The Medicine Seeker Sect, an obscure little alchemy sect located within the borders of the Great Shi Kingdom in the Southern Frontier.
The entire sect had no more than forty or fifty people from top to bottom, among which only a little over twenty were low-level alchemists.
The location of the sect did not even have a spirit vein.
Their strength was too weak; they could not even defeat larger bandit groups, let alone fight for a spirit vein.
Yet, such an insignificant faction in the Five Realms was the very source that triggered the war between the human race of the Five Realms and the demon race of the Great Wilderness in the previous simulations.
"Elders, look quickly! The pill is formed!"
The Sect Master of the Medicine Seeker Sect was currently refining pills with the five great elders of the sect inside a hidden cave.
The firelight beneath the alchemy furnace reflected the greedy faces of the six people.
The freshly refined pill in the furnace made them drool with desire.
"Is this the Demon Essence Pill, where eating one can increase your lifespan by up to a year, and it can be eaten repeatedly?"
"The demon egg we used for refining this time has an inferior bloodline. According to the pill recipe, it would be good enough if it increases lifespan by a month."
"A month is fine too! If we make more of them, getting ten or twenty years won't be hard at all!"
"Yes, yes! The demon bloodlines in the Five Realms are inferior, but there are noble bloodlines in the Great Wilderness!"
This was the first time these people had successfully refined the pill, and there was only this single one.
The five elders acted politely, all suggesting that the Sect Master should be the first to taste it.
The Sect Master politely declined three times before finally accepting with feigned reluctance.
"Since the elders insist on not eating it, then I, Lu, will respectfully obey."
Sect Master Lu carefully took out the pill, solemnly placed it in the palm of his hand, and took a deep breath.
The pill disappeared.
"Huh? Where is the Demon Essence Pill?"
The crowd looked around and suddenly realized that, at some unknown point, a young man had appeared in the cave.
The Demon Essence Pill they had worked so hard to refine was currently in this young man's hand!
A second later, it went into this young man's mouth!
He chewed it and frowned as he spoke.
"Tastes terrible."
The six people of the Medicine Seeker Sect flew into a rage.
"Bastard! Who are you! How dare you snatch the pill of my Medicine Seeker Sect! Are you courting death?!"
The six alchemists, whose highest cultivation was only at the Golden Body Realm, all took out their spirit weapons, ready to fight for their lives against Chen Yi, who was at the Martial King Realm.
Chen Yi snapped his fingers.
The six people instantly found that their feet felt like they were filled with lead. Just taking a single step required all their strength, and it felt as if they were carrying a massive mountain on their shoulders, incredibly heavy.
In just a few breaths, all six of them were sprawled on the ground, yet they still could not shake off the crushing weight.
"What is going on??"
Chen Yi had simply used the Star River Divine Art to increase the gravity on these people.
Afterward, Chen Yi searched them and found a storage bag.
"A Sect Master and five elders, yet you only have one storage bag between you. You guys are really pathetic."
By now, the six people had realized that the intruder was an aloof Senior Realm martial artist, and their own status had automatically plummeted to the Ant Realm. Their attitude immediately became much more respectful.
"We juniors failed to recognize Mount Tai and offended you, Senior. Please forgive us, Senior!"
In this sole storage bag, Chen Yi found a jade slip. Engraved on it in a rather ancient human language was the recipe for the Demon Essence Pill.
The signature read: Sect Master of the Shangdan Sect, Luo Zhihua.
The Shangdan Sect was an ancient sect that had long disappeared.
During his last simulation, when Chen Yi went to the Pill Fragrance Valley to borrow pill recipes, he had heard them mention it while chatting during a banquet.
The Pill Fragrance Valley was actually developed from a small branch after the Shangdan Sect disbanded.
The history of the Shangdan Sect could be traced back tens of thousands of years.
And this Luo Zhihua was also a legendary figure. Rumor had it that relying on a pill he developed himself, he briefly touched the level of a Martial God.
But soon after, he suffered a backlash from the toxicity in the pill. Not only did his cultivation realm drop, but he also died not long after.
"To think such a pill recipe actually exists. Where did you find this?"
The six people of the Medicine Seeker Sect told him everything they knew.
But to Chen Yi, it did not sound like anything useful.
They found it by chance in a valley while gathering herbs.
That was truly bizarre. A pill recipe that had existed for tens of thousands of years stayed in a rundown valley until now, only to be discovered by a few weaklings?
Chen Yi deduced that this pill recipe must have been lost for a long time.
The Dragonkin race must have found it from somewhere and then arranged a fortuitous encounter for this bunch from the Medicine Seeker Sect.
"These Dragonkin really do things flawlessly. By using a pill recipe that already existed in the human race and applying a little manipulation, they stirred up the old grudges between the two races and instigated a massive war."
The six people lying on the ground were still begging for mercy.
"Senior, we juniors shouldn't have offended you. If you need this pill and recipe, just take them, but please let us go..."
Chen Yi gave a faint smile.
"Answer my question truthfully, and I naturally won't make things difficult for you. Have you made multiple copies of this pill recipe?"
"No! Absolutely not! This pill recipe is of great importance, and we didn't want it to leak out either."
"Oh..."
Chen Yi turned and walked away.
The six people let out a long sigh of relief.
However, the gravity on their bodies did not disappear.
Looking up, they saw a Soul Summoning Banner, billowing with black mist, blocking the exit of the cave.
"Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts!!"
The Myriad Soul Banner, which now had the body of an Earth-tier spirit weapon, was much more powerful.
With a slight attack, it easily dispatched the six immobilized people and collected their souls into the banner.
"Xiao Wan, interrogate them thoroughly and see if they were lying."
"You got it! Leave it to your buddy!"
Chen Yi stepped outside the cave and looked toward the northwest.
"Next stop, Hanfeng Temple in Xiliang! Xiliang? Right..."
Chen Yi thought of the old monk Zhenpin. Wait, no, at this time he should still be a young monk.
"He is also in Xiliang at this time. I can take him to get the Dust Forgetting Water!"
The Holy Pill of the Five Realms, a true must-eat item in the simulations.
Before heading to Xiliang, Chen Yi first made a trip to the Chixin Sect.
He originally wanted to see how Yu Qian was doing right now.
But he saw that the Chixin Sect was holding a massive funeral.
Yu Qian was dead.
The Myriad Soul Banner said smugly.
"Look! I told you that you alerted the enemy. This old guy got dealt with, right?"
The Demon Refining Pot snapped back at it.
"Xiao Wan, mind your tone. You need to use honorifics when speaking to the master. What is this 'you' stuff? You should say 'Sir', understand?"
"Understand my ass!"
"Heh, what a vulgar country bumpkin of an immortal weapon."
"Shitayalu!! Hongnimayo!! Abocidefuge!!"
Listening to Hu Chacha yelling every day, the Myriad Soul Banner had not learned any other Dragonkin words, but it had learned quite a few curses.
Yu Qian being killed was also within Chen Yi's expectations.
He believed that with the caution of the Dragonkin race, the stronghold where the Magic Bridge Array was located must have many warning systems he did not know about.
The moment he came into contact with Yu Qian, he had probably already alerted them.
Chen Yi was just thinking that perhaps he could exploit a loophole, letting Yu Qian set up another stronghold for him to destroy.
It just did not work out.
"In that case, I am still missing the location of one stronghold. I can only go to that place to look for it..."
Chen Yi looked up at the sky.
The Star Realm!
The Shen Family!
At the end of the fourth simulation, the Shen family was the first to be attacked by the Dragonkin race.
The Dragonkin army also emerged from the Star Power Profound Realm.
If someone claimed there were no Dragonkin spies within the Shen family, Chen Yi wouldn't believe it even if he were beaten to death.
Even if the Shen family's ancestor was no longer around.
That massive group of experts in the Shen family weren't just a bunch of useless fools.
How else could the world barrier be breached so stealthily, and their connection to the surface be severed so swiftly?
Someone must have coordinated an inside job!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
