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    Su Xing was startled. Why would the Shadow Guardian suddenly seek him out? This hadn’t happened in previous simulations.

    “Did I do something to change the trajectory of the future?”

    Su Xing was baffled and continued the simulation.

    [Simultaneously, the Shadow Guardian directly revealed some information about you. She stated outright that you have some connection with the Taro Association because a batch of healing elixirs appeared in the Taro Association a couple of years ago.]

    [However, she also stated that she wasn’t interested in your true identity. She only wanted you to help her refine a batch of Nourishing Essence Pills and keep it a secret.]

    [You asked the Shadow Guardian how many Nourishing Essence Pills she needed. She replied that she needed five thousand.]

    [You were surprised. Five thousand Nourishing Essence Pills was no small number. This Shadow Guardian must have a big secret behind her to need so many.]

    [To play it safe, you said you only had time to refine so many Nourishing Essence Pills each month, and had no time to refine more.]

    [The Shadow Guardian saw through your childish lie. She said your reward wouldn’t be less. She would provide you with double the medicinal ingredients each month and have you refine an additional batch of Nourishing Essence Pills for her.]

    [You were even more certain that this Shadow Guardian had a secret. So you took the opportunity to make a request. In addition to the previous medicinal ingredients, you also wanted her to provide you with a batch of Yellow Immortal Essence each month.]

    [The Shadow Guardian agreed to your request and left.]

    [In the third year, you spent one week each month refining elixirs. Aside from refining the required number of Nourishing Essence Pills, you also started refining Refining Furnace Pills and began stockpiling them for the future.]

    [In between refining elixirs, you continued to diligently improve your cultivation. You reached the peak of the Golden Elixir Stage again.]

    [In the fourth year, you continued to diligently engrave the seventh Gold Dan pattern. At the same time, you completed the Shadow Guardian’s requirement of five thousand Nourishing Essence Pills. However, she didn’t stop there. Instead, she asked you to provide her with ten thousand Nourishing Essence Pills over the next few years.]

    [You agreed to the Shadow Guardian’s request, because the more she requested, the more medicinal ingredients you would get, allowing you to accumulate more elixirs.]

    [In the fifth year, you successfully engraved the seventh Gold Dan pattern, but your cultivation level dropped to the ninth level of the Golden Elixir Stage.]

    [In the sixth year, you restored your cultivation to the peak of the Golden Elixir Stage again.]

    [In the seventh year, you began working on engraving the eighth Gold Dan pattern. However, you discovered that the difficulty of engraving from the seventh pattern onwards was significantly higher than before. Thankfully, you had the True Spirit Root talent, so this level of difficulty didn’t faze you.]

    [In the eighth year, you continued to engrave Gold Dan patterns and completed the Shadow Guardian’s task of refining an additional ten thousand Nourishing Essence Pills.]

    [You thought the Shadow Guardian would ask you to continue refining the next batch of elixirs, but you found that she didn’t. She seemed to have something on her mind and became more silent and taciturn. There seemed to be a burden lifted from her.]

    [You gathered your courage and asked the Shadow Guardian why she needed those elixirs. She gave you a deep look and told you not to meddle in things that weren’t your concern. Otherwise, she would make you disappear from this world.]

    Su Xing furrowed his brow.

    “Sure enough, the Shadow Guardian’s behavior in this simulation is completely different from before… But why would this change happen?”

    Su Xing thought about it carefully and realized that the biggest change he made in this simulation was that he expanded the Taro Association’s power tenfold!

    To expand the Taro Association’s power, he refined and sold a large number of elixirs, including healing elixirs!

    This was why the Shadow Guardian vaguely guessed that he had a connection to the Taro Association. Of course, the Shadow Guardian probably didn’t know that he was Su Xing.

    “Wait… Maybe she already guessed?”

    Su Xing suddenly remembered that he joined the Descent Sect with Wang Qingxuan, and that he had some connection with the Taro Association. Outsiders might not know his identity, but the Shadow Guardian might have guessed it all.

    Su Xing’s brows furrowed slightly, and he muttered:

    “It’s fortunate that she guessed my identity in the simulation. It’s not a big deal… But the reason why the Shadow Guardian did all this is because she knew my identity?”

    But after knowing his identity, why would she make choices different from previous simulations?

    Su Xing continued to think along these lines.

    “Perhaps she didn’t fully trust me before. When she learned my identity, she lost some of her reservations?”

    Su Xing shook his head slightly, ready to uncover the Shadow Guardian’s secrets in subsequent simulations.

    [In the ninth year, you successfully engraved the eighth Gold Dan pattern, but your cultivation level dropped to the ninth level of the Golden Elixir Stage.]

    [In the tenth year, you diligently cultivated for a year, and your cultivation level returned to the peak of the Golden Elixir Stage.]

    [In the eleventh year, you started working on the final Gold Dan pattern. The difficulty of engraving the ninth pattern exceeded your expectations, but you had enough time to complete its engraving.]

    [In the twelfth year, you still hadn’t successfully engraved the ninth Gold Dan pattern. According to your estimate, it would take at least two to three more years to complete.]

    [Over these years, the Shadow Guardian had stopped asking you to refine additional elixirs. She seemed to have withdrawn, becoming increasingly obsessed with merging with the Shadow Beast. You even noticed that her right hand had completely turned black, resembling the Shadow Beast.]

    [In the same year, to extend the duration of the simulation, you used some methods to find Lu Yuwu.]

    [You gave him all three thousand Refining Furnace Pills you had accumulated over the years and instructed him to announce to the outside world that they were made by alchemists within the Great Summer military.]

    [You silently prayed that the human race would survive longer in this simulation, giving you more time to simulate.]

    [However, you also prepared enough Nourishing Essence Pills and Nourishing Spirit Pills, ready to flee at any moment. After all, you revealed quite a lot to the Shadow Guardian in this simulation. She might have already guessed that the Refining Furnace Pills were made by you. If she reported your betrayal to the Descent Sect, your betrayal would be impossible to hide.]

    [Fortunately, nothing happened that year.]

    [In the thirteenth year, you were still focused on engraving the ninth Gold Dan pattern. Engraving the ninth pattern required a lot of mental energy. If you hadn’t taken so many Nourishing Spirit Pills, your spiritual power would have been much lower than other cultivators at the same level, and it would have been impossible to engrave it.]

    [Thankfully, you were halfway through engraving. Unless something unexpected happened, you would be able to complete the engraving of the ninth Gold Dan pattern in this simulation.]

    [As you were immersed in engraving the Gold Dan pattern, one day, the Descent Sect’s high-ranking members came to your residence.]

    [This time, a large number of Descent Sect high-ranking members came, including four guardians and over ten elders, among them the Shadow Guardian and the Zong Guardian.]

    [The Zong Guardian had a cruel smile on his face. He took out a Refining Furnace Pill from his storage device and said that this pill was made by you, and that you were a traitor who betrayed the Descent Sect!]

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