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[Along this journey, five thousand elite cavalry, barely over four thousand remained...]

[And both men and horses were exhausted!]

[But looking at the foreign flags outside Kyoto City, you knew this was the last desperate fight!]

[So, you immediately ordered a half-day rest, then attack the city!]

[Cavalry assaulting a city was extremely difficult...]

[But your soldiers, having followed you to countless victories, had an elite momentum that the three to five thousand old, weak, and infirm within the city could not withstand!]

[Thus, after one day of siege, the city was breached!]

[Of the five thousand elite soldiers, less than three thousand remained...]

[But you broke into the Royal City!]

[Recaptured the old capital that had been in foreign hands for over ten years...]

[At that moment, you felt a surge of pride!]

[But three days later... the dark shadows that replenished outside Kyoto City dealt you a heavy blow!]

[It turned out you had been tricked!]

[The foreigners had not returned to the grasslands, they were only hiding a few hundred miles north of Kyoto City, waiting for you to enter the city, then capturing you in a jar!]

[By the time you realized it, it was already too late...]

[Two hundred thousand troops, including one hundred thousand cavalry, pressed down on Kyoto City...]

[But your soldiers defending the city were no more than three thousand!]

[Three thousand against two hundred thousand... you were bound to lose!]

[This was the most difficult battle of your life...]

[Years of battlefield experience allowed you to use three thousand elite soldiers to defend against two hundred thousand troops for ten days!]

[Even so, the city still fell...]

[Your personal soldiers and your son urged you to break out...]

[But you knew that the chance of survival under the siege of one hundred thousand cavalry was almost zero...]

[At this moment, thunder suddenly descended from the originally cloudless sky...]

[Then, fierce winds rose, and thunder roared!]

[Countless meteors fell from the sky, directly hitting the military camp outside Kyoto City.]

[In just a quarter of an hour... less than one-thousandth of the two hundred thousand troops survived!]

[You won!]

[This sudden meteor shower saved you!]

[Also helped you hold the city...]

[The citizens in the city were immediately terrified by this heavenly phenomenon, while officials in the city declared it divine will!]

[And, you were the true favored child of heaven, blessed by fortune!]

[So, on that day, you seized the opportunity of the meteor shower... and proclaimed yourself emperor!]

[Everyone was astonished by this heavenly phenomenon...]

[Only you, looking up at the vast thunderclouds, seemed to see two figures fighting...]

[It seemed there really were immortals in this world?]

[So, in the following twenty years, you sought immortals, hoping to obtain a glimpse of immortality...]

[At the age of sixty-eight, after years of battles, you could only lie bedridden.]

[But in your heart, there was always a dream of immortality...]

[That day, that scene of the immortal duel... that meteor shower, left you with a lifelong regret...]

[Lying on the dragon-patterned jade bed, you slowly closed your eyes and ended your tumultuous life!]

[Before you died, your life flashed before your eyes...]

[It seemed you returned to infancy... swaddled in the crib of a poor family.]

[It seemed you remembered everything...]

[A tear slipped from the corner of your eye!]

[When you came to your senses again, you had returned to the Spirit Field Cave...]

[You knew that you were the cultivator Su Xing... and also the emperor born into poverty, lived a tumultuous life, and sought immortality in old age...]n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

[The grand and magnificent life of a mortal, those past scenes... etched into your memory.]

[You sensed the immense chasm between immortals and mortals...]

[Within your body, the immortal essence seed planted earlier began to take root and sprout!]

[Congratulations, you successfully passed the Heart Trial!]

In the real world, Su Xing, upon seeing this, let out a long sigh of relief.

The cold lines of text before him made it difficult for Su Xing to feel it deeply.

"This... is the Heart Trial?"

Su Xing slightly furrowed his brow.

"It seems... I only lived the life of a mortal? Even if I was an emperor... still, just a mortal!"

Su Xing was somewhat puzzled.

Even in the simulation, that life of his was unparalleled in history, blessed by fortune, still just a mortal!

The gap with an immortal was too vast!

"Wait... mortal and immortal? Could it be... this Heart Trial is meant to elevate one's mind state from mortal to immortal?!"

Su Xing seemed to have figured it out.

But whether it was as Su Xing thought, still needed verification after the simulation ended...

"Tsk, this Heart Trial is over just like that?"

"It seems... not that difficult either!"

Su Xing raised his eyebrows, feeling quite good, and looked back at the Simulation Panel.

[After passing the Heart Trial, when you exited seclusion, you discovered that ten whole years had passed!]

[In the forty-fifth year, you exited seclusion!]

[You had become a true cultivator of the Transcendance Tribulation Stage!]

[The Heart Trial was the most perilous of the five stages of Divinity Transformation, if failed, one could only become a wandering immortal...]

[But having passed the Heart Trial, you possessed a transcendent mind state and perseverance... under the Red Moon, you might no longer be affected!]

[But you also knew that Qing Yunzi's emergence from seclusion was probably less than ten years away.]

[And once Qing Yunzi discovered your trace, you would likely face certain death...]

[So, you hesitated no longer and immediately prepared to leave this realm...]

[You made a deal with Immortal Ziling, riding a flying boat to leave the Qingyun Realm.] Experience tales at empire

[Before departing, you left a recording Jade Slip for Immortal Ziling, containing your speculation on Qing Yunzi's Slaying the Three Corpses...]

(Whew~ Today's installment of ten thousand words is delivered, this is another story within the simulation after the five stages of Divinity Transformation... the main tone, naturally, is the pursuit of that trace of immortality from mortal to immortal...)

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