Year 291 of the Great Qing.Your foundation has grown by 152%. You can feel your blood and energy surging throughout your body, astonishingly vigorous. Though you are already middle-aged, there isn't the slightest sense of decline.[Your Iron Body Technique has reached perfection.]
Year 292 of the Great Qing.With the Chu family's resources at your disposal, you begin merging strength and breath, refining your blood and flesh, advancing steadily through the ranks of a second-rate martial artist.
Yet age holds you back. Starting martial training in your twenties is already late. Even if your foundation is strong, that only means you have a higher ceiling— it doesn't mean you can advance quickly.
This year you keep repeating to yourself: "If the body doesn't inherit my martial cultivation, then this whole simulator is trash. Hopefully it records this."
Yun Shou: "…"
(Martial cultivation also comes with knowledge of techniques.)
Year 294 of the Great Qing.The infamous woman-stealer Song Yulang sneaks into the Chu family estate by night, abducting the young lady Chu Xian'er. You are ordered to lead the citywide pursuit.
You track them to a small house, only to discover the two of them intimately entangled. This wasn't abduction at all—it was an elopement.
Song Yulang notices you. He's a prodigy, nearly reaching first-rate at such a young age, and his foundation is not much weaker than yours. The two of you clash, evenly matched.
After dozens of exchanges, Song Yulang's refined skills give him the advantage (while Chu Xian'er keeps cheering him on). You're gradually pressed back, wounded, and Song Yulang prepares to cripple you.
At the critical moment, your teammates arrive. Forced to retreat, Song Yulang flees with Chu Xian'er in tow. But now that he's exposed, how could he possibly escape a city full of martial hunters with a mere woman slowing him down?
Throughout the chase, Chu Xian'er keeps hurling insults at you and your companions. You ignore her—she's not the one paying your wages anyway.
Soon Song Yulang, injured, slips through the net, but he abandons Chu Xian'er. She screams that she'll make you all pay.
The Chu family head, however, praises you. Song Yulang is already considered a genius worthy of the "Rising Stars List." The fact that you held your own against him so long is proof of your skill.
Half a month later, Chu Xian'er comes to you with an apology, saying she was young and blinded by his honeyed words.
You drink the tea she offers in atonement. Half an hour later, pain rips through your gut, dark lines crawl across your veins… and you die.
Yun Shou: "…""???""Holy crap, killed by a lovesick idiot!"
He doesn't blame the him inside the simulation. Who could've predicted such poison?
You didn't let her date around because you were following your duty as a guard, obeying the orders of her family's patriarch. And in return—she poisoned you to death?
Yun Shou is sure this lunatic will be punished by the Chu family head afterward. But by then… he's already dead!
[Choose one inheritance reward:]
Twenty-five years of detailed memories.
The martial progress and combat skills of a second-rate martial artist.
A 25% boost to foundation.
"I choose number two," Yun Shou says without hesitation.
Even if that simulated self cursed him as an idiot…
"Well, I guess I'll spoil you anyway."
The moment he chooses—
Muscle, blood, body!
Yun Shou's energy and spirit skyrocket at a terrifying pace!
His raw strength multiplies several times over—he can now cleave wood with a single palm strike, shatter bricks with one punch!
The overwhelming force of his blood makes him want to roar at the heavens, surging like a great river within his body, supplying endless power!
His skin and sinews grow so resilient that he can unleash fists and kicks without fear of tearing muscles or grinding joints!
And not only that—