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[Another month passed.]

[During another encirclement of the rebel army, Kedley once again witnessed the Grand Marshal Chen Yi, the one who always seemed to be parting with his comrades in life-or-death situations.]

[”What’s going on... Why can’t this guy be killed?”]

[One of the knight commanders said.]

[”High Priest, there’s a rumor going around that this Chen Yi can create clones!”]

[”Then why didn’t you say so earlier?!”]

[You used your clones to impersonate yourself, drawing the main forces of various pursuers. Relying on the sixteen-character military strategy—”Enemy advances, we retreat; enemy camps, we harass; enemy tires, we attack; enemy retreats, we pursue”—you threw them into utter confusion, endlessly annoyed, completely unable to figure out your true intentions.]

[Taking advantage of this, you and the main rebel force raided resource depots all over the region, looted enemy supply lines, and seized large quantities of materials and artifacts.]

[The Marshal’s personal ten-thousand-strong direct rebel army now had every soldier equipped with a set of armor and one or two weapons.]

[On top of that, with warhorses for everyone, this ten-thousand-strong cavalry had exceptional mobility.][Achieving this level was certainly due to your brilliant leadership, but more importantly, it was the sacrifice of countless rebel soldiers.]

[In every battle, the casualties of the human rebel army were more than ten times those of the enemy.]

[This great human uprising sweeping across Fortune Star had already exploded completely. Countless humans had burned their bridges, determined to fight to the death.]

[Every household was involved in the struggle. The rebel forces spread like stars across the sky, blossoming everywhere.]

[Year thirteen, age thirty-seven.]

[Extracting trait tags...]

[Extraction successful!]

[「Reverse Engineering」(Purple Epic): You can see through the blueprints and required resources of all immortal-cultivation creations.]

[Adjust trait tags?]

[Yes/No?]

”This is good!”

Another powerful functional trait from the Epic trait family!

During the ongoing sixth simulation, all the Immortal Artifacts Chen Yi had brought along—except for the Ten Thousand Souls Banner—had completely lost their artifact spirits.

That was because in the Real Realm, the Immortal Artifacts of the human world were actually just high-grade magic tools, not even worthy of being called spiritual treasures.

But the Ten Thousand Souls Banner was different. It had been reforged by Chen Yi in the human world, and with the ”Enhancement!” trait bolstering it, it had become a Super Immortal Artifact.

When it arrived in the Real Realm, a Super Immortal Artifact counted as a spiritual treasure, so it retained its artifact spirit.

Although the Myriad Treasures Child Goddess seemed surprised that a spiritual treasure had an artifact spirit—as if spiritual treasures weren’t supposed to have them—this was a method worth trying:

Reforge all the Immortal Artifacts, like the Demon Refining Pot, from scratch, then bring them to the Real Realm!

”This trait will be incredibly useful in the next simulation... Actually, it’s useful in this simulation too! Repair the starship!”

The starship left by Master Old Zhang was damaged and needed fixing.

With this trait, combined with his own artifact-forging skills, repairing the starship should be no problem!

[You chose Yes.]

[You replaced「Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger」with「Reverse Engineering」.]

[On the snow-covered land, a bone-chilling wind cut through the air.]

[The sound of hooves came from the south, trampling over snow that had remained frozen for millennia.]

[Dressed in silver armor and holding a long spear, Liu Ying had long since shed her past frail and timid appearance, now radiating a heroic spirit that rivaled any man.]

[”Marshal! This is the Frozen Polar Region, the coldest place on Fortune Star!”]

[After years of fighting while advancing, taking circuitous routes, and countless rebel soldiers making the ultimate sacrifice, you had crossed half the planet and arrived at its North Pole.]

[”This is the place Old Zhang mentioned. Have the troops spread out and conduct a grid search!”]

[There’s strength in numbers.]

[Ten thousand cavalry might not sound like much, but in reality, it was a sea of men stretching across the mountains and plains.]

[No matter how vast the frozen tundra was, it couldn’t withstand such a continuous, relentless search by so many people.]

[A few months later, a starship, thirty meters high and over a hundred meters long, looking much like a fishing boat, was found by your people.]

[Most of this massive object was buried beneath the ice.]

[Although your subordinates had already started cultivating, with many becoming Postnatal Martial Artists (Postnatal Martial Artists enhanced their Vitality Energy without needing external Immortal Qi),]

[within the Real Realm’s cultivation system, they were still only a bit stronger than ordinary people. Getting this giant out was clearly impossible for them.]

[You used an Exotic Beast from the tundra—the Stacksteel Beast—to make yourself gigantic, then effortlessly pulled the starship out.]

[The rebel army burst into cheers.]

[Every time you displayed such ridiculous combat power, their worship and reverence for you deepened.]

[You returned to your normal size and stood beneath the starship, using「Reverse Engineering」to analyze its original blueprints and crafting formula.]

[”I thought something capable of interstellar travel would be a behemoth like an aircraft carrier, able to hold many people. But it’s only this size—it can’t even fit our original eight hundred people...”]

[You frowned.]

[Liu Ying and the other generals heard you and laughed.]

[”Grand Marshal, this ship may not be large, but it’s more than enough for you alone.”]

[”No, I told you from the very beginning: we’re all leaving this third-class star together! I made a promise to every rebel who joined us along the way—how can I not keep it?”]

[”Grand Marshal, if only some of us can leave, we’ll make sure you go first! If none of us can escape, we’ll fight tooth and nail to get you out!”]

[You patted Liu Ying’s helmet.]

[”Ying’er, if your father saw you now, he definitely wouldn’t recognize you. You’ve changed so much... I’m sorry for dragging you into this rebellion, making it so you can’t even go home.”]

[”Grand Marshal, under the oppression of the Alien Race, what meaning does ’home’ even have? In the past, we lived in a daze. You taught us the meaning of life. You showed us that yielding and compromising doesn’t earn respect—only through struggle can we win fairness! Only by defeating all oppressors can we truly have our own home!”]

[Liu Ying truly had the best grades in your political lessons. Her awareness was almost surpassing yours.]

[”Ying’er, I, Chen Yi, always keep my word! If the starship isn’t big enough, I’ll make it bigger—big enough to hold all our rebel forces, and we’ll leave this third-class star together! We’ll find a new home, raise our descendants, let future generations avenge us and our ancestors, and then we’ll come back!”]

[Your words planted another seed of hope in the hearts of Liu Ying and the other generals.]

[Everyone’s motivation grew even stronger.]

[After obtaining the blueprints restored by「Reverse Engineering」, you knew exactly how to repair the starship and what materials were needed.]

[The materials for the core components were far too rare; they weren’t available on Fortune Star.]

[Fortunately, the core components weren’t damaged.]

[The damaged parts that needed repair, as well as the materials needed to expand the starship, could all be found on Fortune Star.]

[”Brothers, we still have many battles ahead...”]

[The materials currently in your hands weren’t enough to modify the starship. You would have to seize them from the territories controlled by the Winged God Church.]

[Since the core components were intact, one important function of the starship still worked: size alteration.]

[Being able to shrink and expand made it much easier to carry. Otherwise, this giant would have to stay on the frozen tundra, making transporting seized materials back and forth extremely troublesome.]

[After studying the blueprints for a while, you completed the re-bonding of the starship and named it ”Freedom.”]

[It carried the hopes of all the human rebel forces on Fortune Star—their desperate longing to escape this fiery pit and gain their freedom.]