[In March of the second year, you cultivated diligently.]
[In April of the second year, your mother brought you another bottle of Yellow Grade Mid Rank Qi Gathering Pill, which also contained five pills.]
[You expressed your gratitude, and your mother stroked your head, sighing, "Qi'er has grown up... your cultivation is almost catching up to your mother's."]
["Cultivate with peace of mind, Qi'er, your father and mother will take care of the resources!"]
[Thinking suddenly of the tragic sight of your parents dying before your eyes in your past life, you nodded forcefully.]
[Your inner voice told you, "I must become stronger!"]
[You naturally knew that the spiritual herbs needed for the Yellow Grade Mid Rank Qi Gathering Pill were all exchanged with spirit stones scraped together by your parents. In the span of a year, fifteen Yellow Grade Mid Rank Qi Gathering Pills—surely even the elders in the clan could do no more than this.]
[Catching sight of the white hair at your mother's temples, your heart involuntarily gave a tug.]
[You figured your mother must have deliberately carved out time to refine pills for you, leading to overwork.]
[After your mother left, you cultivated even more diligently.]
[In May of the second year, you successfully broke through the bottleneck of the fifth layer.]
[Three months later, your mother brought you another bottle of Yellow Grade Mid Rank Qi Gathering Pill.]
[In September of the second year, after trying to break through the bottleneck three times, you still did not succeed.]
[You felt somewhat lost and even depressed.]
[In October of the second year, during a rare family meal with your parents, you learned that your grandfather had discovered a secret realm and was making preparations to head there.]
[Possessing the memories of your past life, you quickly realized that this trip to the secret realm was likely the root cause of your grandfather returning heavily injured.]
[You brought up the idea of wanting to see your grandfather to your parents.]
[Your father asked you for the reason.]
[You confessed that you had a dream in which three years later, your grandfather returned heavily injured, and the Wang Family took advantage of the situation to invade Muye Mountain!]
[Your father hesitated for a moment, but ultimately chose to believe your words.]
[He said he would personally take you to see your grandfather tomorrow.]
"Has it come?!" Mu Xingqi exclaimed aloud as he sat cross-legged on the edge of the bed in reality.
In fact, after the third simulation, when he learned that his grandfather was going to a secret realm around October of the second year, he had wanted to avoid the calamity of clan extermination by meeting with his grandfather.
Yet the self in the simulation simply lacked prior memories, meaning he did not know about the calamity of clan extermination three years in the future.
Therefore, he had once thought this path would not work and subsequently dismissed the notion.
He never expected it to trigger in this current simulation, which he supposed was thanks to the simulation talent "Simulated Memory"!
"There just might be a chance this time!"
Mu Xingqi's eyes shone brightly as he continued to gaze at the simulator screen.
[The next day, your father personally brought you to your grandfather's closed-door cultivation cave dwelling.]
[Arriving before the stone door of the cave dwelling, your father wore a stern expression. It was the first time you had ever seen your father look so majestic.]
[Your father called out, "Father, your child Sheng Tian requests an audience!"]
[After a moment, the stone door of the closed-door cultivation cave dwelling slowly opened.]
[A voice that seemed somewhat aged, yet was filled with even more majesty, sounded out, "Come in!"]
[You only saw that the interior of the cave dwelling was pitch black, as bottomless as an abyss.]
[Your father took your hand and stepped inside the cave dwelling.]
[As soon as you entered, you discovered that the inside was not as dark as night as you had imagined, but was instead as bright as day.]
[You suspected that bewitching-type arrays might be laid out outside the cave dwelling.]
[You marveled at the profound wonders of the immortal cultivation world.]
[The interior of the cave dwelling was very spacious. After you and your father walked together through a passageway, you arrived at the secret chamber of the cave dwelling.]
[Inside the secret chamber, your grandfather sat cross-legged right in the center, his entire person resembling a statue.]
[This was the first time you had ever seen your grandfather. Perhaps you had also seen him when you were very young, but you likely no longer remembered things from that time.]
[You were only around thirteen years old now. For a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator like your grandfather, even a single attempt to break through a bottleneck could take ten-odd years.]
[Your grandfather had a resolute face with silver-gray sideburns, and a scar ran from the corner of his left eye to his mouth, displaying his extraordinary and unyielding nature.]
[Your father bowed and said, "Father!" Then he cast a glance at your direction, and you understood immediately, following suit by saying, "Grandfather!"]
[Your grandfather opened his eyes, and merely a shred of leaking spiritual might made you feel alarmed, prompting you to marvel inwardly, So this is a Foundation Establishment powerhouse? Truly terrifying!]
[Your grandfather first looked toward your father, nodding indifferently, and then gazed at you, asking with curiosity, "Is this brat my obedient grandson? Is his name Mu Xingqi?"]
[Your father nodded.]
[Your grandfather wore a smile, walked over to your side, stroked your head, and muttered, "Good grandson, your grandfather has been in closed-door cultivation for over ten years at a time and hasn't had the time to prepare anything for you. This spiritual pill is something I obtained many years ago, so I'll give it to you as a meeting gift."]
[You obtained the Yellow Grade High Rank Spirit Replenishing Pill!]
"An unexpected harvest too?" Mu Xingqi exclaimed.
He hadn't expected that this grandfather of his would give him such a generous gift right off the bat.
"A Yellow Grade High Rank pill!"
This was the first time he had encountered a Yellow Grade High Rank pill in a simulation, and it was even a Spirit Replenishing Pill he had never heard of before.
"I wonder what use this Spirit Replenishing Pill has?"
[You expressed your gratitude to your grandfather.]
[After exchanging pleasantries with you, your grandfather looked toward your father and said, "Sheng Tian, what is the matter that brings you and my obedient grandson to me? I certainly don't believe you merely brought my grandson here to take a look at me."]
[Your father wore a solemn expression as he explained to your grandfather about your dream in which your grandfather would return heavily injured a year later, after which the Wang Family would attack Muye Mountain.]
[He bluntly proposed that the old master should not go to the secret realm, fearing it would be walking right into the tiger's mouth.]
[Your grandfather glanced at your father, and then looked at you.]
[He asked, "Sheng Tian, a mere dream cannot sway you."]
[Naturally knowing your grandfather's subtext, your father took your hand and said with slight smugness, "Father, why don't you take a look at Qi'er's cultivation?"]
[Your grandfather had indeed not intentionally probed your cultivation earlier.]
[After all, in his view, you were only around thirteen or fourteen years old—how high could the cultivation of a brat who had just awakened his spirit root possibly be?]
[Not knowing what trick your father was playing up his sleeve and feeling somewhat puzzled, your grandfather nonetheless straightforwardly gathered spiritual power and looked toward you.]
[This look was no small matter, as it nearly shocked your grandfather's jaw right off.]
["What?! Qi Refining Sixth Layer? And it's not far from the Qi Refining Seventh Layer either!"]
["Goodness me, what kind of monster is this obedient grandson of mine? I see the child's bone age is only thirteen, which means he only awakened his spirit root a little over a year ago?!"]
[In his youth, your grandfather had also been the number one genius in the clan, but even for him, a year or so after awakening his spirit root, he had only just broken through to the mid-stage Qi Refining.]
[Yet look at you—already at the sixth layer of Qi Refining. How could this not shock him?]
[You scratched your head and smiled. Actually, only you knew how much moisture was in your cultivation.]
[You also had no idea why, after waking up from that nightmare a year ago, your entire cultivation base had reached the sixth layer of Qi Refining.]
[Could it be because of your own rebirth? You felt somewhat perplexed.]
"Of course it's because Laozi raised it bit by bit through simulations, what other reason could there be!" Mu Xingqi muttered in reality.
Naturally, the self in the simulation was completely oblivious to all this information.
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