My Immortal Cultivation Simulator
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[Year one, you were seventeen, already a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, and had mastered several crafts.]
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[You chose to end the lease on your cave abode and leave the immortal city.] [A few days later, you disguised yourself with a new identity and entered Azure Moon Immortal City again.] [You did this to avoid unnecessary trouble.] [You began selling the large stock of mid-grade and high-grade pills you had previously refined.] [Azure Moon Immortal City was the largest gathering place for rogue cultivators in the Primordial Origin Domain. Hundreds of thousands gathered here, most of them at the Qi Refining Stage.] [The mid-grade and high-grade pills you sold were hot commodities, and their quality was good. You had no worries about finding buyers.] [After selling all your mid-grade and high-grade pills, you reaped a handsome profit and began buying what you needed.] [First came second-tier pills for the daily cultivation of Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators. You had only a low-grade spiritual root. After entering the Foundation Establishment Realm, you would probably be unable to reach the middle stage even in several decades without the aid of pills.] [However, you did not buy many second-tier pills. You felt that you would become a Second-Order Alchemist very soon.] [Once you became a Second-Order Alchemist, you could refine second-tier pills yourself. Those you bought now were merely to tide you over.] [Besides these, you also bought many second-tier spirit herbs and materials.]
Outside the simulation, Zhou Qing watched calmly as the illusory text continued to change.
In reality, Zhou Qing had to consider his every move carefully to avoid triggering unforeseen changes or accidents.
Within the simulation, however, there was no need for such caution. After all, for Zhou Qing, a simulation could be restarted.
Of course, Zhou Qing treasured every opportunity to simulate. Even within a simulation, he would not deliberately seek death.
With the experience of his previous two simulations, Zhou Qing had established two guiding principles for his simulated self.
The first was cultivation.
His own cultivation and breakthroughs would take priority.
After all, the cultivation he gained within the simulation could be carried over into reality.
The second was to live as long as possible and gather crucial information about the future.
For instance, in his previous two simulations, Zhou Qing had gathered crucial information about the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm and Black Mountain Market.
Those two pieces of information had helped Zhou Qing immensely.
Without them, Zhou Qing would probably still have been floundering at the Qi Refining Stage.
In the cultivation world, information mattered greatly. At the very least, it could earn a handsome profit; at its most valuable, it could help one seek fortune and avoid disaster, seizing important opportunities ahead of others.
The illusory text continued to change.
[Finally, you rented a new second-tier cave abode with an earthfire supply.] [Among the many cave abodes in the immortal city's residential district, those with earthfire cost somewhat more to rent than those without.] [With everything ready, you began cultivating with pills for the first time since becoming a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.] [Within your dantian, thirteen drops of mountain sea mana slowly revolved.] [Cultivation at the Foundation Establishment level was, in essence, the condensation of more liquid mana within the dantian.] [An ordinary cultivator newly entering the Foundation Establishment Realm had nine drops of liquid mana within their dantian, while a cultivator at the realm's peak had ninety-nine.] [You cultivated the Mountain Sea Art, so your mana was of far higher quality than that of ordinary Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators. Upon entering the realm, you already had thirteen drops of liquid mana within your dantian. Upon reaching its peak, you would have one hundred and thirty-three.] [A day later, you finished your first cultivation session using pills.] [If one examined the depths of your dantian closely, one would discover a faint, barely perceptible vortex beginning to form beyond the thirteen drops of liquid mana.] [*My cultivation is still too slow.*] [You thought to yourself that, at your current cultivation speed, even with the pill toxin bane talent allowing you to take pills frequently without hidden dangers, you would need roughly one or two years to condense your fourteenth drop of liquid mana.] [That did not even account for the time spent encountering bottlenecks.] [Bottlenecks and shackles were the main reasons cultivators could not advance further. Many cultivators spent decades trapped at a bottleneck.] [**"The Azure Moon Pool!"**] [You looked forward to the Azure Moon Pool more eagerly than ever. So far, it was the only opportunity you knew of that could permanently improve your spiritual root aptitude without any hidden dangers.] [Judging by its previous opening dates, the Azure Moon Pool would next open in a little over a year.] [After finishing your cultivation, you began writing a letter.] [The recipient was, naturally, the Zhou Family, far away in the mortal world.] [In the cultivation world, at the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment levels, letters were mainly delivered by dedicated couriers and spirit pigeons.] [Those who reached the True Person level had more advanced means of communication.] [You wrote to the Zhou Family in the mortal world first to learn how the family was doing.] [Second, you wanted to see whether the cultivation world's letter-delivery channels were secure.] [Within the simulation, you had more room for error and could make all sorts of attempts.] [In your letter, besides asking after your parents and brothers, you also made a point of asking about Dachun.] [In the second simulation, Dachun had displayed considerable talent for body tempering.] [Before heading to Azure Moon Immortal City, you had passed the Mountain Sea Body Tempering Art on to Dachun and left him the corresponding cultivation resources.] [After finishing the letter, you began refining pills.] [This time, the pills you wanted to refine were second-tier pills.] [You felt that you could step into the ranks of Second-Order Alchemists at any moment, so you hoped that refining second-tier pills would give you that final push.] [For this purpose, you had specifically purchased many second-tier spirit herbs and materials.] [The earthfire burned as you continually controlled its temperature, melting the second-tier spirit herbs and materials one by one into medicinal liquids.] [Then, using the scorching earthfire, you expelled all the impurities and residue from the medicinal liquids, leaving only their purest essence.] [Up to this point, you still handled everything with effortless ease and felt no difficulty at all.] [The more than a hundred years of alchemy experience from two simulations, combined with the divine-sense control of the Foundation Establishment Realm, allowed you to complete the first half of refining second-tier pills with ease.] [Next came the pill-condensation process.] [You needed to merge the different second-tier medicinal liquids.] [This was not a simple mixing, but a fusion of medicinal potency. Only pills refined in this way could produce an effect where one plus one was greater than two.] [The main and auxiliary ingredients of many pills were also effective when consumed directly.] [For example, the three main ingredients of the Foundation Establishment Pill were Dark Yin Grass, Profound Yang Fruit, and Twinblossom.] [Consuming any one of these three directly could slightly improve one's chances of achieving Foundation Establishment.] [But when the medicinal potency of all three main ingredients was perfectly fused and combined with the appropriate auxiliary ingredients, the resulting] [Foundation Establishment Pill could improve the chances of successful Foundation Establishment by fifteen to twenty-five percent.] [This was far more effective than consuming the ingredients directly.] [Under your precise control, eight medicinal liquids slowly merged.] ["Hm?"] [Your expression shifted slightly. You immediately mobilized your foundation establishment mana and enveloped the pill furnace.] [The next instant, an explosion sounded inside the furnace. Had you not suppressed it beforehand, the furnace itself would probably have burst apart.] [Your attempt to refine second-tier pills failed, but you did not mind.] [You had never expected to succeed on your very first attempt at refining second-tier pills.] [In the days that followed, whenever you were not cultivating, you attempted to refine second-tier pills.] [Three months later, you finally succeeded in refining a batch of second-tier pills.] [You joined the ranks of Second-Order Alchemists.]
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