[You did not dare delay for even a moment and sprinted all the way back to the Azure Cloud Sect.]
[Even after returning to your Cave Mansion, you still had not recovered from the battle. It was not until night fell that you finally calmed yourself down.]
[Because the mission had failed, you did not receive any rewards.]
[You took out the Foundation Establishment Pill you had exchanged for earlier from your Storage Ring. The Devilish Dao man's words echoed uncontrollably in your mind—do not establish your foundation!]
[No matter how hard you thought, you could not figure out what he meant. In the end, you decided he had merely been trying to fool you. After all, Demonic Cultivators were people everyone wanted to beat to death.]
[Early the next morning, disciples from the Azure Cloud Sect's Law Enforcement Hall came looking for you, saying that an inner sect elder wanted to see you.]
[You knew why the elder had summoned you, but you could not resist the law enforcement disciples. Just like that, you were taken to a great hall within the inner sect.]
[The Azure Cloud Sect's Third Elder asked why, after this descent from the mountain to encircle and suppress Demonic Cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Realm, you were the only one who had returned.]
[Upon hearing the Third Elder's words, your pupils contracted sharply.]
[You clearly remembered that the Demonic Dao woman had not killed any of you yesterday. You and several other Outer Disciples had fled in different directions, yet unexpectedly, only you had returned to the Azure Cloud Sect.]
[Facing the Third Elder's questioning, you explained that your Outer Sect disciples had been assigned to besiege one Devilish Dao man, while the inner sect senior brother had fought the Demonic Dao woman alone.]
[Only after losing several disciples did you kill the Devilish Dao man. When you went back to find the inner sect senior brother, you discovered that he had already been killed.]
[Only then did you realize disaster was at hand, and you began fleeing in different directions.]
[In the end, unexpectedly, only you returned to the Azure Cloud Sect.]
[After hearing your explanation, the Third Elder closed his eyes, stroked his beard, and said, "If it was her, then that is hardly strange!"]
[At that moment, the Third Elder suddenly opened his eyes and fixed them on you. He asked whether that Demonic Dao woman had said anything strange to you.]
[Upon hearing that, you recalled the words spoken by the Devilish Dao man yesterday. But the Third Elder had asked about the Demonic Dao woman. Following the principle that less trouble was better than more, you said no.]
[The Third Elder nodded, believing your words. He told you to return and cultivate well, striving to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm as soon as possible.]
[And just as you were about to leave, he said something deeply meaningful: "Do not believe the words of Demonic Cultivators!"]
[After returning to your Cave Mansion, you immediately tossed everything that had happened recently to the back of your mind.]
[At that moment, you had only one goal: work hard to earn spirit stones, exchange for a few more Foundation Establishment Pills, and break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm as soon as possible.]
[As for what that Devilish Dao man had said, you did not believe it at all!]
[Could one not break through to Foundation Establishment? Then how had he achieved Foundation Establishment? How had so many people in the Azure Cloud Sect achieved Foundation Establishment?]
[Looking across all of Green Prefecture, the Foundation Establishment Realm was merely the beginning of cultivation.]
[Yet he had told Su Ming to give up before he had even begun. As a transmigrator, how could he possibly give up cultivating immortality?]
[In the seventh year, you kept taking low-level missions to earn spirit stones. Though you earned little, at least your life was not in danger. After your previous experience encircling and suppressing Demonic Cultivators, you understood even more deeply the importance of the Dao of lying low.]
[In the eighth year, after your unremitting efforts, you finally saved enough spirit stones and successfully exchanged for a second Foundation Establishment Pill.]
[Looking at the Foundation Establishment Pill in your hand, you secretly rejoiced: After lying low for so many years, I can finally break through to Foundation Establishment!]
[After returning to your Cave Mansion, you set up a simple Spirit Gathering Array and began preparing for your breakthrough.]
[After taking the first Foundation Establishment Pill, you began charging toward Foundation Establishment.]
[Two months later, you felt that you were still missing something in your attempt to break through to Foundation Establishment, so you took out the second Foundation Establishment Pill and swallowed it.]
[Half a year later, on this day, you felt your bottleneck loosen. In one burst of effort, you broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.]
[Just as you were still immersed in the joy of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, your vision suddenly went black!]
[You lost consciousness...]
[You died...]
[Ding! Simulation ended. Please choose one of the following rewards.]
[Great Perfection of Qi Refining cultivation!]
[Proficiency in all techniques from this simulation!]
[All experiences from this simulation!]
[Foundation Establishment Pill x1]
"What?"
"I fucking died again?"
Looking at himself dead in the Simulator, Su Ming fell into deep thought.
He could not understand how he had died. He had clearly broken through to Foundation Establishment one moment, and the next...
Wait!
Foundation Establishment?
Do not establish your foundation?
Su Ming suddenly thought of the two Demonic Cultivators he had encountered in the simulation. They had said not to break through to Foundation Establishment.
"Could it be that one really cannot break through to Foundation Establishment? Breaking through means death?"
Thinking of this, Su Ming shook his head.
"How could that be possible? If breaking through to Foundation Establishment meant death, then what were all those Foundation Establishment cultivators in the sect? Monsters?"
In the end, he turned his suspicions toward the Foundation Establishment Pills. He felt that the sect's Foundation Establishment Pills had a problem.
If there truly was something wrong with the Foundation Establishment Pills, then there was only one solution for now: either buy Foundation Establishment Pills elsewhere, such as at Wanbao Pavilion.
The second option was to refine pills himself. The Foundation Establishment Pills he refined himself would certainly have no problem.
The good news was that the materials needed to refine Foundation Establishment Pills were not difficult to gather.
The bad news was that Su Ming did not know how to refine pills.
After choosing technique proficiency, Su Ming waited an hour before beginning another simulation.
[Draw a random talent!]
[Congratulations, you have obtained an Orange Talent: Alchemy Prodigy!]
[Alchemy Prodigy: You are born with a unique understanding of alchemy and possess exceptionally high comprehension in pill refinement...]
"An Orange Talent!!!"
"And it's even Alchemy Prodigy!!!"
At that moment, Su Ming felt that the Simulator understood him too well. It knew exactly what he lacked and delivered it right to his doorstep.
[On the second day, after learning that the sect's Foundation Establishment Pills had a problem, you no longer placed your hopes on the Azure Cloud Sect.]
[At noon, seeing that you had not gone to work in the Spirit Field, Wang Hao stormed angrily into your Cave Mansion.]
[After you revealed your Great Perfection of Qi Refining cultivation, he was so frightened that he dropped to his knees on the spot and begged for mercy, offering up the spirit stones he had previously collected from you.]
[This time, you did not immediately kill Wang Hao. At your current stage, you did not want to be disturbed by too many factors. So after taking all of Wang Hao's spirit stones, you let him go.]
[Watching Wang Hao's departing back, you muttered to yourself: Once I break through to Foundation Establishment, the day of death will come for you and your brother!]
[On the third day, you used the spirit stones obtained from Wang Hao to purchase a pill furnace.]
[In the second year, you chose to keep a low profile and develop quietly, earning spirit stones through missions to buy medicinal ingredients!]
[Because the ingredients for a Foundation Establishment Pill were somewhat cheaper than the pill itself, you gathered a full set of ingredients by the second year.]
[However, you did not immediately begin refining pills. You planned to gather another set of ingredients and refine as many Foundation Establishment Pills as possible to increase your chances of breaking through.]
[In this life, you did not have many years to solidify your foundation, so you would need more Foundation Establishment Pills.]
[In the third year, aside from cultivating, you kept doing missions. In the end, you gathered the materials for a second batch of Foundation Establishment Pills!]
[At the beginning of the fourth year, you refined two batches and produced a total of four Foundation Establishment Pills!]
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