I Have a Cultivation Simulator

["Fourth Tier Mid-Stage Body Refining!"]

[You smiled, watching the rolling tribulation clouds rapidly dissipate beneath the sky.]

[The stronger your physical body, the higher your margin for error. It gave you more methods to deal with enemies and made you harder to specifically counter.]

[In the ancient era, those top-tier dharma cultivation true lords viewed the physical body as dregs, something to use and discard at will.]

[First, the path of top-tier dharma cultivation truly did not rely much on the physical body.]

[Second, those top-tier dharma cultivation true lords simply lacked the energy to refine their bodies.]

[The path of top-tier dharma cultivation alone demanded almost all of a true lord's energy, mental effort, and time, leaving no surplus for the body.]

[Even Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Cultivators only lived a little over a thousand years.]

[If they invested that same time solely into dharma cultivation, they could step into the Late Nascent Soul Stage.]

[How were they supposed to choose?]

[But you were different.]

[You could simulate infinitely, possessing a practically endless amount of time. That was why you chose to practice body cultivation alongside your main path.]

[Furthermore, the times had changed.]

[In the ancient era, resources were abundant, and Heavenly Monarchs of the Deity Transformation realm presided over the world.]

[Under the guidance of Heavenly Monarchs, those true lords with top-tier aptitude had a relatively high hope of cultivating to the Late Nascent Soul Stage.]

[But now? In the near-ancient era, the world's resources had dried up, and the difficulty of cultivation had skyrocketed. Even with your numerous fortuitous encounters, you still could not guarantee you would reach the Late Nascent Soul Stage.]

[Rather than being trapped before a bottleneck without making an inch of progress, it was better to allocate your time and mental energy elsewhere in preparation for future simulations.]

["A Rank 4 Mid Stage physical body—whether in terms of strength or the depth and quality of its vitality—is nearly twice as powerful as the early stage... Coupled with my three major body cultivation divine abilities: Eruption, Qi and Blood, and Transformation..."]

["Relying solely on my physical body and divine abilities, without using any dharma power or spells, I am confident in suppressing an ordinary Mid Nascent Soul Stage true lord."]

[You pondered. Body cultivation true lords were naturally adept at combat, and mid-stage ones even more so—not to mention you also possessed three major body cultivation divine abilities.]

["During this tribulation, I did not awaken a fourth body cultivation divine ability..."]

[You felt a slight sense of regret.]

[But you did not dwell on it. If you failed to awaken a fourth one this time, there was always the next time.]

[Possessing three divine abilities at the Rank 4 body cultivation stage was already akin to exploiting a loophole; it was a privilege usually reserved for pure body cultivators.]

["It is a pity that I cannot hold a grand ceremony for this body refining breakthrough."]

[You sighed inwardly, for the site of your breakthrough was not the Wujian Region.]

[Instead, you had chosen a desolate expanse far away from it.]

[The reason was naturally to conceal your Fourth Tier Mid-Stage Body Refining methods, saving them as a trump card against True Monarch Chongtian.]

[True Monarch Chongtian was tied to the Five Saints Ultimate Transformation Pill, and this pill could help you break through to the Late Nascent Soul Stage.]

[You naturally knew what was most important. You would not let a few congratulatory gifts interfere with your plot against True Monarch Chongtian.]

[According to your Divination deductions, if True Monarch Chongtian learned your physical body had reached the Rank 4 Mid Stage, he would put his guard up against you. There was even a very slim chance he might abandon fighting you altogether.]

[Several days later, you had almost completely recovered from the injuries sustained during your tribulation.]

[A body cultivation true lord possessed a powerful physique and terrifying regenerative abilities. As long as an injury did not damage their foundation, they could heal rapidly.]

[Not to mention, you had specifically prepared numerous recovery-type Tier 4 spiritual pills.]

[As for whether you encountered sneak attacks from other Nascent Soul entities during your recovery...]

[The heavenly tribulation for your Fourth Tier Mid-Stage Body Refining was so incredibly massive that even if any Nascent Soul entities noticed it, they would not dare approach, let alone attempt an ambush.]

[The natural dissipation of the tribulation clouds meant your breakthrough was successful.]

[Who would dare approach at a time like this?]

[A few days later, you returned to Jiuli Valley.]

[True Monarch Beiheng happened to be emerging from seclusion and cast a glance at you from afar.]

["Fellow Daoist Qingyuan..."]

[True Monarch Beiheng's brow twitched as he sensed an unprecedented threat.]

[It was a life-and-death terror, a threat even the Wujian Hall Master could not match.]

[Of the two body cultivation divine abilities True Monarch Beiheng had awakened, one allowed him to sense imperceptible dangers.]

[This divine ability ensured True Monarch Beiheng was almost never successfully ambushed.]

[When you first entered the Nascent Soul Stage, True Monarch Beiheng had detected a faint sense of crisis from you.]

[Over the following centuries, that sense of crisis had rapidly grown thick and suffocating.]

[And now, the dangerous aura he felt from you had surged dramatically once more.]

["Fellow Daoist Qingyuan... have you broken through again?"]

[True Monarch Beiheng was shaken to his core. Through this divine ability, he could roughly gauge a true lord's strength.]

[He found it hard to believe. Cultivation at the true lord level, whether body cultivation or dharma cultivation, was immensely difficult.]

[Yet for you, in just a short three hundred years, your strength had undergone multiple qualitative leaps, rising from an Early Nascent Soul Stage cultivator to a height that True Monarch Beiheng now had to look up to.]

["Hmm? This feeling of being watched?"]

[Your divine soul was powerful. After entering Jiuli Valley, you faintly sensed a gaze that had been fixed on you for a long time.]

["It is True Monarch Beiheng..."]

[Your heart stirred. Realizing that True Monarch Beiheng's gaze was unusual, you immediately began a Divination deduction.]

[Using a Tier 4 Divination art to read a Rank 4 Early Stage body cultivation true lord—one you had interacted with for centuries, sharing heavy karma and numerous informational mediums—was simple.]

[Before long, you obtained a specific hexagram reading.]

["One of True Monarch Beiheng's body cultivation divine abilities has the power to perceive danger..."]

[Looking at the reading, your expression turned strange.]

["The cultivation world is all-encompassing; one can never drop their guard at any time..."]

[You sighed inwardly. Who would have thought that True Monarch Beiheng, who was only at the early stage, could vaguely estimate the general scope of your strength?]

[Of course, you felt quite at ease regarding True Monarch Beiheng. After centuries of interaction, this body cultivation true lord had already earned your preliminary trust. Even if he knew your approximate strength, he would not spread the information.]

[Returning to your immortal cave, you resumed your secluded cultivation.]

[Within your dantian, your main Nascent Soul and Second Nascent Soul sat on the left and right, cultivating together.]

[Between the two Nascent Souls bloomed a Seven-Colored Lotus. A warm aura continuously permeated your body from the lotus, persistently weakening the bottlenecks of the Nascent Soul Stage.]

[You shifted your gaze to the fifty dharma talismans slowly orbiting the two Nascent Souls.]

[After centuries of cultivation, the power of all fifty talismans had reached the absolute peak of the Rank 4 Middle Grade, and they had even begun slowly transforming toward the Fourth Tier High Grade.]

["To a certain extent, the Second Nascent Soul can increase the efficiency of the talismans' transformation..."]

[You thought to yourself.]

[The essence of nourishing talismans was to use the dharma power circulating in the dantian to temper them, much like dripping water wears through stone.]

[It was like a stubborn rock sitting in the middle of a great river; after hundreds or thousands of years of the water's scouring, it would gradually become perfectly smooth and whole.]

[And in the same span of time, the more the river water washed over it, the higher the degree of tempering the rock received.]

[The same principle applied to talisman nourishment.]

[The total amount of dharma power represented by one Nascent Soul versus two was naturally vastly different.]

["With my current quality and quantity of dharma power, it will probably take another two hundred years or so to nourish these fifty talismans to the Fourth Tier High Grade..."]

[You pondered inwardly.]

[If you did not have the Second Nascent Soul and the amplification of the Mountain and Sea dharma power...]

[...then for other Mid Nascent Soul Stage cultivators—even if they obtained the talisman nourishment art—trying to raise them from the Rank 4 Middle Grade to the Fourth Tier High Grade would take at least five or six hundred years. Anything less was out of the question.]

[As for Mid Nascent Soul Stage true lords... whether they even had five or six hundred years of lifespan left was another matter. Even for you, going from the Early Nascent Soul Stage to the Mid Stage had taken two to three hundred years.]

["Fourth Tier High Grade!"]

[Your eyes lit up. The power of a Fourth Tier High Grade talisman was equivalent to a casual strike from a Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Cultivator.]

[Once all fifty talismans reached this tier, it meant every aspect of your repertoire would undergo another qualitative leap.]

[With fifty Fourth Tier High Grade talismans at your disposal, you would be confident in escaping unscathed even when facing a Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Cultivator.]

[Among the fifty talismans, there were life-saving ones, offensive ones, evasion ones, and so on. The types were comprehensive, leaving no weaknesses.]

[Several months later, True Monarch Qianhuan visited to inform you that you could head to Wujian Hall to comprehend the Reincarnation Stone and experience the Reincarnation State of Mind.]

[This was an opportunity you had previously exchanged for using your battlefield merits.]

[Aside from comprehending the Reincarnation Stone, you had also exchanged for a drop of essence blood from Wujian Hall's Rank 4 Mid Stage beast king, the Green-Eyed Golden Toad, as well as several potent body-refining medicines.]

[The reason your body cultivation had broken through to the Rank 4 Mid Stage so quickly was partly due to those very medicines.]

["Alright."]

[You looked at True Monarch Qianhuan and gave a slight nod.]

[Half a month later, using the Spirit Attachment Art, you controlled a Tier 3 puppet and set off for Wujian Hall.]

[The Wujian Hall Master did not dare let you inside to comprehend the Reincarnation Stone while he was away from the hall.]

[Similarly, you were quite unwilling to enter Wujian Hall while the Wujian Hall Master was presiding over it.]

[The Tier 4 grand array of Wujian Hall was close to the high grade. Coupled with the Wujian Hall Master holding down the fort...]

[...it already possessed the ability to threaten you.]

[Even though it was wartime and the Wujian Hall Master would not be stupid enough to attack you...]

[...you still had to be on guard.]

[Wujian Hall also employed Divination grandmasters capable of obscuring heavenly secrets and blurring your deductions.]

[Half a day later, inside the towering Wujian Hall, you once again met the Wujian Hall Master.]

["Fellow Daoist Qingyuan..."]

[The Wujian Hall Master looked at you with a strange expression. He had clearly noticed that you had not come in person, but had rather possessed a puppet.]

[This kind of possession art was rare at the Core Formation level, but at the Nascent Soul Stage, it was nothing out of the ordinary.]

["My true body is cultivating a secret art and cannot travel outside. I hope the Hall Master will be understanding."]

[You casually found an excuse, choosing not to bring your distrust of Wujian Hall out into the open.]

[The Wujian Hall Master did not say much else. In fact, he felt rather relieved that you had only sent a possessed puppet.]

[Had your true body arrived, the Wujian Hall Master would have had to dedicate a portion of his mental energy to constantly monitoring your movements.]

["Please come this way, fellow Daoist Qingyuan."]

[The Wujian Hall Master stood up and led you deep into Wujian Hall.]

[At the end of your line of sight stood a bizarre stone, half a meter tall.]

[This strange stone was grayish-brown and exuded a vast, ethereal aura of reincarnation.]

[It was as if, upon this stone, you could see the entire lives of all living beings in the world, from birth to death.]

["The Reincarnation Stone?"]

[Your gaze grew solemn. It was said that this stone was a treasure belonging to a Deity Transformation holy land in the ancient era.]

[When the ancient era shattered, that Deity Transformation holy land perished along with it, and the Reincarnation Stone eventually fell into the hands of Wujian Hall's founder.]

["You may comprehend it here, fellow Daoist. Just let me know whenever you wish to leave."]

[The Wujian Hall Master left immediately. This was the deepest part of Wujian Hall, and also the place where the Tier 4 grand array's power was at its absolute peak.]

[Since you were only possessing a Tier 3 puppet, the Wujian Hall Master felt completely at ease leaving you alone.]

[After the Wujian Hall Master left, you sat cross-legged in front of the Reincarnation Stone.]

[As you began your deep comprehension, you gradually experienced a certain essential aura emanating from the stone.]

[It was a unique true intent that pulled at your mind, as if plunging you into a continuous cycle of different reincarnations.]

[Over half a year later, you slowly opened your eyes.]

["So that is how it is..."]

[Your gaze carried a profound sense of age and weathering—the lingering effect of deeply experiencing the Reincarnation Stone.]

["The Reincarnation State of Mind truly lives up to its reputation..."]

[Reining in your thoughts, you began to sense the changes within yourself.]

[Spending over half a year in deep comprehension of the Reincarnation Stone and experiencing the Reincarnation State of Mind had also vastly improved your own state of mind.]

[The most tangible manifestation of this was the elevation of your divine soul's strength. It had reached the absolute limit of the mid-stage, with half a foot already stepping into the late stage.]

[This was a level you could previously only attain by activating your body cultivation divine ability, Eruption.]

[A powerful divine soul influenced every aspect of your abilities. For instance, your divine sense's coverage range now also had half a foot in the late stage.]

["With my current soul strength, if I activate the Eruption divine ability... I could likely step fully into the level of a Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Cultivator for a hundred breaths."]

[Your spirit was greatly invigorated.]

[The soul strength of a Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Cultivator... Although this was far from representing the complete arsenal of a true Great Cultivator, nor was it enough to fight one on equal footing...]

[...when used against Mid Nascent Soul Stage true lords, it was simply a dimensional strike.]

["This is a massive profit..."]

[You were in an excellent mood. A divine soul comparable to that of a Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Cultivator would also provide some help when breaking through to the Late Nascent Soul Stage.]

[Even though you could only maintain it for a hundred breaths, if used at a critical moment, it would absolutely serve unimaginable purposes.]

[After pondering for a moment, you took one last look at the Reincarnation Stone, stood up, and left.]

[Now that you had deeply comprehended this Reincarnation Stone, continuing to do so would offer little benefit.]

[The insights from the Reincarnation Stone could not be stacked. This was also why Wujian Hall was willing to let you study it.]

["How was your harvest, fellow Daoist?"]

[The Wujian Hall Master looked at you with great interest and asked.]

[Every cultivator who comprehended the Reincarnation Stone for the first time reaped vastly different rewards.]

[Some gained immensely, some had average results, and others walked away as if they had learned nothing at all.]

["Not bad."]

[You looked at the Wujian Hall Master and suddenly said, "There is a matter that requires the Hall Master's cooperation..."]

[As for completely killing True Monarch Chongtian, it would be very difficult to achieve on your own.]

[On the battlefield, merely possessing the means to kill True Monarch Chongtian did not guarantee you could actually pull it off.]

[Other Mid Nascent Soul Stage true lords of the Dazhou Immortal Dynasty were not far away, not to mention the unfathomable Prince Zhennan.]

[Therefore, you needed the Wujian Hall Master to intercept Prince Zhennan and the other mid-stage true lords at the critical moment, buying you the time needed for the kill.]

[You held a secret discussion with the Wujian Hall Master for a full half-day before finally leaving Wujian Hall.]

[No one knew exactly what you and the Wujian Hall Master had discussed during that half-day.]

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