First Simulation Ends

'First simulation ended.'

'Beginning settlement.'

'This simulation lasted 22 years. The highest strength you attained was Martial Dao Heavenly Human. The highest Family Wealth Value you attained was 25 points. Your greatest achievement was Number One Expert Under Heaven. Your Reputation Evaluation was Known Throughout Lan Continent.'

'Overall evaluation for this simulation: Excellent.'

'You have received: 0.3 Simulation Count, 3 Tier 2 Prize Pool Draw Count, 5 Freely Distributable Attribute Points, 10 Years of Lifespan, Talent: Attribute Reset.'

In a Desolate Village on the outskirts of the city, inside a dilapidated Thatched Hut, Lin Heng, who had been leaning against the wall, abruptly opened his eyes.

A pale blue screen unfurled before him and began the settlement process following the end of his first simulation.

The Life Simulator interface clearly displayed the results Lin Heng had obtained in the simulation, along with the rewards he had received in the end.

At that moment, Lin Heng sensed a change taking place within himself.

It was like waking from a great dream, when one forgot the experiences within it.

His memories of the past twenty-odd years began to blur. He still broadly remembered what he had done in the simulated world: the tens of thousands of martial arts manuals he had read, the cultivation methods he had created, his insights into the myriad phenomena of heaven and earth and the countless facets of mortal life—all of it remained.

Lin Heng could clearly recall every word of those martial arts manuals and remember every detail from the beginning of his cultivation to his attainment of the Heavenly Human Realm.

Yet many details of daily life, along with the emotions those details carried, were rapidly fading away.

The result was as though Lin Heng had gained twenty-two years of cultivation experience out of thin air. His True Spirit and soul had undergone a Transformation because of it, but his state of mind remained as youthful as it had been at the start, brimming with creativity and spiritual vitality.

It was as if Lin Heng had been reborn into the past with all his cultivation experience intact.

"No, bro!"

Recalling the final scene before the simulation ended, Lin Heng's expression turned somewhat incredulous.

After breaking through to the Heaven-Human Realm, he had planned to suppress the Blood Calamity that had killed his Fellow Disciples and intended to devour heaven and earth.

After years of accumulated cultivation, he had finally broken through to the Heaven-Human Realm. Compared with when he had been in the Great Grandmaster Realm, his strength had undergone a change that could only be called earth-shattering.

The Combat Power of the Great Grandmaster Realm could be described as One Man Army.

But the Combat Power of the Heaven-Human Realm could only be described as invincible under heaven!

With such strength, Lin Heng could make enemies of every Martial Artist across the land of Lan Continent and still triumph under the combined siege of them all.

Given enough time, Lin Heng could slaughter every one of the billions of people across Lan Continent without issue.

This was true invincible strength—one man surpassing an entire race.

Those who were not on the same level did not even possess the qualifications to be enemies of Heaven-Human Realm Lin Heng.

Yet when he had gone to suppress the Blood Calamity with that very strength, he had been devoured the instant he touched the Blood Sea before he could even get close. He had not had the slightest room to struggle.

This gap in Combat Power was no mere matter of a few minor Realms. The two sides were separated by at least one major Realm, perhaps even more.

He truly had been invincible under heaven—only for an enemy to descend from above!

"The simulation unfolds entirely based on reality. In other words, barring any surprises, the Blood Calamity will appear in reality in just twenty-two years as well."

"If I can't figure out what this Blood Calamity is and gain the strength to fight it within that time, then judging by the way that Blood Sea devours everything, I won't live past twenty-seven in reality either. The whole world might even be destroyed."

After venting, Lin Heng frowned, an extremely intense sense of crisis rising in his heart.

But before Lin Heng could continue considering what to do next, he was hit by an unprecedented hunger.

The feeling was utterly foreign to him. Lin Heng had not experienced it for twenty-two years.

It was not merely hunger, but weakness.

His life was like a candle flame in the wind; the faintest breeze could snuff it out.

He was filthy as well, and the clothes he wore gave off a sour stench.

"Right. The point where I began my first simulation was when I had just awakened my Past Life Wisdom at five years old and was nearly starving to death."

"If I remember correctly, I'm about to be abducted by a Human Trafficker and taken to the Li Hen Pavilion's annex to soak in the Blood Pool. Then tomorrow, my master Xiao Rang will take me as a Direct Disciple and bring me back to the sect."

Understanding dawned on Lin Heng.

"Since things have come to this, I should eat first."

Lin Heng sighed.

With the heightened senses brought about by the Transformation of his True Spirit, he could clearly sense a Martial Artist with cultivation roughly at the Houtian Second Heaven silently approaching the Thatched Hut where he was staying.

The man took out a bamboo tube and began blowing Sleeping Smoke into the hut.

Lin Heng held his breath and used his transformed True Spirit to command wisps of yuanqi from the surrounding heaven and earth, Condensing them into sword qi.

He then pretended to faint, letting his body slide to the ground.

The Human Trafficker who intended to drug Lin Heng unconscious was a tall Ugly Man. Holding his breath, he slipped into the Thatched Hut, reached out to support the drugged Lin Heng, and prepared to take him out of the Sleeping Smoke-filled environment.

At that very moment, Lin Heng, pressed close against the Ugly Man, moved.

His hand shot out like lightning. At a moment the other man had never expected, a finger laced with wisps of sword qi jabbed into the Ugly Man's ribs.

Limited by time, Lin Heng had not gathered much power, and the force of this jab was weak.

It could not kill anyone, nor could it even make someone lose their Combat Power.

But because the jab had struck an acupoint governing pain, its effect in temporarily subduing an enemy was exceptionally outstanding.

The moment the tall man took Lin Heng's jab, his entire body shuddered as if struck by lightning. An agony beyond the limits of endurance spread from his chest and abdomen throughout his body, and he instinctively opened his mouth wide, inhaling the Sleeping Smoke he himself had blown into the Thatched Hut.

Then he toppled over and fell asleep.

Lin Heng walked out of the Thatched Hut and let out a long breath.

Only after the Sleeping Smoke inside had mostly dissipated did he walk back in.

From the Ugly Man, he found a gourd of Honey Water, a bottle containing twelve Qi and Blood Replenishing Pills, three doses of Sleeping Potion, a rather poor-quality short blade, some Dart Hidden Weapons, and a few taels of loose silver.

Lin Heng swallowed the Honey Water together with the pills. Feeling a Warm Current spread from his stomach through his entire body, he finally let out a long breath.

"Finally, I'm alive again. I almost really starved to death."

After muttering that, Lin Heng finally looked over the Ugly Man lying on the ground.

"Damn, he's ugly."

"In the first simulation, this was the man who kidnapped me to the Li Hen Pavilion annex, wasn't it? Too bad he was killed by Cloud Sword Palace disciples, so I never got to take revenge myself."

Not in any rush to deal with the Ugly Man, Lin Heng found a rope and tied him up. To be safe, he also struck several of the man's acupoints, ensuring that even if he broke free of the Sleeping Potion and woke up, his legs would be as limp as noodles.

Afterward, Lin Heng began dealing with the rewards he had received following the end of the first simulation.