In a previous simulation, Xu Changxing had brought death upon himself by exposing his strength in an arranged duel.
Now this had appeared before him again.
Although he had now reached the True Immortal Fifth Stage, he was still a considerable distance from being able to protect himself.
This gave him a slight sense of urgency.
Five years to cultivate to the True Immortal Fifth Stage. This pace seems a little slow!
The thought surfaced instinctively in Xu Changxing's mind.
For an ordinary True Immortal, breaking through a single minor stage in five years could already be called astonishingly rapid progress.
But for Xu Changxing, it was not particularly fast.
When he had first awakened the system, he had broken through minor stages almost instantaneously.
Yet as his cultivation rose, each breakthrough took increasingly longer.
At his current stage, even with the Tianyan Pearl's help, he needed years to fully digest the gains from a simulation.
This was not because the Tianyan Pearl's power had diminished, but because his cultivation was gradually approaching that of the elders who had refined it.
When he reached the same stage as those elders, perhaps the Tianyan Pearl would amount to nothing more than a divination magic treasure to him.
At that point, he would have to face the Immortal Venerables who had destroyed the Tianyan Sect.
I wonder where those Immortal Venerables who destroyed the Tianyan Sect are now...
Xu Changxing shook his head, casting all those distracting thoughts out of his mind.
He had only just broken through to the True Immortal Fifth Stage. It was still too early to ponder such matters.
What mattered most to him now was how to deal with Purple Cloud Mountain and the Hundred Calamities Valley.
His previous two simulations had both ended at the hands