When Jiang Yifeng saw this in reality, his expression turned ugly.
Not only was he lost, but he was about to starve to death.
How embarrassing it would be to tell others about this.
Jiang Yifeng kept shouting in his heart.
"Get up, don't give up!"
["No!" you suddenly roared while lying flat.]
[You feel that you can't just give up; you have to live.]
[You think that you still have to save yourself and the Jiang family.]
[Compared to facing the immortal cultivators 13 years later, this little difficulty is nothing.]
[You struggle to climb up from the desert.]
[You keep checking the surrounding environment, trying to spot any signs of animal life.]
[As the saying goes, hard work pays off. You finally find a few sand snakes and barely survive the crisis of starvation.]
[As time passes, you gradually adapt to life in the desert, and each day you manage to find desert animals for meals.]
[One year later, you no longer look like a rich young man, but rather like a primitive man.]
[The largest mountain you see is still far away even after walking for a year.]
[At this point, you understand that the largest mountain you see from a distance may not be the Changqing Mountain Range.]
[Perhaps the Changqing Mountain Range is the largest in the Great You Country, but from an open area, you might also see mountain ranges outside the country.]
[After realizing you're completely lost, you stop deliberately searching for the Changqing Mountain Range and instead keep walking in one direction through the desert.]
[Since you can ensure your survival, you begin practicing the nameless secret book daily.]
[In the second year, your martial arts skills improve slightly.]
[In the third year, you haven't yet left the desert, and your martial arts skills improve again.]
[In the fifth year, your martial arts skills improve a little, but you still haven't broken through the sixth level of body tempering.]
[In the tenth year, you remain in the desert.]
[After so many years, you feel you haven't strayed from your path, maintaining one direction.]
[But you can't comprehend how this desert can be so vast.]
[In the thirteenth year, you continue diligently practicing the nameless secret book.]
[But you constantly wonder if the Jiang family has been murdered again.]
[In the fifteenth year, your persistence in practicing the nameless secret book finally pays off. Your martial arts cultivation breaks through to the seventh level of body tempering.]
[In the twentieth year, you feel that maybe you were fortunate enough to find a way out. After so many years, the man in black hasn't come to kill you.]
[In the fortieth year, you're sixty years old but still trapped in the desert.]
[The good news is that this year, your martial arts cultivation finally breaks through to the eighth level of body tempering.]
[In the forty-third year, you feel the desert ground begin to roll.]
[You see something flying out of the desert.]
[Suddenly, you see a huge shadow reflected on the desert.]
[You know that the thing that just flew out is now in the air. Just as you want to look up to see what it is, you are swallowed in an instant.]
[You died at age 63!]
[The simulation is over.]
[You can choose two rewards from this simulation: Five Elements Pseudo Spiritual Root (Talent), Martial Arts Cultivation (Eighth Level of Tempering Body Realm), and Death Desert Map (Incomplete).]
[Five Elements Pseudo Spiritual Root (Talent)]: Priced at 100,000 energy points.
[Martial Arts Cultivation (Eighth Level of Tempering Body Realm)]: Priced at 80,000 energy points.
[Death Desert Map (Incomplete)]: Priced at 1,000,000 energy points; a map of the route you walked in the desert during the simulation.
This simulation had completely deviated from the initial plan.
Originally, with the talent for cultivating immortals, I thought I would go to the Changqing Mountains to obtain the immortal cultivation method and begin cultivating.
But I got lost while chasing bandits and ended up spending my life in the desert.
It's hard to say whether the result was good or bad.
Although he didn't start cultivating immortals, he really did live a long time this time.
Even if he wasn't swallowed by the giant shadow that suddenly appeared, he might have died of old age soon.
Jiang Yifeng felt this should be considered as avoiding the black-clothed cultivator.
Maybe this was also a way to survive.
As for what the giant shadow that appeared at the end was?
He couldn't even see its face clearly, but it was able to kill him. Obviously, it wasn't ordinary.
Jiang Yifeng couldn't figure out what it was, and didn't dwell on it.
This kind of existence that wasn't currently a threat to him in reality, he just kept it in mind for now.
And Jiang Yifeng wanted all three simulation rewards this time.
[Five Elements Pseudo Spiritual Root (Talent)] was a talent for cultivating immortals - no need to think about it, this was a must.
Even if it was introduced as the most worthless spiritual root, it was still the foundation of cultivating immortals.
Although it had been confirmed that martial arts was also very strong.
But from this simulation, it was clear that martial arts was really difficult to improve.
It took a full forty years to improve two small realms.
This was still the beginning stage. If you really practiced to a high level, it would take even more time.
So Jiang Yifeng thought that cultivation was still necessary.
Even if cultivation was difficult, it could increase lifespan.
Increased lifespan could also provide more time to practice in the simulator.
Jiang Yifeng also found it difficult to give up the second [Martial Arts Cultivation (Eighth Level of Tempering Body Realm)], which took forty years to obtain.
Not taking it would be equivalent to wasting one or even multiple simulations.
As for [Death Desert Map (Incomplete)], it was currently unknown whether this map had other uses.
But from this simulation, it could be seen that this map could be regarded as a route that could avoid the black-clothed cultivators and survive for a longer time.
If he took this map, he could use it to practice in the Death Desert in future simulations.
The longer he survived each simulation, the more his strength would naturally improve each time.
In the long run, this choice was more cost-effective than directly choosing martial arts cultivation.
After all, Jiang Yifeng could still distinguish between having enough to eat and not having enough every meal.
After thinking for a long time, Jiang Yifeng made his choice.
"I choose the Five Elements Pseudo Spiritual Root and the Death Desert Map."
In addition to the necessary talent for cultivating immortals.
[Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining the Five Elements Pseudo Spiritual Root, deducting 100,000 energy value, remaining energy value: 85,065,000]
[Ding, obtain the Death Desert Map (incomplete), deducting 1 million energy value, remaining energy value: 84,065,000]
As soon as the electronic sound of the simulator fell silent, an incomplete map appeared in Jiang Yifeng's hand.
As for the Five Elements Pseudo Spiritual Root, Jiang Yifeng didn't feel anything.
Maybe he would have to wait until he started cultivating immortals to notice it.
Jiang Yifeng took another look at the energy value. He basically hadn't spent much, and there was still plenty left. He couldn't use it up at all.
In this case, there was no need to rush butler Jiang Dafu to purchase gold, silver, and jewelry efficiently!
"Knock, knock, knock!"
"Feng'er, are you there?"
Just as Jiang Yifeng was still staring at the Death Desert map, there was a knock at the door.
Hearing this voice, Jiang Yifeng knew it was his father Jiang Fushan.
"My father is here to give me money."
Jiang Yifeng muttered to himself.
It seemed to have appeared in the simulator before, when he met his father as he was going out.
Then his father came to ask him why he wanted to buy gold, silver, and jewelry, and finally gave him the key to the study where the silver bills were stored.
Without hesitation, Jiang Yifeng put away the map of the Death Desert and went to open the door for Jiang Fushan with a smile.