I have a cultivation simulator

[In your first year, you are seventeen years old, already a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and have mastered multiple skills.]

You have chosen to return the rented cave dwelling and leave the Immortal City.

Several days later, you disguised yourself with a new identity and re-entered the Azure Moon Immortal City.

The purpose of this move is to reduce unnecessary trouble.

[You have begun selling the large quantities of mid-grade and high-grade pills you previously refined]

[Azure Moon Immortal City is the largest gathering place for rogue cultivators in the Taiyuan Domain, with hundreds of thousands of rogue cultivators gathered here, most of whom are Qi Refining stage cultivators.]

The mid-grade and high-grade pills you sell are "hot-selling items" and of good quality, so you don't have to worry about them not selling.

After selling all the mid-grade and high-grade pills, you made a considerable fortune and began buying what you needed.

[First of all, there are second-tier pills used for the daily cultivation of Foundation Establishment cultivators. With only a low-grade spiritual root aptitude, without the help of pills after entering the Foundation Establishment stage, it is estimated that it will take decades to advance to the middle stage.]

However, you didn't buy many second-tier pills. You sense that you will become a second-tier alchemist soon.

Once you become a second-tier alchemist, you'll be able to refine second-tier pills yourself. The second-tier pills you're buying now are just for transitional use.

In addition, you also purchased many second-tier spiritual herbs and materials.

Beyond the simulation, Zhou Qing calmly watched the virtual font constantly change.

In reality, Zhou Qing had to carefully consider every move she made to prevent any unexpected changes.

But in the simulation, there's no need to be so careful, since Zhou Qing can start over in the simulation.

Of course, Zhou Qing cherishes every simulation opportunity, and even in the simulation, he would never deliberately seek death.

Having learned from the previous two simulations, Zhou Qing set two guidelines for himself in the simulation.

First, cultivation.

Focus on self-cultivation and breaking through realms.

After all, the cultivation level in the simulation can be inherited into reality.

Secondly, it is to live as long as possible to gather key information and intelligence for the future.

For example, in the previous two simulations, Zhou Qing collected key information and intelligence about the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm and Wushan Market.

These two pieces of crucial information were of immense help to Zhou Qing.

Without these, Zhou Qing would probably still be stuck in the Qi Refining stage.

In the world of cultivation, intelligence is of utmost importance. On a small scale, it can lead to a large fortune; on a larger scale, it can help one avoid harm and seize important opportunities in advance.

The virtual font continues to change.

Finally, you rent a second-tier cave dwelling with subterranean fire.

[Among the many cave dwellings in the Immortal City Cave Dwelling Area, those with earth fire are more expensive to rent than those without earth fire.]

With everything in place, you began your first cultivation journey after becoming a Foundation Establishment cultivator, taking a medicinal pill for the first time.

Within his dantian, thirteen drops of mountain and sea magic power slowly rotated.

The essence of Foundation Establishment level cultivation is to condense more liquid mana within the dantian.

Generally, a cultivator who has just entered the Foundation Establishment stage has nine drops of liquid mana in their dantian, while a cultivator who has reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage has ninety-nine drops of liquid mana in their dantian.

[Your cultivation of the "Mountain and Sea Manual" gives you a much higher quality mana than that of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators. Upon entering the Foundation Establishment stage, you already have thirteen drops of liquid mana in your dantian. After reaching the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage, you will have one hundred and thirty-three drops of liquid mana in your dantian.]

[One day later, you will finish your first cultivation session after taking the elixir.]

If you carefully sense the depths of your dantian, you will find that, beyond the thirteen drops of liquid mana, a faint vortex begins to form.

"My cultivation is still too slow."

You thought to yourself, at the current rate of cultivation, even with the blessing of the talent pill poison nemesis, allowing you to take pills frequently without any hidden dangers, it would still take about one or two years to condense the fourteenth drop of liquid mana.

This doesn't even include the time spent encountering bottlenecks.

The bottleneck is the main reason why cultivators are unable to advance further; many cultivators have been stuck at the bottleneck for decades.

"Azure Moon Pool!"

[Your anticipation for the Azure Moon Pool grows ever stronger; it is, so far, the only opportunity you know of that can permanently enhance your spiritual root aptitude without any hidden dangers.]

Based on the past opening times of Biyue Pond, the next time it will open will be in more than a year.

[After you finish your cultivation, you begin writing letters.]

The recipient of the letter was, naturally, the Zhou family, who lived far away in the mortal world.

In the world of cultivation, at the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages, communication is mainly handled by specialized messengers, spirit pigeons.

[If one reaches the level of a real person, there will be even more advanced means of communication.]

You wrote to the Zhou family in the mortal realm, firstly to inquire about their current situation.

[Secondly, to see if the channels for sending and receiving letters in the cultivation world are safe.]

In simulations, you have more room for error and can experiment more frequently.

In the letter, besides inquiring about your parents and siblings, you also specifically asked about Dachun.

In the second simulation, Da Chun displayed remarkable talent in body refinement.

Before heading to Azure Moon Immortal City, you passed on the "Mountain and Sea Body Refining Technique" to Da Chun and left behind corresponding cultivation resources.

After writing the letter, you began refining the elixir.

This time, the pill you want to refine is a second-tier pill.

You feel you can reach the second-tier alchemist level at any time, so you hope to give yourself a boost by refining second-tier pills.

[For this reason, you specifically purchased many second-tier spiritual herbs and materials.]

[As the earth fire burns, you continuously control its temperature, melting each second-tier spiritual herb into a medicinal liquid.]

Then, with the help of the intense heat of the earth's fire, all the impurities and residues in the medicinal liquid are expelled, leaving only the purest part.

Even up to this point, you still handle it with ease, without feeling any difficulty.

[Two simulations, over a hundred years of alchemy experience, plus the divine sense control of a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, allow you to easily complete the first half of refining a second-tier pill.]

[Next comes the process of condensing the core.]

Different second-tier potions need to be combined together.

This fusion is not a simple fusion, but a fusion at the level of medicinal power. Only in this way can the pills refined achieve an effect greater than the sum of their parts.

Many of the main and auxiliary ingredients in elixirs can be taken directly for their effects.

For example, the three main ingredients of the Foundation Establishment Pill are: Mysterious Yin Grass, Mysterious Yang Fruit, and Twin Flowers.

Consuming any one of these three directly can slightly increase the chances of Foundation Establishment.

However, by perfectly blending the medicinal properties of the three main ingredients together, and then combining them with corresponding auxiliary ingredients, the Foundation Establishment Pill can increase the success rate of Foundation Establishment by 15% to 25%.

[Much more effective than taking it directly]

Under your precise control, the eight medicinal liquids slowly blend together.

【"Um?"】

Your expression changed slightly, and you immediately mobilized your Foundation Establishment cultivation power to directly envelop the alchemy furnace.

The next moment, an explosion came from inside the alchemy furnace. If you hadn't suppressed it beforehand, the furnace would probably have blown apart.

You don't care that you failed to refine a second-tier pill.

[You never intended to succeed on your first attempt at refining a second-tier pill.]

[In the time that follows, besides cultivating, you will be trying to refine second-tier pills.]

Three months later, you finally succeeded in refining a batch of second-tier pills.

You have advanced to the second tier of alchemist.