Simulating Again, Cultivating Fen Jue, Heaven-Swallowing Flame, Fire Clan Supreme!

"As long as Old Hai has recovered."

Lu Yu smiled and nodded.

Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, Hai Bodong's expression changed. The smile on his face gradually faded, and his look turned solemn.

He said in a low voice, "In all my life, I've hated owing favors most. Earlier, I even suspected that you were deliberately dragging things out, unwilling to undo the seal for me..."

At this point, he shook his head slightly, his tone carrying a trace of self-mockery. "Now it seems you even prepared the Restoration Pill. It was this old man who was narrow-minded."

Lu Yu was startled when he heard this, then waved a hand and smiled. "Old Hai, you're being too serious. Since this junior gave his word, I would naturally do as I promised."

"Well said—doing as you promised!"

A hint of approval flashed through Hai Bodong's eyes. Then, with a turn of his palm, an ice-blue token and half of a fragmented map appeared in his hand, and he tossed them to Lu Yu.

"This is this old man's keepsake, and the other half of the fragmented map. If you need anything in the future, take this token to the Mitel Family. Forget ten matters—even a hundred, a thousand, or even if one day you march on the Cloud Mist Sect, this old man will join you in making trouble!"

"This is this old man's promise!"

Lu Yu caught the token and the Demonic Flame Fragmented Map steadily. After hearing this, he could not help laughing. "Old Hai really is a man of true temperament..."

He pondered briefly, then took out an ancient-looking Jade Slip from his Storage Ring and said seriously, "Speaking of which, this junior truly does have one matter to ask of you. There is a Dou Wang seal on this Jade Slip. I wonder if Old Hai can help break it?"

Hai Bodong took the Jade Slip. A wisp of icy Dou Qi condensed at his fingertip and probed it for a moment, and his brow lifted slightly. "This sealing technique... is rather interesting."

Dou Qi surged in his palm, and fine golden patterns immediately appeared across the surface of the Jade Slip. Then, with a soft crack, the seal broke in response.

"A small matter."

Hai Bodong handed the unsealed Jade Slip back, a questioning look flashing in his eyes.

"Is there anything else?"

Lu Yu caught the Jade Slip steadily and shook his head with a smile. "Thank you, Old Hai. Not for now."

"Then this old man will take his leave first."

Hai Bodong nodded slightly. Dou Qi began to circulate around him, and his figure slowly rose into the air.

"After being sealed for so many years, it's about time I went to meet those old friends."

Before his words had even faded, his entire body had transformed into a brilliant streak of blue light. In the blink of an eye, he vanished into the horizon, leaving only a faint trail of cold mist in the air.

Only then did Xiao Yan walk out from behind the ice wall. He looked up in the direction Hai Bodong had left, his eyes filled with yearning. "So this is the bearing of a Dou Huang expert..."

Lu Yu, meanwhile, could not wait to send his Soul power into the Jade Slip. Immediately, a look of pleasant surprise flashed through his eyes. "It really is the Emperor Seal Art!"

Ten days later, inside a quiet chamber.

Lu Yu sat cross-legged, and a pale blue screen of light slowly unfolded before him.

"The one-month period is up..."

He murmured to himself. Anticipation flashed in his eyes, and he thought inwardly, It's time.

Ding! The number of simulations has refreshed. Detected that the host has one simulation opportunity. Begin simulation?

"Begin simulation!" Lu Yu answered without hesitation.

Ding! Drawing a simulation identity for the host—

Draw successful. Please choose one of the following three identities.

1. Spirit Gathering Clan Descendant—you are the last surviving Spirit Gathering Clan Descendant in the Great Thousand World. Because of your innate trait of gathering spiritual energy, you were imprisoned by a Supreme expert and forced to forge a Spirit Gathering Bowl for him day and night.

2. Ice Spirit Clan Descendant—you are a descendant of a branch lineage of the ancient Ice Spirit Clan, living in a cruel lower plane called the Gu Realm, where the weak are prey to the strong and only the fittest survive.

3. Fire Spirit Clan Descendant—you are a descendant of a branch lineage of the ancient Fire Spirit Clan, living in the Great Thousand World. However, because your mother fell in love with someone from outside the clan, you are heavily discriminated against within the clan, and your status is worrying.

Please make your choice—

"Spirit Gathering Clan?"

"It's actually the Spirit Gathering Clan that's on the verge of extinction in the Great Thousand World?"

Surprise flashed through Lu Yu's eyes. As far as he knew, in ancient times, there had once been a strange race in the Great Thousand World called the Spirit Gathering Clan.

This clan possessed a unique ability. The various spiritual artifacts they forged all had the effect of gathering spiritual energy. Once activated, they could envelop a region of heaven and earth and automatically transform the absorbed spiritual energy into precious Supreme Spirit Liquid.

Although this required a long accumulation of time, it was already an incredible achievement.

One had to know that in the Great Thousand World, Supreme Spirit Liquid was hard currency that even Supreme experts coveted. An ordinary Supreme Stage expert could spend a full month of bitter effort and still only condense a single drop.

"What a pity they're imprisoned. Otherwise, choosing the Spirit Gathering Clan would absolutely mean never worrying about cultivation resources."

Lu Yu sighed, then looked at the other two options.

"The Ice Spirit Clan was originally not bad. Ever since the Martial Ancestor caused a huge disturbance there, the Ice Lord became the Ice Spirit Clan's clan leader. With the Martial Ancestor backing them, you could say they found a second wind. But this is the Ice Spirit Clan of a lower plane, so it isn't a very good choice."

"Looking at it this way, I can only choose the last one."

With a thought, Lu Yu confirmed his choice.

Choice successful! Loading identity...

Simulation begins—

In the first year, you turned six. You were born with a Heavenly Spiritual Vein, a rare aptitude that would be considered excellent even among the ancient races. For the sake of a better cultivation environment, your mother endured the pain and brought you back to the Fire Spirit Clan, kneeling as she begged the clansmen to take you in.

Because your mother had joined with an outsider, she was regarded as having "impure blood," but your astonishing talent as someone with a Heavenly Spiritual Vein was coveted by the main lineage. Using "purifying the bloodline" as an excuse, the clan elders forcibly dug out your spiritual vein, reducing you to a cripple.

To protect you, your mother fought desperately to stop them. In the end, the two of you were expelled from the main lineage and ended up in a remote branch, where, because of your mother, you suffered endless contempt.

In the second year, you comforted your mother, saying that even without a spiritual vein, you could still cultivate. After that, you began studying Fen Jue, determined to carve out an unprecedented path of cultivation.

In the third year, although you were treated with contempt throughout the Fire Spirit Clan, the branch did not dare withhold your cultivation resources because of your mother's strength at the Supreme Stage. That year, you successfully broke through to the Spirit Wheel Stage and began secretly planning to find an exotic flame and reconstruct your spiritual vein.

In the fourth year, after your cultivation reached the Divine Soul Stage, you persuaded your mother to go with you to the Northern Spirit Region of the Hundred Spirits Continent. There, a Nine Netherworld Sparrow had failed its tribulation, and it was the key piece in your plan.

In the fifth year, you found the weakened Nine Netherworld. In exchange for helping it break through, you obtained its evolved Undying Fire. To your surprise, the spiritual vein reconstructed with the Undying Fire not only reached the Heavenly level, but also unexpectedly awakened the dormant Ancestral Blood within your body, causing your spiritual vein to undergo an indescribably marvelous transformation.

In the sixth year, as soon as you returned to the clan, you were surrounded by experts from the Spiritual Vein Hall. After a strict examination, they were shocked to discover that you actually possessed the legendary divine vein aptitude, with hopes of reaching the pinnacle of the Heaven Supreme realm in the future!

It had to be known that in the Fire Spirit Clan's history of several thousand years, only five divine veins had ever appeared.

The Spiritual Vein Hall Master accepted you as his disciple on the spot. After acknowledging him as your master, you truthfully reported what had happened to you back then, but concealed the secret of your Exotic Flame Spiritual Vein. In his fury, the Hall Master slapped to death several Earth Supremes who had persecuted you back then. This incident alarmed the Fire Spirit Clan Ancestor in seclusion, and he personally emerged to meet you.

As compensation, the ancestor specially approved your entry into the Fire Spirit Clan's most mysterious Ancestral Land to cultivate. There slept the legacies left behind by generations of Heaven Supremes, especially the Natal Heavenly Flames formed after they passed away, treasures that could be called priceless in this world.

In the seventh year, you entered the Ancestral Land to cultivate. The remnant souls of past Heaven Supremes sensed the aura of your divine vein and awakened one after another, competing to teach you their lifetime's ultimate arts. After weighing your options again and again, you finally chose three techniques.

First, "Heavenly Fire Forging God Art"—a God-tier high-grade soul technique that used exotic flames to temper the soul, making it as eternal and undying as flame.

Second, "Sky Burning Spirit Incineration Technique"—a God-tier high-grade secret art that burned the exotic flames within the body to temporarily increase strength, with almost no side effects.

Third, "Ancestral Flame Scripture"—the Fire Spirit Clan's clan-guarding technique. Only those with the Fire Spirit Clan bloodline could cultivate it, and it could nurture a Natal Heavenly Flame and forge the foundation of a Supreme.

You devoted yourself to cultivation. With the help of the Natal Heavenly Flames accumulated within the Ancestral Land, your cultivation began to rise steadily...

In the tenth year, you broke through to Third-grade Supreme and emerged from seclusion in the Ancestral Land, recording all your gains into an Inheritance Jade Slip.

This simulation has ended—

You may choose one of the following three items.

First, Undying Fire (Supreme-grade)

Second, Heavenly Fire Forging God Art (God-tier high-grade)

Third, your Inheritance Jade Slip