One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

[Year 21, age 45.]

[Extracting trait...]

[Extraction successful!]

[”You Get Stronger Just by Breathing!” (Golden Legendary):

Young one! Still finding cultivation boring?! From today on, free your hands!

As long as you keep breathing, your cultivation will automatically increase!

The increase rate equals your normal cultivation speed.

This increase can stack with your normal cultivation.

A small startup is not a startup, a small bot is not a bot~]

[Would you like to adjust the trait?][Yes/No]

“Wow! A Golden Legendary!!”

Chen Yi sat in the yard of Chen Mansion in Baiyun County like a gambler who just pulled a UR card in a collectible card game.

“Higher realms leave fewer shortcuts, you can’t use things like the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to feedback soul refinement like before, but with this trait, cultivation speed just doubled!”

Thinking carefully, it wasn’t merely doubled, it was at least twice as fast!

Because a normal person can’t cultivate twenty-four hours a day, but everyone breathes twenty-four hours a day!

Now, with cultivation aptitude increased and immortal qi present, cultivation speed rose as well.

Chen Yi could sense a new advancement approaching!

“My turn! Change the trait!”

[You selected Yes.]

[You replaced ”Trait Slingshot” with ”You Get Stronger Just by Breathing!”]

[“Is cultivation boring? Others might find it boring, but I can’t...”]

[Whenever you feel tired and stuck, you will see Liu Ying, Liu Tian, Chen Guang, and the countless Rebel Army soldiers who fell on Fortune Star.]

[They paved this road for you with their lives and blood; you don’t want to waste even a bit of that!]

[Year 23, age 47.]

[Extracting trait...]

[Extraction successful!]

[”Moonlight Poet” (Green Rare): On moonlit nights, you become filled with poetic inspiration, your poetry composition ability maxes out.]

[Would you like to adjust the trait?]

[Yes/No]

[You selected No.]

Perhaps it was the result of years of accumulation finally bursting forth, or perhaps the conviction in your heart to push to a higher realm.

From the sixth rotation to the seventh rotation of Qi Transformation, you only needed three years to complete the breakthrough.

In the Real Realm, the nine minor rotations of the Qi Transformation stage are also called Early Stage, Middle Stage, and Late Stage.

There’s that extra naming because the lifespan increase differs between early, middle, and late stages (and each race’s lifespan gains differ too).

From the sixth rotation to the seventh rotation corresponds to the Void Realm’s Martial Saint to Martial God.

Now, your theoretical lifespan reached one thousand and forty years!

This shows how fast a three-year single-rotation breakthrough is, because comparing 3 to 1040 is almost laughable.

Your realm breakthrough reached the seventh rotation of Qi Transformation, unlocking +2 equipped trait slots, and raising the probability of drawing high-quality traits!

Although it looks like you reached the seventh rotation, under the blessing of the Half-Emperor for a Thousand Ages trait, you are already at Core Formation first rotation!

You learned this from some Winged God Church captives on Fortune Star.

In the Core Formation realm, a cultivator’s body develops something resembling a beast’s inner core, and Real Realm cultivators call it a yuan core.

There’s a reason for that name.

In Core Formation, true qi advances into yuan qi.

If one reaches Core Formation perfection, they can lodge their primordial spirit within the yuan core; as long as the yuan core remains intact, the primordial spirit will not perish. Even if the physical body is greatly damaged, the primordial spirit’s survival gives a chance to return to life.

But this kind of ”rebirth” is not unconditional self-healing like the Wolverine trait; it requires specific methods, certain treasures, and outside assistance.

Those Core Formation cultivators you met on Fortune Star, like the white-robed priest Locke, had not reached Core Formation perfection, so they couldn’t do this.

Now, when you look inward, you can see a semi-transparent, flaming red yuan core forming inside your body.

Core Formation cultivators still lack Divine Sense, but they can sense the auras of nearby cultivators and roughly judge their strength — which is why Locke, a Core Formation early-stage cultivator, knew you were a cultivator the first time he saw you.

Real Realm cultivators call this ability ”sensing qi,” or it can be considered a nascent form of Divine Sense.

You can now perceive your yuan core because of this ”sensing qi.”

”Does my current condition meet the requirements for the Mortal Bones trait?”

Qi Transformation cultivators gather true qi into qi, Core Formation cultivators gather qi into a core, and later realms like Extreme Terrain and Transcendent relate to comprehending Divine Abilities.

In other words, normally you must reach Extreme Terrain to comprehend Divine Abilities.

But Mortal Bones allows you to comprehend Divine Abilities at Core Formation, as if your comprehension is increased tenfold.

The line in the effect that says ”ignore the laws of heaven and earth” very likely means you can comprehend them even in the Void Realm, like the Sword Lord!

“I’ll consolidate cultivation for another year, and while I wait, let that good-for-nothing outside replace my trait for me.”

“Good-for-nothing... you mean me?”

Chen Yi, sprawled on the garden bench in a louche pose, watched the simulation text appear line by line and said doubtfully.

“Then put on Mortal Bones and see. Two more equip slots mean I don’t have to think about who to take off, what else to add?”

From the simulation, there were actually quite a lot of cultivators of that second-tier star.

Chen Yi decided to equip the ”Treasure-Sniffing Nose” that he hadn’t used in a long time; maybe it could discover some treasure.

He needed treasures now, because his hands were empty.

[Year 24, age 48.]

[Extracting trait...]

[Extraction successful!]

[”Stick-on-Dog-Neck” (Green Rare): You can conjure a stick onto the neck of any quadrupedal walking creature (non-sentient). The creature cannot bite through it.

That way, when it tries to chase you, its front limbs will be hit by the stick and it won’t run fast.

Unless it holds the stick in its mouth, but then it can’t bite you.”]

[Would you like to adjust the trait?]

[Yes/No]

[You selected Yes.]

[You equipped ”Mortal Bones.”]

[You equipped ”Treasure-Sniffing Nose.”]

After equipping Mortal Bones, you attempted to comprehend Divine Abilities.

How to comprehend them?

You had no clue.

It felt like training knowledge in this area needed a teacher.

However, you vaguely sensed that Mortal Bones hadn’t taken effect.

“Maybe it requires an actual realm of Core Formation to work. I’ll keep cultivating while there’s no bottleneck now.”

“Since it’s temporarily useless, take it off and equip ’Bad News Spreads in Martial Circles’ so pill effects during cultivation get boosted and progress goes faster!”

Chen Yi continued his micro-operations, perfectly in sync with his simulated self.

[Year 25, age 49.]

[You replaced ”Mortal Bones” with ”Bad News Spreads in Martial Circles.”]

[You continued gathering, hunting, refining pills, and cultivating deep in the mountains and forests.]

Because of the ”Enhancement!” trait, the pills you refined were extremely effective. With the ”Bad News Spreads in Martial Circles” trait doubling pill efficacy, things became even more powerful.

Cultivation speed soared as a result.

Others cultivating this way would still worry about Pill Toxins accumulating.

But because you started by taking the Five Regions Sacred Pill, you have nothing to worry about.