Distinguished Guest of the Xiao Family

It wasn't that the Life Simulator was cheating him out of a choice, nor was it that selecting high-level items required energy points or anything. →

The reason he couldn't choose the Fallen Heart Flame was simple: Xiao Ming was far too weak.

Aside from talent-type items, which would directly merge into his body, everything given by the Life Simulator—whether weapons, Cultivation Methods, or anything else—would simply appear before him.

Heavenly Flames were treasures of heaven and earth, so they would naturally appear directly in front of him as well.

The Life Simulator didn't have anything like a system storage space where he could temporarily store the Heavenly Flame.

Once he chose the Heavenly Flame and the Fallen Heart Flame appeared before him, with his pathetic Dou Qi Power Stage Two strength, wouldn't he die in less than a second?

That was why Xiao Ming felt he couldn't choose that thing.

But something as good as the Fallen Heart Flame—he was unwilling to give it up, yet the other two options weren't even worthy of carrying its shoes.

Ah, this was agonizing...

Xiao Ming stomped his feet in frustration.

[ Ding, please choose one of the three options. ]

"Stop rushing me! Can't you let me struggle with it for a while?"

After agonizing over it for some time, Xiao Ming finally chose the Low-grade Storage Ring.

Choosing the Fallen Heart Flame was impossible; his life came first. Between a Low-grade Storage Ring and a Mysterious Rank Middle Grade Dou Technique, the Mysterious Rank Middle Grade Dou Technique was undoubtedly better.

But Xiao Ming had his reasons for choosing the Low-grade Storage Ring.

A Profound Tier Dou Technique was certainly good, but his cultivation was still at the Dou Qi Power stage, and he had no enemies. He had little need for Dou Skills.

That Profound Tier Dou Technique, Tiger Roar Absolute, was even a soundwave-type Dou Skill. It wouldn't be easy to practice, and it would make quite a commotion. It would be easy for others to notice, and difficult to explain.

For now, Xiao Ming wanted to keep a low profile.

If it had been a Mysterious Rank Middle Grade Fire Attribute Cultivation Method, he would have chosen it without hesitation. But this Tiger Roar Art? Forget it.

The Low-grade Storage Ring wasn't bad either. Only the Clan Leader and the Great Elder in the entire Xiao Family possessed one. With a Storage Ring, he would have somewhere to hide any items he drew in the future.

The moment he made his choice, a pitch-black ring silently appeared out of thin air before Xiao Ming.

With quick hands and sharp eyes, he caught the falling ring and held it up for a careful inspection.

"So this is a Storage Ring? It really is quite miraculous."

He probed it with his Soul Perception and found that it contained roughly five cubic meters of space.

Xiao Ming nodded in satisfaction and found a string to hang it around his neck.

"Although this Storage Ring is the least valuable of the three rewards, it still costs a hundred thousand gold coins. That's an enormous sum for the Xiao Family. I need to hide it well. It would be hard to explain if someone discovered it."

After putting away the Storage Ring, Xiao Ming did not immediately leave the back mountain. Instead, he began pondering something.

The Life Simulator's simulated life began from the current day.

In other words, if there were no Simulator, then the life that had appeared in his mind would definitely happen.

Although Xiao Ming was rather speechless about dying so carelessly in the future, the information revealed by the Simulator was worth carefully considering.

This Life Simulator was, in a sense, a way to foresee the future. He could make good use of it.

"Speaking of which, the distinguished guests arriving at the Xiao Family the day after tomorrow should be Gu Yuan and Gu Xun'er, right? Perfect. I can use her to see whether the lives simulated by the Simulator are accurate."

Time quietly passed amid cultivation. A day later, Xiao Ming returned from cultivating in the back mountain and went to the dining hall for a meal.

He listened carefully to his surroundings and, sure enough, heard several children at the next table chattering away.

"Hey, hey, did you hear? A distinguished guest came to the family today. The Clan Leader personally received him!"

"What? The Clan Leader is a Da Dou Shi. Someone personally received by him must be a Da Dou Shi too, right?"

"How did you know a distinguished guest arrived?"

"I saw it when I came over just now. The Clan Leader personally welcomed them into the main hall. The Great Elder and the others were there too. That presence was definitely from an expert, and there was even a girl about our age beside him."

"..."

They were still too young, after all. The children's conversation soon wandered off topic and turned into a discussion of where they should play today.

Xiao Ming wasn't surprised in the slightest. Those who still ate at this dining hall were all orphans too young to take care of themselves. The older children who could manage on their own had basically all moved back into the homes their parents had once lived in.

Being able to learn this much was already quite good.

"It seems the lives simulated by the Life Simulator are pretty accurate."

Xiao Ming rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

So did that mean he really had no talent for becoming an alchemist?

Xiao Ming still remembered that, in the Simulator, his body was a pure Fire Body without even a trace of Wood Attribute.

Alchemists could refine all kinds of miraculous pills. Their status on the Dou Qi Continent was incomparably exalted, and they possessed immense influence.

Naturally, Xiao Ming wanted to become such a person as well.

His Soul Perception was definitely sufficient, but unfortunately, his attributes didn't match.

He could only wait and see whether he could obtain an alchemist's talent from the Simulator in the future.

Having gotten what he wanted from the dining hall, Xiao Ming casually picked at his food, finished his meal, and prepared to leave when he suddenly heard someone call out to him.

"Xiao Ming, let's go play at the Marketplace this afternoon!"

Xiao Ming turned around and saw that the speaker was one of the little girls who had been discussing Gu Yuan earlier.

After transmigrating, Xiao Ming discovered that this body of his had red lips, white teeth, delicate brows, and clear eyes—the perfect little handsome boy. There wasn't a child better-looking than him in the entire Xiao Family.

People were drawn to pretty faces. Whether boys or girls, the children of the Xiao Family especially loved asking him to play with them.

But he wasn't Xiao Yan. He had no interest in playing house with children, especially when these kids were at the age even dogs disliked.

Xiao Ming tactfully declined the children's invitation and left the dining hall under their resentful gazes.

For the next two days, Xiao Ming continued cultivating diligently.

On this day, having immersed himself in cultivation for so long, Xiao Ming did not rise early to cultivate.

"In the end, I'm still too young. I simply don't have that much energy. Even I get tired from high-intensity cultivation."

Xiao Ming muttered to himself, understanding why the version of himself in the Simulator did not cultivate today and instead wandered around the Xiao Family.

After breakfast, Xiao Ming decided not to follow the Simulator's path and wander around the Xiao Family.

Perhaps he could go to the Dou Technique Hall and see if he could find a few Dou Skills to practice.

With that thought, he immediately got up and headed for the Dou Technique Hall.

Weaving through the orderly houses of the Xiao Family, Xiao Ming ran into Xiao Yan at a corner.

At that moment, Xiao Yan was accompanied by a little girl with a cool expression, a lotus-like temperament, and doll-like cuteness.

"That is our Xiao Family's Dou Technique Hall. It stores all the Dou Skills our family has collected over the past several hundred years. Any descendant of the Xiao Family has the chance to enter and choose a Dou Skill."

"Yellow Rank Low Grade Dou Skills can be learned freely. If you encounter anything you don't understand, there are Dou Zhe on duty inside whom you can ask for guidance. If you render meritorious service to the family, you can even choose higher-level Dou Skills."