Chapter 49: The Fourth Simulation, Please Keep Reading

After leaving the Scripture Pavilion, Ye Xiao made another round through the Azure Cloud Sect, collecting every resource he could take into his ring.

Afterward, he found a safe place to spend the night, waiting for the Simulator to recover the next day.

Through the night, Ye Xiao began examining the spoils from this sect extermination.

Once all the spoils had been tallied, he opened the System Panel, preparing to simulate.

Host: Ye Xiao

Age: 18

Lifespan: 502 years

Spirit Root: Wood Spirit Root

Realm: Golden Core, Ninth Layer

Items: Immortal-rank Broken Sword, Sect Master Tokens of the Five Great Sects, Earth-rank middle-grade Soul-Refining Banner, Earth-rank middle-grade Divine Archery Bow...

Techniques: Boundless Longevity Art, Heavenly Lightning Body-Refining Art, Taixu Spirit-Refining Art...

Spirit Stones: one million middle-grade spirit stones, one million low-grade spirit stones

Simulation Count: 1 (After the Golden Core stage, 50 years of lifespan can be consumed to simulate once)

After wiping out the Azure Cloud Sect, Ye Xiao had seized over a million middle-grade and low-grade spirit stones, not to mention countless artifacts.

Fortunately, storage bags could be placed inside a storage ring. Otherwise, Ye Xiao truly wouldn't have known how to carry it all away.

Ye Xiao thought it over and found nothing he had forgotten, so he began the simulation once more.

【The fourth simulation begins.】

【You once again step into the Azure Cloud Sect. After a day of fermentation, there are no changes within the Azure Cloud Sect.】

【You head straight for the fifth floor of the Treasure Pavilion, preparing to investigate the mysterious woman.】

【The moment you step onto the top floor, Bai Ruoxi seems to have been long prepared, striking out with a palm directly.】

【Even for you, facing this sudden attack, you cannot completely dodge, and are struck on the shoulder by the palm.】

【A full-force strike from a Golden Core Ninth Layer cultivator, against your current physical body, is like a tickle, merely tearing your clothes and exposing half your body.】

【The strike lands, and Bai Ruoxi's face lights up with joy, preparing to press the attack.】

【Unexpectedly, you seize Bai Ruoxi's arm. Under her shocked gaze, your Nascent Soul-stage physical body erupts, and with just one punch, you gravely injure her.】

【"Urgh... urgh... urgh..." Bai Ruoxi spits blood, collapsing to her knees, her face full of terror.】

【You fear that killing this person will draw out the Spirit Transformation powerhouses of the Azure Cloud Sect, so you do not strike a fatal blow. Otherwise, with Bai Ruoxi at close range, how could she possibly withstand one punch from you?】

【You break Bai Ruoxi's four limbs, collect her storage bag, and seal her cultivation, leaving her unable to move.】

【Only then do you toss her aside and go to examine the Azure Cloud Sect's sect-protecting technique.】

【You look at the sect-protecting technique before you, and your heart is somewhat stunned.】

【Because this Azure Cloud Sect's sect-protecting technique is actually identical to the Soul-Refining Sect's sect-protecting technique!】

【You look at the golden thin sheet before you, finally understanding why the Azure Cloud Sect Master's belongings could unlock the Soul-Refining Sect's sect-protecting technique.】

【So, they came from the same lineage!】

【You take out the Azure Cloud Sect Master's storage bag and pull a piece of paper from within, placing it on the golden thin sheet.】

【In that instant, golden light flashes, illuminating the entire top floor.】

【Bai Ruoxi, off to the side, is also startled awake by the piercing golden light, her eyes bulging wide as she says in disbelief, "Impossible, this is impossible!"】

【"I pondered it for half a year without ever comprehending it clearly, how could you possibly!"】

【At this moment, Bai Ruoxi, no one knows what stimulus she has suffered, but her whole person is like she has gone mad, constantly muttering to herself.】

【You carefully memorize the technique. This technique is precisely the continuation of the Taixu Spirit-Refining Art, its primary function being to draw back the divine sense that travels to the Taixu Realm.】

【"No wonder, I said it before, how could a technique like this possibly have no way back?" you mutter to yourself, and in this moment you are completely enlightened.】

【With this complete version of the Taixu Spirit-Refining Art, your heart is filled with excitement. You no longer need to fear being unable to return when cultivating your divine sense.】

【The golden light dissipates, and the golden thin sheet falls dim.】

【You reach out, wanting to take it away. After all, the Azure Cloud Sect has already been destroyed by you, and leaving it here is useless.】

【"Don't move!" Seeing your action, the crazed Bai Ruoxi suddenly speaks up, "If you move it, we'll both die!"】

【You stop your movement, frowning as you look at Bai Ruoxi, waiting for her explanation.】

【"This thing has a restriction. If you trigger it, we'll both die here!" Bai Ruoxi says with a serious face, not seeming to be joking.】

【Hearing this, you also don't want to take this risk, and temporarily abandon the idea.】

【"Talk. Who exactly are you?" You look down at Bai Ruoxi from above and ask.】

【"Central State, the Bai family. Bai Ruoxi!" Bai Ruoxi says with a proud face.】

【You frown. Having long resided in the northern part of the Heaven Mystery Continent, you are not familiar with Central State, and as for the Bai family, you have never even heard of it.】

【You think it over and decide to just use a soul search. Whatever you want to know, you can know.】

【You press two fingers together and place them on Bai Ruoxi's head.】

【The moment your divine sense probes inside, it is blocked by a restriction.】

【"No, don't soul search me, it will kill me!" Bai Ruoxi, lying on the ground, hurriedly begs for mercy.】

【"This is a restriction placed by my clan's Spirit Transformation Ancestor. Once it is forcibly broken by external force, I will die!"】

【"And you, you will instantly be marked by the Ancestor, facing pursuit from a Spirit Transformation powerhouse!"】

【You frown, feeling this is extremely troublesome. The current you is not yet capable of slaying Spirit Transformation cultivators.】

【Before your cultivation improves, you also don't want to provoke Spirit Transformation cultivators.】

【You study the Bai Ruoxi before you, your face a mixture of uncertainty and turmoil. Killing her will easily bring trouble, but letting her go is even more impossible.】

【Sensing your faint, indistinct killing intent, Bai Ruoxi, in order to survive, speaks up again, "As long as you don't kill me, I can help you form your Nascent Soul!"】

【"I also know of a place rich in spiritual qi, very suitable for secluded cultivation!"】

【You remain unmoved, quietly watching Bai Ruoxi, saying nothing.】

【"I, I really can't die! As long as you don't let me die, I'll do anything you want!!!" Bai Ruoxi roars, a line of tears sliding down her face.】

【"Am I that scary?" You are somewhat puzzled. You never said you wanted to kill her, so why is she crying?】

【You withdraw your aura, making yourself look more like a good person.】

【Then, for the gravely injured Bai Ruoxi, you set her bones and heal her wounds.】

【Can't kill her, can't release her, so the only option is to take her away.】

【Feeling her four limbs reconnected and her severely injured body slowly recovering, Bai Ruoxi stops crying and raises her head to look at you.】

【"You, you're not going to kill me?"】

【"When did I ever say I was going to kill you?"】

【"Besides, you struck first. If you hadn't struck first, I wouldn't have beaten you like this!"】

【Your face is full of exasperation.】