One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

【Year Eighteen, age thirty-five.】

【You have visited some minor sects, but were turned away at the door each time.】

【”Sigh, chased out again. So rude.”】

【You dust off your clothes, rub the wounds on your face, and head down the mountain looking disheveled.】

【At the foot of the mountain, there is a village. The moment you get close, you smell a strong, pungent scent of blood.】

【Walking into the village to look, you discover everyone in the entire village has been killed!】

【Their corpses are lying haphazardly all over the ground.】

【”How can it be like this again? Yesterday when we rested in the village, everything was fine...”】

【This is already the fourth village massacre you have encountered this year.】

【It’s as if a professional killing squad is constantly tailing you, slaughtering wherever you go.】【But strangely, whether the villagers were alive or dead, your ”Spider Sense” never once reacted.】

【Old Liu tugs at your clothes, looking somewhat scared.】

【”Boss Chen, let’s get out of here quickly, in case the murderer is still nearby...”】

【”Let’s go. These people... sigh, just bad luck.”】

【Your own family was also massacred by a group of mysterious people. Seeing the miserable state of these people, you think of your own situation and feel a sense of shared suffering.】

【Could the ones who massacred Luoding Village and the village massacre perpetrators we’ve encountered this year be the same group?】

【Year Twenty-three, age forty.】

【You still haven’t given up on seeking a master.】

【But as you grow older and older, the likelihood of those sects taking you in grows lower and lower.】

【The aftereffects of showing off and consuming too many pills during your army days begin to surface.】

【Pill Toxins that cannot be expelled from your body start to wear down your Vitality Energy, making you cough frequently.】

【You must diligently cultivate every single day to resist the decline of your Vitality Energy.】

【On this day, you and Old Liu arrive at another sect.】

【The Lingfeng Pavilion in Sanjiang Prefecture of Qingzhou. Baiyun County, where you’re from, is located in Baling Prefecture, which is also within Qingzhou.】

【”Cough! Cough! Old Liu, if this time still doesn’t work, I think I want to return to my hometown and rest for a while. It just so happens this area isn’t too far from Baiyun County. I still have some savings. I’ll open a martial arts school and complete the tasks entrusted to me by the general’s personal guards back then, cough! Cough! These years of running around outside have truly been a bit tiring...”】

【Old Liu’s hair has already turned completely white. Although he’s only fifty-five, he looks like an old man in his seventies or eighties.】

【”Boss Chen, wherever you go, I’ll go. If you open a martial arts school, I’ll be the old janitor for you, hahaha...”】

【Old Liu’s laughter cuts off abruptly. Your expression also freezes.】

【The main gate of Lingfeng Pavilion is wide open. It is completely silent, and a familiar scent of blood wafts out from inside.】

【Looking closely, you see all the disciples within the pavilion have already perished!】

【The manner of their deaths is the same as those massacred villages: faces bearing expressions of terror, wounds jagged and uneven as if torn by wild beasts.】

【”How could...”】

【The villagers were ordinary mortals; it was easy for evildoers to massacre them.】

【But this Lingfeng Pavilion, even if it’s not some major power, is still a somewhat famous martial artist sect within Sanjiang Prefecture.】

【There might not be Golden Body Realm martial artists within the sect, but there are certainly many Soul Tempering Realm and Spirit Gathering Realm martial artists.】

【And they were massacred just like that?】

【You look around, feeling as if this quiet mountain range hides infinite killing intent.】

【How could it be such a coincidence? Wherever you go, a massacre follows?】

【But why does the ”Spider Sense” never activate?】

【Is a serial killer tailing you not enough to trigger the ”Spider Sense”?】

【What a crappy rare trait this is!】

【”Boss Chen! Come here quickly, look, is this a Spirit Gathering Pill?”】

【Hearing ”Spirit Gathering Pill,” your eyes light up. Your body, somewhat weakened from the torment of Pill Toxins, immediately straightens up.】

【Old Liu runs out excitedly from a room, holding a small porcelain vial in his hands. Inside are exactly two blue pills.】

【You’ve heard Sun Cheng’en describe the Spirit Gathering Pill. Its appearance and smell match Sun Cheng’en’s description exactly.】

【”Yes, this is the Spirit Gathering Pill!”】

【Old Liu is very excited.】

【”Excellent, one for each of us! I never thought I’d have the chance to reach the Spirit Gathering Realm in this lifetime!”】

【Old Liu is also a martial artist, but he also only has Low-Grade Bone Structure, similarly stuck at the Ninth Stage of Body Refining, unable to break through.】

【Running around all these years was precisely for this pill.】

【At this moment, you can’t be bothered with the surrounding corpses anymore. You only want to quickly take the pill and break through to the next realm!】

【After swallowing the Spirit Gathering Pill, you immediately begin circulating your energy to cultivate.】

【The internal martial technique ”Fierce Heart Formula” passed down to you by Shen Qingshan can finally be put to use.】

【The Body Refining Realm cultivates Vitality Energy, storing it within the Dantian to nourish the physical body, continuously strengthening the body’s robustness.】

【Cultivation in the Spirit Gathering Realm, however, involves using internal techniques to refine the Essence of Heaven and Earth into Spiritual Energy, storing it within the body’s meridians.】

【The human body has twelve main meridians, so the Spirit Gathering Realm has twelve layers.】

【Completing the Spiritual Energy cultivation of one main meridian constitutes one layer.】

【Under the effect of the Spirit Gathering Pill, your sensitivity to the surrounding Essence of Heaven and Earth becomes extremely heightened.】

【Once the internal technique begins circulating, the Vitality Energy throughout your body surges like great hands, wildly grabbing Essence of Heaven and Earth from the environment and pulling it into your body.】

【You still carry some of the crystal stones obtained back in the army camp, precisely for this moment!】

【When you grip the crystal stones in both hands and absorb the pure Essence of Heaven and Earth within them, the efficiency of Spirit Gathering is greatly enhanced!】

Outside the simulation, Chen Yi nervously watches the lines of simulation text appearing one by one.

”It looks like he’s about to break through...”

Once he breaks through to the Spirit Gathering Realm, when the simulation ends, the real him will also become a Spirit Gathering Realm martial artist.

In this little Black Stone Gang, the most powerful gang leader is only at the Ninth Stage of Body Refining.

A Spirit Gathering Realm martial artist here would be like a dimensional downgrade attack!

At that time, Chen Yi could come and go as he pleased, making seven in-and-out trips if he wanted!

”Black Stone Gang, your doom is approaching, haha...”

【As the medicinal efficacy gradually dissolves.】

【The first wisp of Spiritual Energy begins to emerge within your body!】

【”Success!”】

【You have successfully broken through to the Spirit Gathering Realm! Probability of drawing high-quality traits increased. Number of equippable traits +2!】

【After the breakthrough, your excited mind slowly calms down, and you suddenly realize a problem.】

【”Old Liu, how did you recognize the Spirit Gathering Pill?”】

【Old Liu is still sitting with eyes closed, circulating his energy, as if he didn’t hear.】

【”Old Liu, I never told you what a Spirit Gathering Pill looks like. Did someone in the army tell you about it?”】

【Old Liu opens his eyes.】

【At this moment, the ”Spider Sense” responds frantically.】

【Your hair stands on end, goosebumps erupting all over your body!】

【You take a few steps back.】

【The corner of Old Liu’s mouth curls up into an inexplicable smile.】

【”I don’t recognize the Spirit Gathering Pill, but I can ask them.”】

【As he speaks, Old Liu looks at the corpses littering the ground.】

【You understand everything.】

【”You massacred Lingfeng Pavilion! You also massacred all those villages we passed through!”】

【”Exactly.”】

【”That’s not right. How do you have that kind of strength?”】

【”I didn’t, until six years ago, when I obtained this.”】