Looking at the black-clothed man before you, you could not understand how he had found you.
By all logic, Chu Wudi should have found you only five years later. This was completely different from what had happened in your previous simulations.
At that moment, Gu Xinyue also sensed the black-clothed man's presence and flew out of the house, her expression grave as she stared into the sky.
She could not sense his aura at all, which meant his cultivation far surpassed hers.
"Who are you?"
Chu Wudi ignored Gu Xinyue and walked toward you with a gentle expression on his face.
Knowing what kind of person he truly was, you naturally would not be fooled by his outward appearance.
Your heart hardened. You directly used the Great Void Technique to leave the residence and fled toward the edge of the Southern Region.
Chu Wudi stood in the courtyard, frowning slightly as he looked at the place where you had vanished.
"A void technique?"
Before his words had even finished, Chu Wudi chased after the direction in which you had escaped.
It was not long before Chu Wudi appeared directly in front of you.
You had not expected that even using the Great Void Technique at full strength, you would still be caught up to so easily.
Looking at you curiously, Chu Wudi asked,
"Young man, this should be our first meeting, should it not? But judging from your eyes, it feels as though you know me."
Despite the three major realm gap between you and Chu Wudi, you still held onto a glimmer of hope.
So you did not answer him. Instead, you took a deep breath, giving him the illusion that you were about to speak and explain.
The moment he lowered his guard, you used the Great Void Technique to escape again.
Seeing that you still refused to give up, Chu Wudi shook his head and looked toward the direction in which you had vanished.
And so he continued chasing you down.
In the short term, you could rely on the Great Void Technique to shake him off, but in the long run, you would inevitably be captured.
Behind you came Chu Wudi's mocking voice.
"Boy! Since you do not want to talk, then I will have to use Soul Searching Technique myself!"
"I would like to see just how many secrets are hidden in you. To think the Taixu Sword ended up in the hands of a junior like you!"
Hearing those words, your heart sank sharply.
As expected, he had never intended to spare you. Fortunately, you had decisively chosen to lead him away from Gu Xinyue and the others.
What shocked you even more was that Chu Wudi seemed to have found you because of the Taixu Sword.
Seeing this, Su Ming furrowed his brows tightly.
A moment ago, he had still been wondering how Chu Wudi had managed to find him. But now he had a rough idea.
The clue that let Chu Wudi find him was probably the Taixu Sword itself.
Su Ming remembered that in the previous simulation, Chu Wudi had also found him because of the Taixu Sword.
So now he could say with near certainty that Chu Wudi had indeed tracked him down because of the Taixu Sword.
But another question arose.
He had possessed the Taixu Sword from the very beginning, yet he had never encountered Chu Wudi because of it before.
The last time he met Chu Wudi was in the twentieth year of the simulation, while this time that encounter had once again arrived five years earlier.
Su Ming kept recalling the differences between these simulations.
Not long afterward, his eyes suddenly widened.
"The Taixu Sword fragments!"
If he had to point out one difference, it was that in every simulation he had gone to the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm and taken the broken Taixu Sword from Sword Mountain.
And every time he obtained another Taixu Sword fragment, his Taixu Sword grew a little stronger. Each time it grew, the moment Chu Wudi found him came earlier.
So now he suspected that Chu Wudi must possess some method of sensing the aura of the Taixu Sword. Every time the sword grew stronger, its aura became more powerful, and the range at which it could be detected also grew.
After understanding everything, Su Ming continued reading the simulator.
[You fled all the way to the Imperial Capital of the Great Qian Dynasty, where you shouted above the capital that someone from the Demonic Path had arrived.]
[For a moment, the attention of everyone in the capital was drawn to the two of you.]
[At the same time, a figure flew out from the Great Qian imperial palace and released a powerful aura, blocking the space between you and Chu Wudi.]
["A human at Initial Mahayana? Since when has the human race produced another Mahayana cultivator?"]
[Looking at the Great Qian Emperor before him, Chu Wudi frowned and glared viciously at you as you continued retreating.]
["Boy, do you really think you can escape this way? Just wait. You will not get away."]
[The moment his words fell, he began fighting the Great Qian Emperor.]
[You temporarily escaped Chu Wudi's pursuit. With both of them in the Mahayana realm, you did not know whether the Great Qian Emperor would be able to kill Chu Wudi.]
[You did not dare be careless and repeatedly used the Great Void Technique to put more distance between yourself and the Great Qian Dynasty.]
[For the time being, you did not dare return to Gu Xinyue and the others. Right now, you could only rely on yourself.]
[After leaving the Great Qian Dynasty, you continued north.]
[One month later, you arrived at the Desolate Deathlands.]
[After using the Great Void Technique at full strength for an entire month, the spiritual energy within your body was exhausted, and you no longer had any means of resistance.]
[If Chu Wudi came to find you now, you planned to enter the Desolate Deathlands directly.]
[Over these years of cultivating in the Central Continent, you had learned that the forbidden lands of the Central Continent were completely different from those of Qingzhou.]
[The Heavenly Abyss in Qingzhou was merely a forbidden land for Bizarre Insects, but the forbidden lands of the Central Continent were true forbidden lands.]
[Whether human or Bizarre Insect, almost no one came out alive after entering them.]
[Because it lay near the Desolate Deathlands, there were no cultivation cities in the area, only a few mortal villages.]
[You casually entered one of those villages and hid there.]
[One year later, not only had you fully recovered your spiritual energy, but you had also turned misfortune into fortune and broken through to Mid Deity Transformation.]
[Living in Li Family Village for a full year caused a subtle change in your state of mind.]
[There were no struggles of the cultivation world here, no worries about Bizarre Insects. In this mortal world of dust and life, you experienced the life of an ordinary person.]
[Maintaining that state, you lived in Li Family Village for another three years.]
[After three years of tempering, your Sword Intent finally reached the realm of Unity of Man and Sword.]
[Once you broke through to Unity of Man and Sword, your realm surged as well, rising to Late Deity Transformation.]
[The realm of Unity of Man and Sword that had troubled you for so many years had unexpectedly been broken through amid mortal life.]
[But this peaceful life was soon shattered once more.]
[In the twentieth year, Chu Wudi found you again.]
[This time, you did not panic. These past few years had made your heart even stronger.]
["Ant, do you know how miserably you made me suffer five years ago?"]
["Do not worry. I definitely will not let you die easily. I will tear out your soul and make you suffer eternal burning in flames."]
[You let out a cold laugh and directly used the Great Void Technique to flee toward the Desolate Deathlands.]
[Blinded by hatred, Chu Wudi paid no attention at all to the direction in which you fled.]
["Do you think you can escape with the Great Void Technique?"]
[Chu Wudi quickly caught up to you, but just as he was about to seize you, he abruptly withdrew his hand.]
["Ant, have you gone mad?"]
["You actually dare to enter the Desolate Deathlands?"]