Chapter 71: This is the Ultimate of Techniques, the Peak of Supernatural Powers

【Currently scoring your overall performance.】

【This evaluation is—a feat that deceived the Heavens, yet also won a game against the Heavens; your Merit shines upon the world, capable of benefiting a thousand autumns and a hundred generations.】

【You collected information from the first, second, third, and fourth acts of this Reincarnation, but you lacked the most critical information from the fifth and sixth acts.】

【However, relying on your outstanding performance, you still completed the entire Reincarnation cycle despite the missing information.】

【In this Reincarnation, your favorite thing to do was to execute interaction turns with Wang Qinghe to improve your relationship; you performed over 1,000 interaction turns with her in total. On a certain day trapped in the Taicang Ruins, you two engaged in 6 interactions; you must have been very happy that day.】

Gu Jiangming's expression darkened.

Can things done in Custody be called happy? That day was a pure accident, brother.

Malicious slander! Pure malicious slander! I am clearly full of uprightness and integrity; I don't like girls at all.

【The current you has gradually realized that every one of your reincarnations is a replacement performed by your own true self.】

【And this time, your background was humble; you were a child by the edge of Jiangyang Fishing Village. Before this, you had undergone nine lives of Custody reincarnation, and in these nine lives, you were unable to escape the fate of a mortal, falling into mediocrity.】

【You also became acquainted with the South Sea Dragon Maiden because of these nine lives.】

【(Hidden information: Long Xi's imperial father had repeatedly prevented you from knowing her, because he believed that once a dragon and a mortal form a bond, it is truly too cruel for a creature like a dragon; rather than befriending a friend who will die after knowing them for a hundred years, it would be better never to have met.)】

【Your first life was saved by her, and from that life on, you began to believe in this deity.】

【Your faith was accumulated, and it was also devout.】

【When you were in your second reincarnation, you grew to like watching the sea. You didn't know why, but you always felt that doing so was meaningful.】

【Hidden information: Long Xi saw your actions in her eyes. She did not understand why you did that, nor did she know that you were doing it to see her. In her heart, she had already regarded you as her friend, so she began to try to learn to watch the sea in your manner.】

【This simple fellow just wanted to find what you were looking for in the sea, but she never thought that you were looking for her.】

【Because you believed in the same deity for five consecutive reincarnations, your devout faith in her became carved into your heart.】

【By your sixth reincarnation, your connection as a Believer to her would never be severed; she viewed you as her most important Believer.】

【And when you were in your seventh reincarnation, you actually encountered many dangerous situations, but you were saved from disaster each time by her secret intervention.】

【During your eighth reincarnation, the South Sea Dragon King noticed this matter and put her in confinement, but when you accidentally fell into the sea, she still sent you to the shore.】

【Your nine-life destiny thus arose from this.】

【And you became her first Believer and... her last Believer.】

A puzzle in Gu Jiangming's heart was thus solved.

【When you grew up, you called for the response of the Dazhou Dynasty imperial family, thus enlisting in the army and obtaining the cultivation technique prepared by the county magistrate for all enlisted soldiers.】

【That was a very basic Body Refining technique.】

【However, through diligent training, you stood out among five hundred people. When you cultivated to the Foundation Establishment Stage, many people had not even broken through the Body Refining realm.】

【This also led to you gaining the appreciation of the county magistrate. When you asked if you could obtain a better technique, he was once hesitant to speak.】

【Hidden information: In his home, there was a daughter of marriageable age. He took a fancy to your talent and intended to personally obtain an excellent technique for you, thereby taking you as a son-in-law to strengthen his family's lifeline.】

【Regrettably, before he could find an excellent technique for you, the Demon Race calamity entered the world; you were forced to flee, and there was no longer any opportunity for intersection with this county magistrate who appreciated you.】

【Life is just like this; a single thought of difference makes one a passerby whom it is difficult to meet again for all eternity.】

【His surname was Zhang, and his name was Zhang Luxuan. He later became the Capital Governor of the Dazhou Dynasty and became a loyalist who died for the Dazhou Dynasty.】

【After the Heaven and Earth Great Calamity, the human world ushered in a brand-new baptism. In an era where Spirit Qi was slowly dissipating and Merit was forced to integrate into the Four Thousand Bureau to maintain order, the Dazhou Dynasty lost the sharp weapon that had ruled the human world for seven hundred years—Merit.】

【Accumulating a belly full of rage, the mortals who had been ruled for nearly a thousand years finally overthrew this dynasty they considered tyrannical and ruthless.】

【Hidden information: This game of the Demon Race entering the world was still set by the Heavenly Dao. Their idea was to continuously provoke conflicts between the two sides, thereby giving themselves sufficient preparation time.】

【After the Demon Race breached the county city, you were saved by Long Xi and obtained the legendary technique that allows the Human Race to cultivate into the Dragon Race.】

【The origin of this technique is strange and is regarded by the Dragon Race as the shame of a generation.】

【Because the bloodline of the Dragon Race is already scarce, every dragon can be recorded in the clan genealogy. The one who created this technique was a member of the Dragon Race who met and fell in love with a member of the Human Race.】

【And this member of the Dragon Race created this technique just to allow the other party to transform into a dragon and enjoy a long lifespan just like the Dragon Race.】

【Regrettably, "Dragon Aspect Heart Birth" does not have such powerful capabilities; it can only allow Human Race cultivators to obtain the supernatural powers of the Dragon Race and display the abilities of the Dragon Race, but it cannot allow mortals to transform into dragons.】

【You stayed briefly by the edge of Jiangyang Fishing Village and received the blessing and gift of the South Sea Dragon Maiden.】

【Her blessing can locate your position and allow you to enjoy a trace of luck unique to the Dragon Race; your luck will improve because of this.】

?

It even comes with a Void tracker?

No wonder it was said that Long Xi could find him at critical moments in every reincarnation. Many points that Gu Jiangming couldn't figure out were suddenly cleared of their fog.

Not really.

It was mainly that Gu Jiangming didn't expect there to be so many hidden plotlines; he could only see his own information.

Now it seems that one can only see other content during the final summary.

However, being able to think that the Heavenly Dao is not his enemy at the end is something Gu Jiangming could affirm at a glance.

The Heavenly Dao did indeed turn Heaven and Earth upside down.

However, every thing has its own destiny; it cannot do things that transcend its destiny.

Letting the entire Heaven and Earth collapse—could this be something a mysterious force like the Heavenly Dao could do? They were even beaten into a state of utter exhaustion and retreat by the ancient Demon Race of the Hundred Demons Night Parade, let alone these ancient Demon Race; beyond the ancient Demon Race, there are even gods.

Therefore, Gu Jiangming guessed that the Heavenly Dao's game was just a part taken out of the Heaven and Earth Great Calamity. In the end, it was indeed a game, and it did have a great influence throughout the process, triggering the Heaven and Earth Great Calamity, but it absolutely did not have the ability to make itself become that calamity.

Simply put, the Heavenly Dao force is like a frontier official who took a crooked path; they wanted to forcibly correct things and create an era of their own ideals.

But their destiny only reached this level; they could not go any further.

Heaven and Earth is the 'Emperor' of this world. As a part of Heaven and Earth, you want to act on behalf of Heaven? Remember one thing: the Heavenly Dao force is a link that triggered the Heaven and Earth Great Calamity.

And the Heaven and Earth Great Calamity is a part of Heaven and Earth, not a part of the Heavenly Dao.

After clarifying this point, Gu Jiangming integrated the information previously provided by Wang Jiangxing, and he realized more or less that the concepts and ideals of the Heavenly Dao Leader... and the Heaven and Earth Great Calamity are two different things.

Simulation deduction has one advantage.

That is, information can be looked back at again; it comes with a built-in rewind and review function.

Many clues, when listed individually, are merely fragments; put together, they become information.

After so many years of gaming experience, Gu Jiangming was practically invincible across the Zhongshan Middle Road back in the day.

Have you never played The Legend of Sword and Fairy? That thing is far more convoluted than this; this is just a massive amount of information put together, allowing one to piece together the general narrative arc—honestly, it's exactly like a live-action murder mystery game.

Of course, it's thanks to his own character being tough enough.

If he weren't tough enough, even knowing the ins and outs of the situation wouldn't be enough to solve the problem.

Gu Jiangming unilaterally declares that 【Born with Proud Bones】 deserves first-class merit; this willpower stat really helped a lot in this reincarnation.

【After leaving Jiangyang Fishing Village, you headed to Shangxi City, which had already been conquered by the Demon Race, where you were captured by Ye Huang's daughter, Ye Liaocang.】

【After being imprisoned for nearly a month, she felt bored and let you out.】

【It is worth mentioning that Ye Huang's body flows with the bloodline of the Phoenix, but he belongs to a different branch of the Phoenix Race; his feathers are pure black, so he has always believed himself to be of a noble lineage and disdains attacking the weak.】

【Due to his superior intelligence and aristocratic pride, the public security, prosperity, and culture of Shangxi City under Ye Huang's rule reached their peak; many of the Human Race even deeply miss the Shangxi City ruled by Ye Huang.】

【In this world, he is like an outlier, and the only city lord who managed to make demons and humans coexist peacefully. Under his high-handed suppression, he did not allow the Demon Race to bully the Human Race, nor did he allow the Human Race to bully the Demon Race, binding everyone in the city according to the laws Ye Huang himself established.】

【Hidden Information: Ye Huang did not lose to the Demon Venerable Tingfeng in Shangxi City, but was captured and taken back to Qianyuan by cultivators of the Heavenly Dao.】

【Under the intense persuasion of the Heavenly Dao Leader, Ye Huang ultimately chose to join the Heavenly Dao and become a part of it.】

【The Heavenly Dao Leader used the Taiyi Stone and a drop of Vermilion Bird blood to help Ye Huang deceive the heavens and cross the sea, borrowing the divine position of the Vermilion Bird, to the extent that his aura is extremely similar to that of a god.】

【Therefore, you obtained a piece of false information—that the Heavenly Dao has gods assisting them.】

【And years later, after Ye Huang mysteriously disappeared, Ye Liaocang's livelihood in the Nine Provinces was in jeopardy, and she encountered danger multiple times; had it not been for Ye Huang's former personal charm, which had rallied many cultivators willing to serve her, she likely would have met with misfortune long ago.】

【The most dangerous time was when you stepped in to help, and she sensed your aura and recognized you, but later, you never had the chance to meet again.】

【Ye Huang, within the Heavenly Dao, learned of these matters; he secretly helped you look after Wang Jiangxing and Yi Lezhi. When your whereabouts were unknown, it was he who, in the name of 'Heavenly Sparrow', ensured their safety.】

【As for after you left Shangxi City, you encountered your own fortuitous event—the Taicang Ruins.】

【Here, you truly witnessed the perils of ten thousand years ago.】

【At the same time, you met the love of your life—Wang Qinghe.】

【You also saw with your own eyes the mutual scheming between Zhenyangzi and Mu Laomo, and as a result, forged a causal connection with Zhenyangzi's older brother, Qingyangzi.】

【Through a series of coincidences, you and Wang Qinghe were trapped together in the Taicang Ruins, and you subsequently obtained two treasures.】

Two cards appeared in Gu Jiangming's mind.

【Lanke Chessboard】, 【Taicang Sword】.

【The Lanke Chessboard can help someone who sees this chessboard for the first time obtain a chance to deduce any technique, but it depends on your comprehension and fortune.】

【You received the blessing of the South Sea Dragon Lady, and your luck is flourishing, thus you gained nearly a hundred years of deduction time.】

No wonder Gu Jiangming said his luck was so flourishing and his fortune so good that he could have consecutive fortuitous encounters.

Princess Long Xi, you are my sun.

The gold content of a sole god! 【In the process of deduction, you obtained the Non-Self Sword Intent, becoming the first sword cultivator in 2,139 years to comprehend sword intent.】 【With this span of over two thousand years, you are worthy of being called the contemporary Sword God.】

【And your romantic partner Wang Qinghe's luck was not as good; she only obtained twenty years of deduction time.】

【However.】

【Your luck is very good; you encountered a wife who can bring prosperity to her husband. She is in her first life as a human, and it is also her first life with the most flourishing luck.】

【Congratulations on unlocking Wang Qinghe's hidden trait.】

【This is her hidden trait.】

【Depend on Husband for Posterity: After you form a romantic bond, you will always follow the one you love, and you will distribute your luck evenly to your husband and your descendants.】

【Only you can see this trait.】

I, Gu Jiangming, also announce: Wang Qinghe, my wife, you are my second dream.

"So, I grew up eating from the Hundred Schools?"

"I thought I was invincible because I drew gold on a single pull, but it turns out everyone was stacking luck for me."

Gu Jiangming was truly sweating now; he hadn't expected so much hidden information to be laid out here.

【You and she were trapped in the Taicang Ruins for nearly twenty years, and you also gave birth to your first son, Gu Shengxi, with her.】

【Due to the effect of Depend on Husband for Posterity, your son perfectly inherited your trait; he not only possesses a heart of innocence but also your own proud bones.】

【At the same time, Gu Shengxi also inherited the talent of his mother, Wang Qinghe; this is Gu Shengxi's first life, and also his last.】

【And the second treasure you obtained, the Taicang Sword, you have yet to explore its subtleties; this object still requires you to explore it yourself.】

【After being trapped for a full twenty years, you and Wang Qinghe finally left the Taicang Ruins, and she took you back to her own sect, the Zhenggang Sect.】

【The Zhenggang Sect is one of the seven great sects of the world; the other six are the Taiyi Sect, Shangqing Gate, Cixuan Buddha Monastery, Sword Pavilion, Jiudan Tower, and Yanyu Association.】

【Among them, the Zhenggang Sect is undoubtedly the weakest, because the sect leader Wang Jiangxing's personality is too upright and unsophisticated; the rest of his junior brothers and sisters have either died or been injured, and those who remain have their own personality issues, leaving the Zhenggang Sect's current generation lacking successors.】

【Among them, Wang Jiangxing's second junior brother, Zhang Xuanjun, is obsessed with cultivation and obtained the ancient inheritance Dao Heart Evil Birth. In order to pursue the supreme realm, he released the evil energy and Inner Demon from within his heart during seclusion to temper his character and realm.】

【However, at a critical moment, he was sabotaged by his junior brother Lu Zhiyao, causing a surge of evil energy, and his Inner Demon became uncontrollable. To avoid harming his fellow disciples, Zhang Xuanjun left behind a few words and, after passing down his techniques, chose to commit suicide.】

【Lu Zhiyao had returned here before and read the "Dao Heart Evil Birth" left by Zhang Xuanjun, but discovered that the techniques within contained many problems and suspected that Zhang Xuanjun had tampered with them, so he stayed there.】

【And Wang Jiangxing's seventh junior sister, Yi Lezhi, harbors a secret: she can awaken memories from ancient times. This inheritance of the Yinji Sect is the trait ability brought by her "Heavenly Awakener Knows," which are the memories of her past life that she awakened.】

【Therefore, besides Wang Jiangxing, and excluding Lu Zhiyao who hides his true realm, Yi Lezhi was the first cultivator among the disciples of the same generation in the Zhenggang Sect to break through to the Enlightenment Stage after joining the sect; she broke through to the Enlightenment Stage even earlier than Wang Jiangxing.】

【She is a peerless genius, beyond doubt.】

【Among them, when Wang Jiangxing went to help mortal cultivators, he was noticed by the Heavenly Dao, which hoped to absorb him as a Heavenly Dao cultivator, but he refused.】

【And his whereabouts were leaked thanks to Lu Zhiyao, which is why he was besieged by Demon Race cultivators.】

【From beginning to end, Lu Zhiyao was not the first choice for the Heavenly Array selected by the Heavenly Dao.】

【Lu Zhiyao was forced to be absorbed into the Heavenly Dao to serve in the Heavenly Array seat three years before the Heavenly Dao's plan to devour the seven great sects was launched, because the Heavenly Dao had to obtain ruling power over the human cultivators.】

【But it must be said that during these three years, Lu Zhiyao did his utmost and poured his heart and soul into the Heavenly Dao's plan.】

【As for why he betrayed the Zhenggang Sect, the reason is very strange: he enjoyed the feeling of being watched by everyone, and his fellow disciples overshadowed his brilliance, which made him very displeased; he wanted to become an object that all members of the Zhenggang Sect would look up to.】

【The Heavenly Dao gave him this opportunity, and he also painstakingly obtained the attention he desired.】

【After the Zhenggang Sect became an empty mountain overnight, most of the disciples who returned from sect missions chose to separate, avoiding bringing disaster upon themselves, leaving only a 'fool' surnamed Zhang to guard this place alone.】

【His name is Zhang Yibao, the First Heavenly Master of the Longhu Mountain Celestial Master Mansion in later generations; he is not a fool, and he left behind a legacy for the Zhenggang Sect.】

【The divine ability of the Heavenly Gang Five Thunders was thus not lost, but its original lone copy was lost during the inheritance, which is why the Heavenly Gang Five Thunders became incomplete and increasingly simplified.】

【And after that event, you executed the sect traitor Lu Zhiyao, took the Bronze Mask and Heavenly Dao Dharma Robe from his body, and brought Yi Lezhi to infiltrate the Heavenly Dao.】

【However, you were seen through.】

【Hidden Information: You schemed against your Seventh Martial Aunt Yi Lezhi, leaving her in a dangerous place, causing her to hold a grudge for many lifetimes.】

No way, big sister.

Is she really that vengeful? Gu Jiangming couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth when he saw this hidden information about Yi Lezhi.

What kind of little notebook of grudges is this?

【And are you wondering why, while you are within the Heavenly Dao, you are repeatedly treated differently from everyone else?】

【That's right, you and the Heavenly Dao Leader Liu Moran have a past-life history; as your junior martial sister, she witnessed you die in her arms with her own eyes.】

【But you need to explore this story on your own.】

【But regrettably, she no longer has the chance to know you again.】

【After the Four Thousand Bureau, your body unleashed such a magnificent and spectacular miracle of divine ability, using your body as an array to enter the grand game of Heaven and Earth.】

【After you lost your consciousness, you merged with the Four Thousand Bureau, but it relied heavily on the massive amount of Spirit Qi provided by the Taiyi Stone to support the order and structure established by the Four Thousand Bureau.】

【But obviously, after you died, your body dissipated, and the Taiyi Stone fell as a result, no longer under your control.】

【And Liu Moran was the person with you at the final moment; she picked up the Taiyi Stone and attached her own soul to it, in this way... forcibly making the Taiyi Stone possess a spirit within the artifact.】

【She lost her soul and spirit, with no talk of reincarnation anymore, becoming truly one with your Four Thousand Bureau.】

【Liu Moran once pursued the Great Harmony of the world that her senior martial brother desired, the equality of all living beings, but this was his ideal after all, not hers.】

【Therefore, she did not understand, nor did she know the depth of this pursuit; her understanding remained on the surface, only wanting to achieve the kind of balance her senior martial brother wanted.】

【Her whole life was spent following this path, and in the end... she witnessed with her own eyes the danger brought by the Heaven and Earth catastrophe.】

【Everyone will die.】

【Including... the common people of the world he valued most and those mortals struggling in the mire.】

【At that moment, Liu Moran had to make a choice.】

【Just as Ye Liaocang said.】

【I am not kind; I act entirely according to my preferences.】

【Liu Moran's joy was her senior martial brother's joy, and Liu Moran's goodness was her senior martial brother's goodness.】

【She spent her whole life chasing the footsteps of that one person, but it seemed she could never catch up to the figure she wanted to pursue.】

【Because that person died three thousand years ago, died in her arms, and in her heart, only the ideal he spoke of remained.】

【Great Harmony of the world.】

【The rest of her life was also spent running for the Great Harmony of the world he spoke of.】

【Liu Moran chose to end all this cause and effect, entering the game of the Heaven and Earth catastrophe together with you.】

Gu Jiangming fell into a long silence.

One person, one sentence, one ideal, a lifetime of pursuit.

This is what he saw.

【And your Four Thousand Bureau is a type of algorithm that belongs uniquely to Heaven and Earth.】

【You turned yourself into the Array Eye of the Four Thousand Bureau, using the Eight Trigrams and Four Symbols, and the destiny of each direction as the array formation, incorporating gods into the array as divine abilities.】

【These four thousand divine abilities were filled by you with four thousand different gods, large and small; they had good and evil, some gods governed drought, some governed rain, and they all had their own inevitable duties, which allowed you to temporarily achieve the stability of order.】

【The Four Thousand Bureau... its effect was thus magnified countless times; it was originally meant to cover those divine abilities, acting as a Qimen divine ability to probe the changes of all phenomena.】

【You made it into true destiny.】

【An order that truly changes the fate of everyone in the world.】

【The shout you let out—"Four Thousand Bureau"—became the highest realm pursued by cultivators for ten thousand years.】

【"The end of gods, the Four Thousand Bureau."】

【"This is the ultimate of arts, the peak of divine abilities."】

【And within Heaven and Earth, there is no second person who dares to unleash divine abilities like you, nor will there be a second person who can comprehend such a divine ability that is like a miracle.】

【Just like that saying—"Four Thousand Bureau, then it is a miracle."】

【Turning all impossibilities into possibilities.】

【A feat of deceiving the heavens, yet also winning a game against the heavens; the Merit shines upon the world and can benefit a thousand generations.】

【This is the evaluation of your current reincarnation.】

【And your Heaven-chosen trait in this reincarnation—《Born with Proud Bones》—will also be automatically retained.】

6000 words, asking for monthly votes.

The end of the simulation has a summary chapter; just look at the reincarnation of the previous scene and you will know.

This is not too hasty.

Besides, there have been too many people complaining about the content being filler these past few days.

If I had written out all the details in the front, I would have been complained about again, wouldn't I?

Unless everyone gives me a "get out of jail free" card, I will write it slowly and methodically.

(End of chapter)