This Save is Ruined

"Summer of 195, Ren Wo Xing died at the age of 23. His dying wish: I really want to... go catch river shrimp with my brothers again..."

"Summer of 195, Ren Chang Sheng inherited the position of family head and changed his name to Ren Wo Xing. From then on, every generation of family heads changed their name to Ren Wo Xing."

"Autumn of 199, Ren Chang Sheng died at the age of 23. His dying wish: I have never regretted being born into the Ren family."

"Autumn of 199, Ren Xiao Bai inherited the position of family head and changed her name to Ren Wo Xing."

"Spring of 206, Ren Luo, the son of Ren Xiao Bai and White Horse Spirit Lord, was born."

"Summer of 209, Ren Bu Hui died in the Red Cliff Ghost Domain at the age of 15."

On the third day of having the game, Ren Suo played up to this point and basically knew that this save file was useless and there was no hope of clearing the game.

Ren family cultivators could only cultivate at the age of 8 and could only engage in spiritual communion and combat at the age of 14. Newborns were just population numbers for the first eight years and had no significance.

Ren Suo originally thought that after Ren Wo Xing died, he would only be able to sit in front of the screen and watch the game live stream. He didn't expect that every generation of family heads would change their name to 'Ren Wo Xing' - which meant handing over control to the player.

When time advanced to 209, after Cao Cao, Sun Quan, and Liu Bei had just finished the most important decisive battle of the Three Kingdoms period at Red Cliff, Ren Suo sent Ren Bu Hui, the daughter of Ren Fei Fan, to the newly refreshed Red Cliff Ghost Domain to farm Aura Crystals. Because the only Ren family cultivators who could be dispatched were Ren Xiao Bai and Ren Bu Hui, and one of them had to stay at home, only Ren Bu Hui went on the expedition.

However, Ren Bu Hui was not the 'third generation Ren Wo Xing', so Ren Suo could not control her. After sending Ren Bu Hui on the expedition, the only news that came back was of her death. It seemed that the combat power of the demons in the Red Cliff Ghost Domain far exceeded Ren Bu Hui's imagination; she couldn't even escape back.

Now, the Ren family only had the 3-year-old Ren Luo and the 18-year-old Ren Xiao Bai - among them, Ren Xiao Bai's lifespan was only 21 years old because she had been on the verge of death twice.

Even if Ren Xiao Bai's lifespan ran out, there would still be Ren Luo left, but as time progressed, the Three Kingdoms demons would become stronger and stronger, and Ren Luo, who started cultivating from scratch, couldn't possibly defeat them! If he couldn't defeat the demons, he couldn't earn Aura Crystals, and naturally, he couldn't find Elves to reproduce with!

This seemed like a dead end, because the total cultivation time for Ren family cultivators was between the ages of 8 and 23. The cultivation time was fixed. Perhaps the speed could be increased by the number of Villagers, but once the older generation passed away, the new generation would inevitably be too weak to enter the battlefield due to their short cultivation time. If they spent time cultivating, but the demons also continued to strengthen, then their mating period would be shortened - they only had 10 years to mate!

However, 2-star difficulty did not mean it was impossible to solve. There were two ways in this game that could always keep Ren family cultivators forever superior to the demons. First, find powerful Elves to mate with. The children born would not only have special attributes, but their cultivation speed would also increase.

For example, Ren Xiao Bai, born from the union of Ren Wo Xing and Tai Bai Plain Earth Spirit, mastered the attack spell 'Earth Vein Art' after cultivating. This spell was essentially no different from Ren Chang Sheng's 'Flame Art'. However, if Ren Xiao Bai chose attack as her cultivation direction, her defense would also increase by +0.5. If she cultivated defense, her defense would increase by +1.5.

In other words, if Ren Xiao Bai cultivated attack, her attack would be +1 and defense +0.5; if Ren Xiao Bai cultivated defense, her attack would be +0 and defense +1.5.

This was without even considering the influence of the number of Villagers!

And the Tai Bai Plain Earth Spirit itself was a relatively weak Elf - as could be seen from her cheap price of only 300 Aura Crystals - if a more powerful Elf was found to mate with, it was not impossible to gain +10 to all attributes after cultivating for one season. Of course, this would require the Ren family to fight more demons and earn more money...

The second method was inheritance! In the spring of 199, when Ren Xiao Bai just turned 8 and could cultivate, a new function "Inheritance" appeared on the left side of the family hall.

"Inheritance" could instantly exhaust the lifespan of a family member and transfer his/her attributes to another family member. Based on the blood relationship and attribute compatibility between the two family members, the family member receiving the attributes could obtain between 25% and 50% of the transferer's attributes.

Ren Suo chose Ren Chang Sheng, who was almost at the end of his lifespan, to transfer to Ren Xiao Bai. Ren Chang Sheng immediately died, and Ren Xiao Bai obtained 35% of Ren Chang Sheng's attributes. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to earn enough Aura Crystals in the Guandu Battlefield to go "solicit" the White Horse Spirit Lord.

This was the most stable and cost-effective way to become stronger. Inheriting from generation to generation, the next generation would always be stronger than the previous one, and naturally, they could catch up with the pace of the demons - provided that the inheritance was not interrupted.

Moreover, Ren Suo discovered that the method of becoming a "Ten Mile Slope Sword God" and cultivating until they were incredibly powerful before farming demons was completely unfeasible. Not only because the mating period was shortened and the demons were constantly strengthening, but more importantly, after the demons became stronger, they wouldn't stay put but would actively destroy nearby Elves!

In other words, they would actively reduce the mating targets for Ren family cultivators!

After Ren Chang Sheng's death, before Ren Xiao Bai could grow up, the Battle of Guandu occurred in 200 AD. Cao Cao's army won a great victory, and the Guandu Battlefield became another demon resource point. Since the Ren family cultivators could not go on expeditions, they could only leave it alone.

Then, in 203, Ren Suo suddenly received a message: "The Guandu Flame Ghost Army killed the Liyang Earth Spirit."

It was only then that Ren Suo realized that demons actually had the habit of attacking Elves - when the Tai Bai Plain Earth Spirit asked for help before, Ren Suo thought it was just a plot point!

However, by playing to this point, Ren Suo had basically figured out the game's settings and the basic strategy sequence. Undoubtedly, the places where demons appeared were closely related to important events during the Three Kingdoms period - to be precise, they were related to historical events where many people died.

Hulao Pass, Guandu, and Red Cliff had already happened. Later, there would be Xiaoyao Ford, Hanzhong, Jieting... And interspersed among them were demons generated by natural disasters such as locust plagues, snow disasters, and the flooding of the Yellow River, as well as the great plague in 217, when the Central Plains would turn into a ghost domain. At that time, there would definitely be no shortage of monsters to farm.

Family management, unpredictable human hearts, generational changes...

Ren Suo wrote down his strategy ideas, read them over, and felt there were no issues, so he prepared to restart the game.

Just then, his phone suddenly rang.

Ren Suo looked at it. It was an unfamiliar number, but it was local. "Hello?"

"Hello, is this Ren Suo?" The person on the other end was a girl with a clear voice.

"Yes, who is this?"

"I am An Su Yu, a member of the Anti-Special Crime Task Force. I am officially notifying you that you have been accepted into the Anti-Special Crime Task Force. Please report to the National Security Bureau at 220 Revolution Road, Yuexiu District, Lianjiang City within the next two days. You will officially start work the day after."

Ren Suo was a little surprised. "I'm still a graduating senior. Logically, I shouldn't be starting until June..."

"I don't know the specific basic salary and subsidies for members of the Anti-Special Crime Task Force," the other party interrupted Ren Suo. "However, the cultivation facility built in Lianjiang City has been completed. Currently, it is only open to national civil servants... To be precise, only members of the Anti-Special Crime Task Force are eligible to enter the cultivation facility. Each person can stay in the cultivation facility for one hour per day."

"Okay, I'll come report this afternoon!" Ren Suo immediately said.

No matter how much he played the game, there were no benefits other than mission rewards. However, starting as a national civil servant cultivator one day earlier meant he could go to the cultivation facility with highly concentrated Aura earlier!

Ren Suo was very rational about this aspect. Just from the fact that he only bought the game console after getting the offer, it was clear he was someone who was used to enduring hardship before enjoying the rewards.

The Little World Game Console wouldn't run away if he left it here, but whether he could catch this wave of the era, become one of the first generation of Xuan Country cultivators, and then live a life of ease and comfort for the rest of his life, depended on his efforts in the next few years!

Ren Suo remembered something, picked up the controller, returned to the main interface, and selected "Game Character".

The skill he was currently equipping was Good Dream Art, and the backup skill was Infinite Stamina. He had to go out this afternoon, and when he was out, it was better to be more careful and equip Introduction to Fighting. He wasn't familiar with the two spells, Clothing and Lock, yet.

However, when Ren Suo saw the list on the left side of "Game Character" and the skill list on the right, he was immediately stunned.

Game Character: Ren Suo.

Ability Slot: Good Dream Art.

Item Slot: None.

Backup Slot: Infinite Stamina.

Unequipped Skills: Introduction to Fighting, Spell: Clothing, Spell: Lock.

Game Character: Ren Wo Xing.

Ability Slot: None.

Item Slot: None.

Backup Slot: None.