Cultivating as a Mortal: My Cheat Is a Simulator

Lin Feng is an ordinary farm boy with mediocre aptitude who, by chance, awakens the “Immortal Path Simulation.” This cheat allows him to enter a simulation space with his consciousness and experience the consequences of different life choices— which sect to join, what cultivation method to practice, which fellow Daoists to befriend, and even how to deal with upcoming crises. If he dies in the simulation, he can try again, but in reality he only has one chance.

At the start, his family is being forced by a local minor cultivation sect to hand over their spiritual fields, and his father is severely injured. Through the simulator, Lin Feng discovers that if they follow the usual path and beg for mercy, the whole family will be silenced. The only way out is to take the risk of entering the forbidden area in the back mountains, where a forgotten first-generation sect leader token is hidden. Relying on the mechanism solutions and beast habits revealed by the simulator, he successfully retrieves the token and uses it as a chance to enter the sect, unaware that the token is tied to a thousand-year-old secret...

From then on, he relies on the ability to “predict the future” to avoid countless death traps, pick up heavenly treasures, and meet key patrons. Others cultivate through talent; he cultivates through “save and reload.” When he finally stands at the peak of the immortal path and looks back, he realizes that every seemingly accidental opportunity had an invisible hand behind it—and the true origin of the simulator has only just been revealed.