One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

【As you were leaving Hundred Death Mountains, you curiously asked Hua Wuyan a question.】

【”Senior Hua, you said the Great Demon was willing to make a move because you found something for him. What was it?”】

【Hua Wuyan glanced at you, paused for a moment, then shook her head and replied.】

【”I can’t tell you.”】

【You were puzzled.】

【Hua Wuyan didn’t seem like the type to speak in riddles.】

【Earlier, she had answered everything you asked. What was different this time?】

【It couldn’t be related to you, could it?】

【You told Hua Wuyan that you had also resolved the Dragon and Phoenix Corpses’ issue, and with the Great Demon included, the human world now effectively had seven Martial Gods!】

【”Oh? That formation you mentioned—it can work even for non-humans?”】【”At first, I wasn’t sure, but as my understanding of formations deepened, I can now say with certainty that it can.”】

【”Have you already become an Immortal-tier Formation Master? That formation of yours is an Immortal-tier one.”】

【”Regrettably, not yet.”】

【”Then you’d better speed up. This old woman doesn’t have much lifespan left. If your Seven Luminaries are missing one, all your efforts will come to nothing.”】

【You weren’t the least bit panicked.】

【Decades ago, she had also said her lifespan was running out.】

【She’d probably say the same thing decades from now.】

【Not panicking didn’t mean you could slack off on progress, though.】

In the subsequent simulation, Chen Yi saw himself go through a relatively peaceful twenty years.

During these two decades, he accomplished three major tasks.

First, he broke through in the Dao of Formations.

Relying on his Formation trait tag and the enhanced comprehension from consuming the Five Regions Sacred Pill, he fully grasped the mysteries of the Immortal-tier formation, fulfilling the lifelong aspiration of his masters at Nine Palaces Island and leading them to witness the form of an Immortal-tier formation.

Complete Immortal-tier formations were extremely rare in the human world.

But the Free and Unfettered Holy Land, as a place that had preserved some heritage, could still produce one or two complete Immortal-tier formations.

When the Immortal-tier formation rose above Nine Palaces Island, its dreamlike colors and mysterious power filled the masters with great comfort.

As if they had finally fulfilled their wishes, the older generation of masters at Nine Palaces Island passed away one after another.

Life and death are unpredictable, and lifespan has its limits.

Though Chen Yi felt much sorrow in the simulation, he was able to accept reality.

Afterward, Chen Yi spent some time gradually restoring the incomplete and fragmented Immortal-tier formations preserved within the Free and Unfettered Holy Land.

One more formation meant one more option when war eventually broke out.

Second, he cultivated techniques from three races.

Chen Yi equipped the ”My Knowledge Has Become a Jumbled Mess” trait tag and began practicing the Demon Tribe’s and Dragon-Man tribe’s techniques.

With Hu Tiangong around, the Demon Tribe’s four Body Refining techniques had naturally been obtained long ago.

The Dragon-Man tribe’s techniques came from a Martial King realm general of the Three-Headed Realm’s Slave Management Army, who had been reformed by the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

The Dragon-Man tribe’s techniques, like those of humans, were very rich.

Naturally, there were higher and lower quality ones.

If Chen Yi was going to practice, he naturally wanted the best ones.

Presumably, a Martial King realm general’s cultivation technique was already quite good.

What Chen Yi wanted to learn wasn’t the Dragon-Man tribe’s various combat techniques or moves—there was no need to blindly worship foreign methods; his own race’s martial arts were more suitable.

What Chen Yi studied was the Soul Refining Art that every Dragon-Man practiced.

As everyone knew, the Dragon-Man tribe’s souls were very special—they wouldn’t be actively drawn away by the Underworld, could survive freely even when separated from the physical body, and could even share bodies with members of the same race.

This wasn’t only due to their racial talent but also because of their acquired practice of the Soul Refining Art, which continuously strengthened their soul’s intensity.

Humans also had techniques for cultivating the soul, but they weren’t mainstream among martial artists.

Moreover, they were somewhat inferior compared to the Dragon-Man tribe’s Soul Refining Art.

With the Demon Tribe’s Body Refining techniques and the Dragon-Man tribe’s Soul Refining Art, Chen Yi’s physical body and soul were both strengthened, exponentially increasing his combat power!

Remember, these were techniques that would be inherited from the simulation.

After mastering the alien race techniques, Chen Yi began practicing his own race’s techniques.

He currently possessed multiple inheritances, including those of the Limitless Sword Sect, the Shen Family of the Starry Domains, the Free and Unfettered Holy Land, and the Wang Clan of the Chaotic Crystal Sea.

In truth, if Chen Yi wanted techniques from the Li Imperial Clan, the Northern Frontier tribes, or the Hundred Kingdoms of the South, he could get them too.

The Networking King—that wasn’t a joke.

The Wang family’s technique had been obtained through sheer social influence.

But the techniques he currently had were already numerous.

The ”Proficiency” trait tag didn’t mean he could break through a technique’s realm just by blinking; he still had to spend time practicing over and over again, so he couldn’t advance too many at once.

To be honest, it was quite tedious.

That the simulated version of himself could persevere was something the real Chen Yi had to respect.

Human martial artists generally believed that technique realms only had six levels: Initiation, Familiarity, Mastery, Minor Achievement, Great Achievement, and Perfection.

Only a very few knew that beyond these lay Transcendent Mastery and Pinnacle.

Through continuous practice with the Proficiency trait, Chen Yi discovered that there was yet another realm after Pinnacle—Return to Simplicity.

With the accumulation of multiple simulations plus this peaceful twenty-year period,

Chen Yi had elevated all Earth-Grade techniques to the highest level, Return to Simplicity!

All Heaven-Grade techniques had been elevated to Pinnacle!

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to elevate Heaven-Grade techniques to Return to Simplicity too.

But the number of practice sessions required was already astronomical.

Chen Yi was only human after all—he couldn’t act like a robot, doing nothing but repeating the same motions year after year.

So, for now, his Heaven-Grade techniques remained at Pinnacle.

To be honest, that was already sufficient.

Any enemy he couldn’t defeat even so wouldn’t be solved merely by raising a technique’s realm.

During these twenty years, Chen Yi also visited the Starry Domains once.

Through Shen Qingshan’s connections, he obtained some more Star Source and stuffed it into the Cauldron Realm.

Thankfully, back in the Three-Headed Realm, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner had been decisive enough.

Just as the Qiankun Mirror began to smoke, it had promptly thrown him into the Star Source pool within the Cauldron Realm.

After soaking for many years, the Qiankun Mirror had barely been saved.

Though it was still smoking, it occasionally muttered some nonsense—it hadn’t completely died.

At this point, Chen Yi felt he had done all the preparatory work possible to deal with the Dragon-Man tribe.

All that remained was to persist in cultivation, persist in taking pills, and raise his cultivation level.

”This time, the Dragon-Man tribe’s invasion has indeed been delayed.”

The simulated version of himself was already over eighty years old.

At this time in the previous simulation, the Dragon-Man tribe had already been wreaking havoc across the human world.

”Destroying their strongholds really was effective. Delaying the Dragon-Man tribe’s attack gives the human world more time to prepare.”

Moreover, because the previous generation had been aware of the impending great enemy, they had spared no effort in training the next generation.

After the older generation of experts passed away, not only did the human race not face a gap, but the younger generation actually surpassed their elders, with the overall strength of the young and middle-aged generation being even more formidable.

Various factions’ efforts to unearth talent among the common people had increased the number of martial artists several times over.

Coupled with frequent exchanges and sharing of knowledge between them,

All the great inheritances were thriving.

Chen Yi’s actual cultivation level had also risen from Middle Stage Martial King to Late Stage Martial King.

Everything was trending in a positive direction.

Only one thing still troubled Chen Yi, both inside and outside the simulation.

”The Blood Moon...”

So, the third task was to investigate the Blood Moon.

This organization was still shrouded in a thick fog of mystery.

If he couldn’t expose its true face and get to the bottom of it, Chen Yi always felt it was a latent threat.

With his status as a Saint and the backing of the Free and Unfettered Holy Land’s banner, the investigative resources Chen Yi could mobilize were quite abundant.

Finally, in the year Chen Yi turned eighty-eight, the investigation into the Blood Moon achieved a major breakthrough.