Chapter 24

As Zhou Yu made his choice, the simulation also began.

【You were born.】

【When you were born, you wailed loudly; you were just an ordinary infant.】

【You discovered that the language spoken by those around you was easy to understand, and you thought you had traveled back to ancient society, until you saw your father effortlessly toss a boulder several zhang high, and your mother single-handedly carried a beast-like prey to cook food, then you realized something was off.】

【You were born into the tribe Youzhengshi, and your parents named you Zhou Yu; you were not used to the new name and felt it rather foolish, but gradually you also accepted reality.】

【At one year old, you could already run and jump, and you gained much more understanding of this world—a world where cultivators exist, and mortals are further divided into Acquired and Innate tiers. The more you learned, the more certain you became that you had transmigrated into the world of the Wasteland Chronicles.】

【Your parents are both Innate spiritual beings, your tribe is extremely powerful, and it is said that there is a Heavenly Immortal Ancestor.】

【At three years old, under the tribe's arrangement, you entered the library to select a cultivation method. Following your parents' reminder, you found the relatively easy body-refining method Sun Worship Diagram and the qi-cultivation method Mountain Water Source Qi Method, which is excellent for building foundations. At the same time, you also discovered a method titled True Scripture of Creation Lotus Blossom. The description says this was created by the mother of humanity, Nüwa; the earliest batch of human sages all cultivated this method, rising from the myriad clans. However, the difficulty of this secret manual is extraordinarily high, almost unimaginable; ordinary people who practice it struggle to achieve anything.】

【At this moment you choose: one, Sun Worship Diagram; two, True Scripture of Creation Lotus Blossom.】

"It seems I have transmigrated to the Three Realms this time," Zhou Yu quickly realized in his heart; could it be that other chaotic worlds also have a Nüwa?

As for that True Scripture of Creation Lotus Blossom, since it was created by Nüwa, this body-refining secret should be like the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Diagram—both can cultivate the purest demon-god body, a secret truly hopeful for passing the Heavenly God Tribulation.

Its difficulty goes without saying; it might even be harder than the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Diagram.

But

"Choice two." Zhou Yu chose two without hesitation.

If you want to become a Heavenly God in the future, even a True God, you must lay a solid foundation.

At this moment, some memories surged forth, and the simulation continued.

【You ultimately chose the True Scripture of Creation Lotus Blossom; your parents knew and were very dissatisfied, but since you had already made your choice, they could only support your cultivation.】

【Your soul is innately strong; the entry step of the True Scripture of Creation Lotus Blossom did not trouble you, you began practicing this body-refining method, and at the same time you also entered the tribal school to learn martial arts.】

【You gradually realized something was off, according to what your teaching master said: outside the tribe are countless fierce great monsters; for your tribe to survive on this land, you must unite and continually give birth to strong ones, in hopes of standing against the monster clan. For a tribe with a Heavenly Immortal Ancestor, this seems quite unbelievable; you suspect you may have transmigrated into a special world where the monster clan dominates.】

【Your talent is decent, and combined with your practice of the True Scripture of Creation Lotus Blossom, as you age, your strength gradually becomes top-notch among your peers.】

【At age 10, you reached Acquired Perfection, but you found no hope of breakthrough; at this time you did not take it to heart.】

【At age 12, you began to feel a little panicked.】

【At age 15, peers who were initially weaker than you began to appear with many breakthroughs into the Innate realm, and they completely surpassed you.】

【At this point you feel somewhat lost, you start considering whether to abandon body refinement and focus your energy on qi cultivation; at this moment you choose: one, persist; two, give up.】

"One." Zhou Yu made a choice.

【You gritted your teeth and persisted, each day seeking an opportunity for breakthrough.】

【At age 17, your talent 'Heaven's Way Rewards Diligence' took effect, and you broke through into the Innate realm.】

【Having achieved Innate realm through practicing the True Scripture of Creation Lotus Blossom, you were instantly different; your combat power rivals that of late-stage Innate body cultivators, your vitality rivals that of peak Innate body cultivators, and your strength stands far above your peers.】

【Your performance drew the tribe's attention; although your age is somewhat advanced, you were still listed as a 'Tribe Seed' for cultivation.】

【With your status risen within the tribe, you gained access to more books; full of curiosity about this world, you began reading many geographic and biographical records, and soon you were dumbfounded—originally you had not transmigrated to the Three Realms, but to the Pangu world before the Three Realms had formed; at this time, on the boundless earth, both humanity and monster clans are extremely powerful races, and they are the two major groups vying for supremacy.】

【You quickly accepted the fact and continued to strive in cultivation.】

【At age 22, you reached Innate Perfection; your combat power, having practiced the True Scripture of Creation Lotus Blossom, rivals that of Purple Palace cultivators; the tribe arranged a tempering mission for you, you may choose to join the hunting team or go out alone; at this moment you choose: one, join the hunting team; two, go out alone.】

"This simulation is actually set in ancient times?" Zhou Yu looked at the simulation's content, his heart also somewhat surprised.

Although the previous simulation's time was even earlier than this one, it was ultimately in another chaotic world.

"I don't know how a successful simulation will turn out?" Zhou Yu pondered, and he also quickly made a choice.

Directly chose to join the "Hunting Team".

Going out alone, though free, lacks the boost of fortune and has a too-high mortality rate; Zhou Yu clearly understands that in this simulation he must simply "hold on"—as long as he lives long enough and keeps striving, the talent "Heaven's Way Rewards Diligence" will let him continually progress.

【You chose to join the hunting team; your performance in the hunting team was mediocre, but you consistently devoted effort to the True Scripture of Creation Lotus Blossom, and at age 28 you miraculously broke through to the Purple Palace level.】

【This breakthrough of yours made the tribe value you even more; you are the only person in the tribe in nearly a thousand years to have achieved Purple Palace through practicing the True Scripture of Creation Lotus Blossom.】

【You continued to follow the hunting team in tempering; at age 38 you reached Purple Palace Perfection, but the barrier from Purple Palace to Myriad Phenomena firmly blocked you.】

【At age 39, you happened to meet a beautiful woman in the tribe, and you felt somewhat moved.】

【At age 42, you married; you began to feel satisfied with your current life, but you did not indulge, and continued to diligently cultivate day after day.】

【But breaking through from Purple Palace to Myriad Phenomena is harder than you thought; at age 48 you failed to break through.】

【At age 58, you still failed to break through.】

【Once again you doubt whether you can continue on this path; you have a mind to give up and focus solely on the qi cultivation path; at this moment you choose: one, persist; two, give up.】

"It seems I truly lack the aptitude for demon-god body cultivation," Zhou Yu sighed in his heart; initially he also practiced both demon-god body cultivation and qi cultivation, but later he abandoned the demon-god body cultivation path.

If you can't break through, you can't break through; struggling is useless.

Of course, this time is different; Zhou Yu naturally chose to "persist".

【You chose to persist.】

【Heaven's Way Rewards Diligence; at age 72 you finally broke through the bottleneck, and with the True Scripture of Creation Lotus Blossom you broke through to the Myriad Phenomena level.】

【At age 85 you reached Myriad Phenomena Perfection; your strength is now comparable to many Primordial Spirit Daoists, and you began to independently lead a hunting team.】

【With your help, your parents and wife all successfully broke through to the Myriad Phenomena level of qi cultivation, and your family lives in harmony and happiness.】

【At age 100, you still have not broken through to the Primordial Spirit level; regarding this, you no longer feel strange, and you understand that breaking through is not so easy.】

【In the same year, an accident occurred; you led the hunting team out to hunt, but upon returning you found the tribe had become a ruin, and you frantically searched for your parents and wife, yet could no longer find their traces.】

【Two Heavenly Immortals soon arrived here; they told you this was a premeditated attack, the monster clan deployed three great monster immortals, and after your tribe's founding ancestor fell, the tribe was also overwhelmed and destroyed by the monster clan's army.】

【You were grief-stricken and filled with hatred, vowing to avenge this great grudge against your kin and tribe.】

At this moment, a celestial immortal tells you that if you want to take revenge you can go to the northern Yao Emperor City; the Yao Emperor is a newly risen great power among humanity, extensively recruiting troops and building an army, but to join his army you must at least be a qi-cultivation Returning Void Earth Immortal or a body-cultivation Primordial Spirit God-Demon, and your strength is clearly insufficient.

After thanking the two immortals, you then led the surviving tribespeople of the hunting party away from here.

At 108 years old, you rebuilt your tribe tens of thousands of Chinese miles away; the tribe was small and weak, and on this land you could only carefully lead your people in a difficult struggle to survive.

At 150 years old, under your day-and-night cultivation, you finally broke through to the Primordial Spirit level; you yearned to head north, but you did not, for you knew your tribe still needed you.

【186 years old, you have achieved Primordial Spirit Perfection】

【300 years old, you encountered the first Three Calamities, and you passed through them very easily】

【305 years old, a genius appeared in your tribe, you were very happy, and you earnestly cultivated him】

【At 500 years old, that genius had already become a Returned Void Earth Immortal, and his Dao comprehension was extremely high; in terms of strength he had already surpassed you. At this point you choose: one, hand over the tribe to him and go north; two, remain in the tribe.】

「It seems the human race's environment at this time is still far inferior to now. 」 Zhou Yu looked at the content in the simulation plus some legends passed down in the Three Realms, and he also roughly understood.

In the primordial world of that time, the human race had the Three Sovereigns, but the Three Sovereigns might not have the strength of today; among the Five Emperors, Yao Emperor had just risen, and his strength was obviously much weaker.

As for the demon race? It is actually a union of all races! There might even be an innate Ancestor God among them, making their strength naturally incredibly terrifying, enough to stand against the human race on equal footing.

「However, this choice」 Zhou Yu fell into contemplation.

This situation is very similar to the last time the simulation went to the Chaotic Thunder Sea; if his strength in the simulation were sufficient now, he might not even give Zhou Yu a chance to choose, and he would simply go there himself.

But he in the simulation is obviously not strong enough yet, so whether to go or not now is still decided by Zhou Yu himself.

「Go. 」 Zhou Yu quickly made a decision.

Going to join Yao Emperor's army is indeed dangerous, but is staying in the tribe safe? This era is obviously not peaceful; tribes that originally had a Heavenly Immortal elder guarding them said they would be destroyed and were destroyed, let alone now a tribe with only a Primordial Spirit demon and a Returned Void Earth Immortal.

The key is, cultivating the Dao is also cultivating the mind.

Continuing to stay in the tribe is not necessarily a good thing for him in the simulation.

「Celestial Dao rewards diligence」 is good, but it is not omnipotent; Zhou Yu has now discovered that the greater the bottleneck, the more time it takes to break through relying on 「Celestial Dao rewards diligence」.

Without undergoing tribulation, lifespan is ultimately limited; by then there may not be time for 「Celestial Dao rewards diligence」 to take effect, so he chose to go to 「Yao Emperor City」!

And as Zhou Yu made his choice, the memories of him in the simulation surged forth all at once.

Zhou Yu felt the emotions contained in those memories, and became increasingly certain that his choice was correct.

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