I Have a Cultivation Simulator

[True Person Blood Sea's thoughts were a tangled mess.]

[Over the past few decades, he had tried to strike out multiple times, wanting to shatter the sealing Jade Box.]

[Every attempt had failed.]

[Thus.]

[True Person Blood Sea naturally understood that right after escaping the secret realm's seal, he had fallen straight into another.]

[Having been sealed for two to three hundred years, True Person Blood Sea had little power left, leaving him unable to break the sealing Jade Box.]

[He had originally fallen into despair. For decades, the sealing Jade Box hadn't opened a single time.]

[This made True Person Blood Sea wonder if he had simply been forgotten.]

[Or did the entity who sealed him have no idea he was inside the Blood Sea Ring?]

[True Person Blood Sea finally sensed the sealing Jade Box loosen before it was opened.]

[At first, he planned to play dumb, concealing his aura as much as possible and biding his time to assess the situation.]

[But a single sentence—"Are you still not coming out?"—made him realize his existence had been discovered long ago.]

[So, True Person Blood Sea chose to flee without hesitation.]

[Trapped in the sealing Jade Box for decades, he knew perfectly well that in his current state, he was definitely no match for the entity who had sealed him.]

[However, the moment his soul spirit escaped and he got a clear look at his surroundings...]

[...he instantly abandoned any thought of fleeing.]

[In the air in every direction, talismans brewing with terrifying sealing auras completely cut off his urge to escape.]

[There were over a hundred Sealing Talismans. Even the weakest among them had reached Tier Two Mid-Grade, far beyond what he could resist in his current state.]

[Not to mention the vast, ocean-like aura of a suppression array positioned just beyond those hundred-plus talismans.]

[Forget about his current state as a mere wisp of a soul; even at his peak, with his physical body, golden core, and dharma treasures intact, he couldn't possibly withstand the vast, surging suppression array outside.]

[True Person Blood Sea looked at the round-faced man staring at him from a dozen meters away.]

[Faint, peculiar fluctuations radiated from the space between the man's eyebrows, clearly indicating he was protected by a soul-guarding secret treasure.]

[True Person Blood Sea sighed, looked at you, and slowly said, "Greetings, fellow Daoist."]

["You're not running anymore, Your Excellency?"]

[You observed True Person Blood Sea for a moment before speaking.]

[You didn't reveal that you recognized him, instead addressing him as 'Your Excellency'.]

["Since fellow Daoist has gone to such great lengths for my remnant soul, I won't run... nor could I..."]

[True Person Blood Sea said slowly.]

["Couldn't run?"]

[You immediately understood.]

[While you didn't know if his words were true, it at least proved he had no confidence in escaping.]

[Otherwise, he wouldn't have bothered talking to you here.]

["What does fellow Daoist want?"]

[True Person Blood Sea asked.]

[Though he didn't know your exact motives, given the methods you had just displayed, wiping out his wisp of a soul was only a matter of time.]

[Even if you didn't wipe him out, keeping him trapped for another few decades or a century would cause him to die of old age when his lifespan ran out.]

[The absolute limit of a Core Formation Master's lifespan was five hundred years, and True Person Blood Sea was already over four hundred years old.]

[The reason you hadn't attacked yet meant there was room for negotiation.]

["Will Your Excellency give up your resistance and let me search your soul?" you asked, stating your demand directly.]

[This was what you wanted to do most.]

[Just how precious a treasure were the memories of a Core Formation Master?]

[Unfortunately, soul-searching techniques couldn't be used by someone of a lower realm on someone of a higher realm.]

[A Foundation Establishment cultivator searching the soul of a Core Formation Master? It was impossible, no matter how weak the latter was.]

[Unless, of course, the Core Formation Master voluntarily gave up all resistance and allowed the search.]

["Soul-searching..."]

[True Person Blood Sea shook his head. "Fellow Daoist, make another request."]

[Obviously, there was no way he would let you search his soul.]

[You weren't surprised by this.]

[In the previous two simulations, since True Person Blood Sea had dared to choose possession—whether it was possessing Ye Feng or you—]

[—he definitely had preparations in place to quickly return to the Core Formation Realm.]

[Perhaps a secret cave dwelling holding numerous cultivation resources, just waiting for him to retrieve them?]

[When a Core Formation Master possessed a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, they wouldn't need to break through the Core Formation bottleneck again, but they still required the massive amount of resources needed to go from Foundation Establishment to Core Formation.]

[If you learned of his backup plans and took them, True Person Blood Sea would struggle to return to the Core Formation Realm anytime soon, even if he regained his freedom.]

[He would never accept such an outcome.]

["What can you give me?"]

[You stared at True Person Blood Sea and spoke in a calm tone.]

[So far, you didn't know much about him, so it was better to wait for him to reveal his own hand.]

["Give you what?"]

[True Person Blood Sea looked at you and pondered for a moment. "You haven't reached Core Formation yet. How about this? I know the location of a Core Formation Spiritual Item. As long as you let me go, I will tell you where it is. How does that sound?"]

["Don't worry. I found that item by chance. It wasn't mature at the time, so I set up an array around it. No one below the Core Formation Realm could possibly discover it,"]

[he added.]

["A Core Formation Spiritual Item!"]

[Your heart immediately skipped a beat.]

[In the decades since you reached the Foundation Establishment Realm, aside from trading Ye Feng for a Nine-Turn Cold Spirit Ginseng, you hadn't had a single opportunity to obtain any other Core Formation Spiritual Items.]

["Not enough."]

[Though you were tempted, you replied calmly.]

["Fellow Daoist, I've been sealed for so long. This is the only Core Formation Spiritual Item I can be certain is still there..." True Person Blood Sea sighed.]

[Hearing this, you continued, "Add in five inherited arts, at least at the third tier."]

["Five third-tier inherited arts..." True Person Blood Sea frowned, but ultimately nodded. "Fine."]

[Seeing him agree so readily, you quietly wondered if you had asked for too little.]

[Be that as it may.]

[A Core Formation Spiritual Item and five third-tier inherited arts already met your bottom line.]

[You knew when to quit while you were ahead.]

["Then tell me now, Your Excellency."]

[You looked at True Person Blood Sea, prompting him to reveal the location of the Core Formation Spiritual Item.]

["Fellow Daoist must be joking. If I tell you now, what's to stop you from turning around and sealing me right back up?" True Person Blood Sea shook his head.]

[He didn't expect you to let him out first, but he naturally wouldn't hand over the location of the Core Formation Spiritual Item without any guarantees.]

["What does Your Excellency suggest?"]

[You looked at him.]

["Why doesn't fellow Daoist swear a Heart Demon Oath first, promising to let me go afterward..." True Person Blood Sea said immediately.]

[Once a Heart Demon Oath was sworn, if it wasn't upheld, the difficulty of the heart demon tribulation faced when breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm would skyrocket. Failure would be almost guaranteed.]

[True Person Blood Sea had noticed your intense interest in the Core Formation Spiritual Item; you clearly possessed the resolve to break through to the Core Formation Realm.]

[And since you wanted to reach Core Formation, you were bound to crave the Nascent Soul Realm as well.]

[Therefore, the Heart Demon Oath should hold significant binding power over you.]

[Of course, nothing was absolute. If you were willing to permanently sever your own path to the Nascent Soul Realm just to break the oath, there was nothing he could do about it.]

[Right now, True Person Blood Sea had no other options. At a complete disadvantage against you, he could only pin his hopes on you honoring the Heart Demon Oath.]

["A Heart Demon Oath?"]

[Your expression remained unchanged, but a trace of strangeness welled up in your heart.]

[At the end of every simulation, you only inherited pure cultivation, inherited arts, cultivation techniques, and the like.]

[As for any negative impacts... karma, oaths, bindings, and so on... they would all be wiped clean and would never affect your true body.]

[In other words, the effects of a karmic oath were strictly limited to a single simulation. The moment the next simulation began, it would cease to exist.]

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