Looking at the two choices in the simulation, Zhou Qing instinctively ruled out the first.
Run away?
Was that a joke?
How could a prematurely born Fiendgod offspring escape from an Ancestor God?
So he decisively chose the second option.
He made that choice because he was certain the black-robed Ancestor God in the simulation would not dare kill him.
Back in the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom, just after Zhou Qing had undergone his tribulation and was preparing to venture out into the world, Ancestor God Fantian had briefly told him about the kingdom's major powers.
When he came to the Dongfang Clan, the royal family of the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom, Ancestor God Fantian repeatedly warned him not to provoke them lightly. Even if he had no choice but to offend them, he must never kill a member of the Dongfang Clan.
The reason went back several hundred chaos cycles.
Before the King of Nine Directions rose to power, he had offended a World Realm mighty figure.
Though he had narrowly escaped that mighty figure's pursuit, his family, the Dongfang Clan, had suffered for it.
The World Realm mighty figure hunted them down and slaughtered everyone related to the King of Nine Directions. The Dongfang Clan was nearly wiped out.
Although the King of Nine Directions later reached the World Realm and succeeded in taking revenge, it remained an undeniable fact that his family's bloodline had dwindled.
To carry on the family bloodline, the King of Nine Directions spent vast resources and more than ten chaos cycles before he had three children.
His father in the simulation, the eldest prince, was one of them.
To protect the few surviving members of his flesh and blood, the King of Nine Directions placed a blood curse on his sons. Anyone who killed a member of the Dongfang Clan would have their location marked by the curse.
Then, even if the killer fled to the ends of the earth, the King of Nine Directions could still slay them.
Later, after several hundred chaos cycles of propagation, the Dongfang Clan's population had grown too large to count. The King of Nine Directions could not place a blood curse on every member of the clan.
So he later decreed that only clan members within a hundred generations of him or those with extraordinary talent would enjoy the blood curse's protection.
As the son of the eldest prince of the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom, his simulated self was no more than three generations removed from the King of Nine Directions and was certainly protected by the blood curse.
That was probably why the black-robed Ancestor God held back for fear of the consequences and did not dare make a move against him.
What happened next in the simulation confirmed Zhou Qing's guess.
[After staring at you for a long while, the black-robed Ancestor God still could not make up his mind to attack you.] [In the end, he simply seized you and threw you into a grotto-heaven treasure.] [After the black-robed Ancestor God abducted you and put you in the grotto-heaven treasure, you spent every day in fear, terrified that he would kill you.] [Ten years passed like this.] [During those ten years, the black-robed Ancestor God left you inside the grotto-heaven treasure and never paid you any attention.]
Without thinking too much about it, Zhou Qing immediately chose the first option.
The owner of the grotto-heaven treasure in the simulation was the black-robed Ancestor God who had abducted him. Who knew what was inside?
If some deadly danger lurked within, wouldn't he be throwing his life away by exploring it rashly?
Once Zhou Qing made his choice, the information on the simulation panel continued to update.
[At first, you lived in constant dread, but as time passed, you gradually calmed down and learned to take things as they came.] [You understood that fear could not change your fate, and that constant anxiety would only wear you down.] [Having realized that, you began turning your attention to other things, such as cultivation.] [The bracelet your mother left you before she died was called the Moonspirit Bracelet, a top-grade Xiantian Spirit-Treasure of the grotto-heaven type. Its spirit knew you were its former master's son, so it readily acknowledged you as its master.] [It told you that after your father died in battle, your mother placed a third of the treasures from the regent's residence treasury inside the grotto-heaven treasure, precisely to prepare for a situation like this.] [Hearing this, you opened the grotto-heaven treasure and found a large quantity of precious resources inside, including treasures, pills, and Dao talismans.] [What drew your attention most, however, were some cultivation texts.] [From among these texts, you first chose the Grand Primordium Gui Yi Record, a Fiendgod Body Refining technique that could be cultivated all the way to the Ancestor God level.] [Although you were forced to be born prematurely, sixty long years of gestation had made you a Primal Fiendgod from birth. The path of Fiendgod Body Refining was clearly the most fitting choice.] [Next, you chose the Profound Grotto Grand Contemplation Scripture, a Ki Refining method that could produce a first-grade golden core; the Indestructible Dao-Body, a protective divine ability that, once mastered, could rival a top-grade Xiantian treasure; Microcosmic Divine Power, a divine ability for explosive bursts of divine power; and the Hundred-Pace Divine Sword, an introductory sword art.] [After placing your palm on a jade slip and swearing a Lifeblood Oath, you obtained the texts you had just chosen.] [Then you began your journey of cultivation.] [Since you were already a Primal Fiendgod, your cultivation of the Grand Primordium Gui Yi Record went smoothly. In just a few years, you reached the Primal section.] [Your cultivation of the Profound Grotto Grand Contemplation Scripture, however, progressed very slowly.] [With no foundational knowledge of meridians or acupoints, you treated yourself like a guinea pig while cultivating the Ki Refining method. As a result, you ruptured your meridians countless times.] [If an ordinary mortal dared cultivate as you did, they would probably have crippled themselves long ago. But as a born Primal Fiendgod, such minor injuries clearly had no effect on you.] [At last, after more than a decade and countless attempts, you finally grasped the basics of the Profound Grotto Grand Contemplation Scripture.] [After completing your cultivation of the techniques, you began studying the Hundred-Pace Divine Sword.] [You had specifically chosen the Hundred-Pace Divine Sword to comprehend the Sword Dao. After all, what transmigrator did not dream of becoming a sword immortal in flowing white robes?] [But after three years of study, you found that you had gained nothing. You could not even sense the so-called Sword Dao.] [Refusing to believe it, you immediately picked more methods from among the many texts.] [Over the next several decades, you studied hundreds of texts of varying depth in succession. The most profound pointed directly to mastery of a Great Dao, while the simplest merely touched upon the True Meaning of the Dao.] [But in the end, you found that the most you could comprehend was the so-called realm of subtlety. No matter how hard you tried, you could not reach the next realm, One with the World.] [You found this hard to believe. Could your comprehension really be so poor?] [You chose: one, continue trying to comprehend it; two, ask the Moonspirit Bracelet's spirit for guidance.]
Strange...
Seeing the information appear on the simulation panel, Zhou Qing could not help frowning.
Although his natural gifts had differed slightly in the first two simulations, he had generally been a genius in both. Why was his talent so poor this time?
After thinking it over, he chose the second option.
His simulated self had spent decades trying to comprehend the Dao without gaining anything. If it really was because his talent was poor, there was no point in continuing to work behind closed doors. He might as well ask the Moonspirit Bracelet's spirit for guidance.
Although the spirits of these Xiantian Spirit-Treasures generally had ordinary talent, their comprehension of the Dao was often quite good after the long years they had lived through.
If they chose to reincarnate like Lord Cui of the Three Realms, they would most likely be able to undergo the tribulation and become immortals. It was even possible for them to become Pure Yang True Immortals.
Though they could not compare with true heaven's chosen, they were more than qualified to advise his simulated self, who had only just set foot on the immortal path.
[Having been unable to reach the realm of One with the World for so long, you lost your equilibrium and decided to ask the Moonspirit Bracelet's spirit for some guidance.] [After hearing your request, the Moonspirit Bracelet sensed its surroundings and discovered that the place you were now in had passed beyond the jurisdiction of the Chaos World Heavenly Dao.] [In other words, you had left the Nine Directions Chaos World.]
Looking at the information on the simulation panel, Zhou Qing immediately felt a sense of relief.
We're no longer inside the Chaos World...
No wonder his comprehension of the Dao had never reached the realm of One with the World.
One with the World, as the name implied, meant resonating with the Dao of the Chaos World and borrowing the power of heaven and earth.
If a person had already left the Chaos World and was beyond the reach of the Chaos World Dao, how could they borrow the power of heaven and earth and reach the realm of One with the World?
It was not just the realm of One with the World. Comprehension of the Chaos World's Daos, Great Daos, and even ordinary Heavenly Daos did not apply universally outside the Chaos World.
Only two powers were truly universal throughout the chaos: the Chaos Heavenly Dao and Primordial Power.
That was because these two powers did not depend on a Chaos World, but originated from the Chaos Universe itself.