One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

[One hundred seventieth year, one hundred ninety-four years old.]

[Extracting trait tag...]

[Extraction successful!]

[”Unrestricted Communication” (Purple Epic): You can understand the language of any sentient being and are proficient in the corresponding written script.]

[Adjust the trait tag?]

[Yes/No]

[You chose Yes.]

[You replaced ”Bad News Spreads in Martial Circles” with ”Unrestricted Communication”.]

[You and Ji Wuqing, father and daughter, followed the underground beam road that Zhang Beihai had opened for you, and arrived at the Secluded Village.]

[At first glance, it looked like an ordinary small mountain village, hidden within a range of mountains.][There was an old, worn, desolate road leading out to a small town beyond the mountains.]

[But you, who understood the situation, knew that everyone living in this village was actually Immortal Lords and Immortal Kings born from the Human Race!]

[Only they had all chosen to seal their cultivation and live like ordinary people.]

[Of course, not everyone in the village were Immortal Lords or Immortal Kings; there were also their wives and children.]

[But without exception, once they chose to live here, they could not cultivate.]

[You watched Immortal Lords hunting in the hills, Immortal Kings hoeing in the fields, and shook your head.]

[”This is such a waste. They possess cultivation that others dream of, yet live like mortals. Isn’t it like working your whole life just to return to the starting point?”]

[Zhang Beihai stood behind you before you realized it, smiling faintly as he said.]

[”Young man, the heavens form a circle, returning to the origin is to follow destiny.”]

[Ji Baiming explained the purpose of the Secluded Village to you.]

[”Take my Ji family for example. Once an Immortal King appears, organizations like the Peace Bureau and the Celestial River Guard will find excuses to cause trouble.

They will make life hard for an Immortal King, but it’s easier to target the Ji family as a whole.

That is the sad reality — if a human faction has an Immortal King, it can actually become a liability.

So, my family’s Immortal Kings choose the Secluded Village.

Unless the Ji family faces extinction, they will not show themselves.”]

[Thinking like this, the Secluded Village was not wasteful, but rather a place to hide their trump cards.]

[Not just the Ji family; the Jiang family, their fierce rival in many respects and essentially a nemesis, also has Immortal Kings living here.]

[Normally the Ji and Jiang families are sworn enemies, but in the Secluded Village their Immortal Kings are good neighbors.]

[Besides the Immortal Kings of major human factions hiding here, there are also people like Zhang Beihai, who spent their lives fighting the suppression of the Alien Race and simply grew tired, coming here to enjoy their old age.]

[You asked curiously.]

[”Uncle Ji, which ones are the Ji family’s Immortal Kings? How many are there?”]

[Ji Baiming smiled.]

[”Nephew, remember this: do not inquire into others’ identities here. That is the rule.”]

[”I see, so Elder Zhang isn’t...”]

[”Not unless he tells you himself.”]

[Zhang Beihai gave a dry laugh from the side.]

[”I have no sons or daughters, no wife or concubines, I live alone. These old folks made me the village chief to handle village matters.”]

[The Secluded Village truly was a good place.]

[If this were a third-class star or a second-tier star, ordinary Humans would have a hard time surviving and would be captured as slaves or worse.]

[But this is a first-tier star, and the largest first-tier star in the Southern Star Realm.]

[A battlefield of dragons and tigers, overflowing with the powerful, siphoning the top cultivators across the Southern Star Realm.]

[Even being a slave here requires a certain cultivation level, otherwise you are not useful.]

[These Human Immortal Lords and Immortal Kings operated unnoticed under the lamplight, posing as mortals on a first-tier star, and the powerful Alien Race forces or direct branches of the Holy Dragon Society really did not notice.]

[Even if a slip-up occasionally occurred, the big shots in this village and the forces behind them could erase traces without anyone knowing.]

[The three of you built a courtyard at the edge of the village and settled there.]

[Right now, the wanted orders for you three were flying everywhere.]

[The Celestial River Monthly Report had run your faces across the front page for a continuous month, filling an entire issue with your portraits.]

[It was a case of being exposed and immediately executed on sight.]

[So you could only lay low and avoid attracting attention.]

[However, after the Blood Exchange Secret Art, the Mortal Bones trait could not be used, and staying in the Secluded Village meant you could not cultivate.]

[That is to say, you could neither raise your cultivation nor quickly comprehend Divine Abilities.]

[But there was one advantage.]

[Drawing trait tags!]

[Outside, with harsh living conditions for the Human Race, it would be very difficult for you to live to a thousand years even if you had a thousand-year lifespan.]

[But here it was different.]

[The whole village was playing pig to eat the tiger, and it was incredibly safe.]

[”This is pretty nice...”]

[Lying on the hillside outside the village, watching the clouds morph across the sky.]

[You had not experienced such peaceful days in a long time.]

Chen Yi thus spent thirty years in the Secluded Village.

Every day he kept up with outside events through the Celestial River Monthly Report.

Although it only showed major events across the local galaxy and not smaller specifics, at least he did not fall behind the version.

The Secluded Village accepted outsiders because of the Ji family’s influence.

Leaving was not so easy.

Don’t think you can go out to cultivate today and come back to hide tomorrow.

You could leave the village, but first the village-related memories had to be erased.

If not, the location of the Secluded Village would have been exposed long ago.

How were memories deleted?

The village gathered various Immortal Kings, so surely some Immortal King could do it.

But deleting memory is a defying-the-heavens operation; even Immortal Kings could not do it casually, it required the cooperation of the one whose memory would be deleted.

So during these thirty years, Chen Yi could only do some theoretical research and refine his own methods.

Sometimes he would sit and discuss Dao with Ji Baiming and Zhang Beihai, exchanging cultivation insights.

And surprisingly, the gains were considerable.

He thought such days could continue until natural death, thus ending the sixth simulation.

But a twist still occurred.

[Two hundredth year, two hundred twenty-four years old.]

[Extracting trait tag...]

[Triggered the effect of ”Luckier with Age”!]

[Extraction successful!]

[”Eavesdrop on Heartstrings” (Prismatic Mythical):

Who~ is tapping on my window?

You can hear others’ inner thoughts, and you can choose to let others hear your inner voice.

You can also choose to broadcast your own or others’ thoughts.

Let us lay bare our hearts!]

[Adjust the trait tag?]

[Yes/No]

Chen Yi was calm when he drew another mythical tag.

”This mythical tag doesn’t seem that strong.”

He had pulled many combat-related tags; drawing a functional tag left him somewhat unsatisfied.

”But if there’s no prerequisite, doesn’t that mean it works on anyone? Then I don’t have to worry about people lying to me; broadcasting heartvoice could also let me play some tricks.”

Mythical tags still needed to be equipped. Even if they could not be used effectively, having them glitter in the tag bar was satisfying.

[You chose Yes.]

[You replaced ”Ageless Male God” with ”Eavesdrop on Heartstrings”.]