It's just a simulation game, how did the fairy become real?

[The only option was to forcibly catalyze the power of the demonic energy to strengthen it before each inspection.]

[After the inspection is completed, then restrict their access.]

Time flies, and on the day you turn ten, those who are still alive will successfully leave that area.

The membership structure had already been determined.

You have become the Valley Master's disciple.

[Aside from testing their progress in demonic arts, there are no other restrictions placed on disciples within Liangren Valley.]

You are now free to explore most areas of the Valley of Good People.

You are curious about the Spirit Tower and wish to go there.

However, you will be driven away every time you approach; you can only ask those of higher status and older age within the valley.

You learn from them that the Spirit Tower is not only a place for imprisoning people.

[This is still the place where souls are extracted and elixirs are made.]

Only those who have cultivated demonic arts are qualified to be sent there. Within three to five days, or at most half a month, they will be completely devoured by the spirit tower.

The soul will transform into an elixir, while the body will become the spirit tower itself.

[For every person swallowed, the spirit tower grows taller by one point.]

You stared blankly at the towering spirit tower for a moment. Aren't you yourself a practitioner of demonic arts?

The other person seemed to sense your doubts, then burst into laughter and declared to you that this would never be your final destination.

[You traversed the entire Spirit Valley, finding very few elderly people; the vast majority of the older ones were middle-aged, around thirty-four years old.]

The largest group consisted of people in their twenties.

The main force behind Liangren Valley's operations outside the region is also this group of people.

As you wander, you always feel a gaze following you, but when you turn around to look for it, it vanishes.

After repeating this process several times, you finally pinpointed the source of your gaze.

She was a woman around thirty years old.

[At first glance, it felt especially familiar.]

Just like the day I walked out of the slaughterhouse.

You calmly glanced at the other person a few times, seemingly casually, before quickly walking away.

You are now certain that she is indeed your biological mother.

You have explored the interior of Liangren Valley thoroughly, but you still do not know what the outside world is like.

[As it happens, as a disciple of the Valley Master, you have the right to accompany the team on missions.]

【Your choice:】

1. Follow the group and leave Liangren Valley.

2. Continue to cultivate demonic arts in Liangren Valley.

[3. Personal intervention, 3 attempt remaining.]

Su Chen chose to leave without hesitation, because he needed to understand the world before he could decide what to do next.

You're not the only one who wants to leave the valley with the group.

Most of the new disciples wanted to leave the valley and see the world.

However, you are accompanied by several senior brothers.

The area outside Liangren Valley is far more prosperous than you imagine.

[Once you leave the valley, you will be separated from the mission team and led separately by several senior brothers, heading straight for the major city without stopping.]

Some of you were curious and asked a few more questions.

The senior brother then began to explain in detail.

As disciples who receive offerings from Liangren Valley, you are naturally obligated to perform duties for the valley.

The rest of the people in Liangren Valley were only carrying out low-level tasks such as burning, killing, and looting.

[The basic resources needed for daily cultivation are all provided by them.]

However, some of the rarer resources are beyond their reach.

Therefore, the Valley Master intentionally allowed them to be involved in the true core mission.

[You are all cultivators of demonic arts; your speed is extremely fast.]

[Whenever they passed through a major city, a senior disciple would stay behind with several new disciples.]

You have been assigned to one of the major cities.

[Your senior brother placed a small, jet-black gourd, no bigger than a thumb, into your hands.]

This gourd can capture souls, but it requires someone who has just died.

As for how the recently deceased person came to be, my senior brother did not explain.

Three souls must be collected within seven days, along with three portions of fresh blood.

Only then can you say you've completed your mission.

There are additional rewards for acquiring other resources.

[Of course, if you fail to complete the task, you will not be allowed to leave the valley for three months after returning.]

Consider this your punishment.

"From the moment the character was born until now, Liangren Valley has been cultivating him, not as a successor, but more like a tool."

This character still doesn't have a name...

Only code names.

It requires three souls, and they must all have just died in order to collect them.

The implication was that he wanted to kill someone.

The city's defenses are quite strong.

Three new disciples in the city killed nine people in seven days. If they are discovered, they may not be able to escape.

It has to be faked as an accident.

Su Chen pondered for a while before continuing the game.

[Based on what you've learned before, and given your young age, you quickly integrated into the city.]

But soon a new problem will arise.

In such a vast city, where would you find someone on the verge of death?

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The city is more organized than you might imagine.

You investigated places prone to problems, such as clinics and gambling dens, but found nothing.

You start to notice the actions of the other two people and want to imitate them.

What you didn't expect was that less than a day after you entered the city, martial law was suddenly declared.

[With a little inquiry, you'll easily learn that a family of six—men, women, and children—died tragically overnight.]

[It's said to be the work of demonic cultivators.]

At this moment, a large number of guards are frantically searching the city.

You cursed those two bastards under your breath, but you weren't particularly worried. With the existence of the Immortal and Demon realms, no one could detect that you were a demonic cultivator.

The city was thoroughly searched for three days, and many of the treacherous individuals who had infiltrated the city were wiped out.

[Since you possess no demonic energy and are still young, no one has noticed you.]

Once martial law is lifted, you will use the intelligence gathered over the past few days to find and eliminate the evildoers in the city one by one.

After staging the scene as an accident, they quickly left the city and headed to the previously agreed-upon meeting point.

Your appearance surprised your senior brother quite a bit.

Not only did you leave the city immediately after martial law ended, but you also completed the mission perfectly.

These three souls, though not cultivators, were certainly not old, weak, sick, or disabled.

That's quite in line with your abilities.

The other two arrived at the meeting point almost simultaneously on the last day of the deadline.

The moment they saw you, they attacked without hesitation, showing no mercy and each move was deadly.

[Of course, you wouldn't just sit and wait to die. As you tried to defend yourself, you suddenly realized that the three of you seemed to be fighting independently.]

No one trusts the other.

[After you had fought several rounds, your senior brother finally stepped in to mediate.]

[All six people in the city died at his hands, and it was he who spread the information about the demonic cultivators' presence throughout the city.]

Your real mission this time is to evade the guards and survive.

As for killing and taking souls, that's just a side effect.

The greatest trump card of demonic cultivators is not their combat strength, but their ability to conceal it.

Only by living long enough can one have the chance to reach higher.

In this era where demonic cultivators are universally condemned, only those with unparalleled survival skills are qualified to continue living.

On the way back, you roughly counted that about 30% of the new disciples had left on this mission, while the senior disciples remained calm, even occasionally smiling.

They must also have a mission.

[You inadvertently notice that your senior brother also has a similar gourd on him, but it's not black; it's blue.]