I Have a Cultivation Simulator

[The test results were exactly as you expected.]

[In truth, the moment you heard an aptitude test was required, you realized the opportunities within Youshan likely had nothing to do with you.]

[There was no helping it. Across three simulations and hundreds of years, if you truly had any aptitude, it would have been unearthed long ago.]

["Forget it..."]

["Wait..."]

[You realized something was wrong. The test results provided by the armored Guardian Deity hadn't mentioned your spirit root talent.]

[It only listed your race, age, status, and cultivation.]

[Age was easy enough to understand. You guessed it referred to true age—even if a Master or True Monarch possessed a body, it would still calculate based on their original age.]

[There was no issue with your cultivation. Tier Two for ancient cultivators referred to the current Foundation Establishment Realm.]

[Except... was Dharma cultivation aptitude measured entirely on these three metrics?]

[You looked at the armored Guardian Deity and voiced your doubts.]

[The armored Guardian Deity replied, "Dharma cultivation aptitudes are as vast as the sea. Spirit roots? Treasured bodies? There are even aptitudes that have never been discovered."]

["Therefore, cultivation speed is a critical standard when measuring Dharma cultivation aptitude. Provided one does not burn their potential or origin source, the faster the cultivation speed, the higher the aptitude."]

[The armored Guardian Deity's tone was icy.]

[If one's cultivation aptitude was low, they wouldn't be able to overcome certain bottlenecks—such as the transition from mid-to-late Foundation Establishment—without burning their potential.]

[At any time, cultivation speed was the most important metric.]

[Even if you mastered heaven-defying divine abilities, it was useless if your cultivation speed was slow. If others had already formed their cores while you were still polishing your Qi Refining...]

[What was the point?]

[No matter how invincible you were in Qi Refining, you could never defeat a core formation master.]

["I see..."]

[Your heart began to race.]

[There was no real flaw in the armored Guardian Deity's standard for judging aptitude.]

[The restriction against burning one's potential and origin source essentially eliminated any possibility of practicing forbidden secret arts to sacrifice potential for cultivation speed.]

[As for race? Different races had different starting lines, so they naturally needed to be considered separately.]

["But! But! But!"]

[Your eyes lit up.]

[In this simulation, you were a 208-year-old at Foundation Establishment Perfection with exhausted potential.]

[But what about the next simulation?]

[A seventeen-year-old at Foundation Establishment Perfection brimming with potential!]

[What kind of cultivation aptitude was that?]

[You were absolutely certain that not even a Heavenly Spirit Root cultivator could achieve it.]

[For a Heavenly Spirit Root cultivator, cultivating was as simple as eating and drinking. During the Qi Refining stage, they could break through a layer every year or two, and they faced no bottlenecks whatsoever.]

[Even so, it would still take a Heavenly Spirit Root cultivator roughly ten years to go from the Qi Refining First Layer to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.]

[Upon reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm, a Heavenly Spirit Root cultivator would need over thirty years to advance from the first layer to the Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer.]

[That alone amounted to forty years.]

[Which meant that even if a Heavenly Spirit Root cultivator began cultivating the moment they were born, it would still take them forty years to reach Foundation Establishment Perfection.]

[But you?]

[A seventeen-year-old at Foundation Establishment Perfection?]

[Furthermore, if you stepped into the Core Formation Realm in the future and started a new simulation...]

[That would be—]

[A seventeen-year-old core formation master?]

[How high of an aptitude rating would that earn? Wouldn't you be able to pick any reward you wanted?]

[Though you didn't show it on your face, you were deeply thrilled inside.]

[Setting aside the difficulty of the subsequent trials, the initial aptitude test alone would be enough for you to make a massive profit.]

["Also, my age shouldn't stack with the age inside the simulation."]

[You steadied your mind and thought to yourself.]

[The test results from earlier showed your age as 208.]

[This was your age in the current simulation.]

[It had nothing to do with your age in other simulations.]

[Otherwise, the displayed age wouldn't be 208—it would be over three hundred.]

[Under this premise, you could simply come here at the start of every future simulation to 'farm' a round of rewards.]

["Guardian, the Young Master should have other aptitudes. Please continue the testing."]

[Dachun spoke up from the side.]

[What was just tested was only Dharma cultivation aptitude.]

[Besides Dharma cultivation, there was body cultivation, soul cultivation, ghost cultivation, corpse cultivation, and so on.]

[The puppet Guardian Deity's eyes faintly glowed red. It finally looked at you and asked, "Do you wish to test body cultivation aptitude?"]

["Test it," you said with a slight nod.]

[Even though you had already planned out what you were going to do at the start of the next simulation, you didn't mind continuing the tests.]

[At the very least, you wanted to know if you possessed any talent in other areas.]

[An inexplicable ripple emerged.]

[The body cultivation test quickly yielded results.]

["Race: Human."]

["Age: 208."]

["Bloodline: Ordinary."]

["Cultivation: Tier 2 Mid-Stage."]

["Status: Potential Exhausted."]

["Evaluation: Mediocre Aptitude."]

["Test Result: Fail."]

["I don't have a bloodline?"]

[You shook your head slightly. Dachun had only passed the aptitude test and entered the trial phase because he possessed a trace of the ancient saint bloodline.]

[Following that, you went through the soul cultivation test, the ghost cultivation test, and the corpse cultivation test one by one.]

[The results were all largely the same.]

[It was worth noting that during the soul and ghost cultivation tests, you were found to have a will superior to other beings at the same level, making you suitable for the paths of soul and ghost cultivation.]

[However, the final test result was still a failure.]

["Soul cultivation and ghost cultivation?"]

[You guessed this was likely due to the influence of your Indomitable Will talent.]

[With this talent's blessing, your will was incomparably resolute.]

[And for soul and ghost cultivators, personal willpower was the most crucial aspect.]

["This could serve as a fallback plan."]

[Whether it was soul cultivation or ghost cultivation, both required abandoning one's physical body.]

[In future simulations, if your physical body was ever destroyed, you could try walking one of these two paths.]

["Guardian, didn't you say he's suitable for soul and ghost cultivation? Why did he still fail?"]

[Dachun suddenly grew anxious.]

["His potential is exhausted, and his lifespan is nearing its end. Therefore, he fails," the armored Guardian Deity declared, its tone completely flat.]

["Since you have failed the test, please leave this place immediately. If you use a secret art to enter again, you will face punishment."]

[The armored Guardian Deity looked at you and spoke calmly, its tone indifferent.]

["Guardian, you can't..." Dachun was just about to argue with it.]

[But you stopped him.]

["There's no need for that."]

[Your mindset was peaceful as you cast a glance at the armored Guardian Deity.]

[You planned to wait until your next simulation to come back and see how it would react.]

["Let's go."]

[You said.]

[Leaving this place was quite simple.]

[You only needed to circulate that secret art in reverse.]

[The outside world, Youshan.]

[Your figure suddenly appeared, and immediately after, Dachun appeared beside you.]

["Young Master..." Dachun hesitated to speak.]

[Although Dachun wasn't very smart, even he could sense that you were deeply interested in what lay inside Youshan.]

[Now that you hadn't passed the test, Dachun felt bad about it too.]

["Dachun, how exactly did you get inside?" you suddenly asked.]

[The first time Dachun entered Youshan, he hadn't known that secret art.]

["At the time, I was cultivating inside Youshan when I suddenly realized I couldn't get out. I remembered that the Master and Madam were still outside, so I got really anxious and just kept running. I ran and ran, and then I was just... inside..."]

[Dachun scratched his head. "The guardian said I accidentally triggered a faint trace of my ancient saint bloodline aura. Youshan caught it and pulled me in..."]

["I see."]

[You nodded slightly.]

["What exactly was the trial you went through?" you asked curiously.]

["I'd get teleported to an unfamiliar place. There were lots of monsters there, and lots of resources. I just had to keep killing monsters and keep cultivating..."]

["Right up until recently, when I finally finished killing all the monsters. I completed the first phase of the trial, so I was able to come out..."]

["And as soon as I came out, I saw you, Young Master..."]

[Dachun told you everything without holding back.]

[Hearing this, a thoughtful look crossed your face.]

["But Young Master, the guardian also said that different trials have different contents."]

[Dachun added.]

["Mhm."]

[You nodded. "Dachun, how long do you have until the next phase of your trial?"]

["I have a thirty-year rest period between each phase of the trial," Dachun replied.]

["Can you teach me the 'Ancient Sage Body Forging' art you cultivate?" you asked, quite curious.]

[Even though you didn't have the ancient saint bloodline, it wouldn't hurt to collect this body refinement art. Who knew if you might need it in a future simulation?]

["Young Master, I can't say a single word of the 'Ancient Sage Body Forging'..." Dachun was about to speak, but found that he couldn't get the words out no matter how hard he tried. "Right, the guardian said that the cultivation methods from the trials cannot be taught to outsiders until one reaches the fourth tier."]

[The fourth tier was the Nascent Soul Realm.]

[Hearing this, you didn't press the matter further.]

[You pondered for a moment before asking curiously, "What is the purpose of the trials in this place? To nurture experts?"]

[You had grown curious about the existence of the inner world within Youshan.]

[Why expend such a massive price just to nurture experts?]

["The guardian said the purpose of nurturing us is to break fate." Dachun thought for a moment. "But as for what exactly we have to do... the guardian said I'll know once I pass all the trials."]

["Break fate?"]

[You pondered this to yourself.]

[Year 193. You were 209 years old.]

[You took Dachun and left the Taiyuan Region, arriving in the Savage Wilderness.]

[The spiritual energy in the Savage Wilderness was violent and chaotic, making it unsuitable for Qi Refining cultivators to survive in.]

[Coupled with the fact that it was far from the major regions and lacked any order, the Savage Wilderness was a paradise for bandit cultivators, evil cultivators, and even demonic cultivators.]

[By bringing Dachun here, you naturally intended to target these bandit and evil cultivators.]

[With a heavy hitter like Dachun, who was comparable to an ordinary Core Formation Middle Stage master, you naturally had to put him to good use.]

[Even in the Savage Wilderness, core formation masters were a rare sight. And if they were here, they were definitely on the wanted lists of various nations and major regions.]

[You commanded Dachun to strike at the bandit and evil cultivators of the Savage Wilderness, plundering their treasures and resources. You would then return to the Taiyuan Region to sell the loot, using the funds to continuously purchase various craft inheritances, cultivation methods, secret arts, and hidden intelligence.]

[Year 194. You were 210 years old.]

[In a daze, you felt your own vitality and blood begin to decay.]

[You had stepped into your twilight years.]

[Although you were ostensibly 210 years old, you had sacrificed ten years of your lifespan midway through for a divination.]

[Moreover, failing to break through to Core Formation also reduced one's lifespan to a certain extent.]

[Your maximum lifespan wasn't 240 years; it was just over 220.]

[Ordinary cultivators couldn't usually live to their absolute maximum lifespan anyway. You realized that you had no more than eight years left to live.]

[Year 195. You were 211 years old.]

[Despite entering your twilight years, you didn't rest. You continued to command Dachun to strike out at the bandit and evil cultivators in the Savage Wilderness.]

[Year 196. You were 212 years old.]

[Some Core Formation stage bandit and evil cultivators noticed that something was amiss and teamed up to ambush Dachun.]

[Instead, Dachun violently beat them until they fled with their hands over their heads.]

[Having experienced this incident, you knew you could no longer stay in this region of the Savage Wilderness.]

[This time, it was a few Core Formation Initial Stage masters who teamed up. What if Core Formation Middle Stage masters joined forces next time?]

[Core Formation Middle Stage masters were exceptionally rare in the Savage Wilderness, let alone teaming up for an ambush.]

[But you still had to be on guard against the possibility.]

[And so, you took Dachun and relocated to a different sector of the Savage Wilderness, continuing your covert strikes.]

[You and Dachun constantly changed locations after every strike, never lingering in one spot. This left the masters who wanted to ambush you completely helpless.]

[Year 198. You were 214 years old.]

[You took Dachun and arrived at Xuanwang Island.]

[In truth, you had wanted to visit this place for a long time. However, the Savage Wilderness was incredibly dangerous and crawling with bandit cultivators; only a master could travel through it safely.]

[Ordinary merchant caravans traveling between the two regions would spend heavy sums to hire a master to lead them safely across the Savage Wilderness and into the other major regions.]

[Now, with Dachun guarding you the whole way, you finally arrived at Xuanwang Island, a place that had amassed immense wealth during the war between the Taiyuan Region and the Jiuyou Domain.]

[Xuanwang Island was exceptionally prosperous, with a constant stream of passing caravans. It far surpassed the former Biyue Immortal City.]

[Experts from multiple surrounding regions gathered here, and there were even quite a few core formation masters.]

[You stayed on Xuanwang Island for two years, secretly gathering intelligence and information, especially regarding the period before and after the war between the two regions broke out decades or even a century ago.]

[Year 199. You were 215 years old.]

[You took Dachun and returned to the Taiyuan Region.]

[By this point, you had become incredibly old. Your vitality had withered, and you were no longer at your peak.]

[However, with Dachun closely protecting you, you remained extremely safe.]

[Year 200. You were 216 years old.]

[You returned once more to the Luofeng Mountain market.]

[Decades had passed, yet the sky over Luofeng Mountain was still filled with maple leaves, as if nothing had ever changed.]

[You did not reveal your identity or disturb the Zhou Family.]

[You took Dachun and stopped in a valley at the foot of Luofeng Mountain.]

[Looking up from here, you could see the entire mountain blanketed in golden maple leaves.]

[You watched the scene for a while before saying, "Dachun, after I die, cremate my body and scatter my ashes over Luofeng Mountain."]

[You had lived on Luofeng Mountain for decades, and Shen Lingxiu's ashes had been scattered here as well.]

["After that, you can return to Youshan and continue your trials."]

[Having said that, you looked at Dachun. "Did you hear me? That is an order."]

["Yes, Young Master." Dachun's mood was exceptionally downcast; he had clearly realized your current condition.]

["Interesting."]

[Looking at Dachun, you suddenly recalled that during the second simulation, you were the one who had seen him off at the end of his life.]

[Now, in the third simulation, it was Dachun who was seeing you off.]

[Your thoughts drifted away as you slowly closed your eyes.]

[You died.]

[Simulation Ended.]

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