One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

[”What the hell! I’m in a soul form! How could I crash into a rock?!”]

You treated the Dragon-Man tribe present to another live demonstration of tearing a Dragon-Man apart with your bare hands.

Soul form? You’d tear it apart all the same!

Maham’s soul was dismembered by you into pieces, his soul scattering and dispersing on the spot!

The Dragon-Men in the sky felt a primal fear, as if they had seen their own stern father.

With your hands clasped behind your back, your gaze swept over the Dragon-Men in the sky, filled with disdain, as if you were looking at a group of corpses.

”You all come at me together.”

The Dragon-Men instantly flew into a rage.

”He actually dares to look down on us!”

”We are the noblest race in the Void Realm! How dare a fallen, lowly human say such words to us?!””Leave him to me!”

Another Dragon-Man was about to charge down.

Suddenly, a giant demonic claw appeared out of thin air, grabbed it, and flung it aside.

”All those who don’t want to die, step back! As for this old general... let this venerable one send him on his final journey!”

A mass of black mist appeared in the sky, swirling as a... how should one put it, one should probably use the word ’seductive’ to describe it, a likely female Dragon-Man stepped out.

There’s no need for excessive description of this Dragon-Man’s appearance. Just know two words—Succubus.

The seductive, soul-stealing female Dragon-Man, swaying her devilish figure, slowly paced through the air.

She wasn’t flying by relying on wings like the other Dragon-Men; she was soaring through the air. Her realm was at least at the Martial King Realm, or even higher!

Upon seeing her, all the Dragon-Men present clenched their right fists and placed them over their left chests, bowing in salute.

”We pay our respects to Lord Earth Venerable!”

The female Dragon-Man called Earth Venerable placed one hand on her hip, her gaze arrogant and condescending as she looked down upon you.

”Chen Yi, formerly known as Chen Dong, Shen Yi, born in Luoding Village, Baiyun County, Baling Prefecture, Qingzhou, Great Qian. This village was massacred by an unknown force, and you were fortunate enough to survive.

Around twenty years old, after obtaining some unknown stroke of luck, your martial arts realm advanced by leaps and bounds. You left the Central Plains for the Eastern Wastes, entered the Limitless Sword Sect and became an Affiliate...”

Your brows gradually knitted together.

This Earth Venerable was actually doxxing you on the spot!

Although she didn’t know many details, she had a crystal-clear understanding of the general trajectory of your life.

You knew this wasn’t some superpower of hers; it was likely due to the Dragon-Man tribe’s prior investigations and deployments.

Even though traces of Dragon-Man activity on the continent were extremely scarce, the intelligence they had gathered was surprisingly detailed.

Human traitors probably deserved no small credit for that.

The Female Emperor had perished, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner had scattered, and the Five Regions were thrown into chaos by the demon spirit army.

At this moment, you had no one to aid you.

At this moment, you felt a premonition in your heart—this upcoming battle would likely be the final fight of your current life.

You gave an order to your Deputy General beside you.

”Lead the brothers in retreating to the Northern Frontier, go find the Great Khan! Tell the Great Khan... his fourth brother... is taking his leave first!”

The Deputy General’s eyes reddened.

”This general will not leave! This general will fight alongside the Grand Marshal to the very last moment!”

The other officers and soldiers all raised their arms and shouted in unison.

”We would rather die than retreat!!”

The people of the Northern Frontier were inherently fierce and brave. They believed in the Eternal Heaven, holding that humans do not die; what is called death is merely going to the Eternal Heaven. Thus, they fundamentally feared no death.

You were deeply aware of this point and also knew of their tradition of subordinates challenging superiors. Issuing a forceful command would be useless.

”Very well... Brothers! Slay the Dragon-Men, protect our homeland!”

At your command, ten thousand arrows were loosed at once!

Earth Venerable’s slender hand gave a light wave. All the arrows froze mid-air. With a backhanded slap, the arrows reversed direction and shot back!

”Raise shields!”

The cavalrymen retrieved shields from the sides of their horses, raising them at an upward angle.

”Clang, clang, clang...”

The sound of arrows striking shields was incessant.

”Disperse!”

Tens of thousands of cavalrymen dispersed by squad units, scattering towards various directions and positions, beginning to circle and shoot.

Earth Venerable’s brows slightly furrowed.

”Clean up these ants.”

The dozen or so other Dragon-Men present immediately accepted the order.

”Mo—taito!”

It was still their native tongue. What it meant wasn’t important; it was just ”okay,” ”yes,” ”understood,” ”affirmative,” or something similar.

The Dragon-Men shouldered their Magic Bullet Cannons and launched attacks against the soldiers of the Demon-Breaking Army.

They were quite cunning, not descending, but bombarding from the air.

When the shells were used up, they would pull new shells from their storage Spirit Artifacts and load them in. Each load could hold a maximum of three shells.

”Boom, rumble, rumble...”

Amidst earth-shattering explosions, the entire Demon-Breaking Army fought a bloody battle.

However, aside from those at the Martial King Realm who could still use their air-soaring ability to maneuver for a while, those below the Martial King Realm truly had no means to fight back against the Magic Bullet Cannons.

The earth was blasted into bottomless craters, scorched black and filled with smoke everywhere.

This place was originally a small town, but it was soon flattened, with not a single trace of ruins visible.

You struggled to prevent their destruction and slaughter.

Using the *Seven Divine Starry Steps*, you could also achieve brief hovering, but ultimately, you were not as adept at flying as these naturally winged creatures.

Moreover, that Earth Venerable had already locked onto you.

”Heaven’s Net!”

Earth Venerable’s eyes glowed with purple light. Demonic energy surged around her body, transforming into numerous chains that spread across the sky, covering you.

You knew that if you were trapped by these chains, you would be at the mercy of others.

”Da Chun!”

”Divine Cauldron Overpowers the World!”

You threw out the Nine Provinces Cauldron. The cauldron grew with the wind, transforming into a hundred-meter giant cauldron. Divine might surged from its body, dispersing the demonic energy and neutralizing the enemy’s technique.

Earth Venerable merely frowned slightly, saying disdainfully.

”Chen Yi, stop struggling.

You were able to defeat the Four Great Demon Ancestors because you had the support of all the powerful experts of the Five Regions.

When you are left alone, what can you do, even with your special physique?”

A hero in his twilight years, isolated and unaided.

Facing the Dragon-Man Earth Venerable, you knew in your heart you were no match.

However, even if you were to die here today, you wouldn’t forget to extract information for your next simulation run.

”What exactly is there in the human world that is worth your painstaking efforts, years of deployment, and pouring all your resources and manpower into attacking?”

Earth Venerable burst into laughter.

”Hahaha! Pouring all our resources and manpower?

No, no, no. The human world is merely one stop on our great conquest.

Don’t believe it?

Then what if I told you that, at this very moment, we are also simultaneously at war with three other Void Realms?”

Good, very important intelligence.

But also quite despair-inducing.

The Dragon-Man tribe could actually wage war against four Void Realms simultaneously.

From their cautious and meticulous side, one could see this was not arrogance, but a calculation they believed was feasible after careful planning.

”As for what you said about what the human world has... it’s nothing much. It’s just something every Void Realm has, and something our Dragon-Man tribe needs.”

”What exactly is it? If you conquer all the Void Realms, can you ascend and become an immortal?”

This association of yours stemmed from rumors you heard in the Demon World.

Earth Venerable, however, shook her head with a cold laugh.

”You, a man about to die, what’s the point in asking these questions? Time to go!”