[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.]
[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.]