Chapter 116: The Second Bird
[Do you want to continue the simulation? ]

"Yes!"

Damn it, this overly opinionated protagonist really annoyed Zhao Si, and as a result, he didn’t even get any prize, so he was naturally very unhappy.

"I beg you, don't be so opinionated...if you have any questions, just ask me!"

Amid Zhao Si's frustration, a new round of simulation began:

[On an ordinary day in a certain era, a certain association, a certain fortune, a bird egg inexplicably hatched from an old tree under a small volcano in the southern wilderness. A small bird with few feathers ignorantly poked its head out of the shell and looked at the world for the second time...]

[You are the only egg in the nest. You have no brothers or sisters, not even parents. Maybe they are dead, or maybe they don’t care about you at all.]

[Suddenly, the past comes flooding back to your mind. You realize that you chose the wrong path in your past life and ended up dying. You feel sad.]

[But since I can live my life again and start all over again, I must seize this opportunity and make my life a perfect one! ]

[A little bird in the second round is about to start his magnificent life...]

[It's just a sigh. You should first carefully consider and plan your future in this life. ]

[First of all, you absolutely cannot join the Ancestral Phoenix like you did in your previous life, because you know that the Ancestral Phoenix has ulterior motives. It created the Phoenix Clan for other purposes. Once you join the Phoenix Clan, you will be controlled by it in the future, and your future will be dark...]

[Secondly, you must put an end to the war between the three tribes! ]

[Because you didn't see the day when the Three Clan War was ended by Luohou Hongjun, so you think that the Three Clan War will go on forever. Since you have been reborn, your mission must be to end this war! ]

【Finally, Rahu. 】

[Although you didn't see the true ending, you witnessed Luohou slaughtering all living things with your own eyes. This person is completely irrational and only knows how to slaughter indiscriminately. He must be the ultimate boss! ]

[So in summary, you confidently formulated a development strategy for yourself: start from scratch, defeat the three ancestors, kill Luohou, and end the war! ]

[Although there is a huge gap in strength at present, you believe that with your divine power that can be reopened, you will eventually succeed in achieving your goal! ]

Zhao Si: …

"here we go again!"

Zhao Si couldn't help but cover his face:
Brother Bird! You have a big strategic problem!

"The war between the three tribes will definitely end. You don't need to get involved..."

"The Third Ancestor Lao Deng will definitely be stabbed to death by Luohou, so there is no need for you to come..."

"Don't even mention Luo Hou. Hongjun will definitely kill him. There's no need for you to come..."

This kid is no different from a headless fly in the absence of complete information. The three strategic goals he set for himself are all things that will definitely be achieved in the established plot.

It would be the same whether he was there or not. His series of micro-manipulations might even trigger an unpredictable butterfly effect, causing these three goals that were supposed to be achieved by the characters in the plot to become impossible to complete!
The war between the three tribes may really continue. The third ancestor Lao Deng may kill Luohou, and Luohou may also kill Hongjun...

With sufficient information, it can be seen that these three strategic goals are obviously not the real purpose of the game simulation, because they all happened in the normal plot. The purpose of the game simulation cannot be these three established facts!

Jiao Ming's strategic planning truly made Zhao Si understand the advantages and disadvantages brought about by "information gap".

This information was completely unknown to Jiao Ming. As a short-lived bird that died in the war between the three tribes, Jiao Ming knew nothing about the future and could only guess based on his personal experience.

But to Zhao Si, these are not secrets at all. As long as he can master the micro-manipulation, he will be able to help Jiao Ming avoid dozens or hundreds of detours!

But the problem is that Jiao Ming doesn't give him this opportunity. This unfettered free bird has his own ideas...

"Suddenly, I miss the newbie Jin Bing..."

Although Jin Bing was simple-minded and extreme in his early days, for player Zhao Si, his greatest advantage was that he had no opinion of his own.

If you have no opinion, you will ask for help frequently, which makes it easier for Zhao Siwei to do things.

Now I've replaced him with someone who has his own opinions, and he's become numb all of a sudden...

[After much thought, in order to achieve these three ambitious goals, you should first have strong enough cultivation and power. ]

[But the Phoenix Clan's previous life's skills need to be bound to the blood of the Ancestral Phoenix. Without the blood of the second-generation Phoenix, that skill cannot be practiced at all. Moreover, the skill was originally created by the Ancestral Phoenix. No matter how strong you are, you can never be its opponent...]

[After careful consideration, you decide to let your "other self" give you some gold coins...]

[Ding! The protagonist Jiao Ming has requested your assistance: (gongfa), (magic weapon), do you agree? ]

what?
After reading this, Zhao Si didn't react for a long time. When he finally realized it, his eyes were blurry:

"Are you asking me for skills and magic weapons?"

Brother Bird, did we get the roles mixed up?
Shouldn't you be the one giving me something? Why are you taking my coins?

Zhao Si's mouth twitched:
"...When will you release the new features? Previously, I could only use it as a test-taker, with multiple-choice questions, short-answer questions, and 800-word essays."

"Now, my gold coins are exploding..."

[Ding! In the last update, the system said that some changes have taken place in the gameplay. Specifically, the simulated protagonist can communicate with players to a greater extent...]

"The problem is that he doesn't want to communicate with me, he just wants to take my coins!"

【…】

[This is determined by the character of the protagonist, and the game cannot interfere too much...] [However, players do not need to worry about losing their gifts. The game fully considers the safety of players' personal property. As long as this round of simulation is over, your gifts will be returned in full, and there will be no loss or damage! ]

"It won't be lost..."

Hearing this, Zhao Sicai, who had been unhappy, finally relaxed his brows. If Jiao Ming really exploded his gold coins, he would not do it!

"Okay then, let's consider it as an investment!"

After much deliberation, Zhao Si decided to agree to the assistance:
As for the skills, it would be just right to teach him the orthodox Hongjun Immortal Skills that Jin Bing had taught him before. This Immortal Skill, as the orthodox foundation of the future first saint of the prehistoric world, is incomparable to the old antiques from the Three Tribes era in terms of strength and universality.

For Jiao Ming, it is definitely a big cheat!
So Zhao Si spent some time inputting the magic into his phone, and then began to choose magic weapons:
"I have given away a lot of gifts now, but I really don't have many magic weapons..."

So far, Zhao Si has received eleven gifts in total, including the Kunpeng Award Certificate, the Merit/Karma Dharma Eye, the Azure Dragon/Ancestral Phoenix Blood, the Five Elements Fruit Tree, the Immortal-Slaying Sword, the Thirty-six Dinghai Pearls, the Golden Crow True Fire, the Sage Dao Fruit, and the Primordial Fragments.

But in fact, the only two things that can be called magic weapons are the Immortal-Slaying Sword and the Dinghai Pearl. And the Immortal-Slaying Sword is only an acquired spiritual treasure, which cannot compare to the Dinghai Pearl, a top-grade innate spiritual treasure.

Therefore, Zhao Si could only pick out thirty-six Dinghai Pearls.

With an uneasy mood, Zhao Si placed the Dinghai Pearl on the screen of his mobile phone, and saw the light flowing...

[Ding! This magic weapon already exists in the prehistoric times and cannot be transferred! ]

"existed?"

Zhao Si was stunned for a moment, then realized that the Dinghai Pearls were refined by Zulong by collecting the water laws, so in the ancient times, Zulong should have also had a set of Dinghai Pearls.

"Then the Immortal Sword?"

Zhao Si put Guangchengzi's Immortal Sword on it again.

[Ding! The magic weapon is not of sufficient rank.]

The Immortal-Slaying Sword is an acquired spiritual treasure. In the ancient times when innate spiritual treasures were flying around, its strength might not be enough.

"…Then I don't have any other magic weapon?"

Zhao Si looked at his collection in dumbfounded. Apart from the Immortal-Slaying Sword and the Dinghai Pearl, was there anything else that could be called a magic weapon?
Moreover, even if other gifts could be transmitted, they would not be able to improve Jiao Ming's combat power. The highest-level Sage Dao Fruit could only produce spiritual energy, and the Primordial Fragment was not a magic weapon...

After searching for a long time, Zhao Si's eyes could only stop at one thing:

Golden Crow True Fire!

"Is this okay?"

Zhao Si had no choice but to put up the only gift that could barely be considered a magic weapon.

The next moment, the light flashed and the Golden Crow True Fire disappeared.

【Ding! Transfer successful! 】

It works!
Zhao Si resisted the urge to complain and gritted his teeth:

"This is the only thing I can give you. If you still can't do it well, then I can't do anything about it!"

[You pray to God for help, but the only person who responds is yourself! ]

[Soon after, a white-gold blazing flame appeared out of nowhere in your bird's nest, but this flame did not hurt you, but obeyed your commands completely.]

[You feel the explosive power of the flames that is no less than the Ancestral Phoenix Nanming Lihuo, and you feel very grateful to the other self you have never met! ]

[Then, a set of exercises appeared in your mind. The exercises were written in an unknown language... But strangely, you could recognize every word at a glance. These wonderful words seemed to contain the great power of civilization...]

[And the technique itself is even more amazing. Not only does it not require a special bloodline, its subtlety is far superior to the technique passed down by Zu Feng in the previous life... The most important thing is that the name of the realm in this technique is exactly the same as the immortal realm mentioned by the old Taoist Hongjun! ]

[Could it be that the other self has some connection with that Taoist Hongjun? ]

[All kinds of questions and surprises make you wonder...]

[But after a while, you suppressed your extra thoughts and began to practice the exercises wholeheartedly. ]

[Cultivating immortals without knowing the passage of time...]

……

In the ancient times, on Yujing Mountain in the Eastern Wasteland.

A Taoist priest in purple robe was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed on the cliff, the spiritual energy in the mountains surging in rhythm with his every breath.

Behind him, a towering old tree was naturally distributing the spiritual energy. It was naturally a spiritual root!
But unfortunately, the old tree's spiritual roots do not have true spiritual wisdom. On the huge Yujing Mountain, there is only the Taoist who is born sacred, making this place indescribably lonely...

"Um?!"

The purple-robed Taoist priest suddenly opened his eyes in confusion:

Is it an illusion?

"Besides me, how come there is another immortal practitioner in this world..."

……

(End of this chapter)