132: Enter the Canglan Realm

At this moment, the Demon Venerable looked at Gu Yuchuan with a hint of satisfaction.

"Not bad. Your Heavenly Demon Shapeshifting Secret Art is well-practiced, and there seem to be no issues. The probability of being discovered is much lower. Go now and do your job well. If you succeed, I guarantee you a very satisfying reward."

After bowing, Gu Yuchuan jumped into the Teleportation Array. In the next second, he felt his whole world spinning. At this moment, it felt as if time and space had vanished, and everything stood still. After a long while, light appeared before him again; he had finally reached the Canglan Realm.

As soon as he landed, he began to vomit. This dizzying sensation was unbearable even for a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator. It was extremely unpleasant. It took him the time of an incense stick to recover. Before him lay a vast field of wheat; he likely wasn't in Heyang City, but he truly couldn't tell where he was.

Although he had learned much about the surrounding geography through Soul Seizing, it was all theoretical, like armchair strategy. Without having seen it in person, he naturally couldn't make accurate judgments.

However, he didn't intend to go to Heyang City anyway. He already knew enough about that place. Besides, it was one of the Forty-Eight Cities and was extremely dangerous; easy to enter but hard to leave. He wouldn't go there. His goal this time was to reach the territory of the Immortal Dao and make further plans there. He didn't immediately seek out anyone for information but instead set up a maze formation and began a Simulation. There was always a margin of error in the location where he landed in each Simulation, so he planned to simulate only after arriving here to be more precise.

[Congratulations, Host, on starting the twenty-fourth Simulation. Now beginning the talent draw.]

[Ding-ling-ling, ding-ling-ling! The alarm is ringing to remind the Host to wash your hands before drawing cards!]

Current conditions were truly inadequate, so there was no need for ritual bathing and incense. Moreover, since he was looking for a way out this time, he didn't care what talents he drew and simply started the Simulation directly.

[White Talent: Scale Reinforcement; White Talent: Swiftness; White Talent: Sturdiness.]

He had just drawn a purple talent, so getting three whites now was only natural. He didn't feel upset; his current talents were sufficient for now, and he wasn't lacking anything specific. He picked one at random and began the Simulation.

[Day 1: You found a Spirit Steward managing the wheat fields. You killed him. Using Soul Seizing, you learned the current geographic information and began moving in the opposite direction toward the Immortal Dao base.]

[Day 2: You were stopped on the road by a manager. The Heavenly Eye discovered you had no identity and demanded to know your origin. You fabricated an identity, claiming to be from the countryside visiting relatives. Even in the Technological Immortal Dao, countless ordinary people lack cultivation talent. It's not a big deal for many rural commoners to be unregistered. You dispelled their suspicions and obtained an identity token.]

[Day 3: You sensed that someone was constantly observing you. It seemed you hadn't completely dispelled their suspicions yesterday. You were forced to change your plans and headed to a nearby village. Using your Dharmic power, you posed as a distant relative of a household and managed to escape for the time being.]

[Day 4: You found that the surveillance around you had decreased, but it was still there. Knowing the dangers of exposure, you could only hide even more carefully.]

[Day 5: The other party still hasn't completely left, and you feel a bit anxious.]

...[Day 8: One person is still monitoring you. You realized you must have been exposed somewhere; otherwise, they wouldn't spend so much time on you when they are so busy. You immediately took action, using your Clone and invisibility to flee. You abandoned your current appearance and used the Heavenly Demon Shapeshifting Secret Art to turn into a middle-aged man. With your current mastery of the secret art, you can only maintain these two forms.]

[Day 9: You successfully escaped, but a wanted poster for your original appearance has already been issued. You keep traveling, hoping to reach the Immortal Dao territory soon. However, the Canglan Realm is a proper Minor Thousand Worlds with a vast area. You don't dare use Immortal Dao flight methods, so your speed is very slow.]

[Day 10: You encountered Cultivators attempting to rob you and were forced to use Immortal Dao techniques. Not long after you killed them, nearby managers detected the use of Immortal Dao techniques and immediately began a strict investigation. Under the Heavenly Eye, you were exposed after all.]

[Day 11: You began a desperate struggle, but as a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator, your power was too weak. You eventually died here.]

Gu Yuchuan let out a long sigh. He hadn't expected to be exposed this time. It seemed he had underestimated the Heavenly Eye and the officials of the Canglan Realm. But how exactly did they see through him? Those officials felt something was wrong after just one meeting and investigated for so many days. He still didn't know where the problem lay.

Outwardly, he was a regular human and hadn't displayed any Immortal Dao or Yao Race aura. It was impossible for there to be an issue there; otherwise, the other party would have attacked immediately instead of observing for so many days.

Forget it, better to look at the gains from this Simulation first.

[Simulation ended. Survival time: 11 days. Cultivation: Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer. Bloodline: Mid-Grade Spirit Beast Hui Snake. Evaluation: A small snake starting on the path of the strong, but some matters are beyond your involvement. Reward: 55 divine dragon points (55 points for 11 days of survival).]

[Rewards available for exchange: Soul Seizing results (50 divine dragon points). Do you wish to exchange?]

Fortunately, the Soul Seizing results could still be exchanged. He immediately chose to do so. From the Soul Seizing information, he found the reason for his exposure. It turned out that the Spirit Steward actually held an official rank. By killing him, Gu Yuchuan had been invisibly marked, and any official who saw him would perceive him as an enemy.

Good grief, is this what a technological world is like? Their control over the world is indeed formidable. Their top-level experts might not be as powerful as those in the Qingyun Realm, but their control over the world is far greater than that of the Demon Venerable. However, this has its pros and cons. The benefit is clearly more control and less chance of trouble. The downside is that managing everything can easily turn the world into a pool of stagnant water where changes rarely occur. In the long run, this is definitely detrimental to the world's development.

He let out a long breath. It seemed he couldn't kill that nearby Spirit Steward. However, he already knew everything he needed to know from the Soul Seizing results anyway, so it didn't matter. He would just set off directly.