Simulation of the Heavens: Starting from the Age of Desolation

Chapter 148: Simulation of the Devouring Star World

In the world of Desolate Era, Zhou Yu, who was about to go into seclusion, soon opened his eyes in surprise.

"Another simulation opportunity?" Zhou Yu thought to himself.

After killing Huo Yu Daojun last time, he felt that the next simulation opportunity was very close, but he didn't expect it to be this close. During this period, he only automatically absorbed the source energy and made up for the last missing parts.

"Since that's the case, let's simulate it." Zhou Yu didn't think much of it and immediately chose to start the simulation.

[Extracting the simulated world.]

[Extraction successful, target world, Devouring Star World! ]

[Extracting initial talent——]

[The extraction was successful. Please choose from the following three talents.]

【I. Strange Life Form – You will be born in some abnormal life form】

[II. Dual Thinking – You are born with two distinctly different thinking abilities]

[Part Three: The Child of Miracles – In dire circumstances, you are more likely to create miracles]

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"These three talents..."

Zhou Yu frowned slightly as he looked at the three talents.

I don't know what kind of abnormal life form the first talent mentions. Is it a special life form?

Moreover, if the simulation is successful, what would be the effect if this talent were manifested in him personally?
As for the second talent, it seems easy to understand. It's not simply about using your mind to do two things at once, but about completely splitting your thoughts into two separate things that don't interfere with each other. For example, if you use one thought to comprehend the ultimate spacetime Dao and another thought to comprehend the ultimate array Dao, you don't have to worry about the two affecting each other.

"But I'll pass on this talent." Zhou Yu quickly shook his head in his heart. This talent sounded like it divided him into two parts, which made Zhou Yu subconsciously reject it.

Moreover, even when he didn't have this talent, he decided to pursue two ultimate paths simultaneously, which shows that he had a certain level of confidence and that he didn't necessarily need this talent.

The final talent, number three, had appeared before, but Zhou Yu did not choose it.

To be fair, this talent effect should be very strong, but the triggering conditions are quite demanding.

"Talent One, or Talent Three?" Zhou Yu pondered to himself.

A moment later, Zhou Yu made his decision.

Talent 1.

Zhou Yu made his choice in a flash.

He decided to take another gamble. Although this talent seemed useless to him in reality, Zhou Yu understood that there was no such thing as a useless talent; it was just manifested in other forms at most.

Just like the "born extraordinary" talent in the past, which attracted the attention of a certain being at birth in the simulation and manifested in him, it is always in effect but the effect is weaker.

Soon after Zhou Yu chose his talent, more text appeared.

[This simulation spans a trillion epochs. After a trillion epochs, different levels of talents will be available based on your growth level.]

"Ok?"

Zhou Yu was slightly startled when he saw this line of text.

Instead of letting him choose a simulation level, they set a growth time and determined the reward level based on the final level he reached.

"Choosing this special talent has led to such a change?" Zhou Yu was amazed.

At this moment, the simulation began.

[One day, more than three million years after you transmigrated, you, who were in seclusion cultivating within the Black and White Academy, suddenly felt the world spinning and time and space distorted.]

Your consciousness entered a special place, where you seemed to experience an endless expanse of time, receiving countless pieces of information in a dazed state.

[In a dimly lit place, you hatch from a dark cocoon. You already realize that you have transmigrated again. At this moment, you feel yourself, and you possess an incomparably terrifying power, so much so that you could probably kill your pre-transmigration self with a single breath.]

You soon discover that your appearance is now incredibly ugly, your entire body is pitch black, and you have two single-eyed heads.

[You finally understand. You've transmigrated into another world, the Devouring Star World, and you're just an ordinary first-tier world beast. You were born at the same time as 999,999,999 other world beasts, totaling one billion world beasts. You'll be fighting each other to determine the final world beast king.]

Although you feel some resistance to becoming such an ugly life form, you comfort yourself that at least you're better off than a wandering immortal who wouldn't live much longer. Although becoming a realm beast comes with many restrictions, you understand that it's too early for you to think about those things now. Your primary goal is to survive.

At this point, you choose: 1. Take the initiative. 2. Lie low and observe.

"It actually became a World Beast?"

Zhou Yu frowned slightly as he looked at the simulation.

No wonder he wasn't given the choice of cultivation level in the end. A billion world beasts are born as true gods, which means they are at the level of the strongest beings in the universe.

If he had a choice in the simulation and chose to become a true god, wouldn't the simulation end as soon as it began?
As for whether having a World Beast clone is good or bad, Zhou Yu couldn't judge for the time being.

The key is that overthinking is useless; the simulation has already begun.

"Take the initiative."

After thinking it over, Zhou Yu decided to take the initiative.

Although the Beasts of the Realm are beings born at the level of True Gods, they rely more on the supreme rules for their existence, and are themselves blank in every aspect.

In contrast, he in the simulation has memories of his past life, which gives him a slight advantage. However, given the powerful learning abilities of the world beasts' souls over time, this advantage will likely be quickly negated.

After careful consideration, you decided to take the initiative.

[A billion world beasts can sense each other's locations. You locate one of them using your senses and then use your innate teleportation ability to quickly get there.]

[Soon, the other party noticed your approach. You realized that this Beast of Realms had no intention of fighting and was also teleporting away. The teleportation distances were about the same for you, and you knew that if you continued to chase, you would never catch up with it. So you had no choice but to give up and turn to the next Beast of Realms.]

After searching through five realm beasts, you finally found one willing to fight you. Sensing your approach, it teleported to your side.

You met soon after. The Beast of Realms told you that he named himself Blood Eyes, and he also asked for your name. You told him that your name was Qian Yu. He told you that you would be his first prey on his path to becoming the King of Beast Realms, and that he would remember your name forever.

You didn't waste any words, you took action.

[You two realm beasts are similar in ability and quality in all aspects. You also know that each realm beast has the ability to split into multiple parts to escape, so killing the other is not easy.]

[This battle was fierce and chaotic. You used some tactics and finally killed Blood Eye, successfully absorbing his energy.] [However, before dying, Blood Eye unwillingly revealed the tactics you used to all the other Realm Beasts. This is an ability that all Realm Beasts possess. You understand that you can no longer use the same trick against other Realm Beasts in the future.]

Without the slightest hesitation, you continued your attack on the other world beasts.

Meanwhile, battles broke out in other places as well, and news of the killing of Realm Beasts kept coming in. Realm Beasts often shared their experience before they died, and the entire Realm Beast group was growing at an extremely fast pace.

[You know in your heart that you must act quickly. Although most of the Realm Beasts are unwilling to fight you and will leave as soon as you get close, the newly born billion Realm Beasts are still too dense. You choose a direction with extremely dense Realm Beasts and keep teleporting. Finally, you encounter the second Tier 1 Realm Beast. However, you also sense that there are several Tier 1 Realm Beasts lurking nearby.]

At this point, you choose: 1. Take action. 2. Leave temporarily.

"I'll leave for now." After thinking it over, Zhou Yu decided to leave temporarily.

Although he has already devoured one of his own kind in the simulation, he doesn't have a significant advantage in strength, and the risk of taking action would be too great.

In fact, this simulation can be successful as long as one survives for a trillion epochs.

Although the higher the level, the better the rewards, the most basic requirement is to stay alive; if you die, you lose everything.

[You relentlessly search for prey, and before you know it, tens of millions of epochs have passed.]

[You relied on the advantage you established at the beginning and continued to expand it. The number of World Beasts that have died at your hands has reached twenty. Although they were all ordinary first-tier World Beasts, it has brought you closer and closer to becoming a second-tier World Beast.]

At this moment, you suddenly sense a World Beast approaching you. It is a World Beast named Blood Demon, and it is among the most powerful in the current World Beast horde, with a kill count comparable to yours.

[At this moment, you also receive a telepathic message from the Blood Demon, who invites you to fight him. The one who survives will become a second-tier World Beast, surpassing all other World Beasts, and will have a great chance to become the King of World Beasts.]

At this point, you choose: 1. Agree. 2. Refuse.

"reject."

After considering it, Zhou Yu refused.

You chose to refuse, and you left quickly. The Blood Demon cursed you as a coward, but there was nothing he could do.

[You continue hunting other Tier 1 Beasts]

Not long after, you suddenly receive news that the Blood Demon has been killed by another World Beast, Bedy.

[You understand that Blood Demon must have gone to fight Bedy again, and ended up being killed.]

[Bedi became a second-tier World Beast, and his strength increased dramatically. He began hunting powerful first-tier World Beasts, and you were among them. Fortunately, the teleportation ability of second-tier World Beasts did not change significantly, so Bedi was mostly able to kill ordinary first-tier World Beasts.]

After Brady reached the second tier, over the next tens of millions of epochs, more second-tier world beasts were born one after another, and you were one of them.

[You, the earliest batch of second-tier world beasts, relied on your superior strength to hunt down other first-tier world beasts. The first-tier world beasts weren't stupid either; they weren't willing to wait to die, so they gradually began to kill each other as well.]

[Ten billion epochs after the birth of the Realm Beasts, in the Dark Land, first-tier Realm Beasts were already rare, and almost all Realm Beasts had reached the second tier.]

On average, one second-tier world beast is born from thirty-three first-tier world beasts, but at this time there are only twenty-five million world beasts remaining, because some powerful second-tier world beasts have devoured more first-tier world beasts.

The once fierce battle in the dark place had gradually subsided, and the area was now quiet.

The second-tier world beasts each possess a blood-burning secret technique that can increase their strength by two levels, making them far more troublesome than first-tier world beasts. Fighting each other is also very risky, so the world beasts will not easily engage in battles again. They will only make a move when the opportunity is right.

At this point, you choose: 1. Rely on your previous advantages to continue hunting at a high frequency. 2. Refine yourself while hunting.

"Let it settle down."

Zhou Yu pondered for a moment before making his choice.

[You now realize that you are gradually falling behind, and if you continue killing like this, your chances of becoming the King of Beasts are slim.]

While you're hunting, you're also considering what advantages you have that will make you stand out.

You quickly remembered your past life as a cultivator. This world also allows for cultivation. Although your current environment doesn't provide the conditions for cultivation, you understand that it's not impossible. You decide to think of a way.

You searched the entire dark land but couldn't find an opportunity for cultivation. Gradually, you turned inward. You were born with the ability to teleport and possessed various skills, all originating from the "boundary" within your body. Your consciousness immersed itself in the boundary, and relying on the powerful soul of the boundary beast, you slowly found some traces of the rules operating within it.

[You quickly realize that those are the laws of this world. As the darlings of destruction, the Beasts of the Realm are naturally averse to other paths. However, the laws are merely the foundation and do not hinder your comprehension.]

As you comprehend the realm within your body while hunting other realm beasts, you gradually discover some combat techniques. This makes hunting other realm beasts much easier. Although you never fight against realm beasts of the same level, you haven't fallen too far behind.

[After billions of epochs of birth, the World Beasts once again became the first Tier 3 World Beast, and you are still among the Tier 3 World Beasts that were born afterward.]

Compared to second-tier world beasts, third-tier world beasts have the greatest increase in their ability to escape. Although they are stronger than second-tier world beasts, the difference is not that great. Therefore, the balance of the Dark Land has not been broken, and the world beasts still only hunt and fight once in a long while.

[After becoming a third-tier world beast, your ability to survive has greatly increased. In addition, you have maintained your own style and never fight with other world beasts of similar strength, so you have been living a very stable life.]

[Trillion epochs passed by easily, and you ultimately became nothing more than a third-tier world beast, but you successfully survived.]

[Simulation successful]

"Success?"

Zhou Yu looked at the simulation content, but he was not surprised. His choice in the simulation was always to play it safe, and with the advantage he had established at the beginning, success was not surprising.

"Overall, this simulation wasn't too difficult, but I don't know what I'll gain from it," Zhou Yu thought to himself.

At this moment, a flood of memories also entered his mind.

These memories were monotonous, and Zhou Yu didn't find them difficult to digest and absorb.

But he also understood that, in the simulation, he was still influenced by his identity as a Beast of the Realm.

When it was weak, it never left the dark place. Later, it became a third-tier world beast. Logically speaking, it was already hard to find an opponent in the cosmic sea, but it never thought of leaving to take a look.

"Fortunately, my willpower is strong enough now, so this effect doesn't really affect me," Zhou Yu thought to himself.

Soon, he understood what the simulated talent manifested in him.

"A chance to be reincarnated?" Zhou Yu understood. He could also choose to have one of his clones commit suicide and be reincarnated.

Moreover, this reincarnation is not an ordinary reincarnation, but rather a random reincarnation into an abnormal life form.

Furthermore, if he discovers a nascent being that meets certain criteria, he can designate a specific avatar to be reincarnated there.
"This talent is really strong."

Zhou Yu was amazed. In every world, there are special beings who are born countless levels above ordinary life. If they were to be reincarnated into those worlds, what would happen?

P.S.: I'll think about the rest of the content later. That's all for today.

(End of this chapter)