[You have completed the guidance task for this simulation and have obtained a new simulation opportunity.]

[Initial Equipment Traits (16/16):

Simulator [Mythic], Proficiency [Mythic], Enhancement! [Mythic];

Half-Emperor for a Thousand Ages [Gold], The Most Severe Father to Non-Humans [Gold], Materialist Warrior [Gold], Trait Slingshot [Gold], 'High-Grade Bone Structure' [Gold];

Traffic Light [Purple], Photographic Memory [Purple], Treasure-Sniffing Nose [Purple], The Aura of Ten Thousand Races [Purple], Senior Tomato User [Purple], 'Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger' [Purple], 'Bad News Spreads in Martial Circles' [Purple], Man and Sword as One [Purple].]

[Simulation Start!]

[Clouds gather over the stream as the sun sinks behind the pavilion; winds fill the tower heralding the mountain rain.]

[Having glimpsed the future crisis through simulation, you preemptively eradicated several early outposts of the Dragon-Man tribe.]

[Whether this action will delay the Dragon-Man tribe's invasion or hinder their plans, you have no clear answer in your heart.]

[But at the very least, doing something is always better than doing nothing.]

[In this life, you decide to become a nexus, connecting the various factions of the human world to jointly face the hundred-year crisis.]

[Year One, age twenty.]

[Drawing traits...]

[Draw successful!]

['The Wine for Celebration is Already Opened for You' (White Common): You treat your brother as a brother, and your brother also treats himself as your brother.]

[Adjust traits?]

[Yes/No]

"Year one, still the sacrificial draw."

Chen Yi held no expectations for this simulation's first draw.

Because the previous few times hadn't yielded an instant jackpot either.

Drawing cards, luck is fate, but as long as you draw enough, you can brute force your way through!

[You selected No.]

[In the deep night of Baiyun County town, you soared into the sky with the four Immortal Artifacts, your Divine Sense covering the entire city.]

["A busy life begins..."]

[You did not bid farewell to Third Sister, because you would return. Third Brother-in-law Shen Qingshan was, after all, on your must-recruit list this time.]

[There were many things you needed to do in this life.]

[First, break through to the Martial King Realm!]

[Your true realm was still the Spirit Condensation Realm. In this life, you planned to head to the Great Wastes to seek out a Holy Land, infiltrate it, and obtain a stable breakthrough method.]

[While your connections in the Five Regions could help you, it wasn't a hundred percent guarantee, and failure could even cause your realm to drop.]

[Thus, you prioritized the breakthrough methods of the Holy Lands.]

[Second, rebuild the Network King!]

[Connections were just too useful.]

[Without connections, there would be no Five Regions Sacred Pill. So, you absolutely had to rebuild those connections one by one, following the must-recruit list from the previous simulation.]

[Third, eliminate Blood Moon!]

[No need for lengthy explanation. The hatred for killing one's wife is irreconcilable!]

[Fourth, eliminate the Dragon-Man tribe!]

[Even less need for explanation. If the Dragon-Man tribe isn't eradicated, even if you were given a hundred thousand years of lifespan, it would be useless. You simply wouldn't survive the hundred years.]

[You calculated the map of the human world and the various time points, setting a rough action plan for what followed.]

[First, go to the Eastern Wastes, befriend the Sword Lord!]

[Once, you were a mere Golden Body Realm small fry. To meet the Sword Lord once, you could only humble yourself to become an Affiliate of the Sword Sect, waiting bitterly for several years before finally getting an audience.]

[Now, you too were a Martial King expert!]

[Both being in the Later Martial Path stage, it wouldn't be excessive to say you could interact with the Sword Lord as peers.]

[However, upon reaching the Eastern Wastes, you did not go directly to the Limitless Sword Sect to find the Sword Lord. Instead, you waited briefly, waiting for an opportunity.]

[Year Two, age twenty-one.]

[Drawing traits...]

[Draw successful!]

['My Knowledge Has Become a Jumbled Mess' (Purple Epic): You can cultivate alien race techniques, ignoring innate limitations such as Bloodline or race. If this trait is removed, the techniques will become ineffective, and any gains produced by the techniques will also vanish.]

[Adjust traits?]

[Yes/No]

"Oh? A good trait!"

The trait effect was simple, but a phrase already popped into Chen Yi's mind—use stones from other mountains to polish one's own jade; absorb the strengths of a hundred schools to enrich oneself!

With 'My Knowledge Has Become a Jumbled Mess', plus the mythic-level 'Proficiency'.

It meant Chen Yi could cultivate alien race techniques faster and more powerfully than the aliens themselves!

This was absurd.

But Chen Yi didn't plan to learn everything indiscriminately. If he was going to learn, he would learn the best, to avoid wasting time.

It wasn't yet the time for this trait to shine.

[You selected No.]

[You arrived at the Eastern Wastes and lay in wait near a Low-grade Spirit Crystal mine under the jurisdiction of the Limitless Sword Sect.]

[Based on memories from your time at the Sword Sect, you had chatted with some disciples back then.] 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

[You learned that on a certain day this year, this Spirit Crystal mine would be attacked by the Demon Tribe.]

[The attack was very sudden, and coupled with the Sword Sect's weak defensive forces at the Low-grade Spirit Crystal mine, it led to the complete annihilation of the miners and the stationed disciples.]

[This time, you planned to descend like a divine soldier, saving these people in their moment of crisis, using this to formally befriend the Sword Lord.]

[During your vigil, you placed the Nine Provinces Cauldron underground, then entered the Cauldron Realm, accelerating your cultivation within the Star Source.]

[Your current true realm was Spirit Condensation sixth layer. The path of refining Demon Souls with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner for cultivation feedback had already seen a significant drop in effectiveness.]

[As the Ten Thousand Souls Banner had once said, it couldn't possibly aid your cultivation growth at every single realm.]

[This simply wasn't his area of expertise; he just happened to have this function.]

[Using the Nine Provinces Cauldron to refine pills that increased cultivation was still effective.]

[It's just that now, the pills you needed to refine were targeted at the Spirit Condensation Realm, meaning the required raw materials were rarer and harder to obtain.]

[The good news was, with the 'Enhancement!' trait, you actually only needed to refine Spirit Sea Realm pills. They would automatically evolve into Spirit Condensation Realm pills upon completion.]

[The Star Source compensated for the decline in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner's effect, ensuring your cultivation speed wasn't slower than during the same period in previous simulations.]

[Within the Cauldron Realm, a floating image hovered before you, a view of the outside world created for you by Da Chun.]

[On this day, while cultivating, you heard shouts and sounds of killing from this image.]

["They're here."]

[The Golden-Haired Rat King of the Eastern Wastes, leading over a hundred Demon Tribe members at the Golden Body Realm and above, took advantage of the night to launch a surprise attack on this Sword Sect's Low-grade Spirit Crystal mine.]

[This Golden-Haired Rat King was also an old acquaintance of yours.]

[In the third simulation, he almost got you killed through a dirty trick. Luckily, the Sword Lord passed by and saved you.]

[You felt you could take this chance to settle some old scores.]

[You burst forth from the earth, leaping to a high altitude, witnessing the chaos in the mining area.]

[Many people had already fallen in pools of blood. The Demon Tribe was slaughtering wantonly while also seizing the opportunity to plunder Spirit Crystals.]

[Seeing this, the Demon Refining Pot grew eager.]

["Master is truly a master strategist!

I wondered why we've been lingering here these past days. So you, hey! You already knew a group of demons would come attack our human mine, and you plan to save them, right?

Act quickly, Master! My spout is thirsting for action!"]

[You raised your right hand, flicking it to the side of your body.]

["Click-clack, click-clack..."]

[The great demon-slaying weapon. A martial artist can, via the Demon Refining Pot, unleash the Immortal Artifact's power specialized against demons. By receiving the Demon Refining Pot's acknowledgment and completing the ownership ritual, one becomes Demonbane—the Red-Haired Demon Slayer!]

["Then let's go!"]

[The Demon Refining Pot's devouring of demons, sealing of devils, slaying of evil, melting into blood, dissolving within the spout.]