I have a cultivation simulator

Chapter 67 The Beast Tamer Arrives

Over the years, every few months, your family would send you a letter to let you know you're safe and sound.

You occasionally reply to my messages.

The letter you are receiving is mostly casual conversation, except at the end, it mentions that Zhou Wen's grandson, Zhou Hai, has been diagnosed with a mid-grade spiritual root.

Zhou Wen is your eldest brother, and your second brother is Zhou Wu.

Before you left, you left the Zhou family a cultivation technique and a method for detecting spiritual roots.

"A mid-grade spiritual root talent!"

[You fall into deep thought. The Zhou family bloodline inherits spiritual root talent, and this can be proven by your own experience.]

"Zhou Hai..."

[You might recognize this name; it's Zhou Wen's favorite grandson, whom he often mentions in his letters over the past few years.]

You close the letter, knowing that your family is asking for your opinion.

[You are the first cultivator in the Zhou family, so you must be more experienced than other members of the Zhou family.]

[Until now, the Zhou family has no idea about your true situation, let alone that you are already a Foundation Establishment cultivator, a guest elder of the Pill Hall, and the president of the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce...]

In your past letters to the Zhou family, you only mentioned things like the brutal competition in the cultivation world.

The reason you did this was to protect the Zhou family.

After all, in the simulation, you'll definitely prioritize your own interests and won't overly protect the Zhou family, nor will you leave them much of an inheritance.

[You will definitely sell all your treasures and resources in your later years to obtain rare treasures that will help you break through, or at the very least, inherit many skills and techniques into your body.]

After pondering for a while, you wrote a letter to the Zhou family.

This time, the recipient of your letter is Zhou Hai, the grandson of your elder brother Zhou Wen.

You ask the other person if they are truly willing to embark on the path of cultivation.

A cultivator with a mid-grade spiritual root has a slim chance of establishing their foundation.

In other words, 95% of cultivators with mid-grade spiritual roots will ultimately stop before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage and remain stuck in the Qi Refining stage for their entire lives.

[However, the lifespan of Qi Refining stage cultivators is not significantly extended compared to mortals.]

The competition in the cultivation world is brutal, and low-level Qi Refining stage cultivators are like leeks, who might die at any time.

From a certain perspective, cultivators in the Qi Refining stage don't necessarily live a better life than ordinary mortals.

This is also why many cultivators in the early and middle stages of Qi Refining go to the mortal world to enjoy pleasures.

If Zhou Wen's grandson, Zhou Hai, does not have a firm desire to seek immortality, you should still advise him not to enter the world of cultivation.

Rather than spending most of one's life in arduous cultivation only to die before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, it's better to enjoy decades of carefree life in the mortal realm.

Of course, if Zhou Hai's desire for immortality is unwavering, you might lend a hand.

[Secretly arrange a position for Zhou Hai within the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce]

The Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce is an organization you founded, and you also plan to sell it off and 'monetize' it in your later years.

[However, you are a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and you can live for more than two hundred years. If Zhou Hai cannot break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, he will probably die before your old age.]

If one can reach the Foundation Establishment stage, even without the protection of the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce, one will have the means to establish oneself in the cultivation world.

Arranging a position for Zhou Hai in the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce would be a piece of cake for you.

......

After sending the letter, you stroked your chin.

"Da Chun... isn't dead yet..."

You took out the drop of essence blood left behind by Da Chun, cast a spell to sense it for a while, and your expression became strange.

Thirty-four years ago, Da Chun disappeared deep in the You Mountain. You visited the You Mountain many times, and you speculate that Da Chun must have encountered a fortuitous opportunity.

Every few years thereafter, you would use your essence and blood to assess Da Chun's condition.

Even today, thirty-four years later, Da Chun is still alive.

[You know very well Da Chun's personality; once he gains his freedom, he will definitely return to the Zhou family to report the news.]

The fact that there is still no trace of him indicates that Da Chun is still trapped.

"I wonder how Da Chun's cultivation of the 'Mountain and Sea Body Refining Technique' has progressed after all these years..."

[You are quite curious about the Mountain and Sea Sect's "Mountain and Sea Body Refining Technique," which leans towards the ancient body cultivation lineage and provides comprehensive tempering of the physical body.]

The cultivation process is extremely difficult.

Once you reach the Foundation Establishment stage, each breakthrough requires facing a heavenly tribulation.

This is also the root cause of the decline of the ancient body cultivation lineage.

Within the Qi Refining system, the Inner Demon Tribulation only occurs when one breaks through from the Core Formation stage to the Nascent Soul stage.

[Ancient body cultivators, starting from the Foundation Establishment stage, had to face the test of heavenly tribulations, especially from Foundation Establishment to Core Formation... The vast majority of ancient body cultivators died because of this.]

In the current cultivation world, pure ancient body cultivators are extremely rare; the vast majority are like you, cultivating both body and qi.

"My 'Mountain and Sea Body Refining Technique'... should be about to enter the fourth level..."

[Examine yourself]

[The first to third levels of the "Mountain and Sea Body Refining Technique" correspond to the early, middle, and late stages of Qi Refining.]

The fourth level is comparable to a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator.

[The fourth level of the "Mountain and Sea Body Refining Technique" is enough to rival a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator with just the physical body.]

[In this simulation, your starting point is already the third level of the "Mountain and Sea Body Refining Technique"]

Now, forty or fifty years later, it's still the third level.

It's easy to imagine how difficult it was for the ancient body cultivation lineage to cultivate.

......

[Two weeks later, you stand in the courtyard, carefully examining the Dark Demon Eagle.]

At this moment, the Dark Eagle spread its wings, which were nearly ten feet long. Its jet-black wings faintly absorbed the light from all directions.

The Black Wind Eagle is a wind-type monster, a dark magic eagle that combines both dark and wind elements.

Dark-type demonic beasts excel at concealment, and the Dark Demon Eagle is no exception. A mature Dark Demon Eagle can not only distort the surrounding light, but also distort divine sense.

"From the peak of the first-tier superior grade to the second-tier grade, it's all happened within the last few years..."

[What you're thinking]

You plan to continue nurturing the Dark Eagle for another sixty years before selling it.

[Sixty years later, given the Dark Demon Eagle's growth rate, it will reach the second-tier high-grade level, comparable to a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.]

That will be the Dark Eagle's peak moment.

[A high-grade Earth-level bloodline, coupled with second-tier superior-grade strength, represents the peak of its value.]

"Little Black, whether your master can form his core depends on you..." you thought to yourself as you looked at the Dark Demon Eagle.

To ensure a high success rate, cultivators who have reached the Foundation Establishment stage and wish to advance to the Core Formation stage naturally need to utilize certain Core Formation-related spiritual items.

Nowadays, most Core Formation spiritual items on the market cannot be bought with spirit stones; they are obtained through barter.

For example, more than ten years ago, you used your precious body, like Ye Feng's, to exchange for a main medicinal herb for Core Formation.

[Your expectations of the Dark Eagle are the same now.]

[Hoping to exchange a Core Formation spiritual item for a top-tier Earth-grade bloodline demon beast in its prime]

【"Owner......"】

Just then, the maid Chunhua entered. "The cultivators from Beast Taming Mountain wish to visit you..."

【"Yu Beast Mountain?"】

You shift your gaze from the dark eagle, a slight thought stirring within you.

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P.S.: The next chapter is delayed; it will probably be posted around 8 or 9 PM tonight.