[Ten whole years passed in the blink of an eye.]
[You absorbed vast quantities of natural essence Qi and rare treasures. Your life force grew much stronger than when you had first transmigrated, but there was still no sign of your birth.]
[You grew somewhat anxious about this.]
[Some days earlier, you had overheard your mother and father talking and learned that the border conflict between the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom and its neighbor, the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom, had suddenly escalated after more than two hundred years. In a short time, the situation at the front had deteriorated badly.]
[To set things right, your father, as regent overseeing the kingdom, would go to the front himself to steady the troops.]
[After hearing the news, you felt a vague unease and began to suspect that this was the beginning of the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom's downfall.]
The Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom invaded... The eldest prince went to the front himself...
Hearing this crucial information, Zhou Qing understood.
The simulation was probably referring to the battle in which the eldest prince and his master, Ancestor God Fantian, had fallen.
It was also because of that battle that he had been imprisoned in the World Prison.
[However, things did not develop as you had imagined.]
[After your father went to the front, the tide of battle turned, and reports of victory began pouring into the capital of the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom.]
[You breathed a sigh of relief.]
[Although victory had been won at the front, your father decided to remain stationed there to guard against a counterattack by the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom.]
[Another fifty years passed.]
[After another fifty years of gestation, you felt that your birth was not far off.]
[But just then, something unexpected happened.]
[The Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom, which had been driven back last time, suddenly raised its armies and attacked again. This time, by some unknown means, it killed many of the senior figures at the front, including your father.]
[With that, the once-favorable situation at the front took a sudden turn for the worse, and panic spread throughout the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom.]
[Your mother could not accept the news of your father's death in battle and immediately sent people to investigate.]
[Although the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom kept the cause of the rout at the front under wraps, your mother learned the truth through your father's trusted forces.]
[It turned out that your father had fallen because the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom had found a top-tier World Realm expert skilled in formations, though no one knew where. With that expert's help, the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom's defensive formations at the front might as well not have existed. The Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom drove straight in, and your father was caught off guard and killed.]
So that was what happened...
After being imprisoned in the World Prison, Zhou Qing had often wondered why the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom had been able to gain the upper hand in its war against the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom.
The King of Nine Directions had cultivated the Eighteen Fiendgods of Taowu to the third level. With his eighteen avatars united, he possessed the combat strength of a top-tier World God.
A single top-tier World Realm expert could match seven or eight weaker World Realm experts.
So the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom had also found a top-tier World Realm expert, and one skilled in formations at that.
Having read the Junshan Formation Records, Zhou Qing naturally knew how terrifying a World Realm expert skilled in formations could be.
Leaving everything else aside, simply by preparing a joint attack formation like the Eighteen Fiendgod Formation for those at the Ancestor God and Ancestor Immortal levels, the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom's combat strength would surpass that of the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom by a considerable margin.
Not to mention that the Chaos Immortal skilled in formations in the simulation might also know a joint attack formation for World Realm experts.
That would be even more terrifying.
While Zhou Qing pondered, the simulation continued.
[With the Chaos Immortal it had brought in, the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom now had five World Realm experts, outnumbering the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom.]
[Moreover, the Chaos Immortal invited by the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom was no ordinary World Realm expert, but a top-tier World Realm expert like the King of Nine Directions.]
[On top of that, the ruler of the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom possessed strength approaching that of a top-tier World Realm expert. Thus, in terms of its strongest combatants, the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom had completely surpassed the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom as well.]
[Under this pressure, the King of Nine Directions led three World Realm experts from his kingdom to the front to confront the World Realm experts of the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom.]
[While there were no World Realm experts stationed in the capital, an unexpected incident suddenly occurred.]
[A group of experts of unknown origin suddenly broke into the regent's residence and attacked your family.]
[The attackers were numerous, including several powerful peak Ancestor Gods and peak Ancestor Immortals. The two peak Ancestor God guards in your residence fought back with all their might, but could not stop them.]
[Upon finding your mother, one of the Ancestor Gods among the attackers immediately struck to kill. Seeing this, your mother immediately used an item to save her life.]
[But it was too late. Before the life-saving item could take effect, your mother was struck by the Ancestor God, and her Pure Yang Jindan shattered on the spot.]
[The life-saving item then took effect, enveloping your mother in a golden barrier. But after the attackers outside assailed it, the barrier began to teeter on the brink of collapse.]
[Seeing that the barrier could not hold against the attackers for long, your mother made a snap decision and used a spacetime treasure.]
[Spacetime shifted, and your mother vanished from where she stood.]
[Seeing their target disappear, the attackers who had surrounded the barrier immediately tracked her by following the spacetime fluctuations.]
[Meanwhile, after using the spacetime treasure, your mother arrived in a wilderness.]
[With her golden core shattered, your mother's life force continued to weaken. She knew she did not have long to live, so she decided to give birth to you prematurely.]
[Although you were still in your mother's womb, you knew perfectly well that your home had been attacked. You were especially frantic after noticing that your mother's life force was growing weaker and weaker, your heart burning with anxiety.]
[Just then, you suddenly felt a repelling force and realized that you were moving slowly. Then you began to cry uncontrollably.]
[After drawing a breath of fresh air, you immediately realized that you had been born!]
[Although you had only just been born, as the child of an immortal and a fiendgod, you were already as big as a four- or five-year-old.]
[Looking at your adorable appearance, your dying mother could not help but smile faintly.]
[Then, drenched in blood, she took the magic treasure bracelet off her wrist and slipped it around your neck.]
[After doing this, your mother stopped breathing.]
[At the sight, bean-sized tears streamed from the corners of your eyes.]
[Although you had only just been born, counting the years in the womb, you had been with your mother for sixty years, and a deep bond had long since formed between you.]
[Now that your mother had been murdered, you felt nothing but endless pain and resentment.]
[Just then, spacetime fluctuated around the wilderness, and an Ancestor God dressed in black appeared. You immediately recognized him as one of the people who had just attacked the regent's residence.]
[Noticing your mother's corpse and you, whom he did not recognize, the black-clad Ancestor God quickly realized what had happened.]
[He then looked at you, so young, his eyes filled with killing intent.]
[But just before he made his move, the black-clad Ancestor God seemed to remember something and began to hesitate.]
[While the black-clad Ancestor God hesitated, you chose: one, seize the chance to flee; two, wait and see what happened.]