One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

[You mount Black Wind and head north.]

[You want to go to the Northern Frontier to ask Elder Brother for Longevity Grass.]

[”You overshot! Black Wind! You overshot!”]

[Before you know it, Black Wind has carried you all the way to the North Sea.]

[Black Wind is too fast now, and braking isn’t convenient either. For short distances, one run and it goes too far.]

[”Forget it, I’ll just fly myself.”]

[”Sorry, Boss. I haven’t mastered fine control over my strength yet.”]

[”No, I think it might be this world limiting your potential. You should be roaming in a vaster, more boundless place.”]

[A few days later, you meet your Elder Brother, Chen Jing.]

[Though the frontline war is tense, as the Great Khan, he can only drink wine and eat meat in the rear command tent, at most acting as a fountain commander. Because Martial Kings cannot directly participate in the war.][Although your true realm is Martial King, the ”Half-Emperor for a Thousand Ages” trait elevates you to Martial Saint.]

[In your elder brother’s military camp, you naturally move as if through empty land, going wherever you please. You directly lift the curtain of the Commander’s Tent and walk inside.]

[”Elder Brother!!”]

[”Hmm? This esteemed one, whose cultivation I can’t even see through, don’t go around claiming false kinship.”]

[”I’m your fourth brother, Elder Brother! Back in Luoding Village, you and I went up the mountain to chop firewood. You told me to wait by a pond while you went to relieve yourself, and I ended up getting bitten by a snake. Later, I found out you weren’t relieving yourself, you went to watch a girl bathe...”]

[Elder Brother screws you over once, and you’ll hold it over his head for life.]

[”Oh my! It really is you, Fourth Brother! What are you doing here? Just a while ago, that old man from the Li family contacted me, saying you were in the capital city. How did you get here so fast? This speed... you haven’t cultivated to Martial Saint, have you?”]

[You clear your throat, ready to show off a bit in front of your elder brother.]

[”I broke through by accident.”]

[Elder Brother slaps you hard on the back. The power of the Gluttonous Tyrant Body is not to be underestimated; this time, the blow actually makes you cough.]

[”Still putting on airs! Fourth Brother, cultivating this fast—you haven’t used some crooked method, have you? Life-shortening techniques, heaven-defying paths—we Chen family children don’t stoop to that!”]

[”Relax, relax. I value my life the most.”]

[Inside the military tent, the soldiers under your elder brother’s command look on with utmost reverence.]

[The Great Khan’s younger brother is a Martial Saint!]

[The Great Khan’s third brother-in-law is the Shen Family Founding Ancestor!]

[What kind of celestial family is this?!]

[Although this simulation marks your first meeting with Elder Brother, because Elder Brother already knew of your existence from Shen Qingshan, this reunion between the two brothers wasn’t as tear-jerking as the last time.]

[You cut straight to the point.]

[”Elder Brother, I want a stalk of Longevity Grass. I need it to...”]

[”Whatever my younger brother wants, I’ll climb a mountain of swords or dive into a sea of fire to get it for you! You don’t need to explain to me what you’re using it for. Even if you just wanted to play with it, I’d be happy to oblige!”]

[Having grown up in the Northern Frontier, your elder brother’s personality has been dyed with a hue called boldness and generosity. Another hue is called knowing when to bend and when to stand firm.]

[”Great Elder!!! This handsome young man is my fourth brother! He is one of the only two remaining close kin I have in this world! He just wants one stalk of Longevity Grass to extend his life by a few years, so he can spend more time talking with me, his big brother, and make up for the regret of being separated since childhood!!!”]

[You stand on the grassland, watching your elder brother in the distance, hugging the leg of the Northern Frontier Great Elder who guards the Longevity Grass, with snot and tears streaming down his face.]

[The moment he gets the grass, your elder brother’s face instantly changes. He grins and runs over to hand you the Longevity Grass.]

[”Here, take it! But don’t you dare pull up your pants and pretend you don’t know me. I know you’re busy, but you absolutely can’t leave tonight. You have to drink with me until we’re both dead drunk!”]

[You nod with a smile.]

[”I’ll drink with you for a whole month, Elder Brother!”]

[You really do spend a whole month drinking with your elder brother.]

[Every day in the camp, you drink and laugh, chatting about everything under the sun with the equally masculine and heroic soldiers, fully embodying the spirit of a true man. It truly is a joyful affair.]

[You don’t mention Second Sister’s matter to your elder brother.]

[For a person to go alone to the Real Realm is, to their family in the Void Realm, no different from death.]

[Although Second Sister’s body has been inherited by Wu Yue, you can no longer regard her as Second Sister.]

[Just as Elder Brother said, you still have many things to do and must leave.]

[”Elder Brother, after helping the Emperor seize power, you absolutely must rest and recuperate, cultivate the Northern Frontier’s martial artist force, and bleed those great families of the North dry. The Shen family has been constantly supplying resources; we can’t keep taking advantage of them forever. Rather than letting the great families’ resources become spoils of war for the Dragon-Man tribe, it’s better to use them on our own people now.”]

[”Elder Brother truly feels ashamed. Fourth Brother is now handling affairs concerning the fate of the entire human world, while I’m still bickering over petty squabbles in the Five Regions.”]

[”Elder Brother, you flatter me. We are all just specks of dust beneath the torrent of history. There is no hierarchy in the things we do.”]

[You part ways with your elder brother and head east, towards the Eastern Wastes, to seek out the Sword Lord and ask for the final ingredient of the Five Regions Sacred Pill—the Sword Heart Immortal Peach.]

[Inside the Limitless Sword Sect, you meet the Sword Lord again.]

[”A single Immortal Peach is nothing to thank me for.”]

[Your status is truly different now.]

[In previous simulations, the Sword Lord’s gift of the Immortal Peach came with at least some conditions. Now, the moment you open your mouth, you get it directly.]

[After all, the Sword Lord is a man with a strong sense of the bigger picture. Your contributions to the human world so far are undeniable.]

[”At present, although there are still some wars in the Five Regions, they haven’t drawn in too many martial artist factions. Martial artists everywhere, including those beyond the Five Regions, have had their overall strength greatly enhanced. After the redistribution of resources, every region has a certain capacity for self-defense. Communication between everyone is more convenient and frequent, allowing us to share what we have. The imminent arrival of the Dragon-Man tribe is a common consensus; at the very least, everyone’s goal is aligned.”]

[The Sword Lord believes that appropriate warfare, to a certain extent, also has a positive meaning for resisting foreign enemies in the future. It at least ensures that the people’s fighting spirit and sense of crisis always remain.]

[If there were constant peace, lying in a warm cradle, a powerful enemy’s arrival would lead to instant collapse, with no will to fight at all.]

[”You haven’t spared any effort in these matters over the years, Sword Lord. As for me, I mostly stayed in the Holy Lands, and later got trapped in a different realm. If you hadn’t been actively pushing forward and advocating the defense plan, the current situation would only be worse.”]

[The two of you engage in a round of mutual back-patting.]

[When your eyes meet, there is a hint of mutual admiration.]

[Sword Lord: ”I just hope our preparations will be useful.”]

[You: ”They will definitely be useful!”]

[Afterwards, you borrow a room in the Sword Sect to refine the Five Regions Sacred Pill.]

[With the Nine Provinces Cauldron, as long as the ingredients are correct, there is absolutely no difficulty in refining pills.]

[The Five Regions Sacred Pill is forged once again!]

[”Master, are you going to eat me?”]

[A familiar little girl’s voice emanates from the Five Regions Sacred Pill, which radiates the fragrance and halo of a finished pill.]