One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

[You, with a head full of white hair and a withered frame, rock back and forth in a rocking chair in the courtyard.]

[Watching the children around you play and shout in the yard, your nearly exhausted life force seems to receive a faint nourishment.]

[”Little Xia, don’t bully Xiao Na, why keep pulling her braid, haha...”]

[”Little Lin, why did you sneak a sip of grandpa’s wine again? Kids shouldn’t drink alcohol.”]

[”Broken Star, Moss, don’t say dirty words. Aren’t you two going to be high officials someday? Set a good example for the people.”]

[You gave the orphaned children you adopted the names of former enemies; you don’t even know what kind of twisted taste that is.]

[”Grandpa! Grandpa! So many people have come looking for you!”]

[”Let them in.”]

[A group of middle-aged and elderly people entered.]

[These high-ranking figures, who speak with unquestioned authority in their own factions, now stood before you like a bunch of raw recruits.][Although you appeared decrepit and harmless, for some reason they all felt a soul-grabbing intimidatory presence from you.]

[Facing you, especially when stared down by your cloudy eyes, they felt a reverence born from the soul, like a herd animal being locked onto by a predator.]

[”Wan Jianyi, Sect Master of Limitless Sword Sect, pays respects to the Sword Wielder!”]

[”Shen Yue, head of the Shen Family, pays respects to the Sword Wielder!”]

[”Dongfang Yucao, Chief Commissioner of the Free and Unfettered Holy Land, pays respects to the Sword Wielder!”]

[”Danxiang Valley...”]

[Sword Wielder, this is your current formal title.]

[God Yi still sounded a bit too rustic.]

[You thought to yourself that with the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array in your hands, as long as the array could assemble seven Martial Gods, it could directly ascend dimensions and control everything in this world.]

[No matter what enemies the human world faced, this array could save the world.]

[So you named the person who would master the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array the Sword Wielder.]

[The common folk still often called you God Yi, but major factions had all switched to the new title, because the Sword Wielder, like the Guardian, would become a legacy role.]

[You looked at these faces, and the only familiar one was Shen Yue.]

[The others were newly risen leaders from various forces.]

[An era had passed.]

[Heroes across the land were as numerous as fish crossing a river, and new strong figures had stepped onto history’s stage.]

[However, Wan Jianyi, the Sword Sect’s Sect Master among them, was not unknown to you.]

[You had already seen him during the third simulation when you watched the Cauldron Quest Tournament.]

[Back then you were in your sixties, he only in his twenties, one of the brightest of Limitless Sword Sect’s younger generation.]

[During that simulation, Wan Jianyi was a main mid-generation combatant, participating in numerous battles with illustrious achievements, which is how he became the helm of the Sword Sect after the Sword Lord died.]

[”What brings you to me today?

Didn’t we already hold a conference in the Starry Domains? I have already entrusted my final affairs clearly, and I gave the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array to Shen Qingshan for safekeeping.

As long as you diligently cultivate the next generation, excavate talent, and ensure the human world can produce seven Martial God–level forces, even if future realm wars break out, the human world can protect itself.”]

[You did the math — your life span wasn’t long.]

[So you held the conference and handed over your affairs.]

[The various parties were actually surprised.]

[In their eyes you were a Martial God and could have lived a thousand years.]

[But remembering you had used the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array, and that the array would backlash against lifespan, they came to accept it.]

[Dongfang Yucao knelt down immediately.]

[”Sword Wielder elder! The human world cannot be without you!”]

[You said with amusement.]

[”What, I’m not dead yet and you’re already mourning? Before life and death we are all equal. Even with my transcendent abilities, I cannot defy an ending lifespan.”]

[Over the years you and Shen Qingshan had studied methods of physical reconstruction.]

[The result of your research was this.]

[If a person’s lifespan had not been fully exhausted and you preserved their soul intact through means like the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, then after reshaping a body using various celestial and terrestrial treasures, they could live for a period of time.]

[But a soul originally without remaining lifespan, even if it regained a body, would have that body collapse in moments.]

[To truly break the lifespan limitation, it seemed the only way was soul usurpation.]

[But the human world lacked a universal method of usurpation.]

[Old Shen’s method could only be used by him, and even his method was not a standard usurpation, carrying many limitations and preconditions.]

[You had little interest in studying soul usurpation yourself and had no intention of developing your own technique.]

[After several lifetimes, you had grown more philosophical about life and death.]

[However, Shen Yue and these people seemed unable to accept it.]

[”The spies you sent to other worlds have already reported back, it’s war everywhere! The human world cannot stay uninvolved forever!”]

[”Cultivating Martial Gods is no easy task. The new Sword Wielder could never do better than you...”]

[”Without someone like you to stabilize an era, the human world won’t even be able to unite, let alone resist opponents like the Dragon-Men!”]

[”Besides, the battle with the Dragon-Men caused grievous losses to the human world. We are still in recovery. If at this moment you leave and the human world is taken advantage of...”]

[”We simply cannot accept that you would leave this world at your age!”]

[This group of ”big shots” poured out their grievances to you.]

[Their implication was that these long-lived, sharp people could not accept one person’s natural aging and death.]

[”You lot, but I have no lifespan left. What can you do? Complaining to me will only make me die sooner, idiots.”]

[They all glanced at one another, and finally Dongfang Yucao stepped forward and cupped his hands, saying.]

[”We have a secret remedy we wish to offer the Sword Wielder, to help extend your life!”]

[Your brows furrowed slightly, sensing that this ”secret remedy” was unlikely to be anything good.]

[”What remedy?”]

[”Ren Yuan Dan!”]

[”Ren Yuan Dan? I’ve only ever heard of the Demon Essence Pill.”]

[Demon Essence Pill — in the previous simulations it had been a major inducement causing the Five Regions and the Great Wastes Demon Tribe to go to war.]

[Eating one could extend life by up to a year, and it could be taken repeatedly.]

[What you hadn’t expected was that these high-ranking human world figures had actually modified the Demon Essence Pill.]

[With the Demon Tribe gone, naturally they could no longer refine pills from demon eggs.]

[So this so-called Ren Yuan Dan used refining materials of...]

[”You want me to eat children?”]

[”No... it’s just, a type of pill... indeed, indeed it requires children... but! As long as it can lengthen the Sword Wielder’s life, any sacrifice is worth it! This is for the sake of the human world, for the greater cause!”]

[”Hahaha!!!!”]

[You were so enraged you laughed. You slowly stood up.]

[Seasoned in a hundred battles, having walked out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, an unmatched killing aura uncontrollably spilled from you.]

[The entire Baiyun County instantly felt as if plunged into an icehouse, with snow flying in June!]