You replaced "Monster Aura" with "Dragon Plays with Phoenix".

You replaced "Spider Sense" with "The Only True Prophet in the Whole Game".

Chen Yi made some adjustments to his traits in the simulation.

Spider Sense was a cost-effective rare trait that could sense danger.

Its function theoretically overlapped with "The Only True Prophet in the Whole Game".

But Chen Yi wanted to see the practical function of the new trait.

If it wasn't good, he could just swap it back next year.

As for equipping "Dragon Plays with Phoenix"...

"Simulated me, don't say your big brother only knows how to slack off. See how much I look out for you? To save fallen maidens, professional skills must be top-notch, right? But just for this year. Next year, we need to focus on serious business."

Next year was the seventeenth year, the moment to obtain the Ten Thousand Souls Banner!

You lived in Dongchi Town for a year.

Every day, you studied cultivation techniques during the day and practiced combat techniques at night. Life was very fulfilling.

Your External Technique has been replaced with the Chixin Sect's High-Grade External Technique, "Heartflame Profound Art".

In the Chixin Sect, "Heartfire Art" is a Mid-Grade External Technique, cultivated by ordinary disciples, while "Heartflame Profound Art" is an enhanced version, exclusively for elite disciples, high-ranking members, and those with outstanding contributions.

Like "Heartfire Art", cultivating "Heartflame Profound Art" also causes hair to turn red.

You have just begun learning it, and already a strand of your bangs has turned red.

As a High-Grade technique, "Heartflame Profound Art" not only increases your Vitality Energy cultivation speed but also allows you to burn Vitality Energy during combat, attaching a fire-type special attack to all your strikes.

When channeling the technique, it also greatly increases the body's resistance to fire, high temperatures, burns, and similar types of damage.

Your Internal Technique has been replaced with the High-Grade Internal Technique, "Pure Yang Spirit-Guiding Profound Art".

Your Spiritual Energy cultivation speed has also increased a notch.

Furthermore, cultivating this Internal Technique makes the cultivator's Spiritual Energy rich with extreme Yang energy.

The whole person becomes like a tiger, overflowing with Yang energy—the kind that, even shirtless in the snow in the middle of winter, can melt the ice and snow beneath them.

This also makes you almost immune to common worldly diseases.

It indirectly contributes to extending your lifespan.

However, this Internal Technique also has a small side effect.

Just like its positive effects—excessive Yang energy requires a balance of Yin and Yang, otherwise you'll feel restless all over.

Otherwise, why would you go save fallen maidens every day? There's a reason for it!

High-Grade techniques are more obscure and profound. Relying on your own study, managing to grasp the basics of two of them in a year is already not easy.

There are still two High-Grade Martial Arts you are researching, not yet grasped.

As for those Mid-Grade techniques, you estimate that unless absolutely necessary, you probably won't learn them in this lifetime.

A person's energy is limited. It's better to specialize in a few parts and raise their proficiency than to dabble in a bunch of beginner-level techniques.

Night fell.

After a day of dull cultivation, it was time for you to relax.

Life is about balancing work and rest.

With your body's Yang energy so vigorous now, once a day is a piece of cake.

"Counting the days, it's almost time for Old Liu to get the Ten Thousand Souls Banner..."

Suddenly, the tip of your nose twitched.

"The smell of a supreme treasure!"

Compared to a treasure, fallen maidens would have to take a back seat!

You followed the source of the smell, tracking it.

"If the supreme treasure hasn't been unearthed yet, naturally it will be mine. If it's on someone else, then just remember the time and place, wait until I'm stronger later, and get it in a newly opened simulation..."

You are extremely cautious.

Soon, you had already arrived in the wilderness outside Dongchi Town.

The smell of the supreme treasure was getting stronger and stronger.

"Such a large detection range? Truly worthy of being a legendary-grade trait!"

Your heart raced, excitement growing.

Could it be the Ten Thousand Souls Banner?

Dongchi Town isn't far from Old Liu's hometown, Hongtong County.

Could it be that Old Liu has already obtained the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and started committing crimes everywhere?

Old Liu wielding the Ten Thousand Souls Banner is still somewhat formidable. You don't want to repeat the mistake of your previous short-lived life.

If that's really the case, then you can only play it safe for now and go a bit earlier next time.

Following the smell and tracking for a while longer, you entered the mountain forest.

The smell was very strong now;the distance should be very close.

"Mmm~~"

Suddenly, you faintly heard a moan.

"Ah this... Could it be some fellow 'wolf' friends are having a wild encounter?"

Wow, exciting, let's go take a look...

Forget it, forget it, the supreme treasure is more important.

As luck would have it, the direction of this pleasant sound coincided with the source of the supreme treasure's smell.

Then you could only kill two birds with one stone.

After walking just a few steps, you saw two men in the woods ahead.

One was tall and thin, the other short and fat. They wore light armor.

You stopped in your tracks.

"It seems the supreme treasure is on these two. Can't act rashly. Remember the time and place, come back next time..."

You overheard their conversation.

"Brother Gao, the princess has been poisoned by the Passion Flower. What should we do? If the poison isn't cured tonight, her life will be in danger!"

"Speaking of which, it's your fault! How could you not keep a better eye on her!"

"The princess is too clever! I let her trick me again by accident! Let's not talk about that now, curing the poison is urgent!"

"To cure the Passion Flower poison, only 'Yang energy' entering the body can do it... Ah! The two of us, brothers, watched the princess grow up, we see her as our own daughter. Even if we died, we couldn't do such a thing!"

"There's a town nearby. I'll just go catch a man and bring him back!"

"That's a solution. But the princess is to be sent for a political marriage. If she loses her virginity, how will we two explain it?"

"What time is it for such concerns now? Isn't the princess's life the top priority?!"

"Fine. It just so happens there's a man nearby, not old, quite handsome too. It won't be mistreating the princess."

You had already turned to leave, but hearing this, you were stunned for a moment.

"A man nearby? Could it be me?"

You looked up, and the two men had already appeared five steps in front of you.

The tall one chuckled, "Yes, we mean you!"

The short one grabbed you and lifted you up. With lightning speed, in the blink of an eye, they had already taken you into a cave.

So fast!

These were definitely masters, at a higher realm than even the Chixin Sect's Founding Ancestor!

In the cave, you saw a woman.

Her clothes were tattered, she lay on the ground squirming, her face flushed red, making ambiguous sounds from her mouth.

Although the woman appeared somewhat disheveled at the moment, one could still see her breathtakingly beautiful face and her devilishly hot figure.

With just one glance, you were captivated.

It definitely wasn't because you were lustful, but because she was simply too beautiful.

It was the kind of exaggerated beauty that anyone who saw her wouldn't be able to look away!

The kind of beauty that could make an eighty-year-old paralyzed old man look and trigger a medical miracle!

An ordinary family couldn't raise someone with such looks.

Who exactly was she?