Five Thousand Years of Cultivation, Three Thousand Years of Simulation

His sect sacrificed itself to save the world, and others stole the results of his painstaking research. In this life, Zhou You bears a villain’s reputation, with the entire world against him.

Given a second chance, Zhou You decides to pickle himself into a carefree salted fish, minding his own business and focusing solely on cultivation. In his spare time, he sets exams and tinkers with inventions, putting his fellow disciples through all-around simulations.

As for the world and its people, that’s all nonsense. There’s no way he’s saving the world!

Of course, before ascending, he’ll also squander every bit of the wealth he’s accumulated, leaving nothing for anyone else!

But Zhou You’s salted-fish approach must have gone a little wrong. His usually lazy, selfless senior and junior fellow disciples suddenly started competing to outdo one another, and then the entire sect’s style changed!

By the time Zhou You realized what was happening, his sect had become the strongest in the Three Thousand Worlds. The wealth he’d meant to squander had multiplied countless times over, and the world’s level had risen dramatically.

Years later, when the Heavenly Dao opened a passage between the two worlds and demons from beyond descended, they saw everyone carrying a copy of Cultivation for Five Thousand Years, Simulated for Three Thousand Years and cried out in despair:

“Great Demon God, I want to go home!”