One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

”Vehicle Killer”: Any vehicle you pilot will overturn, crash, or sink.

The Wild Soldier who suffered the effect didn’t feel anything abnormal at first.

After inspecting himself carefully for a while, he confirmed there was no change.

”Heh, making such a ruckus—I thought you had some killing move, turns out you’re just toying with me!!”

The Wild Soldier roared in fury, his vitality energy surging skyward, and cracks began to appear across the Sun Moon Tower!

The artifact spirit of the Sun Moon Tower wailed.

”Aiya~ I can’t hold it~ I can’t hold it~”

Chen Yi signaled that Sun Moon Tower could let go.

The Sun Moon Tower released the Wild Soldier on the spot and scrambled away, slipping out through the gap the Great Demon had opened.

At this moment, inside the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm, besides the Ancient Wasteland Survivors, only Chen Yi and this final Wild Soldier remained.Seeing Chen Yi refuse to leave, a hint of mockery appeared on the Wild Soldier’s face.

”Although I don’t know what treasure you’re carrying that left me helpless, as things stand, you and I are evenly matched! Still unwilling to give up?”

”You’re wrong. I won.”

”Heh, you say you won? By the way, I still don’t even know your name.”

”Chen Yi! Chen as in surname, Yi as in strategy!”

”Chen Yi, your staying here is pointless. I imagine the Blood Moon’s sleeper agents in the outside world are about to begin thunderous measures across the major factions. If you don’t want too many of your people dying and the human world descending into chaos, you’d better leave at once.”

A smile tugged at the corner of Chen Yi’s mouth.

”I’m just curious how you’ll die.”

”Such arrogance.”

The Wild Soldier had no way to deal with Chen Yi and was preparing to continue stabilizing the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm.

But before he moved very far, the space around him suddenly began to shatter!

”What’s happening?”

The Wild Soldier tried to repair it, but whether because he used the divine mark incorrectly or something else, his actions only accelerated the space’s destruction.

”This, this...”

The more the Wild Soldier repaired, the faster the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm collapsed.

”No! No! Why is this happening?! Why?!”

Chen Yi understood and said with a faint smile.

”Dear ’doomed pilot,’ your aircraft is about to crash!”

The last Wild Soldier in history had long survived by linking himself to the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm and entering a prolonged hibernation form.

So it’s reasonable to think of the Wild Soldier as the pilot and the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm as the vehicle.

Since ”Vehicle Killer” hit him, the pilot’s vehicle would inevitably crash.

In short, the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm was going to collapse.

Chen Yi had deduced this effect after firing him out with the slingshot; now he simply watched a little longer to confirm it.

”Goodbye then, you fix your plane at your leisure, haha!”

Chen Yi channeled force into a punch, burst open the space beside him, opened the path connecting to the outside, then leapt, carrying his belongings and retreating.

Behind him he could still hear the Wild Soldier’s panicked screams.

”No no no! I am a Wild Soldier! Appointed by the Human Ancestor! I haven’t waited to be retrieved by the Human Ancestor! I won’t die! I won’t die! Aaaaaaa!!”

Chen Yi emerged into the outside world and flew through the air above the sea.

Not far ahead, a distorted patch of space projected mirror-like images of scenes from inside the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm.

Inside, the Ancient Wasteland Survivors were suffering terror and agony on a scale comparable to the end of the world.

Their world was collapsing, the ground disappearing, the sky black, and surrounding space crushing the few pockets of their remaining habitat.

All of it was accelerating.

A few hours later.

The Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm completely collapsed and vanished, and the Ancient Wasteland Survivors and their crimes were wiped out between the heavens and earth.

”Starry Domains, continent—any anomalies?”

Shen Yang and the Sword Lord reported they had not received any abnormal situation for the moment.

Perhaps the Blood Moon’s planted agents had not yet begun to act.

Now that the Wild Soldier was finished, those bearing the divine mark imprint would assume the Wild Soldier had slipped back into hibernation, and their actions would likely be called off.

Whether or not the Blood Moon acted, when everyone returned this time there would be a major round of investigations, which might unmask at least some conspirators.

The Great Demon, who was already somewhat exposed, flew up to Chen Yi and demanded angrily.

”The Path to Immortality?”

”Uh...”

”You didn’t destroy the Path to Immortality along with the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm, did you?!”

”I thought someone as formidable as the Human Ancestor wouldn’t leave something so fragile...”

”What do you mean ’wouldn’t’? Do you never consider consequences when you act?”

”The Ancient Wasteland Survivors were too fanatical; reasoning with them was useless. They refused to stop until killed. Without killing them, you can’t find where the Path to Immortality is.”

”Then what do we do now! Do you realize I don’t have time!”

”Don’t panic, don’t panic, there are a few more folks!”

Chen Yi produced the Nine Provinces Cauldron and released Yi Chengsheng and four others.

The five of them lay on the small island almost pulverized, like five piles of rotten mud.

Once a Martial God, now crying like little children.

Could they not cry? The Founding Ancestor was gone, the Blood Moon was gone, the Path to Immortality was gone, and even the world they lived in was gone.

Although alive, they had become meat on someone else’s chopping block.

All was lost.

”Where is the Path to Immortality? This is your last chance.”

Between sobs Yi Chengsheng pointed toward the horizon.

”Isn’t it over there?”

Chen Yi turned to look.

Sure enough, at the place where the Ancient Wasteland Secret Realm had vanished, a gigantic five-colored celestial bridge was gradually appearing.

The forces released by the small world’s collapse failed to affect this bridge; rather, with the disappearance of the Wild Soldier, the restrictions he had imposed on the bridge vanished as well, allowing it to reveal itself to the world.

A sacred, holy radiance spiraled around the bridge.

The dazzling projection of the boundless star sea spread across the bridge’s surface.

However, only half of the bridge was visible; the other half remained hidden within the void.

”This is the Path to Immortality?”

Martial artists from the human world gazed up at this unprecedented wonder.

The Great Demon couldn’t contain himself.

”The Path to Immortality lies before our eyes! No worldly force can stop us now! Hahaha!!!”

The Great Demon surged forward with billowing murderous aura and charged first toward the Path to Immortality.

The Sun Moon Tower slipped from that cloud of murderous energy and Chen Yi caught it in his hand.

The artifact spirit of the Sun Moon Tower still used its coquettish voice.

”Chen Martial God~ Where is the Great Demon off to~~”

”He’s about to launch an assault on the Real Realm.”

”But without me~ he’ll dissipate quickly~”

”The Great Demon has his own ways. At least for now, the Underworld’s power has not appeared.”

Hua Wuyan, seeing the Great Demon charge the Path to Immortality, immediately warned him.

”Master! Don’t be rash! This path is treacherous!”

Hua Wuyan spoke correctly.

The Great Demon had barely set foot on the bridge when he felt a mountain-like resistance blocking his way.

Each step he took was excruciatingly difficult, as if using every ounce of strength in his body.

Flying was impossible on the Path to Immortality; one had to tread the bridge surface, moving forward step by step.

”No one! Will stop me! I pursue greater power!!”

The Great Demon gritted his teeth, black flames spewing from his body, like a caged beast thrashing wildly against its prison.

Step by step he advanced and finally completed the half of the Path to Immortality that lay within the human world, vanishing at the bridge’s end.

Whether the Great Demon could cross the other half of the bridge, or whether he could sustain himself in the Real Realm afterward—no one knew.

But Chen Yi could find out.

Just simulate it.

[Simulation Task Progress: 1/4.]