Powerless

Lin Chao obtained the Reincarnation Simulator. This was his third reincarnation.

In his first reincarnation, he had become a Qi Cultivator.

Of course, merely an ordinary Qi Cultivator.

In the end, the Sun Emperor of Great Jing took him into the palace to refine the Immortality Elixir.

According to the experiences from his simulated reincarnation.

Within the Sun Palace, he poured his heart and soul into it, ultimately refining two pseudo-Immortality Elixirs.

Though they were called Immortality Elixirs, they actually had severe flaws.

Moreover, they could not truly grant immortality.

Of course, extending one's lifespan was no problem at all.

If Lin Chao remembered correctly, he had fallen from a cliff and died back then.

Could it be that the two half-finished Immortality Elixirs he had refined had been left behind in the outside world?

"Rumor has it that a Qi Cultivator refined an Immortality Elixir, which was eventually lost outside and picked up by a woman." Zhang Daolin spoke, his face grave. "That woman is now suspected to be in Beiling City.

"The purpose of our Northern Cold Hall's arrival is to cooperate with Tai Qing Palace and capture that woman.

"We are currently investigating her identity and have already found some clues.

"Once the people from Tai Qing Palace arrive tomorrow, the investigation will likely intensify. I fear it will not be long before they find her."

At the mention of this, Zhang Daolin was consumed with worry.

He took out a portrait. It depicted a middle-aged woman of above-average beauty.

"So, the most important thing now is for you to find this woman quickly and take her away."

Listening to Zhang Daolin, Lin Chao looked at the portrait, his expression slightly stunned.

"I've seen her."

This woman was quite well-known in Beiling City.

She was the wife of Ma Wanqian, Beiling's richest man.

However, not long after Ma Wanqian married her, he died suddenly of a violent illness.

This woman had thus become the wealthiest widow in Beiling City.

She always veiled her face, and few people had ever seen her true appearance.

However, by chance, Lin Chao had once caught a fleeting glimpse of her face.

Of course, the two had never formally interacted.

"You know her?" Upon hearing this, Zhang Daolin's heart stirred with excitement. "Quickly hide her away."

He did not ask who the woman was.

There was no point, and it would avoid misunderstandings.

"Mm." Lin Chao nodded.

Naturally, he would not hand this woman over to Azure Lord.

He was still simulating his life. In this life, the enemy of his Lineage was Azure Lord.

If he wanted to obtain a high rating, he would most likely need to kill Azure Lord.

Naturally, he would not hand over this woman, who was suspected of possessing an Immortality Elixir, to Azure Lord.

Still, he was indeed interested in meeting this woman.

He wanted to see what effect the Immortality Elixir he had personally refined had actually produced.

"Alas..." Yet Zhang Daolin's expression remained grim at this moment. "Heaven's fortune lies with Great Cang. Even if we are fortunate enough to keep the Immortality Elixir from falling into Azure Lord's hands, we still..."

Zhang Daolin's face was filled with boundless disappointment and desolation.

Everyone knew of Azure Lord's debauchery and unrestrained excess.

In this world, the easiest people to satisfy were those at the bottom.

As long as they were given a bite to eat and could avoid starving to death, they could struggle earnestly onward.

But Great Cang gave the people no way to live.

Under any dynasty, a kingdom like Great Cang would almost certainly have been replaced.

Unfortunately, this was Great Cang.

This was Great Cang favored by Heaven's fortune.

Every year saw over a hundred peasant uprisings, along with countless wandering heroes attempting assassinations.

No matter how powerful an empire was, it could not withstand such relentless battering.

Yet Azure Lord continued to live well.

Zhang Daolin knew their chances of defeating Azure Lord were slim, but he still refused to give up.

Zhang Daolin even wished that the Twelve Exotic Treasures had never fallen from the heavens.

Northern Cold Hall would then have merely been a powerful local clan.

Then the Zhang family would not have suffered such humiliation, and so vast a family would not have been unable to protect even its wives and daughters.

Nor would all under heaven have been plunged into such devastation, with living beings suffering everywhere.

In the past, although the Zhang family did not possess the extraordinary status it had today.

Even with an emperor present, the Zhang family would still have been treated with utmost courtesy.

"Man proposes, Heaven disposes." Lin Chao appeared rather calm.

Although he felt that the world of this simulation was exactly the same as reality, perhaps it truly was reality.

At the time, however, he could not help retaining a somewhat game-like attitude toward life.

He had now fallen into a question of contemplation, or perhaps a paradox.

If he changed history, what would happen?

Or was it that he himself had created history?