Chapter 16: The Path of the Great Chief

A month later.

Zhao Si made a bowl of noodles as usual, added some cat food to the fat cat, and took out his mobile phone, waiting for the update to be completed in a moment.

Looking back on the past month, Zhao Si still feels like she is living in a dream:
The fruit of the saint's way continuously produces innate spiritual energy. Although he still hasn't figured out the method of cultivating immortals, under the passive influence of the spiritual environment, not only is his strength increasing, but his physical strength is also getting better and better.

In the past, he was so weak that he would be out of breath after running more than two steps. But now, he can do hundreds of push-ups in a row without feeling tired. The improvement is obvious.

What surprised him even more was that he had actually been practicing fasting without realizing it. The innate spiritual energy alone that replenished his body spontaneously was enough for him to go without food or drink.

Nowadays, we only eat instant noodles occasionally to enjoy the flavor, it is more form than substance.

Similarly, the fat cat that was mistakenly taken home as a monster does not need to eat, but it cannot change its greedy nature and will eat even if it is not hungry. It is no wonder that it has grown fat as a stray cat.

In his many experiments, Zhao Si also verified the authenticity of what the system said. The innate spiritual energy produced by the saint's Tao fruit essentially only exists relative to oneself. All other creatures cannot feel it unless they allow it.

For example, Fat Cat. When Zhao Si does not allow it to feel the spiritual energy, it can feel nothing. But if it is allowed, it can immediately discover the innate spiritual energy floating around and easily control the spiritual energy to transform into various forms.

This made Zhao Si feel relieved. He finally didn't have to worry about any natural disasters or man-made disasters caused by the "revival of spiritual energy". As long as he didn't mess around, no matter how much spiritual energy there was between heaven and earth, it would not affect other people.

After a period of hesitation, Zhao Si finally decided to keep the fat cat's spiritual perception. In addition to wanting to use it for a spiritual experiment, the biggest reason was that he couldn't afford to provide it with cat food...

"I have to eat even if I'm not hungry. If I were really hungry, I would go bankrupt!"

Zhao Si glanced at the fat cat enjoying the food and was a little speechless about this guy, but since he had picked it up, he might as well keep it and keep it as a companion.

As for merit and demon texts, Zhao Si had also studied them. Merit means that as long as one helps a certain creature, no matter if it is a small animal or a human being, one can gain a certain amount of merit. However, at present, the merit is too little, and he does not know how to cultivate immortality, so he has not seen any effect yet.

As for the demon language, apart from allowing Zhao Si to give orders to various animals other than humans, it is of no use. They can't even communicate with each other because small animals don't know the demon language. Only Zhao Si can use it...

Time passed by minute by minute.

【Ding! System update completed! 】

[This update has upgraded the host's permissions, which means you have left the novice period. Subsequent new features will take effect after this round of simulation ends. Please look forward to it. ]

"What do you mean?"

Zhao Si asked in confusion:
"What do you mean it will only take effect after the simulation ends?"

[You can think of it as a clearance reward. The final outcome of your simulation will determine the level of your clearance reward. The more the outcome deviates from the established prehistoric plot, the better the reward.]

"A reward for clearing a level? That's more like it."

Zhao Si suddenly realized, but he couldn't help but become curious:

"Can the prize level reach the level of Saint Dao Fruit?"

[Theoretically, yes. The specific prizes depend on the player's completion. Please try to make the prehistoric plot deviate from the established history.]

"Can it really be that high?!"

Zhao Si was shocked. In fact, he just asked casually and did not hold any hope at all, because the Sage's Tao Fruit was the product of Nuwa, a real saint, who personally split the origin of her own Tao Fruit.

Below the saints are all ants. According to common sense, how could there be anything that can be equal to the saints' achievements?
Even an innate treasure is not enough. No matter how great a treasure it is, it is just a tool. But a saint is the executor of the way of heaven. Nothing can be compared with him!

"Could it be the Dao Fruit of another saint? Or... Hongmeng Purple Qi?"

Zhao Si couldn't help but speculate, because he couldn't think of anything in the prehistoric setting that could compare to the origin of a saint... But this is also good news!
He now possessed the highest level "Origin Level" gift of the Saint's Dao Fruit. Although he was unable to command and manage it for the time being, he could only passively absorb a little bit of the innate spiritual energy it created.

But even so, the direct benefits that the saint's fruit brings to oneself far exceed other gifts!
Who would complain about having too little of such a good thing when they know it will not cause direct harm to reality?

"Okay! Then I'll try to get a perfect ending! And see what prizes I can get!"

Boosting his morale, Zhao Si continued playing the game with high spirits:
[Can time go back and return to the previous life option? ]

"Yes!"

【Time has gone back...】

[“Whose little dragon are you?” Nuwa asked with great interest.]

[Faced with the sage's pointed question, what do you choose: (?)]

[A: I can't hide it from the saint anyway, so I might as well just reveal the fact of my rebirth. Maybe there will be some unexpected gains. B: Serious answer: "There is no two suns in the sky. In my heart, there is only one sun, the Emperor of Heaven!"]

Zhao Si chose A at first and was almost scared to death by the Saint's Dao Fruit. This time he did not hesitate and directly chose B.

[You choose option B and answer seriously: "There is no two suns in the sky, and in my heart there is only one sun, the Emperor of Heaven!"]

[Your firm stance made Nuwa a little confused, but she didn't ask any more questions. She just encouraged you a few words and then stopped talking.]

[With the human race reluctant to let her go, Nuwa left Shouyang Mountain. She was going to follow the orders of the Taoist Ancestor and go to the chaos to open up her own Taoist temple.]

[You don’t know whether Nuwa knows that the human race is the protagonist of destiny, nor do you know what her attitude towards the Heavenly Court is, but since the human race is now under your management, you naturally cannot let go of this opportunity! ]

[Under the leadership of you, the chieftain of the human race appointed by the Emperor of Heaven, the human race has officially begun to stride forward in the direction of growth.]

[You followed the custom of the demon race and led the human race to build their own homeland at the foot of Shouyang Mountain, and they lived a prosperous life.]

[While earning merits for yourself, you have not forgotten your idiot brother. Whenever you think of how he tried to save you in your previous life by talking tough to the God of Justice, and how the two brothers ended up on the demon-slaying platform together, you are unwilling to abandon him. Of course, you cannot do without him in this good job of earning merits.]

[You wrote a letter to your stepfather, asking him to send your idiot brother to help you. Your father attached great importance to you and always regarded you as the hope of the family. When he heard you asking for help, he directly sent all of your more than a thousand brothers and sisters away, saying that family members should support each other, and asked you to give everyone a good job.]

【you:……】

[Faced with more than a thousand brothers and sisters looking at you eagerly, you really want to slap your father a few times. There are only a few thousand humans in total, and more than a thousand dragons are here to share the merits. What the hell is there? ]

[But after all, they are blood relatives. If you don't help, you are afraid of being gossiped about. In the end, you have to distribute more than a thousand dragons to each of them. One dragon manages three to five people, which eliminates a redundant official...]

[Fortunately, the human race has a very fast reproduction rate. Under the policy of encouraging childbirth that you formulated, the population exceeded 100,000 in just one period of time. It has finally reached a certain scale. So, as the chief, you appointed your brothers and sisters to lead a part of the human race to leave Shouyang Mountain and open up more vast lands in the surrounding areas.]

[Villages sprang up one after another, and the population exploded faster and faster. It took 360 years from a few thousand to 100,000, but it took less than one cycle to increase from 100,000 to 10 million. As the population increased, the villages gradually could not bear the burden, so towns appeared.]

[The rise of towns also brought about rapid progress in the economic, cultural and political fields. At this time, the human race was no longer considered barbarians. You thought with relief, "The Heavenly Court can't use this as an excuse to take action against the human race, right?"]

[When you think of this, you are confused, because at this time in your previous life, the Heavenly Court had already issued an edict to massacre the human race, but this time there was no movement at all...]

[Just when you were puzzled by this matter, the massacre edict from the Heavenly Court did not arrive, but a group of people you had never thought of secretly found you and said they wanted to negotiate a deal with you that would bring you great benefits...]

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(End of this chapter)