"Eighty years old, at the Golden Core middle stage!"
Outside the simulation, Zhou Qing was in excellent spirits. "No, I'm only seventeen in reality. I should say a seventeen-year-old at the Golden Core middle stage!"
"Since recent antiquity, has any cultivator ever started higher than me?"
Zhou Qing thought it over.
Among demonic beasts, those with true spirit bloodlines possessed formidable bloodlines and enjoyed the favor of heaven and earth. Perhaps they were already second tier at birth, then advanced to the third tier within a short time.
They had some hope of surpassing Zhou Qing's starting point.
But human cultivators?
Unless they possessed the legendary innate Dao embryo.
Otherwise, how could they compare with Zhou Qing?
In recent antiquity, the resources of heaven and earth were scarce. Nurturing a true innate Dao embryo was exceedingly difficult.
Even a dazzling genius had to cultivate step by step from the Qi Refining period.
An innate Dao embryo... was an unborn child nurtured by mighty cultivators of elder antiquity, who gathered the essence of heaven and earth for that purpose.
There were countless restrictions, as well as all manner of requirements for the unborn child. At the very least, multiple Dao bodies and treasure bodies had to converge within that single child for it to withstand such nurturing.
In elder antiquity, the resources of heaven and earth were plentiful enough to support such extravagance.
But in recent antiquity? Those conditions no longer existed.
Moreover, finding a suitable unborn child required a divination master to exhaust their heart's blood and sacrifice their lifespan in the search.
Treasure bodies, Dao bodies, and the like were already veiled by heavenly secrets. Forcing a divination? Twice the effort for half the result.
"I wonder how far I can go in this simulation. A Nascent Soul True