[Because your Great Dao of Destruction had reached the major accomplishment stage, you planned to first raise the Ki Refining Path cultivation of your true body and Second Primaltwin.]
[Thus, after refining an immense quantity of immortal pills, both your true body and Second Primaltwin broke through to First-Tier True Immortal on the Ki Refining Path at the age of five hundred and twenty-three.]
[Afterward, you began studying the Codex of Extinction, which Godlord Miejue had taught you.]
[The Codex of Extinction truly lived up to its reputation as the work into which Godlord Miejue had poured his life's blood. As you studied it, you found it exceptionally obscure and difficult to understand.]
[Just like that, after spending nearly two hundred years, you finally and laboriously grasped the basics of the Codex of Extinction.]
[In the process, you naturally comprehended the Power of Destruction to the second level.]
[At this point, you discovered that sitting in meditation and studying had become less and less effective. A thought occurred to you, and you decided to challenge the True God and First-Tier True Immortal prisoners in the World Prison.]
[Unlike several Chaos Cycles later, the True God and First-Tier True Immortal prisoners in the World Prison were not yet so powerful. The strongest had only mastered the fourth level of Primordial Power.]
[However, although no prisoners had yet mastered the fifth level of Primordial Power, your strength still made it impossible to challenge the stronger True God and First-Tier True Immortal prisoners. So you first challenged the weaker prisoners.]
[Over a hundred years, you challenged seventy True God and First-Tier True Immortal prisoners in succession, and your understanding of the Power of Destruction rose to a higher level.]
[Moreover, during this process, you unexpectedly experienced a sudden enlightenment and found inspiration for a breakthrough in the Grand Primordium Gui Yi Record. Thus, at the age of eight hundred and twenty-three, your true body broke through to True God.]
[You were delighted to have broken through to True God so quickly, so you made a point of taking precious immortal wine from the Moonlight Bracelet to share with your protector, Ancestor God Kongming.]
[Just as the two of you were exchanging toasts, something strange suddenly happened to the World Prison.]
[With a tremendous boom, the entire World Prison first shook violently, then began to crumble apart.]
[Seeing the World Prison collapse bit by bit, the many prisoners within it erupted in a wild celebration that roared like mountains and seas.]
[But when they saw a giant hand slowly descending from the sky, terror appeared on their faces.]
[And after sensing the terrifying presence radiating from the giant hand, you immediately understood that its owner was a World Realm expert, just like your grandfather, the King of Nine Directions.]
[You neither sent Ancestor God Kongming forward to resist nor took out the Dijiang Golem to face the enemy, because you knew that against such an expert, doing so would be nothing more than a desperate last stand.]
[Thinking of it this way, you actually felt somewhat relieved.]
[Several breaths later, the giant hand fell, and you and the prisoners in the World Prison were all reduced to ash beneath its terrifying might.]
[At the age of eight hundred and twenty-three, you were killed by the World Realm expert Immortal Daoyi.]
[Simulation failed.]
"I actually died..."
Watching his simulated self perish, Zhou Qing looked somewhat surprised.
Strange. According to my true body's memories, the seventeenth World Prison shouldn't have run into any calamities.
No, that's not right.
A moment later, Zhou Qing realized what had happened.
Whether in the original story or in his true body's experience, the greatest reason the seventeenth World Prison had been able to drift safely through the chaos for several Chaos Cycles was that there were no important figures there.
Since there were no important figures there, the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom's enemies naturally had no reason to keep their sights fixed on the seventeenth World Prison.
But this simulation was different. He, the eldest legitimate son of the first prince and the King of Nine Directions' favored grandson, was serving as the seventeenth World Prison's warden. How could the enemy still turn a blind eye to it?
At that thought, Zhou Qing shook his head.
His own cleverness had led him astray.
Having sorted that out, Zhou Qing recalled Immortal Daoyi, the man who had just killed him.
Immortal Daoyi... Why does that name sound so familiar?
The next moment, Zhou Qing's heart tightened.
That's right! Wasn't the World Realm inheritance Nangong Hu obtained from this very Immortal Daoyi?
He had also found the Junshan Formation Records, a World Realm formation inheritance, within that World Realm expert's inheritance.
Recalling this information, Zhou Qing's expression lit up with realization.
No wonder Immortal Daoyi came after me.
When the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom had conquered the Great Wilderness Chaosworld, the Nangong Clan, descendants of World God Feiyu, had resisted to the death and nearly been exterminated.
The Wilderness God Hall, the sect from which the other World Realm expert, Immortal Daoyi, hailed, had fared little better. Its inheritance had been seized, and its talents had dwindled away.
Then Chaos Immortal Daoyi, who had been presumed dead for dozens of Chaos Cycles, suddenly returned. Seeing his home Chaosworld and sect laid waste like this, he naturally grew angry and sought revenge against the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom.
That made perfect sense.
And so he, a direct descendant of the King of Nine Directions, had become Immortal Daoyi's target.
Thinking further of the top World Realm expert on the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom's side, who was skilled in formations and had been mentioned in the simulation, Zhou Qing suspected that he too was none other than Immortal Daoyi.
What was this? The Heavenly Dao turning full circle, retribution never missing its mark?
Zhou Qing couldn't help smiling bitterly.
The Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom had run rampant across that region of chaos for hundreds of Chaos Cycles, acting with extreme tyranny, and had ultimately suffered the backlash.
As Zhou Qing reflected on this, the simulation panel's results screen popped up.
[Simulation ended. You may choose one of the following two options.] [1. All your memories from the simulation. (Including your insights into the Dao, life experiences, and so on)] [2. One item that existed in the simulation]
Looking at the two options, Zhou Qing chose the second without much thought.
What did his simulated self's memories contain?
The second level of the Power of Destruction was hardly worth mentioning.
He already had the Grand Primordium Gui Yi Record, a Fiendgod Body Refining method that led directly to the Ancestor God level.
He had no shortage of divine abilities for protecting his body or explosively unleashing divine power.
The Heartforce method was far inferior to the Heart Sutra he cultivated.
All things considered, the memories from the simulation really were like chicken ribs to Zhou Qing.
Of course, it would be a different story if there were a Fiendgod Body Refining method that led directly to the World God level, or a method that surpassed the limits of the Heavenly Dao.
Unfortunately, his simulated self had not yet had a chance to encounter these most profound methods of the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom.
As he made his choice, Zhou Qing's vision went black, and the next second he arrived at the World Prison, a place he could not have been more familiar with.
The World Prison was still the same World Prison, except that a giant hand had appeared in the sky.
Looking at the giant hand in the sky, which carried a destructive presence, Zhou Qing felt the hairs all over his body stand on end.
Was this the mighty power of the World Realm...?
He had a feeling that if this giant hand fell upon the Three Realms, the Three Realms would enter the great destruction in an instant.
Steadying his emotions, Zhou Qing forced himself to look away from the giant hand in the sky and toward himself not far away.
There, his simulated self was raising a cup and drinking with a white-haired old man, but his gaze was fixed on the distant sky.
Looking at the giant hand that defied description, his simulated self showed no fear. Instead, his expression was calm.
Then, without hesitation, Zhou Qing slowly reached his right hand into the simulated world.
After breaking through layer upon layer of resistance, he went straight for his target and seized the bracelet on his simulated self's wrist.
The Moonspirit Bracelet was a pocket-world treasure belonging to his simulated self.
It contained not only the treasures the regent's residence had accumulated over countless ages, but even the treasure he had chosen from the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom's treasury-the Dijiang Golem.
If he could obtain these treasures, he could place himself in an invincible position during the great tribulation of the Three Realms.
But when Zhou Qing prepared to take out the Moonspirit Bracelet, his heart suddenly palpitated.
It seemed that if he did so, his body and soul would be destroyed in the very next instant.
Zhou Qing shook his head at this.
It seemed the Moonspirit Bracelet contained too many treasures, and the backlash from taking it out of the simulated world was far beyond what he could currently withstand.
With a thought from Zhou Qing, time in the simulated world began to rewind.
Like dragging the progress bar on a video, the simulated world's timeline instantly rolled back to when he had gone to the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom's treasury to choose a treasure.
Looking at the treasures piled like mountains in the treasury, Zhou Qing reached out to take one again.
Since the Moonspirit Bracelet contained too many treasures for him to withstand the backlash of taking it out of the simulated world, he would try taking just one treasure from the treasury and see whether that worked.
Naturally, Zhou Qing's first targets were the Ancestor God golems.
Yet after trying, he soon discovered that the backlash from taking away any one of the Ancestor God golems was also more than he could withstand.
Next, Zhou Qing tried to take treasures such as the Ancestral God Formation, the Ancestor Immortal Formation, and Chaos Wonders out of the simulated world, but every attempt ended in failure.
Only after turning his attention to treasures at the Xiantian Spirit-Treasure level did Zhou Qing get a faint sense that he could withstand the backlash from taking one away.
Faced with this situation, Zhou Qing frowned deeply.
Xiantian Spirit-Treasures...
Although the Xiantian Spirit-Treasures in the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom's treasury were all exceptional treasures of their grade, what difference would one more Xiantian Spirit-Treasure make given his current strength?
Thus, after thinking it over again and again, Zhou Qing moved the timeline forward to when his simulated self entered the World Prison and released the prisoners.
At this point, his simulated self could be seen taking a jade command talisman out of his pocket-world treasure and handing it to Ancestor God Kongming beside him.
The World Prison's command talisman...
Zhou Qing's gaze sharpened.
If he could not obtain an Ancestor God golem, settling for the World Prison's command talisman would still be a good gain.
As soon as this thought occurred to him, Zhou Qing reached into the simulated world.
The moment he grasped the World Prison Command Talisman, Zhou Qing immediately discovered that although the backlash from taking it was considerable, it would not endanger his life.
So, in the next instant, Zhou Qing unleashed his full power.
In a flash, he used all his methods at once: fourth-level Heartforce, third-level Time Power, third-level Space Power, and a divine ability that explosively unleashed divine power.
Then, as his divine power and Heartforce were rapidly consumed, he drew the World Prison's command talisman out of the simulated world bit by bit.
Finally, after the time it took an incense stick to burn, Zhou Qing succeeded in taking out the command talisman.
I finally got it...
Holding the command talisman, with its distinctive texture, Zhou Qing could not help smiling.