Unexpected Change: Second Simulation Ends

[In the sixtieth year, your realm finally rose to the mid-stage Organ Refining Realm. You were already sixty-eight that year, yet you appeared to be under thirty. For Martial Artists in the Body Tempering Realm, even without taking Pills or medicinal herbs, they could live to a natural death at one hundred and twenty. Blood Transformation Realm Martial Artists had a lifespan of one hundred and eighty years, while breaking through to the Organ Refining Realm greatly increased one's lifespan, allowing one to live for a full three hundred years.]

[Although you now had a lifespan of three hundred years, you still trained bitterly day after day, decade after decade, with perseverance beyond what Normal People could compare to. Among the Ye Family disciples of your generation, your cultivation might not have ranked among the foremost, but you were the most diligent. Though your realm now advanced slowly, the days of making progress every day enthralled you. Others did not quite understand your diligence, but you never tired of it. Even in places unknown to you, the Direct Lineage of your generation had given you the nickname "Martial Arts Obsessive."]

[In the sixty-eighth year, Ye Mingyue and you were secretly transferred back to the Ye Family Ancestral Land. After returning, you were somewhat puzzled, but you did not ask questions recklessly. Instead, you waited quietly with Ye Mingyue in the room arranged for you. More and more Direct Lineage disciples of the Ye Family entered the room, all of them outstanding talents among the Ye Family's current or previous generation.]

[Thirteen days later, once the Ye Family Elders saw that everyone had arrived, they finally told them why they had been summoned back.]

[It turned out that a Ye Family disciple had discovered a small blessed land in the inner region of the Fengyuan Secret Forest while adventuring. Learning that someone had found a blessed land, you were greatly shocked. You knew that even a small blessed land was not something the Ye Family, or even any force in all of Fengyuan City, could lay a hand on.]

[Blessed lands, regardless of size, accelerated cultivation within them by several tenths, or even several times, compared to the outside world. Depending on the size and conditions of the blessed land, all manner of rare and exotic Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures could be born within. From what Ye Feng knew, even a small blessed land could only be possessed by one or two Renowned Families in a large city like Yicheng City. Most large cities usually had only one Renowned Family. The Ye Family resided within Fengyuan City's sphere of influence; though it could run rampant throughout Fengyuan City, its strength could at most be considered that of a prominent clan. The gap in strength between a prominent clan and a Renowned Family was immense.]

[Upon hearing the Elder's words, the Direct Lineage disciples of the Ye Family present all revealed delighted expressions. Everyone understood what this represented. Yet before they could rejoice for long, the Ye Family Elder delivered bad news.]

[After discovering the blessed land, this collateral Ye Family disciple had failed to recognize it. Instead, he had taken it for an ordinary Secret Realm and told a Direct Lineage disciple of the Bai Family, one of the Four Great Families of Fengyuan, hoping to explore the Secret Realm with him.]

[As a Direct Lineage disciple of the Bai Family, he recognized at once that it was no Secret Realm, but a blessed land recorded in the Family Secret Manual. He immediately stabbed the collateral Ye Family disciple in the back, then reported the matter to the Bai Family high-level.]

[What he did not know was that the collateral disciple carried a life plaque given to him by his parents. The instant the life plaque lost its signs of life, his parents reported the matter to the Ye Family Deacon Hall. The person responsible for this incident happened to be a powerful Martial Artist from the Ye Family Direct Lineage. Using the location conveyed by the life plaque, he investigated the area and only then secretly uncovered this small blessed land, discovering that several Bai Family disciples had already arrived there.]

[The Ye Family Elders had gathered all of the Ye Family's geniuses this time precisely to prevent any unforeseen accidents.]

[The Ye Family high-level had already joined forces with the Lin Family and planned to eradicate the Bai Family together. The Bai Family did not know that the Ye Family had learned of the blessed land.]

[The reason they had brought in the Lin Family was not merely because the Lin Family and Ye Family were close. It was also because the Lin Family high-level had told the Ye Family long ago that they wanted to join hands with them to destroy the Bai Family. The Bai Family and Lin Family shared a deep-seated blood feud, but the Ye Family had not agreed before.]

[Learning of this, you were deeply worried for the family. You knew that although the Bai Family was weaker than the Lin and Ye Families, it was by no means weak. You could only hope that no unexpected change would arise. Yet you also understood that this blessed land might be the family's chance to soar into the heavens and rise into the ranks of a Renowned Family. The Ye Family could not possibly abandon this blessed land. Even some losses would be worth the cost.]

[Half a month after you and the Ye Family's geniuses had remained in the room, the Elders told you that the Ye Family had won. Investigations had also revealed that this small blessed land allowed those below the Earth Origin Realm to enter. It could increase cultivation speed by between fifty percent and one and a half times.]

[This blessed land was not large. The Ye Family named it the Fengyuan Small Blessed Land, and it could accommodate fifty people cultivating within it. The most precious area was the inner region, where cultivation speed could be increased by one and a half times and five people could cultivate. The second-tier area could accommodate fifteen people, while the outermost area could accommodate thirty people and increased cultivation speed by fifty percent.]

[Before long, you and the others were brought to this blessed land by the Ye Family Elder responsible for the matter. You were assigned to cultivate in the outermost area.]

[...]

[Four months later, while practicing the Mayfly Step Slash, you heard an enormous explosion. You and the others in the blessed land left it to investigate. The moment everyone emerged, a Blade Light severed their heads. You died.]