I Have a Cultivation Simulator

A normal immortal city's grand array was primarily used for external defense.

It also possessed the ability to suppress internal threats.

But between the two, external defense was undoubtedly far more important.

After all, an immortal city's grand array was also known as a defensive grand array; its original purpose was to fend off outside attacks.

It operated on the same principle as the sect-protecting arrays of various factions.

Yet, True Person Biyue had ordered the Array Hall's array masters to increase the array's internal suppression and lockdown capabilities.

What did this mean?

Given that the array's overall power was fixed, increasing its internal suppression and lockdown capabilities meant decreasing its external defense.

What was the point of this?

You couldn't quite understand True Person Biyue's reasoning.

You even started to assume the absolute worst.

"Wanglang... don't overthink it." Shen Lingxiu shot you a reproving glance. "The city lord did this to prepare for the auction fifteen years from now."

"The auction fifteen years from now?"

You looked at Shen Lingxiu.

"Fifteen years from now marks exactly the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Biyue Immortal City. At that time, the city lord will host a colossal auction. She will bring out many third-tier rare resources to be auctioned off."

"Rumor has it there will be quite a few Core Formation Spiritual Items, and there might even be a Crystal Condensation Pill..."

Shen Lingxiu blinked her beautiful eyes as she looked at you.

"When the time comes, a massive number of cultivators will definitely attend, including no small number of Masters. That's why the city lord increased the array's internal suppression and lockdown capabilities—to prevent any Masters from causing trouble in the city..."

Shen Lingxiu said, her voice soft and sweet.

"I see."

You gave a slight nod. This perfectly explained why True Person Biyue wanted to strengthen the array's internal suppression and lockdown capabilities.

It was to nip trouble in the bud.

If a Crystal Condensation Pill truly appeared at the auction, it wouldn't be too bad if a Master won it. But if a Foundation Establishment cultivator won the bid, they would likely be robbed by other Masters the moment they stepped outside.

A Crystal Condensation Pill could increase the chances of Core Formation. Many aging Masters who hadn't managed to groom a Core Formation Realm successor wouldn't hesitate to throw away their pride and snatch it by force.

With the methods available to a Core Formation Realm Master, a casual divine sense attack would be enough to obliterate a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

"The city lord is benevolent. She is always thinking of the lower-level cultivators," Shen Lingxiu said with deep emotion.

Strengthening the immortal city array's internal suppression and lockdown was indeed more beneficial for lower-level cultivators.

At the very least, if they managed to buy a heavy treasure, they wouldn't have to worry about threats from higher-level cultivators as long as they remained within the immortal city.

A Crystal Condensation Pill?

If a Foundation Establishment cultivator really got their hands on one, they could simply break through to Core Formation right there in the immortal city.

The same went for other precious resources.

"Indeed..."

You nodded slightly.

Whether it was founding Biyue Immortal City, championing the world's rogue cultivators, or making these recent arrangements, True Person Biyue absolutely deserved to be called benevolent.

And yet... an inexplicable sense of alarm surfaced in your heart.

Were there truly selfless, purely good people in the cultivation world?

If True Person Biyue was genuinely this selfless, how had she ever cultivated to the Core Formation Realm?

The path of cultivation was one of constant struggle.

You fought against heaven, against earth, and against other cultivators.

Even a Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivator, who could cross into the Core Formation Realm without bottlenecks, still required a massive amount of cultivation resources.

Where did those resources come from?

"If that auction fifteen years from now is held successfully, the immortal city's influence will rise to a whole new level. It will no longer be limited to the Taiyuan Region..."

Shen Lingxiu said.

You listened quietly, lost in thought.

As far as you knew, True Person Biyue had no children. As for disciples? She had a few, but the most accomplished among them was only a False Core Master.

Why was True Person Biyue pushing the immortal city's development so hard, even paying out of her own pocket to provide so many third-tier resources, Core Formation Spiritual Items, and even a Crystal Condensation Pill... What was she after?

Without a sufficiently powerful successor, the Biyue Immortal City she had worked so hard to build would only be plucked like a ripe peach by other sects and factions the moment her lifespan reached its limit.

'Perhaps True Person Biyue... has been secretly raising a successor... and we just don't know about it...'

You guessed internally.

The character True Person Biyue had always shown the public was excellent. This was the exact reason you were willing to permanently reside in Biyue Immortal City.

...

After lingering in passion with Shen Lingxiu for a few more days, the genius array master left in a hurry.

You sat cross-legged on the second floor of the pill tower, took out an artisan inheritance, and began to study it.

This particular inheritance was an extremely obscure one for 'Divination.'

You had won it casually at auction while buying a divine sense secret treasure.

Divination inheritances were incredibly obscure and difficult to understand, but once you grasped the basics, the applications were endless.

Predicting fortune and disaster, and calculating destiny, all fell under the abilities of the Dao of Divination.

Simply put, the Dao of Divination wasn't a method for direct combat; it was suited for manipulating the grand scheme of things from behind the scenes.

Moreover, the Dao of Divination heavily relied on innate talent, and the toll it took on one's mental energy during comprehension was immense.

If one wanted to advance rapidly in the Dao of Divination, the simplest method was to sacrifice one's lifespan.

By sacrificing lifespan, one could integrate deeply into the workings of heavenly secrets, thereby obtaining precise hexagrams and elevating their mastery of the divination arts.

"Sacrificing lifespan?"

Your eyes lit up.

That was far too easy for you.

It wasn't as if you were burning the lifespan of your original body in reality anyway.

"In the future, if I ever run into a life-and-death crisis, I can dump all my remaining lifespan into the Dao of Divination right before I die. That way, at least I won't die for nothing..."

You gained a new understanding of the Dao of Divination.

In the second simulation, you had self-destructed right after breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, wasting over a hundred years of lifespan.

If you had been studying the Dao of Divination back then, you could have completely burned away those hundred-plus years to improve your divination realm.

...

In the sixty-seventh year, at the age of eighty-three, you finally cultivated to the peak of the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment.

Next, you had to face the bottleneck between the sixth and seventh layers.

This was the massive hurdle separating the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and Foundation Establishment Late Stage. You had absolutely no confidence in crossing it anytime soon.

You directly took out the Stage-Breaking Pill you had prepared long ago, intending to rely on burning your own potential to forcibly push through.

One month later, you smoothly stepped into the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer.

The seventh layer belonged to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage. You had officially joined the ranks of the great late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

...

"Foundation Establishment Late Stage!"

You opened your eyes, feeling the hundred and one drops of liquid Mountain and Sea magic power deep within your dantian.

The one hundred and one drops of liquid magic power slowly rotated, faintly radiating a suffocating spiritual pressure.

You felt your strength had increased by at least seventy to eighty percent compared to your time in the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

After remaining in seclusion for a few more days to stabilize your Foundation Establishment Late Stage realm, you walked out of the second floor of the pill tower.

"Congratulations on leaving seclusion, Master. Your magic power has advanced greatly..."

The two beautiful maids waiting outside immediately offered their congratulations.

"Hahaha."

In a great mood, you waved your right hand and rewarded them with a few low-grade spirit stones.

Afterward, you began to read your letters.

Having been in seclusion for over a month, quite a few letters were waiting for your review.

"A letter from You Rou?"

You opened You Rou's letter first.

Over the years, you had tasked You Rou with specifically collecting information on major events occurring in the Taiyuan Region and the other large surrounding regions.

The purpose was to prepare for future simulations.

For you, aside from improving your cultivation as much as possible to inherit into your main body, the other goal of every simulation was to gather more intelligence.

Even if this intelligence wasn't useful for the current simulation, it would be useful for the next one, or the one after that.

"Hmm?"

Your expression shifted slightly, your gaze freezing on a particular piece of critical intelligence in the letter.

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