Ch 1: Life Simulator
The early morning rain pattered down, shrouding the entire Liu Family Village in a veil of rain.
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Under the eaves in front of the door, Er Ya sat on a bamboo stool, her hands propping up her chin, constantly gazing towards the alley entrance.
Finally, a tall figure appeared at the alley entrance.
Er Ya’s eyes lit up, she jumped off the stool and called out crisply, “Brother Gu Yang, it’s raining today, you’re not going into the mountains, right? Come and continue telling the story of Sun Wukong, what happened after he was pressed under the Five Fingers Mountain?”
The man called Gu Yang raised his head, and when he smiled, his white teeth were revealed, “I’ll tell you next time when I have time. The merchant caravan has arrived, and I have to take the mountain goods to sell.”
Er Ya watched his departing figure, her face flushed, and she fantasized, “Brother Gu Yang is so handsome, it would be great if I could marry him in the future…”
Thinking of this, she felt both shy and sweet.
According to the village’s custom, she could get married in another two years.
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Gu Yang hadn’t walked far when he met an auntie, who greeted him warmly, “Gu Yang, how have you considered the girl I told you about last time?”
“Let me tell you, she is the most outstanding girl in the surrounding villages, both beautiful and virtuous. The people who have come to propose marriage to her have almost broken down her doorstep. She has taken a liking to you, she said, she doesn’t need any betrothal gifts, just a few catties of cured meat will do…”
Gu Yang looked at the enthusiastic auntie and said with a wry smile, “Ninth Auntie, I’m used to being a wanderer, so I won’t delay the girl. Please help me decline. I have to go back and get the mountain goods…”
Saying this, he quickly slipped away.
“Hey, hey, I haven’t finished yet…”
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Gu Yang breathed a sigh of relief after getting rid of Ninth Auntie.
The girl she mentioned was only fourteen years old, but she was big-boned and had a thick waist, he couldn’t possibly handle that.
Suddenly, he chuckled bitterly, “For a transmigrator to end up like this, there’s really no one else.”
He had a huge secret hidden in his heart, he was not actually from this world, but from Earth, having transmigrated here two years ago.
Moreover, it was a very rare body transmigration.
For two years, he hadn’t even left the newbie village.
This village was called Liu Family Village, located deep in the mountains. How remote was it? It took a day and a night to walk to the nearest market.
The people of Liu Family Village had moved to these vast mountains to avoid heavy taxes and corvée labor.
Two years ago, Gu Yang transmigrated to the nearby woods, almost starving to death, thanks to the people of Liu Family Village who took him in.
He had been living here for two years, learning the local language while learning how to hunt and farm in order to integrate into this world.
In the mountains, news was scarce. Until now, all he knew was that this country was called Great Zhou.
Liu Family Village belonged to the Jiang Prefecture, located in the Lian Mountain Range.
Moreover, this world had those powerful experts who could fly and leap.
The most powerful hunter in the village was Liu Shitou, who had saved him, and could kill a leopard with one punch.
According to Liu Shitou, his skills were only rudimentary, and were not even considered a proper martial art by real experts.
After Gu Yang’s repeated requests, Liu Shitou finally agreed to teach him his family’s martial arts.
He had been training for almost two years, and his body had only become a little stronger, and his strength had increased a bit. He had not yet felt the Qi Sensation that Liu Shitou had spoken of.
Liu Shitou comforted him, saying that he was too old and had missed the best time to train, which was why his progress was so slow.
Gu Yang knew that it was only one aspect. His aptitude must also be very poor.
If there were no accidents, he could forget about becoming a martial artist in this lifetime.
However, Gu Yang had not completely given up.
He still had a trump card.
When he transmigrated, a panel also appeared before his eyes, named “Life Simulator”.
This should be his golden finger.
However, this golden finger could not be used yet. Every time he opened it, a prompt would pop up, “Insufficient balance, please recharge.”
He had tried all sorts of things, and the only thing that could be used to recharge was the currency of this world.
So far, he had recharged more than eight thousand copper coins, which was more than eight taels of silver.
Gu Yang believed that as long as he kept recharging, one day, he would be able to save enough to use the golden finger.
At this moment, he arrived home.
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In a remote mountain village like Liu Family Village, a merchant caravan would only come every few months, mainly to purchase furs, medicinal herbs, and so on.
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Gu Yang took out the things he had saved up over the past few months. The most valuable was a complete sable pelt.
After some haggling, he sold them for a total of more than two taels of silver.
This price was definitely a loss.
But there was no other way, this was a buyer’s market.
If he didn’t sell to them, he could only barter at the nearest market. In these mountains, no one used silver. These traveling merchants only brought silver with them after he specifically asked them to.
After Gu Yang sold his things, he returned home and closed the door.
He opened the system, took a deep breath, and selected “Recharge”.
The two taels of silver in his hand immediately disappeared into thin air.
【Recharge successful, current balance is 10.3.】
【Do you want to use the Life Simulator? Using it once consumes 10 gold.】
When Gu Yang saw this prompt, his eyes welled up with tears.
For two years, he had finally completed his initial accumulation and saved enough money to use the golden finger.
He couldn’t wait to click yes, “Yes!”
Immediately, lines of text appeared before his eyes.
【At the age of twenty, you were stranded in Liu Family Village and taken in by villager Liu Shitou.】
【At the age of twenty-two, you decided to venture out with the merchant caravan. On the way, you encountered a hunting team and were hunted down. You jumped into the river and luckily survived.】
【You were seriously injured and were saved by a merchant surnamed Wang. To repay his life-saving grace, you worked as his accountant for five years.】
【At the age of twenty-seven, you saved enough money to buy a 《Mystic Origin Skill》 and embarked on the path of cultivation.】
【At the age of thirty-seven, you spent ten years finally mastering the first level and became a Ninth-Rank Martial Artist.】
【At the age of forty, your boss offended a Seventh-Rank Martial Artist, who came to his door to kill him. You desperately resisted and were killed on the spot, ending this life.】
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That’s it?
Gu Yang was speechless after reading it.
It took him more than ten years to become the lowest-ranked martial artist. This aptitude was simply appalling.
In other words, without the golden finger, his life would just be like this.
Could he be considered the worst transmigrator of this generation?
【Simulation ended, you can retain one of the following.】
【One, your martial arts realm at the age of forty.】
【Two, your martial arts experience at the age of forty.】
【Three, your life wisdom at the age of forty.】
Gu Yang was overjoyed when he saw this.
In other words, he could immediately possess the realm, martial arts experience, or life wisdom he had at the age of forty in the simulated life. Choose one of the three.
What a great deal!
Gu Yang did not hesitate and chose one.
For him now, the most important thing was naturally his martial arts realm.
As the saying goes, “Practice martial arts without training your skills, and it will all be in vain.”
Power was the key.
In the next moment, Gu Yang felt a surge of heat flowing through his body. In his mind, a mantra for a cultivation technique naturally surfaced, which was the first level of the 《Mystic Origin Skill》.
The true qi in his body moved as easily as if he had trained for ten years.
He had already stepped into the ranks of a Ninth-Rank Martial Artist.
“This is it?”
Gu Yang was still somewhat incredulous. Suddenly, he punched the door frame next to him. As his true qi circulated, he heard a bang, and his fist directly pierced through the door frame.
He looked at his unscathed hand and the hole in the door, feeling a surge of emotion.
He knew that from this moment on, those miserable days of the past were gone forever.