As Zhou Yu made his choice, the simulation began.
[You were born.]
[You wailed loudly at birth. You were just an ordinary infant.]
[You discovered that you could easily understand the language spoken by those around you. You thought you had traveled back to ancient society, until you saw your father casually hurl a massive boulder several zhang into the air, while your mother carried prey that looked like a beast in one hand as she cooked. Only then did you realize something was wrong.]
[You were born into the Youcang Clan. Your parents named you Zhou Yu. You were very unaccustomed to your new name and found it rather foolish, but gradually accepted reality.]
[At the age of one, you could already run and jump. You also learned much more about this world. It was a world where immortal cultivators existed, and mortals were divided into the Houtian Realm and Xiantian Realm. The more you learned, the more certain you became that you had traveled into the world of Desolate Era.]
[Your parents were both Xiantian Lifeforms, and the clan you belonged to was immensely powerful. It was said to have a Celestial Immortal ancestor.]
[At the age of three, under the clan's arrangements, you entered the library to choose cultivation methods. Following your parents' advice, you found the relatively easy body-refining method Sun Worship Chart and the Qi Refining method Mountain and Water Origin Art, which was especially good for laying foundations. At the same time, you discovered a method called Creation Lotus Scripture. Its introduction stated that it had been created by Goddess Nuwa, the mother of the Human Race. The earliest Human Race sages had all cultivated this method before rising among the Myriad Races. However, this secret scripture was unimaginably difficult, and ordinary people found it hard to achieve anything by cultivating it.]
[You now chose: One, Sun Worship Chart. Two, Creation Lotus Scripture.]
"So this time, I traveled to the Three Realms." Zhou Yu quickly understood. Could it be that other Chaos worlds also had a Goddess Nuwa?
As for the Creation Lotus Scripture, since it had been created by Goddess Nuwa, this body-refining secret scripture should be like the Crimson Brightness Nine Heavens Diagram, capable of cultivating the purest Godfiend body. It was a true scripture that offered hope of surviving the Heavenly God Tribulation.
Its difficulty went without saying. It might even be more difficult than the Crimson Brightness Nine Heavens Diagram.
But—
"Option two." Zhou Yu chose two without hesitation.
If he wanted to become an Empyrean God, or even a True God, in the future, he had to lay a solid foundation.
At that moment, memories flooded in, and the simulation continued.
[You ultimately chose the Creation Lotus Scripture. Your parents were deeply dissatisfied when they learned of it, but since you had already made your choice, they could only support your cultivation.]
[Your soul was innately powerful. The entry stage of the Creation Lotus Scripture did not stump you. You began cultivating this body-refining method and also entered the clan school to learn combat techniques.]
[You gradually discovered that something was wrong. According to the instructor teaching you, beyond the clan lay countless vicious Great Demons. If your clan wished to survive on this land, it had to unite and continuously produce powerful experts to stand a chance against the Monster Race. For a clan with a Celestial Immortal ancestor, this was clearly somewhat unbelievable. You guessed that you might have traveled into a special major world dominated by the Monster Race.]
[Your talent was decent. Coupled with your cultivation of the Creation Lotus Scripture, as you grew older, your strength gradually became among the best of your peers.]
[At the age of ten, you reached Houtian Realm perfection, but you could not find the slightest hope of a breakthrough. At the time, you did not take it to heart.]
[At the age of twelve, you began to panic a little.]
[At the age of fifteen, quite a few peers who had once been weaker than you began breaking through to the Xiantian Realm. They completely surpassed you.]
[You felt somewhat lost. You began considering whether to give up body refining and focus all your effort on the Qi Refining Path. You now chose: One, continue persevering. Two, give up.]
"One." Zhou Yu made his choice.
[You gritted your teeth and continued persevering, searching every day for an opportunity to break through.]
[At the age of seventeen, your talent, 'Heaven Rewards Diligence,' took effect, and you broke through to the Xiantian Realm.]
[Having reached the Xiantian Realm through the Creation Lotus Scripture, you immediately became different. Your combat power was comparable to a late-stage Xiantian body refiner, while your vitality was comparable to a perfected Xiantian body refiner. Your strength left your peers far behind.]
[Your performance drew the clan's attention. Although you were somewhat older, you were still listed as a 'clan seed' and nurtured accordingly.]
[Your elevated status in the clan gave you access to more books. Filled with curiosity about this world, you began reading numerous geographical records and biographies. Before long, you were dumbfounded. You had not traveled to the Three Realms, but to the Pangu World before the Three Realms had formed. At this time, across the endless land, both the Human Race and Monster Race were immensely powerful races, and the two great factions contending for supremacy.]
[You quickly accepted the truth and continued cultivating diligently.]
[At the age of twenty-two, you reached Xiantian Realm perfection. Having cultivated the Creation Lotus Scripture, your combat power was comparable to a Purple Mansion cultivator. The clan arranged a training mission for you. You could choose to join a hunting party or venture out alone. You now chose: One, join the hunting party. Two, venture out alone.]
"This simulation is actually set in the Ancient Era?" Zhou Yu was somewhat surprised as he looked at its contents.
Although the previous simulation had taken place even earlier than this one, it had ultimately been in another Chaos world.
"I wonder what will happen if the simulation succeeds?" Zhou Yu pondered, then quickly made his choice.
He directly chose to join the "hunting party."
Going out alone might offer freedom, but without Destiny Aura, the death rate would be far too high. Zhou Yu understood clearly that what he needed to do in this simulation was to "play it safe." As long as he lived long enough and kept working hard, the talent "Heaven Rewards Diligence" would allow him to keep improving.
[You chose to join the hunting party. Your performance in the hunting party was ordinary, but you continuously devoted your efforts to the Creation Lotus Scripture. At the age of twenty-eight, you miraculously broke through to the Purple Mansion Realm.]
[This breakthrough made the clan value you even more. You were the only person in the clan in nearly a thousand years to cultivate the Creation Lotus Scripture to the Purple Mansion Realm.]
[You continued training with the hunting party. At the age of thirty-eight, you reached Purple Mansion perfection, but the threshold from Purple Mansion to the Wanxiang Realm firmly blocked your path.]
[At the age of thirty-nine, you encountered a beautiful woman by chance in the clan. Your heart stirred.]
[At the age of forty-two, you married. You began to feel satisfied with your current life, but you did not immerse yourself in it and still cultivated tirelessly every day.]
[However, breaking through from Purple Mansion to the Wanxiang Realm was even harder than you had imagined. At the age of forty-eight, you failed to break through.]
[At the age of fifty-eight, you still failed to break through.]
[Once again, you doubted whether you could continue walking this path. You wanted to give up and focus on the Qi Refining Path. You now chose: One, continue persevering. Two, give up.]
"Looks like I really have no talent for Fiendgod Body Refining." Zhou Yu sighed inwardly. Back then, he had initially cultivated both Fiendgod Body Refining and Qi Refining, but later gave up the path of Fiendgod Body Refining.
If he could not break through, then he could not break through. Struggling was useless.
Of course, this time was different. Zhou Yu naturally chose to "continue persevering."
[You chose to continue persevering.]
[Heaven Rewards Diligence. At the age of seventy-two, you finally broke through the bottleneck and reached the Wanxiang Realm through the Creation Lotus Scripture.]
[At the age of eighty-five, you reached Perfected Wanxiang. Your strength was already comparable to that of many Primordial Spirit Daoists, and you began leading a hunting party on your own.]
[With your help, your parents and wife all successfully broke through to the Wanxiang Realm on the Qi Refining Path. Your family lived happily together.]
[At the age of one hundred, you still failed to break through to the Primordial Spirit Realm. By then, you no longer found it strange. You understood that breakthroughs would not come so easily.]
[That same year, an accident occurred. You led the hunting party out to hunt, but when you returned, the clan had become a field of ruins. Like a madman, you searched for your parents and wife, but you could no longer find any trace of them.]
[Two Celestial Immortals soon arrived. They told you this had been a planned attack. Three Monster Race demon immortals had acted. After the ancestor of your clan fell, the clan was also annihilated by the Monster Race army.]
[You were grief-stricken, your hatred soaring to the heavens. You swore to avenge your family and clan.]
[At this time, one of the Celestial Immortals told you that if you wanted revenge, you could go to Yao Emperor City in the north. The Yao Emperor was a newly risen great power of the Human Race and was recruiting extensively to form an army. However, to join Yao Emperor's Army, one had to be at least a Void-Returning Earth Immortal on the Qi Refining Path or a Primordial Spirit God and Devil on the body-refining path. Your strength was clearly still insufficient.]
[After thanking the two immortals, you left with the surviving clansmen from the hunting party.]
[At the age of one hundred and eight, you rebuilt the clan ten thousand li away. The clan was small and weak. On this land, you could only carefully lead your clansmen in their difficult struggle for survival.]
[At the age of one hundred and fifty, after cultivating day and night, you finally broke through to the Primordial Spirit Realm. You longed to head north, but you did not. You understood that your clan still needed you.]
[At the age of one hundred and eighty-six, you reached Primordial Spirit perfection.]
[At the age of three hundred, you faced your first of the Three Calamities. You passed through it with ease.]
[At the age of three hundred and five, a genius emerged from your clan. You were delighted and did everything you could to nurture him.]
[By the age of five hundred, that genius had become a Void-Returning Earth Immortal and possessed an extremely high realm of Dao comprehension. In terms of strength, he had already surpassed you. You now chose: One, hand the clan over to him and head north. Two, remain in the clan.]
"Looks like the Human Race's circumstances at this time were far worse than they are now." Combining the simulation's contents with certain legends passed down in the Three Realms, Zhou Yu roughly understood.
In the Pangu World of that time, although the Human Race had the Three Sovereigns, the Three Sovereigns might not have possessed their current strength. Among the Five Emperors, the Yao Emperor had only just risen to prominence and was clearly much weaker.
And the Monster Race? It was actually an alliance of the Myriad Races! There might even have been Innate Elder Gods among them. Their strength was naturally terrifying enough to contend with the Human Race on equal terms.
"However, this choice..." Zhou Yu fell into deep thought.
This situation was very similar to the previous simulation, when he had gone to the Sea of Chaos Lightning. If his simulated self had been powerful enough now, Zhou Yu might not even have been given a choice. That self would have gone directly on his own.
But his simulated self was clearly not strong enough, so whether to go or not was still decided by Zhou Yu himself.
"Go." Zhou Yu quickly made his decision.
Joining Yao Emperor's Army was indeed dangerous, but would staying in the clan be safe? This era was clearly unstable. Even a clan protected by a Celestial Immortal ancestor could be wiped out just like that, much less a clan that now had only a Primordial Spirit God and Devil and a Void-Returning Earth Immortal.
More importantly, cultivating the Dao was also cultivating the heart.
Continuing to remain in the clan might not necessarily be a good thing for his simulated self.
"Heaven Rewards Diligence" was useful, but it was not omnipotent. Zhou Yu had already discovered that the greater the bottleneck, the longer it took to break through it using "Heaven Rewards Diligence."
Without undergoing tribulation, one's lifespan was ultimately limited. By then, there might not be enough time for "Heaven Rewards Diligence" to work, so he chose to head to "Yao Emperor City"!
As Zhou Yu made his choice, the memories of his simulated self flooded into him all at once.
Feeling the emotions contained within those memories, Zhou Yu became even more certain that he had made the right choice.
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