Change the Future!

Ding, Life Simulation begins.

Great Xia Calendar 480, March 2. You train hard in martial arts. After finishing your cultivation, you tell Chi Hu about the Essence Nurturing Grass and the Gale Leopard. Chi Hu is very surprised and asks how you know. You make up a lie, saying that this is exactly why your guards were all wiped out.

Chi Hu believes your words and says he will have the hunting team be careful. However, Chi Hu asks if you know where the Essence Nurturing Grass is. To this, you can only helplessly say that you didn't know the way when you fled.

Hearing your answer, Chi Hu feels a bit regretful.

March 3. You train diligently.

March 10. The hunting squad finds the Essence Nurturing Grass. However, they remember what you said and don't act rashly. The hunting squad gathers all the hunting teams, returns to the village, and discusses the plan with the Village Chief.

In the end, the Village Chief decides to take personal command. After drawing up a detailed plan, they prepare to deal with the Gale Leopard.

March 11. With everything ready, the Village Chief leads the hunting team into action. They successfully slay the two Gale Leopards and harvest the Essence Nurturing Grass.

After returning, the Village Chief and the others are very grateful to you. They give you one stalk of Essence Nurturing Grass to strengthen your foundation and improve your aptitude. Delighted, you choose to swallow it. Your aptitude improves, and your depleted innate essence is restored.

March 12. You train hard and find that your cultivation efficiency has increased significantly.

March 20. Chi Hu, thanks to the two Demon Cores from the beasts and the Essence Nurturing Grass, successfully breaks through to the Innate Realm, becoming the sixth Innate Realm expert in Chi Village. The whole clan celebrates.

April 10. You break through to the Flesh Training Initial Stage. You are overjoyed!

July 1. You break through to the Flesh Training Middle Stage.

August 20. You successfully break through to the Flesh Training Late Stage. At this time, you remember that enemies will come today. You make an excuse to keep the hunting team from going out to hunt, saying it will be dangerous.

The men of Chi Village are puzzled, but considering your kindness to the village, they still choose to trust your words.

In the afternoon, the Innate Realm expert Li Huai finds Chi Village. Without a word, he attacks. The whole village is enraged and fights together against the enemy.

However, Li Huai is extremely powerful. Although Chi Village has six Innate Realm experts, and the Village Chief is at the Innate Realm Seventh Level, they still cannot defeat Li Huai. He kills them one by one. Then, all the adult men of Chi Village are slaughtered.

Because of your death, this simulation ends.

"This..."

Wang Ping stares at the simulation result, utterly stunned.

He never expected that even after avoiding the hunting team's deaths and helping Chi Hu break through to the Innate Realm using the two sixth-tier beast corpses and the Essence Nurturing Grass, the village would still be massacred.

Is that Li Huai really that strong?

"According to the simulation description, the Village Chief is at the Innate Realm Seventh Level. To be able to take on six opponents and kill the Village Chief and the others, that Li Huai must be at the Innate Realm Great Perfection."

Wang Ping furrows his brow, his mind unsettled.

Moreover, based on the first simulation, Chi Village clearly has a mortal enemy.

That's also why Chi Village hides in the Blackwind Forest.

That Li Huai is most likely the village's old foe.

That's why, after finding Chi Village, he didn't hesitate to slaughter everyone.

"Troublesome."

Wang Ping presses his thumb against his chin, sinking into thought.

Chi Village has shown him great kindness, and he doesn't want to see it destroyed.

Besides, leaving Chi Village would be too dangerous out in the world—he could die at any moment.

On top of that, if he leaves Chi Village, he won't have such good cultivation resources anymore.

So, he has to find a way to save Chi Village.

But today's simulation has already been used, and he has no leads for now. He can only sigh helplessly.

After that, Wang Ping follows Chi Feng to the Training Field to continue practicing martial arts.

"Uncle Chi Hu, there's something I want to tell you."

After finishing today's training, Wang Ping finds Chi Hu and says with a serious expression.

"What is it?" Chi Hu asks, surprised.

"Actually, the reason I got lost in the Blackwind Forest is that my guards found two stalks of Essence Nurturing Grass. But they didn't expect the grass to be guarded by two sixth-tier beasts, Gale Leopards." Wang Ping speaks with feigned fear.

"Essence Nurturing Grass!?" Chi Hu's eyes go wide.

Essence Nurturing Grass is a rare and precious herb. It can improve aptitude, strengthen the foundation, and even help with breaking through to the Innate Realm. It's extremely valuable.

"You mean your guards were all killed by the Gale Leopards while picking the grass, and only you managed to escape?"

Chi Hu then speaks again.

"Yes." Wang Ping nods, pretending to be relieved. "Luckily, the Gale Leopards didn't fancy my flesh, or I'd be dead too. But because I fled in a panic, I completely lost my way."

"I'm telling you this because I don't want you and the others to get hot-headed and try to pick the grass if you find it. That would definitely end in deaths."

After a pause, Wang Ping says with full seriousness.

"I see. I'll let the hunting brothers know to be careful." Chi Hu nods, pats Wang Ping on the shoulder, and smiles. "Your information is very useful. If we find the Essence Nurturing Grass, you'll get a share of the reward."

"Mm." Wang Ping smiles and nods.

Through the simulation, he knows the people of Chi Village are kind and generous. When they find the Essence Nurturing Grass, they actually choose to give him one stalk as thanks.

After all, in every cultivation novel he'd read, the moment someone found a valuable herb, they'd turn on each other, try to hog it all, or even kill the protagonist to silence them.

Next, Wang Ping returned to his room and began soaking in the medicinal bath to relieve his fatigue, while also absorbing the blood and qi from the herbs to strengthen his body.

While soaking, Wang Ping couldn't help opening the Chat Group, only to find no one had spoken—he couldn't help feeling a bit helpless.

Yesterday, no one had said a word either.

Wang Ping knew that this group only came out to chat when a new member joined or when a member died; otherwise, unless something major happened, they rarely wasted time chatting.

After all, everyone had their own things to do—who had that much time to idle in the group?

The next day, Wang Ping started another simulation.

Ding, simulation begins.

Great Xia Calendar, Year 480, Month 3, Day 3—you train diligently.

Month 3, Day 10—the hunting team successfully finds the Essence Nurturing Grass and discovers a Gale Leopard.

Month 3, Day 11—the Village Chief, fully prepared, leads the hunting team's experts to kill two Gale Leopards and successfully harvests the Essence Nurturing Grass. You receive one of the herbs and choose to swallow it.

Month 7, Day 1—you break through to Flesh Training Middle Stage, and you're overjoyed! But then you remember the powerful enemy coming on Month 8, Day 20, and you can't help feeling anxious.