79: Eight times ended

[Her subtle expression was keenly captured by you.]

[You suspect that once this woman recovers, she will definitely make your life worse than death.]

[A flash of killing intent crosses your eyes, and you decide to strike first. Raising your hand, you condense majestic True Qi and blast a punch toward her—]

["Wait!" she cries out in a panic, "I can help you Breakthrough to the Divine Ability..."]

[You ignore her completely and slam a palm onto her forehead—]

["Bang!"]

[Her eyes go wide as her forehead is cracked open by your palm.]

[Your arm feels numb, and you are secretly shocked: as expected of a Nascent Soul Cultivator, her forehead is truly hard.]

[You continue to strike her head with several consecutive palms until her head is reduced to a pulp, revealing a fist-sized Nascent Soul within.]

[Seeing that the Nascent Soul is still slumbering, you don't say a word and strike out with a blast of True Qi, grinding it into powder.]

[Confirming that Liu Ruyan's aura has completely vanished, you finally breathe a sigh of relief.]

[You take the qiankun ring from her finger and probe it with your Divine Sense, immediately becoming overjoyed—]

[Inside, Spirit Stones, Medicinal Pills, Talismans, Magic Treasures, Formation Plates, and Cultivation Techniques are piled up like mountains!]

[You don't have time to take inventory and hurriedly search for the Token that controls the grand Formation.]

[Soon, you find a bronze Token with the word "Liu" engraved on it.]

[Holding it in your hand, you secretly guess: this should be the Token that controls the protective grand Formation of the entire Immortal Mountain.]

[You know that without this Token, you cannot leave this grand Formation at all; after all, even a Nascent Soul Cultivator cannot break through it.]

[Without hesitation, you quickly leave the Immortal Cave and fly toward the back of the mountain.]

[A moment later, you arrive at the edge of the grand Formation, where a faint golden light covers the entire Immortal Mountain like a barrier.]

[You take out the Token and activate it by injecting a burst of spiritual light.]

[In an instant, the Token shoots out a beam of golden light, immediately opening a hundred-zhang-wide gap in the barrier.]

[You are overjoyed, as if seeing the dawn of freedom.]

[However, in the next moment, you suddenly panic—]

[A cold voice echoes from the heavens:]

["A mere ant dares to kill a Disciple of my Liu Clan... Die!"]

[Before the voice even fades, you feel as if you are imprisoned by invisible space, completely unable to move.]

[Then, your body dissolves into bits of golden light, your Divine Soul utterly destroyed.]

[You died cleanly and efficiently, without leaving a single trace.]

[The eighth simulation has ended.]

[Ding! Simulation ended. Please choose your reward:]

[1. Personal Strength: Heavenly Human Realm Perfection, Early Golden Core Stage, Ice Fire Fiend Poison Body, third level of the "Blood Origin Art".]

[2. External Items: qiankun ring (contains Spirit Stones, Medicinal Pills, Cultivation Techniques, Magic Treasures, Formations, Talismans, ancient texts, golden twin fish jade pendant, Liu Ruyan's personal undergarments, etc.).]

[3. Special Rewards: Cultivation insights, combat experience, detailed memories.]

The sun was high in the sky, and it wasn't until noon that Qin Chen slowly woke up.

He stretched, looking at the bright sunlight outside the window, and couldn't help but laugh at himself:

"As expected, no matter how gold or silver other nests are, they aren't as good as my own straw nest. I still sleep most soundly at home."

Then, he contentedly checked the contents of this simulation.

When he saw the issue with the "black gold twin fish jade pendant," Qin Chen's body suddenly stiffened, and cold sweat instantly broke out on his back.

With trembling hands, he pulled out that black gold twin fish jade pendant, took one look, and hurriedly tucked it back away.

"I'm finished, I'm finished, I've been targeted..." Cold sweat poured down his forehead as his mind raced, desperately thinking of a countermeasure.

"I really didn't expect that the Female Shopkeeper of the Golden Phoenix Tea House would actually be a cold-blooded Female Devil!"

"Don't panic, stay calm." He forced himself to be steady and continued reading the simulation results.

After reading everything, he finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Fortunately, he didn't die on the spot.

However, this was still too dangerous; he had to find a way to resolve this hidden threat.

Finally, his gaze fell on the rewards, and that "Ice Fire Fiend Poison Body" left him with a face full of confusion.

"System, what is the origin of this Ice Fire Fiend Poison Body?"

[Ding, replying to Host: it is a special Physique you naturally catalyzed after consuming poison for a hundred years in the simulation.]

Qin Chen understood; it turned out that his simulated self had forcibly eaten his way into a toxic body.

"Then what specific use does this Physique have? Can you explain in detail?"

[Ice Fire Fiend Poison Body—Crimson is fire poison, cold is ice poison. Yin and Yang clash in reverse; the ice fire dual poisons corrode the Meridians and rot the veins, making it unpredictably difficult to defend against.]

[When fighting, if you fuse the poison into your techniques, those in the same realm will die upon contact; even those in higher realms will have their magic power collapse and gradually lose their cultivation if poisoned.]

[If there is a matching poison technique to trigger it, it can be indestructible. Upon reaching Major Achievement, it can even erode Laws and cripple a person's Divine Ability!]

"Then is this toxic body harmful to myself? Will it hurt those around me?"

[You have not yet mastered the method of controlling the poison. Currently, the poison is only within your body and is harmless to yourself; others will only be poisoned if they drink your blood.]

"A body carrying poison... it still feels a bit weird," Qin Chen muttered with a frown.

[Host, you are being narrow-minded!]

[Any Mortal still has trace amounts of toxins in their body.]

[Furthermore, Yao Beasts like the scarlet venomous scorpion are born with poison; they can threaten powerful Cultivators simply by activating it with a Cultivation Technique.]

Qin Chen nodded, suddenly understanding.

When he fought Yao Beasts before, those beasts would lace their spells with various poisons, making them impossible to guard against.

As for reward option two, that qiankun ring of Liu Ruyan—

He didn't even dare to think about it.

Firstly, he worried there might be problems with those items;

Secondly, even if he got them, he wouldn't dare use them.

Besides, once his strength increased, wouldn't these resources be easily obtainable?

He didn't want to end up dead just because of greed.

Moreover, his bizarre death at the end of the simulation was likely related to this ring.

Without further hesitation, he directly chose option one.

Boom!

A surge of energy poured down from the top of his head.

Cultivation stacking!

Heavenly Human Realm Perfection!

Early Golden Core Stage!

Following that, a cold current swept through his entire body, followed by a surge of scorching heat.

He felt his body turning icy one moment and burning hot the next.

After a moment, he finally returned to normal.

Ice Fire Fiend Poison Body—complete!

After everything ended, he inspected his body with Divine Sense—he could clearly "see" the strange toxins flowing through his blood and Meridians.

They were like corrosive energy with a consciousness of their own, moving freely within him, even showing a bit of cheerfulness.

He couldn't help but test the range of his Divine Sense at the Golden Core Realm.

With a slight thought, his Divine Sense instantly expanded—everything within a ten-kilometer radius seemed to be right before his eyes.

Feeling how powerful his Divine Sense was, he actually panicked.

If an Early Golden Core Stage Divine Sense could cover ten kilometers, wouldn't a Nascent Soul's cover hundreds?

And those Soul Transformation old monsters... wouldn't they cover thousands?

From Longyang Town to Nanjiang City, it was only a little over two hundred kilometers.

Wouldn't that Golden Phoenix God of Slaughter's Divine Sense easily cover Longyang Town?

He was essentially right under her nose!

Thinking of this, Qin Chen could no longer sit still.

The most urgent thing right now was to quickly escape the range of the Golden Phoenix God of Slaughter's Divine Sense!

He immediately thought of the Imperial Capital—it was over three thousand kilometers away, so it should be safe.

He quickly stood up and rushed into the courtyard, suddenly soaring into the air, turning into a streak of light that shot into the clouds, flying toward the Imperial Capital with all his might.

He couldn't care about anything else anymore.

In any case, Liu Ruyan would come looking for him on the seventh day.

He had to deal with this hot potato of a jade pendant as soon as possible, and more importantly—get far away from that Female God of Slaughter's Divine Sense range!