The first simulation

[Life simulation officially began.]

[Age 0: You were born into a declining minor noble family in Heaven Dou City. Your father's martial soul was a gold coin, and your mother's martial soul was a gemstone. Though your family was not prominent, you wanted for neither food nor clothing.]

[Age 1: You babbled your first words, speaking in complete sentences from the outset. Your family simply assumed you were exceptionally gifted and thought nothing more of it.]

[You displayed extraordinary intelligence. Your eyes were bright and clear, and your mind far surpassed those of other infants your age.]

[Age 2: You read your family's book collection with ease, never forgetting anything you saw. In just one year, you thoroughly mastered every basic soul master text in the family collection, gaining a complete understanding of the Douluo Continent's balance of power, martial soul system, and knowledge of soul beasts.]

[Age 3: You exhausted your family's entire book collection, leaving no new knowledge to learn.]

[Knowing full well how important physical fitness was to a soul master's cultivation, you began secretly seeking external resources to temper your body. With your astonishing intelligence, you obtained low-grade whale rubber and used it to gently temper your flesh, laying a solid foundation.]

[Age 4: Under the pen name "Lin Mo," you combined your knowledge from your previous life with the rules of the Douluo World to write your first theoretical work-"Sustainable Development Path for Soul Masters"-shocking a small circle of soul masters.]

[In your work, you argued that soul masters primarily cultivated by hunting soul beasts for soul rings and soul bones, yet soul masters reproduced quickly and had short cultivation cycles, while soul beasts grew slowly and took a long time to mature.]

[If this continued without outside intervention, the continent's soul beasts would face extinction in fifty thousand years, and the soul master lineage would die out with them.]

[To resolve this desperate predicament, you proposed three far-ahead-of-their-time concepts: "Legacy soul spirits," "Beast taming symbiosis," and "artificial soul rings," attempting to find a balanced path for soul masters and soul beasts to coexist.]

[However, limited by your knowledge, you failed to put these concepts into practice. Moreover, with the day of extinction still far off, most people paid little heed, declaring, "We must trust in the wisdom of future generations."]

[Age 5: You took up your pen again and wrote "Self-Created Soul Skill Origin Cultivation Theory."]

[You pointed out that high-ranking beast martial soul masters could deeply study the habits and innate abilities of the soul beasts corresponding to their martial souls, deducing the origins of soul skills from them to create self-created soul skills uniquely their own;]

[Even low-ranking soul masters and tool martial soul masters could greatly improve their control over soul skills by observing the characteristics of the corresponding living creatures and objects.]

[The moment this work appeared, it set the soul master world ablaze.]

[Countless soul masters embraced it as their guiding standard and cultivated according to your theory. Under the alias Lin Mo, you shot to fame overnight.]

[Word of your fame eventually reached Spirit Hall's higher-ups.]

[That same year, Spirit Hall sent you an invitation.]

[You knew that woman must have taken an interest in you. She had probably seen another person's shadow in you.]

[You politely declined.]

[You knew that, in this life, you would ultimately be the man she could never have. Rather than loving and fighting each other, you were better off each living your own life in peace.]

[Age 6: You reached the most important moment of this life-martial soul awakening.]

[On the awakening platform, soul power surged, and what appeared in your palm was still that same weak, ordinary stalk of blue silver grass.]

[The soul power test showed innate rank one.]

[The result, identical to reality in every detail, instantly stunned you.]

[Your father flew into a rage, believing your mother had made a cuckold of him.]

[Your mother flatly denied it and argued loudly that the problem lay in your father's bloodline.]

[The couple turned against each other on the spot and came to blows.]

[Your circumstances plummeted.]

[Your father treated you coldly, viewing you as a disgrace to the family.]

[Your mother no longer wished to see you either. To express her remorse, she decided to bear your father another child.]

[The clansmen and neighbors around you pointed fingers at you, their gossip too foul to bear.]

[You were driven into a dilapidated woodshed, left to eat scraps each day and endure endless cold looks and bullying.]

[You paid it no mind.]

[With your astonishing intelligence, you had long since earned tens of millions of gold soul coins and secretly established an underground intelligence organization spanning Heaven Dou City.]

[Age 8: Unable to endure your family's cold treatment, you left a letter and quietly ran away from home.]

[Through your intelligence organization, you purchased a rare storage soul tool capable of holding living things. You stored all your wealth and supplies inside and left Heaven Dou City alone.]

[Age 9: After braving many dangers, you entered Sunset Forest near Heaven Dou City.]

[With your top-tier comprehension, you observed the distribution of forest vegetation, fluctuations in geothermal heat, and other factors, precisely pinpointing the sacred destination every transmigrator had to visit-the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.]

[This was Poison Douluo Dugu Bo's private forbidden ground, and you dared not enter recklessly.]

[Through your intelligence organization, you had already learned Dugu Bo's travel patterns.]

[To ensure nothing could go wrong, you spent an entire month staking out the outskirts of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, personally confirming the intelligence's accuracy.]

[You spent half a month drawing on the pharmacological knowledge you had accumulated over the years, combined with your top-tier comprehension, to personally concoct an antidote to the poisonous barrier and ensure your safety.]

[While Dugu Bo was away, you took the antidote and slipped into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.]

[The sight before you left you awestruck.]

[One well held twin springs. In one half, fiery waters churned, heat waves surging sky-high; in the other, the ice pierced the bone with unbearable cold. Ice and fire mingled yet remained sharply divided. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was so dense it formed a thin mist. Rare medicinal herbs carpeted the ground, and immortal-grade spiritual plants were everywhere.]

[You suppressed your excitement and fixed your gaze on the two immortal-grade herbs at the center.]

[Using jade and gold implements respectively, you harvested the infernal delicate apricot and octagonal mysterious ice grass, then swallowed them together.]

[Agonizing pain swept through your body. Your sinews and bones felt as though they were being torn apart and reassembled, but you gritted your teeth and held on without the slightest retreat.]

[Once their cold and heat toxins neutralized each other within your body, you jumped into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.]

[Half a day later, the powers of ice and fire merged, completely transforming your physical foundation.]

[You completed ice and fire body tempering.]

[Your aptitude rose to innate rank seven, and your accumulated soul power reached rank twelve.]

[You packed up every remaining immortal herb and took them all.]

[You dug up some spiritual soil and collected plenty of spring water from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.]

[Before leaving, you left behind two earth dragon golden melons and five Antidote Pills, then found a stone slab and carved a message:]

["Senior, I am a thief. I stole from your medicinal garden. For this, I am deeply sorry."]

["Regarding the poison afflicting you, Senior, I have three methods for your consideration."]

["First, the soul bone method: concentrate the toxins in your body within a soul bone, supplemented with two Antidote Pills. Please note that this method treats the symptoms, not the root cause, and hidden dangers remain. A soul bone's capacity to store toxins is ultimately limited. I recommend choosing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone or an external soul bone capable of growth."]

["Second, the poison core method: you already have a Poison Pill within your body, Senior, which might be regarded as an embryonic soul core. Soul cores have a property of inward collapse and can draw all the toxins throughout your body into themselves. This could resolve the hidden danger and even take your strength to a higher level. However, I have yet to fully comprehend the method of condensing a soul core. You may refer to how soul beasts condense their soul cores and study it yourself."]

["Third, the martial soul evolution method: these two immortal-grade medicinal herbs are called earth dragon golden melons. They can remedy the flaws of dragon-type martial souls, improve their quality, and bring about evolution. Simply consume one directly."]

["I am deeply sorry for stealing your immortal herbs today. When I have attained success in cultivation, I will surely come in person to repay this karmic debt."]

[After leaving the letter and treasures, you turned and departed, leaving Sunset Forest altogether.]