Dead?
How had he died when he had been perfectly fine?
He had died right after breaking through to Foundation Establishment?
Suddenly, Su Ming seemed to think of something.
The Foundation Establishment Pill?
That Foundation Establishment Pill?
It was the only possibility he could think of.
Everything had been fine before. It was only after he took the Foundation Establishment Pill and broke through to Foundation Establishment that he lost consciousness.
Then, he died.
Even more suspiciously, the elder had instructed them to consume the Foundation Establishment Pills there and break through on the spot.
If it was the Foundation Establishment Pill, then other disciples who had not won the Sect Grand Competition would also buy Foundation Establishment Pills from the sect and return to break through.
But only he had died after breaking through here. So there was another possibility: the elder had set a trap here to harm them.
For the moment, he could not determine which possibility it was.
[Ding! Simulation ended. Choose one of the following rewards.] [Purple Talent: Innate Spirit Body] [Cultivation from this simulation: Qi Refining Tenth Layer] [All insights from this simulation] [One Foundation Establishment Pill!]
"I choose cultivation!"
Su Ming did not hesitate. He chose cultivation.
The Innate Spirit Body was certainly good, but it would take far too long for its effects to fully unfold. Cultivation was far more immediate.
In an instant, spiritual energy surged into his body. His cultivation soared to the Qi Refining Tenth Layer, and his bones crackled like firecrackers.
Su Ming rolled his neck, feeling the comfort spreading through every part of his body.
Two hours ago, he had still been an ant at the Qi Refining First Layer. Now, he was already a cultivation genius at the Qi Refining Tenth Layer.
A fifteen-year-old at the Qi Refining Tenth Layer was a phoenix feather and a qilin horn even in the entire Azure Cloud Sect.
After sitting cross-legged in his Cave Mansion to stabilize his cultivation, he opened his eyes an hour later.
"Start the simulation!"
[Simulation begins!] [Drawing a random talent!] [Congratulations, you have obtained Blue Talent: Innate Wisdom Root] [Innate Wisdom Root: Your comprehension has greatly improved, allowing you to comprehend cultivation methods more quickly.] [First year: After losing the Innate Spirit Body, your cultivation speed was greatly reduced. You made almost no progress.] [Fortunately, you possessed the Innate Wisdom Root. During this year, you cultivated various techniques.] [When Wang Hao came to demand spirit stones from you this year, you decisively struck and killed him.] [At the Qi Refining Tenth Layer, you were nearly unmatched among the Outer Disciples.] [You were not afraid of Wang Hao's brother coming to avenge him.] [At the end of the first year, your Fire Control Technique reached mastery!] [Second year: Your Water Control Technique reached mastery!] [This year, a mysterious man claiming to be Wang Hao's brother came to your Cave Mansion.] [At the Qi Refining Tenth Layer, you sensed that he was merely at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.] [Just as he was about to attack, you decisively struck first and killed him.] ["I thought you were so strong. You're only at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer!"] [You looked at Wang Hao's brother's corpse with a disdainful expression.] [Third year: Your Sword Control Technique reached mastery!] [This year, the Sect Grand Competition began once more. Having become an Outer Disciple, you chose not to participate.] [Because you knew there was no meaning in participating in the competition. Once you obtained a ranking, you would die.] [If you failed to obtain a ranking, you could not receive a Foundation Establishment Pill, so there was no point at all.] [Fifth year: You had cultivated nearly every technique in the Outer Sect to mastery.] [After finishing your cultivation of techniques, you took the spirit stones you had accumulated over five years and exchanged them for a Foundation Establishment Pill from the sect.] [After obtaining the Foundation Establishment Pill and returning to your Cave Mansion, you did not choose to consume it immediately.] [You knew that if you directly consumed the Foundation Establishment Pill now, the only outcome would be failure.] [Without the Innate Spirit Body, your foundation was unstable. Rashly attempting a breakthrough would never succeed.] [Sixth year: In order to obtain more spirit stones, you accepted a sect mission. The mission was to go to the Qin Kingdom in Green Prefecture and exterminate Demonic Cult disciples.] [The ten Qi Refining disciples from the Outer Sect who had signed up for the mission followed a Foundation Establishment senior brother from the inner sect to the Qin Kingdom.] [After arriving in the Qin Kingdom, under the guidance of the Foundation Establishment senior brother from the inner sect, you successfully found the Demonic Cult disciples' hideout.] [Seeing that there were only two people in the Demonic Cult hideout, you secretly breathed a sigh of relief.] [The Foundation Establishment senior brother ordered the ten of you to surround and attack the injured Foundation Establishment cultivator, while he dealt with the black-clad woman whose face was veiled in gauze.] [After receiving the order, you began attacking the injured Foundation Establishment cultivator.] [Although he was severely injured, he was still a Foundation Establishment cultivator. No matter how numerous you were, you were only in the Qi Refining Stage.] [In the end, after five Outer Disciples had died, you used the Sword Control Technique to pierce his heart in a single strike.] [Before dying, the Demonic Cult Foundation Establishment cultivator looked at you and the few Outer Disciples with pity and regret, then left behind one sentence before breathing his last.] ["Before you awaken, never establish your foundation!"] [Just as you were still immersed in his words, the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection senior brother beside you gave you an order.] ["Quick! Come kill her together!"] [You looked toward the voice and saw that the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection senior brother was covered in wounds, without a single uninjured spot on his body.] [You could not believe it. A Foundation Establishment Great Perfection senior brother had actually been beaten by a Demonic Cult disciple of the same Foundation Establishment Realm until he had no power to fight back.] [Just as you charged toward the Demonic Cult woman, she directly ignored your attacks.] [She was extremely fast. She passed straight through you and charged directly at the inner sect senior brother.] [After a single strike, the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection inner sect senior brother was already dead beyond doubt.] [Seeing this scene, all of you were shocked out of your wits. You had never expected that even the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection senior brother was no match for her.] [At that moment, you naturally chose to flee without the slightest hesitation.] [You knew that the few of you could not defeat her.] [When the other Outer Disciples saw you fleeing, they were first stunned, then immediately began scattering in every direction.] [To your surprise, the Demonic Cult woman seemed to ignore you entirely. After killing the inner sect senior brother, she did not choose to pursue you.] [You looked back and happened to meet the Demonic Cult woman's gaze. Once again, you saw pity and regret in her eyes.] [You truly could not understand why.] [They had clearly already killed their strongest Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivator, so why had she chosen to spare Qi Refining Stage cultivators like you?] [And the way those Demonic Cult disciples looked at you was strange as well.] [At that moment, you once again thought of the words spoken by the Demonic Cult disciple you had killed before his death: Before you awaken, never establish your foundation!]
"Don't establish your foundation?"
Su Ming frowned as he looked at the words spoken by the Demonic Cult disciple in the Simulator.
He had indeed died after establishing his foundation in the previous simulation, but he had deeply suspected that the Outer Sect elder had tampered with the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Now, it seemed that the truth was far more complicated than he had imagined.
Very soon, he turned his gaze back to the Simulator.
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