One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

[Year 44, age sixty-eight.]

[Extracting trait...]

[Extraction successful!]

[”Become a Pig Head” (white common): When your weight exceeds 100 jin, you will turn into a pig head.]

[Adjust trait?]

[Yes/No]

[You chose Yes.]

[You replaced ”Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger” with ”Bad News Spreads in Martial Circles”.]

[Refining a third-grade pill is totally different from every pill you refined before.]

[Its biggest characteristic is that the pill takes a very long time to form, requiring patient simmering.] [This is partly because the pill materials are very high quality, and partly because this is the Real Realm, where the laws of heaven and earth differ.]

[During the process, you must also use cultivation methods to stir True Qi, assisting the pill’s formation.]

[You cannot be sloppy at any point in the entire process.]

[Although you previously used the Nine Provinces Cauldron to mindlessly refine pills and lack hands-on experience,]

[your pill-refining skill exists after all, and you did not waste these hard-earned materials; you successfully refined the Great Void Return Core Pill.]

[You have knocked on the gate of Core Formation for quite some time, and ”Bad News Spreads in Martial Circles” also enhanced the pill’s effect.]

[Therefore, once this pill is swallowed, it inevitably catapults you into Core Formation!]

[Congratulations, your actual realm has broken through to Core Formation!]

[Equipable traits +3!]

[High-quality trait extraction probability increased!]

[Under inner vision, your half-transparent yuan core now has absolute substance, bobbing in your Dantian like a lonely star.]

[Shen Yifeng once specially warned you.]

[Newly broken Core Formation cultivators have unstable yuan cores; they must avoid huge shocks or intense battles and consolidate their cultivation in time, otherwise the yuan core risks disintegrating.]

[So, for the next year, you go nowhere and cultivate in place.]

”Finally in Core Formation!”

This time it wasn’t the ”Half-Emperor for a Thousand Ages” that dragged you up; it’s a real Core Formation breakthrough!

”Now I should be able to use ’Mortal Bones,’ right?”

Chen Yi reread Mortal Bones’ effect carefully.

Thinking about the last failed attempt, perhaps one reason was that a bone-structure trait hadn’t been swapped to a low-grade one.

When the next year’s trait refresh comes, he must swap in the ”Low-Grade Bone Structure” trait he hasn’t used for a long time.

Divine Abilities are a higher-level fighting method; Core Formation is enough to grasp them, so when facing opponents at the Extreme Terrain Realm, their biggest advantage will be nullified.

Low-Grade Bone Structure will slow cultivation speed, and may even prevent progress because the realm is already so high.

But he can first comprehend a few Divine Abilities to use, then switch the high-grade bone structure back in later.

After all, comprehending Divine Abilities and cultivation cannot proceed simultaneously.

”The Five Regions Sacred Pill made my body immune to all poisons. I wonder if that counts as altering my constitution; if it does, Mortal Bones might not take effect...”

Only trial will tell.

[Year 45, age sixty-nine.]

[Extracting trait...]

[Extraction successful!]

[”Only the Essence Remains When Concentrated” (purple epic): When your body shape is about to change, you can choose to remain in your original form; this effect does not negate the benefits brought by the body-shape change.

In addition, when you carry trait tags that change your body size, such tags can take effect automatically without equipping them.]

[Adjust trait?]

[Yes/No]

”This trait is really great!”

Growing bigger is cool.

But sometimes it causes trouble.

For example, in a previous simulation, Chen Yi had to board a star ship under enemy encirclement.

”Heartsteel” is indispensable in fights, but when used it expands your body.

Once you’re too large, the star ship simply can’t fit you inside.

Although you can restore your original size by abandoning levels, once you give up the bonus, it’s gone.

”Only the Essence Remains When Concentrated” perfectly solves that kind of problem, and it doesn’t take up a slot.

[You equipped ”Luckier with Age”.]

[You equipped ”Serious Punch”.]

[You equipped ”Green Giant”.]

[You replaced ”High-Grade Bone Structure” with ”Low-Grade Bone Structure”.]

[You replaced ”Unlimited White Porridge” with ”Mortal Bones”.]

[Name: Chen Yi]

[Lifespan: 69/1040]

[Realm: Core Formation, Fourth Transition (true realm: Core Formation, First Transition)]

[Cultivation Methods:

——Qi Refining Art: Burning Heaven, Everlasting Extinction (Fifth Grade, Return to Simplicity)

——Body Refining Art: Vermilion Bird Flame Scripture (Fifth Grade, Return to Simplicity), minor

——Soul Refining Art: Myriad Dragon Divine Art (Fifth Grade, Return to Simplicity), minor

——Spells: Divine Armament Revelation (Fourth Grade, Pinnacle), minor

——Killing Move: Stellar River Divine Art (Fifth Grade, Pinnacle), minor]

[Equipped traits (26/26):

Prismatic-Proficiency, Simulator, Enhancement!, Calamity of Ten Thousand Races, Simulation Clone

Gold- Alien Race’s Most Severe Father, Materialist Warrior, Heartsteel, Super Saiyan, Half-Emperor for a Thousand Ages, You Get Stronger Just by Breathing!, Wolverine, Dragonbane, Trait Slingshot, Mortal Bones

Purple- Irritable Constitution, Qilin Arm, Traffic Light, Photographic Memory, My Knowledge Has Become a Jumbled Mess, Reverse Engineering, Bad News Spreads in Martial Circles, Green Giant

Green- Luckier with Age, Serious Punch, Low-Grade Bone Structure]

[Traits acquired (429): Chinese-Style Succubus[Gold], Leader Aura[Gold], etc. (includes traits consumed by trait effects, still displayed but unusable)]

[Current trait extraction probabilities by quality:]

[White common 20%, Green rare 45%, Purple epic 25%, Gold legendary 9%, Prismatic mythical 1%]

Chen Yi saw that the mythic trait probability had already reached 1%.

”One percent— in gacha games that’s extremely high. I want to see, in another hundred years, whether I can get a guaranteed mythic.”

The trait system has no guarantee mechanic.

That is, even at 99% probability, doing it a hundred times could still yield the 1% outcome, although such a result is unlikely.

[You left the seclusion place and returned to Firewood Town.]

[En route, you travel unhurriedly, with a sightseeing mindset.]

[You attempt to comprehend Divine Abilities.]

“How exactly does one comprehend Divine Abilities?”

[Shen Yifeng once told you the basic principle.]

[”Copy the outline.”]

[Extreme Terrain Realm cultivators can only comprehend the seventy-two Earthly Fiend Divine Abilities.]

[So first you must know what those seventy-two Divine Abilities are, and direct your insight to approach one of them as closely as possible.]

[If you simply cannot get it, switch to another one, study until you gain something, then continue; if it still doesn’t work, switch again.]

[Divine Abilities are rich in meaning; each one, if fully recorded in words, could be a world-shocking book.]

[But everyone’s methods, routes, and results differ, so another person’s experience may not apply to you.]

[Still, you must know what Divine Abilities exist, not wander aimlessly in your meditations.]

[You took out the Earthly Fiend Divine Ability list Shen Yifeng gave you, a compilation passed down and widely circulated in the Real Realm after generations of cultivators exchanged comprehension notes.]

[—Tong You: Communicate with spirit bodies, ghosts, and beings not existing in this world.]

[—Dan Shan: Able to shoulder mountain ranges, possessing tremendous strength.]

[—Prohibit Water: ...]

[This is only an index; the descriptions of the Divine Abilities are incomplete.]

”Should I first try those related to Divine Sense?”

[”Mortal Bones” starts to exert its power!]