[These five stages were Entry, Minor Accomplishment, Major Accomplishment, Completion, and Perfection.]
[For most people, reaching Completion would be enough. But even then, they can only touch the Major Accomplishment.]
[You need to reach Perfection. That's why it is more difficult for you.]
[At Entry Stage, your skin will be as tough as leather. At Minor Accomplishment, your skin will gain the durability of a rhino's skin.]
[At Major Accomplishment, your skin will be as strong as iron. Being able to tank sharp attacks.]
[But if you use Competition, your skin will be as flexible and tough as steel. Finally, reaching Perfection would make your skin as strong as titanium.]
[But deep down, you knew it wouldn't be so easy to reach such heights. Otherwise, many people would've done it.]
[For now, you just focused on refining Qi inside your Dantian and in your blood.]
[Soon, the results started to appear.]
[Age 8- You opened your eyes. A powerful aura emerged from your body. You stood up and slowly walked out of the cave.]
[You have finally reached the perfection of Eighth Rank. In one year, you not only finished Ninth Rank.]
[You managed to complete the Eighth Rank. Not only have your martial arts improved, your cultivation has also risen from zero to the ninth stage of Qi Refining Realm.]
[But there were still many things that you had not accomplished. Such as learning spells and mastering new martial arts.]
[Upon starting your cultivation, the body of the Ancient gave you some martial arts and spells.]
[Unlike the spells from the previous cultivator, this information carried a lot of different spells of different elements.]
[For now, you could only train with Wind Element. So, you just focused on Wind Spell.]
[During the time of your training, the scorpion and rat had killed each other. So, you were the only one left in the cave.]
[You had no choice but to leave the desert. Because of your increase in strength, it took you less than a month to cross the desert.]
[As soon as you crossed the desert, you came across the same city you had been in before.]
[You went around the city, trying to relax after a two-year-long journey in the desert.]
[But while you were doing some shopping, you heard the rumors about the Azure Town being surrounded and attacked by several powerful people.]
[It turned out that the increasing wealth of the town invited greedy martial artists and cultivators.]
[Since you hadn't appeared in public for almost three years, those ambitious people started attacking your city.]
[Fortunately, your father had reached Eighth Rank, which was capable enough to fight back.]
[Even so, your father was constantly hiring more and more people, losing more and more of his wealth.]
[As soon as you heard of this situation, you felt furious.]
[You never expected these people to attack your town so boldly. Your fury only erupted when you learned about their recent success in capturing half of the town.]
[And also the threat that if your father doesn't give up, they will slaughter everyone in the town.]
[So, you left. Without any hesitation, you traveled several thousand kilometers and reached the Azure Town in just two days.]
[When you reached there, you were a bit surprised to find that the town walls hadn't been taken down.]
[You rushed straight to the mansion where your family lived.]
[But when you got there, you didn't find anyone. You only found the traces of battle and destruction.]
[Your heart beat skipped. The beads of sweat appeared on your forehead. Your breathing quickened.]
[Anger followed as you released your Qi furiously.]
[The Qi of an Eighth Rank was quite strong, but when it was combined with the Qi of a cultivator, it would only get massive.]
[So, when you released your Qi, it sent a shockwave throughout town.]
[You felt several Eighth Rank martial artists and cultivators in a certain area of the town, so you dashed towards them without any hesitation.]
[When you got there, you found nearly fifteen people. Among them, seven were cultivators of Qi Refining Realm, while others were Martial Artists at Eighth Rank.]
[This only made your doubt clear, and your anger soared.]
["You bastards! Die" You roared. You voice, shaking every single person in front of you.]
[You swung your sword, releasing a slash that was as thick as you and nearly twenty meters tall.]
[The red slash went straight towards the martial artists and cultivators.]
[Before they could even react, their bodies were torn apart by the power of your slash.]
[Even those who weren't directly attacked by the slash still got caught in the aftermath of the slash.]
[You dashed forward, instantly appearing in front of them and stabbing your sword forward through their neck.]
[Some had their heads chopped, some had their stomach pierced, some tried to fight back, only for them to die in confusion.]
[When you finished killing them all, you pulled down your sword, feeling empty.]
[It was your first simulator where your family was the most normal, and it was also the simulator where your family loved you like a real family.]
[Because of this, you had a special connection to this new simulated world. But everything crumbled down just because you left for a few years.]
[You felt like it was your fault. If you hadn't introduce that business, your town wouldn't have suffered so much.]
[But when you were silent, you sensed several people coming towards you.]
[When you turned your head to see, you were stunned.]
[Your parents were still alive. Your dad did have an injury on his right arm and was bandaged but he was still alive.]
[You are exhilarated. You rushed towards your father and hugged him tightly, sobbing on his shoulder.]
[Your father was surprised by your reaction. After all, you had rarely shown any kind of emotion before.]
[But he welcomed it. He wanted a son who could cry, laugh, and feel the joy of life instead live like a puppet.]
[Then, he went on to explain what had truly happened.]
[It turned out he was able to get his hands of several Eighth Rank Martial Artists thanks to the wealth you had earned before.]
[He didn't use these people to fight back instead kept defensive and asked them to protect your mother and other town's people.]
[He knew you would return one day and he wanted to make sure that they won't die before you return.]
[So, instead of going offensive, he kept stalling time. And, this strategy worked.]
[Just as he expected, you returned. And, he wasn't wrong about your strength either. You had the power to protect the family.]
[He did complain how he felt like a failure to rely on his eight year old son to protect his family.]
[But he also felt glad that he was able to give birth to a great son like you.]
[When you returned to a temporary hideout where your mother was living, she couldn't contain her joy of seeing you.]
[All this time, she was worried that she would die before showing you grow up. And, now she just want to hold you like this until you grow up.]
[You also promised your mom that you will not leave any time soon.]
[You return brought a new atmosphere and security to the town. People started gathering around you, hoping to get some kind of statement from you.]
[You knew these people needed some kind of hope. After all, in just few months, their life had turned up-side down.]
[Because of you, their life was endangered and some of them did feel angry towards you, some even cursed you, blaming you for everything that happened.]
[You took all the blame, and used the wealth you got from those martial artists and cultivator to support the town's people.]
[Many of them had lost their houses. Some of them even had injured family members.]
[Some even got involved in a cross-fire and died. You tried to compensate them as much as possible.]
[Realizing that you needed to make a decision, you asked your father use all of their land and properties to get some loan.]
[You asked people, those who didn't want to live in this town, to leave with proper compensation for their land and family.]
[But they didn't leave, not a single person left the town. When you returned to your father to stop him from asking for loan, you were surprised that he didn't anything.]
[Unlike you, he knew these people wouldn't leave. This was their home. How could anyone be willing to leave their home for no reason?]
[Yes, there were fights and destruction but wasn't it normal in a world like this? Those blames were just momentarily anger of the public.]
[In fact, he told you that if you weren't so polite and good person, they wouldn't even have the guts to complain.]
[In this world, if ordinary person gets injured or dies because of the battle between powerful people, the family of that ordinary person can't even blame others.]
[Being weak was a sin and death of sinful person was a good thing.]