One Trait Draw Per Year Even Simulations Count

Time flew by in the cultivation world.

In the blink of an eye, a hundred years had passed within Chen Yi’s simulation.

During these hundred years, Chen Yi had actually only spent half of his time cultivating on Ancient Cloud Mountain.

After all, it was impossible for anyone to go a full century without hitting a bottleneck or barrier.

Whenever his cultivation speed slowed down or stalled completely, Chen Yi would swap over to his “Mortal Bones” and “Low-Grade Bone Structure” trait set.

Then he would leave Ancient Cloud Mountain and wander the Vermilion Violet Star for experience.

Calling it “training” was a stretch, because Ji Wuqing insisted on tagging along every single time, turning every training session into her dragging him around for sightseeing.

Vermilion Violet Star had a far more developed economy and culture, offering countless places to visit and an endless array of bizarre entertainment options that dazzled the eyes.

Every time they left the Ji family, one other person would tag along: Ji Xiaosong.

Though he wasn’t exactly volunteering.

Ji Wuqing said she needed a lackey, and Ji Xiaosong ended up being the lucky winner every time.

And so, the three of them formed a little squad, roaming the mountains and waters, having a blast.

Ji Wuqing was having the time of her life, but Chen Yi was mostly in a daze, scouring everything he saw and heard each day for opportunities to comprehend Divine Abilities and adapt them.

Over this century,

Chen Yi’s true cultivation level had risen to the peak of Nine Rotations in the Core Formation realm. Under the influence of “Half-Emperor for a Thousand Ages,” Chen Yi was already an Extreme Terrain Realm cultivator!

Now, breaking through this major bottleneck with his true cultivation was proving quite difficult.

He could only quietly dedicate countless years to delving deep into the Dao of cultivation, slowly pondering the path to a breakthrough.

Looking back on his entire cultivation journey, Chen Yi felt that relying on his own insights to break through had a terribly low success rate.

He had never broken through any realm that way.

So, while traveling and training with Ji Wuqing, Chen Yi learned of a method that could directly break through to the Extreme Terrain Realm.

The Blood Exchange Secret Art!

By using a special set of formations, Spiritual Treasures, and pills in tandem, it would completely replace all the blood in his body ten times over. This would cleanse his marrow, refine his meridians, reshape the pathways of his Qi circulation, and shatter the bottleneck in one fell swoop.

To pull off this technique, two prerequisites had to be met.

First, the Core Formation realm cultivation had to be completely perfected.

Second, a cultivator who had comprehended a Divine Ability was needed to act as a guardian, using divine power to guide and stimulate the generation of divine power within Chen Yi’s own body during the blood exchange.

With divine power in hand, he would naturally reach the Extreme Terrain Realm.

Chen Yi figured that given his century-long friendship with Ji Wuqing, if he just brought it up, she would definitely be willing to lend him this small favor.

Over these hundred years, Chen Yi had comprehended three more Divine Abilities.

Wind-Riding: Controlling wind power for flight or acceleration.

Premonition: Having a foreboding sensation in the head or heart before an event occurs.

Pot Heaven: Having a world within a pot, capable of opening up small cave paradises or storage spaces.

After comprehending Wind-Riding, Ji Wuqing gifted Chen Yi two Divine Arts: “Ten Thousand Miles Wind Travel” and “Vicious Wind Force.”

The former could be used for flying, while the latter was an attack technique.

Premonition was the Earth Fiend Divine Ability related to Divine Sense.

Ji Wuqing also gave Chen Yi the corresponding Divine Arts, but Chen Yi didn’t use them. Instead, he adapted one himself and named it “Traffic Light.”

Chen Yi used the historical trait tag “Traffic Light” as inspiration, adapting the Premonition Divine Ability into a Divine Art that incorporated the effects of “Traffic Light” while also retaining the ability to detect with Divine Sense.

As for Pot Heaven, there were very few adapted Divine Arts for this ability.

Cultivators who comprehended this Divine Ability usually just used it directly as a storage item.

Although this Divine Ability could open up cave paradises, with Chen Yi’s current cultivation level, that was obviously impossible. He could only create a little bit of storage space.

Now, after mastering five Divine Abilities,

Chen Yi could clearly feel that the difficulty of trying to comprehend another Divine Ability had skyrocketed.

Ji Wuqing told him that although the more Divine Abilities one mastered, the harder it was to learn new ones, if he could raise his realm, the difficulty would drop somewhat.

This solidified Chen Yi’s determination to go through with the Blood Exchange Secret Art.

He had hesitated before because the Blood Exchange Secret Art was a transformation of his physique. Once he used it, “Mortal Bones” would no longer work.

Now he decided that having these five Divine Abilities in this life was enough. He would focus on raising his realm first and leave the comprehension of more Divine Abilities for the next life.

Besides, just because he didn’t have Mortal Bones didn’t mean he couldn’t comprehend Divine Abilities, did it?

It would just be slower.

Without raising his realm, it would be just as slow.

Furthermore, who knew how long this life would last? Having a thousand years of lifespan didn’t guarantee he would live a thousand years.

Raising his realm was the true way to secure something that belonged to him.

[Year 166, Age 190.]

[Extracting trait tags…]

[Triggered effect of “Luckier with Age”!]

[Extraction successful!]

[“What Is a Divine Mark?” (Golden Legendary):

Divine Mark? What’s that?

You are unable to master divine marks.

At the same time, you are immune to all effects of divine marks (including positive effects). Whenever someone uses a divine mark on you, they will suffer a backlash from the mark.

If I don’t understand it, it doesn’t work on me!]

[Adjust trait tag?]

[Yes / No]

“Alright, that saves me the trouble.”

In the simulation, a hundred years had passed, and Chen Yi still hadn’t found a way to learn divine marks.

With the Ji family’s massive influence, not a single person up or down the line knew any divine marks.

That was because the Alien Race did not allow humans to use divine marks.

Someone like Myriad Treasures Child Goddess had learned through underground channels. Chen Yi simply hadn’t found that kind of channel.

The main reason was that Chen Yi wasn’t all that focused on divine marks.

He already had Divine Arts, so whether he could use divine marks wasn’t that critical.

Now, with this trait tag, not learning divine marks was actually a good thing.

[You replaced “Chinese-Style Succubus” with “What Is a Divine Mark?”]

[After several years of scouring and purchasing, you finally gathered all the materials needed for the Blood Exchange Secret Art.]

[You began to go into seclusion to make the final preparations.]

[Year 167, Age 191.]

[“Triple-Origin Body Tempering Mystic Art” is a third-grade cultivation technique. When using “Proficiency” to upgrade it, the number of practice sessions required for each proficiency level improvement was extremely exaggerated.]

[So, even now, you had only raised it to the realm of Perfection.]

[That was still sufficient for your use.]

[With the Triple-Origin True Fire within your body, you successfully completed the refinement of the formation tools, blood exchange treasure, and blood exchange pills.]

[The “Celestial River Monthly Report” that Ji Wuqing gave you really was a good thing.]

[Every day, you would take a little time to read about the major events in the Celestial River local galaxy that were updated on it.]

[It wasn’t that you were curious about what was happening in the outside world, but rather you thought you might catch a glimpse of familiar figures in these news reports.]

[Great Demon, Li Wentian, Shen Yang, Sword Lord, Li Lingyue—none of them were easy to deal with.]

[If they made any moves in the Real Realm, it was likely to be newsworthy enough to appear in this Celestial River Monthly Report.]

[For example, a few years ago, you saw a report about a Second-tier Star called “Tai Lan Star” where all its residents had been slaughtered by a great demonic lord.]

[The entire planet had become a lifeless dead star.]

[The deaths were horrifying—all of them had been drained of their flesh and blood, leaving only skin and bones.]

[Due to the severe impact, the Celestial River Guard, under the Holy Dragon Society, had even dispatched a special capture team to investigate.]

[In the end, they still couldn’t catch that great demonic lord.]

[“Could that guy be the Great Demon?”]

[Since there were no photos or appearance records, you weren’t sure.]

[After all, the Real Realm was huge, and cultivators who used extreme methods to train were far from uncommon.]