Ding, Life Simulation begins.
March 1, Great Xia Calendar 480. Under Chi Hu's guidance, you cultivated the Essence Solidifying Body Tempering Art. The training was immensely painful, and you nearly failed to endure it. But provoked by Chi Hu, for the sake of a man's dignity, you gritted your teeth and held on.
March 2. You continued cultivating, and this time it was much easier.
March 3. You continued cultivating.
June 5. Through painstaking cultivation, supplemented by the nourishment of Demon Beast Meat, you successfully entered the Flesh Training Initial Stage. You were overjoyed.
June 12. You continued cultivating diligently, hoping to advance further. However, at dusk, only one member of the Hunting Team returned severely injured. Everyone else had died. The news struck the people of Chi Village like a bolt from the blue, nearly causing them all to faint dead away.
After asking around, you learned the whole story. During this hunting trip, Chi Village's Hunting Team had discovered two stalks of Essence Nurturing Grass, treasure herbs capable of strengthening one's foundation, nourishing one's vitality, and improving one's cultivation aptitude.
Overjoyed, the Hunting Team gathered every hunting squad and battled the Sixth-Level Demon Beast, the Gale Leopard, that guarded the treasure herbs. Yet they had never expected there to be another Gale Leopard.
In the end, the Hunting Team was almost completely wiped out beneath the claws and fangs of the two Gale Leopards.
After learning what had happened, the Village Chief was heartbroken and seemed to age many years. The village's elderly, weak, women, and children were likewise overwhelmed with grief. Having long become acquainted with the villagers, the deaths of Chi Hu and the others filled you with sorrow.
After the village held a funeral, they began discussing Chi Village's survival. Some Clan Elders believed that Chi Village no longer had the ability to survive in Blackwind Forest and needed to relocate the entire clan outside.
However, the Village Chief rejected the proposal. They had hidden in Blackwind Forest to escape their enemies. If they moved out and were discovered, the consequences would be unthinkable.
In the end, after much dispute, the Village Chief decided to divide half the men defending the village and form a new Hunting Team, sending them to the outer regions to hunt Demon Beasts and sustain their livelihood.
August 15. Your cultivation was still at the Flesh Training Initial Stage, and it was difficult for you to break through to the middle stage of the Flesh Refinement Realm. The Village Chief came to you, intending to arrange a marriage for you so that you could have more children and strengthen Chi Village.
You were delighted by this. You and Chi Ling'er had long since caught each other's eye. In the end, amid the blessings of the villagers, you were joined in marriage.
August 20. You were still diligently training in martial arts. However, an Innate Realm expert calling himself Li Huai found Chi Village and began slaughtering its people. You were furious, yet powerless. In the end, the Village Chief and Chi Village's Clan Elders stepped forward to face him, but they were old and frail after all. They were no match for the man and were all killed.
However, he did not kill the children of Chi Village. He only killed the adult men.
Because of your death, this simulation has ended.
"This..."
Wang Ping looked at the simulation results and fell silent.
This world was even more dangerous than he had imagined.
He had already prepared himself to lie low for an entire lifetime.
Yet it still had not amounted to much.
Chi Village's Hunting Team had met with an accident and was nearly wiped out.
Then a powerful enemy had come calling.
Wang Ping was simply puzzled as to why the other party had not killed the children and women.
"Still, this simulation seems to have directly ignored the existence of the Chat Group."
Wang Ping thought of another point and was somewhat astonished.
Very quickly, he understood.
At the end of the day, the simulator was merely a subsystem of the Chat Group. How could it possibly simulate the Chat Group's future?
It would be more accurate to say that the simulator simulated the future under circumstances where there was no Golden Finger.
"Good thing I have the simulator. Otherwise, even with a growth-type Golden Finger, I probably wouldn't have escaped death."
After coming back to his senses, Wang Ping felt immensely fortunate.
After all, even if his Golden Finger was growth-type, there was no way he could become one of the foremost experts in the Innate Realm within a hundred and fifty days.
When the time came, facing Li Huai, the vicious man who slaughtered Chi Village, he would still die all the same.
"I need to tell the people of Chi Village about this."
Wang Ping silently pondered to himself.
If the Hunting Team had not been nearly wiped out by the Sixth-Level Demon Beast Gale Leopards, perhaps they could have fought against Li Huai.
After all, the Hunting Team was made up of prime, powerful men. There were even several Innate Realm experts among them, and their combat strength was astonishing.
"Still, I can't say it directly. I'll wait for now. There is still a long time before anything happens, so I can wait until tomorrow to simulate again. It won't be too late to speak after finding the optimal way to clear this."
After thinking it over again, Wang Ping made his decision.
"Brother Wang, let's go to the Training Field to practice martial arts."
Half an hour later, Chi Feng withdrew his fists and spoke to Wang Ping.
"Sure!"
Wang Ping nodded and followed Chi Feng out.
Before long, Wang Ping arrived at the Training Field.
Quite a few children had already gathered there.
Among them were children under ten like Lie Feng, as well as children over ten.
However, they were generally no older than fourteen.
Because once they passed fourteen, they would join the Hunting Team and become glorious hunters.
Wang Ping's arrival amused the children.
After all, it was the first time an adult had practiced martial arts alongside them.
"Very good. No one is late today, so let's begin."
At the front, Chi Hu looked at Wang Ping and the children, nodded in satisfaction, and began teaching them cultivation.
The children basically all knew the Essence Solidifying Body Tempering Art, so Chi Hu had them practice on their own before coming to Wang Ping to personally teach him each movement and its key points.
Wang Ping listened attentively as well.
Yet whenever his posture was incorrect and Chi Hu adjusted him, all sorts of cracking sounds rang out, making his face twist with pain.
And this was only the beginning. The training that followed was even more exhausting and painful, nearly unbearable for him.
Wang Ping could only smile bitterly at this.
Although he had already learned from the simulation how difficult and painful cultivation was and had made some mental preparations, he still nearly failed to hold on.
Still, before a group of children, he had no desire to embarrass himself as an adult. So Wang Ping did not utter a sound and gritted his teeth as he persevered.
"Not bad. I thought you would give up halfway through, but it seems your willpower is decent."
When the day's cultivation finally ended, Chi Hu praised Wang Ping and handed him a packet of medicinal herbs.
"Go back and soak the herbs in water for a bath. Continue training hard tomorrow."
"I'm not someone who likes giving up halfway through." Wang Ping accepted the packet of herbs and spoke.
"Not bad. You've read books, so you're quite clever, and your willpower is decent too. You're suitable material for martial arts. Unfortunately, you're too old. You started training too late, and your body is too weak. It will be hard for you to achieve anything great. Reaching the Postnatal Realm is basically hopeless."
Chi Hu nodded and spoke.
"Perhaps." Wang Ping smiled, not discouraged.
With the simulator and the Chat Group, as long as he lay low and developed steadily, let alone the Postnatal Realm, even reaching levels beyond the Innate Realm would definitely not be a problem.
Next, Wang Ping glanced at the other children, who were still earnestly practicing martial arts and remained full of energy. After lamenting his own weakness, he returned alone to his courtyard to soak in the medicinal bath.
If he did not soak in the medicine, he could already foresee the miserable state he would be in afterward. His entire body would surely ache, and he would not even be able to move tomorrow.
The next day, Wang Ping still rose early. While watching Chi Feng practice his punches, he began a new simulation.
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