifespan..."

A smile spread across Zhou Qing's face. The benefits of becoming a Nascent Soul True Monarch were simply too numerous.

The most obvious was the absolute authority and autonomy it granted.

A true person at the Core Formation Stage was certainly considered a major figure within a large region.

But if they were caught up in a truly monumental event, they could still only drift with the current, powerless to dictate their own fate.

But at the Nascent Soul Stage? Even in a super-region like the Wujian Region, threats capable of taking a true lord's life were exceedingly rare.

Even when facing an attack from a true lord at the Mid Nascent Soul Stage, one at the Early Nascent Soul Stage still had a high chance of escaping with their Nascent Soul spirit body.

For a dharma cultivation true lord, the Nascent Soul spirit body was the true core. Lost their physical body? They just needed to perform soul possession to take a new one.

As for the hidden dangers and side effects of soul possession? The rumor that it permanently severed any hope of further breakthroughs?

For one, very few Early Nascent Soul Stage true lords ever advanced to the Mid Nascent Soul Stage anyway.

And if one truly cared about that flaw, there were other ways to remedy it.

If a Nascent Soul spirit body consumed a Tier 4 spiritual item like the Ten-Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit, it would automatically grow a brand-new physical body.

That body would perfectly align with the Nascent Soul spirit body, harboring no friction or rejection, fully preserving the hope of breaking through to the next realm.

Aside from the Ten-Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit, a few other natural spiritual treasures possessed similar effects.

Of course, such natural spiritual treasures were incredibly rare and precious. Even a true lord would struggle to encounter one, but it still offered a sliver of hope.

Becoming a Nascent Soul True Monarch presented one more distinct advantage for Zhou Qing.

It meant he could more fully maximize every simulation attempt.

A Nascent Soul True Monarch enjoyed a thousand-year lifespan. That meant, from this simulation onward, as long as he didn't actively court death or suffer terrible luck, every simulation would last a full millennium.

To put that in perspective, the total time spent across his first four simulations combined barely approached a thousand years.

One simulation meant a thousand years; five simulations meant five thousand. Even a Deity Transformation Heavenly Monarch only lived for two or three millennia.

"This is the true meaning of cultivation..." Zhou Qing was in an excellent mood. Only by reaching the Nascent Soul Stage could he finally feel a greater sense of security in the real world.

At this moment, even if Venerable Xuan of Profound King Island and True Monarch Zixu of Taiyuan Palace attacked him together, Zhou Qing was confident he could survive.

At worst, he would just waste this simulation opportunity, choose to end it early, and inherit his Nascent Soul Stage cultivation.

'Keep going, keep going!'

Zhou Qing reined in his thoughts and continued reading the illusory text.

In this simulation, he had stepped into the Nascent Soul Stage at the age of one hundred and two, leaving him with nine hundred years before reaching his millennium lifespan limit.

He was incredibly eager to see just how high he could climb.

Unlike True Monarch Zixu, Zhou Qing wouldn't stubbornly trap himself in the Taiyuan Region.

That man was already eight hundred years old and still stuck at the Early Nascent Soul Stage.

Zhou Qing, on the other hand, would travel far and wide to hunt for breakthrough opportunities.

Furthermore, the Lotus Heart Seed had the effect of weakening and simplifying the bottlenecks at the Nascent Soul Stage.

While Zhou Qing wasn't completely confident in becoming a Great Cultivator at the Late Nascent Soul Stage...

...he was quite certain he could reach the Mid Nascent Soul Stage.

A true lord at the Mid Nascent Soul Stage already possessed the qualifications to establish a super-region.

The entire reason Wujian Hall could dominate the Wujian Region was because of the Mid Nascent Soul Stage true lord leading them.

[In Jiuli Valley, five-colored clouds surged and churned in the sky as the spiritual pressure of a newly born Nascent Soul rippled outward.]

[Countless cultivators of Jiuli Valley held their breath, their minds racing.]

["A successful Nascent Soul formation? Has a Nascent Soul True Monarch just been born in our Jiuli Valley?"]

["Which true lord just broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage?"]

["A few days ago, the Supreme Elder ordered the opening of a Tier 4 spiritual vein cave dwelling. But as for who exactly is breaking through to the Nascent Soul Stage, I have no idea..."]

[Although Jiuli Valley was a body cultivation sect, pure body cultivation factions hadn't existed since the start of the Near-Ancient Era. It wasn't unusual for the sect to house dharma cultivation true persons, so long as they practiced body cultivation on the side.]

[Of course, while pure body cultivation factions no longer existed, pure body cultivators still did. However, every single one of them possessed unique innate talents and immensely powerful bloodlines.]

["It's... Alchemist Wang who stepped into the Nascent Soul Stage..." Only a very small number of Jiuli Valley cultivators knew the truth. Dongfang Kun muttered to himself as he gazed at the auspicious phenomena signaling a successful Nascent Soul formation.]

[He was a descendant of True Monarch Beiheng. During your time in Jiuli Valley, the two of you had gotten along quite well.]

["Sigh, Alchemist Wang has become a true lord. I wonder if there's any hope... for me to reach Tier 4..." Dongfang Kun sighed, his heart heavy with worry.]

[For a body cultivator to reach Tier 4, they only needed to face two trials: the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation and the Heart Demon Tribulation.]

[However, the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation faced by a body cultivator was far more terrifying than that of a dharma cultivator, roughly equal in power to the heavenly tribulations faced by Tier 4 beast kings and Monster Kings.]

["Not bad, not bad at all."]

[True Monarch Beiheng looked toward your secluded breakthrough location, a smile gracing his face.]

[Although you were not a disciple raised by Jiuli Valley, having joined halfway with your own established skills...]

[...you had still made a promise to protect the sect for a century after becoming a true lord.]

[This meant that for the next hundred years, Jiuli Valley wouldn't just have him—a body cultivation true lord—standing guard...]

[...but they would also have a dharma cultivation true lord.]

[Inside the Tier 4 cave dwelling...]

[...you were examining the changes within yourself.]

[Deep within your dantian, the original Golden Core had completely vanished, replaced by a chubby infant spirit body.]

[This infant spirit body was your Nascent Soul. It was the most vital foundation of a dharma cultivation true lord, the vessel where both dharma power and divine soul converged.]

["The range of my divine sense covers a radius of twelve hundred li..."]

[You extended your divine sense slightly. Aside from certain areas obscured by Jiuli Valley's grand formations and the exact location where True Monarch Beiheng sat, everything within a twelve-hundred-li radius was perfectly clear to you.]

["An ordinary newly ascended Nascent Soul cultivator only has a divine sense range of nine hundred to a thousand li. Only after completely stabilizing their realm does it surpass the thousand-li mark..."]

["Yet I've just entered the Nascent Soul Stage, and my divine sense already spans twelve hundred li..."]

[You felt a surge of excitement. Dharma cultivation true lords rarely engaged in close-quarters melee combat.]

[Therefore, the wider one's divine sense range, the greater the initial advantage when battling a true lord of the same tier.]

[Furthermore, a broader divine sense offered comprehensive benefits. Whether scanning an area or ensuring self-preservation, you would always remain one step ahead of other true lords.]

[Why could a Mid Nascent Soul Stage true lord completely crush someone at the Early Nascent Soul Stage? Because a mid-stage true lord's divine sense covered a radius of two thousand li.]

[An Early Nascent Soul Stage true lord's physical body couldn't cross a two-thousand-li distance in an instant, meaning they could never escape a mid-stage true lord's pursuit. Ultimately, they would be forced to abandon their body and flee as a Nascent Soul spirit body.]

[A true lord's Nascent Soul spirit body was incredibly fast, capable of crossing thousands of li in the blink of an eye, breaking past the mid-stage true lord's divine sense range and escaping with their life.]

["My Nascent Soul..."]

[You stared intently at your own Nascent Soul spirit body.]

[Unlike the spirit body of a standard Nascent Soul True Monarch, the surface of yours was interwoven with silver seal script.]

[Additionally, you discovered that your Nascent Soul spirit body was incredibly stable—so solid that it could exist entirely independent of your physical shell.]

[Simply put, your Nascent Soul spirit body could break free from the constraints of flesh and blood.]

[Even without a physical body, your spirit body could continue cultivating, reaching the Peak Early Nascent Soul Stage or even advancing to the mid-stage.]

["Is this the path of ancient dharma cultivation true lords? Suppressing heaven and earth with just the Nascent Soul spirit body, treating the physical shell as mere dregs?"]

[Your eyes lit up. In the Near-Ancient Era, the lack of crucial resources meant that dharma cultivation true lords had spirit bodies easily countered by external artifacts. Thus, unless pushed to absolute desperation, they would never easily manifest their Nascent Soul spirit bodies.]

[Near-Ancient dharma cultivation true lords heavily relied on their physical forms; if any hidden flaws appeared in their bodies, it would directly hinder their spirit body's ability to break through.]

[But in the Ancient Era, the truly supreme dharma cultivation true lords didn't need physical bodies at all. Or rather, whatever body they desired, they could simply choose to possess it.]

["A Nascent Soul spirit body this stable is almost impossible to counter with external items. It's essentially no different from a physical body..."]

[You thought to yourself, "Given the stability of my Nascent Soul spirit body, a regular Early Nascent Soul Stage true lord's divine soul attacks won't be able to shake me at all..."]

["If I choose to separate my Nascent Soul and fight with my spirit body, I can rely on its superior stability to defeat ordinary early-stage true lords. I could force them to flee, completely stripping them of the courage to face me head-on..."]

[After all, once you fought using your spirit body, the massive speed advantage meant that an enemy early-stage true lord could only hope to beat you by manifesting their own Nascent Soul spirit body for a deadly clash.]

[Otherwise, they would just be unilaterally crushed by you.]

[With your spirit body's overwhelming stability, an enemy true lord could strike you ten times without leaving a scratch, whereas a single attack from you would be enough to injure their Nascent Soul spirit body.]

[What early-stage true lord of the same tier would dare keep fighting you like that?]

[Under normal circumstances, Nascent Soul True Monarchs didn't recklessly draw out their spirit bodies for combat.]

[Doing so meant exposing all their trump cards—it was a literal fight to the death.]

[Someone like True Monarch Zixu only dared to do so because he heavily relied on the Purple Bell, a divine soul secret treasure.]

[Yet even then, True Monarch Zixu had still suffered a massive loss at the hands of the True Spirit Bloodline Monster King.]

["Only mid-stage true lords, relying on the overwhelming advantage of their realm's foundation, can suppress me now... But at most, they could only force me to abandon my physical body. Destroying my Nascent Soul would be almost impossible..."]

[Your heart settled with absolute certainty.]

[Your Nascent Soul spirit body was unimaginably more stable than those of ordinary early-stage true lords, and it couldn't be easily countered by external artifacts. Unless a mid-stage true lord also manifested their spirit body, they wouldn't even be able to match your flight speed.]

[However, forcing a mid-stage true lord to deploy their spirit body? That was incredibly difficult. It would mean they were willing to shoulder tremendous risks and unexpected dangers.]

[And even if they did, whether they could actually do anything to your Nascent Soul spirit body remained highly debatable.]

["Truly worthy of the Nine-Star Ancient Soul Fruit..."]

[You thought to yourself.]

[To have your Nascent Soul spirit body reach such an extreme level of stability upon just entering the realm—aside from the Divine Origin Void Crossing Great Art, it was primarily because you had consumed the Nine-Star Ancient Soul Fruit during your breakthrough.]

[The latter was the primary factor.]

[Furthermore, the fruit's enhancement to a spirit body's stability was a foundational boost. It would continue to scale alongside your breakthroughs in the Nascent Soul Stage.]

["If I had a few more of them... wouldn't my Nascent Soul spirit body alone be capable of rivaling a mid-stage true lord..."]

[You felt a surge of anticipation.]

[Even during the Ancient Era, the Nine-Star Ancient Soul Fruit had been exceedingly rare. In the Near-Ancient Era, that rarity went without saying.]

[But you were different. You could simulate infinitely. Getting a few more Nine-Star Ancient Soul Fruits was just a matter of running a few more simulations.]

["The second layer of the Divine Origin Void Crossing Great Art..."]

[You recalled the divine soul secret art in your mind. Over the eighty or ninety years of this simulation, you had spent your free time comprehending it.]

[Unfortunately, the results had been minimal.]

[But now that you had smoothly broken through to the Nascent Soul Stage, examining the secret art from the heights of a true lord finally yielded some tangible insights.]

["With nine hundred years of time, I refuse to believe I can't master you!"]

[Your mindset was excellent. After all, you had more than enough time.]

["The Great Dao is within reach!"]

[You reined in your thoughts. Stepping into the Nascent Soul Stage this time had completely converted all your past accumulations into pure strength.]

[Relying on the immense superiority of the ancient dharma cultivation path, unless you willingly walked into some fatal trap—like a grand spatial isolation formation capable of blocking a spirit body's escape—you shouldn't face any true life-or-death crises in the Wujian Region.]

[At the very worst, you would just have to abandon your physical body.]

["Speaking of the physical body..."]

[You focused your senses on your physical form. Breaking into the Nascent Soul Stage hadn't provided a massive boost to your physique. After all, this was a dharma cultivation breakthrough, not a body cultivation one.]

[However, while enduring the Nascent Soul Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, you deliberately let the heavenly lightning wash over your body to stimulate its deepest latent potential. Ultimately, deep within your physical form, a new golden seal script character had condensed.]

[That golden seal script represented a body cultivation divine ability.]

[It was just that you had immediately needed to face the Heart Demon Tribulation afterward, leaving you no time to discern the golden character's true nature.]

[Only now did you finally have the time to examine this newly born body cultivation divine ability.]

["Body cultivation divine ability—Qi and Blood!"]

[A surge of information flooded your mind, giving you a crystal-clear understanding of the body cultivation divine ability, Qi and Blood.]

[This 'Qi and Blood' referred to an endless, unceasing flow of vitality.]

[Qi and blood were the absolute foundation of a body cultivator, much like dharma power was to a dharma cultivator.]

[And this endless flow of vitality was the core of the divine ability, boosting your qi and blood recovery speed to a truly terrifying degree.]

[Even if you completely exhausted and drained your physical vitality, activating this divine ability would restore you to peak condition in a mere hundred breaths.]

[This recovery worked on a percentage basis, not a flat numeric value. Even if you became a body cultivation true lord in the future, or even a Heavenly Monarch, fully recovering your qi and blood would still only take a hundred breaths.]

[The Qi and Blood divine ability lasted for one entire day upon activation, with a cooldown period of one year.]

["This divine ability... the higher one's body cultivation realm, the more terrifying it becomes..."]

[You marveled inwardly. Even though it had a one-year cooldown, the duration was incredibly long.]

[A full day's duration. For an entire day, you could recklessly spam heavily taxing body cultivation techniques. Even if it wasn't enough to kill an enemy, it would absolutely be enough to force them into retreat and end the battle.]

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