All Preparations Are Complete

When leaving the Hundred Deaths Mountain, you asked Hua Wuyan out of curiosity.

"Senior Hua, you said the Great Demon was willing to help once because you helped him find something. What was it?"

Hua Wuyan glanced at you, paused for a moment, and shook her head.

"I cannot tell you."

You were confused.

Hua Wuyan didn't seem like someone who spoke in riddles.

Before, she would tell you whatever you asked. What was wrong this time?

Could it somehow be related to you?

You told Hua Wuyan that you had also solved the problem of the dragon and phoenix corpses. Adding the Great Demon, the Human Realm practically had seven Martial Gods!

"Oh? That array you mentioned, does it work even if they aren't human?"

"At first I wasn't sure either, but as I learned more about the Dao of Arrays, I can now say with certainty that it is possible."

"Are you already an Immortal-tier Array Master? That array of yours is an Immortal-tier one, after all."

"I am ashamed to say I am not there yet."

"Then you must speed up your progress. This old woman's lifespan is running out. When the time comes and your Seven Luminaries are missing one, all your efforts will be in vain."

You didn't panic at all.

Decades ago, she also claimed her lifespan was running out.

She would probably say the exact same thing decades from now.

Panic or not, you still needed to pick up the pace.

In the following simulation, Chen Yi saw himself living through twenty relatively peaceful years.

During these twenty years, he accomplished three major things.

The first was breaking through in the Dao of Arrays.

Relying on his array trait and the enhanced comprehension from consuming the Five Regions Holy Pill, he fully grasped the profound mysteries of Immortal-tier arrays. He fulfilled the lifelong dream of his masters on the Nine Palaces Island, leading them to witness what an Immortal-tier array truly looked like.

Immortal-tier arrays preserved in the Human Realm were incredibly rare.

However, the Carefree Holy Land, being a place that had retained some of its heritage, could still produce one or two complete Immortal-tier arrays.

When they saw the Immortal-tier array rise over the Nine Palaces Island, its dreamlike colors and mysterious power brought immense comfort to the old masters.

As if they had finally fulfilled their dying wishes, the older generation of Nine Palaces Island masters passed away one after another following that event.

Life and death were unpredictable, and lifespans had their limits.

Although the Chen Yi in the simulation felt a great deal of sorrow, he could accept reality.

Afterward, Chen Yi spent some time gradually repairing the incomplete and fragmented Immortal-tier arrays preserved in the Carefree Holy Land.

Having one more array meant they might have one more trump card when the war eventually broke out.

The second thing was practicing the cultivation methods of the three races.

Equipping the "My Knowledge is All Mixed Up" trait, Chen Yi began to practice the cultivation methods of the Monster Race and the Dragonkin Race.

With Hu Tiangong around, the four great body-tempering arts of the Monster Race had naturally been acquired long ago.

The Dragonkin Race's cultivation method came from the Martial King Realm general of the Three-Headed Realm's Slave Control Army, who had been reformed by the Myriad Soul Banner.

Just like the Human Race, the Dragonkin Race had a vast and rich variety of cultivation methods.

Naturally, they also varied in quality.

If Chen Yi was going to practice them, he obviously wanted the best ones.

Presumably, the cultivation method practiced by a Martial King was not bad at all.

What Chen Yi wanted to learn wasn't the Dragonkin Race's combat techniques or moves; there was no need to blindly worship foreign things when his own race's martial arts were far more compatible.

What Chen Yi learned was the soul-tempering art that every member of the Dragonkin Race practiced.

It was widely known that the souls of the Dragonkin Race were very special. They wouldn't be actively dragged away by the Underworld, they could survive freely after leaving their physical bodies, and they could even share bodies with their kin.

This wasn't just because of their innate racial talent, but also due to their acquired practice of soul-tempering arts, continuously enhancing their soul strength.

The Human Race also had soul cultivation methods, but they weren't mainstream among martial artists.

Moreover, compared to the soul-tempering arts of the Dragonkin Race, they were slightly inferior.

With the Monster Race's body-tempering arts and the Dragonkin Race's soul-tempering arts, Chen Yi's physical body and soul were both strengthened, causing his combat power to rise exponentially!

One must know, these were cultivation methods, meaning they could be inherited from the simulation.

After mastering the foreign cultivation methods, Chen Yi resumed practicing his own race's methods.

He currently held multiple inheritances, including those from the Limitless Sword Sect, the Shen Family of the Star Region, the Carefree Holy Land, and the Wang Family of the Chaotic Crystal Sea.

In truth, if Chen Yi wanted the cultivation methods of the Li Imperial Family, the Northern Tribes, or the Hundred Nations of the Southern Borders, he could get them too.

The King of Connections wasn't a joke.

The Wang Family's cultivation methods had been obtained entirely on the basis of his face.

But he had already mastered a lot of cultivation methods.

The "Proficiency" trait didn't just let him break through cultivation realms in the blink of an eye; he still had to spend time practicing over and over again, so it was impossible to advance too many at the same time.

To be honest, it was quite tedious.

The fact that his simulated self could persevere made the real-world Chen Yi want to bow to him in respect.

Human martial artists generally believed that cultivation method mastery only had six stages: Entry, Proficient, Mastered, Minor Completion, Major Completion, and Perfection.

Only a very small minority knew that beyond those were Sublimity and Pinnacle.

Through continuous practice with his proficiency, Chen Yi learned that after Pinnacle, there was yet another realm—Return to the Natural State.

Accumulating through multiple simulations, plus these twenty peaceful years.

Chen Yi had elevated all his Earth-tier cultivation methods to the absolute highest level, Return to the Natural State!

All his Heaven-tier cultivation methods had reached Pinnacle!

It wasn't that he didn't want to elevate his Heaven-tier methods to Return to the Natural State as well.

It was just that the number of practice repetitions required was already an astronomical figure.

Chen Yi was only human; he really couldn't act like a robot, doing nothing else but repeating the exact same motions year after year.

Therefore, his Heaven-tier methods temporarily remained at Pinnacle.

Frankly, it was more than enough.

Any enemy he couldn't defeat with these wouldn't be solved just by raising his cultivation method mastery by another realm anyway.

During these twenty years, Chen Yi also made a trip to the Star Region.

Through Shen Qingshan's connections, he asked for some more Star Essence and stuffed it into the Cauldron Realm.

Thanks to the Myriad Soul Banner being decisive enough back in the Three-Headed Realm.

When the Qiankun Mirror started smoking, it had promptly thrown it into the Star Essence pool of the Cauldron Realm.

After years of soaking, it had miraculously saved the Qiankun Mirror's little life.

Although it was still smoking, it could occasionally spout a line of nonsense, meaning it wasn't completely dead.

At this point, Chen Yi felt that he had completed all the preparations he could possibly make to deal with the Dragonkin Race.

All that was left was to persistently cultivate, persistently pop pills, and raise his cultivation base.

"The timing of the Dragonkin Race's invasion has indeed been delayed this time."

His simulated self was already over eighty years old.

During the last simulation around this time, the Dragonkin Race was already slaughtering everyone across the Human Realm.

"Destroying their strongholds really worked. With the Dragonkin Race's attack delayed, the Human Realm has more time to prepare."

Furthermore, because the older generation had the awareness that a great enemy was approaching, they held absolutely nothing back in nurturing the next generation.

After the older experts passed away, not only did the Human Race avoid a talent gap, but the successors actually surpassed their predecessors. The overall strength of the younger generation was even more formidable.

The various factions' efforts to unearth talents among the commoners at the grassroots level caused the number of martial artists to multiply several times over.

Coupled with frequent exchanges and the sharing of resources among them.

All the major inheritances were in a state of thriving prosperity.

Chen Yi's true cultivation base had also advanced from the mid-stage Martial King to the late-stage Martial King realm.

Everything was trending in a positive direction.

There was only one thing that still left both the simulated and real-world Chen Yi uneasy.

"Blood Moon..."

Therefore, this third matter was to investigate the Blood Moon.

This organization remained shrouded in a cloud of dense fog.

Unless he uncovered its true nature and got to the bottom of it, Chen Yi could not shake the feeling that it was a lingering threat.

Relying on his status as the Holy Son and the mighty banner of the Xiaoyao Holy Land behind him, the investigative resources Chen Yi could mobilize were incredibly vast.

Finally, during his eighty-eighth year, the investigation into the Blood Moon yielded a monumental breakthrough.