Chapter 67

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Chapter 67

Before the second match started, Xie Fuzhi looked very unhappy.

After their relationship changed, Yun Chuyou was obviously more careful about Xie Fuzhi, "Master, the match is very safe. Nothing will go wrong."

She knew the story would be very twisting and dramatic. The original book didn’t describe it in detail, only comparing the main female character’s glory to the poor performances of other background characters, but nothing unexpected happened during the match.

Xie Fuzhi looked sorrowful, "Chuyou, I just want to go in with you."

In the earlier illusion, he was with Yun Chuyou. Though she was the emperor surrounded by many beautiful women, he was the main queen and the guide of the secret realm. Even if the emperor really wanted to favor his concubines, he would stop him in time, but this secret realm match was different.

Yun Chuyou said, "It’s okay. When we go in, we won’t remember anything. If we really face danger, the content of the illusion will also become blurry and won’t reveal everything."

After all, this secret realm is open to everyone, so parts related to privacy will be skipped in the illusion, and the script is pre-arranged, with each point fixed, like an open role-play script.

However, the choices made by each cultivator and their personal abilities will affect the final direction of the story. During this time, if any cultivator’s mental endurance reaches a limit, they will be forcefully kicked out and eliminated.

Being in the top two hundred means they are all exceptional talents from their respective sects. To avoid truly affecting their path, everything that happened in the illusion will quickly disappear after they leave the illusion.

"By then, I will have forgotten the details of the illusion. Master, you can just think of it as me performing a play, and everything in the script will be made up."

"But…" Even though he said that, Xie Fuzhi still couldn’t feel happy.

Yun Chuyou said with a serious face, "Fuzhi, do you really have so little confidence in your own charm, or do you think I am not steadfast and might fall in love with someone else?"

Xie Fuzhi quickly replied, "I don’t think that way at all!"

Yun Chuyou then took his hand and gently pinched the soft flesh on the back of his hand, saying, "Alright, don’t worry. My heart is only for you."

She didn’t often talk about liking or loving someone, so when she said this, she seemed very serious, not just casually brushing it off.

Xie Fuzhi felt satisfied and smiled shyly, "I know, Chuyou, just feel at ease. I will take good care of Hu Xiao Bai."

He was like a little wife staying at home, obediently waiting for his husband to return from battle.

The competition was divided into three levels, so cultivators from different levels naturally had different experiences in their stories.

The Foundation Establishment Stage is the simplest stage, and the story will be much more complicated. The cultivator enters a dream world and becomes a farmer’s child, starting with a small farm. The background is quite harmonious. Considering that life is not easy for women in the Mortal World, the setting for the Foundation Establishment Stage focuses on the imperial examination, allowing both men and women to seek government positions and survive.

Many cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage come from the Mortal World. They are still young and feel a strong attachment to their past worldly lives, so this background setting has a greater impact on them.

Hu Xiao Bai sat on the chair. He had finished eating his roast chicken, but luckily he had bought a lot of nuts from the shop earlier. He had sunflower seeds and peanuts, and while looking at the water mirror, he happily munched on the sunflower seeds.

The storyline in the dream world definitely moves at high speed; time does not pass that slowly. Some Foundation Establishment Stage disciples, affected by the dream world, find studying difficult, so they work hard on the farm, resulting in a grounded yet tough ending.

Some are doing business, while others are studying for the imperial examination. However, those in business might face failure, while those studying might rise rapidly or may fail to achieve success. It all depends on the individual disciple’s abilities.

However, for spiritual world cultivators, it is not important whether these disciples achieve success in the dream world; what matters is whether they can awaken in time and remember their identity as spiritual world cultivators.

The script for the Golden Core Stage is the most dramatic among the three stages because it includes many main characters and villains. Characters entering the dream world will randomly draw one of two identities: either a prince or princess, or the legitimate child of a noble family. In any case, they start with a noble identity.

Unlike the Foundation Establishment Stage, the other two stages have everyone experience the same dream world.

However, in the Golden Core Stage, there are two groups of people. Every two individuals enter the same dream world, and the circumstances of the two disciples are opposing, depending on who can gain the upper hand.

In the Foundation Establishment Stage, it is important for disciples to let go of worldly desires and not cling to the mortal world. In the Golden Core Stage, disciples have already entered an important part of their cultivation journey, and most cultivators do not have strong attachments to their families in the Mortal World.

It is not that their hearts have hardened; rather, the main reason is that cultivators born outside the spiritual world often have insufficient talent to achieve Golden Core within a hundred years, and since mortals have short lifespans, seeing them for only a few decades can fade even the strongest feelings.

In this competition, each arena will have two disciples, and just like in the original story, Song Mingzhu and Meng He are in one group, while Ye Xuanye and Zhong Wei are in the same arena.

Song Mingzhu is favored by the heavens, starting her journey as the daughter of the Empress Dowager. Both are reborn as princesses, but according to the different fortunes of cultivators, their identities in the illusion will differ.

The Empress, suffering from postpartum depression, was in a poor mental state, but after giving birth to Song Mingzhu, she found her daughter so adorable that she supported herself with strong willpower for her sake.

In the original story, she was supposed to lose her mother, and because the emperor adored the empress, he complicated his feelings towards the child, thinking that she caused the death of his first wife. With a difficult identity, since the empress did not die, Song Mingzhu was greatly loved.

The Empress Dowager, who always opposed the Empress, initially disliked her and hated the princess born to her. However, due to Song Mingzhu’s cuteness, she found it impossible to hate the princess.

Therefore, Song Mingzhu, who should have suffered, actually faced no difficulties in her childhood; outside the illusion, she was adored by everyone, and even in this dramatic story, she was the favorite.

Observing this story, cultivators outside secretly marveled, "This girl truly deserves to be the one with fate."

The spiritual world has very important luck. Those who are favored by fate, if targeted by someone with ill will, can easily fall into suffering, or even face their own destruction.

When Song Mingzhu was accepted into the sect, it was partly because of her great talent and partly because it was predicted that she had lucky fate protecting her.

The story in the Golden Core Stage is very complicated and dramatic, much like a thunderstorm; cultivators entering this story will have many admirers.

Whether male or female cultivators, their admirers will always number more than three, and these admirers can be of any gender.

In the original story, Meng He is from a warrior background and is the young son of a general.

The secret realm of Ye Xuanye is similar; Ye Xuanye is a prince, and Zhong Wei is the daughter of the prime minister.

However, that is still a story featuring a female lead, and Ye Xuanye is the male lead; although he has extraordinary misfortune, the female lead can still be matched with a strong and handsome male lead, but in this version of the story, the queen still dies as she does in the original.

To be exact, except for Song Mingzhu, none of the other cultivators who became princes or princesses managed to survive.

Like Yu Jiu, who is originally a ghost child; after entering the secret realm, the scene becomes even more tragic. On the day he was born, his face was bruised and very frightening.

Because the number of participants in the competition suddenly decreased a lot, there were only two hundred screens for the Foundation Establishment Stage and just one hundred for the Golden Core Stage. Therefore, each disciple could have much larger screens, no longer the size of a palm, but as big as two books.

This time, Xie Fuzhi still found some time to watch a few disciples’ illusions. The stories were exactly the same as he remembered, and the disciples’ performances seemed to be similar as well.

Things he was tired of watching were truly not worth his time to look at again.

"You keep an eye on them, and let me know if anything special happens. I will take care of Chuyou."

Hu Xiao Bai was puffing up with anger. He wanted to watch his family master too, and since he was a fox spirit, not a spider spirit or a centipede spirit, he only had two eyes to focus on four screens.

Xie Fuzhi considered himself a respectful Supreme Elder to the disciples. "Do you have any opinions?"

Hu Xiao Bai shook his head desperately, "No, no! The little demon has no opinions at all!"

Without his master nearby, the little fox spirit felt very insecure. He knew that Xie Fuzhi had always been jealous of his beautiful fur. If he dared to voice an opinion, Xie Fuzhi would surely scorch his fluffy tail.

Xie Fuzhi nodded with satisfaction. See, he really was a respectful and good master.

The scene shifts to the secret realm of the Nascent Soul Stage. In previous stories, Xie Fuzhi certainly knows about the Nascent Soul Stage, but he hasn’t paid much attention to its details, only having a general idea.

After all, cultivators who come out of this secret realm will ultimately be defeated by those few daughters and sons of destiny.

His memories are just too many, so these useless memories are very vague to him.

At this moment, he feels a bit regretful for not looking more into the Nascent Soul Stage, which is why he barely remembers the details.

The cultivators of the Nascent Soul Stage also appear on two hundred screens, but the scenes on the screens are actually different.

Xie Fuzhi took a closer look and found that the late stage of the Nascent Soul Stage was different from the other two; the script for the Nascent Soul Stage turned out to be the same, and each cultivator entered the same illusion.

Connecting with the fake NPCs in the script has already made Xie Fuzhi feel jealous, but now Yun Chuyou has to connect with another one hundred and ninety-nine cultivators, which makes him burn with jealousy.

Xie Fuzhi looked down and began to operate; soon, the leader of the Tianyuan Sect received a message.

It was a friend recommendation sent by his grandmaster, "Add this account."

The leader was confused, but when he saw his friend’s icon, he felt very excited. Isn’t this the friend of that phoenix?

He quickly added him and immediately received a message.

"Who wrote the script for this Nascent Soul Stage?"

The leader of Tianyuan Sect instinctively looked towards Tianji Sect.

Xie Fuzhi was far away, but he could still see where his gaze reached.

"Why are other realms independent instances, but for the Nascent Soul Stage, two hundred cultivators enter the same instance?"

This sentence didn’t have much expression, but the leader of Tianyuan Sect could clearly see the hidden anger between the lines.

He carefully explained, first making it clear he was not involved, "I don’t know about this either; I didn’t write the script. However, what they mean is that the Nascent Soul Stage must be harder than the Golden Core Stage, which also had two cultivators in the same instance."

The script for the nascent soul cultivators is a big scenario, set in chaotic times, where the identities of the cultivators are all based on luck. Their lives have no script; this is also the most free fantasy instance.

In a world of chaos, among two hundred great cultivators, anyone has the chance to soar into the sky.

Xie Fuzhi said, "Put me into the instance."

The latter politely refused, "Is that appropriate? This is a competition, putting you in would be unfair."

It would be fine if there were no disciples from the Qingxu Sect at the Nascent Soul Stage, but Yun Chuyou is Xie Fuzhi’s direct disciple.

Xie Fuzhi didn’t care about that, "Are you saying that aside from those two hundred disciples, there are no other disciples? If that’s the case, when those two hundred disciples come out, I will burn this secret realm."

"No, no, no."

In such a large secret realm, there will definitely be disciples arranged by other sects; these disciples are all inner disciples from major sects.

"These disciples do not compete, and when they enter, they will lose their memories and cultivation. They have a script, mainly to maintain the stability of this large illusion."

For Nascent Soul cultivators, the realism of the secret realm needs to be higher; otherwise, if their memories are suppressed, they will recover quickly, and it won’t achieve the effect of a competition.

So, the disciples who were put in were meant to act as NPCs, making this secret realm feel more real.

Xie Fuzhi said, "I can seal my own memories. If you don’t believe me, I can take the Internal Demon Oath."

He wanted to enter not just out of jealousy, but to remember something very important.

The Hundred Sects Conference could not possibly be so calm. Therefore, in the second round of the competition, monsters caused trouble. The talents at the Foundation Establishment Stage were too weak, while the Golden Core Stage cultivators had children of destiny, and there were only two people in the match.

The Nascent Soul Stage was different, with two hundred Nascent Soul cultivators all in the same illusion, representing the future of the spiritual world. If they could severely injure these cultivators, it would be like destroying the future of the spiritual world.

Of course, since so many people were present, this time it only made a big noise and did not truly collapse the spiritual world; the injured cultivators were not too many.

Because the script for the Nascent Soul Stage had problems and ended shortly after it started, the focus shifted to the Golden Core Stage script where the main characters were.

The Heavenly Dao favors those with fortune, even though she did nothing and has a kind heart; wherever she is, accidents tend to happen.

His little apprentice Zhong Wei became more and more twisted in her sensitive personality through repeated accidents.

In the original story, Xie Fuzhi only participated in the competition at the very beginning. After that, he didn’t even have the interest to watch the fun of his disciples many times.

The Dreamland Scroll of the Nascent Soul Stage hides many magical creatures. Yun Chuyou may not be hurt, but Xie Fuzhi cannot accept that risk.

Maybe sealing his memories and powers will also affect him, but Xie Fuzhi is willing to take the risk.

Cultivators do not easily swear the Internal Demon Oath, because if they break the promise, the internal demon will grow, which can affect their path and might even lead them into madness.

Since he had already spoken, the leader of the Tianyuan Sect could not refuse.

Xie Fuzhi successfully entered the secret realm, but not under the name of Qingxu Sect Xie Fuzhi, but as Tianyuan Sect Xie Qi.

As all cultivators entered the Dreamland Scroll that maintained the large secret realm, the chaotic script of the Nascent Soul Stage began—a contest among heroes, featuring two hundred cultivators.