I Have a Cultivation Simulator

Outside the simulation, the illusory text continuously shifted, revealing three options.

[1: Honor the promise]

[2: Break the promise]

[3: Attack True Person Blood Sea directly and kill him completely]

Zhou Qing stared at the three options.

The third option had to be ruled out first.

Even if he actually intended to attack True Person Blood Sea, Zhou Qing would never choose a direct confrontation.

The risk was too great. Who knew if this Master's spirit possessed some mutually destructive trump card?

With Zhou Qing's methods, keeping him sealed away to die of old age when his lifespan ran out was the safest approach.

After thinking it over, Zhou Qing made his decision.

He believed that the cultivation, skills, realms, and memories he inherited from the simulation carried no negative side effects.

But what if the Heart Demon Oath operated strictly on the level of the mind?

Just by knowing about the oath, he might already be bound by it...

When it came to his real body, Zhou Qing refused to take even a one-in-a-million or one-in-ten-million risk.

Letting True Person Blood Sea go within the simulation wasn't an unacceptable price to pay.

"Option 1."

He made his choice.

The illusory text rapidly shifted.

[You decided to honor the Heart Demon Oath and release True Person Blood Sea's spirit.]

[You opened the sealed Jade Box and tossed out the Shanhai Ring inside.]

[The Shanhai Ring hovered in the air as a streak of bloody light spilled out, condensing into a blood-red figure. It was none other than True Person Blood Sea.]

["The oath has been established. You may leave."]

[The Shanhai mana within your body circulated rapidly. You were ready to unleash numerous Sealing Talismans at a moment's notice to prevent True Person Blood Sea from attacking you.]

[True Person Blood Sea didn't leave immediately. Instead, he carefully scrutinized you for a moment before sighing. "The Shanhai Sect has a successor. If Senior Brother knew, he would probably be very pleased."]

[Hearing this, your expression turned solemn.]

[Clearly, True Person Blood Sea had realized that the cultivation method you practiced was the Shanhai Art.]

["No need to be nervous. I bear you no ill will." True Person Blood Sea looked at you.]

["Back then, if I hadn't been bewitched by that demoness, how could I have turned against Senior Brother and ended up in this state?" A faint trace of hatred leaked into True Person Blood Sea's tone.]

[Having been sealed within the Shanhai Ring for two to three hundred years, he had gradually come to realize the anomalies of what he experienced back then.]

[He had fallen out with the Shanhai Sect Master, ultimately fighting to the death, entirely because he had fallen for that female cultivator's scheme.]

[His pitiful Senior Brother, the Sect Master of the Shanhai Sect, was still considering that demoness's well-being right up until the very end.]

[The blood aura around True Person Blood Sea churned, revealing his turbulent state of mind.]

[Hearing this, you were slightly stunned.]

[According to the intelligence you had gathered over the years, the Shanhai Sect Master and True Person Blood Sea were originally fellow disciples.]

[It was only later, because of a female cultivator, that they ended up on opposing sides.]

[However, the exact details were unclear. It involved the private affairs of Masters, and with two to three centuries having passed, it was incredibly difficult to investigate.]

[But from what True Person Blood Sea was saying now, had both Masters been plotted against by that female cultivator?]

["Give me another Jade Slip..." True Person Blood Sea suddenly said, looking at you.]

[You didn't know what True Person Blood Sea's objective was, but a single Jade Slip was nothing to you, so you took one out anyway.]

[True Person Blood Sea took the Jade Slip and pressed it against his forehead for a moment.]

["Inside this are the cultivation methods, secret arts, and technical inheritances I practiced. It's useless for me to keep them now, so I'm giving them all to you," True Person Blood Sea said calmly.]

[Your thoughts surged, and you couldn't help but ask, "May I ask what you plan to do now, Master?"]

[Whether it was the first simulation, the second, or even this one, True Person Blood Sea had always been extremely eager to possess a body and recover his strength, even with his lifespan running out.]

[Clearly, there was something he desperately wanted to do.]

["Do what?" True Person Blood Sea sneered. "Naturally, to find that demoness and exact vengeance for myself and my Senior Brother!"]

[After saying that, True Person Blood Sea's figure rapidly blurred, and he disappeared along with the Shanhai Ring.]

["Vengeance? That female cultivator is still alive?"]

[You watched True Person Blood Sea disappear and thought to yourself.]

[If that female cultivator was also a Master, it wouldn't be surprising if she was still alive. After all, True Person Blood Sea was still around.]

["Still... letting True Person Blood Sea go... shouldn't leave behind any hidden dangers..." You secretly breathed a sigh of relief.]

[The biggest risk of releasing True Person Blood Sea was simply that he might return to exact revenge in the future.]

[Because of that, you had already prepared to hide in the Immortal City for decades.]

[But based on the current situation, True Person Blood Sea had a much more formidable enemy and likely wouldn't have the time to bother with you.]

[Moreover, True Person Blood Sea had gifted you all his cultivation methods, secret arts, and technical inheritances. He truly didn't seem to harbor any ill will toward you.]

["Just who is that female cultivator?"]

[You were quite curious about the 'demoness' True Person Blood Sea had mentioned.]

[Exactly what kind of woman could cause two core formation masters to sink to such depths?]

["The Indestructible Blood Sea Art... various Blood Sea secret arts, and some technical inheritances..."]

[You checked the Jade Slip, unable to suppress your amazement.]

[Of course, amazement aside, you certainly weren't going to practice them during this simulation.]

[Who knew if there were any hidden pitfalls within?]

[Even with True Person Blood Sea's recent display, you didn't trust him completely.]

[Even if you were to cultivate them, you would choose to wait for a future simulation, personally search True Person Blood Sea's soul to ensure there were no traps, and only try them afterward.]

[You could never be fully at ease with something handed directly to you by another.]

[As for the technical inheritances and the like, you could study those.]

[Technical inheritances were not cultivation methods; even if they contained errors, they wouldn't cause irreversible damage to your body.]

...

[A month later, you returned to Biyue Immortal City.]

[You began studying the technical inheritances you had obtained recently.]

[The first were several artifact crafting inheritances.]

[Artifact crafting inheritances were also known as artifact refinement inheritances.]

[The magical artifacts, magical treasures, and even the legendary spirit treasures used by cultivators were all forged through the inheritances of the Way of Artifacts.]

["Among the hundred arts of immortal cultivation, the Way of Artifacts reigns supreme..."]

[You quickly skimmed through the several artifact crafting inheritances you had gathered, not seeking to fully understand them, but only to commit them entirely to memory.]

[Next was the Way of Poison inheritance you received from True Person Blood Sea.]

["Among the hundred cultivation arts, the Way of Poison reigns supreme..."]

["If one could formulate those few legendary poisons targeting the Primordial Spirit, even a Soul Formation Heavenly Lord would be severely injured and perish. I ask you, which of the other hundred arts could achieve such a feat..."]

[The third-tier Way of Poison inheritance was as vast as the open sea. It detailed thousands of lethal poisons and provided dozens of methods to integrate these poisons into the physical body.]

[Doing so would grant one a 'Poison Body' physique, allowing them to unleash numerous deadly poisonous methods with a mere wave of their hand.]

...

[In the fifty-eighth year, you were seventy-four years old.]

[On the second floor of the Pill Pavilion, you ended your seclusion and opened your eyes.]

[You gazed distantly in the direction of Wushan Market.]

[According to the experience from the previous two simulations, starting now, the prices of shops and properties in Wushan Market would drop to their lowest point. This would continue until three years later, when Ouyang Shen led the newly advanced Foundation Establishment cultivator, Ouyang Qian, to sweep away the bandit cultivators surrounding the market.]

[And these three years would be your absolute best opportunity to 'buy at the bottom.']

[In the second simulation, you also tried to buy at the bottom, but due to your strength, you worried that the Ouyang family wouldn't play by the rules and would simply flip the table.]

[Therefore, in the end, you only managed to acquire a tenth of the market's shops and properties at their lowest price.]

[But now, you were already a Foundation Establishment cultivator, possessing strength comparable to a great cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.]

[You were completely qualified to confront the Ouyang family head-on and carve up Wushan Market.]

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