One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

[Year 26, age fifty.]

[You are not stuck in the mountain every day.]

[Whenever "Martin's Morning" transforms your identity into a non-human race for the day, you sometimes stroll into nearby villages and towns.]

[By selling the pills you refine yourself, you can exchange for some Source Stones, then use Source Stones to buy daily necessities.]

[Even though you don't need many supplies living in the wild, even roasted meat tastes better with a bit of salt.]

[When you go to town, you also chat warmly with other cultivators, learning more about the situation on this planet.]

[This planet has no nations, instead it is governed by sect rule.]

[Even land belongs to big sects; they recruit and train cultivators while maintaining government-like institutions to manage territory, people, economy, and construction.]

[There are many sects on Blazing Star, each ruling its own patchwork like a fragmented jigsaw puzzle.]

[Tiansha Sect dominated by the Dragon-Man tribe, Feiyu Sect dominated by the Winged Clan, and Qingqiu Sect dominated by the Three-Eyed Clan.]

[The only star harbor on the planet is jointly managed by these three.]

[Control the star harbor and you control the planet's ingress and egress; the benefits and power are obvious.]

“When I reach a bottleneck in cultivation, I’ll have to join a sect, otherwise how will I gather core using qi? I have no idea…”

For now, you can't change your identity, and you don't feel a bottleneck, so there's no rush to work on that.

Days passed one by one.

In the simulation Chen Yi lived like an ascetic, diligently raising his cultivation.

At the same time, he accumulated wealth.

With a clone helping gather materials, plus occasionally robbing some lucky exotic beasts, Chen Yi finally built up a modest stock of cultivation resources.

Once he robbed a big fish and obtained a very precious Spiritual Treasure—a storage pouch!

A shabby gray rag of a bag, even patched in places.

But it was a Spiritual Treasure.

Immortal Artifacts from the Void Realm correspond to high-tier magical implements in the Real Realm; they don't even count as Spiritual Treasures.

A human storage pouch has good reason to be high-tier: it contains a small internal space, and under the Real Realm's rule suppression, if this isn't a treasure, what is?

In addition, Chen Yi learned that Spiritual Treasures in the Real Realm fall into two categories.

One is called postnatal Spiritual Treasure, the other is prenatal Spiritual Treasure.

Among postnatal Spiritual Treasures there are ordinary, rare, epic, and legendary ranks.

Do these names look strangely familiar?

Just like the trait tag quality names!

This was the second time Chen Yi discovered Real Realm elements related to the trait tag system.

With the storage pouch, Chen Yi finally solved his storage problem.

The pouch's original owner was an expert at Nine Rotations in the Alchemy Dao.

His combat strength was considerable—an overbound powerhouse capable of cross-realm fighting.

Unfortunately he wasn't human.

He ran into Chen Yi and got unlucky.

But that guy was hard to kill; in the end he exploded his body to force Chen Yi back, escaping with only a single yuan core.

Chen Yi regretted that he hadn't finished the job.

It served as a warning: when dealing with Core Formation and above, be wary of their "core escape."

In the blink of an eye, ten years passed.

Chen Yi continued his arduous training, the trait tags accelerated, he swallowed pills like crazy, and his true cultivation truly reached the peak of Qi Transformation, Nine Rotations!

At this point, a bottleneck appeared.

He did not know how to upgrade his true qi into primordial qi, nor how to gather a core from qi.

The cultivators he met in towns at most reached the Qi Transformation realm.

When talking with them, they could only spout "gather a core with qi"; when asked how to actually gather, they usually just bragged without any real explanation.

Chen Yi knew it was time to stop building in isolation; he had to seek out genuine masters for guidance.

[Year 36, age sixty.]

[Extracting trait tag...]

[Triggered the effect of "Luckier with Age"!]

[Extraction successful!]

["Cross-Dressing Big Shot" (Purple Epic): When you fight dressed as a woman, you gain an innate special charm that causes enemies to suffer severe disruption from violent vomiting and eye-burning pain.

If combined with the "Seven Captures of Meng Huo" trait tag, enemies will be enthralled by your beauty, unable to tell your gender, and will launch frenzied pursuit.]

[Adjust trait tag?]

[Yes/No]

“What the hell...”

After finally reaching sixty and getting the Luckier with Age safety net for a rare pull, he didn't expect the first trait tag to be this.

At first glance an epic tag and Chen Yi felt excited.

Reading the effect description, he deflated.

This thing probably won't work on high-realm people; their minds are steady, so "vomiting" and "eye-burning" certainly won't affect them.

An epic trait also can't be so conceptually powerful.

[You replaced "Bad News Spreads in Martial Circles" with "Dragonbane".]

[You replaced "Luckier with Age" with "Reverse Engineering".]

[You replaced "Martin's Morning" with "Trait Slingshot".]

[You left the cave you'd lived in for over a decade.]

[You packed the Source Stones and cultivation resources you've accumulated over the years into the storage pouch and took them with you.]

[You already learned the locations of the three great sects on Blazing Star; you plan to go to Tiansha Sect to apprentice and ask how to break through Core Formation.]

[Yes, that sect dominated by the Dragon-Man tribe.]

[No choice; you're most familiar with the Dragon-Men, and you have "Dragonbane" on hand—going to a Dragon-Man sect makes sense.]

[In a nearby cultivator trading market, you bought a Yellow Thunder Bird with a sum of Source Stones.]

[This is an exotic beast with a wingspan of seven to eight meters; its plumage resembles yellow lightning, hence the name.]

[This bird flies fast; it consumes one chunk of meat per hundred kilometers, so cultivators often use it as a mount for travel.]

[In the Real Realm, don't talk about flying—walking here feels more exhausting than in the Void Realm.]

[Tiansha Sect is a considerable distance away from you, so naturally you need a mount.]

[Sitting on the Yellow Thunder Bird's back, the gale makes your mouth water.]

[You set up a barrier formation on the bird's back and finally felt more comfortable.]

[Looking at the settled Yellow Thunder Bird, you thought of the Black Wind you bought for ten taels of silver back then.]

["Hey, bird-bro, can you talk?"]

[The Yellow Thunder Bird ignored you.]

["Have you been able to speak since you were young, and are you quite intelligent, but whenever you speak you're treated as an outcast, so you dare not open your mouth?"]

[The Yellow Thunder Bird ignored you.]

["No problem, I would never treat you like an outcast. Let's become sworn brothers: I'm the older, you're the younger—brotherhood forever!"]

[The Yellow Thunder Bird ignored you and dropped a pile of droppings.]

You rolled your eyes; it seems perfect luck doesn't always land you a Black Wind.

[Year 37, age sixty-one.]

[You possess Dragon-Man racial talent, so you can use the mimicry ability from "Calamity of Ten Thousand Races" to shape your appearance into that of the Dragon-Man tribe.]

[Now, you have arrived at the mountain gate of Tiansha Sect.]

“Ah! So this is the ancestral sect of our Dragon-Man tribe! Truly majestic!”

Your acting was still top-notch, just a bit exaggerated.

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