A Life Simulator With a Bug

"Third stage of Dou Qi... Peak!"

Chu Chen abruptly opened his eyes, slowly stood up from the grass, and stretched.

Refining Qi at age five, and about to break through to the fourth stage in just one year—that has to count as a genius even on the Dou Qi Continent, right?

Feeling the much fuller Dou Qi circulating within his body, the corners of Chu Chen's mouth involuntarily hooked into a Dragon King-like curve.

He looked out into the distance at the village, his eyes tinged with a hint of complacency.

Not to mention that this level of cultivation was achieved on the Douluo Continent, where Heaven and Earth Vital Energy is far inferior to the Dou Qi Continent and which people call the floor tiles of fantasy—doesn't that just highlight the high gold content of my talent as a brother?

I just don't know what this peak third-stage Dou Qi translates to in terms of Innate Soul Power levels here on the Douluo Continent...

That's right, Chu Chen was a transmigrator, and he was six years old this year!

Six years ago, Jack, the village chief of Holy Soul Village, went out to gather mountain goods, accidentally found a baby in swaddling clothes, and brought him home.

That baby was Chu Chen after his rebirth!

Perhaps because a baby's underdeveloped brain couldn't carry an adult's memories, all in all, Chu Chen had been muddle-headed until the age of five, notorious in the village as a silly child.

It wasn't until last year that Chu Chen completely broke through the mystery of the womb.

Through the soul master profession, Holy Soul Village, the alcoholic blacksmith uncle, and that high-and-mighty little ghost of the same age as him who sneaked off to the back mountain every day, he figured out the timeline he was in.

While coming to terms with his past and present lives, Chu Chen also activated his cheat as a transmigrator—[Life Simulator]!

Every year he had one simulation opportunity, allowing him to choose one of three randomly provided identities from the simulator for a simulation, and the character within the simulation possessed Chu Chen's own talent and soul with complete memories.

After surviving for fifty years in the simulation or dying within it, that simulation would end and enter the settlement phase.

At that time, the simulator would list ten things obtained during the simulation—including physiques, talents, cultivation techniques, treasures, and so on—all within the selectable range, and Chu Chen could choose three of them to retain.

To Chu Chen, who had read countless webnovels in his past life, the strength of this golden finger was only ordinary.

Fortunately, Chu Chen had a good understanding of the plot of the Douluo Continent; as long as he awakened a martial soul that wasn't too terrible and passable Innate Soul Power, making a name for himself shouldn't be a problem.

At worst, relying on immortal herb redemption codes, getting a few immortal herbs to improve his aptitude, and figuring out a way to get that Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from the Heaven Dou Empire's treasury, ascending to the Divine Realm shouldn't be difficult.

Who made that Sea God fellow single-mindedly want to run away anyway?

Therefore, in the original Chu Chen's view, this simulator was just the icing on the cake, but after studying it carefully, he discovered...

This simulator seemed to have a bug!

Clearly Chu Chen had transmigrated to the Douluo Continent, but everything happening in the simulator took place on the Dou Qi Continent plane!

Chu Chen still remembered how excited he had been back then when he realized this problem.

As everyone knew, the reason why the world of the Douluo Continent was called the floor tiles of fantasy was because its combat power display was quite lagging, and only soul techniques with percentage or even multiplier bonuses were considered decent.

An objective evaluation was that the mechanics were good, but the numerical values were insufficient.

The Dou Qi Continent, however, was a completely different situation.

Those profound secret techniques in the original work provided bonuses that at best elevated a person by a few minor realms, and they usually came with significant sequelae.

Generally speaking, the numerical values were decent, but the mechanics were ordinary.

Combining the two, in the eyes of Chu Chen, who had read countless novels, was undoubtedly a supreme path to the heavens!

Not to mention that the Dou Qi Continent had professions like alchemists who could refine pills capable of increasing realms without side effects.

With such a cheat, speed-running the Douluo Continent and ascending to the Divine Realm would be as easy as taking candy from a baby, wouldn't it?

That was how Chu Chen thought, and that was how he did it.

After figuring all this out, he immediately started his first simulation!

And then the simulator dumped a massive pile of trouble on Chu Chen...

Chu Chen had originally thought that since he was familiar with the plot of Battle Through the Heavens, his simulation on the Dou Qi Continent would definitely go smoothly.

Even if he followed behind the protagonist as a minor lackey, he could still stumble into countless fortuitous encounters; even some scraps that the protagonist couldn't use would be enough for Chu Chen to grow rapidly here on the Douluo Continent.

After all, Xiao Yan wasn't like Tang San from Chu Chen's village; he was definitely impeccable when it came to the people around him. He heard that the angel investor Hai Bodong had to use Heavenly Flames to light his cigarettes when smoking in the Endless Flame Territory, or else he would cough.

However, after the three identity options for his first simulation appeared, Chu Chen realized that he was still too naive.

The perspective in the original work followed the protagonist, after all, and the map also switched along with the protagonist's growth.

However, the Dou Qi Continent didn't only have places the protagonist had visited!

Take the three identity options Chu Chen got for his first simulation, for instance.

[Southwestern Continent - Spirit Wind Church - Outer Disciple]

[Eastern Continent - Blue Moon Empire - Marquis's Concubine-born Son]

[Northern Continent - Brilliant Sun Pavilion - Alchemist Apprentice]

Let alone the Central Plains, there wasn't even an identity from the Northwest Continent!

The Dou Qi Continent was a complete plane after all, and crossing regions like that was undoubtedly as hard as ascending to heaven for ordinary people!

With starting points like these, by the time Chu Chen grew strong enough to cross regions within the simulation, he wouldn't even know where to find Xiao Yan.

Even if he found him, the guy probably wouldn't take in a lackey of unknown origin, and angel investors and the like would be completely out of the question...

With no other choice, Chu Chen could only set aside his disappointment and choose the alchemist apprentice, which looked like the most valuable of the three identities.

Finally, at the age of twenty-seven within the simulator, he died beneath the claws of a magical beast during a trip to gather herbs in the wilderness.

At the time of his death, his cultivation was at the five-star Dou Shi, and his alchemist rank was Second-Rank.

Though he could hardly be associated with the word genius, he was still much stronger than an ordinary person.

During the final settlement, Chu Chen had also chosen the three things he needed the most at the time based on his own circumstances.

[Fire-Wood Attribute Physique]
[Dou Qi Condensation Method]
[Second-Rank Alchemist's Soul Origin]

It was not that there were no more precious options in the selectable list, but that the Chu Chen of back then had no use for those things.

Without even cultivation, what was the use of gathering a bunch of cultivation methods and combat skills?

As for medicinal pills and the like, they were even more useless ornaments to Chu Chen.

Even today, a year later, Chu Chen did not regret his previous choice.

What suited oneself was always the best!

Going from having zero cultivation to the present Three-Stage Dou Qi in the span of a year, wasn't that enough to prove the correctness of his choice?

Not to mention the Second-Rank Alchemist level of Soul Force and the Dual Fire-Wood Attribute Physique.

Chu Chen now suspected that under the assimilation of the Douluo Continent plane's rules, his Dual Fire-Wood Attribute physique would very likely awaken Twin Martial Souls!

A cultivation of Three-Stage Dou Qi could in all probability be equated to a fairly high level of innate soul power!

Moreover, this guess was very easy to verify.

Because the day Chu... the day he awakened his martial soul was... tomorrow!