My Life Can Be Simulated Infinitely – Chapter 3

Ch 3: Heaven’s Pride List

After nightfall, Gu Yang, carrying a jar of wine, went to Liu Shitou’s house next door to drink with him.

The wine was brewed by himself, and it had been exactly a year.

After a few cups of wine, Gu Yang said with some emotion, “Two years ago, if you hadn’t given me a bite to eat, my bones would have long been cold. I’ll toast you.”

Liu Shitou finished the wine in his bowl and said, “We’re all just trying to make a living in the mountains. If we encounter someone in trouble, we should naturally help if we can.”

“To you, it was just a small favor, but to me, it was a life-saving grace.”

As Gu Yang spoke, he took out a book and said, “This is the 《Mystic Origin Skill》. Although it only has the first level, it’s enough to cultivate and enter the ranks.”

Liu Shitou looked at the book. It was densely filled with writing, obviously hand-copied by Gu Yang himself.

He filled a bowl with wine, drank it all in one gulp, hiccuped, and said, “I can’t read anyway.”

“You can ask the village chief, or pass it on to your son.”

The village chief was the only literate person in the village, and Gu Yang had also learned from him.

“Are you leaving?”

“Yeah.”

Liu Shitou stopped talking and just drank silently.

After a long while, the jar of rice wine was empty. He drank the last bowl of wine, slammed the bowl on the table, and said in a somewhat hoarse voice, “It’s dangerous out there, don’t die outside.”

Gu Yang laughed, “Don’t worry, I have a very long life.”

As he went out, he said to the house, “Take care of yourself too.”

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The next morning, the rain had stopped.

Gu Yang arrived at the village entrance, where the merchant caravan was ready to depart.

Although it was called a merchant caravan, it was actually just a group of about a dozen mules. Old Gao only owned a third of them, and the remaining two-thirds belonged to three other traveling merchants.

The Lian Mountain Range was extremely vast, and there were countless villages like Liu Family Village. People in the mountains made their living by hunting. Every year, they accumulated countless animal hides.

Merchants only needed to use some cheap daily necessities, salt, and the like to exchange for valuable animal hides and medicinal herbs.

Because of this, although there were countless dangers in the mountains, traveling merchants like Old Gao, who were bold and daring, would still come to collect goods on time every year.

Now, they even dared to come up with the idea of opening up new trade routes, even in dangerous places like Wang Family Gully.

It had to be said that they were willing to risk anything for profit.

As soon as Gu Yang appeared, Old Gao led the other three traveling merchants over and bowed to him.

“Young Master Gu, we discussed it yesterday. If you are willing to accompany us to Wang Family Gully, we are willing to offer one hundred taels. We only have one small request, that if we encounter any danger, we hope that you can take care of us.”

Gu Yang looked at their humble appearance. They didn’t mention a guide, only said “accompany,” and even took the initiative to raise the fee to one hundred taels.

He thought about yesterday, when he only asked for twenty taels, and Old Gao almost jumped up in protest.

The difference between the two was only his different identity.

Yesterday, in their eyes, he was just an ordinary hunter from the deep mountains.

But now, they knew that he was a Ninth-Rank Martial Artist, and they immediately became humble and subservient.

Gu Yang said, “Okay.”

Old Gao then offered a money bag.

Gu Yang took it, feeling it was very light. When he opened it, he found that it contained gold leaves, each weighing about one tael.

It seemed that the gold-to-silver ratio in this world was about one to one hundred.

“Let’s go.”

Gu Yang put away the gold and led them away.

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【Recharge successful, current balance is 104.5.】

【Do you want to use the Life Simulator? Using it once consumes 20 gold.】

After receiving the money, Gu Yang recharged immediately. Then, he selected “Yes.”

【At the age of twenty-two, you became a Ninth-Rank Martial Artist and decided to venture out with the merchant caravan. In Wang Family Gully, you encountered a hunting team and were ambushed. You desperately killed several people before being killed on the spot. You died at the age of twenty-two.】

What?

Gu Yang’s eyes narrowed as he saw the result of this simulation.

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His strength was clearly much stronger than last time. Why was he able to escape last time, but this time he was killed instead?

Moreover, he had played a trick yesterday, making Old Gao consider it for a night and postponing the departure by one day.

Normally, Old Gao and the others would not stay overnight in Liu Family Village.

As a result, he still encountered that hunting team.

Just who exactly were they?

【Simulation ended. You can retain one of the following.】

【One, your Martial Arts Realm at the age of twenty-two.】

【Two, your Martial Arts Experience at the age of twenty-two.】

【Three, your Life Wisdom at the age of twenty-two.】

Gu Yang did not hesitate and directly chose three.

From here to Wang Family Gully, it would take about two to three days at the speed of the caravan. In the simulation, the time he died should be a few days later.

Choosing the realm and experience was meaningless.

But this life wisdom, he wanted to see what exactly it was.

The next moment, some memory fragments appeared out of nowhere in Gu Yang’s mind.

He finally “saw” the appearance of that hunting team. There were about a dozen riders in total, led by a young man. The rest were his guards and subordinates.

Before he died, he asked, “Who the h*ll are you people?”

“Remember, this young master’s surname is Liu.” The last thing he heard was an arrogant and overbearing voice.

In the end, only four words remained in Gu Yang’s heart, “Cannot be defeated!”

So, this was the life wisdom he gained from this simulation?

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“Young Master Gu, can we stop and rest for a while?”

When the sun was high in the sky, Old Gao made the suggestion.

Gu Yang had no objections. After stopping, the caravan’s helpers immediately busied themselves.

He took the opportunity to ask Old Gao, “Old Gao, have you ever heard of the Liu Family?”

Old Gao said, “In Ba Prefecture, who doesn’t know the Liu Family? Even the Prefect has to rely on the Liu Family to secure his position.”

West of the Lian Mountain Range was Ba Prefecture.

A prefecture was an administrative unit in this world. Below a state was a prefecture. Ba Prefecture was a prefecture under Jiang Prefecture. It was probably equivalent to a prefecture-level city.

This Liu Family was undoubtedly at the level of a local tyrant.

Gu Yang then asked, “What is the reputation of this Liu Family?”

Old Gao said with some embarrassment, “This, I wouldn’t dare to criticize the Liu Family.”

“What’s there to be afraid of?”

Suddenly, a traveling merchant next to him said, “If it weren’t for the Liu Family’s bullying and squeezing out small merchants like us, how would we have to come to the Lian Mountains to do this life-threatening business?”

Gu Yang remembered the introduction earlier, this person’s surname was Yang.

The traveling merchant surnamed Yang said indignantly, “In Ba Prefecture, all the profitable businesses are monopolized by the Liu Family. They are not satisfied, and in recent years, they have imposed heavy taxes on all merchants. I heard that they even colluded with the Prefect to frame the other big families with crimes and confiscate their properties and exterminate their clans.”

It was clear that he was very hostile towards the Liu Family.

Gu Yang asked, “Why is the Liu Family so domineering?”

“Of course, it’s because of their Liu Family’s prodigy, Liu Zhe, who is ranked ninth on the Heaven’s Pride List. A Second-Rank Martial Artist at the age of twenty, entering the Divine Power Realm is only a matter of time.”

A Second-Rank Martial Artist at the age of twenty?

Gu Yang’s scalp tingled a little.

He was only at the Ninth-Rank now. Even with the Golden Finger in hand, with his aptitude, he didn’t know how many simulations it would take to reach the Second-Rank.

Just a prominent family in a prefecture had experts of this level.

This world was indeed not ordinary dangerous.