The heavens began from a small hell

In a certain spiritual land of the heavens, Jiang Luoshen, residing in a certain immortal artifact universe, began a new imitation.

[In the 23rd year of the new calendar, having reached the pinnacle of your spiritual journey, you believed that the vastness of the world held no insurmountable danger, and even the previously feared depths of the Calamity Land seemed to hold no real threat. Alone, you traversed the blood-red, sacrificial sea, crossed the edge of the ancient plateau, and passed through the Heavenly Cave, venturing into uncharted territories.]

[Deep within the desolate, ancient plateau, you see coffin after coffin, gray mist silently spreading between heaven and earth. A sense of urgency arises from nowhere, causing your expression to change slightly.]

With a loud clang, the lid of one of the coffins, filled with an eerie substance, was pushed open from the inside. Pale white paper scraps fluttered out, quickly forming a humanoid hand, and a spear materialized in an instant, radiating the annihilation of the Great Dao.

"Those who invade our ancestral land shall die!"

[A strange Daoist chant entered your mind, and almost simultaneously you launched a fierce attack. Your simple, unadorned palm strike, delivered after a Daoist ritual to return to your origin, struck the spear thrusting towards you from the side.]

In the next instant, a fierce battle at the sacrificial level erupted deep within the plateau. Soon, a second and third coffin opened, and monsters resembling long-haired, decaying corpses crawled out.

[After enduring immense pressure fighting against multiple opponents for some time, you vaguely saw an unbelievably powerful surge of blood-red light rising into the sky beyond the plateau. However, before the light reached you, exhausted and drained, you were pierced through the soul by a spear adorned with stark white paper scraps, and your consciousness gradually faded into death.]

Before your consciousness faded, you saw a bright, clear light streak across the plateau, piercing through the gray mist and heading straight for the battlefield. You didn't see what happened in the end.

[You are dead. This simulation has ended.]

Please select one option from the following.

[I. All memories from this simulation.]

II. The Realms and Related Memories in this Simulation.

[III. One of the items in this simulation.]

Looking at the lines of text in front of her, it would be impossible for Jiang Luoshen not to be shocked. She had thought she would live for many, many years, but unexpectedly, the simulation ended with her death right at the beginning.

"This... is really unexpected."

Jiang Luoshen murmured to herself. The previous times she had passed through the Heavenly Cave obediently without causing such an incident. Otherwise, with her strength at that time, which was not yet at the level of the Sacrifice Dao, she would have had no hope of reaching the Heavenly Cave.

After a moment's thought, Jiang Luoshen chose Option 1, inheriting all the memories from the simulation.

Because the simulation time is short, the simulated body's personality will not be different from hers, so there is no risk of being 'possessed'.

The moment she made her choice, Jiang Luoshen had a new memory in her mind—a detailed account of the simulation, rather than a brief written description.

Recalling what she had seen and heard in the simulation, Jiang Luoshen knew that she had encountered the mysterious ancestor of a race whom she had only heard of by name but never seen in the previous simulation.

And it happened all at once... ten people.

Although she only fought against three progenitors, there were ten coffins half-buried deep in the plateau, which clearly indicates that the strange race has ten progenitors.

Jiang Luoshen also noticed that although there were ten coffins where the ancestor slept, and different strange substances permeated them, there were only six types of strange substances in total, not ten.

This is very incongruous and easily leads people to mistakenly believe that the strange race only has six progenitors.

However, the density of the strange substance outside the coffins indicates that these coffins are undoubtedly the coffins of the progenitors.

“Strange, weren’t all the progenitors of the strange race supposed to go to the ‘upper realm’? How come there are still ten progenitors of the strange race deep in the plateau… Could it be that there were far more than ten progenitors of the strange race at the beginning, and the ten progenitors I saw were just those who remained in the various worlds?” Jiang Luoshen frowned slightly, unable to understand how the minds of the strange race were structured.

Since ten ancestors remained in various worlds, why didn't the strange race seal off the Heavenly Cave to prevent powerful beings from entering?
To say that the strange clan set up an ambush at the other end of the Heavenly Cave... based on Jiang Luoshen's 'personal experience', the so-called ambush did not exist.

Different individuals passing through the Heavenly Cave, even if they are holding hands, will be randomly scattered in a certain place after arriving at the Heavenly Cave, and will not be fixed in a certain area.

Jiang Luoshen has a lot to say about this, because she passed through the Heavenly Cave at the same time in different simulations, but ended up in different places.

Once you arrive in that world, there's little hope of returning to the myriad worlds, because you simply can't find the celestial cave that connects them.

So... the Strange Clan knows this, which is why they openly don't stop the powerful beings from all eras? Because they know that once they pass through the Heavenly Cave, they can never return?
"Alas, those two still suffered from a lack of intelligence. Otherwise, why would they have left in such a hurry? They could have easily wiped out the strange clan before passing through the Heavenly Cave."

Jiang Luoshen sighed softly.

The two people she was referring to were naturally Huang and Ye. Although she had not seen Huang and Ye in the previous simulations, she had learned of their departure from the supreme being of the heavens, Luo.

I learned about the 'mysterious progenitor passing through the Heavenly Cave' around that time as well.

To this day, Jiang Luoshen still doesn't know how to refer to the world beyond the Heavenly Cave. Although there are also terms like 'XX Realm' there, these are only used to distinguish different worlds at the same level.

The various worlds and the Heavenly Cave... are clearly not on the same level.

If we disregard the sacrificial path leading to sublimation at the end of the road, even an ordinary life-bearing planet in the vast world beyond the Heavenly Cave is an insurmountable peak for all ages.

All the myriad realms and worlds of the worlds are but dust compared to the upper realm behind the Heavenly Cave.

"The moment you pass through the Heavenly Cave, you are essentially separated from all worlds in every sense. Even if you communicate with the past incarnation of the 'Ascension', you will not be able to transmit the content of the communication to the present."

"Ten bizarre progenitors...it seems we can't count on those two."

Jiang Luoshen's mind raced, and she recalled the blood-red light and the clear white light she had seen 'before she died'.

The former is the Red-Clad Empress who controls the ultimate blood energy of all worlds. She was initially believed to have attained enlightenment by devouring the blood energy of all things in heaven and earth. Jiang Luoshen had communicated with the Red-Clad Empress in previous simulations.

the latter……

With detailed memories, Jiang Luoshen was naturally able to recognize that it was her husband's aura.

That clear white light was the light of an arrow, its origin unknown. The only thing she was certain of was that the arrow would hit one of the progenitors.

If she hadn't faced the three progenitors simultaneously, and if she had been able to hold out a little longer, the outcome of the battle might have been entirely different.

Jiang Luoshen knew that the death in the simulation was no one else's fault but her own, since she had been able to act recklessly without any worries.

Soon, another year passed in the Immortal Artifact Universe, while the outside world was still in the 23rd year of the New Calendar.

In the latest simulation, Jiang Luoshen was deeply moved. Her experience in the simulation was completely different from the previous ones, as the strange clan actually launched a grand sacrifice.

(End of this chapter)