Chapter 26: Killing Dogs

After six times, Ruan Xing not only obtained the blue color as the correct answer but also gained a few teacups containing residual liquid of an unknown poison. She stored the remaining liquid in a small bottle for use when needed.

Although an accident occurred in the middle where she randomly obtained the floral hair tie she used to tie her hair, the result was good in the end. She also faintly grasped the pattern of random items: the things she held in her hands when she died had the highest probability of being randomized. In the future, if she encountered a situation in the Simulation where she had to die, she could grab the things she needed most in her hands first.

However, even after choosing blue, she did not live long in the Simulator. The last time, she chose memory. In the memory, after passing the test of the Pure White Youth, he brought her into a winding and tortuous cave, where she met an old man who looked like a Daoist. That old man told her to call him Master, said he would teach her skills to become an Immortal who could fly through the sky and burrow into the earth, and fed her various Pills, making her strip off her clothes so he could draw various Talismans on her tender skin.

After that, she lost consciousness, and the Simulation ended.

Ruan Xing bit her fingernails, feeling somewhat irritable.

She seemed to have found a second door leading to the extraordinary, but the situation in her memory made it clear at a glance that the Daoist was one hundred percent an Evil Cultivator. This Evil Cultivator was not taking apprentices in a proper way, but rather needed children with specific conditions who could pass three tests to supply him in practicing some kind of Evil Method. With her current skills, could she get any advantage in the hands of an Evil Cultivator?

Her aptitude was extremely poor; she might not even be able to enter the gate after practicing Immortal Method for over a decade. Perhaps an Evil Cultivator was just right for her.

It was just that if she practiced this path, would she be beaten by everyone in the future?

She did not want to increase the difficulty of her path to ascension; nightmare mode or something, she would rather forget it.

Calculating back and forth, Ruan Xing felt even more irritable in her heart. Forget it, let's kill a dog first to liven things up.

【Simulating】

Six years old. You learn the location of Lady Wang's hall and her home address from Hu San, intending to steal the Internal Energy Mental Method in Lady Wang's possession.

After nightfall, the hall gates are tightly shut. You throw raw meat mixed with poison in batches into the courtyard with dogs. After waiting for a quarter of an hour, you climb over a two-meter-high wall relying on your agile movements and light build without alarming anyone. You start searching for Lady Wang's bedroom and study. After searching the first floor for half an hour, you fail to find Lady Wang's room but alarm the night-watch guards. Surrounded by dozens of Lady Wang's subordinates, you are unable to fight off so many opponents with your two fists, and you die.

【Simulation Ended】

Please choose the reward for this Simulation: 1, Memory at six years old.

2, A random item on your person at six years old.

3, A random skill mastered at six years old.

4, The cultivation realm reached at six years old.

Lady Wang's hall was a three-story pavilion. The front half was an inn open to the public, and the back half was where the hall members worked, practiced martial arts, and lived. The front and back were not separated, but it was impossible to get to the backyard from the inn; every corridor and flower gallery was guarded. Ruan Xing reckoned she had no confidence in subduing the guards in one move, and it would inevitably alarm others, so she had not considered this path.

It was just that such an environment undoubtedly increased the difficulty of Ruan Xing's investigation. It was very difficult for her to determine exactly where Lady Wang's room was.

However, the half-hour just now had already surveyed most of the rooms on the first floor. Ruan Xing chose memory, and relying on the memory, she roughly constructed a 3D model in her mind. If things went smoothly, it would take another three and a half hours—that is, one and a half hours—to turn Lady Wang's hall upside down.

Fortunately, her luck was not bad. While searching a room on the second floor, she discovered several stacks of account books. After flipping through them, she saw that apart from the inn's cash flow, most of the account books recorded the flow of grain from the manors and the inventory reserves of the grain shops.

This should be Lady Wang's room. She had a husband and children, and usually, she should live in a private residence; the hall here was just an office space for her to handle the gang's affairs.

Ruan Xing rummaged through the desk and the curio shelf, wanting to find something like a secret manual, but she accidentally triggered a mechanism in the study, causing the Simulation to end.

Although she died again, Ruan Xing felt this was good news. If there were no important things, why would Lady Wang set a mechanism in the room? Ruan Xing cheered up and simulated again. 【Simulating】

Six years old. You learn the location of Lady Wang's hall and her home address from Hu San, intending to steal the Internal Energy Mental Method in Lady Wang's possession.

After nightfall, you throw raw meat mixed with poison in batches into the courtyard with dogs. After the dogs die from the poison, you climb over a two-meter-high wall relying on your agile movements and light build, avoid the night-watch guards, and get into a room on the second floor. You carefully guard against the mechanisms in the room and successfully find a locked secret door behind a hanging painting. After you destroy the secret door with force, the not-so-small commotion attracts the attention of the guards. Before the guards arrive, you take out the two pages of paper from behind the secret door and memorize them quickly.

The guards soon arrive at Lady Wang's room. You have no time to escape, and you die.

【Simulation Ended】

There were actually two pages of paper behind the secret door? Ruan Xing was surprised and also a bit worried.

After quickly choosing memory, Ruan Xing hurriedly flipped through them. Fortunately, it was indeed a secret manual, just overly concise.

On the first page was a short Mental Method Formula and basic techniques for using True Qi. On the second page were some Acupoint Diagrams of the human body, as well as various postures that needed to be coordinated when practicing Internal Energy.

Ruan Xing couldn't wait to practice according to the methods above, but for the sake of safety, it was better to use the Simulation. What if this Mental Method Formula had some hidden dangers?

【Simulating】

Six years old. You start practicing Internal Energy daily according to the Mental Method Formula on the paper. You ponder for many days but never grasp the essentials, failing to feel the Qi Sensation described above.

Qiye is very disappointed to see you neglecting your Gambling, but you use Body Refining as an excuse to linger at the hall.

Seven years old. You diligently practice the Internal Energy Mental Method every day, but fail to enter the gate.

Eight years old. You strive to practice the Internal Energy Mental Method, but fail to enter the gate.

Nine years old. You practice the Internal Energy Mental Method but fail to enter the gate. Qiye decides to take you out of the city. On the way, you encounter an attack. You use chili powder to ambush a masked man who wants to kill you. The opponent is eventually no match for Qiye, gets injured, and flees. You easily pass the Daoist child's test relying on Gambling Entry, successfully pass through the Dense Forest Labyrinth, and see a Pure White Youth. After drinking a cup of unknown blue liquid, he brings you into a cave. The old man in the cave feeds you various Pills and draws Talismans on your skin. You die.

【Simulation Ended】

Why? Is practicing Internal Energy that difficult? Even if she had no one to teach her and had to grope on her own, she shouldn't have had zero progress for three years. Even if she were to suffer from Qi deviation, she would have to be able to feel the Qi Sensation first to suffer from it! Ruan Xing frowned, somewhat unable to understand.

What were the conditions for practicing Internal Energy? How could she satisfy them?

Just as Ruan Xing was deep in thought.

"Miss, we have arrived."

Hu San's voice came from outside the carriage.

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