I Invited Nuwa to Myriad Worlds Simulation at the Start!

After a brief moment of stunned silence, Shen Lang was overjoyed.

As expected of the future saint Empress Nuwa—to survive such a devastating blow was no small feat!

But watching that flickering, sputtering green light, Shen Lang could only hold his breath and silently pray, Please don't go out.

Empress Nuwa, hold on—this is only the first day of a thousand years!

Myriad Worlds Simulator, Great Desolation World, Vast Mountain Range.

Nuwa now felt only one thing: pain, an endless agony that pierced deep into her soul!

This was an experience she had never known!

From the moment she first awakened consciousness within the Innate Spirit Array, through her transformation and cultivation to the Late Stage of Great Principle Golden Immortal, she had never felt pain!

But now, the destruction of her body and the torment of her soul brought her to the brink of utter suffering.

And with it came the despair of near-death, and the desperate craving to survive—sensations that an Innate Divine Being like her had never faced before.

At this very moment, though Nuwa had managed to live, she was like a candle flickering in the wind, perhaps gone the next second.

Yet Nuwa persisted, even if only a wisp of faint consciousness remained.

In any case, she could not die—absolutely could not die!

She had come to this simulator, seen nothing yet, discovered nothing—how could she die so pathetically!

An honorable Innate Divine Being at the Late Stage of Great Principle Golden Immortal, struck dead by lightning—what kind of joke was that?

As for the talent Bolt from the Blue, Nuwa had truly come to understand it—through firsthand, bone-deep experience!

And the talent High Start, Low Finish was no different!

Nuwa could sense that her current true form—the lush willow tree from before—had once been a formidable powerhouse.

But it had suffered a severe injury, grown weak, and nearly died just now.

Wasn't that the very definition of High Start, Low Finish!

Moreover, the Gold-Blue Dual Lightning that had attacked her was no accident.

Nuwa guessed that two mysterious existences had intended to kill—or rather, to kill the original willow tree!

"Don't let This Empress find out who you are, or I'll grind you to ashes!"

Having been struck by lightning for no reason, how could Nuwa not harbor resentment? She had already silently drawn two circles in her little notebook.

As time passed, when night fell, the flames in the pit finally died out, and the burned roots turned to ash.

Only on the charred wooden stump did a trace of green light still flicker in the darkness, growing steadier and steadier.

For a long stretch of time afterward, Nuwa ignored everything else, focusing solely on preserving this last spark of her spiritual light.

As long as she kept that light, there was hope of rebirth.

And the simulator's light screen had already slipped into Nuwa's consciousness, recording her changes day by day.

[Simulation Day 1: You reincarnate as a willow tree. Before you can adapt to your new identity, you suffer a devastating blow, but you endure through sheer willpower, surviving the first day and preserving your spiritual light. Physique -4, Situation -1!]

[Simulation Day 2: Your spiritual light stabilizes. Situation +1!]

[Simulation Day 3: You attempt to strengthen your spiritual light and are pleasantly surprised to find residual Spiritual Resonance Energy in this stump of wood. Though the remaining energy is scarce, it won't be absorbed quickly. You begin to focus on absorbing the Spiritual Resonance Energy. Situation +1!]

[Simulation Year 10: You finally finish absorbing the Spiritual Resonance Energy from the tree roots. Physique +3, Mind +1!]

[Simulation Year 15: Your spiritual light is relatively strong and complete, so you try to start cultivating, only to find you cannot absorb spiritual energy from the air. The breathing and absorption methods of your main world are completely unsuitable for the Great Desolation World. You rack your brain, seeking a solution!]

[Simulation Year 52: You suddenly notice your spiritual light beginning to fade, and your mood grows irritable. Physique -1, Mind -1!]

[Simulation Year 55: You think of a feasible solution. You use your spiritual light to nourish the remaining roots, hoping to regrow root systems from the stump and absorb nutrients and energy from the earth in the tree's original way!]

[Simulation Year 88: Your idea succeeds. A few new roots finally sprout from your stump, taking hold in the soil. You can feel your spiritual light slowly growing, all thanks to those tiny roots. Physique +1, Luck +1!]

[Simulation Year 121: Your stump seems to be turning into a trunk, slowly growing taller, but it remains covered in scorch marks.]

[Simulation Year 186: A sudden mountain flood strikes, and mudslides fill the pit from years ago. Only your ten-meter-tall body remains above ground, but it doesn't affect you much—you suffer no real damage!]

[Simulation Year 235: Your root system has become vast, able to draw more nutrients and energy. On this day, you discover that on your charred trunk, a few tiny buds have finally sprouted...]

Chapter 6: A Neighbor Suddenly Arrives, Stone Village Is Founded! [Please Collect]

Primordial World, Buzhou Mountain.

Shen Lang stared at the scenes on the light screen, his heart filled with emotion.

Nuwa had really pulled through—relying on a nearly burnt stump of wood, she had stubbornly persisted for over two hundred years.

She had even turned that stump into her new trunk, and now, at the edges of the charred bark, buds had sprouted.

Once those buds put out green leaves and tender branches, Nuwa would transform into a brand-new willow tree!

"Nuwa is Nuwa—she can turn things around even like this!"

Shen Lang glanced at the simulation logs beside the screen, anticipation rising in his heart.

It was now the 235th year since Nuwa entered the Great Desolation World, and one-fifth of the minimum thousand-year challenge had already passed!

Just over seven hundred more years, and I can claim the basic reward!

Looking at the current situation, it shouldn't be a problem.

After all, as long as Nuwa regrows her branches, she's just a willow tree.

What life-or-death crisis could a tree possibly encounter?

This Great Desolation World looks like a wild, untamed realm—definitely no lumberjacks or anything. Who would be idle enough to go cutting down trees?

Unless there's another lightning strike like before... Hmph, that shouldn't happen, right?

Myriad Worlds Simulator, Great Desolation World, Vast Mountain Range.

Nuwa, of course, had no idea that everything she experienced was being watched by another plant-like being.

At this moment, her spiritual light (divine soul) had undergone a remarkable change compared to two hundred years ago.

If before it was a faint glow, now it had become a blazing flame, burning fiercely.

Regardless, she had survived after all.

Now that her root-wood was reviving, it was only a matter of time before she grew back into a lush green willow tree.

But was Nuwa content to remain a willow tree, holed up here enduring the 1,000-year survival challenge?

Clearly not!

Because over these two hundred years, she had sensed extremely powerful auras sweeping past overhead.

She had also seen mighty Strange Beasts, like primordial spirit beasts, walking right by her.

Moreover, the being that had used lightning to destroy her willow body—Nuwa had never forgotten it.

The strength of these beings meant nothing to her True Body.

But over two hundred years, she had to admit that this Great Desolation World had successfully piqued Nuwa's curiosity.

What was the purpose of the mysterious existence behind the simulator, sending her to the Great Desolation World to simulate rebirth?

Was it merely a survival challenge?

That would be far too trivial!

Intuition told Nuwa that things were not that simple.

This Great Desolation World might not be some simulated illusory realm, but a real, existing world!

In other words, the mysterious existence controlling the simulator had pulled her consciousness from her primordial True Body and injected it into this willow tree in the Great Desolation World!

"Is this Great Desolation World a world like the Primordial, existing within the Chaos?"

Nuwa was only at the Late Stage Great Principle Golden Immortal—she could step into the Chaos, but only at its edges, not daring to venture deep.

After all, the Chaos was fraught with dangers at every turn. Even a Great Principle Golden Immortal encountering a Chaos Tide would either die or shed a layer of skin.

Were there other worlds besides the Primordial within the Chaos?

Nuwa had never considered this question before, but now she had to.

Mainly because the Great Desolation World was too real—it didn't feel fake.

From the life-and-death experience at the start to now getting used to being a willow tree.

Everything since arriving in the Great Desolation World truly felt like beginning a new life journey from scratch.

Pangu could split Heaven and Earth in the Chaos, creating the Primordial World.

So it wasn't impossible that some other life had split the Chaos in an unknown place, forging the Great Desolation World.

Nuwa found it hard to fully comprehend the entire simulation process, but she felt this was her opportunity!

An opportunity uniquely hers!

Therefore, what she wanted now wasn't some reward, but to figure out exactly what kind of existence this Great Desolation World was.

But for now, she was just a newly sprouted willow tree—strictly speaking, an old tree stump!