I Have a Cultivation Simulator

"You may all step down."

True Monarch Beiheng waved his hand, and the gathered Jiuli Valley cultivators withdrew from the grand hall.

Once you and True Monarch Beiheng were the only two Nascent Soul cultivators left in the hall, he spoke solemnly.

"Since Fellow Daoist Qingyuan has advanced to the Nascent Soul realm, according to our agreement, you shall enjoy the privileges of a supreme elder of Jiuli Valley... You will have an independent Tier 4 spiritual vein cave abode and receive a generous annual stipend..."

When you joined Jiuli Valley, you borrowed their Tier 4 spiritual vein for your Nascent Soul breakthrough. In exchange, you agreed to protect the valley for the next hundred years.

During this century, you would enjoy the compensation and privileges True Monarch Beiheng just described.

"Alright."

You gave a slight nod, accepting without hesitation.

As a newly advanced Nascent Soul cultivator, your most pressing need was to find a stable cave abode and cultivation environment.

As for the dangers of protecting Jiuli Valley... with an experienced body-cultivation True Monarch like Beiheng holding the front lines, the chances of encountering genuine peril were incredibly low.

Not a single Nascent Soul True Monarch had fallen in the Wujian Region over the past few centuries.

Furthermore, your Nascent Soul spiritual body was exceedingly stable, granting you life-preserving abilities far surpassing those of an ordinary early-stage True Monarch.

Hearing your response, he saw no hint of reluctance in your words or expression.

True Monarch Beiheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiuli Valley had made you sign a Rank 4 spirit contract. Even a Nascent Soul True Monarch would suffer a backlash for violating one, but if you protected the valley out of mere obligation—putting in minimal effort without true dedication—it still would have been a headache for him.

"In that case, the Tier 4 cave abode Fellow Daoist Qingyuan used for your breakthrough shall serve as your permanent cultivation residence!"

True Monarch Beiheng was in high spirits. The Rank 4 Lower Grade spiritual vein occupied by Jiuli Valley was considered medium-sized; theoretically, it could support three or four early-stage Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

As for a mid-stage True Monarch? They would require a Rank 4 Middle Grade spiritual vein.

In the thousands of years since Jiuli Valley's founding, they had never produced a mid-stage True Monarch.

To reach the Rank 4 Mid Stage, a body cultivator had to face an incredibly terrifying heavenly tribulation. Most body-cultivation True Monarchs treated it with the utmost caution.

When a Third-Order Perfected Stage body cultivator attempted to step into Rank 4, they had no choice. If they failed to break through, they could only wait for their lifespan to end and pass away in meditation.

But breaking from the Rank 4 Early Stage into the Rank 4 Mid Stage offered no significant increase in lifespan.

True Monarch Beiheng had been at the Rank 4 Early Stage Peak for centuries, yet he had long refused to break through, terrified of perishing under the tribulation.

With Jiuli Valley failing to produce a new body-cultivation True Monarch, if anything happened to True Monarch Beiheng, it would spell total disaster for the sect.

"Fellow Daoist Qingyuan's ascension to the Nascent Soul realm is a cause for celebration. I cannot let the occasion pass empty-handed."

True Monarch Beiheng pondered for a moment. With a thought, he produced a palm-sized pagoda.

The pagoda was mystic-yellow, faintly exuding a spiritual pressure that surpassed the Core Formation realm.

"This Lower-Grade Spirit Treasure is the Linglong Pagoda. It serves the dual purposes of suppression and bodily protection. Please accept it as a congratulatory gift, Fellow Daoist Qingyuan."

True Monarch Beiheng said with a smile.

"A Spirit Treasure!"

You were genuinely moved.

A Spirit Treasure was a weapon wielded by Nascent Soul True Monarchs, capable of drastically elevating their combat power.

A suitable Spirit Treasure could push a True Monarch's capabilities to an entirely new level.

Having just entered the Nascent Soul realm, you naturally lacked a Spirit Treasure of your own. True Monarch Beiheng gifting you one now perfectly resolved a matter of utmost urgency.

Moreover, the Linglong Pagoda was highly compatible with your arts.

Your greatest trump card involved your Nascent Soul spiritual body leaving your physical form.

During that window, your physical body was at its most vulnerable.

With the Linglong Pagoda guarding it, however, even an ordinary early-stage True Monarch would need dozens of breaths to break through the defenses. That would buy your Nascent Soul spiritual body ample time to return.

Walking the path of a top-tier ancient dharma cultivation True Monarch, you theoretically didn't need to worry much about your physical body.

However, this was not antiquity; it was a modern era of depleted resources. Through the accumulation of several simulations, you had painstakingly pushed your physical body to the Third-Order Late Stage. Stepping into Rank 4 body cultivation would give you yet another powerful weapon.

Unless left with no other choice, you would not discard your physical body.

"Many thanks, Fellow Daoist."

You accepted it openly, without false modesty.

You believed the value you would bring Jiuli Valley over the next century would more than equal this Spirit Treasure.

Your alchemy skills had already reached the Rank 3 Limit, and you were confident in crossing into Tier 4 within the next twenty years.

Once you became a Tier 4 alchemist, even a casual batch of pills would be a massive boon to Jiuli Valley.

As a faction of body cultivators, they had very few alchemists of their own.

"By the way, when does Fellow Daoist Qingyuan plan to hold his Nascent Soul Ceremony?"

True Monarch Beiheng asked.

Newly advanced Nascent Soul True Monarchs always held a Nascent Soul Ceremony, inviting factions from far and wide. It was partly a celebration, but mostly a public declaration of power.

A Nascent Soul True Monarch could shift the political landscape of an entire region. With a lifespan of at least another six centuries, they were guaranteed a prominent reputation for ages to come. Naturally, such an occasion had to be celebrated.

"The Nascent Soul Ceremony... let's hold it in ten years."

You had no intention of declining.

To you, the ceremony was a prime opportunity to amass wealth.

You had chosen the Wujian Region over Profound King Island for your breakthrough not just because Jiuli Valley's terms were genuinely better than Venerable Xuan's, but because the Wujian Region was vastly more prosperous than Profound King Island or the Taiyuan Region.

Had you broken through and held the ceremony on Profound King Island, how many Nascent Soul factions would have come to celebrate?

But in the Wujian Region... this vast domain alone held five Nascent Soul factions. That included Wujian Hall, a behemoth overseen by a mid-stage True Monarch.

Furthermore, when Nascent Soul factions in neighboring regions heard of your ceremony, most would send congratulatory gifts as well.

Having just entered the Nascent Soul realm, you were practically penniless. Naturally, you wanted to use the ceremony to reap a massive windfall.

You and True Monarch Beiheng then discussed the details.

Ultimately, it was decided that eighty percent of all gifts would go to you.

The remaining twenty percent would go to Jiuli Valley.

After all, they were hosting the event and providing all the spirit fruits and spirit wine.

This was no small expense.

More importantly, the Nascent Soul Ceremony would be hosted under Jiuli Valley's name.

If return gifts were required in the future, Jiuli Valley would be the one sending them on your behalf.

On the surface, it seemed Jiuli Valley was taking a loss. They weren't making a profit, yet they had to supply a venue and spend future favors to host the ceremony for you.

In reality, hosting the event was a massive boost to their reputation.

Through this publicity, the Wujian Region, its neighbors, and domains even further away would learn that Jiuli Valley had gained a new Nascent Soul True Monarch.

That prestige would draw more talented cultivators, fresh blood, and powerful guest elders to join the valley.

In the long run, Jiuli Valley was absolutely turning a profit.

After chatting with True Monarch Beiheng a while longer, you returned to your Tier 4 cave abode.

Spiritual energy fell endlessly like rain.

This was a Tier 4 spiritual vein!

You sat cross-legged over the spirit eye, where the spiritual energy concentration was highest.

After a brief rest, you began refining the Linglong Pagoda.

Within your dantian, your chubby Nascent Soul opened its mouth. Waves of illusory infant fire surged over the mystic-yellow pagoda, slowly refining it.

To fully unleash a Spirit Treasure's might, complete refinement was necessary.

Because the Linglong Pagoda was a gift from True Monarch Beiheng, its previous imprints had naturally been erased.

Your progress was incredibly fast.

In just over a month, you completely refined the Spirit Treasure.

Whoosh!

With a mere thought, the Linglong Pagoda manifested above your head, draping you in layers of mystic-yellow light curtains.

The overlapping layers of mystic-yellow light radiated an aura that made all evils retreat and rendered you impervious to all magic.

'As long as my magic power holds, ordinary early-stage Nascent Soul attacks will never break through this barrier.'

You concluded inwardly.

Next, you tested the Linglong Pagoda's suppression abilities.

Rumble—

Under your control, the Linglong Pagoda expanded against the wind. In the blink of an eye, it swelled to a hundred zhang in size, hanging high in the cave abode like a mountain.

A suffocating pressure saturated the entire cave abode.

'Not bad.'

You nodded slightly.

Any early-stage True Monarch caught within the suppression range of the Xuanhuang Pagoda would see their strength drop by several tenths.

'I'm still missing an offensive Spirit Treasure...' you thought silently. The Linglong Pagoda handled bodily protection and suppression.

But when it came to pure offense, you lacked a suitable weapon.

Deploying your Nascent Soul spiritual body for an out-of-body attack was a final trump card, not something you would use lightly.

Under normal circumstances, you would masquerade as a standard Nascent Soul cultivator, fighting enemies with your Nascent Soul seated safely within your physical body.

'Dharma talismans...' Looking inward at your dantian, you gazed at the thirty talismans floating around your Nascent Soul, radiating spiritual pressure.

Right at the start of this simulation, after gathering the materials for Third-Order High-Grade talismans, you had refined thirty dharma talismans and placed them in your dantian to nourish.

After decades of nourishment, right before your Nascent Soul breakthrough, all thirty dharma talismans had successfully transformed into the Rank 4 Lower Grade.

'With my Nascent Soul magic power, it will take ninety years to nourish these dharma talismans to the Rank 4 Middle Grade...'

You sensed their state for a moment to arrive at that calculation.

Back during the Core Formation stage, it would have taken nearly four hundred years to nourish a Rank 4 Lower Grade dharma talisman to the Rank 4 Middle Grade.

Now that you had stepped into the Nascent Soul realm and the quality of your magic power had evolved, it would only take ninety.

'Furthermore, stepping into the Nascent Soul realm gave me twenty more nourishment slots. I can now nourish fifty dharma talismans...' you calculated. That meant in ninety years, you could secure fifty Rank 4 Middle Grade talismans.

Perhaps the dharma talismans you had hoarded as trump cards during the Core Formation stage could become your standard means of attack in the Nascent Soul realm?

The Nascent Soul condensed via the Mountain Sea Art possessed a uniquely blessed advantage in nourishing dharma talismans.

For any other early-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch, nourishing a Rank 4 Middle Grade dharma talisman took anywhere from one hundred and fifty to two hundred years. Anything less was out of the question.

A trump card that took two centuries to produce certainly couldn't be thrown around casually.

But you only needed ninety years... and for fifty of them at once?

A Rank 4 Middle Grade dharma talisman could unleash an attack equivalent to a casual strike from a mid-stage Nascent Soul True Monarch.

While it wouldn't threaten a mid-stage True Monarch, it was more than enough to force an early-stage True Monarch on the defensive.

If you were pushed to the brink and unleashed fifty Rank 4 Middle Grade dharma talismans at once, even a mid-stage True Monarch would have to fall back, unwilling to take the brunt of it head-on.

In the ninetieth year, you were one hundred and seven years old.

Before you knew it, six years had passed since you stepped into the Nascent Soul realm.

During that time, you hadn't just thoroughly familiarized yourself with your Nascent Soul strength; you had also mastered several Nascent Soul-level secret arts.

The first was the Mountain and Sea Escape Art.

Escape arts were life-saving techniques almost all cultivators dabbled in.

At the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment levels, they were highly restrictive, often requiring a specific medium.

For example, earth escape required the ground, and water escape required water.

By the Core Formation level, those restrictions were greatly reduced.

And at the Nascent Soul level? Setting aside other escape arts, the Mountain and Sea Escape Art was fundamentally a combination of earth and water escape. It could harness the world's ambient earth and water spiritual energy to instantly cross vast distances.

Spiritual energy was omnipresent. Even in spirit-barren mortal realms, it was merely thinner, not absent.

Relying on ambient spiritual energy to flee meant the technique faced practically no counters.

Furthermore, the Mountain and Sea Escape Art had a secondary use.

Aside from its standard movement speed, you could drastically boost its velocity by burning magic power.

If you burned eighty percent of your magic power in one go, the technique could instantly transport you five thousand li away.

Crossing five thousand li in an instant—with your physical body in tow—already exceeded the divine sense range of a mid-stage True Monarch.

Relying on this art, you stood a solid chance of escaping a mid-stage True Monarch's pursuit with your physical body intact.

Besides the escape art, you had also mastered two offensive secret arts.

They were the Sea Overturning Seal and the Mountain Overturning Palm.

Both secret arts capitalized fully on the strengths of a Mountain and Sea Lineage Nascent Soul True Monarch, utilizing dense magic power to crush everything in their path.

The Mountain and Sea Escape Art, the Sea Overturning Seal, and the Mountain Overturning Palm all originated from the Mountain and Sea Lineage.

Across five simulations, you had peaked at the Core Formation stage during the first four. Any Nascent Soul-level secret arts you had managed to gather back then wouldn't necessarily suit your current state.

'The Shanhai Inheritance I acquired only goes up to the Early Nascent Soul Stage. It lacks the mid-stage, late-stage, and Deity Transformation Stage content... Otherwise, I'd have far more secret arts and forbidden techniques to practice...'

you thought to yourself.

You had been scheming for the Mountain and Sea Lineage's inheritance beyond the Early Nascent Soul Stage long before you actually broke through.

The Ruins of the Shanhai Lineage in the Zixiao Domain had opened over a decade ago. Based on True Person Blood Sea's memories, you had arranged for your merchant guild's cultivators to enter early and search specific locations.

Calculating the time, there were less than twenty years left before the cultivators you had deployed would emerge from the Ruins of the Shanhai Lineage.

Then you would know whether they had secured the mid and late Nascent Soul portions of the Shanhai Inheritance.

'The Ruins of the Shanhai Lineage...'

Your gaze turned distant as you looked toward the Zixiao Domain.

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