The illusory text rapidly stretched and shifted.
Finally, it stopped on the line [This simulation has ended].
With that, Zhou Qing's sixth simulation came to a complete end.
Zhou Qing closed his eyes, and every detail of his experiences in the sixth simulation surfaced in his mind.
In his sixth simulation, Zhou Qing had lived for over twenty-two hundred years. Not only had he entered the spirit transformation period and joined the ranks of Human Realm Heavenly Lords, but he had also advanced all three arts-alchemy, talismans, and formations-to the fifth tier.
Mastering even one fifth-tier art was as difficult as ascending to heaven. Of the many celestial masters of the arts born during the Near Ancient Era, almost all had mastered only one fifth-tier art throughout their lives. Only two had mastered a second.
Zhou Qing had mastered three fifth-tier arts, including the obscure and difficult Formation Path, breaking a record that had stood throughout the hundred thousand years of Near Antiquity. Even during the Primordial Era, such Three-Art Celestial Masters had been few and far between.
What a pity. If I'd had another few hundred years, there would have been a good chance of advancing my puppetry to the fifth tier.
Zhou Qing silently regretted it. When the Demon Abyss Realm first invaded the Human Realm, he had slain four middle fifth-tier Devil Lords and a host of early fifth-tier Devil Lords. Their flesh, bones, and skin were all excellent materials for making fifth-tier puppets.
Had the Purgatory Demon Venerable not invited a Divination Celestial Master from the Demon Abyss Realm, who divined that Zhou Qing had no sincere intention of defecting, he was confident he could have stalled for another few hundred years, until the true end of his lifespan.
By then, his puppetry might also have