133 – The Reappearance of the Red Talent! One Red to Rule Them All!
by spirapira【Furthermore, Xue’er also mentioned that in the past, a quasi-Emperor ventured deep into the Eternal Frozen Wastes to obtain pure Yin energy, which is considered the highest quality of Yin energy in the Purple Spirit Realm, to cultivate their progeny.】
【You listened to Xue’er’s explanation, although shocked, you weren’t surprised. You had already anticipated this.】
【However, while you had anticipated it, you were also aware of how perilous it is to venture deep into the Eternal Frozen Wastes. Not to mention that you are merely at the Great Perfection of the Profound Elixir Realm; even a mighty figure at the Life and Death Realm might perish in there. On the periphery, it’s impossible to find the high-quality Yin energy you need.】
【To be precise, even the slightly deeper outer regions are beyond your reach. Entering them at the Profound Elixir Realm would easily lead you into danger and death. Even though you are not an ordinary Profound Elixir Realm cultivator, you still don’t believe you could remain unscathed in such a special location.】
【Ultimately, you sighed and decided to give up on venturing deep into the Eternal Frozen Wastes. Now that you have become Xue’er’s Dao companion and the father of her unborn child, you must take responsibility for both of them.】
【Seeing you give up on venturing deep into the Eternal Frozen Wastes, Xue’er also heaved a sigh of relief, feeling touched and affectionate. In this regard, you two had a wonderful time together.】
【Not long after, after careful consideration, you decided to join the Profound Ice Sect. For years, you have been gathering information. The Profound Ice Sect is a reputable righteous sect and has not suppressed or hunted the so-called ‘Sinful Blood Descendants.’ Furthermore, the Ice Palace has never been hostile to the Emperor of Judgement. You believe the Profound Ice Sect would accept someone like you who only possesses the ‘Profound Turtle Aura.’】
【As long as you join a power as influential as the Profound Ice Sect, second only to the Holy Land, the high-quality Yin-Yang energy you long for will be within reach. You could then easily break through to the Yin-Yang Realm.】
【As for whether your identity as a time traveler would be discovered, you have also pondered this issue. Ultimately, you recalled the powerful figure, Bai Ya. Since Bai Ya, a King Realm powerhouse, couldn’t see through your time traveler identity, it means he is not on the same level as the Lord of the Heavenly Sword and the Bloodthirsty Demon Lord.】
【You suspect that the Lord of the Heavenly Sword and the Bloodthirsty Demon Lord are both quasi-Emperor level figures. In other words, only those at the quasi-Emperor or Emperor level can discern your time traveler identity. And the ancestor of the Profound Ice Sect is merely a King Realm powerhouse and likely unable to see through your identity.】
【Thus, as long as the other party doesn’t mind your Profound Turtle Aura, you can remain safe and grow stronger within the Profound Ice Sect.】
【You shared your plan with your Dao companion, Xue’er. She thought your decision was correct. Although she would gladly be a carefree rogue cultivator, since you are a dragon among men and aspire to become a powerful cultivator, she would unconditionally support you.】
【Xue’er’s support makes you very happy. However, you have no immediate plans to head to the Profound Ice Sect. Because you’ve also considered the worst-case scenario. If the Profound Ice Sect truly becomes hostile to you, you would be left with no burial place. This is undoubtedly a gamble.】
【Therefore, you plan to stay by Xue’er’s side first, ensuring she safely gives birth to the child before you leave for the Profound Ice Sect alone.】
【Half a year later, Xue’er successfully gives birth to a child. You are overjoyed and name her Wang Yuxin.】
【Initially planning to go to the Profound Ice Sect after the child was born, you ultimately felt the child was too young and chose to stay with her, wanting to guide her in cultivation and wait until she grows up.】
【Time flies, and ten years pass in the blink of an eye. These ten years, your life is very fulfilling, dual cultivating with your wife, teaching your child Wang Yuxin to cultivate, and quietly comprehending divine abilities. You even comprehended the ice attribute’s realm to the Great Perfection level and created the prototype of an ice-attribute divine ability.】
【Through cultivation, you accidentally discovered that your strongest talent lies in the ice attribute, far surpassing other attributes. This is your greatest talent.】
【In this regard, you sighed in your heart, realizing you might have taken the wrong path before. Everyone has an attribute most suitable for themselves, but you never cultivated ice attribute techniques before. If you had cultivated ice attribute techniques from the beginning, you might have taken a different path.】
【Next, you plan to find a seventh-grade or eighth-grade ice attribute spiritual item to attempt to integrate the ice attribute into your physique. However, you deeply regret that the Wind and Thunder Technique couldn’t be optimized into the Primordial Spirit Technique back then; otherwise, this wouldn’t be so troublesome.】
【In the Eternal Frozen Wastes, ice attribute spiritual items are not scarce. After three days, you found an eighth-grade spiritual item in the vast icy land, intending to integrate it into your seven-attribute spiritual body. Unfortunately, you failed this attempt without the help of the Nirvana Fruit.】
【However, your luck was good, as you accidentally activated the Unstable Optimizer, allowing you to selectively optimize your spiritual body. You felt it was unnecessary to hesitate and chose to optimize.】
【Your luck proved excellent; you successfully optimized your spiritual body, becoming an eight-attribute spiritual body. Afterward, you sought some cultivation resources for your wife and daughter before returning home.】
【Upon returning, you found your home desolate, your wife Xue’er and daughter Wang Yuxin both missing. Angry and anxious, you used secret techniques to search.】
【Ultimately, you found nothing, as if they had vanished into thin air. You roared at the sky, swearing to dismember the culprit into five parts and burn their soul for a thousand years.】
【After venting, you calmed down, knowing that haste and anger were useless. Instead, you decided to earn more spirit stones to buy information from informants or join a powerful sect and use their intelligence network for the search.】
【You no longer hesitated and headed to the Profound Ice Sect, intending to join and grow stronger while using their intelligence network to find your wife and daughter.】
【Upon arriving at the Profound Ice Sect and expressing your desire to join, you caught the attention of the sect leader. The sect leader is a mighty figure in the Nirvana Realm; he detected the Profound Turtle Aura on you but did not sense any ‘Sinful Blood’ aura, so he did not reject you.】
【The sect leader appreciated you, considering you a cultivator with potential. As long as you swore an oath by your martial heart to never betray the Profound Ice Sect, otherwise suffering deviation and a gruesome death, he would let you become a disciple with the potential to strive for the sect’s lineage.】
【Without hesitation, you swore the oath to gain the sect leader’s trust, aiming to grow stronger with the sect’s help and find your wife and daughter.】
【Just as you swore, the sect leader’s attitude changed. He told you that your identity is sensitive and unsuitable for the public eye. If forces hostile to ‘Sinful Blood Descendants’ discovered you, it would endanger both your life and the sect. Therefore, he hoped you would join the Profound Ice Sect’s special agency, becoming a sharp blade for them.】
【You fell silent. Though you knew these old monsters were deep thinkers, and suspected they might change their attitude over time, you didn’t expect it to happen so quickly.】
【You have made your vow and need the assistance of the Profound Ice Sect to break through to the Yin-Yang Realm. For this, you chose to endure and agreed to the terms of the Profound Ice Sect’s leader.】
【Eventually, you joined the Dark Ice Hall of the Profound Ice Sect, handling some unspeakable tasks and simultaneously gathering intelligence, acting as a spy. You know that such halls exist in every major force. Where there’s light, there’s darkness—this is unavoidable. However, you never expected to become part of it.】
【Nevertheless, now that things have come to this, you remain silent, intending to earn more sect contribution points to exchange for high-quality Yin-Yang force and break through to the Yin-Yang Realm. You believe that as long as your status rises high enough, you will eventually find your wife and daughter using the Dark Ice Hall’s intelligence network.】
【In your tenth year in the Dark Ice Hall, you are on a dangerous mission. Completing this mission will earn you enough contribution points to exchange for second-grade Yin force.】
【Although it’s only second-grade Yin force, it’s already the best the Profound Ice Sect possesses. After all, the top three grades of Yin force are extremely rare. Only the Holy Land is qualified to gather first-grade, and the Profound Ice Sect might occasionally obtain it, but it’s something that occurs once in a millennium. Presently, they have none, and you can’t wait that long either.】
【Therefore, using the second-grade Yin force to break through to the Half-Step Yin-Yang Realm is the best choice. Moreover, even second-grade is something you risked your life to gather enough contribution points for—it’s not something to disdain.】
【Unfortunately, the world often goes against people’s wishes. Although you successfully completed the mission and flawlessly assassinated a Yin-Yang Realm cultivator from an opposing force, you didn’t expect another powerful Yin-Yang Realm cultivator to visit that day to see an old friend.】
【Having killed a Yin-Yang Realm cultivator across realms, you were already severely exhausted and heavily injured. Now confronted with an even more powerful Yin-Yang Realm cultivator, you were unable to fight nor escape, and were ultimately suppressed and killed.】
【Due to your death, this simulation ends】
“This simulation was truly unusual…Directly running from the Eastern Wilderness Sword Domain to the Eternal Frozen Wastes of the Central Continent. And surprisingly, without the influence of talents like ‘Flower Bandit,’ I actually had a Dao companion and even a child, which was quite surprising.”
Wang Ping’s eyes were peculiar as he muttered.
“However, I must say, Xue’er’s charm is indeed considerable…Ah, I really have no resistance to such gentle and lovely girls.”
What a pity, the law of doomed marriage holds, and he ended up dead again.
Of course, he’s just joking around. Wang Ping didn’t actually think that marrying was the primary cause of death.
In the end, every simulation ends in various tragic deaths; he’s used to it, whether married or not.
“Speaking of which, Xue’er and Wang Yuxin disappeared—who captured them?”
Wang Ping thought about Xue’er and Wang Yuxin’s situation again, frowning.
He always felt he might have the same fate as Ye Chen, a Fated Lone Star, causing trouble wherever he went.
Of course, this was just venting.
It can only be said that the people he encountered were too extraordinary.
Whether it was Ye Chen, Bai Tianhong, Bing Ningyue, or this Xue’er, none of them were ordinary.
“Could it be that they were taken away like Bai Tianhong? However, in previous simulations, there was no character like Xue’er. If she really were an heir of the Ice Empress like Bing Ningyue, she shouldn’t be so obscure.”
Various thoughts flashed through Wang Ping’s mind, but he couldn’t come to a conclusion.
At this moment, Wang Ping’s vision changed.
Obviously, Blue Talent · Unfinished Business was triggered.
However, this death replay had nothing interesting to watch, so it quickly passed, and Wang Ping’s vision returned to normal.
Then, the system’s voice sounded.
“Ding, reward generated successfully. The host can choose two of the following rewards:
①. Great Perfection in the Profound Elixir Realm.
②. Great Perfection in the Profound Ice Intent.
③. Combat Experience.”
“System, I choose ② and ③.”
After looking at the rewards, Wang Ping made his choice.
After numerous simulations, he never chose combat experience, but now it was time to select it and enhance himself.
Otherwise, he would only have cultivation and secret techniques but wouldn’t be able to fully utilize his combat power.
As for the Great Perfection of Ice Intent, that was also something not to be missed.
Of course, if there were other options left, Wang Ping would still not choose it.
There’s no need to discuss it more; choose it, and once the strength increases, the simulation cost will also rise, giving him headaches again.
As Wang Ping made his choices, his mind was filled with countless realizations.
There were combat experiences.
He also gained insights into the Ice Intent, which brought him significant gains.
“Continue simulating, I don’t believe I can’t get any good talents…”
Wang Ping thought to himself.
However, in the following simulations, Wang Ping was left speechless.
He conducted four consecutive paid simulations, spending 200,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones, almost depleting his savings, but didn’t get any useful talents. The highest was only green, which was simply ridiculous.
Moreover, all these white talents were all reckless death-seeking talents.
Things like Death Enthusiast, which would make him constantly seek death. Every time he seeks death, his cultivation improves a bit.
And Battle Frenzy, which loves fighting, especially crossing realms to fight.
And Calamity Physique, making him extremely unlucky.
These crappy talents were worse than having none.
Because of these talents, Wang Ping’s simulations were all wasted, with none surviving longer than five years before dying.
Luckily, he was able to refresh other reward options.
Things like cultivation, combat experience, techniques, and secret arts, or Wang Ping would have coughed up blood.
“Forget it, my luck is terrible right now. It seems like my good luck has run out, it’s better to wait a while before simulating again.”
Wang Ping, feeling somewhat exhausted, gave up on continuing the simulations.
…
In a blink of an eye, four months passed.
During these four months, Wang Ping earned some High-Grade Spirit Stones through alchemy.
But three months ago, he couldn’t resist simulating again, ended up with another bizarre talent, and died tragically, forcing him to choose the alchemist experience reward.
This scared him into enduring three months, trying to accumulate more luck first.
At the same time, the chat group went through significant changes in those four months.
The tasks in the chat group indeed became more frequent, making the group members complete tasks one after another.
Thus, the strength of the group members has been improving steadily.
Among them, Fang Yun improved the most rapidly, second only to Lin Yuanyuan who had once used a cheat.
Indeed, Fang Yun was ruthless enough and his Golden Finger strong enough.
With the Golden Finger, devilish training, resources supplied by Wang Ping, and group points earned from completing tasks, he forcefully grew to the Peak Spirit Sea Realm within four months, making Cai Yonglong exceedingly jealous.
According to this guy’s speed of improvement, as long as he gains more group points in the next group mission, he can purchase a Sixth-Grade Spiritual Item from Wang Ping and easily break through to the Spirit Embryo Realm, and then continue to advance rapidly.
Of course, Wang Ping hasn’t been idle these four months; he has participated in group missions too.
Plus, he can receive special rewards after other group members complete their tasks.
His group points have already reached two million, enough to enhance his Profound Elixir to the level of Flawless.
However, Wang Ping is somewhat reluctant to use two million group points for enhancement.
After all, he needs to collect ten million group points to optimize the Life Simulator; it’s more cost-effective.
So, even with enough group points, he hasn’t used them or consumed the Nirvana Fruit… just enduring it.
In fact, Wang Ping has always had a hypothesis.
If he breaks through to the Yin-Yang Realm and claims the cultivation rewards of the Yin-Yang Realm, could he possibly get the Flawless Profound Elixir as a freebie?
After all, in the simulations, Wang Ping later condenses the Yin-Yang Diagram with the Flawless Profound Elixir to break through to the Yin-Yang Realm.
Wang Ping thinks he can give it a shot and exploit the bug.
If it’s successful, he’ll be quite comfortable, saving two million group points and one Nirvana Fruit.
Perhaps, the saved Nirvana Fruit will have greater use.
“Four months have passed… My luck should be turning around, it’s time to simulate…”
Wang Ping gathers his thoughts and silently thinks to himself.
“System, I want to start a new Paid Simulation.”
Wang Ping’s eyes flicker as he makes the decision, and he speaks out.
“Ding, Payment Successful. Life Simulator activated, talents are refreshing. By the way, the host’s remaining High-Grade Spirit Stones amount to one hundred thousand, please take note.”
The System’s voice rang out, causing Wang Ping’s face to twitch slightly.
Dang it! Can you not mention that?
After so many unlucky draws, he’s poor again, but poor or not, the system shouldn’t be saying that.
“Ding, Talent Refresh successful. Congratulations, host, for successfully refreshing the Red Talent: True Dragon Form; Green Talent: Fist Path Genius.”
Red Talent: True Dragon Form: With this talent, the host’s physique and comprehension will match that of a Holy Land’s Holy Son-level character.
“!!!”
Wang Ping was astonished looking at the talents refreshed by the Life Simulator.
Good heavens, has he finally accumulated enough luck?
Or did he hit the guaranteed bottom? This time, the red talent appeared once again.
Moreover, it was the familiar Red Talent: True Dragon Form.
However, although the name of this Red Talent: True Dragon Form is exactly the same as the previous one, it’s evidently stronger than the first.
Because the first True Dragon Form only allowed him to rival the true disciples of the Holy Land. But this one… allows him to rival Holy Son-level figures.
And it’s not just purely the physique qualification that rivals Holy Son-level figures of the Holy Land, but both physique and comprehension together.
This Red Talent: True Dragon Form is much stronger than the initial one!
Thinking about this, Wang Ping became excited.