I Have a Cultivation Simulator

'A Second Nascent Soul!'

Joy filled him. After decades of cultivation and nurturing, he had finally manifested this Second Nascent Soul.

Since he was already in the Nascent Soul realm, forming the Second Nascent Soul did not trigger a heavenly tribulation; it materialized directly.

He carefully observed this Second Nascent Soul.

Cultivating the Second Nascent Soul required splitting off a portion of his divine sense.

Simply put, the Second Nascent Soul functioned as another perspective on himself.

He shared a single consciousness with it. They were the exact same person, completely eliminating any possibility of rebellion.

His method for cultivating the Second Nascent Soul came from the complete Shanhai Inheritance, pushing his control over it to the absolute limit.

During the near-ancient era, flawed Second Nascent Soul cultivation methods occasionally allowed them to develop new consciousnesses and betray their main bodies if separated for too long.

'With the Second Nascent Soul guarding my physical body, my main Nascent Soul can flee hundreds of thousands—even millions—of li away if a special situation arises...' he thought.

His main Nascent Soul walked the path of a top-tier ancient dharma cultivation True Monarch, fearless against all threats.

He had low requirements for the Second Nascent Soul; it only needed to protect his physical body.

'The Second Nascent Soul can cultivate as well. Thanks to the quality of the Fourth Tier High Grade Soul-Nourishing Jade, it can cultivate all the way to the Late Nascent Soul Stage...' he pondered.

'I just don't know if I can bring it into reality when the simulation ends...'

He stroked his chin. Logically, the Second Nascent Soul was cultivated through his secret art and existed as a tangible entity, so it should carry over. However, he wouldn't know for sure until he tried it after the simulation ended.

He speculated it could be brought back. After all, the Second Nascent Soul was still him.

'Let's see what happens when the Second Nascent Soul takes over the fourth-tier corpse puppet...' He immediately withdrew the fourth-tier corpse puppet. The Second Nascent Soul stepped out from his crown and sank into the puppet.

'Mhm... This control is much stronger than the Spirit Attachment Art. I can completely mobilize the boundless corpse qi within it...' he evaluated, simultaneously summarizing his combat options.

First was his conventional approach: the main Nascent Soul guarding his physical body while the Second Nascent Soul commandeered the fourth-tier corpse puppet, effectively fighting two against one.

Unlike True Monarch Yinxiao's former telepathic connection with the corpse puppet, he and his Second Nascent Soul were fundamentally the same entity. The power he could unleash naturally surpassed True Monarch Yinxiao's past limits.

Not to mention, he also possessed the physical body of a Rank 4 Body Cultivation True Monarch.

As for unconventional tactics... that meant his main Nascent Soul leaving the body while the Second Nascent Soul stayed behind to guard it.

'Not bad at all.' He nodded slightly; the Second Nascent Soul's appearance had compensated for his greatest weakness.

'In this simulation... I am already two hundred and sixty years old...' he mused, his gaze growing profound.

During his fourth simulation at this age, he had only been at the Late Golden Core Stage, striving desperately to break through to the Nascent Soul realm.

But now, he was a Nascent Soul True Monarch. Across the vast Wujian Region and its surrounding domains, barely anyone could suppress him.

Throughout the entire Eastern Wilderness, Nascent Soul True Monarchs were transcendent existences. Even against a hegemon like the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty, he would have no trouble fleeing if he couldn't win.

Unless hunted by a Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Cultivator, an Early Nascent Soul Stage True Monarch was incredibly difficult to kill.

As for Mid Nascent Soul Stage True Monarchs? Unless they laid traps in advance and sealed every avenue of escape, they would find it nearly impossible to completely destroy an early-stage cultivator's Nascent Soul spirit body.

After that brief reflection, he began contemplating his path forward.

Over a century of cultivation, he had already completed four-fifths of the Early Nascent Soul Stage.

The remaining fifth would take roughly thirty to forty years to finish.

Once he reached the Peak Early Nascent Soul Stage, he would immediately attempt to break through to the Mid Nascent Soul Stage.

As a fourth-tier alchemy grandmaster, he had long prepared numerous breakthrough pills for himself. Coupled with the bottleneck-weakening effects of the Quasi-Tier-5 spiritual item, the Lotus Heart Seed, he was highly confident he could advance to the Mid Nascent Soul Stage. If he failed the first time, he would simply try a second or third.

'Deity Transformation...' His expression turned solemn. Given his certainty of reaching the mid stage, he was already considering his path to Deity Transformation.

For cultivators in the Human Realm, breaking through to Deity Transformation had little to do with personal aptitude.

What cultivator who reached the level of a Late Nascent Soul Great Cultivator lacked heaven-defying talent and massive karmic luck? Which of them hadn't turned danger into fortune, acting as the protagonist of their era?

Whether one could advance to Deity Transformation depended instead on the Human Realm itself, as well as the other Deity Transformation Stage cultivators.

Simply put, there was a strict cap on the number of Deity Transformation Heavenly Monarchs the Human Realm could support.

For a Late Nascent Soul Great Cultivator, the best time to attempt a breakthrough to the Deity Transformation Stage was right after a Deity Transformation Heavenly Monarch passed away in meditation.

A Heavenly Monarch's death vacated a position.

Only then would a Late Nascent Soul Great Cultivator have any hope of ascending to the Deity Transformation Stage.

Otherwise, no matter how flawless their preparations, advancing remained utterly impossible.

During the ancient era, the prosperous Human Realm had been able to support a fair number of Deity Transformation Heavenly Monarchs.

However, the invasion from the Demon Abyss Realm had left the Human Realm half-crippled, drastically reducing the number of Heavenly Monarchs it could sustain.

'The prerequisite for attempting Deity Transformation is waiting for a Heavenly Monarch to pass away in meditation...' His mouth twitched slightly as he grasped the sheer difficulty.

A Deity Transformation Heavenly Monarch could live for three to four thousand years.

Meanwhile, a Nascent Soul True Monarch—even a Late Stage Great Cultivator—had a lifespan of just over a thousand years.

This meant that no matter how astonishingly talented a Great Cultivator might be, if their luck failed and no Heavenly Monarch died during their millennium-long lifespan, they had zero hope of reaching the Deity Transformation Stage.

What kind of despair was that?

And even if their luck held out and they happened to see a Heavenly Monarch pass away right before their own lifespan ran out...

...their competition would be every other Late Nascent Soul Great Cultivator in the entire Human Realm.

When a Deity Transformation Heavenly Monarch passed away in meditation, their karmic luck returned to heaven and earth, triggering profound phenomena. Great Cultivators would sense this and decide whether to attempt a breakthrough.

Ever since the near-ancient era, the period immediately following a Heavenly Monarch's death consistently suffered the highest death rate among Late Nascent Soul Great Cultivators.

The Human Realm was vast and boundless. In the Eastern Wilderness alone, there were over six publicly known Late Nascent Soul Great Cultivators, to say nothing of those hidden in the shadows or scattered across other domains.

It was said that the Central Continent was the most prosperous domain in the entire Human Realm, just as it had been through the near-ancient and ancient eras.

Even the Sword Lord, known as the Zenith of the Human Realm, had left his inheritance in the Central Continent, illuminating the past, present, and future.

Furthermore, the Central Continent housed fifth-tier spirit veins and countless heavenly treasures. Certain areas even retained partial characteristics of the ancient era.

'I'll take it slow. I still have plenty of lifespan left, and there are a few high-quality longevity fruits waiting for me in the Ghost Realm Trial Field... If I choose to extend my life as much as possible, I could probably live for fifteen hundred years. I should have a chance to encounter a Heavenly Monarch's death...' he thought.

Currently, he was still quite a distance from the Deity Transformation Stage; he wasn't even at the Late Nascent Soul Stage yet.

Two months later, True Monarch Jiang of the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce visited.

He requested some fourth-tier spiritual pills.

After True Monarch Jiang left, he looked at the payment and wore a strange expression.

It was a fist-sized drop of essence blood that exuded a brutal, primeval aura.

Exchanging a few fourth-tier spiritual pills for this item had been his own proposition.

'The essence blood of an Earth-Shaking Demonic Ape, a beast king with a Heavenly-grade bloodline...'

Ever since awakening his transformation divine ability, he had secretly begun collecting demonic beast essence blood of various qualities.

Through his experiments, he had discovered that even if he obtained the essence blood of an Earth Grade great monster and transformed into it, it wouldn't help him much.

For example, even if he transformed into a Dark Demonic Eagle like Xiao Hei, the boost to his strength was negligible.

He couldn't even fly as fast as he could in his human form.

Only the bloodline divine abilities and methods mastered by beast kings with Heavenly-grade bloodlines could provide him with actual benefits.

However, beast kings with Heavenly-grade bloodlines were essentially equivalent to Nascent Soul True Monarchs, and their demonic beast nature made them exceptionally difficult to kill.

Furthermore, he needed their essence blood, not regular blood.

Even within a fourth-tier beast king as massive as a mountain, there wasn't much essence blood. Every single drop was precious.

The Blood Roc he had previously killed alongside True Monarch Beiheng had met the requirements.

However, True Monarch Beiheng had long since refined and absorbed that Blood Roc's essence blood.

'Let's give this a try.'

He immediately returned to his cave dwelling.

Inside, he used his transformation divine ability to refine the drop of beast king essence blood.

Several days later.

He snapped his eyes open.

Then, he activated his transformation divine ability.

In an instant, his physical body began to expand, shifting into the form of a giant ape.

The giant ape grew rapidly in the wind, exploding to dozens of zhang in height in the blink of an eye. With pitch-black fur and blood-red eyes, simply standing there allowed it to emanate a thick, ferocious aura of malice that would terrify any Third-Tier Great Monster.

'A fourth-tier beast king, the Earth-Shaking Demonic Ape...' he thought, sensing a wave of tyrannical brutality churning in his mind. At the same time, he quickly sensed the divine abilities and methods he had just inherited.

'I've mastered two innate talents: Gravity and Earth-Shaking...' He carefully examined the sensation.

In his Earth-Shaking Demonic Ape state, he could easily wield these two major talents.

Gravity allowed him to instantly form a terrifying high-gravity zone spanning the entire range of his divine sense.

Inside this zone, even Nascent Soul True Monarchs would be affected and plummet toward the ground if they were careless.

As for Earth-Shaking... it vibrated the ground to gather a counter-shock force, perfectly complementing Gravity.

By dragging an enemy to the ground and simultaneously triggering Earth-Shaking, an ordinary Nascent Soul True Monarch caught off guard would likely suffer catastrophic damage to their physical body, leaving them no choice but to flee with their Nascent Soul spirit body.

'Excellent methods.'

A smile surfaced on his face.

If they were facing a real Earth-Shaking Demonic Ape, Nascent Soul True Monarchs would be prepared and wouldn't be so easily affected by its gravity.

But he wasn't an Earth-Shaking Demonic Ape. If he suddenly transformed and attacked, most Nascent Soul True Monarchs would never react in time.

'The essence blood of a Heavenly-grade beast king...' He resolved to collect as much beast king essence blood as possible in the future. It would tangibly increase his combat prowess.

Six months later, he received intelligence that the envoy from the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty had engaged in an unpleasant discussion with the master of Wujian Hall before ultimately storming off.

Half a month later, he learned the general purpose of the envoy's visit.

Wujian Hall possessed a supreme heritage treasure known as the Reincarnation Stone. It was a critical auxiliary material the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty needed to build the World-Crossing Immortal Ark.

The envoy had come in person, representing the will of the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty, to barter for the Reincarnation Stone.

However, the Reincarnation Stone was the foundation of Wujian Hall. Many of the secret arts passed down within the hall required this supreme treasure as a cornerstone for cultivation.

Naturally, Wujian Hall was unwilling and flatly refused the offer.

"To build the World-Crossing Immortal Ark, the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty has expanded frequently over the past few centuries, conquering major domains and seizing massive amounts of resources. By sending an envoy to the Wujian Region this time, they might have already designated this area for expansion..." True Monarch Beiheng said in a low voice.

Constructing the World-Crossing Immortal Ark consumed far too many resources. Unable to bear the cost alone, the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty had no choice but to expand outward, seizing resources through the most tyrannical means possible.

"If the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty truly plans to attack the Wujian Region and the neighboring domains, Wujian Hall will definitely ally with the True Monarchs of those surrounding regions to resist them..." True Monarch Beiheng analyzed. Wujian Hall was naturally no match for the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty, but they wouldn't have to face the entire dynasty—at most, an expeditionary army of cultivators.

"Indeed..." He nodded slightly, agreeing with True Monarch Beiheng.

"Once the war begins, even we will have to answer Wujian Hall's conscription order..." True Monarch Beiheng sighed, his tone thick with worry.

In times of peace, it was incredibly rare for a Nascent Soul True Monarch to fall.

But during times of war, especially a war against the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty... Mid Stage True Monarchs would absolutely take the field.

And Mid Stage True Monarchs possessed the ability to kill Early Stage True Monarchs.

"There's no need to worry." He thought for a moment before speaking up to comfort True Monarch Beiheng.

Although he had only been a Core Formation Stage true person during his fourth simulation and hadn't been able to gather detailed intelligence on the Wujian Region...

...a war involving the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty that swept across multiple neighboring domains would have undoubtedly reached his ears if it had truly broken out.

Yet, even up until he was over three hundred years old in that simulation, he had never heard of such a thing.

That meant that before he reached the age of three hundred, no matter how tense the standoff between the Wujian Region and the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty became, there definitely wouldn't be any direct conflict.

And given his current cultivation speed, he would be able to attempt breaking through to the Mid Nascent Soul Stage before he turned three hundred.

If he could successfully advance to the Mid Nascent Soul Stage, relying on his myriad methods—the Second Nascent Soul, the path of a top-tier ancient dharma cultivation True Monarch, his transformation divine ability, and more...

...he would be considered powerful even among Mid Stage True Monarchs.

By then, even if a highly intense war broke out, it wouldn't be able to threaten him.

With his trump cards, once he stepped into the Mid Nascent Soul Stage, he would be able to look down upon the entire Eastern Wilderness. Unless a Late Nascent Soul Great Cultivator intervened, who could possibly do anything to him?

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