Simulation of the Heavens: Starting from the Age of Desolation

Chapter 90: Simulation within the Possessed Primitive Universe
The simulation continues.

Instead of rushing to show off your differences, you quietly improved yourself.

[Your cultivation manual was downloaded from the official website of the Starlight Human Empire. It's not exactly high-end, but after you practice it to a very high level, your speed of absorbing cosmic energy will still become extremely fast.]

At the age of 8, you broke through to the planetary level. This breakthrough greatly surprised your parents, but it didn't attract much attention. Outsiders just assumed that your parents had spent their savings to buy you some kind of treasure.

After breaking through to the planetary level, you find that your thinking speed has also improved significantly, which makes you quite happy.

Not long after, your parents took you to the local official agency for a star rating assessment. You had only seen online that different powerful individuals had star ratings, such as one star for cosmic-level powerhouses and two stars for domain lord-level powerhouses, and so on. It was only then that you realized that as long as one is talented enough, even a planetary-level powerhouse can have a star rating.

The star rating system is very professional; you are only paired with several intelligent robots after multiple tests and records are kept.

You still chose to keep a low profile and didn't make a big fuss. Faced with an increasing number of intelligent robots attacking you, you ultimately only lasted for one minute.

After you left the testing area, you were greeted with a look of surprise from the staff. They told you that your combat video needed to be reviewed by higher authorities, and that the results would be available soon.

Three days later, the local planetary chief personally came to your home to announce that you had become a Star-level Warrior, and only then did you realize that Star-level Warriors were indeed different.

You have obtained many cultivation resources and the qualification to log in to the 'Virtual Origin Realm'.

[The Void Origin Realm is a virtual world, and within it, there is no difference from reality. Any powerful individual can fight and battle within it. You feel somewhat surprised; it is clearly exactly the same as the virtual universe.]

[What will surprise you even more is that you will soon learn that the Void Origin Realm is not only inhabited by human martial artists, but also by numerous life forms from all over the universe.]

You suddenly realize that you have not traveled to the original universe you are familiar with. This is likely another original universe. The only thing that puzzles you is how someone in another original universe could have created the same secret technique as the 'Progenitor'.

[Your doubts can remain in your heart. You've learned more in the Void Origin Realm. It turns out that star-level martial artists must undergo an assessment every so often. The difficulty of the assessment increases progressively. Failing the assessment results in a demotion, while passing it ensures continued resource rewards. They can also proactively take on higher-level assessments, which, upon passing, elevate their star level. However, subsequent assessments no longer take place in reality but are all conducted within the Void Origin Realm. There are a total of 12 star-level towers, and each tower cleared increases the star level.]

[You soon discover that the Star-Level Assessment isn't just a matter within the Starlight Human Universe, but applies to all life forms in the universe. You find it unbelievable, wondering who set the rules that are accepted by the entire universe.]

[You know there's no use thinking too much now. Once you're back in reality, you'll use the resources you gained from passing the star-level assessment to continuously improve yourself.]

The assessment for a Planetary-level One-Star Martial Artist is held annually. After passing the subsequent assessments for several years, you gradually came to understand that the Star-level assessment is related to many factors, one of which is age. The younger you are, the greater your advantage.

[At 15, you broke through to the Stellar level, and your thinking speed improved once again. After passing the assessments for several consecutive years, you saved up a sum of money. You decided to move with your parents to Dark Dragon Star, which has a much better security. It is the core administrative star of more than ten star systems in the vicinity. In the legends of the Void Origin Realm, there is a terrifying 7-star powerhouse living in seclusion there.]

The local planetary leader tried every means to keep you here, which didn't surprise you. You had already learned in the Void Origin Realm that your staying would be a significant achievement for the planetary leader, bringing him benefits every year. But you still left.

After settling down on Dark Dragon Star, you have a safer environment to grow in. Your understanding of the martial artist star system over the years has made you realize that geniuses are treated favorably in the Starlight Universe Kingdom. You're starting to feel restless; you want to fully reveal your strength. At this moment, you choose: 1. Reveal your strength. 2. Continue to hide.

"Another primordial universe?"

Zhou Yu was also surprised at this moment. To be able to get all life in the universe to enter that Void Origin Realm and recognize the "Star-level Warrior" system was definitely not something that ordinary people could do.

"This universe is not an ordinary primordial universe," Zhou Yu realized.

"However, since the benefits of revealing our strength outweigh the risks, let's reveal it then." Zhou Yu quickly made his choice.

[You decided to stop hiding and entered the Void Origin Realm to challenge higher-level star towers. You easily passed the two-star tower, and the three-star and four-star towers were no challenge for you. The five-star tower made you feel the difficulty, but fortunately, you had the accumulation of knowledge from your previous life and already had a profound understanding of the laws of space. The moment you fully revealed it, you easily passed the five-star tower. You then passed the six-star tower and even the seven-star tower, but the eight-star tower was still too difficult. You failed the moment you entered it.]

The news of your success in conquering the Seven Star Tower shocked countless powerful individuals. In an instant, you received numerous invitations, and soon you also received a massive resource reward from the Starlight Human Universe Kingdom. It is said that this is equivalent to the entire wealth of a five-star powerhouse. You know that five-star powerhouses are generally extremely powerful beings among the immortals. You are glad that this resource was not directly given to you, but was distributed in the form of virtual currency within the Void Origin Realm. Otherwise, even if you lived on Dark Dragon Star, it would probably be very dangerous.

You quickly decided to find a backer for yourself. After carefully considering numerous invitations, you decided to join the official Starlight Human Universe Kingdom.

You have been taken to a secret realm for training, where you have come into contact with more advanced resources.

[You quickly reached the cosmic level, and you planned to attempt to become an eight-star martial artist. However, the difficulty of the Eight-Star Tower was too high. You had cultivation experience from your previous life, and your thinking speed far exceeded that of martial artists of the same level. But even after several years, you still couldn't pass the Eight-Star Tower.]

[You only learned after asking around that a normal eight-star powerhouse is generally already a universe master. For a genius to reach eight stars, if they don't show any aptitude to become a universe master, the difficulty of passing the Eight-Star Tower will be extremely high.]

[You understand that you must cultivate either the Law of Time or the Law of Fusion to reduce the difficulty of the Eight-Star Tower. Your choice is: 1. The Law of Time. 2. The Law of Fusion.]

"The Law of Time." Zhou Yu made his choice.

His talent in time management is actually quite good, but as for fusing with laws, that remains to be seen.

[You ultimately chose to comprehend the Laws of Time, and the Starlight Human Empire officially supported your comprehension, providing you with some assistance. You also used the resource rewards you previously obtained to purchase a considerable amount of resources.]

[You do have a certain talent for the laws of time. With the help of massive resources, you were able to get started with the laws of time without any problems, which relieved you. However, your speed of comprehending time is not very fast. You estimate that your talent for the laws of time is about the same as that of a four-star genius. Fortunately, you have a thinking speed that surpasses that of your peers, which makes your apparent speed of comprehending the laws of time seem equivalent to that of a six-star genius.]

At 25, you attempted to conquer the Eight-Star Tower once again, and you succeeded. However, you also know that this may be the only time you conquer the Eight-Star Tower for a long time to come, because your talent is not as extraordinary as it seems on the surface, and the accumulation of your past life cannot support you to continue indefinitely.

[The good news is that after passing the Eight-Star Tower, you came across a shop in the Void Origin Realm that is exclusively for martial artists of the "Eight-Star" level and above. It is filled with all sorts of heaven-defying treasures and even inheritances. You are certain that many of them are things that would drive even the Lord of the Universe crazy. You are absolutely stunned.]

You carefully examined all the treasures and realized that the resources you obtained from only clearing the Eight-Star Tower once were insufficient to exchange for almost anything. However, you were pleasantly surprised to discover that there were actually many dormant special life forms available for exchange.

You guess that these special life forms are specifically available for geniuses who have cleared the Eight-Star Tower to exchange for. However, some of these extraordinary special life forms are beyond your reach. Having only cleared the Eight-Star Tower once, you can only exchange for very ordinary special life forms.

[You understand you have no choice; you'll almost certainly never have the chance to conquer the Eight-Star Tower a second time in the long future. So, after careful consideration, you chose a special life form, the 'Heavenly Nether Tree,' with a genetic level 120 times higher. Although its genetic level isn't high, its size is large enough, and it possesses a clone-type innate technique. Although it can only nurture one clone, that's sufficient. Generally speaking, exchanging for this kind of special life form is equivalent to obtaining two special life form clones. You simply can't afford those special life forms that can nurture multiple clones.]

[After you exchanged for a special life clone in the Void Origin Realm, not long after, a powerful figure sent the dormant special life clone to you. You learned that the powerful figure came from a force called the 'Holy Origin Sect'. You understood that the 'Holy Origin Sect' must have an inseparable relationship with the entity behind the Void Origin Realm.]

[But you also understand that now is not the time for you to explore these things. Faced with a special life form that offered no resistance, you easily used a possession technique to take its body.]

After the Starlight Human Universe Kingdom learned that you had possessed a special life form with the ability to create clones, they opened a resource vault to you. Inside were the remains of various special life forms. After making your selection, you chose a special life form called the 'Star Soul Body,' which was adept at comprehending the laws of time and possessed a certain ability to transform.

[The Star Soul Body's genetic level is approximately 230 times higher, which is within the limits of its development. You quickly succeeded in its development, thus gaining two special life clones, one skilled in perceiving time and the other skilled in perceiving space. Your foundation has been greatly enhanced.]

[At 1025 years old, you have reached the peak of the Realm Lord level. You once again attempted to challenge the Eight-Star Tower, and as you expected, you failed decisively. Fortunately, you exchanged for a special life clone, and with your extremely fast thinking ability, you are still considered a genius. You can still challenge the Seven-Star Tower.]

[In the same year, you received news from a cosmic ruler of the Starlight Human Universe Kingdom who expressed his willingness to take you as his disciple. At this point, you choose: 1. Agree. 2. Refuse.]

"promise."

Zhou Yu agreed without hesitation.

You agreed, but when you went to meet that Lord of the Universe, you were somewhat surprised to find that he was actually the seven-star powerhouse who had been living in seclusion on Dark Dragon Star.

[However, it's not surprising that a Universe Lord is a seven-star powerhouse. As time goes on, the difficulty of the Star Tower gradually increases, and a powerhouse who doesn't improve over a long period will have their star level decrease. After all, each time you clear the Star Tower, you receive resource rewards, and these rewards can't be unlimited.] [After becoming an apprentice, you also learned a lot of information from your teacher that you didn't know before, such as that there are over 100,000 Universe Lords in the entire universe, and hundreds of powerhouses who surpass them.]

[You are shocked by the sheer number of powerful beings. Your teacher tells you that all of this is caused by the existence behind the Void Origin Realm. You are curious about what that is. Your teacher tells you that it is the will of the primordial universe.]

[You paused for a moment before realizing that this was definitely not the original will of the universe, but rather that some powerful being had possessed the primordial universe. You also understood that the incredible treasures and inheritances you had seen in the shop that was specifically for eight-star powerhouses must have been the work of that powerful being.]

[Your teacher told you that the will of the universe is striving to cultivate the strong. While providing massive resources, it also encourages fighting and strife. For any strong person above the level of a universe lord, in addition to improving their own strength and constantly challenging the Star Tower, another way to obtain resources is to establish a power and cultivate geniuses and strong people. For example, as a world lord-level genius who has challenged the Seven Star Tower, each time you challenge it, you can bring some benefits to the ruler of the Starlight Universe Kingdom. You may not be significant on your own, but if there are many of you, it will amount to a considerable sum.]

However, cultivating geniuses requires a sufficiently vast territory, which leads to extremely fierce battles for territory throughout the universe.

Furthermore, the will of the universe will also actively instigate various battles and conflicts, which will also lead to the deaths of many powerful individuals.

You were terrified as you listened, but fortunately, these things were still far away from you, and you weren't very strong. Even if you died, you could be resurrected by reversing time.

After you became an apprentice, you began a long period of accumulation at the World Lord level.

During this period, you must challenge the Seven Star Tower once every thousand years. Fortunately, you are currently in a period of rapid growth, and the difficulty of the Seven Star Tower cannot keep up with your progress, so you have maintained your status as a Seven Star Warrior.

[With two special life forms and an extremely fast thinking speed, you spent a million years at the Realm Lord stage, comprehending all directions of the laws of time and space. But you know that this is nothing; the real difficulty lies in comprehending the complete laws. You lack confidence at this point, but you also know that staying at the Realm Lord stage is meaningless, so you chose to break through.]

After breaking through to immortality, you joined an army of the Starlight Human Universe Kingdom under your teacher's arrangement. You fought there for nearly 500,000 years, battling against alien universe kingdoms and other human universe kingdoms. You are extremely powerful and have made many contributions, but at this time, your main way of obtaining resources is still by conquering the Star Tower.

At 150 million years old, you created the ultimate secret technique, and you chose to retire and return to Dark Dragon Star.

[Your teacher is quite satisfied with how quickly you created the ultimate secret technique, but you know that because your thinking speed is fast enough, the 5000 years after you broke through to immortality are at least equivalent to 50 million years of normal immortal cultivation.]

When you reach the age of 1000 million, your parents will reach the end of their lives. Unlike your last time you traveled through time, this time you will be completely alone.

You left the Starlight Human Universe Kingdom and began your cosmic wanderings.

[At 8000 million years old, after witnessing all sorts of strange cosmic phenomena, you finally broke through that bottleneck, comprehended the complete laws of space, and became a cosmic venerable.]

[Becoming a cosmic sovereign initially brought you joy, but gradually you realized that breaking through the laws of time would be countless times more difficult than breaking through the laws of space.]

[Go ask your teacher. Your teacher will tell you that the Eight-Star Tower is your hope. As long as you can pass through the Eight-Star Tower, you can access some high-end resources through the mall, which is only open to those with eight-star or higher power levels. Many Universe Venerables have broken through to the Universe Lord level through this method.]

You understand, the Star Tower tests your talent and potential; you must develop sufficient strength in a sufficiently short time to have any hope.

[8000 million years old is still young for a Cosmic Venerable, but he's not among the youngest Cosmic Venerables. You can't afford to delay him.]

[With your extremely fast thinking speed, you created the ultimate secret technique of the Cosmic Venerable at the age of 250 million. At this time, in the original universe you are familiar with, you can be called the overlord of the universe. In this universe, you are also a genuine seven-star powerhouse.]

[But that's not enough for you to pass the Eight-Star Tower. You understand that you must create an ultimate secret technique at the level of a Cosmic Venerable to have any hope.]

[But the ultimate secret technique of the Cosmic Venerable has stumped you; you believe there is no hope of creation in the short term.]

When you were 800 million years old, the Starlight Human Universe Kingdom and the neighboring Starry Monster Universe Kingdom broke out into a full-scale war. You had no choice but to participate in the war. The war was extremely fierce, and your clones died in battle multiple times.

[The Starlight Human Universe Nation ultimately won this battle, gaining a considerable territory and receiving substantial war reparations, including some inheritances. As you know, these inheritances were exchanged from the Eight-Star Mall by the rulers of the Universe Nation using resources to cultivate geniuses. Your growth to this point is also due to a certain inheritance that explains 'space and time'.]

[You discovered a legacy called "Twelve Revolutions of Stars" among these legacies used for reparations, which stirred up your memories of your understanding of array formations.]

Although your current strength far surpasses that of your past life, some of your beliefs from your past life, which differ from those of this world, still occasionally influence you.

[You've hit a bottleneck in creating spacetime-based arcane arts, and you're considering trying another path, but you're hesitant because you're afraid of wasting time.]

At this point, you choose: 1. Give up. 2. Try.

"Give it a try," Zhou Yu quickly decided.

You chose to try, you purchased the access to this inheritance, and you began to study it intensively.

You are pleasantly surprised to find that you are progressing extremely rapidly. In less than a hundred million years, you have created another kind of secret technique at the peak of the cosmic venerable realm. You realize that you have chosen the right path, so you begin to devote yourself even more to its study.

[When you were a billion years old, you finally created the ultimate secret technique of the Cosmic Venerable. What surprised you even more was that the secret technique in the direction of spacetime that had been the bottleneck for you was also showing promise. After spending a little time, you created the second ultimate secret technique of the Cosmic Venerable.]

After making ample preparations, you once again made an attempt to conquer the Eight-Star Tower. At only one billion years old, the difficulty of the Eight-Star Tower was not yet unbelievable. Having mastered two ultimate secret techniques of the Cosmic Venerables, you ultimately succeeded.

Over the next hundred million years, you repeatedly conquered the Eight-Star Tower, accumulating considerable resources and rewards. After some searching in the Eight-Star Tower's shop, you ultimately chose the special opportunity to "observe the evolution of time and space."

[To witness the evolution of spacetime, you need to travel to another universe, and the opportunity only comes once every billion years. Fortunately, when you redeemed this opportunity, there were less than a million years left until the beginning.]

[Wait patiently. Eight hundred thousand years later, the Universe Master of the Holy Origin Sect will take you away. Through the cosmic passage, you and twelve other Universe Venerables who also exchanged for this opportunity will arrive in another universe.]

[The Universe Master of the Holy Origin Sect tells you that this universe is a universe of a great being, only slightly smaller than the primordial universe, yet equally vast, and has given birth to many powerful beings.]

[You immediately guessed that this must be the universe of the powerful being who possessed the original universe. If this universe's ruler wasn't exaggerating, such a vast universe should belong to a god-king level being.]

You were secretly surprised, but you didn't show it. Your top priority was to break through and become the Lord of the Universe.

You were taken to a mysterious place, a place that was empty except for the boundless starry sky.

[You don't have many memories of that place; you only know that spacetime underwent incredibly complex evolution in that boundless starry sky. Although you can't remember everything, your thinking speed is much faster than other cosmic beings, which means you've witnessed an even longer evolutionary process.]

[Upon returning to the primordial universe, you immediately began your seclusion. Based on experience, it's generally considered a success if one of the universe's venerables among you becomes a universe master. You hope to be that successful one.]

[Your seclusion this time did not last long, only about a thousand years, before you emerged.]

You have grasped the laws of time.

You have chosen to break through to become the Lord of the Universe.

[Simulation successful]

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(End of this chapter)