Zhou Qing had never expected the black-robed Ancestor God in the simulation to throw him into the Realm Ruins...
He immediately found himself in a difficult spot.
Leaving the Realm Ruins was no easy task.
If one only wanted to enter, one could simply fly along the established route, but there was no such route out.
The Realm Ruins were a perilous region formed from the remnants of several chaos worlds, and the space-time within was in extreme disarray.
One would often be flying along inside, only to inexplicably lose one's bearings and become lost.
Unless one was a master of the Path of Space-Time, leaving the Realm Ruins after entering would take at least hundreds of billions of years, even with good luck.
That wasn't even the main problem.
Everyone knew that turbulent currents of space-time arose when a bubble world was destroyed. After raging for a while, these currents would sink to the bottom of the Realm Ruins.
After a hundred thousand years of accumulation, an enormous amount of Power of Time and Space would build up at the bottom of the Realm Ruins. At some point, it would erupt, forming a space-time storm capable of destroying heaven and earth.
The space-time storm would erupt from the bottom of the Realm Ruins and sweep across the entire region within a few months. It was powerful enough to damage even top-grade Xiantian Spirit-Treasures.
Thus, those who sought treasure in the Realm Ruins were all powerful experts with Chaos Wonder-grade flying boats.
His simulated self should have had a Chaos Wonder-grade flying boat. After all, his mother had taken nearly a third of the Regent's Residence's wealth with her.
But Chaos Wonders were unlike Xiantian Spirit-Treasures, which even mortals could use as long as their artifact spirits acknowledged them.
Refining a Chaos Wonder required at least the strength of a True Immortal or True God. His simulated self had yet to undergo his Heavenly Tribulation, so he clearly didn't meet that requirement.
In other words, when faced with the space-time storm that came once every hundred thousand years, his simulated self could do little more than sit and wait for death.
At that thought, Zhou Qing became deeply worried.
[After learning that you had escaped the black-robed Ancestor God's control, you felt a wave of relief.]
[But you immediately realized that your circumstances were far from favorable. Other dangers could very well lurk in this unfamiliar region of chaos.]
[Thus, you chose: 1. Have your true body find a bubble world that was still safe and enter it, then send your Second Primaltwin out to explore in another top-grade Xiantian Spirit-Treasure flying boat. 2. Have your true body and Second Primaltwin each pilot a flying boat and explore the region separately.]
Seeing the two options in the simulation, Zhou Qing pondered for a long time before making his decision.
It was better to play it safe and let his Second Primaltwin explore.
That way, even if something unexpected happened, he would only lose his Second Primaltwin rather than be wiped out entirely.
[To be safe, you chose to find a safe bubble world for your true body, then send your Second Primaltwin out to explore.]
[But only twelve years later, the unexpected happened. Your Second Primaltwin became lost in this region of chaos while exploring.]
[Although you sensed that your Second Primaltwin was still alive, all you could tell about his exact location was that he was somewhere very far away from you.]
[This made you even more cautious, and your true body no longer left the bubble world without good reason.]
[A hundred years later, the bubble world you inhabited was destroyed, and you once again piloted your flying boat out of the range of the turbulent space-time currents.]
[Afterward, you watched from afar as the bubble world was gradually annihilated, and an ineffably profound feeling arose in your heart.]
[After the bubble world you had inhabited was destroyed, you found another one.]
[But your luck was terrible this time. This bubble world had existed for only eight years before it abruptly fell apart, forcing you to leave in your flying boat once again.]
[This time, you had another chance to witness the destruction of a bubble world, and that ineffably profound feeling immediately returned.]
[A moment later, you experienced an epiphany. After faintly sensing the origin of the Chaos Universe, you grasped a trace of the Power of Destruction at the age of three hundred and twenty.]
[You were wild with joy.]
[You had gained nothing from studying various texts for decades. Although the Moonspirit Bracelet had explained that this was because you were not in a chaos world and could not comprehend the Dao at all, it had still left you deeply frustrated.]
[Now, you had actually comprehended a trace of Primordial Power, greatly bolstering your Dao heart.]
He had actually comprehended a trace of the Power of Destruction.
Zhou Qing was somewhat surprised by the information in the simulation.
Without the guidance of the Chaos World Dao, comprehending Primordial Power was nearly impossible. He hadn't expected his simulated self to succeed.
His true body in the World Prison had also raised his Power of Illusion to the third level without the guidance of the Chaos World Dao.
But that was because, back when he had been in a chaos world, he had already grasped a trace of the Power of Illusion before achieving major mastery of the Grand Dao of Illusion.
With that trace of the Power of Illusion as a starting point, comprehending Primordial Power might have been difficult for him, but at least he had a trail to follow.
His simulated self was different. Without the guidance of the Chaos World Dao, he had comprehended a trace of the Power of Destruction purely by watching bubble worlds fall apart a few times.
That could already be called taking nature as his teacher.
[You continued searching for bubble worlds, but you were no longer looking for safe ones. Instead, you sought those on the verge of destruction.]
[Your goal was no longer to hide inside a bubble world, but to watch bubble worlds fall apart and thereby comprehend the Power of Destruction.]
[Thirty years quickly passed. After watching nearly a hundred bubble worlds fall apart, you felt your Power of Destruction slowly growing.]
[Just then, you suddenly noticed the space-time around you beginning to fall into disorder, followed by a violent fluctuation in space-time.]
[A moment later, you saw a middle-aged man who bore some resemblance to your father appear before you.]
[Upon sensing that the life presence he radiated came from the same source as yours, you had an inkling of the man's identity.]
[When the middle-aged man saw you, a delighted look immediately appeared on his face. Before you could react, he swept you into his sleeve and took you away.]
Was this... the King of Nine Directions rescuing his simulated self from the Realm Ruins?
Zhou Qing was a little surprised.
He had just been worrying about how to survive the space-time storm that occurred once every hundred thousand years in the Realm Ruins, yet he hadn't expected to overcome the crisis so easily.
For a descendant who had yet to undergo his tribulation, a mighty World Realm expert had personally come to his rescue.
He had long heard that the King of Nine Directions valued his blood relatives, but he hadn't expected him to go this far.
[After a shift in space-time, you found that you and the middle-aged man had arrived in a magnificent palace.]
[Inside the palace were two men and a woman whose presences were slightly weaker than the middle-aged man's. You guessed that they were the remaining three World Realm experts of the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom.]
[From their conversation, you discovered that the middle-aged man was indeed your grandfather, the King of Nine Directions, just as you had guessed.]
[Although the King of Nine Directions had tens of thousands of grandchildren, they were almost all descendants of the second and third princes.]
[The most favored first prince, however, had possessed such outstanding talent that he became an Ancestor God before marrying and having children. As a result, it was extremely difficult for him to father offspring. Over the long years, he had only a dozen or so children, all of them female.]
[Thus, as the only male descendant in the first prince's line, you held an exceptionally high place in the King of Nine Directions' heart.]
[According to them, after learning that the Regent's Residence had been attacked and that the prince's consort, who was carrying the first prince's posthumous child, had gone missing, the King of Nine Directions made considerable concessions in his negotiations with the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom so that he could return sooner.]
[After returning to the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom, the King of Nine Directions used his bloodline connection to determine your location. Upon discovering that you were trapped deep within the Realm Ruins, he immediately dispatched a large number of experts to search for traces of you.]
[However, because of the chaotic space-time within the Realm Ruins, the experts who entered to search for you spent several hundred years without finding any news of you.]
[According to the King of Nine Directions' calculations, the space-time storm that occurred once every hundred thousand years in the Realm Ruins would erupt within a century. Considering how unlikely you were to survive the storm, the King of Nine Directions acted decisively, joining forces with the other World Realm experts to open a safe route through which one could freely enter and leave the Realm Ruins, taking only fifty years to do so.]
[It was thanks to this safe route that the King of Nine Directions was able to find you in the vast Realm Ruins.]