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[Previously, you were tricked by the Sea God and began taking revenge on Sea God Island, capturing Xiao Bai, the Demon Soul Great White Shark.]

[After roasting the Sea God's mount, Xiao Bai, the Demon Soul Great White Shark, you gave a portion to Dugu Bo, another to the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, and another to Qian Renxue, then finished the rest yourself.]

[Ah Yin thought, *Why do I feel like Su Ming has almost forgotten me? It must be my imagination, right? No, hurry, hurry! Soon I'll reach a hundred thousand years and be able to take human form!*]

[You sneezed, feeling that someone was bad-mouthing you behind your back. You guessed it was the people on Sea God Island. After eating Xiao Bai, the Demon Soul Great White Shark, you went to Sea God Island every few days to unleash a few super typhoons.]

[You made the natives of Sea God Island truly experience what it meant to live in hell.]

[In the thirteenth year of the simulation, Tang San encountered some unknown stroke of fortune and fought his way through the Sun Moon Continent, advancing all the while. Later, a special passage transported him to Slaughter City. By the time you received the news and went to investigate, Tang San had already fled to parts unknown.]

[You did not even need to guess who had done it. It was either the Asura God or the Sea God. Those two were like a pair of hopeless bootlickers, acting as though no one but Tang San would do.]

[You were speechless. You chose to place Tang San's friends and family under surveillance so that, if anything unusual happened, you could immediately go and investigate.]

[What troubled you was that you still could not finish condensing a soul core. Although you had figured out most of the tricks involved, you could never grasp that final piece of the puzzle, causing you to fail at the crucial moment every time. Another annoyance was the Sea God's Red-Level Eight Trials. No matter what you did, you could not get rid of them, and every so often, you had to endure another intrusion from the Sea God's divine consciousness.]

[Your life had mostly been smooth sailing, but divine trials were the one thing you could do nothing about. After all, divine trials depended on someone else's whims. You could not simply take them when you wanted to or refuse them when you did not.]

[You decided to begin expanding the West Wind Church's influence, but you remained restrained. Before Tang San ascended, you did not dare risk universal condemnation by unifying all the nations.]

[Only after Tang San became a god could you safely rely on your unrivaled combat strength to rule the entire Douluo Star and begin your plan to gather faith.]

[You figured that if divine trials were not an option, surely you could create your own godhood. Once you completed your self-created godhood, you felt you could go have a real man's fight with the Silver Dragon King.]

[Before that, however, you first sent the lord of Vast Sea City and those eight bandits to their deaths at the hands of burly men.]

[To you, the grudge with Vast Sea City was an outright blood feud. Unless you punished them harshly, you would never feel satisfied.]

[After settling the blood feud, you expanded the West Wind Church while bringing the Sun Moon Continent under your rule. Along the way, you also brought the other two continents from the previous simulation, along with the Far North, into your domain.]

[You had thirteen years left at most. You had to make all the necessary arrangements as quickly as possible.]

[What puzzled you was that the Sea God had stopped harassing you lately. With that sudden peace, you found yourself a little unaccustomed to it.]

[With the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Dugu Bo holding the fort, and Spirit Hall providing support, the West Wind Church developed at an astonishing pace. Even its worst-performing branch earned at least a hundred Gold Soul Coins a month, and that was after deducting labor, logistics, losses, and other expenses.]

[You could say that, with the West Wind Church, you might not have money, but you would certainly have a house, land, food, and drink.]

[Large numbers of commoners were flocking to the West Wind Church, though the numbers were still not particularly high. It would take a few more years before any real results became apparent.]

[As you watched the West Wind Church grow steadily, you also checked through your clones' linked perspectives to see whether Tang San had appeared among his friends and family.]

[The people you watched most closely were Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar. All three were immensely important to Tang San. One was among his greatest sources of support during the middle stages, while another was crucial to his resurrection later on.]

[You did not intend to kill them and alter the original plot. If the plot became uncontrollable, many more uncertainties would arise in your plans for the continent.]

[If Oscar and Ning Rongrong died, and an evolved hundred-thousand-year Luo Sanpao popped up like in Su Wu's simulation, you felt you might as well drop dead.]

[Your surveillance had yet to uncover any trace of Tang San. With nothing found, you began considering what other problems remained unresolved.]

[Aside from Sea God Island, the only force associated with Tang San that you had yet to deal with was Slaughter City. After some thought, you abandoned the idea of entering Slaughter City. You could not be sure whether the Asura God would suddenly appear and slash you with his sword once you went in.]

[In the sixteenth year of the simulation, nothing happened. Matters large and small progressed steadily. What troubled you more was that the Snow Empress kept clinging to you, while the Ice Empress planted herself between you like a third wheel. You felt that, if Ah Yin joined in too, you would get to see just how much drama four women could create.]

[That year, after relentless experimentation, you finally worked out how to condense soul cores. You first condensed a wind soul core, then a spiritual soul core, but encountered an obstacle when you tried to condense a third.]

[The structure of your wind soul core and spiritual soul core leaned more toward that of yin-yang complementary dual soul cores. To insert a third soul core, you would have to rebuild their complementary framework so that all three soul cores complemented one another.]

[You worried so much over this that your hair was practically falling out. You still had no idea how to construct three soul cores.]

[You spoke with the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, hoping to gain some inspiration from their cultivation insights again. Unfortunately, their insights offered you no inspiration whatsoever.]

[Your foundation continued to improve steadily. A foundation of 426% multiplied the resources you needed for cultivation. Any increase in your combat strength had to be built upon a vast, unimaginable quantity of resources.]

[After you condensed your wind soul core and spiritual soul core, your cultivation dropped from the peak of Quasi-God to Demigod. The soul cores greatly enhanced your combat strength, but that was also where the problem lay.]

[Your total soul power was already four times that of an ordinary Soul Master with innate full soul power. With two soul cores working together to compress it further, your soul power density was roughly ten times that of an enemy at the same level.]

[You were deeply troubled. In your current state, to break through to the peak of Quasi-God, the wind-attribute soul power you needed, disregarding density and considering only the total amount, would equal at least the entire soul power reserves of forty-four Demigods.]

[In a year, you could absorb only about two or three Limit Douluos' worth. With your soul power constantly being compressed as well, breaking past the Demigod threshold and reaching Quasi-God in one leap would be difficult beyond belief.]