Chapter 226: Anchor Point Setting!
21 years old: You wander this world, and in your hand you always hold that Blade Horn.
Every time you gaze upon it, an inexplicable sorrow rises within you, but you never pay it much mind.
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42 years old: Relying on your innate grasp of cultivation and the insights gained from roaming heaven and earth, your cultivation reaches Void Return.
And you finally arrive, guided by that unseen hand, at the first strange place.
43 years old: You set foot upon a place called Sun-Moon Peak, where you can behold both the blazing sun and the shadowed moon at once.
You sit cross-legged in this place, and every day you can feel the scorching breath and vast majesty radiating from that blazing sun, while that shadowed moon emits cool, comfortable ripples.
44 years old: You rise and leave Sun-Moon Peak. You realize your soul seems to have grown lighter, and even your form has become ethereal, like a fleeting light beyond the heavens, impossible to grasp. This discovery excites you greatly, and you continue onward to the next place.
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94 years old: After fifty years of traversing mountains and rivers, you arrive at a mountain range filled with stars.
You stand upon a stone cliff, gazing up at the heavens. You feel lost. In the end, you close your eyes. Every star there makes you feel something special.
As if you yourself were one of them. It is here that your cultivation surges, stepping into Dao Integration in a single night, reaching Dao Integration Consummation by the second, and by the third day when you leave this place, you are already a Tribulation Crossing cultivator.
95 years old: You continue to wander between heaven and earth, but suddenly notice the world has grown restless. You keep encountering colossal beings locked in battle.
It is in this year that the Dragon and Phoenix Clans declare war on each other. For a time, heaven and earth tremble, heroes contend, and endless slaughter and destruction spread across the world.
96 years old: The Kirin Clan, unwilling to fall behind, joins this great war. The weak Human Race is also dragged in, joining the Kirin faction.
But you do not involve yourself, still roaming between heaven and earth, until you arrive at a region filled with thunder.
Here, you hear a voice in the depths of your being. That voice roars, and yet it seems the thunder itself rages. But no matter what, whenever the thunder sounds, your heart is filled with sorrow.
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199 years old: You struggle out from the land of thunder, yet a voice still echoes in your mind from time to time. That voice makes your blood boil, and also brings your cultivation to Great Vehicle.
200 years old: You stand beside a vast river and lake, watching the endless surging waves. The sound of spray striking the shore reaches your ears, yet you show no reaction. Your soul seems to float in midair, listening to that voice over and over, until you completely vanish into the river. Only then do you open your eyes and see that mountain peak—
201 years old: You touch your nose, looking down at the mountain peak below that nearly pierces straight into the clouds, murmuring to yourself. The scenery here feels very familiar to you.
202 years old: When you walk down from the mountain, you suddenly find your heart and the depths of your soul utterly blank. You do not know where to go, nor what to do, as if that guiding hand has vanished.
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1002 years old: Eight hundred years later, now a Nine-Turn True Immortal, you return to your tribe. The war between the three clans still rages, and it seems it is only in its initial stages. A Saint speaks, saying this war may last billions of years.
1003 years old: Your soul keeps splitting apart with a kind of pain from time to time, making it impossible for you to focus on breaking through to Human Immortal.
1004 years old: On this day, you are assigned to lead your clansmen in a campaign against the Dragon Clan.
Since your cultivation is not particularly high, the Dragon Clan you are to campaign against are only some branch dragons, some without even the Ao surname.
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1200 years old: The world is ablaze with war. The Human Race seizes the opportunity to rise amid the three clans’ conflict. The world falls into chaos, treasures emerge endlessly, and the Human Race grows stronger and stronger.
At the same time, you have the fortune to be introduced to a Wu cultivator.
1201 years old: You always feel a sense of familiarity with that Wu cultivator companion. You try to ask about their path of cultivation, but they say not a word.
1202 years old: You learn there is a race in this world called the Wu. Ignoring your tribe’s opposition, you resolutely set off toward where the Wu reside.
1203 years old: The journey is fraught with danger. As a Nine-Turn True Immortal, you drift through this vast world like duckweed in the wind, yet you firmly believe you can find the Wu, because they gave you a very familiar feeling.
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1500 years old: Three hundred years of travel have drained your heart’s blood and left your soul increasingly fractured. You always see a sky full of stars in your dreams, but how could an Immortal dream…
1501 years old: You finally arrive at a region called Mount Heaven. Beneath Mount Heaven lives a group of the Human Race, a hundred meters tall, who call themselves the descendants of the Wu.
1502 years old: You temporarily settle beneath Mount Heaven. Here your soul seems to receive some kind of comfort. Though it still aches unbearably, it is no longer as agonizing as when you first arrived. You wish to ease the pain in your soul through diligent cultivation.
1503 years old: On this day, you see a massive figure wreathed in flames, with crimson hair, sweep past above Mount Heaven. Shortly after, another giant, ice-blue and surrounded by surging currents, flies past in pursuit.
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1700 years old: Through your own efforts, you spend several hundred years stepping into Human Immortal. You are overjoyed, feeling you are one step closer to the summit of Mount Heaven.
But during these two hundred years, great tremors and roars keep coming from atop Mount Heaven from time to time, as if two giants are locked in a joyous, unrestrained battle there.
1701 years old: The tremors atop Mount Heaven do not cease for a moment. At times, boundless flames descend from the sky, burning Mount Heaven to ash; at times, rolling currents pour down, submerging Mount Heaven into a vast ocean…
“Hiss, no, no no no!”
“Why does this Simulation scene look so familiar?!”
Lu Qingyang watched the Simulation process flickering without pause.
Scene after familiar scene leapt from his mind.
“This period… why does it seem like something from a Primordial World story?”
“The Fire God Zhurong and the Water God Gonggong colliding with Mount Buzhou?”
“No, that’s not right. The timeline doesn’t match!”
“I remember that Simulation was already countless years after Journey to the West.”
“The subsequent Simulations were almost all like that too. Why is this one…”
“Could it be…”
A bold guess suddenly leapt into Lu Qingyang’s mind.
“Could it be that the world in the Simulation really is the real world on any timeline?”
“Taking me through the myriad worlds, and on any timeline?”
“No, never mind. Let me set an Anchor first! Something feels off!”
“Don’t end so suddenly again.”
Lu Qingyang murmured, speaking softly.
“Anchor setting!”
【Ding! Simulation Anchor setting in progress】
【Setting in progress, please wait…】
【Setting complete】
【Simulation continues】
【1702 years old…】