【You are taking A-Dou with you to Purple Vermilion Star.】
【The only ones seeing you off are Mr. Xun, along with Shen Yifeng and Ma Bang, who have just returned from Lingwei Star.】
【The Voyager can enter and leave the orbital routes without using a spaceport, so no one else will know that you have left Firelight Star.】
【Of course, a nation cannot go a single day without a ruler, so you have left a clone here to hold down the fort.】
【With the “Six-Eared Macaque” entry, the clone can take on your face.】
【With the “Give Me Power” entry, the clone can acquire your cultivation.】
【Whenever the clone here needs to show its face in public, you use “Guangzhi, Save Me” to change its appearance, then give it access to your hotspot.】
【Clearly, this patchwork solution is full of loopholes and extremely inconvenient.】
【You might be in the middle of a three-hundred-round battle with a villain, only to suddenly have to change your face and turn on a hotspot. How disrespectful to the villain would that be?】
【Therefore, before leaving, you issued a notice to the court, telling them to govern the country themselves while you entered seclusion to overcome a bottleneck in your cultivation.】
【For a high-level cultivator like Si Duo Duo, and a long-lived member of the Dragonkin, entering seclusion for thirty or fifty years at a time was perfectly normal. A hundred or eighty years was nothing unusual either.】
【With seclusion as your excuse, the clone you left behind would not need to appear in public often, unless absolutely necessary.】
【You could not help complaining that this simulation had provided you with rather too few clones and entries.】
【One clone remained in the Human Realm, one in the Eclosion Galaxy, and one on Firelight Star.】
【That left you with only three mobile clones.】
【Your commonly used entries had not been touched, but the less frequently used ones had been fired away by the slingshot until almost none remained after so many battles.】
【The entries fired during the simulation would not affect reality, but you did not have many entries left to fire in this lifetime.】
【“Once I’m gone, there’s no telling whether the foreign races on Firelight Star will make a move. The clone I left behind isn’t as powerful as I am, so it definitely won’t be able to suppress them by force if things get serious. If anything major happens, try to resolve it through negotiation and buy time. I’ll find a way to come back and help.”】
【Mr. Xun smiled.】
【“Mr. Chen, don’t worry. We endured even those most difficult years. Even if the foreign races oppress us again, we can bear it. Unless they intend to wipe out our entire people—in that case, we’ll have no choice but to fight them to the death.”】
【The future of humanity on Firelight Star was, by and large, bright.】
【As long as one or two generations of humans gained access to proper cultivation, catching up with the other races would only be a matter of time.】
【When that happened, even if another war broke out, they might not lose even without you.】
【The Voyager carried you and A-Dou into the sky.】
【A-Dou leaned against the window and looked through the glass at the reddish earth of Firelight Star.】
【“Uncle Chen, will we come back?”】
【After telling A-Dou your true identity, you had asked him not to treat you as some kind of emperor anymore.】
【He only needed to call you Uncle Chen.】
【“The immortal path is long and uncertain. Who can say what the future holds? Do you miss your parents, or are you reluctant to leave all those little followers of yours?”】
【“Uncle Chen, you said I’m the Destined One, and that I bear the fate of our people. As long as I can become stronger, what does leaving my homeland matter?”】
【“Such lofty ambitions for someone so young.”】
【“Our people must become stronger! Only when we grow powerful will the foreign races stop bullying us!
“Actually, I know that foreign children like Conglala aren’t any different from us. They aren’t bad by nature. They only think bullying humans is perfectly natural because they’ve been influenced by the adults around them!
“And the reason they think that way is because humanity is weaker than their races!”】
【A-Dou’s thoughts were simple, but they did contain a certain truth.】
【You felt that it had been the right decision to let him grow up alongside children of the foreign races.】
【It had allowed him to recognize humanity’s position in the Real Realm early on, so he would not harbor any unrealistic illusions about the foreign races in the future.】
【“A-Dou, humanity will surely rise again…”】
【Year Fifty-Eight, age eighty-four.】
【Drawing an entry…】
【Entry acquired successfully!】
【“Horn-Breaking Maniac” (Purple, Epic): If your target has horns, you will definitely be able to break them, no matter what method you use or what kind of existence your target is.】
【Adjust the entry?】
【Yes/No】
“Wait, didn’t it say earlier that the royal family of the Ares Immortal Kingdom belongs to the Unicorn Clan?”
There was no shortage of horned races besides the Unicorn Clan.
The Bullhead Clan from earlier, along with the Dragonkin and the Sacred Dragon Clan—those dragon-worshippers—all had horns on their heads.
“If you’re a dragon, I’ll be the ‘Dragonkin Nemesis.’ If you have horns, I’ll be the ‘Horn-Breaking Maniac’!”
【You chose yes.】
【You replaced “The Hulk” with “Horn-Breaking Maniac.”】
【The Voyager traveled through interstellar space.】
【Aboard the starship, you taught nine-year-old A-Dou some basic techniques so that he could keep training and maintain his sturdy physique.】
【Just as in the previous simulation.】
【After spending their days and nights together, he, the Myriad Souls Banner, the Demon-Refining Pot, the Immortal-Binding Rope, and the other immortal artifacts had become the best of friends.】
【The Myriad Souls Banner, an old scoundrel, even taught A-Dou how to drink.】
【“Come on! Brother, bottoms up! Today, you and I shall swear brotherhood!”】
【A-Dou sniffed the rice wine the Myriad Souls Banner had produced from who knew where.】
【“It smells so harsh! This stuff tastes awful!”】
【“Aiya, Brother A-Dou, drinking is all about the ritual! Today, you and I become sworn brothers. Tomorrow, we’ll take A-Suo, A-Lei, Steward A, and the rest of those fellows as our godsons!”】
【“Good idea!”】
【The Demon-Refining Pot, the Immortal-Binding Rope, and the other artifacts all protested. Why were they being placed a generation below the others?】
【The starship was filled with their laughter and merriment.】
【Year Fifty-Nine, age eighty-five.】
【Drawing an entry…】
【Entry acquired successfully!】
【“King of Cringe” (White, Common): You are always blurting out outdated internet memes, stale jokes, and online slang.】
【Adjust the entry?】
【You chose no.】
【That year, you arrived at Purple Vermilion Star.】
【The Voyager was still incredibly fast.】
【During the previous simulation, you and A-Dou had spent five or six years aboard the starship before reaching Purple Vermilion Star. This time, you arrived in less than two years.】
【Thanks to the generous support of Matriarch Many-Treasures.】
【You hoped she was enjoying a peaceful retirement at Lingwei Star’s Divine Rune University, where she could calmly carry out her duties as a professor of divine runes.】
【Perhaps, if the opportunity arose in the future, you would even arrange for her to open a branch campus on Firelight Star.】
【You controlled the starship and landed on Dongming Mountain.】
【Just as in the previous simulation, when you communicated with the Purple Vermilion Star branch of the Kindling Society through the Kindling Tree, the meeting place you agreed upon was still an ancient ferry crossing near Dongming Mountain.】
【The reason you chose the same location had to do with the encryption system used by the Kindling Society when exchanging information.】
【What if outsiders learned the secret of the Kindling Tree and sent false messages to the other branches of the Kindling Society through it?】
【This was certainly possible. However, they would first have to learn a complicated set of rules for composing poetry. Only core members of the Kindling Society could learn these rules, and mastering them often took several years.】
[That’s why every message passed along is a poem.]
[You remember the previous poem, so naturally the time and place decoded from it remain the same.]
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ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
