[Current Origin Source: 255; Conversion: 2.55x]
"Five points raised it from 2.5 to 2.55. Does this multiplier refer to cultivation speed?"
After waving the maid away, Qin Wangchuan sat where he was, deep in thought. "I wonder what everyone else's cultivation speed multiplier is."
2.55x was by no means an earth-shattering number. Some Sacred Bodies with cultivation bonuses might far surpass it.
But don't forget, this was only the beginning.
As long as it could increase, it might be twofold now, but fivefold, tenfold, or even a hundredfold in the future!
"System, what is this Simulation Count?"
Before his rebirth, Qin Wangchuan had read simulation novels. He just did not know whether this Foolish System's simulations were what he thought they were.
[Once per day. Consumes Simulation Count and a certain amount of lifespan to simulate and deduce the host's future.] [After each simulation, one of the following three options may be selected for inheritance:]
1: Lifespan
2: Cultivation technique insights
3: Origin Source
[Note: As a useless host, nothing is more precious to you now than lifespan. Burn your life to grow stronger until you rise against the odds! (Burning lifespan carries risks. Please act within your means.)]
It even had a reminder in parentheses. Pretty thoughtful.
Qin Wangchuan glanced at the lifespan required on the System Interface, then suddenly let out a snort of laughter.
[First simulation. Lifespan consumed: 30 years.] [Host's remaining lifespan: 999 years.]
It was true that a useless physique had to burn lifespan, but did it really think he was useless?
How could a Longevity Immortal Body have a mere 999 years of lifespan?
Even a single drop of his blood could extend a Lower Realm cultivator's life by a thousand years.
Of course, that was only if they could withstand it.
Clearly, this broken system could only display three digits at most.
"I have no use for lifespan. Origin Source is quite nice, and cultivation technique insights would also be good if they're Imperial-tier."
Qin Wangchuan did not rush to celebrate.
This broken system reeked of strangeness at every turn. Call it trash, and it could reward Origin Source.
Call it powerful, and it had obviously bound itself to the wrong person while still refusing to admit it.
"With my physique, becoming an Immortal Emperor is a sure thing. I just wonder whether I can reach beyond the Immortal Emperor."
Time waited for no one. He immediately chose to begin the simulation.
[Simulation begins.] [Year 0]
You were born in Qixia Town, an unremarkable small town at the edge of the Qin Clan's sphere of influence within the Ten Directions Immortal Court.
On the night of your birth, the heavenly signs stirred faintly, and five infants were born in the town at once: ? The blacksmith's twins ? The grain shop owner's youngest son ? The beggar woman's daughter ? The madwoman's daughter (you)
[Year 1]
You were born blind.
The midwife named you Ye Jianwei on behalf of your deranged mother.
[Simulation paused.]
Qin Wangchuan said, "Hold on?! System! Who the hell is this?"
[It is the host.]
???
After a long silence, he pointed at [Ye Jianwei] on the Light Screen and demanded, "Read these three characters properly. What do they say?"
[The system has no authority to inspect the simulation contents.]
Qin Wangchuan said, "This isn't me at all! It's someone named Ye Jianwei!"
Her name had three characters, and mine also had three characters, so I = her.
Perfectly logical!
System, you really have something seriously wrong with you!
Taking a deep breath, he wanted to see just how absurd this broken system could get.
[Simulation continues.] [Year 2]
You had already developed consciousness. Though you could not see, you were exceptionally sensitive to spiritual energy.
Whenever her madness cleared on occasion, your mother would hold you and mutter, "To see the subtle is to know the manifest... to see the subtle is to know the manifest..."
[Year 3]
From what those around you said, you learned why your mother had gone mad.
She had once been a courtesan queen who sold her art but not herself. After the Ye Clan Young Master deceived her feelings and abandoned her, she became deranged and never recovered.
[Year 4]
This year, the new emperor of the Central Province Dynasty ascended the throne.
You cared for your deranged mother while helping the neighbors with work to support the household, dreaming of earning enough to trade for a house that did not leak when it rained.
[Year 5]
Your mother tried to stop a Ye Clan carriage in the street and was struck by it.
Your mother breathed her last on a rainy night.
Before she died, she suddenly regained clarity and clutched your hand, saying:
"Jianwei... you cannot survive alone. Rather than suffer in this world, it would be better to leave with me."
Though you wanted to leave with your mother, you could not simply let her corpse lie exposed in the wilderness.
You tried to sell yourself to bury your mother, but no one would buy you because you were blind.
Just as despair filled your heart, a mysterious person passed by and gave you a battered Jade Slip, saying faintly:
"Some things cannot be obtained through charity, blind girl. Learn the zither."
—You obtained a broken zither and a fragment of the Nine Heavens Zither Emperor Sutra.
[Year 6]
You began cultivating.
Following the method within the Imperial Sutra, you successfully entered the First Realm: the Five Extremes Realm.
[Year 7]
Qixia Town was attacked by Demonic Beasts.
The blacksmith's twins were swallowed alive.
The grain shop owner's youngest son was rescued by Qin Clan cultivators.
The beggar woman's daughter vanished.
Because you heard the disturbance early and hid, you survived by a stroke of luck.
[Year 8]
You advanced step by step and broke through to the Second Realm.
At this point, you discovered that your hearing had grown increasingly keen. You could even hear mice walking inside their holes.
[Year 9]
During the rebuilding of Qixia Town, an inn lacked workers.
Seeing that you could play the zither, they hired you as a helper. At last, you had a place to practice.
[Year 10]
One day, while practicing a zither piece in the inn's back courtyard, you happened to overhear passing cultivators chatting:
"Have you heard? Two people from the Qin Clan have the gall to eat leopard hearts—Qin Xuan and Cao Xiangwen! They actually colluded with outsiders, stole a Secret Treasure, and defected from the Qin Clan. Now there'll be a good show!"
The great clans are all cut from the same cloth, you thought, continuing to pluck the strings.
[Simulation paused.]
"Wait, defected from the Qin Clan?" Qin Wangchuan began pondering as he looked at those lines.
"In the fourth year, the new emperor of the Central Province Dynasty took the throne. That was the year before last, which means Ye Jianwei is the same age as me. We're both five this year."
"And the defection happened when she was ten."
"Although it isn't deducing my future, I can still use it to glimpse a corner of the future and learn certain things."
By this point, Qin Wangchuan already had an idea.
Traitors definitely could not be spared, but there was no need to rush for now.
[Simulation continues.] [Year 15]
You broke through to the Third Realm, the Spirit Platform Realm. Your zither music could seize people's hearts and souls.
One day, a drunken cultivator took a fancy to your beauty and wanted to forcibly marry you. After you refused, he flew into a rage from shame and tried to attack under cover of night.
With a flick of your fingers, the zither music shattered his Divine Soul.
[Year 16]
As your zither skills grew ever more refined, you accumulated some savings.
Your once-thin body unfolded, revealing breathtaking beauty.
The number of times you were harassed increased by the day.
Your disgust for men deepened, and you began to think it was time to leave this town.
[Year 18]
On the surface, you were a blind performer.
But in truth, you had already broken through to the Fourth Realm, the Spirit Path Realm. The sound of slaughter from your zither condensed into tangible form.
[Year 19]
You infiltrated the Ye Clan and killed the Ye Clan Young Master amid his wives and concubines, avenging your mother.
At the same time, you learned that the Ye Clan of Qixia Town was merely a minor branch.
You were jointly hunted and had a bounty placed on your head by the Ye Clan's branch families.
[Year 20]
You left Qixia Town and traveled under the name "Blind Zither Master."
Because no one believed a blind person could cultivate, you successfully concealed your identity.
[Year 30]
You broke through to the Fifth Realm, the Spirit Sea Realm. Your zither music could transform into Sword Qi.
You began traveling everywhere in search of the remaining portions of the Nine Heavens Zither Emperor Sutra while evading the Ye Clan's pursuit.
That same year, you learned that the Zither Emperor Tomb had opened and resolved to go there.
[Year 55]
You broke through to the Sixth Realm.
When the Imperial Tomb opened, you saw the Ten Great Imperial Clans for the first time. The most dazzling among them was surrounded like the moon by a host of stars.
You learned his origins: he came from the Qin Clan, an Imperial Clan.
Even a powerful clan like the Ye Clan was no more than a village rustic in the eyes of an Imperial Clan.
His name—Qin Wangchuan.
"I can run into myself there?" Qin Wangchuan stroked his chin, though unfortunately, he did not know what realm he would be in by then.
[Year 56]
Qin Clan Divine Son Qin Wangchuan swept through the Imperial Tomb, seizing every opportunity within it.
But you also gained greatly—you found the complete Nine Heavens Zither Emperor Sutra.
"Divine Son? It seems quite a lot happened over those decades."
[Year 80]
You killed the Patriarch of a Ye Clan branch family, believing your grievances had finally been settled.
Stronger pursuers began hunting you down.
[Year 150]
You risked everything to break through to the Eighth Realm, killing every pursuer in one stroke.
You began cultivating in seclusion.
[Year 248]
You broke through to the Ninth Realm, and your zither arts reached great completion.
To release the loneliness that had nowhere to settle within you, you founded the Heavenly Zither Pavilion and accepted disciples far and wide.
[Year 411]
The Heavenly Zither Pavilion became a force in its own right.
You remained hidden behind the scenes. The world knew only that the Pavilion Master was a mysterious blind zither master.
[Year 1700]
You broke through to the Twelfth Realm and attempted to enter the Dao through the zither.
[Year 8650]
You broke through to the Twenty-Second Realm and attained Emperorhood.
Your zither music eternally suppressed heaven and earth. Later generations honored you as—the Zither Emperor.
"Being able to cultivate into a Great Emperor was quite rare." Qin Wangchuan nodded as he watched, but the simulation did not seem to be over yet.
[Year]
The world gradually forgot your deeds.
But when you reappeared, you had already entered the Twenty-Third Realm—the Heavenly Emperor Realm.
You became the first Heavenly Emperor in history to rise without the support of a Lineage.
[Simulation Outcome] Final achievement: Zither Heavenly Emperor (proving the Dao through the zither, sound suppressing all heavens) Survival time: Unknown Outcome: You entered the Dao through the zither and became a Zither Emperor of an era, transcending the mortal world and no longer concerning yourself with worldly affairs.
Qin Wangchuan looked at this record and remained silent for a long time.
"A Heavenly Emperor..." he murmured. "This was not something one could attain through luck alone. As the Old Ancestor said, the timing of heaven, the advantages of the land, and the harmony of people were all indispensable."
"Since we know she will become a Heavenly Emperor in the future, wouldn't taking her under our wing now make us invincible?"
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