NOVEL NEXT Chapter 3: A Treasured Plot of Mid-Grade Spiritual Field
[Lin Family Year 212, August: With your cultivation reaching the Eighth Stage of the Postnatal Realm, you eagerly returned to your quarters, bringing the remaining ten lower-grade spirit stones to continue cultivating.]
[Lin Family Year 212, September: After a month of intensive cultivation, you refined all ten spirit stones, stabilizing your Eighth-Stage level and pushing it nearly to the peak of this realm, just a step away from the Ninth Stage.]
[Lin Family Year 214, June 19th: After nearly two years of accumulation, you finally broke through to the Prenatal Realm. Just over a month later, the family hosted a coming-of-age ceremony for you and the other eighteen-year-olds.]
[With lessons learned from the previous simulation, you deliberately hid your strength at the challenge tournament, still taking first place but without a dominating performance that might attract attention.]
[Lin Family Year 217, September 8th: Your cultivation advanced to the Second Stage of the Prenatal Realm.]
[Lin Family Year 222, June 19th: You reached the Third Stage of the Prenatal Realm.]
[Seeing your cultivation progress slowing, you shifted most of your focus to Martial Skills.]
[Lin Family Year 224, December 25th: After more than two years of dedicated training, you mastered the family’s secret sword Skill, Furious Sea Raging Wave, greatly increasing your combat strength.]
[Lin Family Year 225, July 8th: You sensed an unusual surge of spiritual energy from deep within the Lin family grounds, suggesting a treasure had emerged.]
[Worried about revealing your abilities, you didn’t investigate, but that evening, your father informed you of the cause: a lower-grade spiritual field within the family, after much careful nurturing by the elders, had advanced to a mid-grade spiritual field. Overjoyed, you celebrated the family’s good fortune.]
[Lin Family Year 227, September 9th: With the mid-grade spiritual field now stabilizing the Lin family’s foundation, the cultivation of spiritual herbs accelerated, vastly increasing the family’s resources. Even with your public cultivation level limited to the Ninth Stage of the Postnatal Realm, you now receive a monthly allowance of one lower-grade spirit stone for training. That same year, your cultivation broke through to the Fourth Stage of the Prenatal Realm, and you revealed your new strength at the First Stage of the Prenatal Realm to the public.]
[Lin Family Year 228, March 15th: But walls have ears. Eventually, word of the Lin family’s advancement reached other factions. Led by the Zhao, Wang, and Huang families, the three rival families launched a sudden night assault on the Lin family. You fought back with all your might.]
To protect the family, you unleash your true strength, cutting down a Second Stage Prenatal Realm martial artist with a single blow, stunning everyone present. However, this only infuriated the elite fighters from the three families, and in the end, you perished under their combined onslaught.
With your death, this simulation has concluded.
“Those three families again—the Wang, Zhao, and Huang families! Why are they so relentless?”
“And how did they find out about our mid-grade spiritual field? The Lin family’s high members would have kept that secret under tight wraps. Why did the secret leak so easily?”
“If those three families uncovered the secret, there’s no reason other powerful families wouldn’t as well…”
Lin Zichen frowned, pondering the simulation record, sensing that the situation wasn’t so straightforward.
Unlike the family feuds described in the novels he had read in his previous life, the Lin family was a united front, skilled in concealing its strength and preserving hidden cards.
For example, on the surface, Lin Shoucheng, the Lin family head, only displayed the Fifth Stage of the Prenatal Realm, yet Lin Zichen knew that his father’s true level had already reached the Seventh Stage.
And it wasn’t just the family head—other Prenatal Realm martial artists in the Lin family similarly kept parts of their power concealed.
In terms of overall strength, the Lin family’s ranking within the ten families of Qingfeng City was likely much higher than its official position of seventh, perhaps even in the top five, or even the top three.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host! Simulation successful. The following rewards have been generated, and you may choose one.]
1. Ten lower-grade spirit stones
2. Mastery of the Furious Sea Raging Wave Skill
3. One plot of mid-grade spiritual field
While Lin Zichen was deep in thought, a cold, mechanical voice suddenly sounded in his mind. It was the notification for this round of simulation rewards.
“Huh? No cultivation-level reward option this time?”
Lin Zichen was briefly taken aback as he scanned the three choices before him. But he quickly understood why.
If he remembered correctly, the system had mentioned that the rewards from his first simulation would be unusually valuable. “That explains it.”
“It’s a shame, though—if I could choose a cultivation-level reward, I’d definitely make it onto the Qianyuan Heavenly Talent List, maybe even rank quite high.”
Shaking his head, a hint of regret appeared on Lin Zichen’s face. He knew that the rarer the item, the lower the chance of it being offered by the system as a reward after the simulation ended. In a world ruled by martial prowess, cultivation was always the most valuable option among choices of the same level.
If there had been an option for the Fourth Stage of the Prenatal Realm, he would have picked it without hesitation.
But now, he needed to think carefully.
“Of the three options, I’ll rule out the first one. Then there’s mastering the Furious Sea Raging Wave Skill and the mid-grade spiritual field. In terms of sheer value, the field is definitely far more precious. But choosing the mid-grade field has its risks—after all, there was that simulation…”
The thought left Lin Zichen looking conflicted. As the saying goes, “An innocent man with a treasure invites his own ruin.”
Though the Lin family was one of Qingfeng City’s ten major families, its strongest martial artist was only in the Ninth Stage of the Prenatal Realm, with no Master-level powerhouse in residence. That made things delicate.
The Lin family could hold several plots of lower-grade spiritual field, but it couldn’t protect a mid-grade field.
Lower-grade fields accelerated the growth of spiritual herbs suitable for Prenatal Realm warriors, but a mid-grade field could cultivate mid-grade spiritual herbs suitable for Masters. Though only one grade higher, the difference in value was enormous.
“Screw it! If I’m going to worry and avoid good rewards out of fear, what’s the point of being reborn here?”
“System, I choose option three.”
With that, Lin Zichen steeled himself and made his choice. If he handled things carefully, the mid-grade spiritual field’s existence wouldn’t necessarily be discovered immediately. If he could keep it hidden for two or three years, he’d have enough time to transform the entire Lin family with the help of the Immortal Clan Simulator.
By then, it would be unclear who the real prey was.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host! Your choice has been confirmed.]
Following the system’s mechanical announcement, a ten-acre plot of spiritual field exuding dense spiritual energy appeared in the system’s space.
Mid-Grade Spiritual Field: Ten acres in size, can speed up the growth of lower-grade spiritual herbs by 100 to 200 times, mid-grade herbs by 10 to 30 times, with no boost for high-grade herbs. The quantity of high-grade herbs cultivated will be significantly reduced.
It was a simple description, but the effects were profound.