Chapter 1 – I Bound a Cultivation Simulator

Great Xia, Capital City.

Capital Vocational Academy, the nation’s premier institution of higher learning. A certain male dormitory.

【Ding~】

A sudden sound appeared in Su Xing’s mind.

Su Xing, who had been packing his gear and preparing to run dungeons for gold, froze in place.

“Who? Who’s playing tricks?”

Su Xing scanned the empty dormitory but found nothing out of the ordinary.

Then, a series of sounds echoed through his mind in rapid succession.

【Life Simulator binding in progress…】

【Binding successful!】

【Host: Su Xing】

【Age: 21】

【Class: cultivator】

【Simulation attempts: 1】

【Energy: 100】

【Description: The Life Simulator will simulate your future based entirely on your developmental trajectory in the real world. After each simulation, you will receive partial rewards. Each simulation consumes a certain amount of energy. Simulation attempts refresh once per week.】

Su Xing rubbed his eyes, staring in disbelief at the virtual panel before him.

Two lines of text promptly appeared on the panel.

【Begin simulation?】

【Yes】【No】

Looking at the panel, Su Xing’s eyes instantly reddened.

“Three years! Do you have any idea what these three years have been like for me?”

“Damn it, I thought this transmigrator was never going to get a cheat!”

That’s right—Su Xing was a transmigrator who had crossed over into this wondrous world three years ago.

Unlike the Earth of his previous life, this was a world where games had descended upon reality.

Monster beasts, magical creatures, secret realm dungeons, props and equipment—an endless stream of them…

Even more miraculous was that every person could undergo a class change at the age of eighteen, becoming a Class User. Killing dungeon monsters granted experience points, allowing one to grow stronger.

Three years ago, the freshly transmigrated Su Xing had awakened the sole hidden class: cultivator!

The news had rocked the entire capital at the time, and Su Xing was immediately recruited via special admission into one of the nation’s top institutions—Capital Vocational Academy!

At first, Su Xing’s performance was indeed outstanding. Leveraging the cultivator class’s formidable physical attributes, he quickly distinguished himself among the new students.

But soon, Su Xing discovered a fatal problem—he couldn’t level up!

Other Class Users earned experience point rewards after killing dungeon monsters.

Yet no matter how hard Su Xing worked at grinding monsters, he couldn’t gain even a single point of experience.

And so three years passed.

Now a fourth-year student, his classmates had grown one by one from Bronze rank to Silver rank, Gold rank, and even higher…

While he remained that same insignificant first-layer Qi Refinement cultivator.

But Su Xing refused to accept his fate. He searched frantically for any method that could help him level up, and finally found something.

Body tempering!

If he couldn’t refine qi, then he would temper his body!

So Su Xing threw himself into running dungeons, farming equipment and selling it for money, even taking first-year freshmen into dungeons to power-level them.

He then used the money he earned to purchase dungeon props that could strengthen his physique.

After a full three years, he finally went from first-layer Body Tempering to a sixth-layer Body Tempering cultivator.

Sixth-layer Body Tempering—strength reaching several thousand jin. Sounded impressive.

But his actual combat power didn’t even match a Level 30 Bronze strength-class Class User.

Still, Su Xing refused to give up, persisting in running dungeons for gold, boosting others, and continuously forging his body.

Scenes from the past flashed before his eyes. Heart pounding with excitement, hands trembling, Su Xing silently uttered:

“Begin simulation!”

【100 energy consumed. Remaining simulation attempts: none.】

【Simulation begins!】

【This talent draw is free. Random talent draw in progress…】

【Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained a white-tier talent: spirit root bearer!】

【spirit root bearer】: White-tier talent. Your roots are unlike those of ordinary people, enabling you to set foot on the path of immortality.

Su Xing stared blankly at this talent.

Could it be that the reason he couldn’t cultivate all these years was because he had the class but lacked a spirit root, making it impossible to advance his Qi Refinement realm?

Su Xing suppressed the doubts in his heart and chose to continue the simulation.

【In your dormitory, you awakened your cheat. You are very happy.】

【That afternoon, several first-year junior girls invited you to carry them through a dungeon for leveling. You gladly agreed.】

【You performed brilliantly in the Bronze-rank dungeon. After clearing it, you obtained several white-tier pieces of equipment and a reward of ten thousand yuan.】

【One of the junior girls was short on cash and wanted to pay through… other means.】

【You looked at the junior girl’s face, assessed her beauty and agreed.】

【The next day, feeling refreshed and invigorated, you began cultivating, only to realize you had no idea where to start.】

【You started searching online for Qi Refinement techniques and found a sensational technique called the ‘Pangu Heaven-Splitting Art’!】

【You were overjoyed and began cultivating it.】

【After a full day of cultivation, your cultivation level hadn’t improved at all, and you nearly gave yourself internal injuries from going off-track.】

【Undeterred, you continued cultivating day and night.】

【One month later, your Qi Refinement cultivation was still at the first layer.】

【You finally understood—the cultivation techniques on the internet were all fake!】

【So you began spending large sums to acquire cultivation techniques, only to end up with a pile of cheap knockoffs that could’ve been bought for nine yuan and ninety-nine fen with free shipping.】

【Left with no choice, you could only continue tempering your body.】

Seeing this, Su Xing’s heart sank halfway. Without cultivation techniques, how was he supposed to cultivate?

Su Xing sighed and continued the simulation.

【You didn’t give up. You tempered your body while keeping your ears open for any leads on cultivation techniques.】

【In your spare time, you frequently took first-year junior girls dungeon-leveling, earning money while also engaging in plenty of close contact.】

【Good times don’t last. Half a year later, that first-year junior girl broke through to become a Silver-rank Class User and cut off contact with you.】

【On a calm afternoon, the wind rather restless, you tracked her down.】

【You told her: ‘I thought that with what we had, we could talk about feelings.’ She told you: ‘It was just a transaction.’】

【Your pride wounded, you channeled your grief and anger into motivation, training hard for half a year. Your Body Tempering finally broke through to the seventh layer.】

【By now graduation was approaching. Your classmates had all become renowned Class Users, but you lacked the strength to graduate.】

【You were held back a year. But secretly, you were pleased—a new batch of junior girls had just enrolled, and you continued carrying them through dungeons.】

【Gradually, you became famous. Every freshman on campus knew there was a held-back senior who was an absolute beast at power-leveling newbies.】

【You reaped great rewards, amassing tens of millions in assets over just three years!】

Seeing this, Su Xing stroked his chin and murmured:

“Getting held back like this forever wouldn’t be so bad! At least there’d always be a fresh batch of junior girls…”

But then Su Xing’s expression changed.

【You thought life would just continue on this mundane path.】

【Unfortunately, because you failed to graduate for five consecutive years, you were expelled.】

【Having been expelled, you lost your greatest source of income. And due to your low strength, you could only scrape by in Bronze-rank dungeons year after year.】

【After painful reflection, you resolved to train your body with everything you had.】

【Over the next two years, you spent every last coin of your savings and advanced to the eighth layer of Body Tempering.】

Seeing this, Su Xing felt a bitter pang. He hadn’t expected Body Tempering to be this difficult.

He had spent three years going from first-layer to sixth-layer Body Tempering.

But his future self had taken a full seven years to go from the sixth layer to the eighth.

Su Xing steeled his patience and continued reading.

【Penniless, you had no choice but to return to your old trade, going back to the life of farming dungeons for gold.】

【You still had what it took. At eighth-layer Body Tempering, you swept through Bronze-rank dungeons unchallenged, amassing tens of millions once again.】

【One day, your parents told you that your younger sister, Su Nian’an, had died…】