I Have a Cultivation Simulator

[You quietly watched Ouyang Shen flee in panic.]

[With your current strength, keeping this master of Wushan Market here permanently would not be difficult.]

[Ouyang Shen was merely in his twilight years at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage. Far past his peak, it was utterly impossible for him to escape your pursuit.]

[However, killing Ouyang Shen did not align with your interests.]

[If Ouyang Shen died, the Ouyang family would inevitably plunge into chaos, even with Ouyang Qian, a newly advanced Foundation Establishment cultivator, holding down the fort.]

[Whether they could actually stabilize the situation in the end remained to be seen.]

[In that scenario, it was highly likely that the market would never return to its peak.]

[And without returning to its peak, the numerous shops and properties you had purchased would never sell for the high prices you anticipated.]

[Therefore, Ouyang Shen had to live. He had to live at least until the market's situation stabilized and it returned to its former glory.]

[If you forcibly took seventy or eighty percent, you would very likely force the Ouyang family to abandon Wushan Market altogether.]

[If they couldn't afford to offend you, couldn't they just run away?]

[They might even bring in strong reinforcements out of sheer desperation, paying a massive price to invite other Foundation Establishment Late Stage grand cultivators to stand against you.]

[Fifty percent of the market's revenue was right at the critical threshold of what the Ouyang family could stomach. While their vitality would still be severely injured, it wouldn't push them into any mutually destructive acts.]

['Before I knew it, I've already reached such a height...']

[Hovering in midair and faintly exuding a heart-palpitating aura, you sighed inwardly.]

[During the first simulation, you had been like an ant before the Ouyang family, unable to even catch a glimpse of Ouyang Shen's face.]

[During the second simulation, you had still been trembling with fear. Even knowing the market's future trajectory in advance, you hadn't dared to 'buy the dip' with everything you had, terrified that the Ouyang family would cast aside the rules and attack you directly.]

[But in this simulation, even someone as powerful as Ouyang Shen could only flee from you in sheer panic.]

[And that was only because you were intentionally going easy on him. With your current strength, killing an elderly Foundation Establishment cultivator like Ouyang Shen wouldn't be much trouble at all.]

...

[Year 59. You were 75 years old.]

[You continued to secretly acquire properties and shops in the market.]

[The Ouyang family no longer dared to stop you. They could only join you in secretly acquiring the numerous properties throughout the market.]

[Standing amidst the clouds, you looked down at the wailing masses of low-level cultivators in the market, your mind perfectly calm.]

[In reality, if a cultivator remained rational enough, they had a chance to survive this round of harvesting.]

[All they had to do was resolutely refuse to sell the shops and properties in their hands.]

[If they refused to sell, the Ouyang family couldn't publicly force them to do so. By toughing it out to the very end, they could still break even.]

[However, caught in the atmosphere deliberately manufactured by the Ouyang family and surrounded by the agonized wailing of their fellow cultivators, almost no one could withstand the pressure.]

[If they didn't sell now, once Market Master Ouyang Shen truly died of old age, they wouldn't be able to sell even if they wanted to.]

[It was true that Wushan Market was built upon a Tier Two spirit vein. Even if the Ouyang family fell, other Foundation Establishment factions would simply swoop in to take over the market.]

[But those new Foundation Establishment factions certainly wouldn't honor the property deeds issued during the Ouyang family's reign.]

[Year 60. You were 76 years old.]

[Having acquired fifty percent of the market's shops and properties, you finally stopped.]

[You still needed to leave the Ouyang family a way out. Only then would they have the motivation to revitalize the market, which would allow you to sell your purchased properties at a high price.]

[You returned to the Immortal City and resumed your cultivation.]

[All that was left was to wait for news of Wushan Market's recovery.]

[Year 61. You were 77 years old. You Rou reported the situation of the chamber of commerce to you.]

[Thanks to your advance instructions, the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce had already shifted its primary focus from Wushan Market to other markets.]

[After its initial period of accumulation, the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce was now firmly on the right track. Even without your crucial reminders to hoard goods, it could generate a stable profit.]

["President, the master of Wushan Market, Ouyang Shen, has recently been leading the newly advanced Foundation Establishment cultivator, Ouyang Qian, to clear out the bandit cultivators around the market..."]

[You Rou reported in a low voice.]

["Mm."]

[You nodded calmly.]

[Although your interference in this simulation had caused the Ouyang family's harvest to drop significantly,]

[the core trajectory had not changed. The ultimate outcome would not deviate too much either.]

[Year 62. You were 78 years old. Under the Ouyang family's desperate efforts, Wushan Market recovered rapidly.]

[Similarly, to provide an explanation to the various Foundation Establishment cultivators who owned properties in the market, the Ouyang family used an upcoming auction as an excuse to invite another core Foundation Establishment cultivator from Beast Taming Mountain to hold the fort. By promising compensation, they barely managed to pacify the fury of the numerous Foundation Establishment cultivators.]

['Another core Foundation Establishment cultivator from Beast Taming Mountain...']

[You pondered inwardly. In the second simulation, the Ouyang family had invited Ruan Hu.]

[Except in this simulation, Ruan Hu had not yet broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.]

['The Ouyang family and Beast Taming Mountain must have a deep relationship...']

[You looked thoughtful.]

[In the second simulation, when the Ouyang family invited Ruan Hu, you assumed it was simply because Ruan Hu had obtained his Dark Magic Eagle from Wushan Market.]

[However, in this simulation, despite having no apparent connection on the surface, the Ouyang family had still ended up inviting a core Foundation Establishment cultivator from Beast Taming Mountain...]

[It was glaringly obvious—the Ouyang family and Beast Taming Mountain shared a much deeper connection.]

[You were quietly relieved by your decision to seize only fifty percent of the market's properties.]

[If you had truly backed the Ouyang family into a corner and forced them to invite Beast Taming Mountain's Foundation Establishment cultivators to take over completely, all your efforts would have likely been for naught.]

[Beast Taming Mountain was a false core-tier faction. They boasted nearly twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators, including no shortage of Foundation Establishment Late Stage grand cultivators.]

[You mentally filed away this piece of intelligence; it might just come in handy during future simulations.]

[You had gleaned far too much useful information in this simulation. Youshan, which had trapped Dachun for decades? True Person Blood Sea? That Fire Essence Jujube Tree located in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range...]

[All of these could be repeatedly exploited in your future simulations.]

...

[Year 63. You were 79 years old. Wushan Market completely stabilized and returned to its former prosperity.]

[You began to sell off the numerous shops and properties you had purchased.]

[Over the course of several months, you liquidated every last shop and property.]

[After deducting your initial costs, you walked away with a pure profit of 520,000 spirit stones.]

['520,000 spirit stones!']

[Your spirit surged with excitement. Nearly half of the Ouyang family's centuries of accumulation was right here.]

[In the cultivation world, while certain special high-end resources required bartering, the vast majority of resources could simply be bought with spirit stones.]

[As long as you had enough spirit stones, you could theoretically pave over almost every obstacle from Qi Refining all the way to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.]

...

[Year 64. You were 80 years old.]

[Through profound exchanges with Shen Lingxiu, your mastery of the Dao of Arrays finally reached First-Rank High-Grade.]

[Year 65. You were 81 years old. You began to set your sights on the realm of a Tier Two array master, attempting to comprehend the numerous insights into the Dao of Arrays you had acquired.]

[Over the years, you had never stopped purchasing various crafting inheritances. You didn't demand immediate comprehension of them; you simply prioritized memorizing them first.]

[Once memorized, you would study and comprehend them whenever you had the time.]

[Year 66. You were 82 years old.]

[On the second floor of the Pill Pavilion, you slowly opened your eyes, concluding your closed-door cultivation session.]

[After more than a decade of bitter cultivation, your cultivation base was already nearing the peak of the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment.]

['Eighty-two years old...']

[Your gaze deepened. Eighty-two years old held a very special significance for you.]

[This was the exact endpoint of your second simulation.]

[In other words, from this moment onward, the advantages carried over from your previous two simulations were completely exhausted.]

[You no longer possessed any foresight regarding how the situation would develop.]

[Of course, whatever height you ultimately reached in this simulation would simply serve as the foundation for your next simulation, and the one after that.]

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