["Then-I'll stop playing."]

Outside the [Simulator]'s [Light Screen], Chen Fan's brows were tightly furrowed.

"What was going on?" He was certain he had neither interfered with the [Simulated Clone]'s choices nor possessed the power to do so.

Then where had that sudden "feeling of resistance" come from?

Could a [Supreme Existence] detect and influence the workings of the Simulator's talent?

A [Nascent Soul True Lord] should not have possessed that ability, but a [Spirit Transformation Dao Master]... might.

Yet if a [Spirit Transformation Dao Master] really had intervened, the method was far too blunt and crude, nothing like those old monsters' usual veiled approach.

"Let's keep watching." Chen Fan suppressed his doubts. "This simulation might actually bring an unexpected surprise."

And so, he continued watching the Light Screen of the [Simulator]'s interface...

``` [You repeatedly examined yourself, confirming that the "feeling of resistance" preventing you from using [Unrestricted] to break through the upper limit of [Qi Refining Limit-Breaking],]

[did not come from external manipulation—the [Simulator]'s functional restrictions did not allow the original body to remotely interfere with the clone's choices.]

[But... your brows knitted tightly,]

[whenever you wanted to use "[Unrestricted]" on the concept of "the upper limit of essence amplification through limit-breaking in the Qi Refining Realm,"]

[that powerful premonition of "once you use it, everything will be over" emerged out of nowhere, so real that it seemed to be your own instinctive judgment.]

[You remained silent for a long time, then finally sighed,]

[choosing to stop dwelling on the matter. Whether it was a scheme or something else, if you could not use it, then so be it.]

[If that meant breaking through more slowly, then more slowly it would be!]

[Because no number of [Limit-Breaking] breakthroughs would mean anything in the present situation.]

[So... you would just level up