The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings

Chapter 889: Chapter 839 First Simulation of the Immortal Dao Realm, Cycle of Reincarnation.

All things in the world change, except change itself.

With every moment, Heaven and Earth are in flux, and from the inception of a skill, including the original creator, every cultivator adjusts the skill they practice based on their own cognition and understanding.

It’s not that ancient skills are necessarily powerful. Any force or cultivator’s skills are in a constant state of evolution and modernization, adapting to the changes and iterations of the environmental context of Heaven and Earth in order to get stronger.

The so-called power of ancient skills might only be certain in one scenario: that is, if Heaven and Earth were in decline. Otherwise, in any world, the ceaseless development of cultivation inevitably results in new methods surpassing the old ones.

If any old skill were to be superior to the new, wouldn’t that mean that the development of the vast cultivation world over thousands of years was nonsense?

Another ten years flashed by in the twinkling of an eye, and without concerning himself with the affairs of the world or the power increase of cultivators around him, Pei Xuanjing’s attention was entirely focused on his Life Simulator.

[Taoyun: 202,937,382 points.]

[Would you like to use the Life Simulator? A single usage will consume 200,000,000 Taoyun points.]

As Pei Xuanjing advanced to the True Immortal Realm, the Taoyun points required for a single simulation had reached two hundred million. Even with the help of the Dao Academy Contribution System and Pei Xuanjing, a True Immortal, spending years accumulating Taoyun points through constant contemplation of the Heavenly Dao, it had still taken him about twenty years to gather enough points.

Now that he finally had enough Taoyun points, Pei Xuanjing calmly concentrated, discarding all distractions, ready to initiate his first simulated life since entering the path of the Immortal Dao and the transformation of the Life Simulator.

After all, Pei Xuanjing was immensely curious about this cycle of reincarnation.

“Yes!”

[Life Simulation—Cycle of Reincarnation Initiated:]

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In a mere instant, silence enveloped Pei Xuanjing as if time itself had halted. At this moment, his sea of consciousness was like Chaos, and then, with a loud bang, Heaven and Earth separated. A speck of his True Spirit was swept into it, silently observing the process of Heaven and Earth evolving.

[There are fifty in the Great Tao, but Forty-Nine Heavenly Paths emerge, hiding one away! Thus, all things in the world, each have a sliver of hope!]

The words in his sea of consciousness shattered with a boom, transforming into countless characters, undulating uncertainly in his mind, chaotically fluttering and arranging themselves in what seemed an ordered, yet unordered pattern.

These characters continuously collided, devoured, and evolved. It was unknown how much time passed—perhaps a moment, perhaps ten thousand years.

By the time Pei Xuanjing came back to his senses, he found himself standing on an ancient and vicissitudinous bridge. Beneath the bridge flowed a river, the color of which was indescribable—it was black if you thought it was black, white if you considered it white; all was uncertain, defined by the heart of the observer.

River of Forgetfulness? Helpless Bridge?

An assumption arose in Pei Xuanjing’s heart, and his gaze returned to the banks of the River of Forgetfulness,

On both banks was lush vegetation, and the instant Pei Xuanjing saw those plants, a name surfaced in his mind: Other Shore Flower.

The Other Shore Flower, also known as Manjushage, is said to be a divine flower that blooms in the Netherworld. One belief is that the Other Shore Flower blooms on the other shore; it is the flower of sorrowful memories, a guiding blossom that can awaken the memories of the deceased.

Could this place be the Netherworld? A terrifying guess emerged in Pei Xuanjing’s heart.

Descriptions of the Other Shore Flower abound in Heaven and Earth. Legends have it that the powerhouse who finds the Other Shore Flower can keep their True Spirit from fading and enter the cycle of reincarnation with their memories to live another life. Alas, for thousands of years, despite countless powerhouses searching everywhere in Heaven and Earth and traversing the Nine Netherworlds and River of Oblivion, no one has ever found the Other Shore Flower.

Pressing down these speculations for the moment, Pei Xuanjing continued forward on what he conjectured might be the Helpless Bridge over the River of Forgetfulness. One step taken, and suddenly the world changed.

In an instant, he saw a vast circular portal before him, evenly divided into six sections, each intricately carved with mysterious murals and texts.

Though Pei Xuanjing did not recognize these mystical characters and paintings, the moment his gaze fell upon them, he instantly understood their meanings.

This was the Six Paths Reincarnation Gate; to push open this gate was to step into the cycle of reincarnation. The different texts and murals on the gate symbolized the different paths of rebirth.

Three Good Paths: Celestial Human Path, Mortal Realm Path, Asura Path; Three Evil Paths: Hell Path, Hungry Ghost Path, Wretch Path.

To step into different paths was to enter different trajectories of rebirth – to become a celestial, a mortal, an asura, to fall into the endless hells, to transform into beings of the ghostly realm, or to be reborn as an animal.

And beyond these various doors, Pei Xuanjing looked far into the distance, as if seeing countless worlds as minute as grains of sand – bright, dim, scorching, freezing, eerie, dignified… an endless variety.

Of course, Pei Xuanjing no longer had the luxury of choice, because he found that the simulator simply did not allow him to choose. The circular gate spun wildly, and at this moment, Pei Xuanjing was swept up by a force, his entire being devoured and plunged into chaos.

Before his True Spirit was engulfed, the only thoughts in Pei Xuanjing’s mind were not of anything else but a single realization: reincarnation truly exists!

……

The Great Ming Dynasty, Tiandu, Taixuan Temple.

Taixuan Temple, situated on the mountainside on the outskirts of the city, was said to have been a place where a Taoist immortal from the former dynasty practiced pill refining.

However, with the change of dynasties, the once bustling Taixuan Temple had long since declined, becoming a place where not even crows would visit.

Now, it was nothing more than an ordinary Taoist temple, with a dozen or so rooms front and back, housing no more than a dozen people, appearing very desolate.

Yet, anyone in Tiandu with some status knew that the master currently residing in Taixuan Temple was no ordinary person – he was the Seventh Prince of the current Great Ming Dynasty.

The cold winter had arrived, and snowflakes danced in the sky.

Inside a room in the backyard of Taixuan Temple, several large furnaces were set up, burning bright charcoal, radiating waves of heat, in sharp contrast to the freezing cold outside.

A youthful and handsome young man sat on a stool, meticulously transcribing a copy of the “Tao Te Ching,” his expression focused, undisturbed by external distractions.

And judging by the almost human-height stacks of parchments in the room, one could tell that this task of transcribing these books had been going on for quite some time now.

“Without realizing it, another year has passed.”

About two hours later, Pei Xuanjing finished transcribing the last character, set down his brush, and looked out at the snow falling like goose feathers, his brows tinged with some emotion.

He had been living in Taixuan Temple for seven years now, and if one added his days in the royal palace, he had been living in this world for a total of eighteen years.

“I did not expect to come to an unprecedented world in this cycle of the life simulator,” Pei Xuanjing thought of his understanding of this world, and shook his head slightly, “Unfortunately, True Immortals cannot survive, the restrictions of this world are no less than those after ascending to the Daming World, but still, there are no True Immortals.”

Although his True Spirit had descended to this life as part of reincarnation, his essence as a True Immortal would not fade away. His status as a True Immortal would not disappear, and the immortality characteristic of a True Immortal still remained. Therefore, the moment his memory awakened, Pei Xuanjing mastered much knowledge about this world.

It could be said that Pei Xuanjing was a born Longevity Species, whose lifespan, even without cultivation, due to the nature of a True Immortal, was unimaginable to mortals.