【You chose yes.】
【You replaced “Civil War God” with “Mortal Bone.”】
【You replaced “High-Grade Root Bone” with “Low-Grade Root Bone.”】
【You replaced “Running Playlist” with “Human Body Detector.”】
Fortune Star had no immortal energy, so Chen Yi couldn’t cultivate there.
That was why Chen Yi in the real world used the trait replacement function to give his simulated self “Mortal Bone,” hoping he wouldn’t waste his time and might comprehend a few divine abilities while laying the groundwork on Fortune Star.
With divine abilities, more was always better.
The best way to deal with enemies who knew divine abilities was to know every divine ability oneself.
“I really am a man who knows how to treasure his time.”
Without a doubt, he was treating his simulated self like a nuclear-powered donkey, not letting him rest for even a moment.
【From time to time, you set aside some time to comprehend divine abilities.】
【But comprehending such things requires an opportunity.】
【Especially as the number of divine abilities you have mastered increases, the difficulty increases as well.】
【So you cannot force it. Let nature take its course.】
【Over the course of this year, the various branches of the Winged God Cult on Fortune Star launched several attacks on White Porridge City, seemingly oblivious to death.】
【These attacks were nothing more than a minor annoyance to you. With a wave of your Ten Thousand Souls Banner, the three hundred million demonic souls within it wiped out the attackers with barely a flick of their fingers.】
【But that was all. You did not expand outward or purge the entire planet.】
【You intended to leave these experience packages for the rebel army that would rise before long.】
【You did not want Fortune Star’s rebels to be a group of greenhouse flowers hiding beneath your wings from wind and rain. You wanted them to be tempered by blood and fire,】
【so that they could forge a certain spirit.】
【Cultivation could not be passed down. Wealth, too, might be squandered by one’s descendants.】
【Only the spirit could be inherited and remain vibrant through the ages.】
【You were destined to outlive most of them by a long time. You needed this rebel army to remain an important force in this simulation not merely for the next few decades, but for many, many years to come.】
【Therefore, you needed them to undergo this tempering.】
【Even though many of them would make the ultimate sacrifice in the process.】
【Why didn’t the Winged God Cult on Fortune Star request reinforcements from the Fortune Star headquarters on Lingwei Star?】
【Because you had dismantled the spaceport.】
【You could say this place was a source of sorrow for you.】
【At the beginning of your sixth simulation, you flew from here to Blazing Star.】
【The rebels of the entire planet had paved that road through the stars with their lives. It became a burden you could never put down for the rest of your life.】
【So when dismantling the spaceport, you showed no mercy. The elite guards stationed there died so thoroughly that not even death could claim them twice.】
【But you spared all the formation masters responsible for maintaining the spaceport’s key formations. You locked them up in the same prison as the Grand Archbishop and the others, so they could reflect on their actions.】
【After one of the formation masters was thrown into prison, he said to the Grand Archbishop with unmistakable sarcasm,】
【“Oh, what an honor it is to share a cell with the Grand Archbishop!”】
【The spaceport was actually of little importance to you.】
【With Many-Treasure Child Granny’s starship, the Voyager, you could enter the star routes directly without relying on a spaceport.】
【You kept the formation masters for the sake of the rebel army’s future campaigns among the stars.】
【That year, Black Wind arrived on Fortune Star.】
【He had strictly followed the instructions Chen Six had given him before remaining in the human realm: walk the nine hundred and ninety-nine deadly paths.】
【The moment he saw you, Black Wind became so excited that every dragon scale on his body began to glow.】
【“Boss! Is that really you, Boss? I knew you wouldn’t abandon me! You actually got here even faster than I did!”】
【This time, no one knew that you had left the human realm.】
【Black Wind had believed that Chen Six was you.】
【That was why, when Chen Six told him to take the path to ascension, Black Wind had been utterly unwilling.】
【But it was the boss’s order, and he did not want to disobey.】
【Only now did he understand.】
【The one in the human realm had merely been a clone. The real boss had already arrived on Fortune Star and was waiting for him.】
【“How are Sotuofeiren and the others?”】
【“They’re very well-behaved! Just like me, they think the one in the human realm is the boss, so they wouldn’t dare cause trouble. They’ve been obediently guarding the boss’s estate.”】
【“Starting next year, those six will be coming up as well… Come to think of it, those six winged tribesmen are rather important to my next step. I hope they’ll listen and not stray down the wrong path.”】
【Many-Treasure Child Granny wrote a letter to trick her disciple into coming over to help.】
【You sent a clone with Black Wind aboard the Voyager to Blazing Star to deliver the letter.】
【The Voyager did not need a spaceport to land or take off, so you had no reason to worry that Blazing Star’s strict entry policies would stop your clone outside the planet.】
【Fifth year. Thirty-one years old.】
【Traits are being drawn…】
【Draw successful!】
【“A Good Bachelor’s Degree Is No Worse Than an Associate Degree” (Common White): The cultivation technique you practice automatically decreases in quality. The higher the quality of the technique, the greater the reduction.】
【Would you like to adjust the trait?】
【Yes/No】
“A purely negative trait? Well, I suppose it can be used with the slingshot. If I shoot it at someone else, it should lower the quality of the cultivation techniques they’ve mastered and weaken their combat strength.”
Chen Yi nodded in satisfaction, unable to help thinking of that timeless truth:
There are no useless martial arts… No, wrong. There are no useless traits, only useless ways to use them.
【You chose no.】
【That year, the rebel army of White Porridge City continued to live well-fed and well-clothed lives while undergoing high-intensity military training every day.】
【The ones training them came from the eight legions of the Winged God Cult.】
【You carefully selected a number of instructors.】
【Your method of selection was to listen in on their thoughts and see which of them were genuinely willing to submit.】
【Although they could not cultivate, these humans had come from impoverished farming families and mining slaves. Once their diets improved and they underwent sufficiently intense training, their physical fitness quickly caught up.】
【All they lacked were Many-Treasure Child Granny’s magical artifacts, which would allow them to contend with cultivators as well.】
【Unlike in the Void Realm, the gap between low-level cultivators and ordinary people in the Real Realm was not all that great.】
【You had already confirmed this through the rebel army’s battles in the previous simulation.】
【That same year, the leader of the Xuanlan Five Heroes arrived on Fortune Star.】
【“I—I can’t fly anymore. M-my divine sense is gone too. The crystals—the crystals have turned into ordinary stones! Hahaha! It’s wonderful! Wonderful!”】
【Xuanlan Big Brother flapped his wings and flew into the sky, embracing the blue heavens and white clouds.】
【“The Real Realm! It really is the Real Realm! That road truly was the path to ascension!”】
【Xuanlan Big Brother’s excitement suddenly dimmed, as if he had remembered something painful.】
【“Thinking back, the Xuanlan Five Heroes went through untold hardships and finally managed to obtain the ‘Wall-Breaking Machine,’ only for that bastard Chen Yi to destroy it!】
【“We thought we’d have no hope of entering the Real Realm for the rest of our lives and would have to be that bastard’s dogs!】
【“Who would have thought… who would have thought that he would end up helping us instead!】
【“When you seek something everywhere, you may find it right under your nose…”】
【He turned his head and saw you, who had been waiting in the sky for quite some time.】
“What did you get?”
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