[In the 10th year of simulation, a month later, you successfully completed the mission and returned to the Beast Taming Palace.]
[Upon returning, in addition of submitting mission details, you also fabricated a story for the death of your pet beast, requesting them to grant you another one.]
[Which they did and assigned you another pet egg to nourish and hatch.]
[Why a pet egg instead of a fully grown pet is because after being nurtured by someone, when the egg hatches, the pet within will recognize the one feeding it as their mother.]
[You have no plans to place this egg within the Pet Space and so, you begin to nourish it.]
[In these past days, you have inherited your position as task manager and also have begun to keep an eye on your target, Han Ming.]
[Though there are some Tribulation realm cultivators within the sect, who might be able to see through your disguise, but once being one of them you are well aware of their habits.]
[They all close their Divine Sense while they are in seclusion, breaking their connection with the world outside and only occasionally troubled themselves to keep an eye onto the outside world.]
[So unless they intervene, which is almost impossible, no one could see through your disguise and you can initiate your plan easily.]
[In these days, you have also gathered quite a bit of information on Han Ming and found that his qualification doesn't seem to be that special, only breaking through to the God-Transformation Realm after a thousand years of painstaking efforts.]
[You don't know if its a mask or there's something more to it. After all, with his current qualifications of Top Grade Spirit Root — which is on surface, it is impossible for him to breakthrough to the Transcending Tribulation Realm and ascend within just the next two thousand years, unless he found great opportunities one after another.]
[This thought left you in a great dilemma. Should you let Han Ming go for now or keep an eye on him until he finds an another suspected opportunity for you?]
[After some time, after estimating the pros and cons, you decided to let him live for a decade at most or until he finds the presumed opportunity for you because both of you would be living under the same roof.]
[And in the end, his cultivation couldn't be faster than you, someone who has accumulated thousands of years of cultivation experience, can it?]
[It was decided then.]
[The next's next year, In the 12th year of simulation, you received a letter whose content was from an Immortal City which demanded the help of Beast Taming Palace to quell the beast tide.]
[Upon receiving the letter, as one of the representative of Holy Land, you naturally assigned some people to quell the beast invasion. But until they arrived, it was already too late — the entire city had been flattened.]
[From the confession of survivors, you knew that the reason why they survived was because their City Lord, sacrificed himself to buy a glimmer of hope for them.]
[While mentioning the city lord, they deliberately put such titles as; 'Kind Lord', 'Benevolent Man', 'Benefactor' and etc etc.]
[You don't know that decades later when these survivors would become old and fragile, the one to get cursed along with them by their descendants would be no one but this benevolent Lord. And for what? For saving their lives? Making them a beast of burden on others?]
[Some children of already old people have already begun to curse the city lord under-handedly but were still fawning smile and showing love on the outside.]
[But there's also bright side of it. Among these survivors, in future, if someone achieves great achievement, they, along their bloodline, would always be grateful for the sacrifice this city lord made.]
[That is why; You should always follow your heart, no matter what the world says.]
[You, far away in the Beast Taming Palace, had no idea of the thoughts of these people.]
[Upon hearing this incident, it again reminded you of the saying infamous in cultivation world; 'It doesn't matter however kind you are, this world only bows to the strong.']
[If you're not strong, you can die an uncertain death at any time.]
[But, in the end, this incident, just like many others, was recorded in a slip and was put away to eat dust—just like million others.]
[Such things are commonplace in this world.]
[In these past years, during your time of living and impersonating in Beast Taming Palace, you didn't slack, even for once, and has already broken through to the second level of Nascent-Soul Stage.]
[Considering how busy you were with the duty while spying on Han Ming, it is already a great feat for you to cross this threshold in just a pitiful 2 years.]
[Which could largely be accounted to the atmosphere of the Palace and the resources you possess.]
[During this time, you have also met Han Ming quite a few times and felt a strong pull towards him. You can be sure that he possessed a treasure, but sadly, the pull was only once, meant he still didn't have your presumed opportunity on him.]
[Time flowed like a floating river.]
[6 years later, In the 18th year of simulation.]
[One day, just when you were cultivating in seclusion, you felt a strong pull from the direction where Han Ming lives, it was strong. But this feeling didn't last long and disappeared very quickly.]
[Not long after, you received the news of disappearance of Han Ming within an unknown space from the puppets you deployed to surveil him.]
[Upon receiving the news, you arrived at the place—which was not far away from the dojo of Han Ming—in no time, only to find the portal leading to the unknown space has closed long ago.]
[Upon finding there was no way in, you decided to return and ordered your puppets to keep a close eye in him from now, even tiniest detail — and so you deployed more puppets.]
[The reason why you decided to keep an eye instead of silencing him upon return is became you're concerned, concerned so that you wouldn't awaken those in seclusion.]
[Well well.. but before returning, you took care of someone in shadow who was playing hide and seek with you — you tampered with his memory without alerting anyone.]
[You had long known that there was someone else too who is eyeing Han Ming.]
[And you are well aware of his identity, but they're too weak to have you concerned.]
[Almost like nobody.]
[Soon, you returned to your abode and spent your time according to the usual routine of cultivating and managing the affairs of mission hall — while puppets of yours in mortal world were slacking, because so far, there's been no major events that could caught your eyes or is worth informing.]
[Time passed like fleeting sands in hand.]
[Two years has passed just like that and your decade contract to yourself to lurk in Beast Taming Palace is about to come to an end.]
[In the 20th year, your registration office received a guest, who you were very familiar with, Han Ming.]
[In the past year, you got to know that Han Ming has made it out of that unknown space and you began to manipulate his trajectory from the dark — trying to have him willingly withdraw or forcibly thrown out of the Beast Taming Palace.]
[But the surname 'Han' isn't in vain, and this guy is as steady as an old dog. Ultimately making you wait for two years for this day.]
[Seems like that day is today.]
[After talking with him you find that it indeed is the case. And without much thoughts you directly approved his withdrawal — disregarding the dissatisfaction elder would have upon finding the news.]
[But that's none of your concern — you're running away too.]
[After these 8 years of cultivation, your cultivation have broken through to the 5th stage of Nascent-Soul Realm.]
[The next day, as Han Ming left after giving a final farewell to you, you also withdrew all your puppets from the Beast Taming Palace — who had disguised themselves and replaced the original owner in Beast Taming Palace just like you — and left the place.]
[In these past 2 years, with the help of your Puppets, you have already assessed his strength — which is not particularly that outstanding compared to other Son of Destiny you've met yet.]
[It was just the strength of God-Transformation Realm an which could easily be played all the way by just a 5th-grade Divine Puppet, which corresponds to the God-Transformation Realm of Cultivators.]
[Well.. it could be possible that he is hiding his strength because they hadn't forced him to a death battle yet.]
[And because of this, instead of killing him yourself, you set traps for him — at a far away place, and now you were just going to check if he has fallen into it and have met his demise or has succeeded in escape.]
[Now you didn't had to visit all the traps one by one as you've already questioned him at which place he's heading towards, and you moved towards the trap in that direction.]
[In the name of traps, all you've did was to deploy groups of 7th-grade Divine Puppet along with a few 6th-grade and a dozen of 5th-grade puppets at each different route.]
[Earlier you had asked Han Ming about where he is heading to and which route he is going to take and received quite a clear answer from him.]
[So now, instead of wandering around, you decided to check out the trap on that route first and see if he fell in it or not.]
[Not long after, you arrived at the place and found the body of Han Ming, lifeless. And surrounding it were some puppets — unharmed.]
[He didn't lie to you, he really took this route.]
[Today, for the first time, you felt how Mo Tianxuan and Su Ming might have felt betraying you. The feeling.. it was filled with melancholy. But you regret it? Not at all.]
[After asking the puppets you were assured his strength was not much different from what he had shown — just the Void-Refining Realm without Supreme Foundation.]
[Today you understood, even among the Children of Destiny, forming the Supreme Foundation is not common — especially for a shut in protagonist among the group.]
[Soon, you searched his body, changed your appearance, cleaned up the scene and collected all your puppets and left the scene.]
[Along the way you also collected all the puppets deployed to hunt Han Ming from 47 other different places and hid in a small mortal town in Western Wasteland.]
[Finally! Upon guaranteeing your safety, you opened the storage ring found on the body of Han Ming.]
[Within the ring, among all thing, only two things caught your eyes.]
[First, a small bottle emitting green light which seemed to resemble the feeling of Source of Life, the Green Jade Bottle.]
[Second, you took out a small pot emitting foul and bloody stench from within, directly triggering your Maniac talent upon contact and increasing both your cultivation speed and comprehension.]
[The treasure was named Beast Refining Pot.]
[Although, at the moment, you don't know what their abilities are and which grade they are of, but reading their name has already given you an idea but before implementing them you looked at the pet storage bag you found on Han Ming.]
[The beast within, though already dead because of Blood-Pact, had four red horns on its head but it looked extremely strange. It is something you have never seen before.]
[You extracted a bit of its blood using the Blood-Devouring Demonic Technique and found that it somehow resembled with a few high grade, along with many low-grade, beast bloods in your body.]
[You are sure this thing is a mixture of many beasts, but how it became like this is still a mystery to you.]
[For a moment, you regretted not approaching Han Ming during the hunt because of the fear of unknown. That way, you would have searched his soul and becoming aware of how he was able do so.]
[At the moment, just as these thoughts surfaced in your mind, you quickly brushed them off, thinking; the deeds been done and it can't be undone, overthinking it would only push me deeper in this abyss of dilemma.]
[Thinking this through, you directly put the corpse of Han Ming's pet within the storage space to research it in future.]
[After that, you turned your gaze on the pet storage bag hanging on your waist. You summoned your pet beast and it was an eagle with two blue horns on its head.]
[In this past decade, the egg you've got has already hatched and the beast within, you have already cultivated it to the 2nd level of Beast Cultivation, which is comparable to the Foundation Establishment Cultivation among the Human Cultivators.]
[But If you were to be honest, neither could help you in battles and nor you had any affection for him — ultimately rendering him useless.]
[And you, knowing the principle of;
'even humans and dogs could become couples if enough time spent together.'
{~'probably' said by a wise man, Dao's Friend.}
didn't want to babysit him until the end.]
[And today, even if you let him go out of kindness, he can't give you anything in return and might even create some unforeseen circumstances.]
[So...., after considering all the pros and cons, you directly put your pet beast in the Beast Refining Pot.]
[You, from outsides, observed as his body instantly turned into a pile of blood while the flesh evaporated at a visible speed and his bones turned in bone powders that can be used as fertilizer to nourish the land.]
[At the moment, after witnessing the scene, your action was not to jump in the Beast Refining Pot and use the blood within to trigger the Maniac talent, but to go out and kill a few mortals and throw them within.]
[After doing so, and not noticing a visible change for sometime, you shifted your attention towards the second treasure, Green Jade Bottle.]
[You know, this thing was a very famous cheat of 'Han Laomo' in your past life, but because you haven't read the book, Mortal's Journey to Immortality, you were clueless about its abilities.]
[At the moment, as you were troubled about this, you remembered that you actually had a phone which had stored all the public data available on earth till the moment you died in your past life.]
[And so, you began to read the book, Mortal's Journey to Immortality.]
[Though you can finish it quickly but you didn't do so, and whenever you come across one of its abilities, you would conduct a through research and see if yours could do the the same or not.]
[A year later, in the 21st year of simulation, you finally finished reading the book and were done with all your research.]
[The results of this year disappointed you very much. Because, except the first two researches, all others turned out to not true.]
[The Green Jade Bottle in your hand can only absorb the Moonlight and turn it into a liquid that could be used to nourish herbs and increase their growth speed, nothing else.]
[Though, there remains many special criteria that you're not currently eligible to fulfill, but after so many failed attempts, you don't think the results could be any better.]
[Thinking it over, you shifted your attention towards the Demon Refining Pot and found that except the foul odor, the situation was entirely similar to corpses buried underground.]
[About how you can be so sure? Well.. that is because you have buried quite a few people back in the graveyard on same day they were thrown in the Pot.]
[All that, just for future reference.]
[You have even thrown a living human inside who was completely safe in the first half but later died of shock and hunger, and by imagining his body become a minced meat after hitting something upon falling for so long.]
[At the moment, after finding that the atmosphere inside was safe for humans, you left the mortal city after giving a proper burial to all the mortals you've killed or placed in the pot and headed for the outermost part of Southern Deep Forest where you hunted countless poisonous monsters and put them inside the Beast Refining Pot to be refined and have their blood extracted.]
[Just like that, a year passed by and after a year of relentless killing and hunting, you finally entered the Beast Refining Pot and arrived above a small blood pond within the insides — which triggered your Maniac talent — directly increasing both the cultivation and comprehension speed by 12 times, and began practicing.]
[After the hunt ended, you found out that some of the residue blood within the pot has evaporated, slightly effecting the gain and so, you decided that whenever you go hunting from now, you'd store all the monster corpses within the Storage Space — preserving their properties — and sacrificing them all at once to the Beast Refining Pot to cultivate.]
[Just like that, half an year has passed by and your cultivation has rose from the mid-stage of Nascent-Soul Realm to the late-stage of Nascent-Soul Realm.]
[The benefit of this cultivation session was obvious to all. It has increased your cultivation to the extent which would have taken you years to reach.]
[Upon witnessing the results, for the following years, you began to put more efforts in your hunt and began to slaughter all the monsters you come across — increasing your cultivation at a rocket's speed.]
[During the hunt, in the outermost area, except a few youngsters — with their undisguised hatred for the creatures residing in Southern Deep Forest and their fighting spirit reaching the sky, you didn't come across many people and your cultivation went very smoothly.]
[It can be said, the Southern Deep Forest is really vast.]
[In the 29th year of simulation, you have finally reached the God-Transformation but you don't have the heart to stop just yet and began to follow the same routine of killing and cultivating.]
[Just like that, the time slipped by and finally it was the 8th month of 31st year of simulation.]
[On the 8th day, the Pet Space has finally consumed the 1 billion spirit stones and has upgraded to the level 2.]
[At the second level, you can speed up the time inside Pet Space by 5 times upon consuming 10 Spirit Stones per second.]
[You know, it's too much compared to before, but money holds no ground when it is compared to time. So, you were ok with this expenditure.]
[The condition to upgrade to 3rd level is for the Pet Space to consume a complete 1 trillion spirit stones.]
[You don't think you'll be able to meet this criteria by the end of this simulation. Especially with a sword named 'deadlock' held by that young man, pointed at your own throat.]
[Thinking it over, you began questioning if your future plan was full proof and well-executed or not?]
[But after a bit, you sidelined this thought pretty quickly, with the thought of you can just retry.]
[With this thought, you continued with the onslaught onto the creatures of Southern Deep Forest.]
[But there's a strange thing you've noticed in these years. You haven't come across any new kind of poisonous creature recently. It seems you have to head deeper if you also want to continue cultivating the Myriad Poisons Art and form the Myriad Poison Body.]
[But you don't think you possess enough strength to deal with something that made even a Transcending Tribulation Realm Cultivator's return impossible, in the meantime.]
[Just like that, two decades slipped away and finally it was the time for Blood Demon Secret Realm to appear in the world.]
[But to their relief, you were not interested in playing with cubs and initiating a manslaughter. And so, you avoided the Blood Secret Realm completely.]
[In these past years, in addition to cultivation reaching the late-stage of God-Transformation Realm, you have also taken the Ghost Gathering Jade Box from Baihua Chamber of Commerce, under your grasp.]
['Why only the late stage yet?']
[Well, that is because you have your eyes on the Nine Netherworld Mysterious Flame, which might forcefully increase your cultivation to the Peak of God-Transformation Realm.]
[And there might've been a chance to reach the Void-Refining Realm upon consuming the flame if you really were to reach the God-Transformation Realm before intercepting it. Which would really be a big trouble and you wouldn't be able to continue with your plans. And so, to avoid some unforeseen circumstances, you put your cultivation on hold and instead focused on your comprehension.]
[In these years, with the help of Maniac talent and after consuming a leaf of the Tree of Enlightenment, you have successfully comprehended the Frost Domain to Major stage.]
[While the mastery of your Sword Domain have also deepened slightly.]
[Just like that, twelve years passed and finally, the Nine Netherworld Mysterious Flame made its appearance.]
[And as expected, on the battlefield, you met no one but Feng Chen, your renowned opponent of the past. But now? He no longer was considered an opponent by you. But to his fortune, the opponent wasn't you but Liehou.]
[Yes, you had disguised as Liehuo, the Holy Son of Fengyun Holy Land.]
[The battle started soon enough, and just after a few moves, a figure was seen running away embarrassingly. The figure running away was none other than Feng Chen.]
[But you didn't chase after him and instead watched him run away with a well endowed mocking smile on your face, or should I say, Liehuo's face.]
[The reason for you doing so was very clear, you were curious to know what happens when two destined protagonists fight against each other? Who the Heaven actually works in favor of?]
[But, upon getting reminded of your plans, you sighed and murmured, 'I really can't.']
Outside the Simulation,
Watching his villainous act of shifting blame onto the protagonist, Lin Chen wondered, 'How good it really would've been if I had a Villain System?'
Within the Simulation,
[In fact, the reason why you let him go isn't because you were interested to see the undercurrents between protagonists but because, if you remember correctly, after going inside the Southern Deep Forest during the Four Regional Hunting Competition, Feng Chen never came out of it until the moment of your death — which happened in the in 303rd year of simulation.]
[To see if Feng Chen could bring any surprises to you.]
[And this is also the reason you didn't deploy your puppets, because they are just too ruthless with the opponent.]
[About the fear of old man probing your real appearance and informing Feng Chen of you shifting blame on someone else? You're not worried at all. Because, according to your calculations, the old man currently is far too weak to be able to probe your real appearance.]
[After that, you again returned and began to live your barbaric life.]
[Good thing that the sole numbers of monsters in Southern Deep Forest is so huge that none of the higher ups have noticed something strange yet.]
[For the following decades, after refining the Nine Netherworld Mysterious Flame, you only killed and killed and killed monsters residing in Southern Deep Forest and dumped them within your storage space — not using them to cultivate at all.]
[Just like that, it came, the time for Ancient Ruins to make an appearance.]
[Upon knowing of its appearance, the first thing you did was to return to the mortal town — where you had conducted your research — and took away the Little Green Jade Bottle — which was absorbing the moonlight and forming the Green Liquid for the past few decades — after breaking away the formation you've set up.]
[It can be said you were reckless and only hoped for a truly strong person, who can see through your formation, to never appear in this mortal town.]
[But you had your own reasons in doing so, and you did this because there's no moonlight within the Ancient Ruins, rendering the Green Jade Bottle to be completely useless once it is used up. So, it made no difference if you had it or not once you're inside, if it's empty.]
[Well..., at the end, the gamble turned out to be safe and again it is under your grasp.]
[After taking the Green Jade Bottle, you headed to where the Ancient Ruins has appeared.]
[You can say, the major forces of Xuantian Realm is quite generous with rogue cultivators, not bullying the weak and are letting them vie for their destined opportunity.]
[In the 133rd year of simulation, you slipped in the Ancient Ruins with a huge crowd of rogue cultivators.]
[Upon entering the first thing you did was to travel along the out-skirts of Immortal's Grave.]
[In the 134th year, just when you travelling in the out-skirts, you stumbled upon something. An Inheritance! And even that of a formation master.]
[Your information was correct again this time.]
[You have now made up your mind to hire those underlings again in your next simulation.]
[Soon, you broke the formation outside and entered inside.]
[Seems like the formation outside was made to safeguard himself from that immortal, but sadly he wasn't able to survive that catastrophe and fell along with most of his peers.]
[Soon, with your exceptional talent for formation, you were recognized by the spirit of the inheritance and finally obtained the Inheritance.]
[After getting the inheritance, you began flipping through it and found an extremely ruthless formation method named Blood Bead Formation. It was a seventh-grade formation.]
[Looks like this guy wasn't a good person either. Which is a good thing because this method was such a timely help to you because this thing can help you complete your auxiliary task of practicing the Blood-Devouring Demonic Technique to minor proficiency.]
[Thinking of it, you threw some monster corpses within the Beast Refining Pot, triggering the Maniac talent, and began practicing the formation method.]
[It was the very first formation method you started in all your journey.]
[The Path of Formation is divided in countless parts but among them, but there's one and only major factor that's to be noted, and all others remain perfunctory.]
[Runes]
[It's explanation is quite simple.]
[Runes are the foundation of a formation master, determining their strength. The deeper its understanding, the stronger and better the formation would be when compared to a formation master of same level.]
[All formation methods have their special rune forming method and a formation consists of countless runes with either same or- different patterned runes in a formation.]
[There even exists some formation that need the support of some special items to form, but they are for the later. Now you should only focus on your current situation.]
[A year later, you successfully mastered the formation and became proficient in deploying, withdrawing and breaking this formation.]
[Now, you can finally complete the auxiliary task more quickly.]
[In the 136th year of simulation, while the competition within the Ancient Ruins was at it fiercest point, a light shot in the sky. The beam, it was witnessed by countless people who headed for the place where the light shot out, some even settled their grudge on the way.]
[It didn't take long for many to arrive at the place of opportunity and began to search the surroundings. Unbeknownst to them, there was an eye observing all their movements from the dark and sweeping his eyes over the crowd of millions of people, searching for two figures named Xia Ruo Bing and Shen Mo, among the crowd.]
[After a long while, upon finding that none of the figure he is searching for are among the crowd, he showed his true colors and activated a formation, isolating the space from the outside world.]
[As the space closed in, a horrific sound rang among the crowd and with it, a chilling scene of a man turning to blood mist, appeared.]
[Only his skeletal was left behind. His flesh and blood evaporated, as if forcefully extracted by a force working in the dark.]
[Upon seeing this scene, the crowd began to panic.]
[They understood. They've fallen into a trap. But who did so? They have no idea. It could be anyone among them or the person operating is outside.]
[Just when everyone were panicking, a hand pierced the chest of a cultivator standing beside him, mercilessly pulling his heart out of his body. The one to attack, it was a middle-aged man, who looked quite shrewd by nature.]
[Just as the heart was pulled out of the other person, he also turned to blood mist and his blood gathered at an unknown space.]
[Seeing the scene of him turning to blood mist, the other person roared, "THIS FORMATION WANTSS BLOODDD!! IITT WANTSSS BLOODD!! IF WE WANT TO LIVE, WE JUST HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE PROVIDE ENOUGH! ONLY THEN WE HAVE A CHANCE TO LEAVE SAFELY!!"]
[When he said these words, the others clearly understood what he meant by this and looked in each other's eyes with caution, they knew it was just a perfunctory but by any means, if what the other person said turns out to be true, then... they'd rather fight for it. They wanted to rely on their strength for survival, instead of waiting for an uncertain death which depend on their fate and can happen any time.]
[Soon, the battle started.]
[Blood splattered, dying the ground red with blood but it disappeared quickly as well, as if that place was never stained with blood.]
[You, from the dark, are witnessing this scene.]
[Honestly, it wouldn't make much of a difference even if they fight against each other because, at the end, they'd all fall here today.]
[But you wouldn't mind as they are just making things easier for your formation by fighting among themselves, and your formation wouldn't have to kill them and extract their essence at a snail's pace.]
[Just like that, with each passing second the number of survivors dropped drastically.]
[From Millions.... Two Million... Five Hundred Thousand... One Hundred Thousand... Ten Thousand... One Thousand.... to a mere hundred people alive.]
[At the moment, just when the number decreased to a mere hundred people, the formation halted suddenly.]
[Witnessing this, all the hundred survivors rejoiced. But this rejoice didn't last long and suddenly a voice sounded in their ears, pouring cold water on their dreams, "Sigh.. seems like my comprehension is not deep enough."]
[Just when they heard it, they turned their head towards the direction the voice came from. But before they could even see the face of the intruder, a head flew from the sides, it was no ones but one of their acquaintance's head.]
[Soon, they turned their head to the direction where the head came flying by, only to see a huge crowd of mechanical puppets swarming them and what happened after that was a pure massacre.]
[Among these hundred survivors, there were two who were your acquaintance, one Ling Yujian and the other the prince of Barbarian tribe.]
[But, so what? That's all a matter of past now, and they all are here.]
[So, without a doubt, both of them are going to die here today.]
[Not long after, all the puppets have successfully killed the survivors, along with both your old acquaintances.]
[As all these survivors were killed, you entered the core of the formation and collected the beads formed within with their gathered blood and left this land of doom and began to search for a safe place.]
[The formation you've deployed had covered the space of millions of miles in radius ― directly flattening the surroundings to the ground.]
[But for the destruction of surrounding space, it could largely be accounted to the battle of millions of people ― which made it look no different from the land of doom.]
[Not long after, you arrived at a safe place and began refining the blood bead, turning it in your vitality and began sacrificing it to the Blood-Devouring Demonic Technique while refining the beads.]
[It can be said, the demand put forward by the Blood-Devouring Demonic Technique for practicing is really huge, you think even if you killed and sacrificed the blood of millions of people to it, that really wouldn't be enough to reach the minor stage if not for your Two Times the Resources talent, doubling the amount of vitality available directly.]
[Soon, you completed the refining and it went very smoothly, finally achieving minor proficiency of the Blood-Devouring Demonic Technique.]
[Upon achieving this stage, you felt the blood residing in your veins are countless time more purer than before, indirectly increasing your strength by two times.]
[Two times may sound simple but at your current strength, it is already considered a huge leap in strength.]
[At the moment, after an in-depth observation of your body, you finally realized what was going on.]
[The Blood-Devouring Demonic Technique isn't cultivating the different kinds of blood in your veins, individually, but instead is cultivating all those blood, altogether.]
[And considering how many different kind of bloods you've absorbed by now, it is only logical for it to consume such a large amount of vitality to upgrade itself. But does it mean you'd stop absorbing new kind of blood?]
[Of course ...not.]
[For the following year, after causing such a huge commotion, you decided to play it safe and began to seek opportunities like every normal person in this secret realm.]
[And this life continued until the 166th year of simulation, when a sudden shockwave shook the entire Ancient Ruins.]
[The force of collision, after becoming stronger you can feel it clearly, it's not something you can deal with your current strength.]
[Today, you knew just how big the gap was between you and those white and phoenix robed figures. This time you didn't expand your consciousness out of curiosity and instead avoided it completely and began walking around the out-skirts of Ancient Ruins.]
[You don't plan to leave the Ancient Ruins. Yes, this was the plan all long — being under the protection of Heavenly Dao itself.]
[It may sound foolish as you still have the chance and can try to ascend to the upper realm just like Han Ming, but what would be your strength at that time? Would it be comparable to the Heavenly Dao?]
[The answer is obvious, it would not be.]
[And ascending to the Upper Realm would be no different from you delivering yourself to the tiger's den.]
[And at that, you must've become wanted by all major forces by now. To be specifically, the wanted one is not you but Han Ming.]
[And the thing that the Ancient Ruins would only open after a hundred thousand years? Come on, you have millions of years of lifespan at your disposal. You aren't dying any soon.]
[A year later, in the 168th year of simulation, the battle finally subsided and you find that you really can't find a person within the secret realm any longer. It seems everybody has withdrawn from the Ancient Ruins already.]
[And you, upon finding peace after so long, decided to practice the Marrow-Cleansing Technique, the most mysterious technique yet, for the following years and complete its first level.]
[This seclusion would only end when you have completed the First Level of Marrow-Cleansing Method.]
[And your seclusion, surprisingly, went very smoothly. And, in the 676th year of simulation, you were successful in completing the first level of Marrow-Cleansing Technique.]
[At the moment, just when you completed the first level of Marrow-Cleansing Technique, you felt a sudden change in your body.]
[Your Treasure Hunting Instinct has sharpened, now you can even sense treasures at a far away place, and evaluate the threat posed by them, beforehand.]
[The improvement was not only limited to your Instincts, but the most obvious improvement it had on was on your aptitude.]
[At the moment, only after a slight moment of practicing, you felt that your cultivation has gone on the verge of breaking through to the Void-Refining Realm. When you felt it, you became horrified and quickly halted your practice, not daring to continue practicing and began to pry deeper to see what other improvements it had brought to you.]
[Soon, after a moment of prying, you came to know what other terrifying changes it had brought to you.]
[If compared to before, you felt that your current comprehension speed has increased by a thousand times and the methods like, Purple Thunder Sutra, that would have taken you a few decades to comprehend, now were comprehended to Origin Level within a pitiful time of 18 days.]
[If this is the effect of just completing the first level of this method, you can't imagine what it would be like to complete the second level!]
[As you thought of this, you shifted your attention towards the Proficiency Panel and saw that from the hundred experience points needed to reach the first level of Marrow-Cleansing Technique, the requirements to reach the second level has increased drastically.]
[Now you need to gather ten thousand experience points if you want to reach its second. Which, after a quick calculation, you find that would take a total of seventy-six thousand years at your current pace.]
[That much time you obviously didn't had.]
[Though, you still practiced this technique for a year to see if the increasement of your talent has brought any changes to it, but the result was the same as you anticipated.]
Outside the Simulation,
Reading the content of this simulation, Lin Chen turned to the system and said, "System, once this simulation ends, you got some explanation to do. Are you ready?"
[Always, host.] Upon his call, the system responded positively.
"Hmm..." Receiving a satisfactory response, Lin Chen hummed.
He was quite looking forward to the system's explanation.
Within the Simulation,
[It seemed that the current surprises weren't enough because once you entered the Beast Refining Pot, after sacrificing a large amount of beasts, and triggering the Maniac talent, you felt that your current cultivation speed has increased drastically.]
[If you were to say that the previous improvement was a thousand times your previous aptitude, your current speed could be said to be ten thousand times faster than before ― compared to your previous aptitude, obviously.]
[Within the Beast Refining Pot, in a time less than 6 months, you finally mastered your Sword Domain and could control it perfectly.]
[The next stage on the path of comprehension, after perfecting the control your domain, is the expansion of domain ― while maintaining perfect control over your domain.]
[Once you flinch in controlling the domain or recklessly expand your domain ― overlooking your foundation ― the punishment would be extremely harsh, and it might even cost you your future potential.]
[And you, as a cautious person, would never actually want that and so you decided to take one step at a time in future.]
[But the problem is to expand your domain, in addition to a high comprehension, which is needed to maintain the control over it, you also need a huge supply of resources to further expand your domain. And the kind it needs to expand the domain, you don't have them.]
[It's not that you were short of money, it's just that finding someone who can maintain perfect control over their domain in the lower realm is extremely rare, and so, the ability to maintain perfect control over their domain is usually referred as an immortal thing, making the resources to expand one's domain to expand in lower realm, extremely rare.]
[Soon, after getting the hold of your situation and understanding that further progress in Sword Dao is no longer possible, you decided to practice all the method, Dao and spells you have, to the pinnacle.]
[And so, for the following thousands of years, from Desolation Sutra to Frost Domain, you focused on practicing all the methods you had.]
[Just like that, two thousand years passed away and the day, for which you made such preparations, was not far away.]
[In the Immortal's Tomb, also called Ancient Ruins, a 'mortal' figure holding a basket and collecting all the ripe fruits around him and placing it in his basket, was seen.]
[If you calculate the time, it's been thousands of years since the Ancient Ruins was closed. And, for a mortal to live for such a long time, was impossible.]
[But, what people don't know is that there is something, something that is nourishing the life force of this mortal. Allowing him to live so long despite the restrictions on mortal's lifespan.]
[At the moment, just when you finished picking the fruits, a puppet approached you and handed you a stone as cold as an Ice Cellar, which you quickly placed within the Storage Space.]
[It was the Origin Stone you had placed in your young years within the Frozen Land. All that to be able to exploit the system's mechanism in future.]
[After placing the Origin Stone in the Storage Space, you took a step and began to hum a tune, which was in-sync with the Heaven's Speaker, which only rang in your surroundings.]
[In these years, you have gotten familiar with the Heaven's Speaker and can control the space it resounds in, freely.]
[In these past thousand years, except the Void Destructive Creation Rewrite which you haven't gotten started into, you have comprehended all the methods you had, to Origin.]
[And after reaching the Origin, you began to seek out the inheritances of fallen warriors in Ancient Ruins while practicing the Auxiliary paths such as Alchemy, Puppetry, Talisman and Formation.]
[It can be said, because of insufficient strength, most of the knowledge of these auxiliary paths you possess are just theoretical knowledge and turning them to practical knowledge still remains.]
[But still, even with just the theoretical knowledge, you can out-perform ninety percent of masters of these paths out there, all yet on the same level.]
[On this day, just when you were pondering over these things, you heard a loud roar from the outsides of Ancient Ruins.]
["Fairy Spirit, do you really think you're capable of stopping me?"]
[Hearing this, you became vigilant.]
[The moment of truth has arrived. And also the moment to decide whether you'd be rewarded for your previous efforts or they were all in vain.]
[The person outside continued, "At first I didn't want to destroy this small place of yours, but it is true that some people's enthusiasm knows no bounds."]
[At the moment, just as the words landed, the young man took a small step and uttered a word.]
"PERISH!"
[Upon his wish, the entire Xuantian Realm, along with the Ancient Ruins, began to shake violently and began to collapse with each passing moment.]
[But, you weren't even able to witness the collapse of Xuantian Realm as that young man has already arrived in front of you.]
[Just when that gaze fell on you, your entire body turned to dust, rendering the Nirvana Flame residing in your body, useless.]
[But it was not over. You had prepared a plan for this day long ago.]
[At a far away place within the Ancient Ruins.]
[After an unknown amount of time, upon your death, your consciousness marked onto your Nascent-Soul finally awakened, while the consciousness marked on your Golden Elixir still remained dormant.]
[In the past, after some experiments, after an indescribably painful process, you finally were able to exclude both your Nascent-Soul and Golden-Elixir from your body, marking them with your consciousness, just to seek a chance of revival.]
[After all, you can't entirely depend on others, right? You have to give your best if you want to survive.]
[But, if you were to be honest, you never expected this method of revival to ever work.]
[At the moment, just when you were thinking you are safe, a voice drifted in your consciousness.]
["I was always wondering despite so long why you were still a mortal?"]
["So, you have resorted to such petty tricks, huh?"]
[As these words fell, you felt your connection with your Golden Elixir at a far away place falling apart.]
["I am wondering, why you ever made so many plans?"]
["It's not like you knew I was going to come beforehand, did you?"]
[You knew what he was going to do. He was going to search to search your soul and you were vulnerable enough to put any resistance.]
[Soon, the Soul search was complete. But he found nothing valuable.]
[At the moment, just when your consciousness was drifting away and you were on the verge of death, a voice rang in the void, entering your drifting consciousness.]
["Huh? Why are the memories before the age of sixteen, locked?"]
[You're Dead.]
[Because of your death, this simulation ends.]
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4 Quadrillion Years Ago.
In the Era of Creation.
The picture, though not completely, was dark and extremely blurry.
Not long after, before the vision recovers completely, a Heavenly Voice resounded throughout the Myriad Realms.
Play Montagem Ritmada.
At the moment, as the voice ended, the vision became extremely clear and the picture began to change at a rapid pace.
The vision, it headed directly for the insides of the cave in front of him — directly ignoring the spectacular battle of the beasts, which resembled the image of Ancient Bull and Rhino, outside the cave.
The insides was nothing but a crime scene.
A knife bathed with human blood along which was the corpse of a human, Adam.
The Only Human of Creation Era had died.
Soon, the picture turned to the right sides of the cave wall.
There we saw; texts.
The text itself felt like a flaw in the Laws of existence; sometimes existed, sometimes not. Until it disappeared completely, never to be seen again.
The text was;
'I am already dead, so who are they?'