I Have a Cultivation Simulator

'Soul path aura?'

You were certain that the monster was unusual.

Furthermore, the seal had shaken more violently this time than ever before.

'Could this be a conspiracy from the Demon Abyss Realm?'

You paused in brief thought. The emergence of this monster, which carried an obscure soul path fluctuation, was far too coincidental.

It had emerged right as a massive swarm of monsters surged forth, allowing it to slip into their ranks unnoticed.

Had your divine sense not reached the threshold of the Mid Nascent Soul Stage, and had you not been blessed with the Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators talent—making it effortless to suppress the charging monsters and sparing you the attention for your surroundings...

...you would never have made this discovery.

True Monarch Jiang remained completely oblivious.

In the past, when the seal of the Demon Cave trembled, similar situations would occasionally occur, allowing a small number of monsters to slip into the Wujian Region.

A few monsters restricted to Tier 3 would not cause much of an impact on the Wujian Region. Even if they did not fall into the hands of a true lord, they would still face the siege of countless local cultivators.

'What should I do now?'

Gazing at the monster with the obscure soul path aura rapidly distancing itself, you closed your eyes.

In a flash, your soul fluctuations surged sharply, reaching the normal standard of a Mid Nascent Soul Stage true lord.

Your powerful soul allowed your divine sense to blanket an area of two thousand li.

Hum—

Your divine sense silently swept over the monster, leaving behind a faint mark.

The monster was far too fast, and with its swirling soul path aura, a divine sense barely at the Mid Stage threshold would not have been enough to mark it.

You had to activate your body cultivation Divine Ability Eruption to temporarily spike your soul strength. Only with your divine sense rising with the tide were you barely able to mark it.

Having done this, you returned your attention to guarding against the horde of surging monsters. With the seal currently shaken, you were needed to hold the line and could not abandon your post.

'Hm?'

Your sudden surge in soul fluctuations was naturally detected by True Monarch Jiang.

"Fellow Daoist Qingyuan is getting serious..." True Monarch Jiang didn't think much of it, assuming you had merely activated some soul-enhancing forbidden secret art to slaughter all the escaping monsters.

In truth, True Monarch Jiang was also finding it exceptionally strenuous right now and had already let quite a few monsters slip into the Wujian Region.

"So be it."

After a moment of thought, True Monarch Jiang's aura also surged sharply, cooperating with you to block as many monsters as possible.

Over half a day later.

The number of charging monsters began to decline.

The silver script that had been shaken also rapidly restored itself, once again covering the spatial rifts and severing the Human Realm from the Demon Abyss Realm.

"Is it over?"

True Monarch Jiang breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Soon after, a smile surfaced on his face.

The loosening of the seal had certainly placed enormous pressure on him and forced him to employ certain amplification secret arts.

However, the harvest was equally massive. There were dozens of Tier 3 monsters, and a few of them were quite unique, suspected to be high-level demons from the Demon Abyss Realm.

This was in addition to his gains from the past twenty-odd years.

For this stint guarding the Demon Cave, True Monarch Jiang could be considered to have made his basins and bowls brimming full. It was indeed a worthwhile journey.

'What a pity. This kind of opportunity, where the seal is shaken, only comes once every millennium...'

True Monarch Jiang felt a pang of secret regret.

Of course, he only dared to think this.

If the frequency of these tremors increased, it would inflict irreparable damage to the seal, eventually causing this passage to the Demon Abyss Realm to fall completely.

The consequences would be absolutely terrifying, potentially turning the Wujian Region into the monsters' backyard.

In theory, a small passage could only accommodate monsters below Tier 4, but who knew what methods those great demons of the Demon Abyss Realm might possess?

Even with only a few fragmented records passed down from that earth-shattering war between the two realms at the end of the ancient era, True Monarch Jiang couldn't help but marvel whenever he thought back on it.

"Fellow Daoist Jiang, I have some matters to attend to and must take my leave for a while."

You retrieved the Exquisite Pagoda and looked at True Monarch Jiang as you spoke.

"Leave for a while?"

True Monarch Jiang nodded. "Alright."

The tremor of the seal had just ended. According to past patterns, the next tremor wouldn't happen for another several years.

As long as the seal wasn't shaken, having one true lord or two standing guard made no real difference.

They were only a few years away from completing their thirty-year guard rotation. The next time the seal trembled, it would likely be the next set of guarding true lords who would have to deal with it.

You departed immediately, flying toward Jiuli Valley.

Only after flying twenty thousand li away—far beyond the perception limit of True Monarch Jiang's divine sense—did you change course and head in another direction.

'To think it's a sign of great auspiciousness!'

You looked astonished. Over the better part of the half-day spent slaughtering monsters, you had conveniently performed Divination on the monster you had marked with your divine sense.

Although the monster was below Tier 4, it carried a sliver of karma from the Demon Abyss Realm. The difficulty of divining it was no less than divining a Mid Nascent Soul Stage true lord.

In the end, after sacrificing several years of your lifespan, you obtained a hexagram showing a sign of great auspiciousness.

This was the very reason you had left the Demon Cave.

Had the hexagram carried even the slightest hint of ill omen, you would have considered informing True Monarch Jiang or notifying Wujian Hall.

But a sign of great auspiciousness? This meant it was an enormous stroke of serendipity for you.

And there would be little danger.

Ever since you began comprehending the Dao of Divination, the number of times you had received such a hexagram could be counted on one hand.

An hour later.

You slowly came to a halt. Faint fluctuations at the Tier 4 level were echoing from ahead.

Clearly, a cultivator at the true lord level was attacking.

Your expression shifted slightly. The epicenter of the fluctuations was precisely where you had planted your divine sense mark.

Concealing your aura, you stealthily approached.

Along the way, you vaguely sensed a divine sense sweeping past. It was only because the attacking true lord wasn't focused on surveying their surroundings, and because your divine sense was stronger than theirs, that you avoided exposure.

Soon, you arrived a hundred li away from the center of the clash.

'Is that True Monarch Yinxiao's Tier 4 corpse puppet?'

Looking across the hundred li, you spotted two figures locked in combat.

The one holding the absolute upper hand was none other than True Monarch Yinxiao's Xing'er.

As for the other, it was a demon woman with crimson eyes and a pair of straight horns sprouting from her smooth forehead. Black ribbons were the only things wrapping her body, and beneath them, deep magic marks could be seen spreading across her delicate skin.

This demon woman radiated an aura at the Rank 3 Limit. With her every movement, a massive, alien mental power surged forth; this was the very method she used to resist Xing'er.

Without this immense, alien mental power, under the terrifying corpse aura of a Tier 4 corpse puppet, even the strongest Tier 3 cultivator wouldn't last long.

'To think it's a high-level demon...'

You stared at the demon woman, thinking to yourself.

The so-called high-level demons were demons that possessed human forms.

Most of the monsters from the Demon Abyss Realm took on the shapes of various beasts.

The more noble a demon's bloodline, the more human-like they appeared.

It was similar to the shape-shifting of demonic beasts; Tier 4 Monster Kings generally possessed the ability to take human form. 'That immense, alien mental power is exactly what I felt—the source of that obscure soul path aura...'

You pondered silently, 'And why is this Tier 4 corpse puppet here? Is it on True Monarch Yinxiao's orders, hiding here to keep an eye on me?'

You narrowed your eyes slightly. True Monarch Yinxiao should have finished his assignment guarding the Demon Cave more than twenty years ago and returned to Corpse Raising Mountain. Yet here his Tier 4 corpse puppet was, lurking near the Demon Cave.

You couldn't help but suspect his motives.

In the center of the battlefield, the Tier 4 corpse puppet Xing'er attacked relentlessly. Endless corpse aura pressed down, forcing the demon woman into a constant retreat.

"Damn it... if it wasn't to enter the Human Realm to fulfill the Venerable's mission, how could you possibly—"

The magic marks on the demon woman's skin lit up rapidly, only to dim just as fast. Although she had numerous methods at her disposal, she was ultimately restricted to a Tier 3 body and simply couldn't be a match for a Tier 4 corpse puppet.

'This demon... is definitely not simple!'

Ripples stirred in the mind of the Tier 4 corpse puppet Xing'er. Having followed True Monarch Yinxiao, she had suppressed many demons, including high-level demons that were close to human form.

However, for her to possess so many unbelievable methods and secret arts, and to actually hold out briefly against a Tier 4 corpse puppet like herself with only a Tier 3 body...

This was simply unheard of.

'If I can capture her, Master will definitely be pleased...'

The Tier 4 corpse puppet Xing'er thought to herself, and as she struck out, the spiritual pressure she emitted grew increasingly oppressive.

Originally, she had been following True Monarch Yinxiao's instructions to surveil True Monarch Qingyuan here. She planned to wait until he finished his guard assignment and notify True Monarch Yinxiao upon his exit.

She just hadn't expected that instead of True Monarch Qingyuan, she would end up waiting for this demon woman.

A Tier 4 corpse puppet had already developed its own sentience and was virtually indistinguishable from a normal living creature. Naturally, she sensed how extraordinary this demon woman was.

That was why she had chosen to act.

Yet this action had continually surprised the Tier 4 corpse puppet Xing'er. This demon woman, possessing only Tier 3 strength, was actually able to unleash short bursts of power that barely reached the Tier 4 threshold.

Whoosh—

The vast, surging corpse aura swept over the demon woman, making her look like a tiny boat on a raging ocean, ready to capsize at any moment.

The gap between Tier 3 and Tier 4 was simply too enormous. Even if the demon woman's actual realm was Tier 4, she had forcefully suppressed her physical body and soul down to Tier 3 in order to pass through the cross-realm passage. All she had left were the soul path treasures she brought from the Demon Abyss Realm.

However, soul path treasures didn't offer much help in a direct confrontation. As time ticked by, the demon woman was already tottering on the verge of collapse.

Finally.

The Tier 4 corpse puppet Xing'er reached out a hand, and the sky-filling corpse aura suddenly swelled, sealing the demon woman in place.

"Phew!"

The Tier 4 corpse puppet Xing'er exhaled softly. If she hadn't gone all out just now, she felt that this demon woman might have actually used that immense, alien mental power to break free from her corpse aura blockade.

Xing'er steadied her mind and began to check her surroundings.

In her bid to finish off the demon woman as quickly as possible, she had almost entirely neglected to survey the outside world.

"Hm?"

"Who's there?"

Yet, it would have been better had she not checked. The moment she did, shock seized the Tier 4 corpse puppet Xing'er's heart.

A figure had somehow closed to within a few li of her without her noticing.

A distance of a few li was something a Nascent Soul true lord could cross in the blink of an eye.

"It's you?"

Xing'er instantly recognized the approaching figure. It was the very person she had been tasked to watch—True Monarch Qingyuan.

Before Xing'er could react, you had already struck.

A palm-sized pagoda materialized out of thin air right above Xing'er's head. It rapidly expanded in the wind, growing to a hundred zhang tall in the blink of an eye.

Layer after layer of heavy suppression force crashed down in quick succession.

Under these immense waves of suppression, Xing'er felt a significant portion of her strength sealed away, and even her flight speed plummeted drastically.

'Not good!'

A chill ran through Xing'er's heart. A massive Overturning Mountains and Seas seal rapidly materialized, smashing ruthlessly toward her.

Suppressed by the Exquisite Pagoda, Xing'er had absolutely no room to dodge. She could only rely on her corpse puppet physique to forcibly endure the Overturning Mountains and Seas seal you unleashed.

Xing'er's vision immediately went black. However, a Tier 4 corpse puppet's physical body was inherently resilient, barely any weaker than an ordinary Tier 4 Monster King or beast king.

Supplemented by the continuous healing properties of the corpse aura coursing through her, she barely managed to withstand the crushing blow.

The terrifying shockwave from the great seal tore straight through Xing'er's Dharma robes, exposing the snow-white skin underneath.

In the next moment, another grand Overturning Mountains and Seas seal formed, continuing to crash down on her.

In the span of just a few breaths.

Xing'er forcefully endured the impact of dozens of Overturning Mountains and Seas seals.

The shockwaves of true lord-level attacks shredded her Dharma robes to pieces, revealing a body heavily marred by injuries.

Even so, relying on the physical resilience of a Tier 4 corpse puppet and the recuperative support of her internal corpse aura, Xing'er managed to hold on.

'As expected of a Tier 4 corpse puppet. She is incredibly hard to kill. Even with the advantage of a sneak attack, I still can't slaughter her in a short amount of time.'

You marveled inwardly.

You had taken advantage of Xing'er's battle with the demon woman to sneak within ten li of her, launching a surprise attack and seizing complete control of the initiative.

Despite all this, Xing'er still managed to withstand the barrage.

If she were a Nascent Soul true lord of the same level, they would probably have long abandoned their physical body and fled as a Nascent Soul spirit.

This was the advantage of a Tier 4 corpse puppet—she had no Nascent Soul, but her physical body was formidable.

"Qing... True Monarch Qingyuan, you can't do anything to me..."

Enduring the continuous pounding of the Overturning Mountains and Seas seals, Xing'er finally regained a sliver of clarity and forced the words out with great difficulty.

Just as you prepared to slowly grind Xing'er to death, you suddenly glanced toward the distant direction of Corpse Raising Mountain.

One hundred thousand li away, a terrifying aura was rapidly approaching.

'True Monarch Yinxiao...'

You knew exactly who was rushing over. Xing'er and True Monarch Yinxiao definitely shared a specialized method of communication.

Now that Xing'er was suppressed by you and hovering on the brink of death from severe injuries, True Monarch Yinxiao undoubtedly knew and was rushing over at top speed.

'I need to end this quickly!'

Your mind was already made up.

Once True Monarch Yinxiao arrived and joined forces with the Tier 4 corpse puppet Xing'er, they would be far more difficult to deal with.

At that moment, you withdrew the Exquisite Pagoda suppressing Xing'er, letting it hover above your own head and cast down layers of protective light.

"Ah?"

Xing'er was stunned. Without the Exquisite Pagoda pinning her down, her speed was more than enough for her to easily escape, even if she couldn't defeat you.

The only reason she hadn't been able to flee earlier and was forced to face the Overturning Mountains and Seas seals head-on was because the Exquisite Pagoda had suppressed her, severely restricting her speed and making evasion impossible.

But now? You were voluntarily putting the Exquisite Pagoda away?

Had you realized you couldn't do anything to her and decided to give up?

Just as Xing'er was preparing to quickly rendezvous with True Monarch Yinxiao...

Buzz—

She abruptly noticed that from the crown of your head, as you stood quietly beneath the Exquisite Pagoda, a chubby infant had walked out.

Complex silver runes surfaced across the chubby infant's body, radiating terrifying, spine-chilling fluctuations.

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