[Simulation Result: FFF-Rank]
That is the result of the second life simulation; it was awful, he did not even have a chance to select a simple reward.
After this life simulation failure, Hengsheng learned his lesson that he may not set the life simulation setting as he pleased.
There was a hidden limitation in the life simulation that he did not know about.
Like in this case, his simulated person's father—the strongest cultivator under heaven in the simulation reality—was too powerful, powerful enough to notice that the reality itself was wrong.
It was also lucky for him that he was not stupid enough to choose the real powerful cultivator that really exists in the immortal realm as his father in the simulation; if he did that right now, the other side would notice what he doing, and he would be in big trouble.
Hengsheng concluded that if he wanted the life simulation to progress smoothly, he could not allow a powerful being to appear inside the simulation reality.
By "powerful being," he meant those who had stepped into the Immortal Realm power level, as these beings had a very high chance of ruining his life simulation.
The life simulation had already failed, and there had been nothing he could do to undo it. What he had been able to do at that time was learn from his mistakes and prepare for the next round…
Time goes by.
A year after the second life simulation failure, when the cooldown had ended, it was time for Hengsheng to begin the third life simulation.
Hengsheng had already spent a year planning the details of the life simulation setting for this third life simulation, determined not to repeat the same mistakes as last time.
This time, he carefully set the simulation settings, assigning the simulated person a cautious personality and a strong sense of survival.
Most importantly, he selected the simulated person to possess a powerful physique, intending to claim it as a reward after the simulation ended.
Then he set the simulated person's background to be from a powerful clan in the Higher Realm, a realm that had already been at peace for a million years.
Peace in the cultivation world meant there were no major conflicts, such as realm wars like the one that occurred in the Five Pillar Realm.
However, minor conflicts still occurred regularly, like every typical cultivation world—fights over resources, secret realms emerging periodically, and backstabbing between brothers and sisters.
Lastly, he configured the simulation's operation direction and goals to favor the simulated person, supporting his cultivation advancement to the maximum degree.
Hengsheng was not afraid that this one would become an immortal within the 100 years with this excessive support.
With more knowledge from both Wu God and his own experience, he knows something about the first simulation.
The case of Samuel Barlow was an exception—he didn't believe it would happen a second time.
Hengsheng was pretty sure his third simulation would be a successful one. After all, with this simulation setting, how could anything possibly go wrong?
After ensuring everything was safe for a third round of life simulation, he immediately initiated the third Life Simulation.
However, Hengsheng had underestimated causality, fate, and luck too much.
There was no way a lucky person like the simulated person, who was born with everything, could thrive without any obstacles in this cultivation world.
The first obstacle struck immediately after the simulated person was born—and it was also the last.
The third life simulation ended on the 21st day after the simulated person was born. He was just a baby—so small that his brain hadn't even developed enough to think, only pure instinct to cry for his mom.
His end was tragic.
The wicked bitch, the enemy of the simulated person's parent, who was from the same clan, noticed the simulated person's powerful physique.
That wicked bitch pulled some strings manage to make the simulated person's parents temporarily leave the clan's territory, leaving their baby with their loyal servant, who was later exposed to be the spy of that wicked woman.
Then, she kidnapped the simulated person and performed a forbidden ritual to steal his physique, intending to transfer it to her own son, the simulated person's cousin. And she succeeded in her wicked plan.
The simulated person's physique was ripped from his own body. The loss of his physique had severe consequences, and the baby's body fell into a coma.
By the time the simulated person's parents arrived to save him, it was too late. The baby's physique had already been stolen.
When the parents came to confront the wicked woman to reclaim their son's physique.
However, the clan protected the wicked woman's son because they didn't want to risk losing two geniuses at once. They chose to side with the one who was still intact.
The simulated person's parents could only come back empty-handed. They tried to save the baby using other methods, but all of them failed.
The baby's body couldn't withstand the injuries from the incident anymore, and died only a few days after that tragic incident.
…
[Simulation Result: FFF-Rank]
Another failure had struck him.
This was two times in a row!
He was furious and could find no one to blame.
It was an incredibly frustrating moment.
After calming himself down, Hengsheng reviewed everything that had happened in the simulation.
He soon concluded the reason for his failure this time: he was simply unlucky.
There was no other explanation—except perhaps that fate itself was acting against him. But he wasn't fully convinced of that, as he had already set the fate within the simulation reality to favor the simulated person.
If there was a miracle.
If the simulated person had a little more lifeforce, if he could withstand the injury long enough for the fate to turn the tide in his favor.
He might have survived and made a comeback later—but unfortunately, he did not make it.
…
Return to the present.
"That bitch!" Hengsheng cursed, gritting his teeth as he thought about how his third life simulation had ended.
After failing twice in a row, he learn another lesson.
First of all, he realized that the first simulation had been luckier than he thought it would be. He couldn't expect every life simulation to yield the same result as the first one.
He also realized that the simulation settings themselves weren't actually as important as he had believed, because there were too many unpredictable factors.
Even though he could control the starting point, everything that would happen during the life simulation was ultimately beyond his control.
A random powerful cultivator could show up out of nowhere and destroy everything if a simulated person were unlucky enough, or the world itself could become unstable and collapse at any time if Hengsheng didn't specifically set it to be stable.
A cautious personality? A strong sense of survival? All useless if the simulated person didn't even live long enough to display those traits.
Hengsheng had to find a new way to utilize the Life Simulation; he couldn't just leave everything to fate.
After some consideration, he came up with a way to solve the problem of a simulated person's short life.
He thought about simply adding a guarantee of survival to the simulation settings, but later he discovered that, due to some laws of causality, he couldn't just add that life guarantee without exchanging something for it.
What was exchanged for the simulated person's life guarantee was the ability to customize the setting.
The result of that thought was the Random Settings Mode.
This mode would guarantee that the simulated person would survive for at least the first 100 years.
This amount of time would be enough for the simulated person to achieve something like becoming a cultivator or encountering a fortune encounter. If he were still an ordinary mortal, there would be no way he could live for 100 years anyway.
There was a downside, the final reward.
Even though a simulated person could live up to 100 years, the final reward from the life simulation in Random Mode might not be guaranteed to be good, as the random simulation could place him in a lower-world setting, where treasures and techniques would be worthless to him.
However, he wasn't aiming for the final reward alone. He remembered his original intention when he created this life simulation: to temper his Will!
Even if the reward was trash, living through his simulated person's life—from the first moment to the end—and assimilating it into himself, strengthening his Will, was considered the greatest reward in itself.
This experience will also help him later when he is a Transcendental Mortality Realm cultivator, as this cultivation realm is all about understanding life and death, breaking the last shackle of mortality.
Core Ability: Life Simulation — Status: Cooldown [33 Minutes: 06 Seconds]
'There was still some time left before the cooldown ended.' Hengsheng thought.
Hengsheng underwent a short session of meditation to prepare his state of mind.
[3 Seconds]
[2 Seconds]
[1 Second]
[0 Second]
Core Ability: Life Simulation — Status: Ready to Activate
At the moment, the life simulation cooldown ended.
Hengsheng uttered.
"Initiate Life Simulation"