One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

[To gather the materials for refining the Great Void Return Core Pill, you traveled extensively across Blazing Star.]

[What you could collect yourself, you collected; what you couldn’t, you brought back.]

[”How is it that my perfectly good alchemy materials ended up in your hands?”]

[Thankfully, with humanity’s decline, nothing valuable on Blazing Star remained in human hands.]

[Your cultivation realm, boosted by the ”Half-Emperor for a Thousand Ages” trait, had already reached the Third Rotation of Qi Transformation.]

[If you encountered an Alien Race member again, you could hit them with at least three gold-tier traits: ”The Most Severe Father to Non-Humans,” ”Heartsteel,” and ”Calamity of Ten Thousand Races.”]

[So, against Alien Races, you were invincible below the Extreme Terrain Realm. At the Extreme Terrain Realm, it depended on the situation—if they had no way to counter you, you could even go toe-to-toe with them, or even wear them down to death with ”Wolverine.”]

[The Transcendent Realm was temporarily unsolvable.]

[Unless your opponent was a ”dragon”—then they’d just be out of luck.]

[So this material-gathering trip went pretty smoothly.][Before long, you were only missing two materials.]

[”Middle Yuan Sand, Ghost Terror Grass... Taige said these two things were extremely rare. Blazing Star didn’t produce them; they were all imported from other planets.

The big sects had channels to acquire them.

For small factions, the only option was to bid at auction houses.”]

[You inquired about where the auction houses were.]

[After some trouble, you confirmed that the Qingyan Chamber of Commerce’s upcoming auction would feature both of these items.]

[There was also some good news.]

[The Qingyan Chamber of Commerce’s auction hall wasn’t located in any city—it was built on their own territory, so you didn’t have to worry about residence permits.]

[The Qingyan Chamber of Commerce was the largest chamber on Blazing Star, with business covering several surrounding stellar systems.]

[The boss was a Flame Clan member, so the chamber prioritized giving jobs to the Flame Clan.]

[The Flame Clan was exactly as their name suggested: their bodies were covered in flames, like human-shaped bonfires.]

[They could control the temperature and intensity of their flames, so you didn’t have to worry about them burning guests to death when serving them.]

[With ”Calamity of Ten Thousand Races,” other people’s talents became your talents.]

[You touched the Flame Clan security guard at the door and gained the Flame Clan’s talent.]

[Flame Like a Song: You can turn your body into flames and also control the intensity of the flames.]

[A talent that perfectly aligned with your five-element attribute.]

[You mimicked the appearance of a Flame Clan member and successfully participated in the auction.]

[Were you going to the auction house to bid sky-high prices and shock the entire venue?]

[No.]

[Where would you get that many Source Stones? Even though you had come into quite a bit of sudden wealth lately.]

[But why spend money on something you could get for zero yuan?]

[You entered the auction hall just to see who bought the items, so you could take them back.]

[You left your clone outside, waiting for the target to come out and follow them, relaying their position to you.]

[This auction was just a regular one, not the top-tier kind that attracted bigwigs from all sides.]

[So there wasn’t anything earth-shattering to see.]

[But there was one thing that caught your attention.]

[”’Merge Three Souls’?”]

[A jade slip was displayed on the auction stage. It recorded a spell called ”Merge Three Souls.”]

[The auctioneer showed the first two pages of the technique so the bidders could get a general idea.]

[As it turned out, no one could make heads or tails of it.]

[The base price wasn’t cheap, and everyone was worried they wouldn’t be able to practice it if they bought it, so no one bid.]

[Only you knew that this spell was the key to the Female Celestial Emperor’s second chance at life.]

[”Should I buy it?”]

[Items that didn’t sell would be sealed away again.]

[You didn’t have the capability to rob the Qingyan Chamber of Commerce directly, and you didn’t want to bring that kind of trouble on yourself.]

[Although you didn’t know where the Female Celestial Emperor’s three souls were yet, you had a feeling that since ”Slash Three Souls” was already in your hands, you might as well get ”Merge Three Souls” too.]

[Maybe it would come in handy later?]

[Bought!]

[In the entire auction, this was the only thing you bought.]

[At the same time, you identified two targets who bought the Middle Yuan Sand and the Ghost Terror Grass.]

[”Chen Five, there’s a Winged Clan member at the West Exit, Core Formation realm, wearing a dark red long coat. Follow him!”]

[People often say it’s hard to be in two places at once.]

[But that saying didn’t apply to you.]

[You tailed the buyer of the Middle Yuan Sand from the East Exit, while simultaneously having your clone follow the Winged Clan member who bought the Ghost Terror Grass from the West Exit.]

[The buyer of the Middle Yuan Sand wasn’t high-level, and had two or three companions.]

[One punch from you, and he was begging for mercy.]

[Middle Yuan Sand acquired.]

[As you were leaving, the other party insisted on giving you some Source Stones, saying it was a token of appreciation and a chance to make a friend.]

[Making friends is fine, but why give Source Stones!]

[With such overwhelming hospitality, it would be rude not to accept.]

[The Ghost Terror Grass situation was more troublesome.]

[The Winged Clan member was alone, but he could fly.]

[After following him for a while, Chen Five couldn’t keep up, so he jumped out and shouted.]

[”Hey, you Winged Clan guy up ahead! Get down here for your grandpa!!”]

[How could a noble Winged Clan member tolerate such provocation from a mere human.]

[”Ignorant old man, you’re asking for death!”]

[The Winged Clan member chased after him, and Chen Five ran toward your direction.]

[Seeing that the old man’s movement technique was sharp and hard to catch, the Winged Clan member was about to give up.]

[But just as he was about to leave, Chen Five started yelling again.]

[”Haha! Scared, are you? Back in the day, your grandpa here would slaughter you Winged Clan like I was killing baby chicks! One by one, you’d line up to beg for mercy!”]

[The Winged Clan member was so enraged by him that he flattened the surrounding forest in a fit of fury, leaving Chen Five with nowhere to hide. Finally, he blew him to pieces.]

[”Where did that crazy old man come from...”]

[Chen Five used his sacrifice to buy you the time to catch up.]

[By the time this Winged Clan member took to the air again, you had already arrived.]

[You leaped up with incredible jumping power, rising even higher than the Winged Clan member could fly. You stomped hard on his back, kicking him out of the sky and onto the ground.]

[This Winged Clan member had good eyesight. He felt that you and that old man just now were very similar.]

[”Interesting. Usually, when you beat the junior, the senior shows up. But this time, I beat the senior, and the junior shows up.”]

[You couldn’t be bothered to waste words with him. You just attacked with a heavy punch.]

[You still had quite a few stacks of ”Heartsteel” on you. The moment you engaged, this Winged Clan member felt an explosive amount of pressure.]

[”I remember now! It’s you! The human who destroyed the Demon Sha True Lord’s physical body!

Senior, spare me! I didn’t know that human just now had anything to do with you!

Besides, it was that old man who provoked me for no reason!”]

[Under normal circumstances, a clone being killed was no big deal. You could just summon it again tomorrow.]

[But because of what happened on Fortune Star, you had a serious grudge against the Winged Clan.]

[So he could only blame his own bad luck.]

[This Winged Clan member subsequently died of acute cardiac arrest, and his storage pouch became yours.]

[”What a big haul...”]

[This guy’s storage pouch was full of cultivation resources and Source Stones, including, of course, the Ghost Terror Grass you needed most.]

[From an identity token in the pouch, you learned he was an Outer Sect Elder of the Feiyu Sect.]

[Now, all the alchemy materials were ready.]

[You found a place with earthly fire without stopping and began to refine the pill.]

[”Once the pill is complete, I will formally enter the Core Formation realm!”]

[This was a breakthrough to a major realm in the Real Realm—a truly momentous occasion!]