[A debt of gratitude? The Chen Family Ancestor's [Past Self], the game of life and death begins]

``` [You began pondering how to find the Chen Family Ancestor. What could you rely on?]

[[Golden Heaven's Mandate]?!]

[No, the ancestor had lost that long ago. Besides, if he still had it, how would you ever get a chance?]

[The [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] would have brought him under control long ago!]

[So ordinary methods certainly should not be able to locate him.]

[Just as you were agonizing over this, [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player] exerted its power again within your sea of consciousness.]

[At the same time, [Purple Talent: Once and for All] activated again.]

[A scene suddenly surfaced within your sea of consciousness:]

[It was... inside the Chen Family's Ancestral Shrine.]

[Back then, you were pitifully weak, with only [Qi Refining Realm] cultivation, but you had borrowed attunement to the Chen Family Ancestor's Foundation Establishment rank.]

[You remembered that this had been to upgrade the Simulator back then!]

[The [Simulator] leveled up as your rank rose. For convenience, you had come up with this trick back then, directly borrowing attunement to a rank to upgrade the Simulator.]

[Thus, you had used borrowed attunement rank to fulfill that condition!]

[The surrounding scene changed again, taking you to shortly afterward, when you had just finished borrowing attunement to the Foundation Establishment rank and wanted to run an ordinary simulation.]

[—You had been truly poor back then. You had no [Purple Heaven's Mandate], and even a single Heaven and Earth Wonder was an extravagant wish.]

[Left with no choice, you had sought out the Chen Family Ancestor again.]

[You had settled inside a secluded mountain cave and proposed an equivalent exchange, offering some item in return for a Heaven and Earth Wonder.]

[But the Chen Family Ancestor had rejected it outright and said:]

["This old man wants