As for the Universe Venerable option, that wasn't something a Distinguished Background could bring about, so Wu Yun ruled it out immediately.
Unless he could choose all three talents at once.
The simulation began soon after.
[You were born into a large family. Your father was a renowned powerhouse, and your body was already much stronger than it had been before you transmigrated.]
[You occasionally heard people mention that your father was the World City Lord who governed a world.]
[You were utterly confused. Looking around at your surroundings, you had no idea where you had been born.]
[You heard that this world's ranks were divided into Earth Rank, Sky Rank, Cloud Rank, Domain Rank, World Rank, and so on.]
[At last, you realized that you had been born on the Blood Luo Continent!]
Wu Yun stared dumbfounded at the Simulation Panel. His starting point was actually the Blood Luo Continent. Having a World Lord for a father certainly counted as a Distinguished Background.
[You were three years old, and your physical fitness was already close to Planetary Level. At this point, you told your parents that you wanted to cultivate.]
[The Blood Luo Continent revered the strong. Your father was delighted that you knew to cultivate at such a young age and believed you had a bright future, so he decided to teach you personally.]
[Your father found many treasures to improve your body.]
[Every day, you had to soak in a medicinal bath made from all kinds of natural treasures.]
[Physical fitness was secondary; combat skills were what mattered. At your father's World City, you could learn all kinds of techniques.]
[You were seven years old. You easily defeated the sparring guards your father had carefully selected. He felt that you had good talent and might one day inherit his legacy.]
[Your father stressed the importance of a solid foundation, so you didn't reach Earth Rank until you were eight.]
[At fifteen, you comprehended a domain, delighting your father even more. To possess your own domain while still at Earth Rank made you a rare prodigy.]
[You heard your father say that there were wicked Outer-World Race members in this world. If you encountered them, you had to do everything in your power to kill them.]
[Since your father was willing to spend vast resources on your cultivation, you could devote nearly all your time to training instead of absorbing energy from the world.]
[At twenty-nine, you broke through to Sky Rank. By then, you felt that cultivation was getting harder. You had always measured yourself against the standards of the universe's geniuses, and it left you utterly exhausted.]
[At thirty-nine, your father still had you rely entirely on energy liquid to reach the peak of Sky Rank. You chose to remain at this stage and continue your comprehension.]
[You had originally held yourself to the standard of ranking among the top thousand in the universe. Now you lowered your sights and aimed to rank among the top thousand in the Ganwu Universe Kingdom.]
[At forty-two, you heard your father say that he had killed a Cloud Rank cultivator who had descended from the Outer-World Race.]
[The Blood Luo Continent was vast and endless. You felt that staying in the world your father governed was boring, so you chose A: leave to gain experience; B: have your father arrange for a subordinate to take you on a tour.]
Wu Yun knew that it was difficult to make progress without life-and-death trials.
A comfortable cultivation environment made people stagnate. Even his Desolate Era World clone had experienced many life-and-death adventures, so Wu Yun chose A.
[Sky Rank wasn't weak on the Blood Luo Continent. After giving you some instructions, your father let you leave the world he governed.]
[You spent a long time traveling to many places. You met all kinds of cultivators and even fought people in arena matches inside the cities.]
[At fifty-seven, you encountered a peak Cloud Rank powerhouse who tried to rob and kill you, but he was killed by the Shadow Guard your father had assigned to protect you.]
[At sixty, you finally came to understand just how monstrous the universe's supreme geniuses were. Reaching such heights at Star Level was incredibly difficult.]
Wu Yun couldn't do much about this result. If he measured himself against protagonists or peerless prodigies of his generation, the odds of failure were indeed high.
The talent he had received in this Swallowed Star World simulation was still a little worse than the one in Desolate Era. In the Immortal Fate Assembly, Wu Yun had made it into the top fifty and been accepted as a disciple by a Heavenly Immortal elder.
Talent wasn't set in stone. Different experiences growing up and different methods of cultivation could all have an effect.
[At sixty-one, you reached Cloud Rank.]
[Your father couldn't afford to have you absorb energy liquid at Cloud Rank.]
[Your father began having you absorb Blood Luo Crystals. He wanted you to join the Immortal Temple after you became stronger.]
The Blood Luo Continent had no Virtual Universe, so many geniuses missed their best period for cultivation. Thanks to his privileged background, Wu Yun didn't have to worry about that.
[At seventy-three, your father took you across countless worlds to the Immortal Temple for its test. He told you that if you got in, you would have a chance to become an Immortal God in the future.]
[The test was incredibly difficult. You failed.]
Wu Yun thought that it was a good thing he hadn't chosen to become an Immortal God. With the talent he had in this simulation, he would probably be lucky to reach World Lord even if he had another ten million years.
[You were deeply discouraged, feeling that you had let down your father's efforts and your identity as a transmigrator. After returning to World City, you spent your days drinking and carousing.]
Wu Yun wondered if his mentality really was that poor.
[Your spirits remained low for two whole years. Then you picked yourself up and worked even harder at cultivation so you could inherit your father's legacy.]
[After nearly a hundred years on the Blood Luo Continent, you stopped setting your sights too high and began cultivating one step at a time.]
[At one hundred and seven, the World City Lord from the neighboring world brought his daughter to visit you and hinted that he wanted to arrange a marriage alliance with your father.]
[You chose A: accept; B: refuse.]
Wu Yun chose to accept. Having another World Lord as his father-in-law wouldn't be bad.
[At one hundred and eight, you married. Many important figures came to offer their congratulations, including more than a dozen World City Lords.]
[At one hundred and ten, you diligently cultivated.]
[At one hundred and thirty-eight, you felt that you were on the verge of a breakthrough.]
[At one hundred and sixty-seven, you reached the threshold of the Law of Water.]
Actually, reaching the threshold of a law at Universe-Level was already impressive across the universe. It was just that Wu Yun had always measured himself by the standards of the Genius Battle.
Many of the Universe-Level cultivators trained by the Immortal Temple on the Blood Luo Continent had only just reached the law threshold.
[You didn't tell anyone. Instead, you quietly broke through to Domain Rank and successfully fused the Blood Luo Crystal your father had given you earlier.]
[After coming to your senses, your willpower improved, greatly aiding your cultivation.]
[After a thousand years, your cultivation had reached a level comparable to that of many World Lords.]
[You were also very close to gaining recognition from an Origin Law.]
[You were selected by the Immortal Temple and successfully joined. An Immortal God became your teacher and gave you lectures, and you were supplied with vast resources.]
[Your cultivation was extremely high, and you had reached the peak of Domain Rank. Now you chose A: break through to World Lord; B: continue accumulating strength.]
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