Seeking an Audience, a Way to Break the Deadlock!

[In the third month of the second year, you cultivate diligently.]

[In the fourth month of the second year, your mother brings you another bottle of Yellow Grade Mid Rank Qi Gathering Pills, containing five pills as before.]

[You express your gratitude. Your mother strokes your head and sighs with emotion, "Qi'er has grown up... your cultivation level is almost catching up to your mother's."]

[You feel a sudden pang in your heart as you recall the image of your parents dying before your eyes in your previous life, and you nod firmly.]

[You tell yourself deep down, "I must become stronger!"]

[You are well aware that the spiritual herbs required for Yellow Grade Mid Rank Qi Gathering Pills were all purchased with spirit stones scraped together by your parents. In one year, fifteen Yellow Grade Mid Rank Qi Gathering Pills—surely, even the clan elders would not receive such treatment.]

[You catch a glimpse of the gray hairs at your mother's temples, and your heart aches uncontrollably.]

[You realize your mother must have been overworking herself, squeezing out time to refine pills for you.]

[After your mother leaves, you cultivate even more arduously.]

[In the fifth month of the second year, you successfully break through the bottleneck of the fifth layer.]

[Three months later, your mother brings you another bottle of Yellow Grade Mid Rank Qi Gathering Pills.]

[In the ninth month of the second year, you attempt to break through the bottleneck three times, but fail each time.]

[You feel somewhat dejected, even depressed.]

[In the tenth month of the second year, during a rare meal with your parents, you learn that your grandfather has discovered a secret realm and is preparing to head there.]

[Possessing memories of your previous life, you quickly realize that this trip to the secret realm is likely the cause of your grandfather returning severely wounded.]

[You propose to your parents that you wish to see your grandfather.]

[Your father asks you for the reason.]

[You confess that you had a dream, a dream that in three years, your grandfather would return severely wounded, and the Wang Family would take advantage of the chaos to invade Muye Mountain!]

[Your father hesitates for a moment, but ultimately chooses to believe your words.]

[He says he will personally take you to see your grandfather tomorrow.]

"Is it finally happening!" Mu Xingqi, sitting cross-legged in front of his bed in reality, exclaims aloud.

In truth, after the third simulation, when he learned that his grandfather was going to a secret realm around the tenth month of the second year, he had wanted to prevent the clan's destruction by meeting him.

However, the version of himself in the simulation lacked his previous memories, meaning he did not know about the catastrophe that would occur three years later.

Thus, he had once thought this path was impossible and abandoned the idea.

He never expected it to be triggered in this simulation; he owed it all to the "Simulated Memory" talent!

"Perhaps this time, there's a chance!"

Mu Xingqi's eyes glow with excitement as he continues to watch the Simulator screen.

[The next day, your father personally takes you to your grandfather's secluded cultivation cave.]

[Arriving before the stone gate of the cave, your father wears a solemn expression; it is the first time you have seen him so dignified.]

[Your father calls out, "Father, your son Sheng Tian requests an audience!"]

[After a moment, the stone gate of the cave slowly opens.]

[A voice that sounds slightly aged, yet filled with authority, rings out: "Come in!"]

[You only see pitch-black darkness within the cave, as bottomless as an abyss.]

[Your father takes your hand and steps into the cave.]

[Once inside, you discover that the cave is not as dark as night, but rather as bright as day.]

[You suspect that a concealment array might be set up outside the cave.]

[You marvel at the wonders of the cultivation world.]

[The interior of the cave is spacious. After walking through a passage with your father, you arrive at the secret chamber.]

[Inside the chamber, your grandfather sits cross-legged in the center, as still as a statue.]

[This is the first time you have seen your grandfather. Perhaps you saw him when you were very young, but you have long since forgotten those memories.]

[You are only about thirteen years old now. For a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Realm like your grandfather, a single attempt to break through a bottleneck could take over a decade.]

[Your grandfather has a resolute face with silver-gray hair at his temples and a scar running from the corner of his left eye to his mouth, highlighting his extraordinary and unyielding nature.]

[Your father bows and says, "Father!" He then gives you a look, and you understand, following suit: "Grandfather!"]

[Your grandfather opens his eyes. Just a trace of the spiritual pressure leaking out makes you alert, and you sigh inwardly, "Is this the power of a Foundation Establishment expert? Truly terrifying!"]

[Your grandfather first looks at your father, nodding coldly, then turns his gaze to you, asking curiously, "Is this little brat my good grandson? Is his name Mu Xingqi?"]

[Your father nods.]

[Your grandfather smiles, stands up, comes to your side, strokes your head, and says quietly, "Good grandson, your grandfather has been in seclusion for over a decade and hasn't had time to prepare anything for you. This spirit pill is something I obtained many years ago; take it as a gift for our first meeting."]

[You have obtained a Yellow Grade High Rank Spirit Replenishing Pill!]

"An unexpected harvest?" Mu Xingqi exclaims.

He never expected his grandfather to give him such a generous gift right away.

"A Yellow Grade High Rank pill!"

This is the first time he has encountered a Yellow Grade High Rank pill in the simulation, and it is a Spirit Replenishing Pill he has never even heard of.

"I wonder, what is the effect of this Spirit Replenishing Pill?"

[You express your gratitude to your grandfather.]

[After chatting for a while, your grandfather looks at your father and says, "Sheng Tian, why did you bring my good grandson to see me? I don't believe you just brought him here for a simple visit."]

[Your father explains with a serious expression that you dreamed of your grandfather returning severely wounded in a year, followed by the Wang Family attacking Muye Mountain.]

[He bluntly suggests that the old man should not go to the secret realm, fearing it is walking into a trap.]

[Your grandfather looks at your father, then turns his gaze to you.]

[He asks, "Sheng Tian, a mere dream wouldn't be enough to convince you."]

[Your father naturally understands the implication and, holding your hand, says with a hint of pride, "Father, why don't you check Qi'er's cultivation level?"]

[Your grandfather had not intentionally probed your cultivation level before.]

[After all, in his eyes, you are only about thirteen or fourteen years old. How high could the cultivation of a child who just awakened his spirit root be?]

[Your grandfather does not know what your father is up to. Though puzzled, he decisively gathers his spiritual power and looks at you.]

[This look is enough to nearly make your grandfather's jaw drop.]

["What!? Qi Refining Sixth Layer? And you're not far from the Seventh Layer!"]

["My goodness, what kind of monster is my grandson? I see his bone age is only thirteen, which means he only awakened his spirit root a little over a year ago?"]

[Your grandfather was the top genius of the clan in his youth, but even he had only just broken through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining a year after awakening his spirit root.]

[And you, you are already at the Sixth Layer. How could he not be shocked?]

[You scratch your head and smile. Only you know how much "water" is in your cultivation level.]

[You don't know why your cultivation reached the Sixth Layer after you woke up from that nightmare a year ago.]

[Could it be because you were reborn? You are somewhat confused.]

"..."

"That's obviously because I've been boosting it through simulation after simulation! What other reason could there be!" Mu Xingqi mutters in reality.

Of course, the version of him in the simulation knows nothing about this.

Simulation Panel...