Wang Yuan, having tasted the benefits from the simulator, naturally intended to continue simulating.
Even after reaching the late Foundation Establishment stage, he didn't seek out those who had provoked or looked down on him. The grudges he had accumulated from his original body were against mere Qi Refining stage cultivators, none even exceeding the seventh layer of Qi Refining. To him now, they were beneath notice.
He harbored no desire for revenge at this point.
He simply wanted to gain more from the simulator.
"In a few dozen days, I should be able to cultivate to the Longevity Realm, right?"
This was what Wang Yuan thought.
Another day passed.
He continued to simulate.
[At sixteen years old, you possess late Foundation Establishment cultivation. You reveal your cultivation, teach a lesson to those who had previously bullied and provoked you, and then calmly depart.]
[During this period, a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator from your family attacked you. You unleashed a spell and easily repelled him.]
[At twenty-nine years old, the Heavenly Pot Mountain ruins opened. You ventured deep into the ruins and obtained the inheritance of a Golden Core True Person. Upon exiting the ruins, you chanced upon a cultivator picking up a cultivation technique called the Profound Origin Art. You casually killed the person to seize the treasure and took the technique.]
[At thirty-five years old, the Wang family began to face a succession crisis, with surrounding major families exerting pressure. However, this was irrelevant to you, who had long since distanced yourself from that region.]
[At forty-three years old, you amassed a fortune through alchemy and purchased a Talisman Treasure from an auction.]
[At fifty years old, you bought a Fire Spirit Pill from the Fengshen Sect in Ming Prefecture.]
[At sixty years old, you cultivated to the Great Perfection of the late Foundation Establishment stage.]
[At sixty-nine years old, the demon race invaded, setting up countless grand formations. Due to your cultivation, which could be considered the Pseudo-Core stage, you became a focal point of their attention, aiming to convert you into a half-demon bloodline. You employed some stratagems and, before the demon powerhouses could arrive, used a teleportation array to transport yourself to the distant Seven Star Cloud Sea.]
[The Seven Star Cloud Sea is a great distance from Kang Prefecture and Ming Prefecture. While not comparable to the Central Heavenly Prefecture, it is far stronger than Kang and Ming Prefectures. There are a full twelve late Nascent Soul stage cultivators, though no Void Refining Dao Lords.]
[In the Seven Star Cloud Sea, you evaded the threat of the demon race and focused on your cultivation.]
[At sixty-nine years old, you have over a hundred and thirty years of lifespan remaining. Within this considerable time, even with only a four-element spiritual root, you will have several opportunities to attempt breaking through to the Golden Core stage.]
Although the aptitude of a four-element spiritual root was low, and the cultivation resources one could utilize were only at the ordinary level for one's peers, Wang Yuan's initial condition was late Foundation Establishment. A sixty-nine-year-old at late Foundation Establishment was considered an absolute prodigy by outsiders, almost certain to break through to the Golden Core stage.
Combining these factors, Wang Yuan felt that his simulated life this time held some hope of forming a Golden Core.
[At seventy-two years old, you refined a Heavenly Dust Pill yourself, attempting to break through to the Golden Core stage. The attempt failed, and your cultivation regressed.]
[At seventy-five years old, on an island with relatively abundant spiritual energy in the Seven Star Cloud Sea, you became the island lord.]
[At ninety-five years old, having failed to break through and with your cultivation regressed, you managed to cultivate back the lost cultivation, returning to the Great Perfection of the late Foundation Establishment stage.]
[At one hundred and ten years old, you spent five years refining the Five Elements Golden Core Forming Pill and the Heavenly Dust Pill.]
[At one hundred and eleven years old, you simultaneously consumed the Five Elements Golden Core Forming Pill and the Heavenly Dust Pill, attempting to break through to the Golden Core stage again. You still failed.]
[At one hundred and thirty years old, you accidentally encountered a Golden Core stage sea beast. You expended a large number of high-grade magical artifacts to self-destruct, finally escaping.]
[At one hundred and forty-three years old, you cultivated back to the Great Perfection of the late Foundation Establishment stage.]
[At one hundred and forty-six years old, during an exchange with fellow Daoists, you obtained the Outer Core scripture.]
[The Outer Core scripture allows one to refine an Outer Core using the inner core of a Golden Core stage demonic beast with suitable attributes. Once the Outer Core is refined, a cultivator only needs to use it to possess the strength of a Golden Core stage cultivator. However, the Outer Core is an external force and cannot affect the cultivator's own cultivation. The cultivator's own cultivation remains at the Great Perfection of late Foundation Establishment, and their lifespan remains at two hundred years.]
[At one hundred and forty-eight years old, you began to consider whether to refine an Outer Core or to condense a Golden Core.]
[Refining an Outer Core is easier than achieving a Golden Core. However, with only over fifty years of lifespan remaining, you carefully considered and felt there was no need to refine an Outer Core, as it would not increase your lifespan. You decided to once again attempt refining the Five Elements Golden Core Forming Pill and break through to the Golden Core realm.]
[At one hundred and sixty-two years old, you refined the Five Elements Golden Core Forming Pill and the Heavenly Dust Pill. For the third time, you attempted to break through to the Golden Core stage and failed. Your cultivation regressed. It is too difficult for a four-element spiritual root to form a Golden Core.]
[At one hundred and seventy-eight years old, you searched everywhere for traces of the Yin-Yang Yellow Springs Flower, hoping to refine a Yellow Springs Pill to increase your lifespan, but you found none.]
[At one hundred and eighty-eight years old, having prepared the Five Elements Golden Core Forming Pill and the Heavenly Dust Pill, you intended to attempt breaking through to the Golden Core realm for the fourth time. You still failed.]
[Due to repeated failures in breaking through, coupled with your dwindling lifespan and declining vitality, you were unable to withstand the impact of failure. You perished in your fourth attempt at a life-or-death closed-door cultivation.]
[Please choose one of the following three rewards:]
[One: Great Perfection of late Foundation Establishment cultivation.]
[Two: Five Five Elements Golden Core Forming Pills, five Heavenly Dust Pills, and fifty Pulse Protecting Pills.]
[Three: Outer Core scripture.]
Four attempts to break through to Golden Core failed?
Wang Yuan's face darkened. The simulator's descriptions truly made him want to spit blood.
At sixteen years old, he already possessed late Foundation Establishment cultivation, yet after four attempts with complete pill preparations, all four attempts to break through to Golden Core failed. The probability of a four-element spiritual root forming a Golden Core was too low.
While a normal four-element spiritual root wouldn't even hope to reach Foundation Establishment, let alone Golden Core.
As Wang Yuan, the first to challenge the formation of a Golden Core with a four-element spiritual root, he now understood how difficult it was.
From sixteen years old, he had been busy until he was nearly two hundred years old, and he couldn't even achieve the goal of breaking through from late Foundation Establishment to Golden Core.
"This is too outrageous..."
Wang Yuan sighed.
However, he merely sighed and wasn't anxious.
He had long known that the simulator possessed randomness and contingency.
For example, in the previous simulation, after the demon race invaded, he went to the Central Heavenly Prefecture.
In this simulation, after the demon race invaded, he went to the Seven Star Cloud Sea.
The place of escape was entirely different.
And since the place of escape could be different each time, it meant that the breakthroughs couldn't always fail.
This wasn't a locked-in possibility.
To Wang Yuan, he felt that in the next simulation, at most in the next simulation, he would gain another four, or even eight, opportunities to break through to Golden Core. With such a large number of chances, success was always possible.
For ordinary people to break through, like Wang Yuan's fifth uncle, they needed to purchase the Five Elements Golden Core Forming Pill and the Heavenly Dust Pill, and only after acquiring the pills could they attempt to break through.
Once the breakthrough failed, the pills would need to be repurchased, which meant a significant reduction in assets.