Chapter 31: Azure Moon Immortal City - My Immortal Cultivation Simulator

"Cloudsea Body Tempering Art, third level!"

Outside the simulation, a smile appeared on Zhou Qing's face.

This body-tempering art from the Mountain Sea Sect was utterly different from the body-tempering arts commonly found in the current cultivation world.

It leaned more toward the path of elder body cultivators.

Elder body cultivators had been no weaker than ancient cultivators.

Their lineage had only gradually declined because breaking through major realms was so difficult for Body Cultivation, compounded by threats such as heavenly tribulations.

In the next simulation, I can have Dachun try cultivating this body-tempering art...

Zhou Qing thought to himself. Dachun's talent for body tempering was far greater than his own. With the Blazing Sun Body Tempering Art, Dachun had ultimately come close to the threshold of the late Qi Refining period.

If the Mountain Sea Ring Artifact Spirit had not repeatedly warned him that neither the Mountain Sea Art nor the Mountain-Sea Body Refinement Art could be taught to outsiders,

Zhou Qing would have let Dachun try them in this simulation.

"With the third level of the Cloudsea Body Tempering Art, passing the qi-blood trial of the three Foundation Establishment trials is a sure thing."

Zhou Qing was in a good mood. Those had been the Mountain Sea Ring Artifact Spirit's exact words.

Originally, Zhou Qing had not quite understood that statement, but now, feeling the surging qi and blood within him,

if even this could not get him through the qi-blood trial, then ninety percent of the Foundation Establishment realm cultivators in the current cultivation world should have failed their breakthroughs.


[Your Mountain-Sea Body Refinement Art reached the third level. Your only remaining goal was the Foundation Establishment realm.]

[You had long since worked out the details of your plan to attempt Foundation Establishment.]

[You would attempt your breakthrough in Azure Moon Immortal City.]

[When advancing from the Qi Refining stage to the Foundation Establishment realm, it was best to make the breakthrough in an environment with a second-tier spirit vein.]

[Moreover, the breakthrough would create a spiritual energy vortex, placing considerable demands on the surrounding spiritual energy.]

[Only Azure Moon Immortal City could meet the conditions for your breakthrough.]

[As for Listening Rain Market or Black Mountain Market? They could indeed provide cave residences on second-tier spirit veins, but attempting Foundation Establishment within a Market District... required an advance reservation.]

[The Market Districts were simply too small.]

[Attempting Foundation Establishment in a Market District also left you vulnerable to interference. For instance, at a crucial moment in your breakthrough, the Market District's master could adjust the spirit vein's spiritual energy, thereby affecting the Qi Refining stage cultivator attempting to advance.]

[You left the inn, but did not immediately head to Azure Moon Immortal City.]

[A year earlier, you had completed a transaction worth many tens of thousands of spirit stones with You Rou.]

[Although you had mentioned Alchemist Zhao Kan of Azure Moon Immortal City during the transaction, seemingly in passing,]

[spirit stones could sway hearts. What if the Pill Alliance's Foundation Establishment realm leader was lying in wait for you outside the Market District?]

[Many tens of thousands of spirit stones exceeded an ordinary Foundation Establishment realm cultivator's entire fortune.]

[Only someone with deep pockets like the Pill Alliance leader, a Second-Order Alchemist, could produce that sum.]

[You decided to wait a while before leaving.]

[Cultivating the Mountain Sea Art allowed you to postpone the onset of old age until ninety.]

[You were only eighty now, and still had plenty of time.]

[In the sixty-sixth year, you were eighty-one. While waiting in Listening Rain Market, you began purchasing inheritances for various crafts.]

[These included inheritances for the Alchemy Path, artifact refining, the Formation Path, beast taming, and more.]

[You had far too many spirit stones. If your Foundation Establishment attempt failed, would leaving behind such a huge sum not be a waste?]

[In theory, taking a Foundation Establishment Pill could protect your heart meridians, preserving your life even if the breakthrough failed.]

[But even if you survived, your vitality would be severely damaged, leaving no chance for a second attempt. Keeping such a large sum of spirit stones on you would likewise be unsafe.]

[Thus, you intended to spend all your spirit stones before the attempt except those set aside for the breakthrough, lest you end up dead with money left unspent.]

[As for what to spend the spirit stones on... naturally, it had to be something you could carry over.]

[Since you could no longer improve your strength, you bought those craft inheritances. Whether you understood them could wait; you memorized them all, so they would remain useful in reality and in future simulations.]

[More skills never weighed a person down. That principle held true in the cultivation world as well.]

[In the sixty-seventh year, you were eighty-two. Three years had passed since your transaction with You Rou.]

[Throughout those three years, you remained in Listening Rain Market, changing identities hundreds of times and moving from one cave residence to another inn.]

[Cultivators constantly came and went from Listening Rain Market. No one would notice you.]

[You finally decided to leave the Market Ward and head to Azure Moon Immortal City.]

[In your view, even if the Pill Alliance's Foundation Establishment realm leader had coveted your wealth and waited outside the Market Ward to ambush you,]

[he would not have waited for three whole years.]

[A Foundation Establishment realm cultivator's time was still time. He could not possibly waste three years on something uncertain.]

[Even if he had still not given up, at most he would have ordered Qi Refining stage cultivators under his command to keep watch outside the Market Ward.]

[With your current strength, you could sweep aside three to five late Qi Refining cultivators outright.]

[You concealed your aura, disguised your appearance, and left Listening Rain Market under the identity of an ordinary mid-Qi Refining stage cultivator.]

[Even after traveling several hundred li from Listening Rain Market, you encountered no ambush.]

[You dimly realized that perhaps, for the past three years, you had been matching wits and courage with thin air.]

[The Foundation Establishment realm leader behind You Rou might have abandoned his designs on you upon hearing Alchemist Zhao Kan's name.]

[A second-tier, mid-grade alchemist capable of independently refining Foundation Establishment Pills wielded tremendous influence.]

[Of course, it was also possible that the Foundation Establishment realm leader had waited for several months, failed to spot you emerging, and simply left.]

[You traveled toward Azure Moon Immortal City without taking out a flying artifact.]

[Flying artifacts were expensive. Even a powerful late Qi Refining cultivator might not be able to afford one.]

[Traveling by flying artifact was far too conspicuous and did not suit your style.]

[After nearly half a year, a vast plain came into view.]

[According to the location marked on your map, you were now less than ten thousand li from Azure Moon Immortal City.]

[You traveled another two thousand li or so. At the far end of the plain, an immense immortal city loomed faintly, like a crouching ancient beast.]

[By now, you were encountering cultivators with increasing frequency.]

[These cultivators were either heading toward Azure Moon Immortal City or leaving it.]

[Without exception, however, those who dared come to Azure Moon Immortal City were predominantly in the middle or late Qi Refining stage.]

[Early Qi Refining stage cultivators were rare.]

[Moreover, many of these cultivators faintly exuded a murderous aura. They were clearly adept at fighting to the death, not flowers raised in a greenhouse.]

[As you approached the immortal city, you picked up your pace.]

[Soon, a towering, magnificent city appeared within your sight.]

[Compared to this immortal city, the surrounding mountain ranges seemed like little hills.]

[A vast, ancient aura emanated from the enormous city.]

["Azure Moon Immortal City!"]

[Your heart trembled.]

[Azure Moon Immortal City had been founded by Azure Moon True Person, a genuine Core Formation True Person.]

[According to the information you had gathered, even among True Persons, Azure Moon True Person ranked among the powerful.]

[You gazed toward Azure Moon Immortal City from afar.]

[The entire city had been built atop a large third-tier spirit vein and stretched for hundreds of li.]

[Thousands upon thousands of formations enveloped the city inside and out. Its foundational formation was third-tier, commanding and integrating the power of all the other formations.]

[As you drew closer to the city, you occasionally noticed streaks of flight light flashing through the sky and entering the city directly.]

[Those streaks naturally belonged to Foundation Establishment realm cultivators. Such cultivators were rarely seen in the Market Wards, yet here, in mere moments, you saw four or five.]