[In the fifth year, you arrived at an oasis in the desert.]

  [After examining the Desert of Death Map (fragment), you realized that the final destination was only a few thousand miles away.]

  [You knew that the destination was the place where you first died in this desert, where a giant shadow loomed. You suspected it was a powerful demonic beast.]

  [So, you stopped and decided to settle down at this oasis, not daring to get any closer.]

  [In the same year, your cultivation in the Immortal Dao finally broke through to the fourth level of Qi Refining.]

  [In the sixth year, you completely settled in the oasis in the desert. Besides cultivating, you went out to hunt animals to fill your hunger.]

  [With lessons learned from previous simulations, you always chose solitary animals to avoid attracting too many and causing a heavy scent of blood.]

  [In the seventh year, you continued to diligently cultivate and made significant progress.]

  [In the ninth year, your cultivation in the Immortal Dao broke through to the fifth level of Qi Refining.]

  [In the thirteenth year, you reached the sixth level of Qi Refining.]

  [In the eighteenth year, you reached the seventh level of Qi Refining.]

  [In the twenty-third year, you reached the eighth level of Qi Refining.]

  [In the twenty-eighth year, you reached the ninth level of Qi Refining.]

  [Over these years, without any external disturbances and consuming hundreds of Spirit Stones, your cultivation in the Immortal Dao steadily improved.]

  [On a certain day in the thirtieth year, after waking up, you practiced the Unnamed Manual as usual. Just as you finished, you suddenly sensed a stream of energy flowing through your flesh.]

  [You knew clearly that this was not spiritual energy but Martial Dao Primordial Energy condensed from your flesh.]

  [You didn't expect that by merely practicing the Unnamed Manual once a day, the Martial Dao you were about to give up on would actually break through to the second major realm, the Condensing Core Realm.]

  [You just smiled faintly at this. Decades of cultivation had made your mindset much more serene.]

  [In the days that followed, you did not intensify your Martial Dao cultivation despite the breakthrough.]

  [Most of your time was still spent on cultivating the Immortal Dao Mental Cultivation Method, as you had Spirit Stone resources for the Immortal Dao.]

  [However, you lacked the pills or the blood and essence of demonic beasts needed to enhance your physical body's vitality for Martial Dao cultivation.]

  [You thought that there might be demonic beasts in this desert, like the giant shadow that devoured you in previous simulations, and that black giant python.]

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  [But you wanted to simulate for a few more years and didn't dare to target them yet!]

  [Of course, you also considered using the extreme methods in the Unnamed Manual to cultivate Martial Dao, but unfortunately, this required specific dangerous places.]

  [And you didn't know where such places were.]

  [In the thirty-third year, you reached the peak of the Qi Refining period.]

  [After reaching the peak of Qi Refining, you needed to break through to Foundation Establishment to continue improving.]

  [The Mental Cultivation Method of the Heavenly Profound Art stated that the Qi Sea must be filled, and the gathered Qi must condense into liquid to achieve Foundation Establishment.]

  [You understood that after reaching the peak of Qi Refining, you needed to liquefy the spiritual energy to break through to the Foundation Establishment period.]

  [You didn't know if there was any quick method to condense spiritual energy into liquid.]

  [You could only continuously compress the spiritual energy by circulating the Mental Cultivation Method.]

  [It was a long process, but you were not discouraged and kept working hard.]

  [In the thirty-fourth year, you were still compressing the spiritual energy without much progress.]

  [In the thirty-fifth year, you successfully compressed a few strands of spiritual energy together, causing them to start merging. Each strand became slightly thicker, but there was no sign of turning into liquid.]

  [Years passed in the blink of an eye.]

  [In the forty-first year, you successfully compressed and merged multiple strands of spiritual energy into a single droplet.]

  [You were somewhat excited, feeling like you saw the hope of Foundation Establishment.]

  [But this was just the beginning. You needed to turn all the spiritual energy in your Qi Sea into liquid to step into Foundation Establishment.]

  [In the forty-third year, while cultivating, you suddenly felt a tremor.]

  [You felt a bit uneasy, recalling the giant shadow in the desert from your first simulation. You remembered that it seemed to fly out of the desert this year.]

  [You felt somewhat reassured, thinking you were still far from that location.]

  [However, you didn't let your guard down and stopped cultivating, holding the Teleportation Jade Plate in your hand, ready to teleport away if anything went wrong.]

  [At that moment, you saw a dragon shadow appear in the distant sky.]

  [Although it was far away, you were certain it was a dragon.]

  [This made you even more anxious. As a transmigrator, you had only heard of dragons in mythological stories, where they were synonymous with invincible power.]

  [But then you saw an astonishing scene.]

  [A dazzling light suddenly burst out in front of the demonic dragon, shooting straight towards it.]

  [Immediately, a high-pitched dragon roar echoed, audible even from thousands of miles away.]

  [It was then that you noticed a small black dot in front of the demonic dragon.]

  [Previously, due to the distance, you hadn't observed this detail.]

  [Now it seemed that the black dot was likely a person.]

  [You suddenly thought that perhaps a cultivator was fighting the demonic dragon?]

  [Time passed bit by bit as you watched the sky from afar.]

  [Your guess was soon confirmed; indeed, someone was battling the demonic dragon.]

  [Their battlefield was gradually moving towards you.]

  [You could now clearly see the figure fighting.]

  [The person, clad in a green robe, was evenly matched with the demonic dragon, which seemed to be thousands of meters long.]

  [The figure felt inexplicably familiar, as if you had seen them before.]

  [But you had no time to ponder who this person was.]

  [The battle between the person and the dragon was terrifying. The intensity of the fight made you feel that if you got caught in it, you would surely die.]

  [Now that their battlefield was very close to you, you decided it was time to run.]

  [Without hesitation, you activated the Teleportation Jade Plate and instantly disappeared from your original spot.]

  [When you reappeared, the scene before you almost made you wet your pants.]

  [You had been teleported right in front of the demonic dragon.]

  [The earth-colored demonic dragon was also stunned to see you appear, but it quickly spewed a mouthful of dragon flames towards you.]

  [In your panic, you tried to activate the Teleportation Jade Plate again.]

  [But the aftereffects of the previous teleportation made it difficult for you to gather Qi to activate the teleportation array.]

  [Just as you thought this simulation was about to end, you suddenly heard a familiar voice: "Feng'er!"]

  [Then you saw a familiar face appear in front of you, blocking the dragon flames.]

  [You didn't expect that the familiar figure in the green robe was actually your father, Jiang Fushan.]