I cultivate immortality through The Sims.

What's there to hesitate about?

Yang Mu immediately began the simulation:

[In your first year, you were eighteen.]

Do you know that your sect will face a great calamity in three years?

When the city gate catches fire, the fish in the moat will inevitably suffer.

Therefore, you practice even more diligently.

Meanwhile, panic gripped the sect, and rumors were flying everywhere.

The rumors persisted for three months, yet no high-ranking members of the sect came forward to refute them.

This further confirms the reliability of those rumors.

The members of the Thousand Clouds Sect grew increasingly uneasy and restless.

Finally, some members of the sect, in order to increase their own chances of survival, began to attack and kill their fellow disciples, stealing their pills and spirit stones.

The one who was attacked and killed this time was an outer sect disciple.

[Soon, the outer disciple who attacked and killed his fellow disciple was captured by the Holy Maiden and the Enforcement Hall, and then publicly executed.]

Clearly, this is merely a deterrent measure.

But you know, people's hearts have changed, and deterrence alone is ineffective.

Since this incident, outer disciples have been afraid to go out alone at night.

During the day, outer sect disciples also formed teams of two or three at the sect.

[Now you seem to think it's better to have menial disciples.]

The menial disciple had almost nothing except his life.

You ignore the changes happening in the outside world.

You have consistently maintained a methodical pace in your practice.

However, having five elemental roots will make your cultivation speed extremely slow.

At this rate, you definitely won't be able to break through to the sixth level of Qi Refining by the time the Five Sects Alliance is formed three years from now.

Only by breaking through to the sixth level of Qi Refining can you become an outer disciple.

Only by becoming an outer disciple can you have the opportunity to befriend inner disciples and gain access to more information and opportunities.

Therefore, you decided to take the risk and steal discarded pills and spiritual herbs.

[During the six months you've been with the sect, you've been diligent and conscientious, performing your menial tasks exceptionally well.]

[With the saint's recommendation.]

You have been given the opportunity to work as a handyman in the alchemy room.

[You have become the only one among the three thousand menial disciples to be allowed into the alchemy room.]

This greatly facilitates your theft of discarded pills.

As for genuine pills, you dare not touch them for now.

【then,】

You were meticulous when doing odd jobs.

You were extremely careful when stealing discarded elixirs and herbs.

Then came the arduous practice.

Finally, after a year, you've broken through to the second level of Qi Refining, and even touched the threshold of the third level.

You've taken another step closer to becoming an outer disciple.

The following year, you were nineteen years old.

As you predicted, the deterrent effect of the Enforcement Hall didn't last long.

Within two months, eight more bodies were discovered.

Soon, the five outer disciples who attacked their fellow disciples were executed on the spot by the Holy Maiden.

However, what will horrify you is that among the corpses this time was a lowly disciple at the fourth level of Qi Refining.

The menial disciples are the lowest-ranking members of the sect, yet also the most numerous.

The killing of this menial disciple immediately plunged the other menial disciples into panic.

The panic among the menial disciples further heightened the sect's unease.

But you soon realize that something is wrong.

The menial disciple had neither magical treasures, nor elixirs, nor spirit stones.

[And yet, they lack the ability.]

Why would anyone attack a servant disciple?

The deceased handyman disciple was male.

Although you are very confused, a sense of crisis has already enveloped you.

[During your evening cultivation, you begin consuming more waste pills in an attempt to accelerate your cultivation and increase your strength.]

Even if discarding the elixir causes irreversible damage to your body due to elixir poisoning.

Six months later, you broke through to the third level of Qi Refining.

But you did not slack off; you continued to cultivate diligently and assiduously.

[In the seventh month, the consequences of the panic among the menial disciples began to appear.]

[The sect has been experiencing frequent thefts of magical artifacts, herbs, and spirit stones.]

After the Holy Maiden led the disciples of the Enforcement Hall to slaughter dozens of menial disciples, the theft has temporarily ceased.

Because the elders of the Pill Refining Pavilion were refining pills in the Pill Refining Room almost every day, the pills were the only thing that wasn't stolen.

You survived this ordeal.

Zhang Erdan must have had some incredible luck; he wasn't implicated in this whole affair.

However, the panic within the sect was like water about to boil, ready to explode at any moment.

[In the ninth month, an inner disciple was finally assassinated, and the sect's higher-ups could no longer remain silent.]

Only those who reach the Foundation Establishment stage can be promoted to inner disciple.

Inner disciples are the backbone of the sect.

This time, the sect did not find the culprit who attacked and killed the inner sect disciple.

However, in order to stabilize morale within the sect, the Golden Core ancestor and the sect leader, both at the Golden Core level, jointly convened a sect-wide meeting to reassure the members.

[Furthermore, under the pretext of eliminating spies, he killed one inner disciple and five outer disciples.]

Finally, the panic within the sect has been temporarily alleviated.

Following this incident, the inner disciples tacitly began their seclusion.

But you know, this is definitely not that simple.

Upon seeing this, Yang Mu couldn't help but nod:

If the two Golden Core experts were unharmed, they could have stepped forward immediately to forcefully suppress those spreading the rumors as soon as they emerged.

Or they could reveal their terrifying cultivation level at the Golden Core stage to reassure people.

At that time, the rumors will surely be disproven on their own.

Instead of only stepping in when the inner disciples are in a critical moment of mutual attack and suspicion.

Thinking of this, Yang Mu continued to look at the simulator:

[You guessed that although the two Golden Core experts were still alive, there was definitely a huge problem.]

The Five Clans Union is drawing ever closer.

To increase your strength more quickly, you've had to start stealing elixirs.

Using elixirs to aid cultivation is the fastest way to improve one's cultivation level.

Although you know that being captured means certain death, if things continue as they are, you might encounter an accident before the Five Sects Alliance even arrives.

Why not take a gamble? After all, the bigger the waves, the more valuable the fish.

[Perhaps the killing of an inner disciple made even the Foundation Establishment stage alchemy elder feel the danger.]

He also spent more time in his cave dwelling than in his alchemy room.

Therefore, apart from you, the sect's holy maiden, and the alchemy room elder, no one else entered the alchemy room.

This gave you an opportunity.

The theft of the elixir went smoothly at first.

With the aid of elixirs, you broke through to the third level of Qi Refining in just two months, and even touched the threshold of the fourth level of Qi Refining.

But finally, during one of your thefts of elixirs, you were caught red-handed by the Holy Maiden.

You thought the Holy Maiden would kill you on the spot.

But for some reason, the saintess didn't intervene; instead, she gestured for you to continue your theft.

You were so frightened you were almost paralyzed, and you didn't dare to steal openly.

The saintess smiled, her stunning beauty sending chills down your spine.

[Afterwards, the Holy Maiden acted as if she knew nothing and nothing had happened, strolling around the Pill Pavilion for a while.]

As she was leaving, the saintess placed the bottle of pills into your hand and whispered in your ear:

Come to my cave at midnight tonight.