Simulating the primordial era? That's way too extreme.

Chapter 16 The Path of the Great Chief

A month later.

As usual, Zhao Si made herself a bowl of instant noodles, added some cat food to the fat cat, and then took out her phone to wait for the update to finish in a moment.

Looking back on the past month, Zhao Si still feels like she's living in a dream:

The Sage's Dao Fruit continuously generates innate spiritual energy. Although he still hasn't figured out a cultivation technique, under the passive influence of the spiritual energy environment, he not only becomes stronger but also physically stronger.

He used to be so weak that he would get out of breath after running just a few steps, but now he can do hundreds of push-ups in a row without getting tired, and his improvement is obvious.

What surprised him even more was that he had unknowingly entered a state of fasting. The innate spiritual energy that spontaneously replenished his body was enough to keep him from eating or drinking.

These days, instant noodles are just something I occasionally enjoy; the formality outweighs the actual taste.

Similarly, the fat cat that was mistaken for a monster and brought home no longer needs to eat, but its gluttonous nature cannot be changed. It will eat even when it is not hungry, so it is no wonder that it has grown fat as a stray cat.

In his numerous experiments, Zhao Si also verified the truth of what the system said: the innate spiritual energy generated by the Dao Fruit of the Sage exists only relative to oneself, and no other living beings can sense it unless one allows it.

For example, when Zhao Si doesn't allow the fat cat to sense spiritual energy, it can't sense anything. But if it is allowed, it can immediately detect the innate spiritual energy floating around it and easily control the spiritual energy to transform into various forms.

This put Zhao Si at ease. He no longer had to worry about natural disasters or man-made calamities caused by the "revival of spiritual energy." As long as he didn't cause any trouble, no matter how much spiritual energy there was in the world, it wouldn't affect others.

After some hesitation, Zhao Si finally decided to preserve the fat cat's spiritual energy perception. Aside from wanting to use it for a spiritual energy experiment, the biggest reason was that he couldn't afford to feed it...

"I have to eat even if I'm not hungry, otherwise I'll eat myself out of house and home!"

Zhao Si glanced at the fat cat enjoying its food, speechless at the creature, but since she had already rescued it, she might as well keep it, at least it would be a companion.

As for merit and demonic script, Zhao Si had studied them both. Merit is something that you can gain as long as you help a creature, whether it is a small animal or a human. However, he currently has too little merit, and since he does not know how to cultivate immortality, he has not yet seen its effects.

As for the demonic script, besides allowing Zhao Si to give commands to various animals other than humans, it doesn't seem to have any other use. It can't even communicate with each other because small animals don't understand demonic script; only Zhao Si can use it...

Time passed by, second by second.

[Ding! System update complete!]

[This update has elevated your privileges, meaning you have moved beyond the beginner phase. New features will take effect after this simulation concludes. Please stay tuned.]

"What do you mean?"

Zhao Si asked, puzzled:

What does it mean that the changes will only take effect after the simulation ends?

[You can think of this as a completion reward. The final outcome of this simulation will determine the level of your completion reward. The more the ending deviates from the predetermined primordial storyline, the better the reward.]

"Completion reward? That's more like it."

Zhao Si suddenly realized, but then couldn't help but become curious:

"Can the prize be at the level of a Saint's Dao Fruit?"

[Theoretically possible, but the specific prizes will depend on the player's completion level. Please strive to make the prehistoric storyline deviate from the established history.]

"Can it really be that high?!"

Zhao Si was shocked. In fact, he had just asked casually and did not have any hope at all, because the Sage's Dao Fruit was a product of Nuwa, a genuine sage, who personally split off her own Dao Fruit origin.

"Below the sage are all ants. According to common sense, how could anything be on par with the sage's enlightenment?"

Even innate treasures are no good. No matter what kind of treasure it is, it's just a tool. But a sage is the executor of the Heavenly Way, and nothing can compare to him!

"Could it be the Dao fruit of another sage? Or... the Primordial Purple Qi?"

Zhao Si couldn't help but speculate, because he couldn't imagine what in the primordial world could rival the origin of a saint...

But this is also good news!

I now possess the highest-level "Origin-level" Gift Saint Dao Fruit, although I cannot command or manage it yet, and can only passively absorb a tiny bit of the innate spiritual energy it creates.

Even so, the direct benefits that the sage's enlightenment brings far outweigh those of other gifts!

Who wouldn't want more of something this good, knowing it won't cause any direct harm in reality?

"Alright! I'll try my best to get a perfect ending! Let's see what prize I can get!"

With his morale boosted and full of energy, Zhao Si continued the game:

Is it possible to turn back time and go back to a previous life choice?

"yes!"

Time has turned back...

"Whose little dragon are you?" Nuwa asked with great interest.

Faced with a question from a sage that carries a hidden meaning, what would you choose?

[A: Since we can't hide it from the Sage anyway, we might as well just reveal our rebirth; perhaps there will be unexpected gains. B: A solemn reply: "There can be only one sun in the sky; in my heart, there is only the Heavenly Emperor!"]

Having almost been scared to death by the Sage's Dao Fruit after choosing A first, Zhao Si didn't hesitate this time and directly chose B.

[You chose option B and answered solemnly: "There can be only one sun in the sky; in my heart, there is only one sun—the Heavenly Emperor!"]

Your firm stance on the side puzzled Nuwa, but she didn't ask further. She simply offered you a few words of encouragement and then fell silent.

With the reluctance of humanity, Nuwa departed from Shouyang Mountain. She was to obey the Dao Ancestor's command to venture into the chaos and establish her own Daoist temple.

[You don't know if Nuwa knows that the human race is the protagonist of destiny, nor do you know her attitude towards the Heavenly Court, but since the human race is now under your control, you naturally can't let this opportunity pass!]

Under your leadership, as the human chieftain personally appointed by the Heavenly Emperor, humanity has begun to stride confidently towards greater strength.

Following the traditions of the demon race, you led the human race to build their own home at the foot of Shouyang Mountain, and life flourished there.

While accumulating merit for yourself, you haven't forgotten your silly brother. Whenever you think of how he argued with the God of Justice to save you in your past life, and how the two brothers ended up on the Demon-Slaying Platform together, you're unwilling to abandon him. Such a lucrative opportunity to accumulate merit certainly can't be missed.

[You wrote to your father, asking him to send your two hundred and fifty brothers to help you. Your father took this very seriously. He has always regarded you as the hope of the family. Upon hearing your request for help, he immediately sent out all of your more than a thousand brothers and sisters, saying that family members should naturally support each other, and begged you to give them all lucrative positions.]

【you:……】

[Faced with over a thousand older brothers and sisters staring expectantly at you, you really wanted to slap your cheap father a few times. There are only a few thousand humans in total; a thousand-plus dragons trying to share the merit? What a joke!]

But after all, they are blood relatives. If you don't help them, you're afraid of being gossiped about. In the end, you have no choice but to distribute the more than a thousand dragons among them, with each dragon in charge of three to five people, highlighting the bloated bureaucracy...

Fortunately, the human race has a rapid birth rate. Under your pro-natalist policies, the population exceeded 100,000 in just one year, finally reaching a certain scale. Therefore, as chieftain, you appointed your brothers and sisters to each lead a portion of the human race away from Shouyang Mountain to explore and develop more extensive lands in the surrounding areas.

Villages sprang up one after another, and the population exploded at an increasingly rapid pace. It took a full 360 years for the population to grow from a few thousand to one hundred thousand, but less than a 360-year cycle to grow from one hundred thousand to ten million. As the population increased, villages gradually became unable to support it, and thus towns emerged.

The rise of towns also brought about rapid progress in the economic, cultural, and political spheres. By this time, humans could no longer be considered barbarians. You thought with relief, "Now the Heavenly Court can't use that as a pretext to attack humans, can it?"

[Thinking about this makes you very puzzled, because at this time in your previous life, the Heavenly Court had already issued an edict to slaughter the human race, but this time there has been no reaction at all...]

Just as you were feeling confused about this matter, the massacre decree from the Heavenly Court didn't arrive. Instead, a group of people you never expected quietly approached you, saying they wanted to discuss a very lucrative deal...

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(End of this chapter)