At forty-four, your alchemy techniques advanced further. Coupled with your seventh-level Qi Refining cultivation, you could already refine Foundation Establishment Pills.
At forty-eight, with the support of the Wang family, you refined your first usable Foundation Establishment Pill.
At fifty-four, your reputation soared. Among the nearby immortal cultivation families and sects, you were hailed as a Master Alchemist. Within the Wang family, you were the foremost alchemist.
At sixty-two, with the invasion of the demon race and the defeat of several Nascent Soul Spirit Lords in Kang Prefecture, Kang Prefecture fell further.
At sixty-three, under the family's arrangements, you and some clan members fled Kang Prefecture and headed to nearby Ming Prefecture.
At sixty-five, among the fleeing clan members, your status as a Master Alchemist earned you great respect. Some clan members presented you with a scroll of the Scarlet Origin Technique.
At sixty-eight, the demon army invaded further. Following Kang Prefecture, they also attacked the surrounding Ming Prefecture. You and other clan members began to flee again, heading west.
Passing through the Two Realms Mountain, you were pursued by the demon army and attempted to surrender. However, the demons did not accept surrender, and you died at their hands.
The simulation has ended.
You can choose one of the following options to receive a reward.
One: Seventh-level Qi Refining cultivation.
Two: Ten Foundation Establishment Pills.
Three: Master Alchemist's alchemy techniques.
Another simulation has concluded.
In this simulation, Wang Yuan had indeed become a Master Alchemist, respected by his clan. To achieve such a feat with his five-element spiritual root, considered a waste root, was no small accomplishment. In the current cultivation world, such individuals were rare. Without undergoing at least five simulations, Wang Yuan would have been unable to achieve this.
The Wang family was a clan capable of consistently producing Foundation Establishment cultivators. While they only had a few cultivators at the Great Perfection stage of Foundation Establishment, there were nearly ten cultivators in the early and middle stages of Foundation Establishment, scattered throughout the clan. To be so widely respected within such a family, to be the foremost alchemist, and to achieve this with a five-element spiritual root, a "waste" spiritual root, was something even cultivators with three-element spiritual roots found difficult.
"This time, I died at the hands of the demon race..."
Wang Yuan recalled that in the previous simulation, he had been ostracized by his family and ventured into Ming Prefecture. There, he encountered some unknown demon race, was transformed into a half-demon, essentially joining the demon race's ranks. He did not die but lived as a half-demon under demon rule.
This time, due to his elevated status within the Wang family and the widespread respect he commanded, he was not ostracized and thus did not venture into Ming Prefecture, nor was he transformed into a half-demon.
During the demon invasion, not being part of the demon race, his only option was to flee. They first escaped to Ming Prefecture, and after a few years, Ming Prefecture was also occupied by the demons. When they attempted to flee again, they were cornered by the demon army at the Two Realms Mountain.
Ultimately, he chose to surrender, but the demon race did not accept it.
He died directly at the hands of the demon race.
He did not live out his natural lifespan and met an accidental death once again.
Wang Yuan had initially expected that with decades of alchemy experience and the resources provided by his family, his cultivation would be higher in this simulation.
Indeed, his cultivation had advanced much faster than in the previous simulation, reaching the seventh level of Qi Refining forty years earlier. However, he also died earlier than in the previous simulation, so the net result was the same cultivation level.
"Why, in the previous simulation, knowing the demon race would invade, did I not escape earlier?"
"Instead, I continued to develop within the Wang family?"
Wang Yuan tried to understand the operating logic of this simulator cheat.
Based on the simulations so far, this simulator could only predict certain future paths.
These so-called future paths were merely textual descriptions. Wang Yuan saw whatever information the simulator presented.
He knew that in this simulation, he was killed by the demon race at the Two Realms Mountain, but he did not know which specific demons killed him, what divine abilities the leading demon used to strike him down, or the exact date and month of his death. These details were completely unknown to him.
The future displayed by the simulator was purely textual, not an infusion of memories.
Wang Yuan had undergone five simulations, but he was not a centuries-old monster with five lifetimes of memories.
He still only possessed the memories from before his transmigration and the memories of the sixteen-year-old original body.
He did not know where the Two Realms Mountain was located. His mind held no such memory.
To find out the location of the Two Realms Mountain, he would have to check the maps recorded in the family's library.
He did not inherit the memories of the decades lived in the simulator.
Therefore, Wang Yuan felt that the simulator was merely deducing based on his current initial conditions.
There was no concept of the memories from one simulation being remembered by himself in the next.
This was not a form of memory inheritance.
Otherwise, Wang Yuan would not have stayed within the Wang family to develop in every simulation.
In reality, Wang Yuan knew that his fifth uncle would fail his Golden Core breakthrough in two years, leading to a difficult period for the family with a lack of successors. He would definitely leave the Wang family and develop in other regions.
Kang Prefecture was vast, and the Wang family was not the only immortal cultivation family.
Expanding the scope to the entire Tianqing Realm, the situation was even more pronounced.
Leaving the sinking ship of the Wang family, he could develop anywhere. Why would he be confined to the Wang family?
After several deductions and simulations, Wang Yuan understood this principle.
However, it was clear that the Wang Yuan within the simulator, the person being simulated, did not know that his fifth uncle would fail his Golden Core breakthrough in two years, nor did he know about the future invasion of the demon race.
This was why he made such choices repeatedly.
Wang Yuan felt a sense of regret.
But after the regret, he found it quite reasonable.
The him in the simulator and the real him were naturally two different individuals.
A crucial example was that the Wang Yuan in the simulator absolutely did not have a simulator.
The simulator simulated a Wang Yuan who had no cheat, had lost his cheat, and did not know the future course of events.
It was not a Wang Yuan who possessed a simulator cheat.
Therefore, there was no "nesting doll" scenario.
For instance, if Wang Yuan conducted his fifth simulation, starting from sixteen years old, then the sixteen-year-old Wang Yuan within that simulator would use the simulator cheat to conduct his sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth... and even countless more simulations within the simulator's simulator.
If such nesting were possible.
Then, on the first day of his first simulation, Wang Yuan would likely have seen that the person in his simulator had achieved the Longevity realm, and he himself would have received the reward of Longevity realm cultivation.