After the Imperial Exam, I Cultivate with a Simulator

Gu Changyuan, a poor scholar, awakens a life simulator after his family is destroyed. The Great Yin dynasty values the imperial exam over martial arts, but a calamity will strike in ten years, bringing demons and monsters. Sleeping enters dreams, predicting the next three days; death brings resurrection, with memories retained. From a useless student to a heaven-defying cultivator, he endures by day and trains by night. The palace exam hides deadly plots, and the powerful are rampant, with danger at every step. Through repeated death and trial, he finds the ladder to ascension. His spiritual root appears, he draws qi into his body, and his path of revenge begins. Disguised as a waste, reciting scriptures, secretly forming death squads, and laying plans across a thousand miles. The court is corrupt, suppressing spiritual energy, and the truth is cruel. He vows to break the cage of fate as a mortal and reverse into the sage realm. — Description from novelcodex.org