[Who knows how much time has passed; you opened your eyes only to find that you are still alive.]
[You don't know what happened during the time you were unconscious, but you really seem alive at the moment.]
[Just when you woke up, you found that you were outside your Heavenly Tribulation Pagoda, on the lap of Xia Bingming, who had recovered slightly and wasn't as illusory as earlier, while being protected by the Will of the Universe.]
[At the moment, even though all your clothes were torn apart, there wasn't even a bruise left on your body by the Heavenly Punishment.]
[Soon, you stood up from the ground and placed Xia Bingming within your consciousness again, where she slowly began to recover. Then, you stepped towards the Bow of Destruction, with which you felt a slight resonance.]
[Within a moment, you arrived near the Bow of Destruction and touched it. Soon, you came to know that you didn't possess any talent for the Dao of Destruction and couldn't use its abilities to their full potential.]
[But it was not a problem for you. Maybe sooner or later, you would have a descendant who possessed talent regarding the Dao of Destruction.]
[Suddenly, you felt something, as if some unknown being was trying to peek at your deepest secret. Feeling this, you reacted, and just when you did, the feeling disappeared completely, as if it had never happened and all of it was your delusion.]
[You were troubled. You didn't know who that person was, but you were sure he wasn't someone you could worry about.]
[Soon, the barrier that made the entire situation inside invisible to the outside world opened, and everyone could see your face.]
[This time, because you didn't plan to do any wrong deeds within the Ancient Ruins, you didn't disguise yourself using the 72-Transformation Technique. So everyone knew that the one who won the Bow of Destruction was none other than the Holy Lord of the Holy-Sword Sect, Lin Chen.]
[Most people who knew that you belonged to the Holy-Sword Sect were surprised because they didn't expect a swordsman to possess a body as strong as yours.]
[Even though passing a tribulation doesn't entirely depend on having a strong body, to successfully pass a tribulation, it is one of the essential factors.]
[You walked over the Pool of Destruction toward the land in a leisurely manner.]
[At the moment, the waves within the Pool of Destruction had returned to stillness and couldn't cause any harm to you.]
[Just as you walked out of the Pool of Destruction, you met a naïve person who had written down the name of the bow along with you. But to everyone's surprise, his situation didn't turn out like the previous person before, and he was perfectly fine.]
[Seeing this, you were not surprised at all because you had already understood that until this bow could find a master, it would destroy all those who possessed any kind of Cause and Effect with it.]
[Soon, you were visited by a person — the Prince of the Barbarian Tribe.]
[He invited you to visit the Barbarian Tribe, and you accepted, promising to visit if you had time.]
[Soon, you left that place.]
[In the 146th year, you refined the energy that you had stored within your body when you were undergoing the tribulation and made your body stronger. Maybe if you had stored the energy of the second Heavenly Punishment, your body would have broken through to another level. Thinking of this, you decided to do it in the next simulation if the situation allowed.]
[In the upcoming years, you had many small and big adventures, and one of them was obtaining the inheritance of an Ancient Puppeteer. You even met all your children and wives who had entered the Ancient Ruins with you. Luckily, everyone was alive.]
[In these years, your cultivation had reached the peak of the God-Transformation Realm and triggered the Foundation Enhancement Guide talent, presenting you with the following choices:]
[¹ Break through to the Void-Refining Realm after solidifying your foundation: Xuan Foundation.]
[² Consume a Top-grade Void Pill after solidifying the foundation and breaking through: Earth Foundation.]
[³ Consume a Perfect-grade Void Pill after solidifying the foundation and breaking through: Heaven Foundation.]
[⁴ Consume a Daowen-grade Void Pill after solidifying the foundation and breaking through, or polish the foundation for a very long time: Supreme Foundation.]
[Seeing the following choices, you obviously chose the easiest and quickest way for the foundation. So, you chose to refine a Void Pill after leaving the secret realm.]
[Even though, at the moment, you could forcefully condense the Void-Refining Realm using the cultivation gathered in your Bloodline Heart Bead, to you, there was no word of difference between condensing the foundation forcefully or naturally — but there was a world of difference in essence.]
[Soon, time passed by, and the day of battle arrived. But before that, you ordered everyone in your family and sect to leave quickly.]
[In the 166th year of simulation, as expected, a sudden shockwave appeared that shook the entire Ancient Ruins.]
[Feeling it, you immediately expanded your consciousness toward the center of the shockwave.]
[This time, because you had undergone the Nine-Turn Supreme Foundation, the area covered by your consciousness had increased compared to the previous simulation.]
[But despite this, your consciousness could barely access the center of the shockwave, let alone cover the entire Ancient Ruins.]
[Soon, your consciousness arrived at the center, and you saw two figures fighting each other.]
[A person clad in a Phoenix Robe was using all his strength, shattering all his surroundings, only to be stopped by two fingers of his opponent. It seemed as if he was being played around with by the other person, who wore a clean white robe.]
[Suddenly, the person wearing white robes stopped his movements, caught the opponent's punch — from which the opponent couldn't break free — and suddenly looked toward a direction in which your consciousness was currently present.]
[You have been spotted.]