Chapter 228: The Dragon-Beating Whip!
As the System prompt signaling the end of the Simulation slowly sounded.
Lu Qingyang let out a long breath.
“Phew… three hundred Simulation Points. This seems to be one of the few times I’ve broken past three hundred Simulation Points.”
Looking at the prompt marking the end of the Simulation, he slowly rose and stood at the center of the great hall.
This Simulation had been far from ordinary.
Neither the strength of the simulated world nor the events within it had been ordinary.
Even the final ending had been deeply meaningful.
And Lu Qingyang was in no hurry to choose his reward.
He first put the Simulation Points he had just obtained to full use.
“The longer the Simulation time, the more Simulation Points you get.”
“This time I was one year short of nearly two thousand years, so I only just broke past three hundred.”
“Normally I hover around two hundred. Feels like it’s roughly seventy-something every five hundred years.”
“Ah, what a pity. If it had been one more year, this time I might have unlocked a new System function again.”
Lu Qingyang stared at the Simulation interface, his gaze flickering.
Then he stopped letting his thoughts wander.
His mind lightly tapped the black plus sign after the ‘Fortune’ column.
“Upgrade, Fortune!”
【Ding! Simulation attribute upgrade successful】
【Fortune: Rank 20】
Only after finishing the attribute upgrade did Lu Qingyang begin sorting through this Simulation’s progress while studying the item rewards he could bring back this time.
“If I’m not mistaken about this Simulation, there’s a very good chance…”
Lu Qingyang’s lips pressed slightly together.
He seemed to be shaken by the bold conjecture in his mind.
His thoughts churned, and the expression on his face gradually grew excited.
A burning glint flashed across the depths of his eyes.
There’s a very good chance it was the legendary Primordial World!
If what the System takes me to are the real worlds on various timelines.
Then the start of this Simulation should have been the eve of the Dragon-Han Cataclysm in the Primordial World!
Only…
Lu Qingyang frowned in thought.
Given the System’s usual nature, how could someone with his current Family Background level possibly go to such a high-end world?
After all, that was the Primordial World!
A world of a far higher level than any Great Thousand Immortal Realm or even Daluo Heaven!
And the two giants battling later in the Simulation, the collapse of Mount Heaven.
That was very likely the legend from myth where the Fire God Zhurong and the Water God Gonggong smashed Mount Buzhou!
From this alone, Lu Qingyang grew even more certain that this Simulation’s world was the Return to True world!
Only, he could not figure it out.
Could the System have a BUG?
Lu Qingyang drew several deep breaths to calm himself.
“Forget it. Either way, it’s a good thing in the end. If I can’t figure it out, I’ll just leave it at that.”
“When I go to Return to True, I’ll verify it one by one.”
“Better to first look at the items I can bring back this time.”
“Things brought back from the Primordial World must be heaven-defying. I have to choose well!”
Lu Qingyang’s eyes lit up as he impatiently checked the names of the items he had obtained this time.
Reading from left to right.
“The Blade Horn I picked up… the first bring-back item to appear in the entire Simulation.”
“Only, this Blade Horn didn’t seem to have any use in the Simulation. There wasn’t even a single word describing its appearance.”
“Apart from making the me in the Simulation occasionally take it out to look at, it had no other use at all…”
“What exactly is it for…”
Lu Qingyang could not figure it out, and decided to look at the other items again.
“The Great Shaman Inheritance Art — needless to say, certainly a good thing.”
“In the Primordial World, after the Dragon-Han Cataclysm came the Great War of Shamans and Demons. The Twelve Ancestral Shamans fought heaven and earth, enough to be called a first-rate tier in the Primordial World.”
“Only… this Great Shaman Inheritance Art in the Simulation doesn’t state that it’s the inheritance of the Twelve Ancestral Shamans.”
Lu Qingyang’s guess was not without reason.
Who were the Twelve Ancestral Shamans? Although he had already stepped into the Human Immortal realm in the Simulation.
At the end of the day, he was still a nobody.
How could an inheritance like that of the Twelve Ancestral Shamans be picked up so easily by him.
It was probably nothing more than the inheritance art of an ordinary shaman cultivator.
“But even an ordinary shaman cultivator’s inheritance art is of great use to me.”
“My Dragon Awe and Dragon Body forge a body-tempering physique, but my body-tempering methods are still too limited.”
“Even though the Hundred-Life Demonic Stratagem of back then was improved by me many times, it still can’t keep up with my speed.”
“This one… I’ll set it aside for now too.”
After a brief moment of thought, Lu Qingyang placed this item temporarily on standby.
At present there were still two bring-back items left. One was that blood-red long whip.
The other was a Human Immortal-level Dragon Pearl.
“This whip appeared many times in the Simulation, and it even had detailed text describing it. Moreover, it is innately suppressive toward the Dragon Clan.”
“If I choose this item, I’m afraid a single lash could scatter the Demon Race Overlord Ao Ye’s soul to the winds!”
“As for that Dragon Pearl…”
“Its grade is quite high, but compared to the other few, it isn’t very precious.”
Having sorted through all the bring-back items, one by one.
Lu Qingyang still could not make his choice.
Mainly because there were too many things he wanted.
Even though Return to True still had one more chance, some things were not inevitably going to appear in Return to True.
If he missed this time, there might be no encountering them again later.
So he did not dare decide rashly.
But in the very next instant, something suddenly occurred to Lu Qingyang.
“Given the Simulation’s usual nature, some things and events will appear in Return to True no matter what.”
“So even if I don’t choose it this time, this kind of special and crucial thing will definitely appear again in Return to True.”
“Seen that way, this Blade Horn really does seem like that kind of crucial thing.”
Looking at the Blade Horn, which had no extra text describing it in the Simulation, yet accompanied him from beginning to end through the entire Simulation process, Lu Qingyang narrowed his eyes.
It was too obvious.
“Then setting this one aside for now, it comes down to a choice between two.”
“The Great Shaman Inheritance Art… if I go to Return to True myself, it’s not necessarily impossible to find a shaman cultivator’s art…”
“In that case, the only real choice left is this blood-red long whip!”
At this thought, Lu Qingyang no longer dawdled.
He immediately spoke softly.
“Bring it back! The blood-red long whip!”
【Ding! Congratulations, Host, on a successful bring-back】
【Item Name: Blood-Red Long Whip – Dragon-Beating Whip (Tier 3 Immortal Artifact/Damaged)】
【Item Origin: Obtained by chance while exploring a dangerous place in the Simulation】
【Item Analysis: The Dragon-Beating Whip was forged by an ancient divine general to counter the Dragon Clan. Because of its immense power the moment it came into the world, it was hated by the Dragon Clan. Thus, after they damaged it, its whereabouts became unknown. Who would have thought that after many years, this whip had actually been slowly repairing itself…】
【Item Tip: The Dragon-Beating Whip is innately suppressive toward the Dragon Clan. An ordinary Dragon Clan member who sees this whip will struggle to even bring out fifty percent of their combat power】
“Buzz buzz buzz!”
“Boom!”
As the System prompt sounded, the originally silent void abruptly trembled violently.
Immediately after, a terrifying pressure descended.
The aura was so overbearing that Lu Qingyang felt his whole body go rigid, as if his very soul were being immensely suppressed.
Lu Qingyang raised his head and looked over.
There, in the void, a mass of scarlet blood-light suddenly materialized, blood-red and surging like boiling fresh blood.
An instant later.
A blood-red long whip roughly a hundred meters long, covered in savage barbs and layered scales, abruptly materialized.
At the same time, a crisp System prompt also surfaced by Lu Qingyang’s ear.
【Ding! Return to True time has cooled down】
【Yes/No begin Return to True?】