Chapter 524: Returning to Vermilion Violet Star!

【You were about to take Ah Dou to Vermilion Violet Star.】

【The only people seeing you off were Mr. Xun, Shen Yifeng, and Ma Bang, who had just returned from Lingwei Star.】

【The Voyager did not need a Star Harbor to enter or leave the Channel, so no one else would know that you had left Blazing Star.】

【Of course, a nation could not remain without a ruler for even a single day, so you left a doppelganger here to hold down the fort.】

【With the Six-Eared Macaque trait tag, the doppelganger could acquire your face.】

【With the Give Me the Power trait tag, the doppelganger could acquire your cultivation level.】

【Whenever the doppelganger here needed to show its face in public, you could use Guangzhi, Save Me to change its appearance, then open a hotspot for it.】

【Obviously, this patchwork solution had plenty of loopholes and was extremely inconvenient.】

【Perhaps you would be in the middle of a three-hundred-round battle with a villain when you suddenly had to change your face and open a hotspot. How disrespectful would that be to the villain?】

【Therefore, before leaving, you issued a notice to the imperial court, telling them to govern the nation themselves while you entered secluded cultivation because your cultivation level had encountered a bottleneck.】

【For a High-Grade cultivator like Si Duoduo, who was also a long-lived member of the Dragon-Man tribe, entering seclusion for thirty or fifty years at a time was normal, and even eighty or a hundred years was nothing unusual.】

【With seclusion as your excuse, the doppelganger you left behind would not need to appear in public often, unless the situation became absolutely unavoidable.】

【You could not help complaining that the doppelgangers and trait tags available in this Simulation were unexpectedly insufficient.】

【You had left one in the human world, one in the Winged Feather stellar system, and one on Blazing Star.】

【Only three mobile doppelgangers remained.】

【Although your commonly used trait tags had not been touched, most of the less frequently used ones had already been shot away by the slingshot during your many battles.】

【The trait tags shot out during the Simulation did not affect reality, but in this lifetime, you did not have many trait tags left that could be used as ammunition.】

【“After I leave, there is no guarantee that the Alien Race on Blazing Star will not make some kind of move. The doppelganger I left behind is not as powerful as I am, and it definitely will not be able to suppress them through martial strength if that becomes necessary. Therefore, if any major change occurs, try to resolve it through negotiation and buy time. I will find an opportunity to return and help.”】

【Mr. Xun smiled.】

【“Mr. Chen, rest assured. We endured those unbearably difficult years, so even if the Alien Race oppresses us again, we can bear it. Unless they intend to exterminate our race, in which case we will have no choice but to fight them to the death.”】

【The future of the Human Race on Blazing Star was, by and large, still bright.】

【As long as one or two generations of humans gained normal opportunities to cultivate, catching up would only be a matter of time.】

【When that happened, even if another war broke out, they might not lose without you there.】

【The Voyager carried you and Ah Dou into the sky.】

【Ah Dou lay against the window ledge, gazing through the glass at the faintly reddish land of Blazing Star.】

【“Uncle Chen, will we come back?”】

【After telling Ah Dou your true identity, you had instructed him not to regard you as any sort of emperor anymore.】

【Calling you Uncle Chen was enough.】

【“The path to immortality is vast and mysterious. Who can say what the future holds? Are you missing your parents, or are you reluctant to part with those little followers of yours?”】

【“Uncle Chen, you said I am a Child of Destiny and that I bear the fate of our race. As long as I can become stronger, what does leaving my homeland matter?”】

【“You are so young, yet your ambitions are enormous.”】

【“Our Human Race must become stronger! Only after we grow powerful will the Alien Race no longer dare bully us! Actually, I know that children from the Alien Race, like Cong Lala, are no different from us. They are not bad by nature. They have merely been influenced by the adults around them until they came to believe that bullying the Human Race was only natural! And the reason they think that way is because the Human Race is not as powerful as their tribes!”】

【Ah Dou’s thoughts were simple, but they also contained a certain truth.】

【You felt that it had been right to let him grow up alongside a group of children from the Alien Race.】

【It had allowed him to recognize the Human Race’s circumstances in the Real Realm ahead of time, so he would not harbor any unrealistic fantasies about the Alien Race in the future.】

【“Ah Dou, the Human Race will definitely rise again…”】

【Year fifty-eight, age eighty-four.】

【Trait tags are being drawn...】

【Draw successful!】

【“Horn-Breaking Maniac,” Purple Epic: If your target has horns, you will definitely be able to break them, no matter what method you use or what kind of existence your target is.】

【Adjust the trait tag?】

【Yes/No】

“Eh? I remember that it was mentioned earlier that the royal family of the Ares Immortal Kingdom belongs to the Unicorn-Horned Race!”

The Unicorn-Horned Race was hardly the only race with horns.

The bull-headed tribe from before, as well as the Dragon-Man tribe and Holy Dragon Clan, those scaled dragons, all had horns on their heads.

“If you are a dragon, then I will use Dragonbane. If you have horns, then I will use Horn-Breaking Maniac!”

【You chose yes.】

【You replaced Green Giant with Horn-Breaking Maniac.】

【The Voyager was traveling through interstellar space.】

【Aboard the Star Ship, you taught the nine-year-old Ah Dou some simple cultivation techniques so that he could continue exercising and maintain his sturdy physique.】

【Just as in the previous Simulation.】

【Through spending every day together, he and the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, Demon Refining Pot, Immortal-Binding Rope, and the other Immortal Artifacts had become close brothers.】

【That old hoodlum, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, even taught Ah Dou how to drink alcohol.】

【“Come on! My good brother, finish this bowl of wine! Today, you and I will swear brotherhood!”】

【Ah Dou sniffed the rice wine that the Ten Thousand Souls Banner had produced from who knew where.】

【“It smells so pungent! This stuff tastes awful!”】

【“Oh, Brother Ah Dou, drinking is all about the ceremony! Today, you and I become brothers. Tomorrow, we can take Ah Suo, Ah Lei, the Steward, and those fellows as our adopted sons!”】

【“Good idea!”】

【The Demon Refining Pot, Immortal-Binding Rope, and the other Artifacts all protested, demanding to know why they had been reduced by a generation in seniority.】

【The Star Ship was filled with their laughter and cheerful voices.】

【Year fifty-nine, age eighty-five.】

【Trait tags are being drawn...】

【Draw successful!】

【“King of Tired Memes,” White Ordinary: You always blurt out tired internet memes, old jokes, and internet slang.】

【Adjust the trait tag?】

【Yes/No】

【You chose no.】

【That year, you arrived at Vermilion Violet Star.】

【The Voyager was still fast.】

【During the previous Simulation, you and Ah Dou had spent five or six years aboard the Star Ship before reaching Vermilion Violet Star. This time, you arrived in less than two years.】

【Thanks to the generous support of the Myriad Treasures Child Goddess.】

【You hoped she was peacefully enjoying her retirement at Divine Mark University on Lingwei Star while properly carrying out her work as a divine mark professor.】

【In the future, if the opportunity arose, perhaps you would even arrange for her to open a branch campus on Blazing Star.】

【You controlled the Star Ship and landed at Dongming Mountain.】

【Just as in the previous Simulation, when you communicated with the Vermilion Violet Star branch of the Torch Society through the Torch Tree, the agreed meeting place remained an ancient ferry near Dongming Mountain.】

【The reason you had arranged to meet at the same location had to do with the Torch Society’s encryption system for exchanging information.】

【What would happen if outsiders learned the secret of the Torch Tree and used it to send false messages to other branches of the Torch Society?】

【That possibility did exist, but first, they would have to learn a complicated set of rules for composing poetry. Only core members of the Torch Society could learn those rules, and mastering them usually required several years.】

【Therefore, every message transmitted was a poem.】

【You remembered the poem from last time, so the location and time decoded from it were naturally the same.】