Simulate again, the leader is not here again?

It was already late.

After replenishing enough energy from Cao Xueyan, Xiao Menglan naturally left fully satisfied.

From this woman, Cao Xueyan experienced a kind of self-indulgent pleasure.

Neither of them were fools—if it were only simple guidance, why would it be so ambiguous?

A dignified peak master doing such outrageous things to a disciple—if this were to spread, it certainly wouldn’t sound good.

But Xiao Menglan held an extremely important position in the Qingyun Sword Sect.

If she didn’t speak of it, and Cao Xueyan didn’t speak of it, naturally no one else would make a fuss.

To put it bluntly, Cao Xueyan had just been taken advantage of by Xiao Menglan for free.

Uh, no, that wasn’t quite right.

Cao Xueyan felt that after this “guidance,” she had already made a great step forward on the path of talismans.

She believed that in less than three years, she should be able to craft her first talisman entirely on her own—progress almost identical to the simulator.

Hm?

Progress almost identical to the simulator?

At first, this sentence sounded fine.

But thinking carefully—did the “simulated” Cao Xueyan also experience this kind of thing?

Maybe even more than once?

With a third-rank Talisman Master secretly tutoring her, how could she not improve?

So that’s the truth!

Turns out, in the simulator, Cao Xueyan’s drunken loss of chastity wasn’t a sudden accident at all.

That bad woman Xiao Menglan had been plotting it for a long time!

Cao Xueyan thought this couldn’t go on.

There was something wrong with this cultivation-romance simulator.

Seriously wrong!

It wasn’t helping her to conquer other women.

It was helping other women conquer her!

Damn it, was this thing trying to sell her off?

Cao Xueyan gritted her teeth.

Xiao Menglan’s feelings toward her weren’t without reason.

The other treated her as some long-lost person, pouring all those years of unspoken emotions onto her instead.

This was bad.

If it went on like this, the future would inevitably turn out exactly like the simulated scenario.

Cao Xueyan would be… taken by that woman.

Eh? But actually, that didn’t sound so bad either.

Still, Cao Xueyan wanted to be on top… uh no, for her, the most important thing right now was to find a way inside the simulator to avoid a bad end.

With Xiao Menglan around, Cao Xueyan could be considered to have established herself within the sect.

At least for the next twenty years, she would be safe.

Speaking of which, in the last simulation she had quarreled with Xiao Menglan, which led to her failing to improve both her cultivation and her talisman skills.

As a result, she had been lucky and wasn’t assassinated by that damned demonic cultivator at age forty.

Although she still died a year later, that too was a kind of path.

After all, as long as one was alive, there was still hope.

Cao Xueyan glanced at the simulator panel.

Ha, as expected, the simulator hadn’t wasted this excellent opportunity.

The just-consumed simulation count had been replenished again!

She could simulate once more.

But for some reason, a faint sadness lingered in her heart.

Forget it.

No need to overthink—if there’s a chance to simulate, use it.

Finding a future way out was the real matter.

As for this simulation, Cao Xueyan already had a plan.

She had to probe out the demonic saintess hidden within the Formation Peak.

No matter what, that hidden danger had to be eliminated.

It was precisely because of her collusion inside and outside that the Qingyun Sword Sect’s mountain gate had fallen so easily.

Formation Peak’s status within the sect wasn’t low at all.

After all, the control center of the protective sect array lay within Formation Peak, jointly managed by the peak master and several elders.

If someone wanted to commit treachery, naturally an insider would have the greatest convenience.

【At age 20, you entered the inner sect and directly moved into Moon-Inviting Palace on the Talisman Peak.】

【Following your teacher Xiao Menglan’s advice, you no longer devoted yourself solely to bitter cultivation, but actively participated in various sect activities, blending in well with your fellow senior brothers and sisters.】

Actively participating in activities… why did that sound like earning credit points?

Cao Xueyan’s expression turned odd, but she continued reading.

【Under Xiao Menglan’s occasional close instruction, your talisman skills advanced by leaps and bounds.】

【At age 25, you successfully refined your very first talisman.】

【At age 28, you became a first-rank Talisman Master.】

【Xiao Menglan decided to formally accept you as her disciple, holding a grand ceremony that invited many elders and disciples of the sect. Strangely, despite the scale of the event, the sect master did not attend.】

【After the ceremony, Xiao Menglan held a small private banquet for you in Moon-Inviting Palace, with just the two of you present.】

Cao Xueyan’s eyebrows twitched.

Good grief—this time, she became a first-rank Talisman Master earlier, and Xiao Menglan also advanced “that matter” earlier, didn’t she?

Truly impressive!

Cao Xueyan swore to the heavens—someday she would seize back the initiative and ride her master fiercely in return!

The following developments were unsurprising.

By now, Cao Xueyan could already accept them with a calm heart.

Since she couldn’t resist no matter what, she might as well enjoy it.

【You never expected that your teacher would take advantage of you while you were drunk.】

【The next morning, when you woke up, you felt a little weak, but paid it no mind.】

【At age 30, you broke through to the eighth layer of Qi Refining. Xiao Menglan took you to Formation Peak to meet her junior martial brother, the peak master there.】

【For some reason, although this peak master had a good reputation among disciples, he was surprisingly unfriendly toward you. When Xiao Menglan asked him for an array that balanced offense and defense, he made all sorts of excuses to refuse.】

【Xiao Menglan grew angry and took you to another elder within the peak.】

【That elder suggested letting his disciple refine the array for you, and both you and Xiao Menglan agreed.】

【That disciple turned out to be a very beautiful senior sister. The first time you met, you were deeply attracted to her.】

【For some reason, you always wanted to get close to that senior sister, to have something happen between you.】

【Even after the array was completed, you still often ran to Formation Peak, just to see her.】

【That senior sister noticed your feelings too. The two of you met in secret more and more often, until eventually Xiao Menglan discovered it.】

【Xiao Menglan questioned you, asking why you would betray her, and even revealed what had happened on the night of the disciple ceremony.】

【You could hardly believe that your teacher, whom you had always respected, would do such a thing to you.】

【At age 31, you went to bid farewell to your beloved senior sister, only to be told that she had been expelled from the sect for a mistake. Heartbroken, you devoted yourself fully to cultivation.】

【At age 40, with only Qi Refining cultivation, you refined a second-rank talisman, shocking the entire sect.】

【From outside, news came that the demonic sect Longevity Heaven was launching a massive invasion of righteous sects, with overwhelming force.】

【At age 45, one righteous sect after another was destroyed. The Qingyun Sword Sect’s sect master was nowhere to be found, and in the battles to defend the mountain, they suffered defeat after defeat.】

【Qingyun Sword Sect was annihilated. You too were pierced through the chest by an unknown demonic cultivator and died.】

【Evaluation: That future demonic assassin was actually driven off in this way. Pretty impressive—thanks to Xiao Menglan’s jealousy, Qingyun Sword Sect managed to survive a few more years. But still, same problem: your family’s strongest carry wasn’t around. How do you fight a team battle like that? Maybe next time, go look for your ever-wandering sect master and tell her: play it safe, don’t feed.】

【Reward: Cultivation Points +60】

Only sixty cultivation points.

Knowing the simulator’s stingy nature, Cao Xueyan wasn’t surprised at all.

But it was a good start.

The fact was—no, the simulation proved—that expelling the sect’s traitor really could extend its lifespan.

Still, from the way the simulation developed, that demonic sect Longevity Heaven had overwhelming power, not something that could be repelled so easily.

But there was one thing Cao Xueyan had endured long enough.

Every simulation emphasized one point without fail—

That the Qingyun Sword Sect’s sect master was missing.

As a result, when facing the demonic invasion later, the sect was at an absolute disadvantage.

Cao Xueyan was just an ordinary disciple, so naturally she had no understanding of the sect master’s situation.

Had that never-before-seen sword sect master really gone missing, or had she already fallen?

The more she simulated, the more Cao Xueyan felt—

Surviving in this cultivation world was unimaginably difficult.