"Drip, drip..."
When Gu Han opened his eyes again, all he saw was darkness. The light rain outside the window was still falling drip by drip, while waves of snoring rose and fell in his ears. A long-lost sense of familiarity immediately welled up within him, just like before he had transmigrated!
"Finally, I'm back!"
Feeling the scene outside, Gu Han took a deep breath, and a sensation of time and space shifting rose within him.
Before he could adjust, however, another voice appeared in his mind the next instant:
"Beep beep. Detected that the host has completed this life simulation. The simulation world achievements are being calculated."
"Beep! Calculation complete. The following is this simulator's evaluation of the host."
The two voices rang out rapidly in Gu Han's mind. Less than a second had passed from beginning to end before the simulator had already completed its calculations.
Immediately afterward, ripples like water suddenly spread through the void before Gu Han, eventually forming a virtual status panel in front of him, covered in dense lines of text.
Simulation World: Heavenly Azure Realm Simulated Character: Gu Han Character Record:
"You killed many people, and you also saved many people. You killed a Destined Villain and taught a Child of Destiny. You once stood at the peak of several mortal kingdoms, and you once gave up everything and fell!"
"You stirred up enormous changes across a broad region and indirectly changed the course of that region's future development."
"You were the number one person beneath the heavens in that region, as well as the founding patriarch who created that region's incomparably brilliant future!"
"Your actions permanently changed that region, and your true name will be sung by its people for thousands upon thousands of years!"
Overall Evaluation: ★★★★ (Perfect) Note: This system has five levels in total, from one star to five stars. One star is the lowest, while five stars are the highest. From lowest to highest, they are: Inferior, Ordinary, Excellent, Perfect, and Godlike.
"This calculation officially ends here. Congratulations to the host for receiving a four-star Perfect evaluation. You have obtained 923 Simulation Points, one designated lottery draw, and three random lottery draws!"
"This lottery draw can extract anything that has existed from ancient times to the present within the Yan Kingdom and Man Kingdom of the Heavenly Azure Realm, including but not limited to martial arts talent, supreme treasure pills, peerless martial arts, and even the host's entire Inner Qi cultivation."
"Furthermore, because it has been detected that the host received an Excellent evaluation or above in his first life simulation, the simulator officially recognizes the host as its master and activates the third system skill: Deduction!"
Skill Name: Deduction Skill Effect: Deduction is one of the Immortal Cultivation Simulator system's basic skills. Within a simulation world, it can consume the user's own cultivation to deduce any cultivation method, martial technique, or other skill, thereby strengthening oneself and expanding one's power.
"923 Simulation Points? A designated lottery draw and random lottery draws? The system skill Deduction."
Seeing the lines of introduction on the virtual panel formed by the simulator, even with Gu Han's current state of mind, he was greatly shocked.
He was shocked by how difficult Simulation Points were to obtain. Even though he had turned that world upside down and even passed down his self-created "Half Spiritual Power cultivation method," changing the course of the world's future, he had only obtained so few points.
He was also shocked by the heaven-defying nature of these so-called lottery draws. They actually allowed him to choose any object from the simulation world as he pleased.
He was further shocked by the system skill Deduction. As a veteran novel enthusiast who had read countless novels in his first life, how could Gu Han not understand how terrifying this skill was?
It could be said that compared to the other two rewards, this skill was the true divine skill—a heaven-defying divine skill that could accompany him all the way to the peak, never become obsolete, and grant him endless help!
It seems the Immortal Cultivation Simulator is far more terrifying than I imagined. I wonder what kind of mighty being created it, why it suddenly acknowledged me as its master, and whether it has some other purpose.
Gu Han murmured inwardly.
Yet he had no intention of abandoning its use simply because the Immortal Cultivation Simulator's origins were unknown.
Because no matter what kind of existence had created this so-called Immortal Cultivation Simulator, it was an unimaginable mighty being to him.
Rather than worry about imaginary disasters, he might as well use it as much as possible to grow stronger. After all, as long as he himself was strong enough, he would fear no puppet master lurking behind the scenes!
"Simulator, use that designated lottery draw to extract all of my martial cultivation from the simulation world and bestow it upon me!"
Seeing the prompt on the status panel, Gu Han made up his mind and chose without hesitation to restore his cultivation first.
On this incomparably dangerous battlefield between the two kingdoms, only martial strength was the true foundation. Without absolute power to protect oneself, no matter how many treasures one possessed or how great one's potential was, one would ultimately be unable to escape death and would merely make a wedding dress for someone else.
Therefore, no matter how powerful the talents of Ran Min, A Kakin, Patriarch Bodhidharma, and the others in the Heavenly Azure Realm were, they were still far inferior to the strength he had gained through decades of bitter cultivation!
"Beep! Host command detected. Extracting cultivation..."
"Beep! Cultivation extraction complete. Infusing it into the host..."
Boom!
As the simulator's mechanical voice in Gu Han's mind fell silent, the void above his head suddenly trembled, as though an enormous black hole were about to appear and tear the void apart!
Immediately afterward, an invisible pillar of light appeared, carrying streams of powerful energy as it poured into Gu Han's body.
"Crackle, crackle..."
As that energy surged in, bursts of cracking bones sounded from within Gu Han's body. Almost every breath, his body was strengthened by dozens of times or more.
Skin Tempering, Flesh Refining!
Muscle Tendon Strengthening, Bone Forging!
Blood Tempering, Organ Refining!
Gu Han's body rapidly grew stronger. In less than the time it took to burn one incense stick, he had effortlessly achieved what the Gu Han of the simulation world had needed more than ten years of bitter cultivation to attain. Then, he immediately began advancing toward the level of Inner Qi.
Pop!
A sound like a bottleneck shattering seemed to ring out in the void. Gu Han, seated cross-legged on the ground, shuddered as a stream of emerald-green air arose within his Dantian.
It was neither the internal force of the Yue Kingdom nor the Inner Qi of the Yan Kingdom, but a powerful substance born from the fusion of the two, far surpassing either energy alone. Gu Han called it—
"Half Spiritual Power!"
"Break!"
Feeling Half Spiritual Power take shape, Gu Han smiled faintly and shouted inwardly. The next instant, the Half Spiritual Power that had only just been "born," as tender as an infant, began charging at the Twelve Primary Meridians throughout Gu Han's body.
"Whoosh!"
The tiny stream of Half Spiritual Power flowed through Gu Han's Twelve Primary Meridians. Everywhere it passed, the meridians were instantly opened. Though small, it was like steel needles piercing cotton—no bottleneck could stop its advance!
One primary meridian!
Two primary meridians!
Three primary meridians!
Four primary meridians!
As time passed, the Half Spiritual Power within Gu Han's body grew increasingly powerful, and one primary meridian after another was opened at an ever-faster pace.
Only after another incense stick's time passed did the energy in the void finally stop, bringing Gu Han's path of rapid growth to a full stop.
"Ten primary meridians, Second-rate Perfection. Not bad!"
Feeling such gratifying results, Gu Han opened his eyes. A smile appeared on his face, and joy surged within his heart!
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