Chapter 9: Died by Accident

"Is this the terror of the Fortune's Child?" Zhou Yu marveled in his heart.

His father is an Ancestor God, his master is also an Ancestor God, and they pick up inheritance treasures just by walking; it's truly absurd.

The simulation continues.

You are even more delighted after carefully reading this inheritance, for it turns out to be a Heart Power Inheritance; though somewhat incomplete, it is already exceedingly rare, and in the Mixed Heaven World there is only a simple method to condense heart power, with the heart power usage left blank.

You study this inheritance earnestly; many of its techniques are extremely useful against the Heart Demon Tribulation, and you have gained considerable confidence in crossing the Heavenly God Tribulation.

But you are not in a hurry to transcend the tribulation; you continue walking the earth, silently comprehending the Dao and accumulating.

At ten thousand years, your inner self becomes increasingly tranquil.

At twenty thousand years, you are still accumulating.

At thirty thousand years, a mutation occurs: the peaceful Mixed Heaven World suddenly sees a powerful army appear, claiming to be from the Nine Fang Chaos Nation, intending to take over this chaotic world.

A great battle erupts, and the Nine Spirit Ancestor God and Mu Liu Ancestor God are both severely wounded and captured.

The Mixed Heaven World is taken over, and you can only wait in bewilderment.

A hundred years later, the suppressed Ancestor Gods reappear; you learn they have joined the Nine Fang Chaos Nation, and you realize this is a wise choice. If your memory is correct, the Nine Fang Chaos Nation is a powerful realm of numerous world gods and Chaos Immortals, fundamentally beyond the Mixed Heaven World's resistance.

The returning Ancestor Gods soon depart again; they must join the Nine Fang Chaos Nation to wage war for it, and can only return after amassing sufficient military merit. Before leaving, the Nine Spirit Ancestor God gave you many treasures and riches, and Liu Mu Ancestor God passed you his life's work, the Time‑Space True Explanation.

You cultivate a Second Primordial Soul and decide to cross the Heavenly God Tribulation; you succeed.

You return to your old home and spend a long stretch of years with your mother.

At two million years, you suddenly attain enlightenment, mastering the complete Path of Light and Time.

Your Second Primordial Soul becomes a True Immortal, but your true self attaining True God remains far out of reach; at this moment you feel no hint of hope to break through to True God, a restless urge stirs within you to explore the Chaos, and you choose: 1. Remain in the Mixed Heaven World. 2. Go to the Chaos.

Zhou Yu looks at these lines of text, his expression rather solemn.

The information contained within is too abundant.

Especially the emergence of the Nine Fang Chaos Nation makes him realize that this simulation actually occurs in a time far distant from the present.

In that case, if the simulation succeeds, does this avatar appear in the past, or directly in the present?

"No matter what, we must continue the simulation."

Zhou Yu doesn't think much; after a brief consideration, he chooses to go into the Chaos.

With a Heavenly God‑level spirit, it took two million years to comprehend a single path; doing nothing now, dreaming of grasping the Celestial Dao in a hundred million years is absurd, so this simulation is bound to fail.

Only by entering the Chaos, relying on the Fortune's Child's luck to encounter some fate‑defying opportunity, can one possibly alter destiny.

At the moment Zhou Yu makes his choice, those two million years of memories surge forth.

Although the simulated Zhou Yu has not endured great setbacks and his Dao heart is average, he nevertheless has mastered a complete path, and this memory is not yet easy to digest.

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

"Let's continue."

Zhou Yu thinks to himself, and the simulation starts again.

You choose to go into the Chaos, but you are well aware that, as a Heavenly God, you are far too weak there; even a minor danger could end your life, so you dare not venture far, only daring to wander near the Mixed Heaven World.

In the Chaos, you cannot sense the Dao of the Mixed Heaven World; gradually, you uncover a more fundamental power, realizing it is the Time Origin Force, a truly mighty power.

After three thousand years in the Chaos, you discover a strange colored lotus; swallowing it greatly amplifies your spirit, causing your Dao‑comprehension speed to surge dramatically, and you are very pleased.

After five thousand years in the Chaos, you pick up another treasure, which makes your Heavenly God body even more perfect.

After eight thousand years in the Chaos, having gained nothing further, you return to the Mixed Heaven World.

A peaceful era passes another million years; during it you repeatedly enter the Chaos, each time gaining modest rewards, which puzzles you greatly.

One day, you receive news from Master Mu Liu Ancestor God: your father has fallen in battle.

You remain silent for a long time, your yearning for strength growing ever stronger.

You leave the Mixed Heaven World once more, heading toward an even more distant part of the Chaos.

At thirty thousand years into the Chaos, you are suddenly delighted to discover that the copper mirror, which once held the Heart Power Inheritance, has generated a certain resonance.

Following the resonance, you find a Chaos Thunder Sea, where each erupting bolt feels extremely perilous; you hesitate, but recalling the Mixed Heaven World's plight and the death of the Nine Spirit Ancestor God, you decide to venture inside to see.

Within the Chaos Thunder Sea, lightning rages, yet your luck is extraordinarily defiant of fate, and you manage to reach the sea's depths, where you discover a black stone tablet.

You sense that this stone tablet is what draws the copper mirror; elated, you attempt to take the tablet, but a destructive heart power suddenly erupts from it, sweeping over you, annihilating your true self and Second Primordial Soul—you die!

Simulation failed.

"What?" Zhou Yu was stunned.

The Fortune's Child actually died by accident?

"No choice appeared when finally entering the Chaos Thunder Sea?" Zhou Yu frowned slightly; in such a situation, he would have chosen not to go, and perhaps waiting until he grew stronger would avoid being instantly slain by that force.

But the simulated Zhou Yu went in directly, without even a chance to choose.

"The later the simulation gets, the fewer choices it gives me—could it be because the simulated me keeps getting stronger?"

Zhou Yu suddenly recalls that the previous simulation was similar: at the start, even minor matters required his choice, but after the simulated Zhou Yu ventured to the Outside Realm Battlefield, he could no longer intervene until the simulation succeeded.

This time is much the same.

The only difference is that in the last simulation his luck was exceptional; his avatar in the Outside Realm Battlefield not only survived but surged forward, ultimately leading to success.

"It seems, then, that choosing higher simulation goals isn't that simple," Zhou Yu understood.

One, the ever‑growing memory becomes increasingly hard to bear; secondly, as the simulated him grows stronger, his actions begin to lean toward autonomy.

Thinking it through, it is precisely because Zhou Yu finds it increasingly strenuous to digest the simulated memories that he becomes more autonomous.

"Nevertheless, although it failed, my gains are substantial," Zhou Yu closed his eyes.

At this moment another wave of memory surges.

These are all the memories up to the simulated Zhou Yu's death.

Three million years forward and back, roughly matching Zhou Yu's own age.

After long digestion, Zhou Yu finally opens his eyes, rises with a sigh, and now somewhat understands why the simulated him ultimately rushed into the Chaos Thunder Sea.

"Looks like, in cultivation, the most important thing has always been talent and comprehension; luck can only serve as an aid. Of course, if both are present, that's naturally the best." Zhou Yu also understood this in his heart.

In the last simulation, he had talent but no luck, and didn't encounter a single decent opportunity from start to finish. Fortunately, the Swallowing Starry Sky World values talent highly; with the help of a complete genius cultivation system, he succeeded in the simulation.

This simulation, he had luck but no talent; although the start was extremely smooth, later it became much harder.

Moreover, it's not surprising that not every son of the Ancestor God can achieve great accomplishments; just like in ancient times, the Ancestral Dragon had nine children, but only a few became True Gods and Dao Ancestors.

(End of chapter)