Discovery

Ling Tian sat in his quiet room, contemplating the results of the simulation. The Blood Demon Sect was finally dealt with, but the revelation about the Azure Continent being surrounded by water beasts that prevented people from leaving was perplexing. After a moment's thought, he decided to set this information aside for the time being and focus on more immediate concerns.

The next two days saw Ling Tian deeply engrossed in refining weapons. His skillful hands crafted intricate spiritual tools, which he then sold for a substantial profit, amassing 100 low-tier Spiritual Stones. Feeling satisfied, Ling Tian leisurely sipped his tea and decided it was time for a paid simulation.

[Ding, discovered 100 low-tier spiritual stones in the host's possession. Do you want to pay 32 low-tier spiritual stones for one paid simulation?]

Ling Tian replied, "Pay."

[Ding, Simulation starting...]

A new screen appeared, showing a refreshed talent pool.

[Ding, Talent Refresh Successful, congratulations to the host for refreshing two Talents. You can choose one of them.]

[Sharp Intuition (Green): You can sense danger and opportunities better than others.]

[Keen Observer (White): You notice small details others might miss.]

After looking through the options, he chose "Sharp Intuition".

[Ding, the Talents 'Sharp Intuition (Green)' was selected. Simulation Starting …]

[Year 1: At 16, you are at the Integration Stage of the Innate Realm and an Advanced Refiner. Your clan hails you as a genius; the entire city knows your name. The clan provides you with abundant resources. You purchase many materials and start refining weapons.]

[Year 2: At 17 with your talent "Resilient Body" and resources, you begin integrating Spiritual Energy into your Dantian.]

[Year 3: At 18, your talent 'Craftsman' activates and you start researching ways to make devastating bombs just like nuclear bombs in your previous capable of destroying cultivators.]

[Year 5: At 20, your cultivation increases steadily. You are refining weapons steadily for your clan and you are experimenting with various methods to make powerful bombs. Your clan is becoming more and more prosperous.]

[Year 6: At 21, your younger brother reaches the Awakening Stage of the Innate Realm. You and your brother are called the Twin Stars of the Ling Clan.]

[Year 7: At 22, your clan opens a store for selling the weapons that you refine and is accumulating many resources. Your name becomes renowned within the city.]

 [Year 9: At 24, many clan members achieve breakthroughs in their cultivation because of the increased resources provided by your weapon refining. Your father gets promoted to the Integration Stage of the Innate Realm. You find a way to make bombs and start making them.]

[Year 11: At 26, your Dantian is filled with purified spiritual energy, and you reach the peak of the Innate Realm. While walking through the marketplace, your talent 'Sharp Intuition' activates, and you sense an opportunity. Your talent guides you to a large black ore which you purchase. After you return home, you split it in half and find a little token which you put aside after not knowing its use.]

[Year 15: At 30, disciples from the Fiery Fire Sect arrive in the city to recruit new members. You qualify to enter the sect with your brother as outer disciples. This time, you decide not to go and convince your younger brother to stay with you. Eventually, your younger brother stays within the clan.]

[Year 16: At 31, With the help of the many resources provided by you, your younger brother reaches the Connection Stage of the Innate Realm. You finally successfully create a Tier 2 bomb and you estimate that it's capable of inflicting serious injuries to Innate Realm cultivators. This time you cautiously activate it, throw it far away from you on the training grounds and quickly retreat a considerable distance. It starts to activate and explodes causing massive damage to the training grounds. You alert many clan members but you quickly send them away with the excuse of the refining furnace accidentally exploding. You estimate the sheer power of this Tier 2 bomb and find out that it can almost kill cultivators at the peak of the Innate Realm.]

 [Year 17: At 32, you are refining weapons in huge amounts and amassing countless Spiritual Stones and resources. Many people in your clan advance to the Awakening Stage of the Innate Realm.]

[Year 19: At 34, your younger brother reaches the peak of the Connection Stage of the Innate Realm and your father advances to the peak of the Integration Stage.]

[Year 21: At 36, you participate in an auction and spend all your savings and can only settle with one that can be cultivated till the peak of the Golden Core Realm. You make a copy of the cultivation technique and put it in the library of the clan. You read the Spiritual Realm chapter of the technique and begin advancing to the Initial Stage of Spiritual Realm.]

[Year 25: At 40, you advance to the Initial Stage of the Spiritual Realm. Your clan becomes a little famous within the surrounding cities and the Fiery Fire Sect's domain. You are researching ways to upgrade the Tier 2 bomb to Tier 3.]

[Year 28: At 43, your father gets promoted to the Initial Stage of the Spiritual Realm, extending his life span. Your mother also advances to the Awakening Stage of the Innate Realm. Your father announces at the clan meeting that he wants to pass on the position of clan leader to you, and you get the approval of all clan members and elders. You become the leader of the Ling Clan.]

[Year 30: At 45, your younger brother reaches the peak of the Innate Realm. You are refining weapons and selling them. At the same, you are performing your duties as a clan leader and expanding your territory. You gain control of the entire city and change its name to Ling City. You are slowly inching towards the Expert Refiner Level.]

[Year 32: At 47, you continue the liquefaction process, converting more spiritual energy into liquid form.]

[Year 34: At 49, you advance to the Intermediate Stage of the Spiritual Realm.]

[Year 37: At 52, you advance to the Expert Refiner Level and finally refine a Tier 3 bomb. You estimate its power and find that it can deal serious injuries to cultivators in the Spiritual Realm. Your clan is becoming more and more prosperous. You have mastered all the knowledge present in the weapon refining book. Now, you have to rely on yourself and accumulate experience slowly to have the hope of further advancing in weapon refining.]

[Year 41: At 56, you fully convert all the spiritual energy within your Dantian into liquid form. You break through to the Advanced Stage of the Spiritual Realm. The Dantian now contains a huge amount of liquid Spiritual Energy acting as a vast reservoir for you to draw upon.]

[Year 45: At 60, a rival clan that specializes also in selling weapons, the Lei Clan, finds that their profits in the weapons-selling market are decreasing because of your clan's emergence and decisively launches an attack on you. You use your profound strength at the Advanced Stage of the Spiritual Realm along with the Nine Heavens Primordial Body and kill the leader of the Lei Clan leaving the rest of their members in disarray. Your father and younger brother, along with the elders of your clan finish the rest of them with a thundering force.]

[Year 49: At 64, your brother advances to the Initial Stage of the Spiritual Realm, gets promoted to the inner sect, and extends his lifespan to 500 years. Your father also advances to the Intermediate Stage of the Spiritual Realm.]

[Year 50: At 65, you perfect your Spiritual Realm to the extreme. You are refining Tier 3 bombs in large quantities and trying to find ways to upgrade the bomb to Tier 4.]

[Year 51: At 66, you start studying the Purple Mansion Chapter of the cultivation technique.]

[Year 52: At 67, you advance to the Formation Stage of the Purple Mansion Realm, extending your lifespan to 1000 years. Your advancement alerts many people in the clan, and your clan sets up a banquet to celebrate your promotion to the Purple Mansion Realm. From now on, your clan becomes prestigious within the domain of the Fiery Fire Sect.]

[Year 55: At 70, you are strengthening your initial Purple Mansion and advancing steadily in your cultivation. Your Dantian emits a faint purple light, and your spiritual energy becomes more concentrated and pure.]

[Year 60: At 75, your brother advances to the Intermediate Stage of the Spiritual Realm.]

[Year 61: At 76, you advance to the Expansion Stage of the Purple Mansion Realm. You also finally refine a Tier 4 bomb capable of inflicting serious injuries to Purple Mansion Realm cultivators.]

[Year 63: At 78, you began expanding the size and capacity of the Purple Mansion to store more spiritual energy.]

[Year 75: At 90, you continuously nourish the Purple Mansion with spiritual energy, causing it to grow larger and more stable. Your brother advances to the Advanced stage of the Spiritual Realm.]

[Year 85: At 100, you are refining Tier 5 Weapons in small quantities since Tier 5 materials were rare and selling them accumulating huge amounts of resources. At the same time, you are advancing steadily in your cultivation, the purple light within the Dantian becomes more intense, and your spiritual energy reserves increase significantly. Your mother gets promoted to the peak of the Innate Realm.]

[Year 95: At 110, your Purple Mansion was expanded to the extreme. You advance to the Perfection Stage of the Purple Mansion Realm. You begin to perfect the Purple Mansion, making it as stable as possible. At the same time, your younger brother breaks through to the Formation Stage of the Purple Mansion Realm.]

[Year 100: At 115, your father advances to the peak of the Spiritual Realm. Meanwhile, you are refining the structure of the Purple Mansion, ensuring it can store and refine spiritual energy with maximum efficiency.]

[ Year 105: At 120, you start refining many Tier 4 bombs and storing them.]

[Year 115: At 130, you reach the peak of the Purple Mansion Realm. You are still refining Tier 4 weapons and bombs.]

[Year 126: At 141, you know that the Blood Demon Sect and the Devil Fang Temple, two first-rate forces, will team up and invade the Fiery Fire Sect. So you summon all wandering disciples back to the clan and proceed to send them in batches to the hidden valley you discovered in previous simulations.]

[Year 130: You hear that the Fiery Fire Sect was destroyed and their territories were swallowed up by the two invading sects. The territory that belongs to your clan becomes part of the Blood Demon Sect. Finally, you send the last batch of clan members along with your brother, father, and mother.]

[Year 136: At 151, the Saint Son of the Blood Demon Sect wanted to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm and sent many disciples to collect blood essence for him. On the day of the attack, your talent 'Sharp Intuition warn you of an incoming danger. As expected, many Peak Golden Core demonic cultivators descend and surround your city. You observe their descent from far away and activate the thousands of Tier 4 bombs you planted underneath the city. You watch as the entire city gets engulfed in explosions and finally disintegrates into aches along with all the demonic disciples.]

[Year 138: At 153, you did not join your clan but wandered around the Azure Continent. You began studying the Golden Core Chapter of the cultivation technique and you are slowly accumulating experience in the Expert Refiner Level and trying to upgrade the Tier 4 Bomb to Tier 5.]

[Year 141: At 156, you begin the process of condensing spiritual energy into a solid core within the Purple Mansion.]

[Year 146: At 161, you gather and compress your spiritual energy into a 4th-grade dense golden core, and successfully undergo a Heavenly Tribulation advancing to the Formation Stage of the Golden Core Realm extending your lifespan to 2000 years. You have managed to only draw 4 patterns on your core due to your high talent and the cultivation technique you practiced did not offer any improvement in the grade of your golden core.]

[Year 154: You reach the edge of the Azure Continent and see an infinite ocean. Your talent 'Sharp Intuition' keeps sending you distress messages about extreme danger. This time, you choose to stay on the Azure Continent. You continue to wander around your continent and navigate safely with the help of your talent 'Sharp Intuition'.]

[Year 170: At 185, you are gradually expanding your golden core.]

[Year 180: At 195, you open a store in the territory of the Hundred Refinement Sect and start selling your refined weapons.]

[Year 190: At 205, you expand your golden core to the extreme and advance to the Solidification Stage of the Golden Core Realm.]

[Year 203: At 218, you upgrade the Tier 4 Bomb to Tier 5. At the same time, you are still inching towards the Master Refiner Level.]

[Year 219: At 234, you are solidifying and tempering your Golden Core, enhancing its density and purity. The golden glow within the Purple Mansion becomes more intense.]

[Year 230: At 245, you decide to travel and go check on your clan that was hidden in the secluded Valley.]

[Year 232: At 247, while passing through a continuous mountain range, you feel the token that you obtained a century ago and forgotten vibrate intensely. You hold and feel it guiding you towards a place.]

[Year 235: At 250, you arrive at the place where the token guided you, a huge cave. After walking through the cave, a huge lake that glowed with an indigo glow appeared in front of you. A huge dilapidated stone gate stood in the center of the lake. You observe the place and do not discover anything out of place. You get close to the stone gate. Suddenly, the token escapes from your hand and fuses into the gate. The gate glows with an intense light. After a while, the stone gate appears like it was newly built with a large vortex rotating in the middle of it. A huge suction force suddenly erupts from the vortex and you get absorbed into the stone gate. You feel yourself getting stretched and compressed through space. After a while, you find yourself in a forest, and behind you is a stone gate similar to the previous one and a token dropped on the floor near it. You sense that the Spiritual Energy in this forest is many times denser. Suddenly, you hear a deafening roar behind you and get slapped into a blood mist. You are dead.]

[Simulation Complete.]

[Evaluation: You were able to escape from the Blood Demon Sect's threat and advanced to the Solidification Stage of the Golden Core Realm. However, you got curious when the token reacted and followed its lead which led to your demise.]

[Ding, Simulation ended. Generating rewards…. Please select one reward from the following options:]

- [Knowledge and Experience in refining Bombs (till Tier 5).]

- [Sharp Intuition (Green).]

- [Comprehension and experience of Weapon Refining till the Peak of the Advanced Refiner Level.]