Envy

[In the 160th year of the simulation, the West Wind Federation had begun to take shape, and social order was growing stable.]

[You ordered Soul Beasts rounded up and confined to designated areas for domestication.]

[That year, you also enacted the Soul Beast Protection Law. Soul Masters had to pass several rounds of approval before they could hunt Soul Beasts in designated areas, preventing their extinction.]

[Soul Beasts far outnumbered humans. The entire West Wind Federation had fewer than ten million Soul Masters, while Soul Beasts numbered over ten billion. Most were low-level, but your Soul Beast Protection Law chiefly targeted older Soul Beasts. It imposed strict Soul Ring limits on Soul Masters: white, yellow, yellow, purple, purple, purple, black, black, black.]

[Though the quality of Soul Rings fell, hunting Soul Beasts became much easier for Soul Masters. The rules were relaxed for geniuses: those who broke through by a specified age could absorb higher-grade Soul Rings.]

[In the 161st year of the simulation, you had the Ice Empress move her clan to human territory and designated Blue Silver Grass as a National Plant.]

[If you hadn't mentioned it, the Ice Empress might have forgotten she even had a clan. After spending so long with all of you, she was either smoking, drinking, and playing cards, or indulging in every vice imaginable. She hadn't forgotten her clan entirely, but she certainly hadn't thought of it once.]

[In the 163rd year of the simulation, you began developing firearms and Soul Tools in preparation for the impending arrival of the Abyss.]

[In the 165th year of the simulation, you set down your responsibilities for a while and had Qian Renxue take over your official duties.]

[Qian Renxue grumbled furiously. The moment you were free, you took Ah Yin and Bibi Dong on