I Have a Cultivation Simulator

[Year One. At seventeen, you were already a Foundation Establishment cultivator and had mastered multiple arts.]

[You chose to return your rented cave dwelling and leave the immortal city.]

[A few days later, you disguised yourself under a new identity and re-entered Biyue Immortal City.]

[Your goal was to avoid unnecessary trouble.]

[You began selling the large stockpile of mid-grade and high-grade pills you had previously refined.]

[Biyue Immortal City was the largest gathering place for rogue cultivators in the Taiyuan Region. Hundreds of thousands of rogue cultivators flocked here, the vast majority of them in the Qi Refining realm.]

[Your mid-grade and high-grade pills were highly sought after. Thanks to their fine quality, you had no trouble finding buyers.]

[After selling the entire stock, you earned a handsome sum and began purchasing what you needed.]

[First were the Tier Two pills meant for a Foundation Establishment cultivator's daily practice. You only had a low-grade spirit root. Now that you had reached Foundation Establishment, advancing to the mid-stage without the aid of pills would likely take decades.]

[Once you became a Tier Two Alchemist, you could refine Tier Two pills yourself. The ones you bought now were merely to tide you over.]

[Aside from that, you also purchased a large quantity of Tier Two spiritual herbs and materials.]

Outside the simulation, Zhou Qing calmly watched the illusory text shift and change.

In reality, Zhou Qing had to carefully consider his every move to prevent unforeseen accidents.

But in the simulation, he didn't need to be so cautious. After all, he could always start over.

Of course, he cherished every simulation opportunity. Even within it, he wouldn't deliberately seek death.

Drawing on his first two simulations, Zhou Qing had set two fundamental rules for his simulated self.

First: cultivation.

His primary focus would be personal cultivation and breaking through realms.

After all, the cultivation base gained in the simulation could be transferred to reality.

Second: survive as long as possible to gather crucial intelligence about the future.

For instance, during his first two simulations, he had gathered vital intelligence about the Shanhai Secret Realm and Wushan Market.

Those two pieces of information had been an immense help.

Without them, he would probably still be languishing in the Qi Refining realm.

In the cultivation world, information was everything. On a small scale, it could earn you a fortune; on a large scale, it could help you avoid disaster and intercept major opportunities ahead of time.

The illusory text continued to shift.

[Finally, you rented a new Tier Two cave dwelling equipped with earth fire.]

[In the immortal city's residential district, cave dwellings with earth fire cost a bit more to rent than those without.]

[With everything ready, you began your first pill-assisted cultivation session since entering the Foundation Establishment realm.]

[Inside your dantian, thirteen drops of Shanhai magic power slowly rotated.]

[Cultivation at the Foundation Establishment stage was essentially the process of condensing more liquid magic power within the dantian.]

[An ordinary cultivator who had just entered the Foundation Establishment realm would have nine drops of liquid magic power in their dantian, while a cultivator at the peak of Foundation Establishment would have ninety-nine drops.]

[Because you practiced the Shanhai Art, the quality of your magic power was much higher than that of a normal Foundation Establishment cultivator. Upon entering the realm, your dantian already held thirteen drops of liquid magic power; once you reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, it would hold one hundred and thirty-three drops.]

[A day later, you finished your first pill-assisted cultivation session.]

[If one carefully sensed the depths of your dantian, they would find a faint vortex beginning to form alongside the thirteen drops of liquid magic power.]

["My cultivation is still too slow."]

[You thought to yourself that at your current speed, even with the blessing of your Pill Toxin Nemesis talent—which allowed you to consume pills at a high frequency without hidden dangers—it would still take a year or two to condense the fourteenth drop of liquid magic power.]

[And that wasn't even factoring in the time you might waste on bottlenecks.]

[Bottlenecks were the primary obstacle preventing cultivators from advancing further; many spent decades stuck at a single threshold.]

["The Biyue Pool!"]

[You grew increasingly expectant of the Biyue Pool. So far, it was the only opportunity you knew of that could permanently improve your spirit root aptitude without any hidden flaws.]

[Based on its past schedule, the Biyue Pool wouldn't open again for over a year.]

[After finishing your cultivation session, you began to write a letter.]

[The recipient, naturally, was the Zhou family back in the mortal realm.]

[In the cultivation world, those at the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment levels mainly relied on specialized messengers—spirit pigeons—to send and receive letters.]

[Once a cultivator reached the Master level, they would have access to far superior methods of communication.]

[You wrote to the mortal Zhou family for two reasons. First, to check on their current situation.]

[Second, to test the security of the cultivation world's mail channels.]

[In the simulation, you had much more room for error and could afford to experiment.]

[In the letter, apart from asking about your parents and siblings, you specifically asked about Dachun.]

[During the second simulation, Dachun had revealed an impressive talent for body tempering.]

[Before leaving for Biyue Immortal City, you had passed the Shanhai Body Tempering Art on to him and left behind the necessary cultivation resources.]

[After finishing the letter, you began refining pills.]

[This time, you intended to refine Tier Two pills.]

[Feeling that you could cross the threshold to become a Tier Two Alchemist at any moment, you hoped to use the refinement of Tier Two pills to give yourself that final push.]

[For this very purpose, you had specially purchased a large amount of Tier Two spiritual herbs and materials.]

[The earth fire burned. You constantly adjusted its temperature, melting the Tier Two spiritual herbs and materials into medicinal liquids one by one.]

[Then, using the intense heat of the earth fire, you purged all the dregs and impurities from the liquids, leaving only the purest essence behind.]

[Up to this point, you handled the process with effortless skill, feeling no difficulty at all.]

[With over a century of alchemy experience from your two simulations, combined with the divine sense of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, you easily completed the first half of the refinement process.]

[Next came the pill condensation process.]

[You needed to merge the various Tier Two medicinal liquids together.]

[This wasn't just a simple physical mixing, but a fusion of their medicinal properties. Only through this could the refined pill achieve an effect greater than the sum of its parts.]

[Many main ingredients and supplementary herbs used in pills were effective even if consumed directly.]

[Take the three main ingredients of the Foundation Establishment Pill, for example: Xuanyin Grass, Xuanyang Fruit, and Twin Flower.]

[Swallowing any one of these three directly would slightly increase a cultivator's chances of reaching Foundation Establishment.]

[But if their medicinal properties were perfectly fused together and combined with the proper supplementary herbs, the resulting Foundation Establishment Pill would boost the success rate by fifteen to twenty-five percent.]

[The effect was far stronger than consuming them directly.]

[Under your meticulous control, eight different medicinal liquids slowly merged.]

["Hmm?"]

[Your expression shifted slightly. You immediately mobilized your Foundation Establishment magic power, directly shrouding the pill furnace.]

[The next moment, an explosive sound rang out from within the furnace. If you hadn't suppressed it in advance, the furnace itself might have blown apart.]

[You didn't mind the failure to refine a Tier Two pill.]

[You never expected to succeed on your very first try at refining a Tier Two pill anyway.]

[For the days that followed, you spent your time trying to refine Tier Two pills whenever you weren't cultivating.]

[Three months later, you finally succeeded in refining a batch of Tier Two pills.]

[You had officially become a Tier Two Alchemist.]

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