Su Ming could not help but let out a long sigh when he saw this.
"Alas! Dead again!"
He now understood why Ye Chuxue would choose to betray the sect six years later rather than continue lying low in the Azure Cloud Sect.
That Sky-Piercing Spirit Treasure Pagoda was purely a divine tool for screening, checking every ten years whether there were any awakened humans within the sect.
Its purpose was to completely prevent the tragedy of ancient times from happening again!
"Looks like I can't stay in the Azure Cloud Sect for long. The Outer Disciples are nothing more than substitutes cultivated by the Azure Cloud Sect."
After weighing it over again and again, Su Ming ultimately chose Young Supreme Being.
This talent was far too useful. It was no longer something that a mere Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation could compare to.
An hour later, Su Ming opened the simulation once more.
[Simulation begins!] [Drawing a random talent!] [Congratulations, you have obtained the Purple Talent: I Want It All!] [I Want It All: There are no multiple-choice questions in an adult's world. Only children make choices—I choose to have it all!]
"Uh... what kind of bizarre talent is this?"
Su Ming found the talent he had drawn both laughable and exasperating.
[Year One: After learning that reaching the Extreme Realm of Qi Refining to suppress the Sinister Worm was a viable method, you decided to refine pills in large quantities in exchange for spirit stones.] [Year Two: Through an entire year of pill refinement, you earned a vast fortune.] [You began using spirit stones without restraint. With the results of your previous successful breakthrough, you threw yourself wholeheartedly into cultivation.] [This year, you broke through to the Qi Refining Eleventh Layer.] [In Year Three, you successfully broke through to the Qi Refining Twelfth Layer.] [In Year Four, you successfully broke through to the extreme realm of the Qi Refining Stage.] [This year, you did not rush to break through. Instead, following the timing in your memories, you specifically chose a night of the full moon to head to the Back Mountain for your breakthrough.] [Your main purpose in doing this was to let Ye Chuxue see with her own eyes that you had awakened, saving you the trouble of explaining anything later.] [At night, you arrived at a cliff on the Back Mountain and began preparing for your breakthrough.] [After swallowing two Foundation Establishment Pills, you soon showed signs of breaking through.] [An hour later, you successfully broke through to Foundation Establishment, and the Heavenly Tribulation arrived right on cue.] [Just as you were preparing to undergo the tribulation, Ye Chuxue happened to arrive as well.] [When she discovered that you were undergoing a tribulation, her eyes filled with shock.] [She was curious—why had you, who had only just broken through to Foundation Establishment, drawn a Heavenly Tribulation?] [You soon completed the tribulation, standing at the edge of the cliff with your flesh torn and bloodied.] [Immediately afterward, the aura around you became chaotic. Seeing this, Ye Chuxue in the distance knew that the Sinister Worm within your body had begun devouring your Primordial Spirit.] [Having prepared in advance, you did not directly use your Primordial Spirit to suppress the Sinister Worm this time. Instead, you directly mobilized the True Meaning of Heavenly Thunder within your Sea of Consciousness.] [The moment the True Meaning of Heavenly Thunder emerged, the Sinister Worm was suppressed in an instant. At the same time, you spat out a mouthful of blood.] [At this moment, Ye Chuxue suddenly came to your side and placed a pill in your mouth.] [The pill melted as soon as it entered your mouth, and you soon felt your aura slowly recovering.] ["Thank you!"] [Ye Chuxue did not say much in response to your thanks. Instead, she directly brought you into her Cave Mansion.] [After setting up a soundproof formation, Ye Chuxue said to you.] ["You awakened!"] [You nodded without saying much, your expression unchanged.] ["From the look of you, it seems you already knew. You're not surprised at all?"] [Seeing this, you briefly explained to Ye Chuxue that when you were in the Qi Refining Stage, you had dreamed that you would die upon reaching Foundation Establishment, which was why you were not surprised.] ["How did you do it? Your Spiritual Root is so mixed. By all reason, it should have been impossible for you to suppress the Sinister Worm."] [Ye Chuxue believed what you said, but she was also curious about how you had managed it.] ["You should know that even a cultivator with a high-grade single Spiritual Root like me cannot suppress the Sinister Worm without relying on a Special Physique!"] [You then told her how, after breaking through to the Extreme Realm of Qi Refining and becoming a Third-grade Alchemist, you had used Soul Power to forcibly suppress the Sinister Worm.] [Ye Chuxue was greatly shocked after hearing your method.] [She had not expected you to succeed through such a method, one that was almost impossible to accomplish.] [In her eyes, the Extreme Realm of Qi Refining had always been a matter of legend. It had only appeared in distant antiquity and had never appeared again from ancient times until now.] [What you said next shocked Ye Chuxue once more.] [You asked her when she planned to flee the Azure Cloud Sect.] [Ye Chuxue did not understand how you knew about this. In her eyes, you had only just awakened and should not have known anything.] ["Two years from now. Two years from now will be the Azure Cloud Sect's once-in-a-decade Enlightenment Convention."] [Ye Chuxue then told you the truth about the Enlightenment Convention. It was a trap specifically set for Awakened Ones.] [Having long known the truth, you were not surprised. This time, you decided to leave with her.] ["Alright. When the time comes, I'll notify you so we can leave together!"] [After parting ways with Ye Chuxue, you returned to your Cave Mansion to cultivate.] [In Year Six, you successfully broke through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage.] [That day, Ye Chuxue came to your Cave Mansion to inform you that the Enlightenment Convention would take place next month. You had to leave tonight in advance, or you would not be able to escape once the mountain was sealed.] [Remembering how the mountain had been sealed when you descended last time, you nodded in agreement. However, before leaving, you felt that you should give the Azure Cloud Sect a farewell ceremony.] [After you told Ye Chuxue your idea, she looked at you in disbelief.] ["Su Ming, have you gone mad? This is the Azure Cloud Sect! What if we can't escape after you stir up such trouble?"] [You said there was no need to worry. You would sneak into their Cave Mansions under cover of night and kill them. As long as the commotion was kept low, there would be no problem.] [After your repeated insistence, Ye Chuxue decided to gamble with you!] [Under her guidance, you arrived at the mountain range where the Inner Sect Disciples lived.] ["Begin!"] [The slaughter continued until the latter half of the night. With only you at Foundation Establishment Late Stage and Ye Chuxue at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, you killed eighty percent of the Azure Cloud Sect's Foundation Establishment disciples that night.] [As for why you did not kill the remaining twenty percent, it was because they had somehow escaped disaster within the Azure Cloud Sect.]
"Damn! When did I become this ruthless?"
Seeing this, Su Ming somewhat doubted what had happened to the simulated version of himself to make him so bloodthirsty.
But he soon understood everything.
The ones he had killed in the Azure Cloud Sect were not humans, but Sinister Worms!
Those above Foundation Establishment who had not awakened were all Sinister Worms. Once he realized that, the weight in his heart immediately lifted.
[Early the next morning, the great bell atop Qingyun Mountain rang throughout the Azure Cloud Sect.] [For a time, all Outer Sect and Inner Sect Disciples gathered at the Azure Cloud Sect's martial arts grounds.] [The Azure Cloud Sect Master was also alarmed and emerged from seclusion ahead of schedule!]
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