[{"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-516":6,"glossary-terms-4587":23},{"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},2347531,4587,"Chapter 516: The Dragon in the Well Raises Its Head—Who Has Taken His Legacy!","simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-516",516,"\u003Cp>【“These three stages are also called the Minor Three Stages; after them come the Embryo Refining, Spring Thunder, and Coiling Finger realms, known as the Middle Three Stages.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“The Minor Three Stages of martial cultivation are the first three great gates a martial cultivator must cross. Once one surpasses the Tendon Refining realm, they may begin refining their internal organs, gradually hardening them and improving their bone structure.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“At that time, one draws celestial and terrestrial primordial energy into the body, as if the sun hangs high, nourishing and tempering the flesh and blood with boundless primordial energy.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Then, one forges the Kan and Kun acupoints of the brain and heart—these two points are the body’s vital pivots; once perfected, they mark the full attainment of the Embryo Refining realm.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“One’s body emits sounds like a tiger’s roar and a leopard’s cry, repelling evil and subduing demons—this is the Spring Thunder realm.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Sima Ting smiled and said: “Reaching the Spring Thunder realm is sufficient to guard a single demonic temple.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【His tone held no small measure of admiration: “In his prime, your father, merely by attaining the Spring Thunder realm, terrified a full-grown blood demon into soul-shattering, heart-rending death. Among the Nine Surnames, no peer in martial cultivation could match his brilliance.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Your gaze remained as calm as still water upon hearing this.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Above Spring Thunder lies the Coiling Finger realm, as the ancient saying goes: ‘A hundred-fold tempered steel becomes soft as a coiled finger.’ Those who reach this realm can effortlessly mold steel with their palms and unlock various marvels—you will understand them in time.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【As Sima Ting spoke of the Minor and Middle Three Stages of martial cultivation, your eyes grew ever clearer.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【To break free from the Xie Fu prison, martial cultivation is one path.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Those who enter the Middle Three Stages of martial cultivation are rare among the Nine Surnames; those who reach the Upper Three Stages are truly heaven-favored among martialists.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You recalled your father—he had already reached the ninth and peak realm of martial cultivation, the Xuandan realm, revered by the world as the Mortal Martial God.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Your gaze involuntarily shifted to Sima Ting’s personal guards behind him—their faces were icy, their eyes sharp, expressionless like statues enshrined in temples.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Yet the aura radiating from them was overwhelming, instilling dread as if they were man-eating tigers.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Sima Ting, seeing this, chuckled: “These personal guards are martialists, yet unlike ordinary ones—they seem human yet resemble puppets. This is the mystery of the seventh realm of martial cultivation.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【What does the seventh realm of martial cultivation have to do with these guards?】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You asked no further—this Provincial Military Commander of One Province was surely a master of the Upper Three Stages.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Sima Ting continued: “The Upper Three Stages are still far beyond your reach; in the Great Qi, those who attain them are exceedingly rare.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Of the two paths—martial and primordial spirit—the Great Qi stands supreme in the world. Yet in recent years, the Great Sui has risen, matching us stride for stride on the martial path.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“But on the primordial spirit path, they still lag behind the Great Qi—simply because the Academy stands within our borders.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“The Great Sui reveres Daoism as supreme; though they also honor Confucianism, their true foundation lies in the Three True Teachings, the leader among all schools.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Upon hearing this, you paused slightly: “The Three True Teachings?”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Precisely. Originating from Mount Zhongnan, founded by Lu Chen, and passed down for thousands of years.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Sima Ting gazed at the boy before him and felt a deep sigh rise within him.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【These common geopolitical truths were known to nearly everyone in the great clans—but to Xie Guan, they were a blank void, utterly unknown.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Sima Ting was born of the main house, of exalted status; his mother was from one of the Nine Surnames and showered him with favor. Yet fate seemed unjust—he was frail and sickly since childhood, and at age four, he suffered a demonic incident that left him bedridden. A bout of severe cold and high fever rendered his legs paralyzed; no physician or cultivator could cure him.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【From then on, he sank into self-loathing, grew irritable, and refused to interact with others.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Until one day, he chanced upon the “Zuo Zhuan of the Four States” and read the biography of Lu Chen—the man recorded therein, a young protector who had risen and fallen dramatically, whose talent in youth was mediocre, yet who spent ten years in mountain solitude honing himself, eventually becoming famed across the land, only to be met with suspicion.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Even so, Lu Chen never fell into despair.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【In his youth, Lu Chen had written: “A youth’s heart must reach for the clouds—who pities your solitude, sighing in cold despair?”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【A youth must aspire to the clouds—who will pity you, huddled in hardship, sighing in loneliness?】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Sima Ting wept uncontrollably upon reading this. His life had only just begun—manhood must aspire to the clouds, compete with the wind across ten thousand miles!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【From then on, he practiced walking day after day, miraculously standing again. He then took up martial cultivation; whenever he felt like giving up, he reread Lu Chen’s biography. Step by step, he secured his place within the Sima family, eventually becoming one of the few second-generation leaders of this generation of the Sima clan.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Recalling this, his attitude toward this boy who also admired “Young Protector Lu” grew gentler, and he added more patience.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Now, the Three True Teachings rank second only to Confucianism among the world’s cultivation sects; their leader bears the title Celestial Master, and the lineage has always been carried by the Lu surname.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“The Great Sui’s current stature owes much to the support of the Three True Teachings. It is said the current Celestial Master is a woman, young yet already commanding both Daoist branches, hailed as the Dao Son—a once-in-a-millennium figure.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You listened, silently pondering: the Great Sui’s power, which now troubled the Great Qi, was clearly formidable. If they truly meant to remove the Academy, the two nations were likely evenly matched, neither clearly superior.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【As you pondered, Sima Ting suddenly rose, his figure vanishing instantly.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Your heart tightened; before you could react, his hand had gently rested on your shoulder.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Huh!”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Your spiritual sense is sharp—you sensed my movement even as I moved. This is the power of the Minor Three Stages: moving like a ghost.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Sima Ting lightly stepped down!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Look?”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You slowly looked down—the blue stone slab bore a faint footprint, yet the stone remained intact, without a single crack.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Having broken through the Three Martial Gates, you are no longer an ordinary person—you may be called a martialist. In the Great Qi, martialists, aside from studying, need not kneel before officials; they are held in high esteem. The Great Qi even grants them the honor of re-registering their lineage.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“That is the martial registry.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Upon hearing this, you were deeply shaken—this was the might of martial cultivation.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Of course, it is also to regulate martialists—if these hotheaded men ran wild, deaths would be inevitable.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Seeing your excitement, Sima Ting paused briefly, then spoke calmly: “Though the Sima clan, as a great family, possesses no shortage of secret manuals for Tendon Refining and Sensing cultivation, primordial spirit cultivation is profoundly complex and requires guidance; otherwise, self-practice may lead to calamity, and one might easily become mentally broken. Martial cultivation is similar, but the texts currently circulating are mostly balanced and moderate, with few heretical or deviant methods.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Since you harbor a martial aspiration, tomorrow I will send you several manuals of Tendon Refining techniques—common in the Great Qi, widely known. Though not supreme secrets, they are balanced and moderate, easy to enter, and will benefit your future cultivation.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Choose one to practice—even if you fail to become a martialist, you will strengthen your body.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【“Only after truly breaking through the Minor Three Stages do you enter the ranks of martialists—and only then face the mortal limit of ninety years. You need not worry.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Xie Ying, upon hearing this, showed a trace of concern: “But practicing martial cultivation without the Lady’s permission seems improper… I fear Xie Guan may be punished for it.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Sima Ting smiled lightly and waved his hand: “Don’t worry—it’s just a common Tendon Refining method, found everywhere in the Great Qi, harmless. If anyone in the household asks, simply tell them it was given by me, Sima Ting—Madam Yuan will say nothing.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Xie Ying was secretly astonished—she had not expected this newly met Shu son of the Xie family to be held in such high regard by Brother Ting.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【In Bianjing, even martial techniques were not accessible to everyone.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Moreover, Sima Ting had voluntarily taken on any potential blame for the boy—this surprised and deeply moved her.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You rose and sincerely said: “Thank you, General Sima!”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You did not mention future repayment—only remembered it in your heart.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Sima Ting nodded slightly and sighed: “Martial cultivation truly requires early conditioning. I’ve observed the young masters of the Xie Fu—they all possess remarkable bone structures, likely nourished since birth with great elixirs, granting them innate advantages in both martial and spirit cultivation.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Sima Ting gazed deeply at you, his eyes carrying concern and warning: “Your physique is weak. If you choose martial cultivation, you must exert far more effort, spend far more time, and allow not a single moment of slackness. The path of the martialist is inherently a thorny, arduous one.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You lowered your head and smiled softly: “When I finally break free, even eating bitter yellow root will taste sweet.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Your words deeply resonated with Xie Ying beside you. She had often dreamed of escaping the Xie Fu—even if it meant becoming a mere servant girl afterward, so long as she could leave this prison.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Now, meeting Sima Ting, she felt a glimmer of hope.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Sima Ting seemed to sense Xie Ying’s emotional shift—he silently took her hand, offering silent comfort.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Then he turned to you, his eyes probing: “Do you, too, feel the Xie Fu is a cage?”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【He knew that in this courtyard, the Lady needed no overt cruelty—merely the words “avoid suspicion” would set the household in motion; a hundred cold, indifferent eyes alone could bend a boy’s spirit, forcing him into a corner, unable to stand.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You fell silent for a moment, offering no direct answer.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Sima Ting, seeing this, did not press further.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You gazed at the lake beside Hongjing Courtyard, your eyes passing over the laughing young masters and ladies, the smiling ladies—yet your thoughts drifted far away.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Your mother has never once come here since giving birth to you!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【No one in the Xie Fu ever held you or your mother in regard.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Your father, aloof and distant, never once looked toward your mother—yet when war broke out in the west, she prayed for him day and night.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【She never sought treatment for her illness, knowing the family’s meager funds must be saved—for fear you, as a child, might fall ill with no money for medicine, for in this household, only your mother cared whether you lived or died.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Even no one in the Xie Fu knew your mother’s name.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Your mother’s name was Feng Rou—a woman of extreme gentleness, never quarreling with anyone.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【When your mother knelt before that man to beg for your admission to school, you have never forgotten—the cold, staring eyes standing around her.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【A son curses his mother!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【That winter when your mother died was unbearably cold; the night she passed, everything returned to normal—only primordial spirit cultivators possess such ability.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Your mother knew full well that even as she left this world, she never mentioned it—because when she begged for your schooling, she had already resolved to die.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【To see the Xie Fu as a cage?】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You never once thought of any cage.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You want that man no longer standing aloft!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You want the entire Great Qi to know your mother’s name.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You want the entire Xie Fu to kneel before her spirit altar and beg her forgiveness!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【A gentleman repays resentment with virtue—how then shall he repay kindness?】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The boy’s emotion vanished in an instant; he returned to the calm, unshakable Xie Guan he had always been.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【But Sima Ting sensed it—the true meaning within Xie Guan’s heart.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Within the gentle, composed boy, a vicious dragon was locked.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Just now—it was like a dragon in a well raising its head!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【At this moment!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【At this moment, a grander vessel than Xie Guan’s glided slowly across the lake—no oarsman rowed, yet it crossed the water on its own, drawing the gaze of all in the courtyard.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【At the front of the boat stood a slender middle-aged man, clad in a long robe and cloth shoes—it was Xie Hong, the Second Elder of the Xie Fu.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The Old Lady was escorted to the shore to greet him personally, her eyes filled with tears of emotion.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Madam Yuan’s expression, beside the Old Lady, was uneasy—her feelings toward Xie Hong’s return were complex.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Behind Xie Hong stood a woman veiled in white gauze, her face hidden beneath a wide-brimmed hat, her true visage unseen.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【More striking still, the boat carried a black donkey, standing tall and proud—most peculiar.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The Old Lady inwardly wondered: Could it be that Hong-er had taken another concubine?】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Behind the veiled woman stood Zhao Fu and Xie Renfeng—Zhao Fu frowned deeply, while Xie Renfeng stood with respectful demeanor.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next to Xie Hong stood Xie Qiyue and Zhang Yuzhi, the Fourth Young Mistress of the Second Academy, whom you had just met earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xie Qiyue’s face beamed with joy; Zhang Yuzhi seemed to be scanning the lakeshore from the boat, searching for something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the servants by the lake bowed slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sima Ting and Xie Ying also rose to their feet, showing respect for this Master Xie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You dared not be presumptuous and stood on the shore, watching this legendary Second Elder of the Xie Family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From afar, he looked like an ordinary man, but from Sima Ting’s demeanor, you knew this Xie Hong, once famed throughout Bianjing, was undoubtedly a cultivator of supreme mastery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You steadied your thoughts, standing on the shore, your gaze occasionally flickering toward Xie Renfeng beside Lady Zhao, pondering silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, as the boat reached the lake’s center, it suddenly halted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone was puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You looked up and saw Xie Hong gazing down at the gently rippling waters of the lake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Your eyes remained calm, but your mind was deep in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xie Hong suddenly stopped the boat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at the water in the lake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes revealed disbelief, and he murmured softly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who could have taken his legacy?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2451,"2026-06-21T01:33:01.587Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","61dc40ed2776ebbe20dfed88b8914296466f6c7393292108a663160fae2582ad","simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-517","simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-515",728,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsimulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-cover.jpg",{"terms":24},[25,29,33,37,41,45,49,53,57,61,65,69,73,77,81,85,89,93,97,101,105],{"id":26,"raw_term":27,"original_term":28},1799945,"Lu Chen","陸沉",{"id":30,"raw_term":31,"original_term":32},1799946,"Wu Ying","武纓",{"id":34,"raw_term":35,"original_term":36},1799947,"Gongsun Pingxi","公孫平溪",{"id":38,"raw_term":39,"original_term":40},1799948,"Yu Ke","俞客",{"id":42,"raw_term":43,"original_term":44},1799949,"Dou Gu","竇固",{"id":46,"raw_term":47,"original_term":48},1799950,"Huang Yu","黃鈺",{"id":50,"raw_term":51,"original_term":52},1799951,"Yu Xu","虞許",{"id":54,"raw_term":55,"original_term":56},1799952,"Zhou Cheng","周成",{"id":58,"raw_term":59,"original_term":60},1799953,"Liu Wen","劉溫",{"id":62,"raw_term":63,"original_term":64},1799954,"Zhou Jinyu","周錦瑜",{"id":66,"raw_term":67,"original_term":68},1799955,"Feng Haiping","封海平",{"id":70,"raw_term":71,"original_term":72},1799956,"Tuoba Hongyan","拓拔宏宴",{"id":74,"raw_term":75,"original_term":76},1799957,"Zhou Xuan","周玄",{"id":78,"raw_term":79,"original_term":80},1799958,"Gu Yi","顧議",{"id":82,"raw_term":83,"original_term":84},1799959,"Tuoba Shuyi","拓拔術遺",{"id":86,"raw_term":87,"original_term":88},1799960,"Lu Jiaxuan","陸佳軒",{"id":90,"raw_term":91,"original_term":92},1799961,"You'an","幼安",{"id":94,"raw_term":95,"original_term":96},1799962,"Lu Yu","陸羽",{"id":98,"raw_term":99,"original_term":100},1799963,"Yuwen Liqian","宇文璃淺",{"id":102,"raw_term":103,"original_term":104},1799964,"Su Beihai","蘇北海",{"id":106,"raw_term":107,"original_term":108},1799965,"Old Li","老李頭"]