I wonder if I can profit from the conflict between the two sects.
The thought arose instinctively in Xu Changxing's mind.
At his level, breaking through without sufficient resources was truly difficult.
Even the first and second stages of Origin Immortal, the easiest stages to break through, had taken him decades.
At the fourth and fifth stages of Origin Immortal, making a breakthrough would take at least a century.
Beyond the Origin Immortal Seventh Stage, he might have to spend a thousand years in ascetic cultivation just to advance a single minor stage.
That was simply too long for him.
Although he had become an immortal, his lifespan was only a little over twenty thousand years.
If he relied solely on burying himself in ascetic cultivation, reaching the Origin Immortal Ninth Stage alone would take thousands of years.
Even if he truly cultivated to the Origin Immortal Ninth Stage at that pace, he could pretty much settle into retirement.
An Origin Immortal like that would find it hard to muster the drive to break through another bottleneck, unless a fortuitous encounter fell into his lap.
That was unacceptable to Xu Changxing.
As the real self watching the simulation, however, Xu Changxing did not mind.
He would even have preferred his simulated self to keep hiding in some remote corner to cultivate.
Yet he knew perfectly well that, given his temperament, he probably would not do that unless he used his authority to forcibly alter his simulated self's behavior.
But he had no intention of doing so.
His previous attempts had already made it abundantly clear that forcibly changing the simulation's course would not give him the results he wanted.
Doing so would most likely cause him to encounter all sorts of mishaps while cultivating, bringing the simulation to a hasty