【Year Sixty-Six, Age Ninety.】
【Extracting a trait…】
【The effect of “The Older You Get, the Luckier You Become” has been triggered!】
【Extraction successful!】
【“Venom” (Golden Legendary):
Hey, bro, let me sprinkle some dust in your eyes!
Equipping this trait takes effect immediately.
The darkness within your heart will be drastically amplified, and you will be unable to stop it of your own accord. Your actions will be driven by the desires of your dark side rather than your own will.
As the saying goes, falling to darkness makes you ten times stronger.
After falling to darkness, all your abilities will be increased tenfold, including but not limited to your physical strength, the power of your techniques, and the effects of your traits.
Do you crave power?】
【Adjust traits?】
【Yes/No】
“‘The Older You Get, the Luckier You Become’ is still active!”
There was no doubt that the new trait, “Venom,” was incredibly powerful.
But the price was steep as well.
In Chen Yi’s view, the price he would have to pay wasn’t “falling to darkness.”
As long as he didn’t use it in reality, it didn’t matter how dark he became or how many evil deeds he committed during the simulation. Everything could be undone.
The problem was the phrase “unable to stop it of your own accord.”
In other words, he might plan to spend the year cultivating diligently, only to become corrupted and go out to conquer the world.
Of course, conquering the world would be pretty great if he actually managed it. He would gain access to even more resources.
But his corrupted self probably wouldn’t bother with the miserable grind of cultivation. He would simply indulge in the pleasures of power.
For Chen Yi, who treasured every opportunity to simulate his life, that would undoubtedly be a waste of time.
Still, Chen Yi came up with a good way to make use of this trait.
During the first year, he would equip “Venom,” gain ten times his strength through corruption, and eliminate enemies he had previously been unable to defeat.
During the second year, he would remove “Venom,” end the corruption, return to normal, and get back to doing whatever he was supposed to do.
In other words, by taking advantage of the simulator’s heaven-defying mechanics, he would be uncontrollable for at most one year.
This trait clearly couldn’t be used in reality, because the corruption would not end on its own.
His corrupted self certainly wouldn’t be willing to remove the trait voluntarily. If that happened, he would be finished.
“‘Venom’ is far too dangerous to use casually. I’ll leave it in the warehouse to gather dust for now.”
【You chose Yes.】
【You replaced “The God of Civil War” with “The Older You Get, the Luckier You Become.”】
【The day of your departure for the Void Realm arrived.】
【This happened somewhat later than in the previous simulation.】
【The reason was that, through you, Sun Xiaosheng and the others had learned the exact planes in the Void Realm where their two princes were located.】
【As a result, they intended to carry out a precisely targeted projection.】
【This required even more resources, so naturally, they needed more time to prepare.】
【Once everything was ready, the Ji family used the spirit treasure “Heavenly Profound Disc” to send you to a location in outer space.】
【The Heavenly Profound Disc looked like a gigantic flying saucer. It could fly through space on its own, and it was fairly fast.】
【This place was a great distance from Vermilion Purple Star. With the naked eye, Vermilion Purple Star appeared no more than a tiny purplish-red point of light.】
【Ahead, in the depths of space, stood a gigantic inverted triangular pyramid-shaped altar.】
【Points of flame flickered across its surface, while mysterious patterns radiated an eerie glow.】
【Ji Baiming, Ji Wuqing, and dozens of Ji family experts from the Absolute Land and Heaven-Connecting realms were all inside the Heavenly Profound Disc.】
【They had come both to see you off and to help you enter outer space.】
【“Cast the spell!”】
【At Ji Baiming’s command, ten Heaven-Connecting Realm cultivators surrounded you and simultaneously used the same divine art on you.】
【Before long, a pale golden halo appeared around your body.】
【Ji Baiming said,】
【“This is the Imperial Cosmic Shield. It will allow you to move about in a vacuum for a period of time. You can leave the Heavenly Profound Disc now and go to the projection altar.”】
【You exited the Heavenly Profound Disc through its hatch.】
【The enormous cosmic altar before you had been brought by the Astral Apes.】
【“Reverse Engineering” could not see its blueprint.】
【Yet it was obvious that the altar had not formed naturally.】
【This meant that the Star Ape clan had simply polished and assembled naturally occurring objects.】
【It was like a house or a water vat in a city. Such things could not be considered cultivation artifacts, so “Reverse Engineering” could not see their blueprints.】
【Even so, although the altar looked simple, it still contained mysterious power.】
【That was a characteristic of the Astral Apes. They had no traditions of artifact forging or alchemy, yet they possessed wondrous techniques capable of rivaling the work of nature.】
【You stood upon the altar, waiting for the power that would break through the Void Realm.】
【Before long, you saw ten stars in the surrounding cosmos suddenly grow extremely bright. Their radiance even reached the area around Vermilion Purple Star.】
【They were ten stars. They had been shattered.】
【The Astral Apes had used a treasure from the Astral Ape home star system to trigger the detonation of the stars, releasing terrifying amounts of energy before concentrating it all at the altar.】
【With the energy gathered from ten stars, and the altar to channel it, they could open a false breach leading to the Void Realm.】
【It was called a false breach because it could only allow one person’s projection to enter. A living person could not truly pass through it.】
【“The Astral Apes are this powerful? They can use the energy of stars so easily. I wonder what kind of treasure they’re using…”】
【Once a star exploded, the planets around it would suffer as well.】
【That was why they had to find ten stars with no inhabited planets.】
【Furthermore, even with a treasure belonging to the Astral Apes, destroying a star was by no means easy. It required an enormous expenditure of resources.】
【The amount consumed was astronomical. The Origin Stones alone, piled together, resembled an asteroid.】
【In order to take this opportunity to befriend the Astral Apes, the various human factions on Vermilion Purple Star had spared no expense.】
【Reaching the locations of those ten stars had taken considerable time.】
【The ten groups had not departed recently. They had set out long ago.】
【Ten streaks of flame converged from all directions.】
【At the same time, they struck the cosmic altar.】
【The energy was concentrated with incredible precision, not a trace of it dispersing. As a result, you suffered no harm.】
【A violent tremor came from beneath your feet.】
【You saw countless fine cracks appear throughout the surrounding space.】
【“Amazing! It’s affecting space in the Material Realm!”】
【A flash of golden light appeared on the nearby Heavenly Profound Disc, and Sun Xiaosheng emerged from it.】
【This monkey’s cultivation was unfathomably profound. He was probably beyond the Heaven-Connecting Realm.】
【“Heh heh! Kid, I’ll be counting on you to rescue my two princes. We only brought one Void-Piercing Divine Altar, so we’ll get only one chance!”】
【The altar began to glow, and the radiance gradually engulfed you.】
【Then, all the light condensed into a single point and violently struck the void.】
【“Crack, crack, crack…”】
【A fissure appeared in the boundless cosmos.】
【Beyond the other side of the fissure lay a bizarre, kaleidoscopic spatial turbulence.】
【You entered the turbulent flow and saw scenes from the various planes of the Void Realm.】
【These were snapshots of the planes at different points in time. They did not necessarily show what was happening at that moment, nor were they necessarily scenes from the same moment.】
【Among these scenes, one belonging to the human realm moved toward you of its own accord.】
【“Go!”】
【You plunged straight into it.】
【Back to the human realm!】
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