I Have a Cultivation Simulator

[The eggshell cracked, and a palm-sized black bird squeezed out.]

[The chubby black bird's dark eyes darted around until they quickly locked onto you.]

[Having nourished the eagle egg with your own mana every day for the past six months, the bird was naturally familiar with your aura. It immediately nuzzled up to you, flapping its undeveloped wings.]

[You opened your right hand, and the chubby black nestling clumsily climbed onto your palm. It tumbled every now and then, looking ridiculously endearing.]

["Its vitality is indeed much more robust than that of an ordinary Black Wind Eagle."]

[You observed it with your divine sense and reached this conclusion.]

[A Black Wind Eagle was a wind-attribute demonic beast, while a Dark Magic Eagle possessed both darkness and wind attributes, boasting a noble earth-grade bloodline.]

[Although the newly hatched nestling didn't yet display its specific bloodline tier, you could still sense the surging vitality flowing through its body.]

["Not bad at all."]

[The cultivation world had no shortage of demonic beasts with agonizingly long growth cycles. Some turtle-type beasts, for instance, took hundreds or even thousands of years just to mature. Despite their terrifying potential, that interminable growth period was enough to outlive a Nascent Soul True Monarch.]

[You had little interest in the latter. The return on investment took far too long, with too many chances for accidents along the way.]

[It was too easy for a spirit pet to outlive its master and end up 'sending you off.']

[Next, you began raising the Dark Magic Eagle.]

[Compared to human cultivators, raising demonic beasts was far simpler. They didn't need to comprehend cultivation methods or struggle against various bottlenecks.]

[All they had to do was eat, drink, and draw out the latent power in their bloodlines.]

[An earth-grade demonic beast could easily grow to the Tier Two Foundation Establishment Realm.]

...

[In the tenth year, at twenty-six years old, you received a letter from the mortal Zhou family.]

[Aside from the usual assurances that everyone was well, the letter mentioned Dachun.]

[Zhou Shizhong wrote that Dachun had not returned home for several months.]

[Over the past few years, Dachun had frequently ventured into Youshan, but he always returned within two months at most.]

[Now, more than half a year had passed since his last return.]

[Zhou Shizhong was worried about his safety.]

[Youshan was the greatest mountain range in the Lie Kingdom, winding for thousands of li. Shrouded in miasma and prowled by ferocious beasts, it was a forbidden zone for mortals.]

[Reading the letter, you were also puzzled.]

[Given Dachun's loyalty, it was impossible for him to leave and intentionally never return.]

[You took out a transparent crystal containing a drop of Dachun's lifeblood essence.]

[By casting a spell on this drop of blood, you could determine whether he was alive or dead, and even pinpoint his approximate location.]

[Using the lifeblood essence as a medium, you confirmed that Dachun was still alive.]

[You breathed a slight sigh of relief. No matter the situation, as long as he was alive, everything was fine.]

[But his prolonged absence clearly meant he had run into trouble.]

[After arranging your affairs in the immortal city, you set off for the mortal realm to see exactly what kind of trouble he had encountered.]

[A month later, you arrived at Youshan. Standing high in the clouds, you looked down at the towering mountain range.]

[You used his lifeblood essence to pinpoint his location, only to encounter a mysterious interference. You could only sense that he was somewhere within Youshan, unable to determine his exact coordinates.]

[You entered Youshan to begin your search, only to discover that the entire mountain range was faintly resonating with the greater heaven and earth.]

[You realized that a natural grand array shrouded Youshan. If you ventured any deeper, even a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator risked getting lost.]

[After weighing the risks, you withdrew from Youshan.]

[You circled halfway around Youshan, continuously casting the tracking spell with Dachun's blood. From the results, you deduced that his current location was isolated from the outside world.]

[This reminded you of the Cloud Sea Secret Realm.]

[During the second simulation, you had planted three different tracking spells on Ye Feng. Yet, the moment he entered the Cloud Sea Secret Realm, all of them lost their effectiveness. You could only vaguely sense that he was still alive, with no way to know his exact location.]

Outside the simulation, Zhou Qing stroked his chin, a thoughtful look on his face.

"Did Dachun accidentally wander into a secret realm?"

Zhou Qing wondered.

Stumbling into a secret realm was a massive fortuitous encounter in the cultivation world.

Secret realms were independent small worlds separated from the outside universe. They preserved the environment of the ancient era, brimming with abundant spiritual energy and rich resources.

There was no shortage of tales in the cultivation world about obscure rogue cultivators who accidentally fell into a secret realm, only to emerge decades later with vastly improved cultivation and a real hope of becoming a Master.

"This luck..."

Zhou Qing felt a twinge of envy. He had painstakingly planned through three simulations, yet his total gains likely couldn't compare to what Dachun might reap from entering a secret realm just once.

Of course, stumbling into a secret realm was only one possibility he had deduced. There were many others, such as falling into some sort of perilous zone.

But that was unlikely.

Given Dachun's strength in the simulation, if he had truly fallen into a danger zone capable of blocking out your tracking spells, he couldn't possibly have survived this long.

"Youshan..."

Zhou Qing committed the location to memory, planning to pay close attention to it during the next simulation.

[In the eleventh year, at twenty-seven years old, you returned to the immortal city and resumed your life of bitter cultivation.]

[Every month, you cast the spell with the lifeblood essence to confirm that Dachun was still alive.]

[In the twelfth year, at twenty-eight years old, Alchemist Zhao Kan advanced to become a Tier Two Mid-Grade Alchemist, and you went to congratulate him.]

[Alchemist Zhao Kan did not look down on you. Over the years, the two of you had gotten along quite well. Since both of you were Guest Elders of the Alchemy Hall and Tier Two Alchemists, even though he had taken a step ahead, the gap in your status hadn't widened by much.]

[In the thirteenth year, at twenty-nine years old, three years had passed since Dachun disappeared into Youshan. Throughout this time, you frequently checked his lifeblood essence, confirming that he was still alive even now.]

[You took a few months off to visit the mortal realm's Youshan once again, but you still found nothing.]

[In the fourteenth year, at thirty years old, your alchemy skills reached the peak of Tier Two low-grade. You hit a bottleneck and were unable to break through for a long time.]

[In the fifteenth year, at thirty-one years old, you focused most of your energy on talisman crafting. Your skills in the Dao of Talismans smoothly advanced to First-Rank High-Grade.]

[In the second half of the year, a female cultivator with an elegant and dignified temperament arrived in Biyue Immortal City.]

[This dignified woman was none other than You Rou. Her purpose in coming to the immortal city was to report on the merchant guild's situation and hand over its profits to you.]

["I wish to see Alchemist Wang..."]

[Standing before an alchemy pavilion, You Rou stated her request to a young female cultivator and patiently waited.]

[While waiting, she noticed the crowd of cultivators lined up outside the pavilion.]

[Naturally, they were all here to see 'Alchemist Wang' to request pills.]

['President Wang...']

[Her mind wandered as she silently addressed you as 'President Wang' rather than 'Alchemist Wang.']

[In her heart, after five or six years of working together, she was completely won over by you.]

[When you established the merchant guild and opened the trade route from Biyue Immortal City to Wushan Market, You Rou had originally prepared herself for ten or twenty years of arduous management.]

[After all, keeping a merchant guild afloat and turning a profit was no easy feat. The Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators in Biyue Immortal City weren't fools. If spirit stones were truly that easy to earn, would they just stand by and watch?]

[Yet, thanks to your reminders, the guild always managed to seize fleeting opportunities at critical junctures. For instance, in the guild's first year, you told her to stockpile life-saving talismans in advance.]

[Shortly after, the largest talisman shop in Wushan Market ran into supply issues, leading to a severe shortage of life-saving talismans across the entire market.]

[Although other shops quickly caught on and rushed shipments in from elsewhere, the brief window was enough for You Rou to make a fortune, thoroughly stabilizing the guild's operations.]

[In the years that followed, guided by your advance instructions, she stockpiled the right resources at the perfect moments. This allowed the fledgling guild to rapidly find its footing and become profitable as a whole.]

[As far as You Rou was concerned, without your crucial guidance, surviving in this business wouldn't have been easy—even with the backing of a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator and a Guest Elder of the Alchemy Hall.]

[Before long, the young female cultivator who had gone in to announce her returned. She smiled at You Rou. "Come in."]

[You Rou immediately followed her inside. They passed through the courtyard and headed up to the second floor of the pavilion, where she finally saw you.]

["Greetings, President."]

[You Rou bowed respectfully.]

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