[After escaping Old Devil Fufeng's pursuit, you did not let your guard down. To lie low for a while, you chose to travel to the Firmament Major World.]
[Not much time had passed since you left, and the lease on the cultivation cave you had rented in Luotian City had yet to expire, so you simply stayed there and devoted yourself to cultivation.]
[Time flew. Fifty years later, your insight into the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth advanced another step, approaching the level of a top-tier Celestial Immortal.]
[During that time, you also drew on your own insight into the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth to create your sixth ultimate move, Heaven-Trapping Claw.]
[By then, you felt you had spent too long sitting in seclusion and planned to leave Luotian City for a change of scenery. But as soon as you left the city, several mysterious experts attacked you.]
[These people were all experts on Immortal Xuanzhen's level. Together, they could just barely put up a fight against someone at the million-year Loose Immortal level.]
[In the past, dealing with them would have taken you considerable effort, but things were different now.]
[Your level was now close to that of a top-tier Celestial Immortal, and your combat strength was far from weak even among Celestial Immortals. Dealing with a few people who could barely reach the million-year Loose Immortal level by joining forces was as easy as turning over your hand.]
[You opened with Sky Rend Claw, and its power shattered their formation at once.]
[Seizing the opportunity, you unleashed several moves in succession and killed the person leading their formation on the spot.]
[Just as you were about to continue, a purple-robed Celestial Immortal flew out of Luotian City and urged you to show mercy.]
[You scoffed at him and killed the remaining attackers anyway.]
[The purple-robed Celestial Immortal was furious that you had given him no face and brazenly attacked you.]
[The purple-robed Celestial Immortal's strength had already reached the high Celestial Immortal level, making him about your equal at the moment. Faced with his furious attack, you dared not take him lightly and immediately countered with your newly created sixth ultimate move, Heaven-Trapping Claw.]
[The essence of your Heaven-Trapping Claw lay in the word "trapping." The move was exceedingly strange: anyone struck by it would be caught in spatial fluctuations like a swamp, making escape difficult.]
[Sure enough, the purple-robed Celestial Immortal could not break your Heaven-Trapping Claw and could only defend himself passively.]
[You had never fought a Celestial Immortal before, and this fierce battle with the purple-robed Celestial Immortal sent your insight into the Dao advancing by leaps and bounds.]
[A moment later, you suddenly achieved enlightenment, and your insight into the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth reached the top-tier Celestial Immortal level. Your strength surged, and you sent the purple-robed Celestial Immortal scurrying away with his hands over his head.]
[Because your Heaven-Trapping Claw had struck him and disrupted the space around him, the purple-robed Celestial Immortal could not even use a Greater Teleportation Talisman to escape.]
[Soon, under your fierce assault, the purple-robed Celestial Immortal's presence grew feeble, and he begged for mercy again and again.]
[You chose: one, kill him; two, spare him.]
"Two." After weighing the pros and cons, Zhou Qing chose the second option.
The Celestial Immortal had come out of Luotian City, so he might have some connection to Firmament Sacred Land, the power that ruled the Firmament Major World.
Powers capable of ruling a major world all had Empyrean Gods and True Immortals holding the fort, just like the Great Xia Dynasty. Offending Firmament Sacred Land for the sake of killing the purple-robed Celestial Immortal would hardly be a wise choice.
That was all well and good, but he could not simply let the fellow go, either.
[After some thought, you decided to spare the purple-robed Celestial Immortal, but you demanded that he hand over all his treasures and swear an Oath to the Heavenly Daos not to gather his friends and family to take revenge on you.]
[Faced with these harsh demands, the purple-robed Celestial Immortal gritted his teeth and agreed.]
[After receiving the purple-robed Celestial Immortal's treasures, you returned directly to Luotian City to continue cultivating.]
[Your battle with the purple-robed Celestial Immortal had deepened your insight into the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. Using these new insights as a foundation, you spent ten years creating your seventh ultimate move, Heaven-Severing Claw.]
[The essence of Heaven-Severing Claw lay in the word "severing." Anyone struck by the move would be swept up in endless spatial turbulence and finally driven into a hopeless situation.]
[After creating the ultimate move, you found yourself with some rare free time, so you decided to see what treasures the purple-robed Celestial Immortal had contributed to you.]
[One mid-grade Pure Yang magic treasure, two supreme-grade Immortal-ranked magic treasures, five high-grade Immortal-ranked magic treasures, thirty supreme-grade Immortal-ranked Immortal pills... The purple-robed Celestial Immortal's wealth was indeed considerable.]
[While taking stock of the purple-robed Celestial Immortal's treasures, you also found the warrior puppet you had sold to Xuancang Trading Company.]
[You immediately understood that this attack was very likely a trap Xuancang Trading Company had set for you.]
[You could not help reflecting that, given enough profit, Xuancang Trading Company's so-called reputation meant nothing.]
[As you continued taking stock of the purple-robed Celestial Immortal's treasures, you suddenly discovered an object.]
[It was a palm-sized piece of silvery-white metal, covered in beautiful patterns and emanating a spatial Dao resonance that fascinated you.]
[After examining it for a while, you came back to your senses and discovered that your Great Dao of Heaven and Earth had made considerable progress.]
[Wild with joy, you immediately threw yourself into comprehending the silvery-white metal.]
"Grand Void Silver Crystal? Or a fragment of Void Fetal Membrane?"
With only the simulation panel's brief description to go on, Zhou Qing could only make a bold guess based on what he knew.
Grand Void Silver Crystal was a wondrous object born in chaos. Because it naturally possessed spatial Dao resonance, it was a material used to forge Chaos Wonder-level flying boats.
Void Fetal Membrane, like Grand Void Silver Crystal, was a wondrous object of chaos that naturally possessed spatial Dao resonance. It was a material used to forge Chaos Wonder-level grotto-heaven magic treasures.
Whichever it was, Zhou Qing could only say that his luck in the simulation defied the heavens, for him to find a wondrous object of chaos of this level in a chaos world.
[After comprehending the silvery-white metal, you entered a state of profound mystery. In this state, your insight into the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth progressed naturally.]
[Ten years... twenty years... thirty years... Time passed bit by bit, and finally, fifty years later, you slowly opened your eyes.]
[By then, your insight into the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth had reached the peak Celestial Immortal level.]
[During this time, you also cultivated the Crimsonbright Diagram of the Nine Heavens to the thirteenth stage, and your Fiendgod Body Refining broke through to the Primal level.]
[Several years later, using your further-improved Great Dao of Heaven and Earth as a foundation, you created your eighth ultimate move, Heaven-Slaughtering Claw.]
[By this point, your insight into the Dao had reached the peak Celestial Immortal level. For treasures, you had the low-grade innate spirit treasure Yellow Heaven Treasure Armor to protect you. As for your Dao-heart, you had endured the trials of more than 1,800 reincarnations in Golden Light Cave, so overcoming the Heart Demon Tribulation would be nothing much.]
[Therefore, you believed you might be ready to face your tribulation.]
[You chose: one, have your original body face the tribulation; two, have your Second Primaltwin face the tribulation; three, spend more time consolidating your foundation.]
"It seems having my Second Primaltwin become a Celestial Immortal can also complete the objective." Looking at the three choices in the simulation, Zhou Qing nodded.
His original body was his hope for Fiendgod Body Refining and could not face the tribulation. Although his current conditions gave him a good chance of succeeding, he could not gamble on it.
As for his Second Primaltwin, although facing the tribulation now was practically a sure thing, Zhou Qing still intended to play it safe.
After all, not even half of the simulation's thousand-year time limit had passed.
He had already grasped a trace of Space Power in the simulation, and with so much time, he had every hope of bringing the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth to completion before facing the tribulation.
"Three." After thinking for a long time, Zhou Qing made his choice.
[After some thought, you chose to continue consolidating your foundation.]
[As the efficiency of comprehending the Dao through the silvery-white metal declined, you chose to leave Luotian City and travel in all directions.]
[Over the next hundred years, you disguised your identity and traveled about challenging the Celestial Immortals of the Firmament Major World.]
[At first, you only challenged ordinary and top-tier Celestial Immortals, but gradually, Celestial Immortals of that strength could no longer temper you.]
[So you began seeking out peak Celestial Immortals to challenge.]
[Celestial Immortal Qinghua, Celestial Immortal Blackfiend, Celestial Immortal Zhenhuang... One powerful peak Celestial Immortal after another fell to you.]
[Finally, in your four hundredth year, your Great Dao of Heaven and Earth reached completion.]
[Using this as a foundation, you created your ninth ultimate move, which contained all your insights-Heaven-Exterminating Claw.]
[After mastering the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, you could use Grand Teleportation at will, so you began searching for Immortal Wusui and Immortal Duohe, who had been missing for many years.]
[The Wuqiong Major World, the Thunder God Major World, the Tiger Fang Major World... Relying on your thin blood connection to Immortal Wusui, you used a bloodline-tracking technique to search one world after another.]
[Yet after two full centuries, you had searched all three thousand major worlds of the Three Realms without finding any trace of Immortal Wusui.]
[But according to your bloodline sense, Immortal Wusui had not perished. You realized that he might have ended up in one of the countless minor worlds of the Three Realms.]
[The minor worlds were as vast and numerous as the seas and stars; there was no way you could search them one by one. With no other choice, you had to give up the search for Immortal Wusui for the time being.]
[By then, after two hundred years of cultivation, your Fiendgod Body Refining had broken through to the Void level.]
"Immortal Wusui's luck is far too poor..." Zhou Qing shook his head.
[Although your search for Immortal Wusui had borne no fruit, your conscience was clear, so you began preparing to face your tribulation.]
[After considering the matter, you concluded that your insight into the Dao, magic treasures, and Dao-heart were all up to par. What you might lack was someone to guard you.]
[The heavenly tribulation was divided into the wind tribulation, fire tribulation, lightning tribulation, and Heart Demon Tribulation.]
[During the first three tribulations, the Heavenly Dao allowed no one to interfere, whether to help or hinder.]
[But once the fourth tribulation, the Heart Demon Tribulation, began, the Heavenly Dao's protection would vanish. If someone appeared and acted against you then, you would be powerless to fight back.]
[To prevent such a situation, those facing tribulation often sought out a few close friends to stand guard over them.]
[At this thought, you suddenly remembered the Communication Talisman Xuanshu had left you in your storage magic treasure.]
[Have Xuanshu guard you? But as soon as the idea occurred to you, you dismissed it.]
[You had met him only once. How could you entrust him with something like facing tribulation, on which your life and all you possessed depended?]
[After thinking for a long time, you finally decided against finding someone to guard you. Instead, you would purchase and set up a grand formation to protect yourself from disturbance during the Heart Demon Tribulation.]
[You had challenged many Celestial Immortals in the Firmament Major World, and some had become your friends after fighting you.]
[You found one of those friends, a peak Celestial Immortal skilled in formations, and paid a considerable price to have a formation plate custom-made.]
[The formation plate contained a grand formation called the Five Emperors Canopy. Once deployed, even a peak Celestial Immortal would have difficulty breaking through it in a short time.]
[At the same time, you spent more than ten years finding an extremely remote minor world as a place to face your tribulation.]
[Once everything was ready, you chose: one, have your original body face the tribulation; two, have your Second Primaltwin face the tribulation.]
"Two." Zhou Qing made his choice according to his earlier plan.
[Your Second Primaltwin began refining Essence Liquid. Several days later, it broke through to Void Perfection, and the Heavenly Dao descended with a heavenly tribulation.]
[Soon, the wind and fire tribulations arrived one after another, and you passed them easily with the help of the Xiantian Spirit-Treasure Yellow Heaven Treasure Armor.]
[After you passed the wind and fire tribulations, the lightning tribulation arrived, and rolling heavenly lightning struck down incessantly.]
[The first set of nine... the second set of nine... the fifth set of nine... Under the Yellow Heaven Treasure Armor's protection, you still had a relatively easy time.]
[But by the sixth set of nine lightning strikes, even the Yellow Heaven Treasure Armor was struggling to withstand them.]
[So you began reinforcing the Yellow Heaven Treasure Armor with second-level Space Power.]
[Indeed, after mastering the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, your comprehension of Space Power had advanced another step and reached the second level.]
[Second-level Space Power was already a power at the Empyrean God and True Immortal level. Reinforced by it, you found the Lightning Tribulation no more than a gentle breeze brushing your face.]
[The seventh set of nine... the eighth set of nine... the ninth set of nine... You easily passed even the legendary Nine-Nines Lightning Tribulation of the Qi Refining Path.]
"The Nine-Nines Lightning Tribulation?" Zhou Qing looked slightly surprised.
But after thinking it over carefully, he understood. Although the only opportunity he had obtained was that of Perfected Taiyi, a Pure Yang True Immortal, a Void-level cultivator mastering second-level Space Power was simply too monstrous. It was understandable that the Heavenly Dao had increased the Heavenly Tribulation's intensity.
[Having passed the lightning tribulation, you immediately activated the formation and prepared to face the Heart Demon Tribulation.]
[But just then, a spatial fluctuation suddenly appeared in the remote minor world.]
[You immediately understood that someone had intruded!]
"Hm?"
Seeing the message in the simulation, Zhou Qing grew solemn.
He had chosen this tribulation site himself in the simulation. How could anyone else know about it?
The next moment, a terrifying answer occurred to Zhou Qing.
Could it be the Seamless Gate?
But wasn't the great tribulation still a long way off? Why was the Seamless Gate stirring up wind and clouds so early?
Though countless questions filled his mind, there was nothing he could do now. He could only see what fate had in store for him in the simulation.
[Although shocked that someone had intruded on your tribulation site, you understood that everything would have to wait until you had passed the Heart Demon Tribulation.]
[The next moment, you fell into the heart-demon world.]
[At the same time, Heavenly Immortal Xuanji, Celestial Immortal Jingyu, and Celestial Immortal Chixin saw you undergoing the Heart Demon Tribulation.]
[Seeing that you were powerless to resist, they looked delighted.]
[Without hesitation, they immediately began attacking the Five Emperors Canopy Formation protecting you.]
[But the formation's resilience was clearly beyond their expectations. The strongest among them, Celestial Immortal Chixin, was only a top-tier Celestial Immortal. How could they break a grand formation capable of stopping a peak Celestial Immortal?]
[As time passed bit by bit and the grand formation remained unshaken, the Shaoyan Clan's Celestial Immortal patriarchs grew anxious and began bringing out their trump-card treasures.]
[Grand Yin Divine Talismans, Wuji Awls, Heaven-Breaking Magic Swords... They threw out treasure after treasure capable of injuring a peak Celestial Immortal.]
[Under the attacks of the Shaoyan Clan's Celestial Immortal patriarchs, the Five Emperors Canopy Formation teetered on the verge of collapse, close to being breached.]
[Returning to your side, after you entered the heart-demon world, the Heavenly Dao arranged a perfect life for you there. Not only did you have three thousand beauties in your harem, but you also became the strongest person in the Three Realms.]
[But to you at this point, these things were far too false and hollow to make you lose yourself in them.]
[In your view, the intensity of this Heart Demon Tribulation was about the same as the Heart-Questioning Trial after roughly a thousand reincarnations in Golden Light Cave.]
[Thus, after just two days, you awakened from the heart-demon world.]
[You became a third-class Celestial Immortal. Simulation successful.]