[You found yourself unable to put down this Rusty Sword, and an inexplicable Sword Heart rose within you.]
[An uncontrollable urge to practice swordsmanship seized you.]
[You raised your sword and performed a set of the Nan Sword Art, feeling your grasp of this sword technique advance another step.]
[You practiced swordsmanship for the entire day.]
[This allowed you to successfully break through with the Nan Sword Art to the Entry Level.]
"Entry Level in one day? This was seriously a cheat!"
Mu Xingqi exclaimed in shock.
He had practiced the Nan Sword Art for an entire month, yet had never managed to reach Entry Level.
Who would have thought that in the simulation, it had taken only one day to successfully reach Entry Level?
"Is this the gap in talent? People with talent and people without it really lived in two different worlds."
Mu Xingqi was somewhat dumbfounded, but even more expectant.
"Let's see whether this simulation can turn things around."
Though the hope was slim, Mu Xingqi still stared eagerly at the Simulation Panel.
[One month later, after rigorously practicing swordsmanship, you successfully cultivated the Nan Sword Art to Minor Accomplishment.]
[Another month passed, and it was August. You spent most of your time practicing swordsmanship, but you felt that the sword art was still some distance away from Major Accomplishment.]
[You sincerely loved practicing swordsmanship; it was a fondness that came from the depths of your heart.]
[Your relationship with Mu Xinger gradually faded. You believed that with no woman in your heart, drawing your sword would make you divine!]
[That same month, your mother sent you a bottle of Yellow Grade High Rank Qi Gathering Pills.]
[In November, you successfully cultivated the Nan Sword Art to Major Accomplishment!]
[In December, the New Year arrived. You hastily ate a meal before continuing your sword practice.]
[January of the second year, practicing swordsmanship...]
[February of the second year, practicing swordsmanship...]
[That same month, the Clan Competition began.]
[You registered for the Clan Competition. Because you possessed the memories of your previous life, you knew that this competition was more than merely an internal clan contest for you—it could make you the Young Clan Leader.]
[Becoming the Young Clan Leader meant gaining more resources, which was immensely significant to your cultivation of the sword art.]
[In the first round of the Clan Competition, your opponent was a Branch Lineage disciple with only Qi Refining Third Layer cultivation. You defeated him with a single sword strike.]
[Though everyone was puzzled as to why you used a Rusty Sword, they were all conquered by your dazzling sword techniques.]
[In the second round of the Clan Competition, you encountered your Seventh Brother. At this time, he possessed only Qi Refining Sixth Layer cultivation, and he too was defeated by a single strike from you.]
[Over the next several rounds, you effortlessly defeated every opponent with just one strike.]
[This left every clan disciple utterly convinced, their admiration for you so complete that they fell prostrate in awe.]
[The clan disciples called you the "Sword Gentleman," solely because your swordsmanship was superb and you had the bearing of a refined young master.]
[You did not care much about this, for your heart held only the pursuit of swordsmanship.]
[In the Clan Competition finals, your opponent was, as expected, still your Fifth Sister.]
[Although, because you had spent so much time practicing swordsmanship, you possessed only Qi Refining Seventh Layer cultivation, the same as your Fifth Sister's current cultivation.]
[However, with the memories of your previous life, you were naturally extremely familiar with Fifth Sister. Coupled with your Nan Sword Art at Major Accomplishment.]
[You quickly defeated Fifth Sister and claimed first place!]
[You silently glanced at Fifth Sister. You did not say much, only secretly swearing in your heart that this time, you would definitely protect her well and never let her die in your arms again.]
[Fourth Elder brought you to Muye Hall.]
[Fourth Elder struck the Mu Ming Bell.]
[The six great elders and your father all arrived.]
[After listening to Fourth Elder's round of mystifying theatrics, aside from your parents and Third Elder, the remaining elders all cried out in astonishment at you.]
[Grand Elder was even more excited as he declared, "Our Lineage shall prosper greatly!"]
[You remained silent, because everything was exactly the same as in the memories of your previous life.]
[You saw your grandfather once more.]
[You received the Yellow Grade High Rank Spirit Replenishing Pill your grandfather gave you.]
[You were appointed Young Clan Leader.]
[One month later, in March of the second year, after taking the Spirit Replenishing Pill, you successfully broke through to Qi Refining Eighth Layer!]
[You continued practicing swordsmanship.]
[In June of the second year, you were still practicing swordsmanship.]
[Yet you felt that you remained just one step away from Perfected. Just one step, but that step had kept you from breaking through into the realm of Perfected.]
[You even specifically sought your grandfather's guidance, but he did not know much either, because he had never cultivated any technique to the Perfected realm.]
[You could only return in regret.]
[Time flew by. In October of the second year, you learned that your grandfather was going to a secret realm.]
[Although in the memories of your previous life, you had urged your grandfather not to enter the secret realm, the current you could not remember why you had urged him back then.]
[Therefore, you did not try to dissuade your grandfather.]
"Huh? Wait... bro?"
Mu Xingqi straightened up in the real world. "What was going on?"
Didn't he possess the memories of his previous life?
Could it be...
Mu Xingqi immediately opened the Simulation Talent slot.
[Simulated Memory (Blue): You possess the memories of the previous simulation.]
"The memories of the previous simulation..."
Could "the memories of the previous simulation" mean he only had the memories of the immediately previous simulation?
In other words, the information he had obtained in the earlier simulation was useless?
The simulated version of himself only remembered the previous simulation!
"It's over..."
"Just as I thought. That trap-ridden system wouldn't be this kindhearted."
Mu Xingqi complained speechlessly.
"Looks like there's no hope..." Mu Xingqi sighed softly and continued looking at the Simulation Panel, though he had already roughly guessed the ending of this simulation.
[That same month, your Fifth Sister came to find you and wanted you to explore a secret realm with her.]
[She had discovered that secret realm by chance. Apart from you and her, absolutely no third person knew of it.]
[You told Fifth Sister that the secret realm was certainly fraught with peril, and with only the two of you, going there would mean going and never returning.]
[You refused Fifth Sister's invitation.]
[Your Fifth Sister nodded, seeming to agree with what you said.]
[Yet you always felt that something was not right.]
[Sure enough, one month later, you discovered that Fifth Sister had disappeared!]
[You guessed that Fifth Sister had definitely gone to explore that secret realm. With the memories of your previous life, you knew how dangerous that secret realm was.]
[Unable to bear seeing Fifth Sister killed by the "Fire Cloud Evil God," you resolutely decided to chase after her.]
[You immediately descended the mountain and followed Fifth Sister according to the memories of your previous life.]
[The moment you left the Lineage, a concealed gaze watched you, yet you did not notice it in the slightest.]
[That gaze carried an indescribable emotion, like jealousy, yet also like worry...]
"A concealed gaze? Jealousy? Worry?"
"Why was everything a riddle?"
Mu Xingqi was full of question marks. Just who did that concealed gaze belong to?
Why were they both jealous and worried?
"Since they're worried about me, they probably aren't an enemy, right?" Mu Xingqi consoled himself.
Then he turned back to the Simulation Panel.
[Two days later, following the memories of your previous life, you arrived at a dense forest.]
[You discovered a campfire. Though someone had erased the traces, you still recognized that it had been Fifth Sister's doing.]
[You prepared to continue the pursuit...]
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