[Year 66, Age 90.]
[Extracting trait...]
[Triggering effect of "Luckier with Age"!]
[Extraction successful!]
["Venom" (Golden Legend):]
Hey, buddy, I'm gonna throw some dust in your eyes!
This trait takes effect immediately upon equipping.
Your inner darkness will be violently magnified, and you cannot actively stop it. Your actions will be driven by the desires of your dark side, not by your own will.
As they say, darkness makes you ten times stronger.
After darkening, you will gain a tenfold boost to all abilities, including but not limited to physical body strength, technique power, trait effects, and so on.
[Do you... crave power?]
[Adjust trait?]
[Yes/No]
"'Luckier with Age' is still on fire!"
The new trait "Venom" was undeniably powerful.
But the price was also steep.
In Chen Yi's view, the price he had to pay wasn't the "darkening."
As long as he didn't use it in reality, no matter how dark he got in simulations, no matter how many bad things he did, it could all be undone.
The problem lay in the phrase "not by your own will."
That meant, instead of diligently cultivating this year as planned, he might go out and try to conquer the world after darkening.
If he could actually conquer the world, that wouldn't be so bad. He'd get more resources.
But his darkened self probably wouldn't bother with hard cultivation. He'd be too busy enjoying the thrill of power.
For Chen Yi, who cherished every simulation opportunity, this was undoubtedly a waste of time.
However, Chen Yi thought of a good way to make use of this trait.
First year: Equip "Venom," darken for a tenfold boost, and take down enemies he couldn't beat before.
Second year: Unequip "Venom," stop darkening, return to normal, and do whatever needed to be done.
In other words, by exploiting the Simulator's absurd mechanics, he'd be out of control for at most one year.
This trait was clearly unusable in reality, because the darkening wouldn't stop on its own.
His darkened self definitely wouldn't willingly unequip this trait. That would be a disaster.
"'Venom' can't be used lightly. Let it collect dust in the warehouse for now."
[You chose Yes.]
[You replaced "Luckier with Age" with "Civil War God".]
[The day to depart for the Void Realm has arrived.]
[This day came later than in previous simulations.]
[The reason was that Sun Xiaosheng and the others, through you, learned the exact plane coordinates of their two princes in the Void Realm.]
[So, they needed to set up a projection with precise targeting.]
[This required more resources, and naturally, more preparation time.]
[When everything was ready, the Ji family used the Spiritual Treasure "Mysterious Heaven Disk" to send you to a location in space.]
[The Mysterious Heaven Disk looked like a giant flying saucer, capable of autonomous flight in space at considerable speed.]
[This place was very far from Vermilion Violet Star. Looking with the naked eye, the star appeared only as a tiny purplish-red dot of light.]
[In the deep void ahead, there was a massive inverted triangular pyramid-shaped altar.]
[On it, specks of fire flickered, and mysterious runes glowed with eerie light, flashing continuously.]
[Ji Baiming, Ji Wuqing, and dozens of Ji family experts at the Extreme Ground and Transcendent Realms were all inside the Mysterious Heaven Disk.]
[They had come both to see you off and to help you enter space.]
["Begin the spell!"]
[At Ji Baiming's command, ten Transcendent Realm cultivators encircled you and cast the same Divine Art on you.]
[Soon, a faint golden halo appeared on the surface of your body.]
[Ji Baiming spoke.]
["This is the Imperial Universe Shield. It allows you to move in a vacuum environment for a period of time. Now you can leave the Mysterious Heaven Disk and head to the projection altar."]
[You left through the exit of the Mysterious Heaven Disk.]
[The massive cosmic altar before you was brought by the Star Apes.]
[Reverse Engineering couldn't reveal its blueprint.]
[But its appearance clearly wasn't naturally formed.]
[This indicated that the Star Apes had simply taken a natural object, given it a rough polish, and then pieced it together.]
[Like a house in the city or a water vat—these things didn't count as cultivation creations, so Reverse Engineering couldn't discern a blueprint.]
[Still, despite the altar's simple appearance, it contained mysterious power.]
[This was the characteristic of the Star Ape race. They had no methods like artifact forging or pill refining, but they possessed ingenious techniques of their own.]
[You stood on the altar, waiting for the power to break through to the Void Realm.]
[Before long, you saw ten stars in the surrounding sky grow exceptionally bright. Their light even affected the area around Vermilion Violet Star.]
[Those were ten suns. They had been shattered.]
[Using treasures from the Star Ape home galaxy, the Star Apes detonated the suns, releasing terrifying energy, then concentrated that energy together and channeled it to the altar's location.]
[With the energy gathered from ten suns, amplified by the altar, a false gap to the Void Realm could be opened.]
[It was called a false gap because it only allowed one person's projection to enter, not a true physical entry into the Void Realm.]
["Are the Star Apes this powerful? Being able to so easily harness the energy of suns. I wonder what treasures they used..."]
[When a sun exploded, the planets around it suffered.]
[So, they had to find ten suns that didn't have planets carrying life.]
[Furthermore, even with the Star Apes' treasures, destroying a sun was no easy task. It required massive resources.]
[The consumption was astronomical, especially the Source Stones. Piled together, they looked like a small planet.]
[The various human forces on Vermilion Violet Star bled a lot this time, all for the chance to make friends with the Star Ape race.]
[Traveling to the locations of those ten suns took considerable time.]
[These ten groups hadn't set out recently. They had departed long ago.]
[Ten beams of fire converged from all directions.]
[They struck the cosmic altar simultaneously.]
[These energies were highly concentrated, with no leakage, so they caused you no harm.]
[A violent tremor came from beneath your feet.]
[You saw countless tiny cracks appear in the space around you.]
["Strong! They affected space in the Real Realm!"]
[On the Mysterious Heaven Disk not far away, a flash of golden light appeared, and Sun Xiaosheng emerged from it.]
[This monkey's cultivation level was unfathomable, probably beyond the Transcendent Realm.]
["Hehe! Kid, my two princes are in your care. We only brought one Void-Passing Divine Altar, so there's only one chance!"]
[The altar began to glow. Light gradually engulfed you.]
[Then, all the light condensed into a single point, violently striking the void.]
["Crack, crack, crack..."]
[A fissure appeared in the boundless cosmos.]
[On the other side of the fissure was a chaotic and bizarre spatial turbulence.]
[You entered this turbulence and saw scenes from various planes of the Void Realm.]
[These were time snapshots of all the planes, not necessarily showing the present moment, nor were they necessarily from the same time.]
[Among these scenes, one belonging to the human world actively moved closer to you.]
["Go!"]
[You dove straight in.]
[Return to the Human World!]

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