Simulated immortality allows me to calculate talent stats.

[Twentieth year, age thirty-six.]

[The desert at dusk presents a desolate and lonely scene.]

You light a campfire, roasting a leg of lamb; your refined and handsome face is etched with a touch of world-weariness.

This escape, initially planned as a desperate journey through the vast deserts of the Western Regions, gradually devolved into a game of pursuit.

[Multiple rounds of maneuvering, probing, and intelligence gathering.]

You have already formed a clear picture of your pursuer in your mind.

[A woman, very young, probably only in her early twenties, with an unparalleled talent for divination.]

This pursuit of you, from beginning to end, is imbued with an arrogant condescension.

[Initially, perhaps because of your aunt, she tried to give you a chance to survive, but as time passed, you sensed the murderous intent of the mastermind behind it all, and that intent vanished.]

It seems like I'm giving you a way out.

In reality, your existence is insignificant and will no longer have any impact, hence the disregard.

The reason we continue to keep you trapped in the Western Regions and relentlessly pursue you is...

[It's because they're using you as a whetstone to train that fortune-telling woman.]

[Use your extraordinary ability to "predict the future" and reverse divination to hone that woman's skills in divination.]

You stirred the campfire and used firewood to draw a line in the desert.

Ten years ago, you arrived in Loulan and found your aunt, Wen Fei. Behind the scenes, the mastermind was determined to kill you, and you only managed to survive thanks to your aunt.

Therefore, at that time, you were seen as an unstable factor by those behind the scenes, and had to be eliminated.

[Later, the murderous intent lessened, turning into indifference, and ultimately, he used you as a whetstone to cultivate geniuses.]

[Compile a timeline showing the changes in the attitude of those behind the scenes towards you.]

[Based on the overall situation in the Western Regions and the changes in major events, you can easily make your guess.]

The massacre of the entire family was linked to a rebellion in the Western Regions ten years prior.

Aunt Wen Fei knew the inside story; she even thought you had died on the night of the massacre.

The reason we wanted to kill you ten years ago was because you would have been a destabilizing factor in the rebellion.

[Later, they raised an army, broke through Yumen Pass, occupied Yongzhou, and were locked in a stalemate with Han Jing's army, so you became insignificant.]

You've cleared away the surface fog, but many questions remain.

[Aunt Wen Fei knew the inside story, but what about Father? What role did he play, and why did he bring about the tragic end of his entire family being wiped out?]

[“The ten-year period has ended. Shall we settle our lives and draw our talent attributes?”]

[A system notification sounded, and you smiled with relief, your eyes filled with anticipation.]

You no longer want to stay in this desert; no matter how beautiful the Western Regions are, you're already tired of it.

[Hopefully, I can draw a talent attribute that helps me overcome this predicament.]

You throw the firewood into the fire; the settlement will be made immediately.

Three years after three years, ten years of hardship in the Western Desert, only the sweetness of Yuti. You paid the price for your carefree smile at Yumen Pass that day, tasting the bitterness of youthful arrogance.

"How can someone be intersex?"

[Talent attribute extraction in progress...]

【"Hidden Clues and Shadows" (Blue)】

You are like a fleeting mirage, formless and traceless, elusive and hard to find, capable of erasing any trace of your existence, hiding in the shadows, and becoming darkness itself.

Seeing the pure, azure light, drawing an epic-level talent modifier, and then looking at its effect, you forgive the system's yin-yang description.

"Hidden traces" erase all traces, conceal the shadows, and transform into darkness, allowing you to see the glimmer of hope for escaping your predicament.

[For so many years, I have been unable to leave the Western Regions because of the formidable natural barrier, the Jade Gate Pass.]

After the Western Regions rebels breached the Jade Gate Pass and seized control of the defenses, they trapped you like a fish in a pond, using you to hone the skills of that fortune-telling woman.

Every time you attempt to approach the Jade Gate Pass, the "Prophet" foresees your inevitable demise.

That's why you've been wandering through the Western Regions for ten years.

Now, with hidden traces and shadows, they can finally attempt to break through the formidable defenses and regain their freedom.

Your figure, as ethereal as a mirage, then vanished into inky shadows, merging into the flickering shadows of the campfire.

[Then, stealthily moving through the surrounding darkness, they appeared out of thin air in the distance.]

The entire process left no trace, and even divination and other methods could not predict its course.

It's as if you never existed here.

After becoming familiar with the use of "Concealment," you begin to formulate a plan.

[Operation codename: "Infernal Affairs"]

[Every time you used your "foresight" to escape danger and hide, your location would be discovered by divination within a month at most.]

[Furthermore, approaching the Jade Gate Pass to a certain distance will inevitably lead to certain death.]

Therefore, you cannot use "Concealment" at long distances for the time being to avoid any anomalies in the opponent's divination.

Then, as they approached Yumen Pass and neared the death threat line, they exploited the one-month gap in the opponent's calculations.

[Use this time period to break through the blockade by "concealing traces".]

The reason you're being so cautious is because you're currently a fish in a pond, unable to escape and struggling desperately.

The person behind the scenes believes they have everything under control.

However, if you exhibit any unusual behavior, those behind the scenes might change their minds and launch a severe attack against you.

You won't be able to handle it then.

[You added a few more pieces of firewood and began your cultivation. You have now broken through the seventh of the eight extraordinary meridians.]

……

The cold moon hangs high, its color like frost.

The Jade Gate Pass, a towering mountain range, lies like a lurking dragon in the darkness, separating the Western Regions from Yongzhou.

At this moment, on the hundred-meter-high city wall, a figure in a long, azure dress sits by the wall, her long legs swinging, the hem of her dress fluttering.

The woman possessed exquisite features, a pure and innocent temperament, and eyes as clear as still autumn water, imbued with a mysterious charm.

[The hand gestures form a mudra, with intricate hexagram patterns that seem to evolve and encircle the fingertips.]

"They're heading towards Yumen Pass again..."

[Yu Ci spoke softly, one hand holding the seal, the other lightly patting the magic sword at his waist, the deadly threat following the invisible and traceless divination.]

Then, as if sensing the danger beforehand, that person moved away and disappeared.

[Yu Ci's delicate and pure face possessed an incongruous air of calm detachment, which was not surprising.]

[The hand seals change, and the divination continues.]

Over the course of ten years, she couldn't remember how many times that person had disappeared from her divination.

Whenever I calculate the other person's location, they seem to anticipate and counteract it even before my divination.

I anticipated her prediction.

【This is utterly unbelievable.】

[Back then, her cultivation in divination at the third realm was like this; after breaking through to the fifth realm, it remained the same; and now at the sixth realm, it's still the same.]

"I refuse to believe I can't catch you, unless you can predict the future."

Yu Ci hummed softly, her slightly upturned lips softening her aloofness and revealing a woman's radiance.

For ten years, she used divination to predict the man's location, then used magical artifacts to remotely deploy forces from all sides to surround and kill him, but he always managed to escape.

[This person seems to be Sister Wen's nephew. Sister Wen had a fierce argument with her husband over him back then, and it was her teacher who intervened to mediate.]

[That's when the arrangement came about for her to be in charge of the arrests.]

[If it weren't for Sister Wen's request, she would have already been unable to hold back and personally investigated what methods that person used to deduce the truth.]

"Don't bother calculating it, he's no longer in the Western Regions."

"Sister Wen?"