[Ding, reward generation successful. you can choose one of the following rewards:]
[1-cultivation realm at 22 years old]
[2-combat experience at 22 years old]
[3-green grade talent Grudge-bound genius]
"there is no need to think here", remarked Lin Fang, "only the second option is viable"
Instantly, Lin Fang felt a headache as a wave of memories entered his brain; memories of training the falling star blade relentlessly day and night for years. He felt like he could split the heavens in one slash.
Shaking his head at the preposterous idea, he ate his breakfast and decided to go back to the village hall to get a saber.
"if only the simulation rewards could be items too", he sighed.
Once back inside, he found a new group of villagers rebuilding the place. They froze in place once they saw his cold face, and knelt down in unison to beg for mercy fearing that he had come to pull up the grass by the roots.
Lin Fang casually waved his hand to stop them and asked for Len Jiang's saber. As if pardoned from execution, the villagers dashed with all their might to get the saber for him.
After getting the saber, Lin Fang rented a horse and started traveling towards White Stone City.
"start another simulation"
[does the host wish to consume 4 souls to activate the simulation?]
"Yes"
[Ding, simulation starting...]
[Ding, Talent refresh in progress...]
[Congratulations! You have refreshed the following talents:]
[Involuntary Rhyming (white grade) - The user can't help but speak in rhymes, which can make them sound more like a children's entertainer than a serious martial artist.]
[Twisted Genius (blue grade) - The user's intellect and strategic mind are unparalleled, allowing them to devise complex and ruthless plans, but this genius also drives them to pursue increasingly sinister goals.]
Reading the first talent's description, even the mild tempered Lin Fang was infuriated, he roared with an ugly expression, "A man can be destroyed but cannot be defeated".
This time, the simulator didn't even try to hide it, it directly said that the talent would make him a clown. As he held the urge to challenge the simulator to a life-and-death battle, he turned his bloodshot eyes to the second talent.
"Good! Good! Good!", he sighed in relief. "At least, there is a good talent to choose . The heavens aren't blind!".
Choosing the Twisted Genius talent, he didn't think about anything in particular and left the simulation path up to luck.
[Ding, talent selected successfully, simulation starting...]
[at 18 years old, you reached White Stone City, and despite the guards looking at you in disdain and charging you a higher entry fee because you look like a country bumkin, you didn't argue with them and paid the exorbitant price]
[after entering the city, you scouted the place, and understood the power structure within perfectly]
[you linked with Baron Xuefeng and became his bodyguard again]
[at 19 years old, you gained his trust and were offered the techniques again]
[you made use of the baron's authority to get your revenge against the two guards, stripping them of their rank, but that wasn't enough for you. you toyed with them for months, making their lives a living hell, then finally slaughtered their 3 generations like slaughtering chickens]
"Damn!", Lin Fang hissed with a shocked expression, "I became that demonic? I'm starting to feel bad for them"
[at 20 years old, you were approached by the city governor's daughter Xinyi, who was in love with you, you agreed to be her lover on the condition that she gives you the cultivation technique of her father]
"???", Lin Fang's serious expression crumbled, "I was waiting for some genius plan, but he just charmed a girl?"
[the very next day, Xinyi came back with a booklet and told you that you both needed to leave the city because cultivating the empire's technique for non-officials is considered treason]
[you left White Stone City and headed west towards the border of the empire]
[at 21 years old, you fully switched to the new cultivation technique; The Radiant Sun Technique, but you noticed that with your second rank cultivation you could unleash two times the power you used to unleash with the old technique]
[at 22 years old, Xinyi was pregnant with your child, but as twisted as you are, you were instead annoyed at the luggage you would have to take with you, so you tricked her and handed her to a bounty hunter for a huge sum of money]
PFFT~~
Lin Fang spit out the water that he was drinking, "I'm starting to hope a cliche mc arrives to kill me"
[at 23 years old, you brokethrough to become a first rank martial artist and reached great accomplishment in the Falling Star Blade]
[at 24 years old, you reached the border town of the radiant sun empire, but noticing the heavy security around it, you didn't enter. You sneak attacked a man who came out of the town and interrogated him. You discovered that the radiant sun technique is far more important to the empire than you had thought and they had stationed so many experts in the borders that first rank martial artists became as common as clouds in those border towns]
[you turned back and decided to go to a place where the empire wouldn't expect at all, the capital; Morning Sun City.]
[at 26 years old, you forged a new identity and were traveling as a guard of a merchant caravan that was going to the capital. however, you suddenly felt that you were close to a breakthrough and decisively abandoned the new identity, slaughtering everyone in the caravan for your enjoyment and making it seem like a beast attack]
[you entered seclusion in a certain cave in the forest]
[at 27 years old, you reached return to origin in the Falling Star Blade]
"so fast??", Lin Fang wondered aloud, "does the twisted genius talent increase my comprehension speed too?"
his face filled with excitement, "I wonder how powerful the return to origin stage of the falling star blade is, after all, with only the initial stage, I could fight several people of the same rank"