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[After so many years, you, having reached the ninth level of Qi Refining, have become a middle-aged man, but your father, Jiang Fushan, has not changed much in appearance.]
[You realize that this is due to your father's cultivation level, which has reached a point beyond your understanding.]
[You have many questions in your heart that you want to ask, but you clearly know you don't have the opportunity right now.]
[After your father, Jiang Fushan, blocked the dragon's flame, he threw you far away.]
[You feel as though you are spinning at high speed through the air, but you experience no discomfort because you sense a soft aura surrounding you.]
[You understand that this must be the method used by your father.]
[At the same time, you hear your father shout: "Escape, flee from this forbidden place along the desert."]
[As soon as the words are spoken, your father, Jiang Fushan, and the earth-yellow demon dragon begin to fight again.]
[When you land, you find yourself already thousands of miles away, but you are still wrapped in your father's aura, so you are unharmed by the fall.]
[You look back and can still vaguely see the battle between your father and the demon dragon.]
[But you have no intention of continuing to watch the battle.]
[You know that staying here will only make you a burden to your father, Jiang Fushan.]
[From your father's shout, you also vaguely understand something.]
[The forbidden place he mentioned might be the area the woman in white referred to, the one controlled and where cultivation of immortals is forbidden.]
[Your father said to escape along the desert, and you think that perhaps walking through the desert might be considered leaving the area where cultivation is restricted.]
[Without hesitation, you begin to rush deeper into the desert.]
[In the blink of an eye, half a day passes. You rush at full speed, and during this time, you've already reached the place where the demon dragon was born.]
[This is the place where you died when you first entered this death desert during your initial simulation.]
[Here, you see a massive crack in the ground, and the surrounding sand has not flowed in to bury it.]
[You look at the cave descending into the earth and feel a voice in your heart urging you to explore.]
[For a moment, you hesitate.]
[You realize that after running for so long, you are still not as far away as where your father threw you.]
[You think that if a master is indeed chasing you, you can't possibly outrun them.]
[You recall what you've learned in previous lives: there are often treasures in a dragon's lair.]
[You realize that such an opportunity is rare. It is unusual to know that the dragon is out, so there likely aren't too many dangers in the lair.]
[As the saying goes, "Wealth and honor are found in danger." You've made up your mind.]
[You reason that if someone is chasing you anyway, there's no way to escape.]
[So why not venture into the dragon's lair and see if there are any treasures?]
[Finally, you jump down into the crack in the earth.]
[The crack is very deep. It takes you several seconds to land.]
[Fortunately, you're no longer an ordinary person. Although you can't fly, it's easy for you to dissipate the force from the fall. You are not injured even after such a high drop.]
[You look around. The crack cave, which is thousands of meters deep, isn't as dark as you imagined.]
[There's not a speck of sand or stone from the desert; everything around you is glittering gold.]
[The sight is a bit dazzling.]
[The underground area is vast. You search carefully, hoping to find something valuable.]
[After several minutes, you discover that besides the countless gold coins and many night-shining pearls, there's nothing useful for cultivation.]
[If this were reality, all that gold and those pearls would be incredibly valuable. How much energy could you exchange for them?]
[But you clearly know that you are in a simulation, and these things are of no use to you.]
[You sigh in frustration and prepare to leave, but now the problem is how to get back to the desert.]
[After many attempts to climb out, you give up and ultimately decide to use the teleportation array.]
[As for where you might appear, you can only gamble on luck.]
[The teleportation array flashes, and you disappear from your location.]
[When you reappear, you find that you haven't arrived in the desert.]
[However, upon seeing the golden wall, you realize that you are still within the demon dragon's lair.]
[You are puzzled as to where you are. You've explored this underground lair before, and this place seems unfamiliar.]
[You wonder if this could be the treasure hidden by the demon dragon.]
[With this thought in mind, you begin scanning the surroundings, growing excited.]
[You find that this place doesn't seem very large, almost like a secret room within a cave.]
[There is nothing around except for the glittering gold, and there is no entrance or exit.]
[However, in the center, you spot a huge golden egg.]
[When you see the golden egg, your heart skips a beat. The words "dragon egg" flash in your mind.]
["Take it and raise the dragon?" You wipe the saliva from the corner of your mouth, pondering with some uncertainty.]
[Soon after, you light a fire and place the dragon egg on a freshly made baking tray.]
[You think this is fair. The demon dragon ate you in the previous simulation, so now you're eating its offspring, making it fair!]
[You consider yourself generous, thinking you don't mind doing this.]
[After a few minutes, the dragon egg doesn't show much change; it seems it can't be cooked.]
[At that moment, you hear a loud dragon roar.]
[Although you don't understand the meaning of the roar, you sense that the demon dragon is returning.]
[You frown and hit the dragon egg with a hammer.]
[You think to yourself, no matter whether it's cooked or not, you're going to eat this dragon egg today!]
[You start sucking the dragon egg through the crack you've made.]
[Just then, you hear the roar of a dragon outside, echoing through the world, and it even carries a hint of anxiety.]
[At this moment, you seem to realize that the demon dragon has sensed someone tampering with its dragon egg.]
[Run? The thought crosses your mind.]
[But soon, you reject the idea.]
[The dragon egg, you believe, will greatly improve your abilities once you finish it.]
[You accelerate your consumption of the dragon egg, muttering, "Run? The worst that can happen is catching up with the next simulation."]
[As you speed up, you feel your body heating up, and your strength increasing.]
[The second level of Condensation, the third level of Condensation... Your martial arts continue to improve.]
[These are the benefits you expected.]
[However, there's another phenomenon that begins to frighten you.]
[You almost want to stop consuming the dragon egg.]
[You watch as a massive amount of golden dragon energy pours into your sea of Qi, but it doesn't merge with the spiritual energy. It doesn't turn the spiritual energy into liquid.]
[Instead, it continues expanding your sea of Qi, making it larger and larger.]
[At the same time, your immortal cultivation level hasn't increased but rather decreased, from perfect Qi Refining to the ninth and eighth levels, all the way down to the third level of Qi Refining.]
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