[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten":3,"chapter-simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-15":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Simulated to Reality: I Once Looked Down Upon Ten Thousand Ages?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2347030,4587,"Chapter 15: In the Year of Great Chaos, People Eat Each Other","simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-15",15,"\u003Cp>If you can’t cultivate, then just wash up and go to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was expected—after all, the original host had already been drained dry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’d be a miracle if your body could still cultivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moonlight flowed like water; the night fell once more in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet at that moment, the [Kun Xu Ding] in his mind suddenly glowed faintly and trembled slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Cooldown complete. Proceed with simulation?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Saved for twenty years. Continue?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke saw the flickering screen on the ding and immediately perked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Action time!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Choose to continue simulation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his response, the [Kun Xu Ding]’s glow intensified, its patterns seeming to come alive, shimmering brilliantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[This year, you’ve just turned twenty. You stare at the letter in your hand, lost in thought—your father is in dire straits.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Thus, you decide:]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1. Remain in the mountains to cultivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2. Descend the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3. Participate personally (0\u002F3)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke hesitated—according to previous progress, even simulating ten years in the mountains would yield slow advancement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Better to start a new scenario.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, any change to the Kun Xu world’s progression brings rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Personal participation was unnecessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He made up his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke selected 2: Descend the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You resolutely decided to descend the mountain and rush to aid your father. This decision caused great shock within your sect—some were astounded, others sneered, believing you merely feigned concern.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You had secluded yourself for five years, never interacting with fellow disciples; even the newest initiates called you eccentric, obsessed only with cultivation.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Unlike Lu Yu, who had wide social ties and was accompanied by a group of like-minded Sanzhen disciples when leaving the mountain.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Everyone held mocking thoughts toward you, holding no expectations for your future.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[No one believed you could achieve anything by descending the mountain.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You departed alone—only your master came to see you off.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The Daoist smiled: “Disciple, you should have descended long ago. Now is the perfect time.”]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Under your master’s guidance, you learned your father’s location.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Hulao Pass—the greatest pass under heaven.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lu Chen bade farewell and began his northward journey alone.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The northern journey was long and arduous.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Along the way, refugees surged like a tide, pouring in from the north, their eyes filled with terror and despair.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Bones of the starved littered the roads; for miles, no rooster crowed; the horror of trading children for food shook you to your core.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[These words were no longer mere text—they became living scenes before your eyes, forcing you to truly feel the suffering and brutality of this world.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[One day, you encountered an old man, exhausted, ravenous, yellow-skinned and emaciated, his eyes brimming with grief for his lost family.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You felt pity and gave him some of your rations; the old man thanked you profusely.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Yet you never expected that he would try to kill you that night—luckily, your innate talent for discerning character had already put you on guard.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You had trained in martial arts for years; your body was strong. The old man was no match for you—you subdued him, and he begged for mercy.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[A sliver of compassion remained in your heart; gazing at his aged face, you chose to spare him.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The next morning, the old man reappeared before you—followed by several peasants, ragged and clutching hoes and farming tools, their eyes gleaming green like packs of starving wolves.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The old man pointed at you and croaked: “He has wheat!”]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[At these words, the peasants’ eyes instantly blazed with unprecedented hunger.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[One sneered: “Kill him and take the grain!”]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Another added cruelly: “Better to boil him—we’ll all have a full meal!”]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Each of them bore the stench of blood—clearly, they had all taken lives.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Even the old man, once from their village, now feared them.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[They had fled south for twenty-seven days due to war, surviving only on straw and bran—their food was long gone.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[From their tone, you guessed their intent: when they first fled, everyone had some food and still clung to morality; later, when food ran out and even tree bark was devoured...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[People turn evil after three days of hunger—what of twenty-seven?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The refugees dared not slow down—the distance to Yizhou in Daqing was still half a month away. If the Northern Xuan cavalry breached Hulao Pass, they would have no chance of survival.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[As for whether Hulao Pass could hold—they no longer believed it could.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The court’s corruption had long shattered the people’s trust in the north; they could only hope to cling to life in this chaotic age.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The five men advanced step by step; their farming tools had become weapons of death, their eyes gleaming with excitement as they stared at you.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[At the same time, you sharply sensed several more figures lurking in the nearby grass—those hungry, glinting eyes, another pack of flesh-eaters.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Faced with the five surrounding you...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You decide:]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1. Beg for mercy—perhaps they’ll spare you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2. Spare them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3. Kill the five.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>4. Participate personally (0\u002F3)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke stared at the three options that appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Remembering the old man’s ingratitude, he thought: In a chaotic age, one must have the heart to kill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if he spared them again, it might invite greater disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Killing these five would also intimidate those following behind—kill one to warn a hundred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke selected 3: Kill the five.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[All five were untrained peasants, exhausted from their journey—they were no match for you.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You expended little effort to kill them; the old man begged again, but this time you showed no mercy.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[This was your first kill, yet you felt little reaction—perhaps because you’d seen too much death along the way.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[In a chaotic age, one must have the heart to kill—you warned yourself.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The figures in the grass were terrified and slowly retreated; you ignored them and turned away—no one dared follow.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Shortly after you left, the bodies of the five had vanished.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You continued northward.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Worse news arrived in increasing numbers.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Spring had passed; the Northern Xuan army swept forward, and within half a month, six cities fell. The commanders of Ziyang and Lucheng fled at the first sign of danger.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Along the road, refugees stretched like a long dragon; bones littered the earth.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wherever the Northern Xuan army broke through, slaughter and plunder were countless: able-bodied men were beheaded; infants were skewered on spears and swung about as sport.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The regions they passed through became barren wastelands; when spring swallows returned, they nested in the trees.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[These few lines could not capture the cruelty of reality—you witnessed countless tragedies as you marched north.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Now, the last of the righteous armies converged at Hulao Pass.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The Northern Xuan army gathered outside Hulao Pass, forming a standoff.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[If Hulao Pass fell, beyond the Shanhai Pass lay no obstacle—the Northern Xuan could advance straight into the Central Plains and conquer the south.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The battle for Hulao Pass gripped the hearts of all under heaven.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[It took you a full month to reach Hulao Pass.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1175,"2026-06-21T01:32:57.622Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","0ced4bbd404269069117f24724b45842b3d866754b35605202fab11dd33d99f6","simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-16","simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-14",728,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsimulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-cover.jpg"]