[An entire city was destroyed overnight?]
[This sounds like a joke. Even if several supreme masters came together, they probably wouldn't be able to accomplish such a thing, right?]
Most people completely disbelieved it, even thinking it was some kind of joke. Or, in the most extreme case, some kind of horrific plague, poisonous gas spreading... But if that were true, how could those passing vendors spread the news?
On April 11, Ge Yuancheng was massacred, and the corpses of over 80,000 people were piled up into a mountain of bones.
[The whole world is in shock, and an ominous tune plays in your heart]
[How did this fucking martial arts world turn into a terrifying apocalypse? A whole city is destroyed in just a few days. Could it be that some thousand-year-old monster has appeared?]
You remember encountering a five-meter-long tiger king and Zhu Baowen, who could take down thousands of people with a single slap... Holy shit! Could that old man have gone crazy?
You were completely numb. Zhu Baowen's strength, even for you now, was still as untouchable and unimaginable as a fairy tale.
He was like a numerical monster running from a high-level map, like a Golden Immortal descending to the mortal world, showing off his power in front of a group of Divine Transformation and Return to Void cultivators.
On May 18th, a survivor finally saw a figure... To be more precise, a creature that looked inhuman, with two horns on its head. It slaughtered people wantonly in Baichuan City, like a flickering reddish shadow. Each flicker represented the annihilation of life in an area...
On June 8th, for two consecutive months, nine cities and three sects were razed to the ground by this unknown, inhuman entity. You heard that the reclusive Grand Masters of the neighboring Wu, Qing, and Ning kingdoms all came out of seclusion and gathered together to annihilate that evil demon.
On June 14th, before the Supreme Grand Masters had even assembled, you saw a figure over three meters tall appear before you.
It was completely naked, without any skin, and its exposed muscles were a reddish-black color, as if steel had been melted into its flesh and blood. Overall, it appeared slender yet extremely powerful.
[It has hands and feet, almost human-like, but its palms and soles have no fingers or toes. Instead, they have three-inch-long pitch-black claws.]
Its head was similar in size to a human's, but from its temples grew two dark, twisted, spiral horns over a foot long.
[In fact, when you first saw it, the familiar people in the martial arts gym had already been cut into thousands of pieces by the attack that was beyond your sight.]
What you see are just fragments of them, barely cobbled together into a human form in mid-air before they land. In the distance, you can make out the shattered silhouettes of Fang Mingyue and Bai Liguang, as well as the demonic presence that paused briefly after launching a round of attacks.
[It was precisely because it paused after its attack that you were able to clearly see its exact appearance, completely imprinting the image of that demonic shadow in your eyes...]
"Demon?" The thought flashed through your mind, and then the figure disappeared from your sight again. In an instant, you became countless times lighter... You died.
Yun Shou: "…"
He felt a little headache, not sure if it was because of staying up all night or for some other reason.
"Damn, I thought I'd live a long life, found an organization, and found a place to practice martial arts in peace, but where did that demon come from?"
"According to the description in the simulator, the style of that thing doesn't seem like something from the martial arts world at all. Could it be that some mysterious old devil accidentally practiced magic and became deformed?"
"Well, now that things have come to this, let's choose the reward first."
[Please select the following rewards to inherit
1. Thirty-four years of detailed memories.
2. The martial arts progress + martial arts skills of a first-class warrior, related memories of martial arts, etc.
3. Increase the foundation by 34%.
"From the beginning of this simulation, I was thinking about choosing the foundation. After all, it represents the foundation of everything, the speed of martial arts training, etc..."
"But I changed my mind." Yun Shou clicked on option 2.
Advanced martial arts + Hunyuan Gong + first-class warriors, and even the Tiger King that improves the basic foundation, isn't this much stronger than a 34% foundation increase?
If he were to be promoted from his current second-rate flop to a first-rate warrior, his strength would increase by more than double!
After making his choice, Yunshou closed his eyes and slowly waited for his martial arts realm to make rapid progress.
He felt the blood in his body rejuvenate as it rushed, and all the muscles in his body slowly contracted and condensed into one.
Change blood and solidify flesh!
Afterwards, the Qi and blood surged more vigorously, the breath became longer, and the essence of life slowly increased - this was a gift from the Tiger King!
The base has clearly dropped to 128%, but it feels comparable to the original 132% and above (although its highest was only 130%).
Then, the internal strength burst out!
Azure energy burst forth, and Yun Shou waved his hand, creating a fist-sized hole in the wooden door in front of him. "I've lived in this house for two years... Forget it, you'll be able to retire soon."
The warmth in his internal organs slowly dissipated, Yunshou stretched his limbs, and crackling sounds of popping beans were heard all over his body.
"I, Yun Shou, am a first-rate warrior!"
The leader of the Qinghe Gang is only at this level. Yun Shou's simulated peak state today can definitely beat Xu Ruohai.
But as for him now... I guess there's a little difference, about the same, not much weaker.
The main reason is his body shape. He is a fourteen-year-old boy. Even if the root of his malnutrition has been corrected, he still has the body shape of a teenager. His weight is less than half of Xu Ruohai's. At least below the Grandmaster level, his body shape has a significant impact on his combat effectiveness.
Yun Shou suppressed the desire to expand his strength, and he silently warned himself.
"Above you are a top-tier warrior with bone-deep strength. Above the top-tier warriors are masters capable of crushing thousands of enemies. Above the masters are grandmasters. Above the grandmasters are that deformed demon and the supreme grandmaster..."
He put the demon and the grandmaster together because he didn't know the specific strength of the demon that massacred the city. Although the simulation wrote that the demon's means of massacring the city were many times greater than those of the grandmaster, that did not represent the specific combat power.
In the public view of the simulator, the Grandmaster had only fought for the Wu army a few times, destroying the city wall with one blow. Judging from the description of the demon in the simulator, he was not capable of that...
It may also be that the fact that a martial artist or a first-rate martial artist was killed in one second does not reflect its strength at all, but if it were a grandmaster, it would still kill him in one hit.
"My head feels so heavy..." Yunshou thought about the pressure brought by the mysterious creature and the fact that he hadn't slept all day. The combination of the two caused him some discomfort.
With his current martial arts skills as a first-rate warrior, he could withstand an all-nighter. But during an all-nighter, he was still a second-rate warrior, and the simulator wouldn't recover.
The most important thing was the invisible pressure exerted on him by the inhuman creatures that appeared out of nowhere at the end of this simulation.
Where did that creature come from, and are there more?
Why didn't the mysterious boss Zhu Baowen take action? Is the monster related to him?
"Damn it! Wouldn't humanity be in dire straits in thirty years?!"
"...Wait, I think I have a simulator?"
"Or once a day?"
Yunshou wrapped himself in the quilt.
"In that case, now that things have come to this, let's go to sleep."
Note:
Number of simulations: 3
Basic increase: 128%
Martial Arts Cultivation: First-Class • Extremely Strong Internal Organs (30%)
Fundamental Martial Arts: Tianhe River Flowing • Minor Achievement