You simulator, all you think about is stickers

【At the age of 20, you successfully broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining and entered the Inner Sect.】

【When choosing which peak to cultivate in, you felt deep down that you didn’t have much talent for alchemy, so you chose to enter the Artifact Refining Peak instead.】

【The elder of the Artifact Refining Peak assigned you to a senior brother, under whom you served as an apprentice.】

【There were no beautiful female cultivators on the Artifact Refining Peak, and you were a little disappointed.】

【At the age of 25, after being an apprentice under your senior brother for five years, you regretfully discovered that you still had no talent for artifact refining. On your senior brother’s advice, you gave up learning the craft and turned to improving your own cultivation instead.】

【At the age of 30, your cultivation reached a bottleneck and you were unable to break through.】

【At the age of 35, your senior brother successfully formed his Foundation, becoming a lofty Foundation Establishment cultivator.】

【One night, your senior brother came to you alone and confessed his feelings.】

【You rejected him, and he left in despair.】

【A few days later, while you were in seclusion cultivating, you received the news of your senior brother’s death.】

【Although you had refused him, he had treated you well, and you still felt deep sorrow at his passing.】

【At the age of 40, you broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining. At the same time, many reports came of inner sect disciples’ deaths.】

【The sect was thrown into panic, yet strangely, the elusive and mysterious Sect Master still did not appear.】

【After a few months, almost all talented disciples of the Azure Cloud Sword Sect were assassinated by killers, leaving the sect bleak and withering.】

【At the age of 41, demonic cultivators advanced to the gates of the Azure Cloud Sword Sect, and surrounding towns and markets all fell.】

【The sect disbanded the outer sect disciples, while the Core Formation elders led the inner sect disciples to swear to live and die with the sect.】

【You also joined this battle for survival, but unfortunately, as someone below the Foundation Establishment stage, you were nothing more than cannon fodder.】

【A demonic cultivator pierced your chest with a sword.】

【You died.】

【Evaluation: Your performance in this simulation was mediocre. You didn’t get close to any beautiful senior sisters, and your cultivation barely advanced. In the end, you still died tragically at the hands of demonic cultivators. Honestly, you are the worst host this simulator has ever had. Work harder, girl.】

【Reward: Cultivation Points +50】

The simulation ended, and a question mark slowly appeared above Cao Xueyan’s head.

This time, the simulation only gave 50 cultivation points, the same as in the first simulation.

What did the two have in common?

Her cultivation hadn’t advanced much, and both times she had died because of the demonic cultivators… and also… she hadn’t gotten close to any beautiful senior sisters.

Uh, while the last one seemed a bit ridiculous, somehow it still felt like this shameless simulator couldn’t be judged by normal logic.

Case solved—both the first and third simulations lacked interaction with beautiful senior sisters, so the points were low.

Damn!

Cao Xueyan cursed in her heart. No wonder this was called the Cultivation Love Simulator. Cultivation was secondary; romance was its true purpose.

This simulator only cared about cuddling!

Joining the Artifact Refining Peak after entering the Inner Sect now seemed like a version trap. With no beautiful sisters and no talent for artifact refining, she had wasted double the time and effort. Truly a loss.

But this simulation revealed another very important piece of news.

The Sect Master of the Azure Cloud Sword Sect hadn’t appeared in a long time?

Cao Xueyan was surprised. The sect master was supposed to be the most powerful person in the sect, both in cultivation and combat. If even he wasn’t around, then of course the few elders couldn’t resist the demonic cultivators. Without the backbone, even before considering strength, the morale of the disciples would already be broken.

The simulation didn’t directly state the sect’s final fate. After all, as a mere Qi Refining cannon fodder, Cao Xueyan fulfilled her role perfectly—being stabbed through the chest, her organs shredded by sword qi, dying instantly. Naturally, she never got to see the outcome.

Did the Azure Cloud Sword Sect survive?

If they did, then who managed to live on?

Cao Xueyan didn’t have any grand ambitions. She just wanted to latch onto a strong backer. Cultivation and romance could wait. The most important thing was surviving the calamity twenty years from now.

Three simulations, and without exception, she died during the demonic invasion twenty years later.

Those demonic cultivators were too cruel, ruining all her simulation plans each time!

She had originally wondered—if she broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage in a simulation, how many points would she get? Or even if her cultivation barely improved, but she got close to lots of beautiful senior sisters—or junior sisters, that would work too.

Cao Xueyan glanced at her panel.

Host: Cao Xueyan

Realm: Qi Refining, seventh level (700/0)

Simulation Attempts: 2

Cultivation Points: 130

Oh, right—she hadn’t yet added the 50 points from the last simulation.

With a thought, she poured all 130 cultivation points into her realm. The numbers shifted: Qi Refining, seventh level (700/130).

She had assumed it would be like games from her past life: no matter how much experience you had, unless the bar was full, your stats wouldn’t change. But here, it was different. As soon as she added the points, she clearly felt her spiritual power in the dantian grow stronger.

A surge of comfort filled her body. Running the Azure Cloud Everlasting Art, the introductory technique of the sect, she guided her energy through several cycles. By the time she finished, night had fallen, and she exhaled a long breath of turbid air.

Her face lit with joy. The sense of growth in cultivation was intoxicating. She longed for the simulator to hand her another hundred points so she could pump them all in at once!

Now she understood why so many cultivators went astray and fell into inner demons. That thought she just had—barely formed before she squashed it—had already stirred a trace of wicked fire in her dantian.

Greed was dangerous. But with the simulator at her side, she couldn’t afford to be impatient.

As long as she kept simulating, dying again and again, she would gain experience and find a way to survive longer each time.

Time. With enough time, she was sure she could meet certain conditions in the simulations and earn far more cultivation points.

Yes! By getting close to more beautiful senior and junior sisters.

But how to increase the number of simulations still puzzled her.

Would it eventually become a kind of reward? Or maybe refresh after a certain amount of time…

Cao Xueyan sat cross-legged on her bed, clearing away distractions, and began cultivating. For years, she had used cultivation to replace sleep.

Time passed unnoticed in cultivation, and in the blink of an eye, night was over.

As the first light of dawn pierced the clouds and shone upon her, Cao Xueyan ended her meditation.

This night had been a test—to see whether her cultivation experience bar would rise through her own effort without using cultivation points.

She checked the panel. As expected, nothing had changed.

Even after one night, her simulation attempts hadn’t increased either.

Sigh. With things as they were, she might as well simulate again.

Before receiving the elder’s summons, she had to test out all four Inner Sect peaks and find the one most suitable for herself.

Only two attempts remained. She had to make them count.