I Have a Cultivation Simulator

Myriad Laws Sect, Wanfa Mountains.

Immortal qi lingered in the air as white cranes soared. Even more auspicious auras gathered around the Wanfa Main Peak.

As one of the origins of dharma cultivation in the Human Realm since the near-ancient era, the Myriad Laws Sect possessed an unimaginable foundation of strength.

Buzz—

A spatial fluctuation rippled.

Fa Wuming's figure appeared inside a cave dwelling at the summit of the Wanfa Main Peak.

"To voluntarily forfeit the third phase of the trial... all my efforts on this trip to the Ghost Realm Trial Field were entirely wasted..."

Fa Wuming sighed inwardly, horror still lingering on his face. "Just what happened? Those challengers behind me were defeated one after another. Is the new challenger simply too powerful? Do they grasp some heaven-defying secret art? Or do they possess a noble bloodline and a tyrannical physique?"

Fa Wuming racked his brains.

A powerful physique and heaven-defying secret arts were somewhat understandable.

But a pinnacle Great Cultivator under the age of one hundred and fifty was entirely beyond the imagination of any powerhouse in the Human Realm.

"I must inform Master about this..."

Fa Wuming steadied his mind and made his way to a grand hall at the summit of the main peak.

There, he met the current generation's Supreme Elder of the Myriad Laws Sect.

After giving a rough account of everything he had encountered, Fa Wuming stood obediently in place, awaiting his master's punishment.

Slots for the Ghost Realm Trial Field were precious. Forfeiting so abruptly when he knew nothing of the situation was undeniably wrong.

The Supreme Elder of the Myriad Laws Sect was also a Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Cultivator. His magical power was so immense that it directly rivaled the ranks of pinnacle Great Cultivators.

"Wuming, you did nothing wrong."

The Supreme Elder closed his eyes, only slowly opening them to speak after a long while.

"I did nothing wrong?"

Fa Wuming was stunned. He knew he wasn't truly in the wrong, as the suffocating threat of death he had felt couldn't be faked.

However, only he knew of his ability to sense danger. Outsiders—even his own master—were unaware of it.

Merely seeing the trailing challengers get defeated one by one and becoming so terrified that he immediately forfeited the trial was clearly hard to justify on the surface.

"Aside from you, every other participant in the third phase of the trial that I know of has died."

The Supreme Elder spoke with a calm tone, but great waves crashed within his heart.

As a top-tier force in the Human Realm, the Myriad Laws Sect naturally maintained contact with other top-tier and sovereign-level forces.

Just moments ago, he had reached out to the major factions he knew to learn the aftermath of the matter.

"All dead? Completely?"

Fa Wuming's face paled.

He had expected as much; if even he had felt a suffocating mortal crisis, it went without saying for the other challengers.

"You may step down."

The Supreme Elder of the Myriad Laws Sect waved his hand.

Fa Wuming respectfully backed out of the grand hall.

"Just who is it?"

The Supreme Elder of the Myriad Laws Sect frowned. Even Heavenly Monarchs couldn't break the rules of the Ghost Realm Trial Field.

Just what kind of challenger could so utterly crush all the others?

Ghost Realm Trial Field.

You stood there, listening to the Armored Guardian's evaluation of the third phase of the trial while silently reviewing your recent actions.

Although one challenger had fled, that person hadn't even seen your face, let alone figured out your true strength.

Under these circumstances, their escape made little impact.

Even if they hadn't run and every single challenger had died, the factions behind them would certainly find out regardless.

However, that was all they would know. Because it happened within the Ghost Realm Trial Field, the heavenly secrets were obscured. Even a Fourth Tier High Grade Divination Grandmaster wouldn't be able to deduce any clues.

Your existence was even less likely to be exposed.

Until you obtained the absolute strength to sweep across the Human Realm, it was definitely better to keep as low a profile as possible.

Prematurely drawing the attention of higher-level experts would do you no good.

You couldn't overestimate the moral character of Heavenly Monarchs. They only maintained their aloof and superior airs on ordinary days because they hadn't encountered treasures or resources tempting enough to move them.

If your true age and cultivation base were exposed, would the Heavenly Monarchs be astounded by your genius? Would they immediately take you in as a disciple and pour all their resources into nurturing you?

Or would they perform Soul Searching on you to discover your fortunes, then see if they could seize them for their own use?

There was no need to stake your future on the moral integrity of Heavenly Monarchs.

The Armored Guardian looked at you, red light interweaving deep within his eyes as he slowly spoke.

"Passing evaluation: The challenger is the fastest to pass the third phase of the trial since the opening of the Ghost Realm Trial Field. In both time and strength, you are the strongest among all past challengers."

"The challenger automatically receives the third and fourth layers of the Divine Origin Void Crossing Great Art."

"The challenger may select three items from the following reward list."

Hearing the Armored Guardian's evaluation, your mind stirred with excitement.

Automatically receive the third and fourth layers of the Divine Origin Void Crossing Great Art?

Such a dharma cultivation divine soul secret art would be the absolute foundation of a legacy faction in the outside world. Even though the first two phases of the Ghost Realm Trial Field had given out the first and second layers for free, obtaining the subsequent layers required passing the later trials.

In this third phase, for instance, no challengers aside from you received the continuation of the secret art.

'Select three rewards?'

You rejoiced inwardly. This was the result of passing the third phase in a mere twenty breaths of time.

Had you not broken the mold, it was highly likely that, just as in the previous two phases, you would have only been allowed to pick one item.

After speaking, the Armored Guardian raised his hand again. Screens of light condensed, displaying introductions to various treasures.

You observed them carefully. Many items on the reward list overlapped with those from the earlier aptitude test.

However, there were also many new treasures, resources, and pills that were of immense use to dharma cultivators.

Your gaze quickly swept across them before stopping on a particular screen.

'This is?'

A look of shock appeared on your face. 'A Primordial Spirit Pill?'

The treasure displayed on that screen was exactly the Primordial Spirit Pill.

The Primordial Spirit Pill was a Grade-5 High-grade spiritual pill that assisted Late Nascent Soul Stage cultivators in breaking through to Deity Transformation.

Its supportive effect mainly concentrated on transforming the Nascent Soul into a Primordial Spirit.

'This is the one.'

You made your decision immediately.

In the near-ancient era, there was no possibility of refining a Primordial Spirit Pill. Only during the peak of the ancient era was there any hope of producing one.

Refining the Primordial Spirit Pill—from the main ingredients and supplementary medicines to the refining environment and the alchemist performing it—was incredibly demanding in every aspect.

Although you had already experienced attempting to reach Deity Transformation once and believed that as long as you cultivated to the Late Nascent Soul Stage Peak you'd have a decent chance of successfully completing the Nascent Soul-to-Primordial Spirit transition, it was still only a "decent" chance. Your odds did not exceed fifty percent.

With the Primordial Spirit Pill to assist you, your chances of transforming your Nascent Soul into a Primordial Spirit would likely approach eighty percent.

'I've never heard of the Primordial Spirit Pill being a reward for passing the third phase of the trial...'

Your thoughts spun rapidly. As a land of fortune carved out by a mighty Heavenly Monarch, the Ghost Realm Trial Field was known to all the top-tier factions in the Human Realm, and they even controlled quite a few of its entrances.

It was just that in the eyes of those premier factions, trial slots were merely one of their backup options. The status of the Thirty-Six Grotto-Heavens in the Central Continent was by no means beneath the Ghost Realm Trial Field.

However, the Primordial Spirit Pill...

If the Primordial Spirit Pill were a fixed reward for passing the third phase of the Ghost Realm Trial Field, then it would be a place the top factions of the Central Continent would viciously fight over. Those Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Cultivators would pay any price to push their descendants through the third phase.

'A normal pass of the third phase probably doesn't award a Primordial Spirit Pill, but I cleared it far too quickly...'

After a brief thought, you deduced the reason.

The introduction to the third phase had stated that the faster the completion speed and the greater the strength displayed, the higher the final evaluation would be.

And that final evaluation dictated the final rewards.

You could select a total of three treasures and resources. The Primordial Spirit Pill was only the first.

'The shell of a Turtle King with the Black Tortoise bloodline, at the Quasi-Tier-5 level. A top-tier wondrous item for Divination...'

Your expression grew slightly solemn. After pondering for a moment, you chose this item as your second treasure.

Deducing heavenly secrets through Divination was incredibly important at all times. This divination wonder wouldn't just elevate your calculation abilities by a large margin; it could also provide guidance for your Divination skills.

The Black Tortoise was a top-tier True Spirit immortal beast on par with the True Dragon and Heavenly Phoenix. The shell of its bloodline descendant possessed an extraordinary guiding power regarding heavenly secrets and destiny.

You selected your rewards not based on their rarity, but on how much they would aid you.

'The Five Elements Thunder Stone... it can resist the Deity Transformation Five Elements Thunder Tribulation to a certain extent... it's a tribulation-dissolving item...'

Your heart stirred slightly, and you decided to choose this item.

The three hurdles of Deity Transformation were the Nascent Soul transforming into the Primordial Spirit, the Nirvanic Tribulation, and the Five Elements Thunder Tribulation.

Each hurdle was incredibly dangerous and impossible to ignore.

In this simulation, if you could raise your Body Refining cultivation to the limits of Tier 4, and then combine it with the assistance of this Five Elements Thunder Stone, your hopes of surviving the Five Elements Thunder Tribulation should be very high.

'It's a pity...'

You looked at the many other treasures, resources, and rare items on the reward list.

You wanted all of them.

But your most pressing priority at present was to push for Deity Transformation and become a Heavenly Monarch.

Therefore, you prioritized this type of reward when selecting your treasures and resources.

As for the other rewards? Even if they were more precious, if you failed to become a Deity Transformation Heavenly Monarch, everything would be an illusion, and you would still die of old age and pass away in meditation after a thousand years.

Besides, it wasn't as if you lacked the opportunity to choose again. When the next simulation arrived, everything could be restarted.

"I choose the Primordial Spirit Pill, the shell of the Turtle King with the Black Tortoise bloodline, and the Five Elements Thunder Stone."

You looked at the Armored Guardian and voiced your decision.

"Is the challenger certain?"

The Armored Guardian confirmed.

"I'm certain!"

The Armored Guardian extended his right hand, palm facing up.

An inexplicable spatial fluctuation emerged, and three jade boxes floated out.

As the Armored Guardian watched you, the three jade boxes slowly drifted over.

You accepted the first jade box and opened it directly.

Inside lay a pill that seemed nurtured by heaven and earth themselves. The pill was perfectly round and brimming with pill qi. The pill patterns on its surface were mysterious and profound; gazing at it felt like witnessing the very process of the world's birth.

'Is this a Grade-5 spiritual pill? A Grade-5 High-grade spiritual pill at that?'

You marveled in your heart. Unlike the other challengers, you were not just a participant; you were also a Fourth Tier High Grade alchemy Grandmaster.

This Primordial Spirit Pill would not only help you transform your Nascent Soul into a Primordial Spirit, but it would also allow you to glimpse the methods of the top-tier alchemists from the ancient era.

You closed the jade box and opened the second one.

A turtle shell only the size of a palm rested within.

Its surface was covered in incomparably mysterious patterns, resembling the supreme truths of heaven and earth.

'A Quasi-Tier-5 Black Turtle that also possesses the Black Tortoise bloodline... Such an entity would be difficult to kill even for a Deity Transformation Heavenly Monarch...'

You couldn't help but think that, as a top-tier True Spirit immortal beast, the Black Tortoise was most adept at defense, and its bloodline descendants would be the same.

The third jade box contained the Five Elements Thunder Stone. This was a wondrous stone imbued with the powers of the five elements and lightning, a rare treasure that could directly assist a Late Stage Great Cultivator in facing the Five Elements Thunder Tribulation.

After solemnly putting away the three jade boxes, you looked at the Armored Guardian again.

"Next, I will take the challenger to another realm. The third and fourth layers of the Divine Origin Void Crossing Great Art reside there. Please do not resist."

The Armored Guardian spoke.

"Alright."

You nodded slightly.

A spatial fluctuation emerged.

When your vision cleared again, you found yourself in a vast expanse.

In the distance stood two massive stone steles, with silver seal characters interweaving, colliding, and merging across their surfaces.

'Are these the third and fourth layers of the Divine Origin Void Crossing Great Art?'

Your mind trembled slightly, and you immediately attempted to read and memorize them.

You were a Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Cultivator. Enhanced by the Surpassing Oneself by Half a Move talent, your divine soul strength exceeded that of ordinary Great Cultivators by a large margin. While you might not immediately comprehend the contents of the secret art, simply memorizing it posed no problem at all.

Half a year later, you had successfully memorized all the silver seal characters on the steles.

"I wonder how the fourth phase of the trial can be initiated?"

You looked toward the Armored Guardian and asked.

"The challenger must master the third and fourth layers within a century. That will unlock the fourth phase of the trial."

A trace of solemnity laced the Armored Guardian's tone. "A reminder to the challenger: the fourth phase is the ultimate trial of the Ghost Realm Trial Field. Failure means death. Please tread carefully."

'Master the third and fourth layers within a century...'

You pretty much abandoned the idea of undertaking the fourth phase in this simulation.

Given your current level of cultivation, you naturally deduced that the challengers selected by the Ghost Realm Trial Field were all cultivators with special talents regarding the divine soul—those who perfectly matched the cultivation of the Divine Origin Void Crossing Great Art.

As for you? You had no particular talent when it came to the divine soul. You had only managed to force your way through the first and second layers by sheer, grinding effort.

'That's about enough. This trip to the Ghost Realm Trial Field has already yielded plenty...'

You reined in your thoughts and requested that the Armored Guardian let you leave.

Within Nether Mountain, your figure materialized out of thin air.

Whoosh.

The moment you left the Ghost Realm Trial Field and appeared in the outside world, your Second Nascent Soul came flying over and drilled straight into your body.

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