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Phys. 157, 094112 (2022)) provides an efficient and accurate means to simulate some fermionic systems by overcoming the fermion sign problem. This method has been significantly promoted and used by National Ignition Facilities for the ab initio simulations and is believed to have wide application prospects in warm dense quantum matter (T. Dornheim et al., arXiv: 2402.19113 (2023)). By utilizing the fictitious identical particles in the bosonic regime and constant energy extrapolation method (Y. Xiong and H. Xiong, Phys. Rev. E 107, 055308 (2023); T. Morresi and G. Garberoglio, Phys. Rev. B 111, 014521 (2025)), there are promising results in simulating the energy of strongly quantum degenerate fermionic systems. The previous works mainly concern the energy of Fermi systems or only consider situations of weak quantum degeneracy. In this study, we extend the concept of the constant energy extrapolation method and demonstrate the potential of the constant density extrapolation method to accurately simulate the density distribution of fermionic systems in strongly quantum degenerate conditions. 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