Wang Yuan shook his head, feeling that this simulation had yielded little, and he didn't know how much longer it would take to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.
Following the usual routine, a day passed.
Wang Yuan began a new simulation.
[Sixteen years old, you possess late-stage Golden Core cultivation and have established the Qingyuan Sect in Kangzhou.]
He would still be in Kangzhou, establishing a sect?
And it would still be called Qingyuan Sect?
The previous simulation was the same, Wang Yuan couldn't deny it.
Wang Yuan continued to read through.
He discovered that the simulation results were largely the same until he was in his sixties.
The sect became famous, disciples were recruited, the Tianhu Mountain was explored, traces of demons were found…
Finally, around his sixties, things began to differ.
[Sixty-six years old, the demon race used the Profound Heaven Lock Spirit Formation to trap Qingyuan Sect. You fought alone against eight opponents, killing six late-stage Golden Core demon cultivators, while two escaped.]
[You knew that the demon army had arrived, their offensive nearly unstoppable. The few Nascent Soul Spirit Lords native to Kangzhou had little chance of victory, and you began to consider fleeing.]
[Sixty-seven years old, you abandoned Qingyuan Sect, a force established for over fifty years, and fled alone, intending to go to the Central Heavenly Continent.]
[At the same time, the demon race also began their actions, fully invading Kangzhou. After killing several Nascent Soul Spirit Lords in Kangzhou, they intended to hunt down all Golden Core humans.]
[A Nascent Soul demon cultivator pursued you, attempting to kill you. You desperately fled and were trapped by the Nascent Soul demon cultivator in Liangjie Mountain. Seeing no escape, you quietly activated an ancient teleportation array that had been set up in Liangjie Mountain long ago, teleporting to the Seven Stars Cloud Sea.]
He went to the Seven Stars Cloud Sea again?
Wang Yuan mused, but at least he had successfully escaped.
It was better to keep one's life than to lose it to the demon race.
The demon army could conquer several prefectures, indicating their significant power. Without advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, it would be difficult to resist them at this time. Even if he advanced, dealing with the demon army would still be a formidable task—more than ten Nascent Soul Spirit Lords were described as having died at the hands of the demon race.
From his previous simulations, Wang Yuan knew that the demon army was not a target that could be dealt with in the current simulations. However, with subsequent simulations, he would eventually be able to defeat and crush the demon race head-on in one simulation.
[Escaped to the Seven Stars Cloud Sea.]
[Seventy years old, relying on your late-stage Golden Core cultivation, you became a dominant force at sea, continuing to establish a faction, recruiting a large number of subordinates to hunt sea beasts for you and harvest cultivation resources.]
[……]
[One hundred and twenty years old, with the cultivation resources obtained, you reached the Great Perfection of the late-stage Golden Core.]
[One hundred and thirty-five years old, during an exploration, you obtained the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, the Heavenly Void Cauldron.]
[One hundred and fifty years old, you chanced upon one of the Twelve Supremes of the Seven Stars Cloud Sea, a late-stage Nascent Soul Great Cultivator. Through a series of transactions, you acquired a method for forming a Nascent Soul.]
[One hundred and seventy years old, you explored the underwater Ancient Dragon Palace.]
[One hundred and seventy-three years old, in the Ancient Dragon Palace, you discovered a demon cultivator's technique, the Supreme Dragon Transformation Art.]
[One hundred and eighty years old, you encountered a tenth-tier sea beast and obtained its demon core.]
[One hundred and eighty-three years old, using the Heavenly Void Cauldron, you refined pills that would aid in breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.]
[One hundred and ninety-three years old, you attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul stage for the first time, but failed, and your cultivation regressed.]
[Two hundred and fifty years old, through a large amount of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, you recovered your former late-stage Golden Core Great Perfection cultivation.]
[Two hundred and seventy years old, you attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, but failed. Your Golden Core shattered, and your cultivation regressed to the Foundation Establishment stage.]
[Two hundred and seventy years old, you died of old age.]
[Please choose one of the following three rewards.]
[One: Peak Foundation Establishment cultivation.]
[Two: Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, the Heavenly Void Cauldron.]
[Three: Nascent Soul Formation Method.]
The outcome of this simulation was also not good.
Although he died of old age, Wang Yuan understood that this was not a normal death from old age, but rather the risk involved in the process of shattering the Golden Core to form a Nascent Soul.
Even with the Meridian Protecting Pill and numerous other pills to salvage the situation in case of failure, he was ultimately unable to preserve his Golden Core, and his cultivation regressed to the Foundation Establishment stage.
If the shattering of the Golden Core to form a Nascent Soul succeeded, one would reach the Nascent Soul stage. If it failed, the Golden Core was already shattered, and one would not even be in the Golden Core stage, but would regress to the Foundation Establishment stage.
Foundation Establishment cultivators typically had a lifespan of only two hundred years. Once regressed to the Foundation Establishment stage, coupled with his advanced age of two hundred and seventy, it led to his death.
The cause of death was old age.
"Compared to attempting to break through to Foundation Establishment from Qi Refining, or to Golden Core from Foundation Establishment, failure merely results in wasted time and resources. However, attempting to break through to Nascent Soul from Golden Core can be life-threatening."
Wang Yuan looked at the rewards for this simulation, noting that there were three options.
The first was Peak Foundation Establishment cultivation.
Regarding this option, Wang Yuan knew it was because his cultivation had fallen to the peak of Foundation Establishment at the time of his death. The simulator's reward was based on the final data, naturally taking Wang Yuan's final regressed cultivation as a reference.
Wang Yuan would never choose this option. Since the last simulation, he had understood that cultivation rewards were not cumulative but overwriting.
If he chose this option, his cultivation would be overwritten to Peak Foundation Establishment.
Regressing from late-stage Golden Core to Peak Foundation Establishment, and then having the initial conditions for future simulations start from Peak Foundation Establishment, was a foolish move Wang Yuan had no intention of making.
Therefore, he did not choose this option and instead selected others.
Wang Yuan chose the second option, the Heavenly Void Cauldron.
The Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, the Heavenly Void Cauldron, was a magical artifact that aided alchemists in refining pills for breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.
Ordinary magic tools and spirit artifacts were one thing, but a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure like the Heavenly Void Cauldron was another.
Without the Heavenly Void Cauldron, with Wang Yuan's current alchemy skills, it would be impossible to refine pills that could aid in breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.
Therefore, this Heavenly Void Cauldron was also essential, and Wang Yuan considered it a beneficial initial choice.
In the subsequent simulations, Wang Yuan continuously attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.
Due to the requirement of shattering the Golden Core to form a Nascent Soul, breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage often resulted in death. Each simulation typically allowed for only one or two attempts at breakthrough.
And because of this characteristic, in most simulations, he could not survive to the era of Dao Integration contention at over three hundred years old.
And because of the regression in cultivation, Wang Yuan naturally could not choose cultivation as a reward; he chose alchemy techniques.
Thus, in the next seven simulations, Wang Yuan's cultivation did not change, but his alchemy skills became increasingly proficient.
He was even recognized as an Alchemy Grandmaster in the simulator, whether in Kangzhou, Mingzhou, or even the Seven Stars Cloud Sea and the Central Heavenly Continent.
Many Nascent Soul experts treated him, a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, as an equal.
And in later simulations, when the demon race invaded, he even managed to survive in the demon-controlled territories due to his alchemy skills and was absorbed by the demon race.