[Talent Drawn Successfully, the host can choose any two from the following to carry within the simulation.]
[Maniac (Purple): The denser the blood energy within your surroundings, the greater the increase in both your cultivation and comprehension speed (up to 100 times).]
[Puppeteer (Purple): A rare genius of puppetry born in a million years.]
[Regeneration (Blue): Increases recovery speed by 1 time.]
Looking at the talent that had appeared this time and finding that the system didn't warn him about any side effects, Lin Chen directly chose the Maniac and Puppeteer talents.
Although Regeneration was also a useful talent, from his memory he knew that there were very few people who could injure him, so—for now—this talent was not needed.
Just as he made his choice, another voice sounded in his mind.
[Host, do you want to take any talent from the Talent Pool within the simulation?]
Looking at the option that had appeared again, Lin Chen directly chose to implement the One Body Two Soul talent just like the previous time and started the simulation.
[Simulation Starts.]
[On the first day of the simulation, you felt an unknown soul appear in your body, which you refined easily. After refining, you got to know that the soul you just refined was of a Golden Elixir realm cultivator, but too bad, his experiences weren't as rich as yours.]
[Later that day, from the six System Origins, you sacrificed four to the Combat Ranking System and the other two to the Proficiency Panel, and again unlocked the feature: Complete the Fragments and deduce any technique to the Origin Level.]
[After everything was done, you began to cultivate and, within a day, broke through to the Foundation Building realm.]
[The next day, you left Yongcheng City and headed towards the Linnan Prefecture of the Shu Kingdom in search of the Ring of Wealth.]
[Five months later, you arrived at that place and finally found the Ring of Wealth.]
[Later on, you headed to the closest Immortal City and booked a teleportation array to Sword City.]
[After arriving at Sword City, you again booked the teleportation array to the City of Holy Sword and reached your destination.]
[During your travel, you found that even though you didn't venture to a place filled with blood energy, your cultivation and comprehension speed were still one time faster than before you started the simulation. That meant—though not dense—blood energy was everywhere within your surroundings.]
[At this time, your cultivation had also reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment realm, but you didn't start to practice the Nine-Turn Supreme Foundation Condensation Method.]
[The reason? Well… you wanted to create a method that corresponded to all your current spiritual roots and then start cultivating again while following that technique.]
[What made this easier was that, from the Proficiency Panel, you got to know that after practicing a technique to the Origin Level, you could understand it thoroughly and merge its qualities into other techniques that had been practiced to the Origin Level to create a new cultivation method for yourself.]
[And what made it much easier was that you already possessed the corresponding techniques for all your current spirit roots and just had to merge them into a new technique.]
[From your memory, you got to know that the following are the names and origins of the techniques:—
Blood Sword Sutra (Saint-Grade): from Blood Sword Sect.
Frost Heart Sutra (Saint-Grade): through Xia Bingming's memory transplant.
Destruction Sutra (Saint-Grade): from Shen Family.]
[You didn't know how much time it would take for you to merge them all, but you didn't seem to care and headed for it while reciting a sentence in your heart: "For higher potential, some sacrifices are meant to be made."]
[The sacrifice you were talking about was time, which you had in a large amount.]
[Soon, time passed by and the day of assessment arrived.]
[This time, you lit up 14 sword patterns and became both the Holy Son and the successor of Hidden Sword Peak.]
[After becoming the Holy Son, though you collected the core techniques of every peak, you preserved them for future practice.]
[On that very day—without wasting any time—you headed towards the Trial Tower.]
[Soon, you arrived outside the Trial Tower and directly chose to fight the heroes of past and present.]
[Later, you entered it and an introduction with the same format as the previous time appeared.]
▪︎ Set time: Past to Present (All your opponents will be the top 100 best scorers from past to present).
▪︎ All your opponents' cultivation will be suppressed to your current realm.
▪︎ The participant is advised not to use any weapon other than the ones provided by the Trial Tower (If you don't follow this rule, you will be kicked out of the Trial Tower and can't take your used weapon out).
[Just as the introduction ended, many rows filled with swords appeared in front of you.]
[This time, you chose a Double-Edged Sword as your weapon and entered the first floor.]
[Soon, a young figure with a sword in hand appeared in front of you, whose comprehension of Sword Law had reached the peak stage.]
[With a slash of your sword, you eliminated his avatar and, with it, appeared the door leading to the 2nd floor.]
[Now you understood, the least of the people here had already comprehended the 28th level of Sword Law.]
[You, who had taken almost 45 years to comprehend the 30th level of Sword Law, understood how terrifying this achievement was for an 18-year-old.]
[Later, you headed towards the gate that had opened and arrived at the second floor, and with it appeared a pure light that recovered the almost non-existent stamina you had lost.]
[Cleared Level 2… 3… 4… 28… 48… 73… 89.]
[You arrived at Level 90. At Level 90, the person you met was the future founder of the Blood Sword Sect and the second disciple of the ancestor of Tian Jian Holy Land.]
[Although you defeated him successfully, in this battle your sword also broke.]
[Now you understood, from this moment on you would face real opponents.]
[You took another sword from the space that had appeared and entered the 91st Level.]
[At the 99th Level.]
[The entire floor was filled with the mist of chaotic sword energy, and amidst this mist were two figures fighting each other.]
[At the moment, your Prison-Suppressing Divine Body was on full display, and against this destructive force, it didn't back down even a bit, exchanging one sword slash after another.]
[The opponent you were facing right now was called the Chaos Sword God, the first disciple of Tian Jian Immortal.]
[Who knows how many rounds you fought, but finally, the battle ended and the result was satisfying—you won.]
[Although you won the battle, the pain was still there and didn't wear off at all.]
[Only after you arrived at the 100th level did these injuries heal and all the pain wear off.]
[After arriving here, you again chose another sword—because the previous one was broken—and began to take in the surroundings.]
[This floor, completely opposite to the previous one, was filled with an unnatural calmness that seemed like the calm before the storm.]
[Soon, a heroic figure appeared—a faint smile on his lips and his hands cascading behind his robe. He was none other than the Ancestor of Tian Jian Holy Land, Tian Jian Immortal.]
[Without waiting for an extra second, you directly attacked—not giving him any chance to react.]
[At the moment, your Prison-Suppressing Divine Body was on full display again.]
[Suddenly—just when you entered within his sword domain—you felt as if you had entered a completely different world, in which there were sword energies scattered everywhere, and you were beaten back with bruises all over your body.]
[You knew it was the next realm of Dao called mastering the Domain, in which you had to perfect your control over your Domain.]
[Although you knew he wasn't someone you could deal with, you really didn't want to give up. You knew it had taken you too much effort to reach the peak of Sword Law and understood that if you were to give up right now, then this chance would never come again within this simulation, because you had the backing of those monstrous geniuses, and it would seem like spitting on your previous efforts.]
[Thinking of this, you decided to give it all you got and turn this into a close-range battle.]
[Who knows how much time had passed.]
[At the moment, on the 100th floor of the Trial Tower was seen a figure covered in blood, holding an almost broken sword in his hand, but there was still a spark of determination in his eyes. It was none other than you.]
[Although the sword in your hand was almost broken, you didn't give up and were still trying to find an opening, because from his posture you had already determined that his physique was extremely weak.]
[Soon, you attacked him again.]
[This time—just as you entered his Domain—the almost broken sword of yours completely shattered, but you didn't focus on it at all and even let go of the hilt of the broken sword because you had found an opening.]
[Within a moment, you made a punch, covered it with your sword energy, and finally thrust it toward his heart with full force.]
[Because all this happened within a second, that avatar didn't get any chance to react at all, and you were successful in penetrating his heart.]
[At that moment, you didn't know why, but that faint smile of his still remained and didn't change at all.]
[Suddenly, his avatar began to disappear, and the energy radiating from his body began to take shape and soon turned into the figure of Tian Jian Immortal—but it wasn't him; it was the Spirit of the Trial Tower.]
[You had gained the recognition of the Trial Tower.]
[Just as you gained its recognition, a gate—whose color was as pure as your System Origin—appeared. You went there in hope that it would take you out gloriously.]
[But what you didn't expect was that you'd hear two cold words of rejection.]
[▪︎ Not Eligible.]
[Hearing it, you became troubled, not knowing what it meant. Regarding this, you soon received the answer from the Spirit.]
[The gate you had entered just now was for the 101st floor, where that person's avatar resided, and only those who were eligible could enter it. Unfortunately, no one had even passed the 100th floor for the third time, let alone been able to fit the criteria of that person.]
[Listening to it, you asked him to describe the figure of the person he was talking about, but unfortunately, he didn't remember it at all, as if this part of his memory was split from cause and effect, and only his avatar remained as his truth of existence—even the Spirit of the Trial Tower couldn't access it.]
[Soon, you left the Trial Tower with all the glory in hand and your name above everyone else, broadcasted to the entire Holy Sword Sect.]
[After your return to Hidden Sword Peak, you heard some words of praise from your master and began to focus on creating a new technique for yourself.]
[In the 10th year, you killed Mo Tianxuan and later that same year, you also killed Su Ming and returned to the Holy Sword Sect.]
[In these years, your practicing speed of these techniques was quite slow because you didn't possess any special equipment like the Five Elemental Robe for these elements, but you didn't give up and focused entirely on comprehending them.]
[In the 17th year, you massacred the entire Gu Family of Taiping City.]
[After killing them all, you felt your cultivation and comprehension speed increase by 7 times; you knew your Maniac talent had played its role.]
[Feeling it, you decided to stay here and comprehend.]
[Three months later, after finding that the blood energy here was no different from the outside world, you decided to leave this place and return to your Sect to cultivate peacefully.]
[In these years, you had again established your business and recruited many followers, but because this time you possessed the memory of the previous simulation, you sketched out Feng Chen's face and gave them the task to search for him. While ordering this, you specifically told them not to hurt him by any means.]
[Soon, you got the news and found that he lived within an Immortal City under the jurisdiction of the Thunder Fist Sect, and the details you got were just as you had expected.]
[When he was born, he possessed amazing talent for cultivation, but unknowingly he became the waste of the Feng Family, a Nascent Soul stage family, and blah… blah… blah…]
[In the 18th year, you entered the city where he belonged, and at night, when he was sleeping, you directly slipped the ring he was wearing and left.]
[From that day on, the genius of the Feng Family returned to life, but it was also that day that cut off his path to immortality.]
[Well… this had nothing to do with you, and as always, you returned to the Holy Sword Sect silently.]
[The reason why you were so interested in Feng Chen was because when you learned of the ability of the Nine Netherworld Mysterious Flame—to burn souls and extract memories—you always wanted to open the mind of that old man and steal all his skills and experiences.]
[In the 19th year, you found that refining this old man was much more difficult than you thought. So, you put the work of refining him on hold, placed his ring within the storage space, and again focused your mind on completing the main goal of creating a new technique.]
[In the 41st year, you again received a marriage proposal from the Princess of Baihua Chamber of Commerce, which you rejected after meeting her.]
[This time your main goal wasn't to meet her but to obtain the Ghost Gathering Jade Box, which you easily got because of your memory.]
[In the 57th year, you entered the Secret Realm of Blood Demon and began your comprehension of skills.]
[Right now, you were at the innermost part of the secret realm, where you got the buff of a sixfold increase.]
[Six months later, the secret passage opened, and just like always, you again found that secret place and began to make full use of it.]
[Here, the maximum buff you got was a 13-fold increase in both, but obviously, you only focused on comprehension.]
[This time, the reason why you weren't noticed by others was because while comprehending, you didn't cause any kind of phenomenon that usually happens during cultivation.]
[Soon, a month passed, and the entire Blood Demon Secret Realm began to collapse because the Blood-Devouring Demonic Sword was taken out. Anticipating it, you had already arrived outside in time.]
[Just like that, many years passed by.]
[In these years, you didn't participate in any major events and were fully focused on creating the new technique, which made your master, Wang Sheng, disappointed.]
[But the reason for his disappointment was because you hadn't told him what you were doing. If you had, he would have fully supported you.]
[In the 133rd year, you got news that the Ancient Ruins had opened again. Hearing it, this time you obviously chose… not to go.]