[{"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-721":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},2347736,4587,"Chapter 721: Participate Personally: I Overlook Ten Thousand Eons (3k, Request Follow)","simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-721",721,"\u003Cp>Yu Ke watched as the great cauldron underwent further transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Characters appeared upon its surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【In the face of this, you decide…】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1. End the Heavenly Reincarnation and gain all accumulated experience from this life. (Hint: May affect the future.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2. Continue the Heavenly Reincarnation. (Hint: May affect the future.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3. Participate personally. (1\u002F3) (Hint: May benefit the future.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>4. May simulate the future once. (1\u002F2)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke read all four options at once; the optimal choice was clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3. Participate personally. (1\u002F3) (Hint: May benefit the future.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the memory of being imprisoned by the Master in the Divine Shock Array at the Gathering of Flowers still lingered vividly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given the strangeness of this matter, participating personally again would be risky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze shifted to the final option.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>4. May simulate the future once. (1\u002F2)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yu Ke hesitated, the great cauldron trembled slightly, and a warm energy flowed through his entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dong—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An ancient, primordial aura surged from the depths of his heart-sea, like the chaotic flood at the dawn of creation, carrying a dominant pressure that crushed through ten thousand eons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke smiled faintly, understanding the meaning of “Ah Ding.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mere multitude of mortals? He could erase the world with a flick of his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After his previous personal participation, Yu Ke had sensed that the Kunxu Cauldron had upgraded again, gaining a new function among its options.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its power had also intensified further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, long ago, this cauldron had possessed the ability to pierce heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within it, a cosmos was nurtured, bearing an entire universe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With “Ah Ding” as such a foundation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he made no further hesitation and chose directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3. Participate personally. (1\u002F3) (Hint: May benefit the future.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke closed his eyes. This time, there was no dizzying whirl of space-time, no discomfort from crossing dimensions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the effortless ease of stepping through a door into his own parlor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yu Ke opened his eyes again, he felt as if he stood firmly on solid ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before him stood a simple courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to look back; the wutong tree’s leaves flourished, casting dappled shadows beneath the slanting sunset.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The autumn breeze stirred, rustling softly—lush and thriving indeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He himself stood at the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing him came Wu Tong, leading Lady Ruan, followed by a middle-aged Confucian scholar with a jade-like aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Tong smiled and greeted, “Young Master, this gentleman says he’s come to find you. He asked me to guide him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke raised an eyebrow slightly—it was as if he had returned to just before the event occurred, even the words identical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke gazed at Wu Tong’s bright eyes and fair features; indeed, she had grown even more radiant than when he first participated personally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lady Ruan held a bamboo basket containing a lotus-leaf chicken, steaming with rich aroma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke watched as Wu Tong and Lady Ruan froze—Wu Tong’s smile halted mid-expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind in the courtyard ceased; fallen leaves hung suspended in midair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like the “Heavenly Reincarnation” simulation before!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the great cauldron in Yu Ke’s heart-sea rang out, leaving him entirely unaffected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke simply folded his hands into his sleeves and stood at the gate, his gaze idly resting on the final middle-aged scholar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the Third Master of the Academy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike his previous gentle demeanor, the middle-aged scholar now looked as if facing a mortal threat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he smiled again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I never imagined we’d meet this way?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I am Chen Liang, honored to…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Third Master bowed, but the final two words stuck in his throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They turned over on his lips, yet never escaped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scholar, who had read every ancient text, now could not find a single fitting title to address the being before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke merely narrowed his eyes slightly, gazing upward as clouds slowly parted into two distinct halves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rift between them widened further, revealing signs of cosmic upheaval.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike his previous personal participation, this time he felt something indescribable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He seemed… capable of destroying everything!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a mere thought, heaven and earth could be overturned like a bowl of water on a table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That annihilating thought was swept clean by a pure, supreme qi, leaving his chest filled with tranquil stillness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless karmic threads and futures flowed through his mind, suddenly revealing to him: this power could only be wielded during this great calamity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In ordinary ages, even boundless might could not interfere in the slightest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this great calamity, then, the nourishment of the Kunxu Cauldron?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke came back to himself and looked again at the Third Master—now without any emotion, only the detached indifference of watching mosquitoes crawl on a potted plant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Third Master’s back was already soaked with sweat; he had finally fully shed his identity as Xie Guan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two were not the same!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked again at the boy before him—not a man, but the feeling of gazing up at the stars across a boundless desert night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vast, endless, unchanging, profound and infinite!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Third Master exhaled slowly and said carefully, “The Master said Heaven’s will is too lofty to fathom, yet the multitude of mortals, gathering like rivers and seas, can still overcome Heaven—so he set up the Divine Shock Array to imprison Heaven itself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Fourth Master said Heaven and Earth are neither just nor unjust; they merely pursue benefit and avoid harm. Humans should emulate them—human nature is inherently evil, and one must emulate Heaven and Earth to seize creation for oneself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Third Master smiled. “I don’t know what these views sound like to… you, my lord. Are they laughable? Or not even worth laughing at?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shifted his tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When I was young, I asked my tutor: Is there a force in this vast heaven and earth that transcends all things and governs the fate of all beings?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now I know: ten years reveal the withering and flourishing of grass and trees; a hundred years witness the fading of beauty and the decline of heroes; a thousand years behold the rise and fall of dynasties; ten thousand years observe the shifting of stars.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Xian, whose waist had bent low, slowly straightened, raised his hand, and a suspended wutong leaf landed in his palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spoke slowly, “To use the withering and flourishing of a single tree to glimpse the heavens and earth over a million years—is this not like a frog at the bottom of a well?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke’s gaze lowered, fixed on the leaf turning in the Third Master’s palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The withered, yellow veins gradually lost their deathly stillness, regaining vitality, transforming into a tender green new leaf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Again and again, it cycled through decay and renewal, finally returning to its original form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Third Master’s eyes were complex; suddenly, a long voice reached his ear from across.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I overlook… ten thousand eons!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Xian’s face twisted into a bitter smile—he finally understood: in his mortal reasoning, he had dared to fathom a being beyond the river of time, a frog in a well, utterly presumptuous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Third Master’s expression turned solemn; he bowed deeply and spoke clearly: “Therefore, Chen Xian is willing to sacrifice himself and enter the game, to place half a stone for Heaven.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, the leaf in his hand grew even more vividly green!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke saw this and fell into thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>～\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>～\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above Bianjing, a jagged crack spread across the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thunder exploded, shaking the entire city; gales swept through every street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heaven is enraged!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the long street, the people knelt, pressing their foreheads to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An old woman clutched her grandson tightly, her trembling fingers counting prayer beads; merchants dropped their goods and kowtowed repeatedly toward the split sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of Bianjing was shrouded in terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the western part of the city stood a tavern named “Xiao Sheng Zhuang.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside its three-story building,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ancient texts of three thousand years ago recorded: signs of heaven’s collapse, the sight of a torn sky—today… it has finally appeared in the mortal world!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just as it was when Lu Chen and Master Lu Yu ascended.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A voice, once calm as a still well, grew slightly turbulent on the final words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The speaker was a tall Daoist elder, with white hair and a ruddy complexion, his hair meticulously combed, wearing a Daoist robe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In hand he held a fly whisk; his features were ancient, his brows and eyes sharp as lightning, radiating immense authority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone familiar would recognize him as Dongxuan True Person, one of the Ten Great Sects of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hua was also in the room, watching the raging wind outside, as if the sky had split open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was astonished—this was happening faster than she had predicted two months from now. What had occurred? What had spurred the moment of transcendence?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man spoke gently, “Hua’er, what did the boy say?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hua bowed respectfully. “Revered Uncle, Xie Guan seems… determined to go his own way.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though True Person Dongxuan did not hold the position of Celestial Master, he was of a higher generation than Lu Hua, so she must address him as Uncle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True Person Dongxuan lightly waved his dust whisk and sighed. “What a pity—a rare cultivation seed. With such talent, he had already achieved success in just one year. Had he entered the gates of Mount Zhongnan, the Daoist sect would have flourished for another thousand years.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked regretful. “Had the Transcendence Platform not opened so soon, before he had fully grown, I might have thought him destined, like Lu Chen, the Ancestor, to be Heaven’s Chosen.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But it does not matter. This time, the Three True Ones have planned for a thousand years—and now the moment of transcendence has finally come.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two others were in the elegant chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was the female Daoist Lu Ruyun, whom Xie Guan had once seen in the small courtyard. She now stood with head bowed, daring only to steal glances at the elders, her demeanor reverent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other was an elderly female Daoist seated on a grand armchair, around seventy years old, hunched like an ordinary old woman—yet occasional flashes of brilliance in her eyes revealed her extraordinary cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister,” True Person Dongxuan turned to the elder Daoist, “this journey to the capital brought only a few disciples; the rest of our brothers and sisters wait outside the city.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ruyun’s heart tightened. Only one person could be called “Sister” by True Person Dongxuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sixty years ago, before the Demon Master and Master Lianchi entered the Jianghu, the “True Person Xuanwei” had already been famed throughout the realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was the most revered female Daoist among the Three True Ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Xuanwei Immortal, who once traveled eastward from Mount Zhongnan, had haunted the dreams of countless martial men.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was said she was the one who broke the vows of the high monks of Heavenly Dragon Temple, and the beloved of Master Lianchi’s heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Li Qingdi, the second-ranked swordsman of the realm, was her disciple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This former female Celestial Master, after the Li Qingniu incident, quietly stepped down and passed the Celestial Master position to True Person Dongxuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jianghu had long believed True Person Xuanwei had already transcended to immortality on Mount Zhongnan in pursuit of the supreme Grand Master realm—who could have imagined she still lived!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elder Daoist nodded. “You did right. The Three True Ones do not interfere in the karmic affairs of the Crimson-Eye Army—we wait only for the final opening of the Transcendence Platform.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Moreover, lesser cultivators must not meddle in the transcendence—it will only bring them harm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It matters not who transcends, but one of us Three True Ones must be among them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It is a pity the Transcendence Platform is not in the Great Sui—otherwise, several of our elder brothers could have acted from the Living Dead Tomb.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ruyun was stunned. Two Grand Masters were already the Three True Ones’ strength—could there also be an ancestor in the Living Dead Tomb?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dongxuan asked, “What of Qingniu?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old woman sighed. “This concerns the Three True Ones’ three-thousand-year plan. Recall him!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let him meet the Ancestors after death!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ruyun’s eyes brightened at this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2050,"2026-06-21T01:33:03.787Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","248182ad22dfc2f686e3e015496a9368812f4be593b9ce078c7f0411908b7678","simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-722","simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-720",728,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsimulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-cover.jpg"]