【Year Sixty-Four, age ninety.】
【Everything was ready.】
【Same as the previous simulation.】
【The Ji family used the Spiritual Treasure, the Mysterious Heaven Disk, to send you to the Void-Passing Divine Altar, a divine object belonging to the Star Ape race, located in outer space.】
【Once you were in position, ten beams of light representing stellar system-level energy converged from all directions, gathering into the interior of the Void-Passing Divine Altar.】
【Then, all the light condensed into a single point within the altar and violently struck the void.】
【"Crack, crack, crack..."】
【A fissure appeared in the boundless universe, and on the other side of the fissure was a bizarre and chaotic Spatial Turbulence.】
【This turbulence engulfed you, and scenes from the various planes of the Void Realm flashed before your eyes.】
【Under the spellcasting of Sun Xiaosheng and the other Star Apes, the scene belonging to the human world proactively drew closer to you.】
【"Human world, I've returned!"】
【Looking back again, it all seems like a dream.】
【Looking back again, my heart remains unchanged.】
【After being away from the human world for sixty-four years, having stomped noobs in the Real Realm for sixty-four brutal, lonely years with no family or friends.】
【Now you were glowing with vigor, beaming with pride, truly wanting to go before those familiar faces and tell them what magnificent achievements you had accomplished in the Real Realm, to show off properly for once.】
【Li Lingyue, Elder Brother, Third Sister, Da Chun, Zhen Pin, Li Chengqian, Hua Wuyan, Shen Yue, Li Liushui, Dongfang Shuo, Wang Mingbai, Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Hong Luan...】
【The chaotic Spatial Turbulence around you came to a halt, and the scene of the human world appeared once more in your vision.】
【Blue skies and white clouds, green mountains and clear waters.】
【A shepherd boy tending cattle, farmers planting rice seedlings.】
【This time, the human world was safe and sound.】
【"Hiding the Five Element Root Vessels really worked. Either the Black Hand hasn't found the Qiankun Mirror and the others, or he's still searching. Either way, he's got his hands full."】
【On top of that, Chen Six had stayed in the human world this time. With him holding down the Void Realm, the Black Hand probably wouldn't act rashly unless he was absolutely certain of success.】
【"Boom!!"】
【A sonic boom rushed toward you head-on.】
【It was Chen Six. His Divine Sense had been covering the entire continent the whole time, so the moment you appeared, he came.】
【He flew incredibly fast, the space behind him shattering in his wake.】
【"My kin! You've finally returned! I did a quick divination and knew you'd come back this year!!"】
【Chen Six was so overwhelmed with emotion that tears and snot streamed down his face.】
【You snapped your fingers and withdrew Chen Six back into your body.】
【Since you were back, even if it was only a projection, there was no need for this imposter anymore.】
【"Report on what major events have happened in the human world over the past sixty-plus years."】
【"Basically nothing worth your attention. Mortals killing each other, cultivator factions fighting over territory. To you, it should all be like watching monkeys play house. Who wins or loses probably doesn't matter to you anymore, right?"】
【As expected of someone who had been to the Real Realm, Chen Six's perspective was simply above the other doppelgangers.】
【Indeed, no matter what happened in the human world now, it was unimportant to you.】
【Because you already stood at a higher dimension.】
【Who became emperor, how many geniuses the Holy Lands produced, what epoch-making invention the Shen family came up with, it was all just a splash in the River of Time to you.】
【Unless the human world itself was destroyed, that would count as a big deal to you.】
【"Then report on who has left the human world through the Path to Immortality over these years."】
【Chen Six began listing them off with practiced familiarity.】
【He had recorded this information very thoroughly.】
【Over the past sixty-four years, fifteen people had attempted the Path to Immortality.】
【Among them, six succeeded on their first try and entered the Real Realm.】
【Four succeeded after repeated attempts.】
【The remaining five gave up.】
【"Ten people went? That's not right. Those Ancient Wasteland Survivor bastards clearly said only Martial God Realm had a chance of passing the Path to Immortality. Has the human world really produced this many Martial Gods in recent years?"】
【"Not at all. Most of them were Martial Saints. There were only three Martial Gods, and two of them were Li Lingyue and Li Liushui."】
【Li Lingyue becoming a Martial God was a foregone conclusion.】
【With Chen Six watching over her, Li Lingyue had been sent to Hua Wuyan as a disciple.】
【With Chen Six's arrangements and Hua Wuyan's meticulous teaching, Li Lingyue's Faith Sacred Physique had been utilized at maximum efficiency, advancing to Martial God in sixty-plus years wasn't too difficult.】
【Li Liushui becoming a Martial God was also normal.】
【When you were just starting out, he was already a long-established Martial Saint.】
【This guy was simply a bit lazy. His talent was beyond question, possibly even higher than Li Lingyue's.】
【Probably in this simulation, seeing so many people go to the Real Realm, he got motivated, got serious for once, and then accidentally became a Martial God.】
【"Isn't it supposed to be extremely difficult for Martial Saints to pass the Path to Immortality? How did so many of them walk through?"】
【Chen Six smiled mysteriously.】
【"Guess?"】
【"Guess my ass. Just tell me!"】
【"Because of the Sword Lord."】
【"What does the Sword Lord have to do with this?"】
【"The Sword Lord left something at the entrance of the Path to Immortality, that bridge we saw. A fragment of sword intent."】
【"What's it for?"】
【"As long as you can endure the pressure of that sword intent, you can enter the Path to Immortality. The pressure of this sword intent is much less than the Path to Immortality's own pressure. But only those at Martial Saint cultivation can sense the existence of the sword intent. Martial Gods can't.
However, this sword intent isn't permanent. For every person who passes, a portion of the sword intent is consumed."】
【When you entered the Path to Immortality in the sixth simulation, although you were also at Martial Saint Realm, due to the effects of "Half-Emperor for a Thousand Ages," you were actually a Martial God.】
【You couldn't help but sigh.】
【"The Sword Lord's charisma stat is still too high. These people who entered the Real Realm at Martial Saint cultivation all owe the Sword Lord a favor. When they see the Sword Lord in the future, they'll probably worship him like crazy."】
【Among the ten people who entered the Real Realm, besides Li Lingyue and Li Liushui, there were others you were fairly familiar with.】
【There was also your Elder Brother Chen Jing, the old monk Zhen Pin, Shen family head Shen Yue, Free and Unfettered Holy Land's Chief Commissioner Dongfang Shuo, the Free and Unfettered Saintess Wu Yue who used your Second Sister's body, Great Qian Emperor Li Chengqian, and the human world's richest man and Wang family head Wang Yanbing.】
【"Hold on. Ten people went, and nine of them are people I know?"】
【"Honestly, you know the tenth person too."】
【"Who?"】
【"Limitless Sword Sect, Wan Jianyi! He's the third person in the past sixty-plus years to enter the Path to Immortality at Martial God Realm."】
【Mentioning this name, even with your "Photographic Memory," you had to dig deep into the sea of memories for a while to find it.】
【This person first appeared in the "Cauldron Quest Tournament" of the third simulation, a tournament held by the various factions of the Five Regions to compete for ownership of the Nine Provinces Cauldron. It was a platform competition where the younger generation of each faction participated.】
【Wan Jianyi was the champion of the Cauldron Quest Tournament, helping the Limitless Sword Sect obtain the Nine Provinces Cauldron.】
【Though the Nine Provinces Cauldron was later stolen by a mysterious figure.】
【"I remember now. At the end of the fifth simulation, he also inherited the position of Sect Master of the Limitless Sword Sect. He's a formidable character. No wonder he also advanced to Martial God."】
【Heroes under heaven are as numerous as fish crossing a river. This world never lacks geniuses.】

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