Jiang Yifeng had already understood the upgraded functions of the simulator, so he didn't dwell on it further.
He looked at the remaining two simulation attempts.
Without hesitation, he silently chanted, "Start simulation!"
[Consumed 1 simulation attempt, remaining attempts: 1]
[Extracting Blue Talent costs 100,000 Energy Value, extracting Purple Talent costs 1,000,000 Energy Value. Please choose!]
"Hmm?"
Jiang Yifeng looked at the energy consumption and felt it was much less than he had anticipated.
Previously, the energy value difference between extracting Green Talent and Blue Talent was a hundredfold.
Yet, extracting Purple Talent was only ten times more than Blue Talent.
This made Jiang Yifeng a bit puzzled and even worried if Purple Talent was not as powerful.
[Ding, Green Talent and Blue Talent are worlds apart. Green Talent only affects ordinary people, while Blue Talent allows one to start cultivating and affects cultivators; hence the large energy consumption difference.]
The simulator seemed to sense Jiang Yifeng's thoughts and provided an explanation.
Hearing this, Jiang Yifeng's anxious heart calmed down.
He softly muttered, "Extract Purple Talent."
[Ding, 1,000,000 Energy Value deducted, extracting Purple Talent. Remaining Energy Value: 11.5 billion...]
[Congratulations, you have obtained Purple Talent: Thunder-Fire True Spiritual Root.]
[Thunder-Fire True Spiritual Root: A mutated top-tier true spiritual root with both thunder and fire attributes.]
[Ding, detected that the host already has Five Elements Fake Spiritual Root. Replacing talent...]
[Replacement complete. With the mutated Thunder-Fire True Spiritual Root, you are now a small genius in the Immortal Dao.]
"YES, hit the jackpot!"
Jiang Yifeng excitedly pumped his fist.
Looking at the Thunder-Fire True Spiritual Root (Talent) he had drawn, his emotions surged.
This spiritual root talent was exactly what he had been yearning for.
The previous Five Elements Fake Spiritual Root was truly garbage, no wonder the simulator marked it as the worst spiritual root.
In his previous simulations, his Immortal Dao cultivation progress was excruciatingly slow.
But now, just from the description, this Thunder-Fire Mutated True Spiritual Root was vastly superior.
The simulator even marked him as a small genius in the Immortal Dao with this root, making Jiang Yifeng quite eager.
He couldn't wait to see the effects of this talent on the simulator.
[9th simulation begins.]
[You were dazed for a moment, realizing you had entered the simulation state.]
[On the first day, you left Green Hills City under the cover of darkness.]
[On the third day, you arrived at the ruins of the Heavenly Profound Temple in the Evergreen Mountain Range.]
[Upon arrival, you cleared the ruins, buried all the remains, and built exquisite tombstones.]
[You also obtained the Immortal Dao Mental Cultivation Method, Heavenly Profound Art.]
[After obtaining the Heavenly Profound Art, you couldn't wait to start cultivating, eager to see the effects of your new spiritual root talent.]
[You took out a Spirit Stone from your storage ring, activated the mental cultivation method, and began cultivating.]
[In just a moment, you completed one cycle of the technique, absorbing the spiritual energy from the Spirit Stone into your Qi Sea.]
[In less than half an hour, the Spirit Stone turned to dust.]
[You stared at the remaining powder in your hand, stunned!]
[You remembered that with the Five Elements Fake Spiritual Root, it took you two whole months to absorb a single Spirit Stone.]
[Now, with the Thunder-Fire True Spiritual Root, it only took half an hour to absorb one.]
[In terms of efficiency, the difference was more than a thousandfold.]
[This made you realize that cultivation indeed depends on talent.]
[Even those protagonists in past-life novels who could rise from being nobodies, how many were truly nobodies?]
[They were just temporarily down on their luck.]
[With an excellent cultivation spiritual root, you naturally wouldn't waste it. You spent every day diligently cultivating.]
[A month passed in the blink of an eye. Besides practicing an unnamed technique once a day, you spent most of your time cultivating the Immortal Dao.]
[In a month, you skyrocketed from the third level of Qi Refining to Perfect Qi Refining.]
[Keep in mind, this was with your Qi Sea expanded several times.]
[If your Qi Sea hadn't been expanded, it would have taken you less than ten days to go from the third level of Qi Refining to Perfect Qi Refining.]
[Ten days to catch up to the decades of progress in your previous simulations.]
[This speed was beyond your wildest dreams.]
[In the second month, you compressed all the spiritual energy in your Qi Sea into liquid form.]
[With good talent, Foundation Establishment was not a bottleneck for you. It took you just one month to break through and become a Foundation Establishment cultivator.]
[You were puzzled that the dragon energy in your Qi Sea didn't merge with the spiritual energy and couldn't be controlled, remaining separate.]
[However, since it didn't hinder your breakthrough, you didn't pay much attention to it.]
[In the third month, you clearly felt that after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, progress became more difficult.]
[In a month, you only broke through one minor realm, reaching the second level of Foundation Establishment, still some distance from the third level.]
[This month, you also encountered a more troublesome issue.]
[You ran out of Spirit Stones.]
[With improved talent, your cultivation speed increased, but so did your resource consumption.]
[In just three months, you consumed 1,800 Spirit Stones, leaving you with only 200.]
[With no solution, you continued cultivating.]
[Ten days later, you exhausted your Spirit Stones, and your Immortal Dao cultivation just reached the third level of Foundation Establishment.]
[Without Spirit Stones, you felt your cultivation progress slow down significantly.]
[Nine more months passed, making it a year since the simulation started. Your Immortal Dao cultivation broke through one minor realm, reaching the fourth level of Foundation Establishment.]
[This made you realize the importance of cultivation resources again.]
[With enough Spirit Stones, breaking through a minor realm took only a month, but without resources, it took several times longer.]
[In the second year, you felt the time needed for breakthroughs increasing. It took you a whole year to break through one minor realm, reaching the fifth level of Foundation Establishment.]
[In the third year, you hid the Teleportation Jade Plate, storage ring, and even the Breath Concealing Talisman early on.]
[Based on your previous simulation experience, you worried that keeping these items on you would prevent you from taking advantage of the white-robed woman.]
[Two months after hiding these items, a white-robed woman appeared at the ruins.]
[You felt a bit excited, thinking your Spirit Stone resources had finally arrived.]
[But on the surface, you pretended to be indifferent, acting as if you hadn't seen the white-robed woman.]
[The white-robed woman glanced at you, then her expression turned stern, and she disappeared from her spot, reappearing in front of you.]
[Before you could react, she grabbed your neck.]
[The sudden change caught you off guard.]
[You couldn't understand what went wrong in this simulation.]
[In previous simulations, although the white-robed woman had checked your cultivation method, she had never acted directly.]
[You couldn't figure out what was happening now.]