One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

[Seeing that you were about to escape, Jin Hai finally couldn’t sit still anymore.]

[With a single twist of his hand through the air, the gap the Sword Lord had opened was sealed shut again.]

[”None of you are getting away today!”]

[You sneered at Jin Hai.]

[”Old ghost Jin Hai, has the bruise my Brother Monkey gave you with that staff strike still not healed? How come you’re an Immortal King now and still rolling around in a wheelchair?”]

[Ji Wuqing and her friends played along perfectly. Despite the dire situation, they deliberately laughed out loud to mock Jin Hai.]

[Jin Hai completely lost his composure, his face turning beet red on the spot.]

[”Shut up! You sharp-tongued human brat! This King would like to see if your life is as tough as your mouth!”]

[One by one, quivering serrated interpersonal threads extended out from Ji Wuqing and the others’ bodies.]

[No matter what methods they used, they couldn’t break free.][Only you didn’t have any on you.]

[You realized someone was protecting you, but you hoped that person would stay hidden.]

[Ji Baiming sighed.]

[”We’ve fallen into his domain. Even if we find a way to dissolve his law, we’ll still be suppressed by him.”]

[Jin Hai’s killing threads began to devour you all.]

[Apart from this Immortal King, there were also thousands of others besieging you.]

[The cultivators who had come with Ji Wuqing were continuously falling.]

[You activated the Quantum Ghost Step, appearing beside many people at once, trying to tear off the threads on their bodies, but it was futile.]

[Just then, another pressure unique to an Immortal King appeared!]

[”Jin Hai, it’s been years. I see you’ve reached the Palm Domain Realm. Congratulations, congratulations.”]

[In the distant sky, a white-haired elder clad in red robes, resembling Song Dynasty official attire, stepped through the void toward you.]

[With every step he took, brilliant lotus flowers bloomed beneath his feet, and each step crossed an immense distance, as if condensing the earth into inches!]

[Upon hearing this voice, Jin Hai’s movements stiffened noticeably.]

[The killing threads on Ji Wuqing and the others turned brittle.]

[He turned his head toward the red-robed elder in disbelief, his voice even trembling slightly.]

[”King Zhou! You... you’re still alive?”]

[The elder called King Zhou stroked his beard and smiled.]

[”Alive and well, in fact. Today I wish to take these juniors away. I hope you can grant this old man a bit of face.”]

[As he spoke, King Zhou had already appeared above Haosong City.]

[With a flick of his flowing sleeves, the cages in the city and the threads on Ji Wuqing and the others all vanished.]

[You also realized that the person who had been reinforcing your body with law power, preventing Jin Hai’s Interpersonal Index from affecting you, was none other than this King Zhou.]

[Jin Hai was clearly terrified in front of King Zhou.]

[Every rank of Immortal Lord was vastly different, let alone Immortal King.]

[A veteran Immortal King who had long established his name versus a newly broken-through rookie had no comparison in strength.]

[Jin Hai swallowed hard.]

[”King Zhou, even for you, I... I can’t let you take these people away! They’re all major criminals! If you use martial strength, that means opposing the Peace Bureau, opposing the Holy Dragon Society!”]

[King Zhou chuckled.]

[”You say that, but back in my younger days, I opposed them plenty of times, and here I am, still alive and well.”]

[”Aren’t you afraid of the Celestial Dragon Emperor!”]

[The Celestial Dragon Emperor, the number one leader of the entire Holy Dragon Clan, president of the Holy Dragon Society, honorary chairman of the Ten Thousand Races Alliance, and the only Immortal Emperor in the Celestial River local galaxy.]

[King Zhou clicked his tongue disapprovingly.]

[”How many times have I said this? Why do you subordinates never remind Nukang that in this universe, only the Celestial Emperor deserves to be called Emperor? His presumptuous title will incur karmic consequences. I’m afraid he won’t come to a good end.”]

[Jin Hai was rendered speechless, not knowing what to say.]

[With two Immortal Kings hovering in the sky, the battle in the city had lost all meaning.]

[Both sides had stopped fighting.]

[Ji Wuqing wiped the enemy’s blood off herself and said happily.]

[”Grandpa Zhou, didn’t you say you weren’t going to show yourself?”]

[King Zhou smiled and shook his head.]

[”Little girl, could you all have handled this without me?”]

[”Hmph, if I were an Immortal King, I could have handled it!]

[”The problem is, you’re not.”]

[You glanced at Li Lingyue, who noticed your gaze and politely returned a smile.]

[In this life, you had no connection with her, so all you could do was remain courteous.]

[”Li Lingyue, after we leave this place, there are many things I want to ask you.”]

[Li Lingyue looked at Ah Dou.]

[”It’s about him, isn’t it.”]

[”Yes, and also about when we were in the human world...”]

[”Pfft!!”]

[A scarlet demonic claw burst through your chest from behind.]

[Li Lingyue, the Sword Lord, Ji Wuqing, Ji Baiming, King Zhou, everyone present looked at you in disbelief, and then at Ah Dou behind you.]

[Ah Dou still wore the same face, but one of his hands had transformed into a scale-covered claw, and his expression was ferocious.]

[”You’re not Ah Dou...”]

[You listened to Ah Dou’s thoughts.]

[They were completely empty, as if this person didn’t exist at all.]

[Ah Dou yanked his hand back with force.]

[You couldn’t heal because a power was wreaking havoc inside your body, and the speed of your self-healing simply couldn’t keep up with the rate your body was being destroyed.]

[This was... the power of an Immortal King!]

[Li Lingyue, stunned, caught your collapsing body and looked at the horrifying wound on you, her lips trembling.]

[”Chen Yi, I... I didn’t know, he...”]

[”It’s not your fault... you were used by him too... it’s fine... it’s all the same...”]

[Ah Dou licked the blood off his hand and sneered.]

[”Li Lingyue, thanks to you leading the way all these years and helping me destroy quite a few Torch Society strongholds, much obliged.”]

[Jin Hai, who had been trembling with fear just moments ago, now wore a completely arrogant expression.]

[”The big fish King Zhou has taken the bait. Time for us to close the net!”]

[You heard Ji Wuqing’s crying, and the sound of her stumbling footsteps running toward you.]

[You heard the furious roars of the Sword Lord, Ji Baiming, and the others, along with the sounds of their battles against the enemies.]

[Everything before your eyes was turning pitch black, until all fell into silence and nothingness.]

[Beneath that boundless, vast starry sky, concealed by the starlight, you fell.]

[You died.]

”Didn’t expect it to turn out like this...”

Chen Yi believed that Ah Dou would never betray him. The Ah Dou who killed him in the end must have been swapped out.

When was the swap made?

How was the swap made?

He could only figure it out in the next simulation.

This fake Ah Dou managed to succeed partly due to luck.

If someone were plotting against Chen Yi, his Traffic Light Divine Art would have given a warning.

But in the final scene of the simulation, they were trapped in Haosong City, surrounded by enemies everywhere, and the red field of vision had never disappeared.

At a time like that, one more or one less patch of red in his vision was hard to distinguish, let alone tell who it came from.

”Also, Posthumous Affairs, let’s see what happens afterward.”