I Have a Cultivation Simulator

I've finally advanced to a Tier Two Mid-Grade Alchemist... Even observing from a completely objective perspective outside the simulation, Zhou Qing couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

In this simulation, he had started as a Tier Two Low-Grade Alchemist in the very first year.

It took until the fifty-sixth year for him to advance to Tier Two Mid-Grade.

That was a full fifty-five years spent stuck at a bottleneck.

Comprehending a secondary art was not like breaking through a cultivation bottleneck.

If a cultivator truly lacked patience, they could simply swallow a Stage-Breaking Pill to force their way through a cultivation realm.

At worst, it merely burned away their future potential.

But a bottleneck in a craft could only be worn down with time. To cross it, one had to slowly grind away.

Fifty-five years of time just to cross from Tier Two Low-Grade to Tier Two Mid-Grade...

If any other Tier Two Low-Grade Alchemist had been trapped at a bottleneck for so many years, they likely would have fallen into despair long ago.

A Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator only lives for a little over two hundred years...

Fifty-five years...

Then another thought struck him. Oh, right. That was fifty-five years inside the simulation...

Fifty-five years in the simulation was merely a fleeting moment for him in reality.

If he chose to end the simulation right now, he would instantly become a Tier Two Mid-Grade Alchemist.

A seventeen-year-old Tier Two Mid-Grade Alchemist... Even a True Monarch would probably be struck speechless by that.

Let's keep going.

Zhou Qing composed himself and looked back at the continuously shifting illusory text.

[After concocting your first furnace of Tier Two Mid-Grade pills, you go on to refine several more batches of different mid-grade varieties, completely stabilizing your mastery at the Tier Two Mid-Grade realm.]

[So far, Alchemy remains your highest-attained craft. Your Talisman Dao, which is also at Tier Two, has now hit a bottleneck and struggles to advance.]

[But you pay it no mind.]

[With your recent experience breaking through in Alchemy, you realize that even the most impenetrable bottleneck will loosen and crumble before the relentless march of time.]

[And with your endless simulation opportunities, time is the one thing you have in abundance.]

[Half a day later, you successfully refine the Divine Soul artifact.]

[You clearly sense the pendant appearing deep within your Sea of Consciousness, blooming with a purple halo.]

[Under the purple halo's enhancement, your Sea of Consciousness becomes incomparably stable.]

[Even your Divine Sense increases by twenty to thirty percent as a result.]

[Whether in sheer intensity or coverage range, both expand by twenty to thirty percent.]

[With the Divine Soul artifact protecting my Sea of Consciousness, paired with the Indomitable Will talent, even if True Person Blood Sea hadn't been sealed for two to three hundred years, he still wouldn't be able to do anything to me...]

[You ponder inwardly.]

[A core formation master is indeed powerful, but reduced to nothing more than a soul, the vast majority of his methods are unusable. Coupled with your multiple layers of preparation, you have completely sealed off the only avenue left to True Person Blood Sea: soul attacks.]

[He is essentially powerless to make any waves.]

[The current True Person Blood Sea cannot even shatter the sealing Jade Box, let alone face you in your fully prepared state.]

[Indomitable Will...]

[Over the years, through multiple tests, you have roughly figured out the uses of this talent.]

[The first is its effect on Divine Sense and soul attacks.]

[Empowered by this talent, all your soul and Divine Sense attacks are strengthened by several tens of percent.]

[The second is defense. Your resistance against external Divine Sense and soul attacks has also received a significant boost.]

[An all-out Divine Sense attack from an ordinary Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator basically cannot affect you in the slightest.]

[Even a Divine Sense strike from a Foundation Establishment Late Stage expert will at most affect you slightly, failing to even momentarily blur your perception.]

[It must be known that one of the main reasons Foundation Establishment Late Stage experts hold such terrifying deterrence over early-stage and Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators is precisely because of their Divine Sense attacks.]

[A Foundation Establishment Late Stage expert's Divine Sense attack is enough to make an unprepared Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator lose all perception of the outside world for a single breath.]

[In that situation, facing the expert's follow-up assault, an ordinary Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator will end up heavily injured even if they manage to survive.]

[But by relying on the Indomitable Will talent, you can largely immunize yourself against a Foundation Establishment Late Stage expert's Divine Sense attack.]

[Whether the Indomitable Will talent has any other uses beyond this, you cannot be certain.]

[But simply relying on the aforementioned enhancements is enough to make it worthy of being a purple-tier talent.]

...

[You sit in meditation for several days before heading to the third floor of the Alchemy Pavilion.]

[The Alchemy Pavilion is connected to the Immortal City's Tier Three defensive grand array, and naturally, the third floor is no exception.]

[However, several years ago, you had Shen Lingxiu secretly modify the third floor specifically for you, directly linking it to the city's grand array.]

[Shen Lingxiu is a Guest Elder of the Immortal City's Array Hall and has personally maintained the defensive grand array, which was why she could secretly leave a backdoor open for you.]

[With a single thought, the modified third floor of the Alchemy Pavilion allows you to mobilize the suppressive power of the Immortal City's grand array to a certain extent.]

[This is the escape route you left for yourself.]

[Just in case True Person Blood Sea defies all logic and sweeps through your many preparations despite being reduced to a mere wisp of a soul and sealed for two to three hundred years.]

[If that happens, you will not hesitate to mobilize the power of the city's grand array.]

[You do not have the actual authority to control the grand array. Even using the backdoor, recklessly drawing on its power risks being discovered by the Tier Three array master presiding over it.]

[But if things push to that point, being discovered is a minor issue. You hold the status of a Guest Elder in the Alchemy Hall and have refined pills for them for decades. Even if you are caught secretly borrowing the array's power, you will at most face some acceptable punishment.]

[No matter what, you absolutely cannot let True Person Blood Sea escape.]

...

[You sit cross-legged. With a slight shift in your thoughts, Sealing Talismans begin to float all around you.]

[These are all Sealing Talismans you have purchased over the past few decades.]

[They are primarily Tier Two High-Grade, along with four Tier Three Sealing Talismans.]

[As long as Sealing Talismans are kept in good condition, even if they go unused, they can be resold at their original price.]

[They won't cause any real financial loss.]

[You bring out the sealing Jade Box.]

[Slowly, you peel off the Sealing Talismans affixed to its surface.]

[The removed talismans join the others floating in the air. With just a single thought from you, they can erupt with terrifying sealing power.]

[Soon, dozens of Sealing Talismans are peeled away.]

[Only the original sealing Jade Box remains.]

[As well as the Shanhai Ring inside it.]

[You do not open the box with your own hands.]

[Instead, standing ten meters away, you use your magic power to pry it open from a distance.]

[Click—]

[The white sealing Jade Box slowly opens.]

[An azure ring, faintly swirling with crimson light, rests inside.]

[After the box opens, the Shanhai Ring shows no reaction whatsoever, looking like nothing more than an ordinary ring.]

[Playing dead to ambush me?]

[Seeing this, you secretly guess.]

[Relying on your experience from the second simulation, you are absolutely certain that True Person Blood Sea has the ability to perceive the outside world.]

["Still not coming out?"]

[You suddenly speak, your voice traveling along your Divine Sense directly onto the Shanhai Ring.]

[Whoosh!]

[In an instant, the azure color of the Shanhai Ring is completely swallowed by crimson light. The crimson light billows like a rolling sea of blood.]

[A streak of bloody light shoots out from the ring, attempting to flee in a certain direction.]

[But in the very next moment,]

[The bloody light grinds to a halt.]

[It condenses into a blood-red figure.]

[The blood-red figure looks up at the hundred-plus Sealing Talismans floating in the surrounding air, all brewing with an incomparably heavy sealing power.]

[And further away, he senses the faint but even more terrifying, overwhelming aura of the suppressive grand array.]

[He falls into a deep silence.]

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