Chapter 3: Simulation Successful

The simulation is still ongoing.

Thirty years after Chaos City, you officially entered the End Times Secret Realm; after leaving the Initial Universe, you felt extremely uncomfortable, and your low law affinity once again became your weakness.

You consulted Master Fire Dragon King, who recommended some secret manuals to you and told you that only extremely rare opportunities can boost your law affinity.

Helplessly, you could only improve yourself slowly this way.

A hundred years later, the once‑in‑a‑century qualification battle began, and you successfully advanced to the Heaven‑and‑Earth Secret Realm.

Another hundred years passed, and you successfully advanced to the Primordial Secret Realm.

In the third century, you participated in the Original Secret Realm qualification battle but failed.

In the fourth century, you continued to take part in the Original Secret Realm qualification battle and still failed.

In the fifth century, you failed.

The sixth century.

In the ninth century, you entered the Original Secret Realm qualification battle again and finally succeeded in entering the Original Secret Realm.

Within the Original Secret Realm, you spent a large amount of points on thorough preparation and entered the Blood Luo World.

After 150 years in the Blood Luo World, you successfully became a Blood Warrior, and your law affinity was qualitatively enhanced, leaving you extremely thrilled.

At this point you face a choice: 1) continue to settle at the cosmic level; 2) break through the Domain Lord and choose to be released outward.

"Break through."

Zhou Yu made the decision outright; this simulation has a time limit, and he cannot linger at the cosmic level for too long.

You chose to break through, and you were dispatched to the Qianwu Universe Nation as a Surveillance Envoy; during your tenure you performed averagely, with no notable events.

You spent the longest tranquil period of your life together with your wife's parents.

At age 15,921, you sensed the opportunity to break through to the Realm‑Lord level; no longer hesitating, you chose to break through outright.

Having broken through to the Realm‑Lord level, you felt a profound change, and your perception of the laws became unprecedentedly clear.

At the same time you faced a trial mission from the Virtual Universe Company, and you chose: 1) the Outer Realm Battlefield; 2) the Cosmic Secret Realm.

"Outer Realm Battlefield." Zhou Yu made the choice, and the simulation's memory of Zhou Yu spanning over ten thousand years surged into his own mind.

That amounts to a considerable span of time for Zhou Yu himself, and moreover the memories contain Zhou Yu's simulated insights into the Spatial Law and the Flame Law, which he absorbed as the memories flooded in.

"Even if the simulation fails, this memory is already a valuable treasure for me," Zhou Yu realized, and he increasingly understood the power of the celestial simulations.

Of course, the simulation continues.

Upon entering the Outer Realm Battlefield, you truly entered a period of rapid advancement, yet the extremely dangerous battlefield was also riddled with countless perils.

You were fortunate to survive each crisis, and your comprehension continuously improved.

In the third millennium after entering the Outer Realm Battlefield, you began to travel alone.

In the twenty‑three thousandth year after entering the Outer Realm Battlefield, you received recognition from the Spatial Law.

In the thirty‑five thousandth year after entering the Outer Realm Battlefield, you finally accumulated enough merit tasks set by the Virtual Universe Company and chose to retire.

After retiring, you exercised your Realm‑Lord‑level permission to re‑enter the Initial Universe.

You finally ventured onto the Tongtian Bridge, storming through 19 levels in one go, astonishing countless strong cultivators; no one expected the previously obscure you to have reached this point.

The senior management of the Virtual Universe Company truly began to take notice of you.

During covert cultivation in the Initial Universe, the defiant comprehension forged over your long years quickly emerged, and you swiftly mastered one of the three major aspects of the Spatial Law—instantaneous teleportation!

Immediately after, you cleared another 20 levels of the Tongtian Bridge.

You conquered the Original Tongtian Mountain.

You became a genius who shocked the human race.

At this moment you no longer hesitated and chose to break through to Immortality.

You broke through successfully!

Simulation complete!

At this instant, the time freeze within the simulation ended—

Boom!

The simulation's Zhou Yu, with memories spanning tens of thousands of years, wildly surged into Zhou Yu's own mind.

He sat there quietly, beginning to absorb this vast memory.

Although the simulated Zhou Yu's age is not great compared to Zhou Yu himself, his accumulation of several tens of thousands of years is extremely weighty.

There's no choice; the simulated Zhou Yu's talent "Potential Amplification" is too extreme— the further it progresses, the more terrifying he becomes, gradually growing from an unremarkable genius into a being that shocked the entire human race, with his final law realm already exceedingly high.

After a long while, Zhou Yu finally opened his eyes.

"It's as if I've gained another life, but it feels good," Zhou Yu thought wistfully.

He was completely different now.

Not only did he obtain all the memories of the simulated Zhou Yu from the Devouring Starry Sky World, but he also gained the immensely refined comprehension forged through countless trials, and the crucial talent "Potential Amplification" was fully acquired.

"This simulation's benefits are indeed huge, but it's the conditions," Zhou Yu sighed internally. "If possible, I'd love to run a hundred or so simulations at once; even if only a tenth succeed, that would be terrifying."

Unfortunately, obtaining simulation attempts is not easy.

"Each simulation consumes a certain primordial energy, which can recover on its own or be accelerated through killing," Zhou Yu mused.

By killing massive numbers of beings or slaying sufficiently powerful lives, he can absorb this primordial energy, naturally speeding up the next simulation.

However, one point to note—each successive simulation consumes increasingly more energy.

Thus simulation opportunities are not infinite; each one is worth cherishing.

"Massive slaughter across the Three Realms damages merit and may even invite calamities; indiscriminate killing of the weak contradicts my Dao heart..." Zhou Yu reflected, disdainful of slaughter for cultivation.

Nevertheless, it's not only his own killing that counts; in the Devouring Starry Sky World he also has a clone, and that clone's killings also have effect.

The key is that the clone in the Devouring Starry Sky World can slaughter freely much more easily; simply going to the Outer Realm Battlefield provides the opportunity, and it is reasonable.

At the same time—

In the Devouring Starry Sky World.

A figure clad in black armor suddenly left the deep space and appeared in a desolate, silent stretch of the cosmos.

It was Zhou Yu.

After the simulation was perfectly completed, the simulated Zhou Yu fully became reality, appearing in the Devouring Starry Sky World.

At this moment, Zhou Yu had just completed the establishment of the Divine Kingdom, truly becoming an immortal‑grade strongman.

"It's time to go back."

Zhou Yu waved his hand, summoned a massive triangular spaceship, and with a flick of his body instantly teleported inside the vessel.

Before heading to the outer‑realm battlefield, he still needed to return to the Dry Witch Cosmic Nation, and this duplicate also possessed a complete family and social ties.

Since leaving tens of thousands of years ago, Zhou Yu had never returned, and now, both emotionally and logically, he ought to go back for a look.

(End of Chapter)