At 20, you drank Inferior Purple Light Dew to aid your cultivation before the guards arrived. This spared you a beating, and, due to special circumstances, you broke through to Apprentice Rank, Sixth Stage.
Although your absorption rate fell short of Supervisor Hua Chuan's expectations, and your sudden breakthrough made him somewhat suspicious, his fear of the Thousand Leaf Planet's owners and his attitude of not wanting to get involved put an end to any thoughts of investigating.
You cultivated.
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Your cultivation progressed at an extremely slow pace.
At 21, even after using up the remaining Inferior Purple Light Dew, you only managed to break through by one stage.
Hua Chuan was very disappointed.
You were given a beating.
You were given a bottle of Inferior Purple Light Dew, and Hua Chuan set you a target: you had to break through to Planetary Rank within one year.
At 22, with the help of Inferior Purple Light Dew, your cultivation speed increased dramatically, but you still fell just short of breaking through to Apprentice Rank, Eighth Stage.
Hua Chuan gave you a thorough examination.
Looking at the results, which showed no problems at all, Hua Chuan couldn't help but begin to doubt the surveillance footage.
At 23, you were relabeled as an ordinary slave.
You were sent back to Thousand Tree District. Although your potential had been greatly overestimated, Hua Chuan and the others still believed you could break through to Planetary Rank, which would help them recoup some of their losses.
At 24, you broke through to Apprentice Rank, Eighth Stage.
By then, you understood why you still hadn't been implanted with a Slave Chip. On Thousand Leaf Planet, only those who reached Apprentice Rank, Ninth Stage were implanted with one.
At 25, you cultivated.
At 26, you cultivated.
At 30, you had been stuck at the bottleneck of Apprentice Rank, Ninth Stage for five years. You vaguely noticed that several people in Thousand Tree District seemed to be suppressing their realms. They were at Apprentice Rank, Eighth Stage, and every so often they gathered to discuss something. You went over to talk to them.
You were rejected.
Your story was well known in Thousand Tree District, and since you had been to the Central High Tower, they had always been wary of you.
At 31, your suspicions were correct. That day, sixteen people at Apprentice Rank, Eighth Stage broke through at the same time. They were all taken to the Central High Tower to be implanted with Slave Chips.
You sensed something was wrong, but you were too weak to do anything about it.
That day, countless emerald-green vines shot skyward from the area where those people had lived, wrapping around the Central High Tower at incredible speed.
The revolt began.
You yearned for freedom and resolutely chose to join the rebels. You knew full well that even if you helped the authorities put down the revolt, you would still be a slave.
You were slain by a Planetary Rank guard.
In the end, you realized that the people of Thousand Leaf Planet had been enslaved for too long. Many residents had developed a slave mentality and chose to hide instead of joining the revolt.
You died.
This simulation has ended.
"No wonder."
Han Han had been wondering why he hadn't been implanted with a Slave Chip. So they had to wait until he broke through to Apprentice Rank, Ninth Stage. "That's good, at least I don't have to worry about my life before then."
Then there was the revolt.
The simulation had gone more or less as he'd expected. This time, however, because he'd reached Apprentice Rank, Eighth Stage, he had avoided being taken away for breeding.
"Based on the simulation, to take part in the revolt, I need to be able to break through to Apprentice Rank, Ninth Stage at any moment. I'll have to reach Apprentice Rank, Eighth Stage by the time I'm at least twenty-eight to have a chance," Han Han thought.
"I'm currently at Apprentice Rank, Sixth Stage."
"I can't stay here. In the next two years, I can reach Apprentice Rank, Seventh Stage at most. Then I'll have to be sent back to Thousand Tree District."
That wouldn't be difficult.
He only had to avoid choosing a realm in the simulation and follow the course of events. He'd be sent back, though the guards would beat him along the way.
But if he wanted to take part in the revolt, returning to Thousand Tree District was the most crucial step.
The people of Thousand Leaf Planet had simply been enslaved for too long.
With the help of a Plant Lifeform, the revolt would surely succeed if the people of Thousand Leaf Planet rose up to fight. But Han Han hadn't survived to the end of either simulation, so he couldn't tell whether they had succeeded.
"This time, I won't choose cultivation."
Han Han looked at the final evaluation and options.
[Evaluation: A-82] [The you in the simulation were thoroughly unremarkable. Even with enough resources, you couldn't improve quickly. Still, if you hadn't been unlucky and been suppressed, you might have had a chance to escape.] [Choose one of the following options] [One: Apprentice Rank, Eighth Stage] [Two: Inferior Purple Light Dew x2] [Three: 11 years of combat experience]
"Three."
Han Han might have gone from an ordinary person to Apprentice Rank, Sixth Stage in just a few days, but he had almost no combat experience. In a real fight, he was probably only a little stronger than someone at Apprentice Rank, Fifth Stage.
Only with both a strong realm and experience could he bring his full strength to bear.
As for Inferior Purple Light Dew... he'd have plenty of opportunities later. At least for now, it would probably appear in every simulation.
[Reward issued]
Experience was intangible, so he didn't need to worry about Hua Chuan noticing anything unusual.
But Han Han had clearly overestimated those eleven years of combat experience. Though it was called eleven years' worth, ninety percent of it came from the final battle before his death.
"Little by little, it'll add up." Han Han wasn't discouraged.
With a simulation every three days, he could run more than 1,200 simulations before the revolt began. Even if he used 200 of them to choose combat experience, he'd still gain a great deal.
Next,
Han Han began cultivating on his own, just as he had in the simulation.
The results spoke for themselves. After a year, he successfully reached Apprentice Rank, Seventh Stage through his own efforts, then got beaten and received a second bottle of Inferior Purple Light Dew.
In fact,
he ran 118 simulations that year. Thanks to fluctuations in the evaluations, he obtained a full 100 bottles of Inferior Purple Light Dew.
The system had said the stuff would damage his life force, so he definitely couldn't overuse it. But at the Central High Tower, he didn't dare take it out to drink anyway.
Besides,
he chose combat experience more than twenty times, though he gained only a little from taking part in the revolt each time.
Among those 118 simulations, one gave him an especially large amount of combat experience. It also offered the richest rewards he'd ever seen.
That was the ninety-ninth simulation.
By a stroke of luck, he broke through the bottleneck of Apprentice Rank, Ninth Stage early. He was then implanted with a Slave Chip and thrown into the slave market.
Before he was sold, he underwent brutal training, brainwashing, and a whole series of other procedures.
In the end, a man at Planetary Level Nine bought him. After sixty-nine years of hard labor, he even managed to break through to Planetary Rank, First Stage.
Of course,
he was later killed while protecting that Planetary Level Nine man's escape.
That simulation received a B-34 evaluation. He could choose a Planetary Rank, First Stage realm, an Auxiliary Optical Computer, an A-1 model basic metal battle suit, or combat experience.
After hesitating for a while, Han Han chose the metal battle suit.
Choosing the realm now would cause major problems. The Auxiliary Optical Computer had little to do with the upcoming revolt, and he didn't lack combat experience yet.
Only the metal battle suit!
Who would have thought that a mere slave would be wearing a metal battle suit while taking part in a revolt? In certain situations, it might produce an unexpected effect.
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