[The Lin family is one of the top two families in Qingcheng. The other family on par with it is the Chu family you served in the second simulation.]
[And you, having won first place in the Lin family's martial arts competition to find a husband, will receive a mysterious gift—the seventeen-year-old Lin Youbai, the third daughter of the current head of the Lin family!]
You followed the Lin family's headmaster to the Qingyu Tower next to the arena and saw Lin Youbai.
Your first focus isn't her looks, but her temperament: she's not the classic rich girl, not elegant, but not a tomboy either. If you really had to use a metaphor... she's a bit wild.
[She's not savage or unruly; the way she looks at you is more like she's treating you like her private property.]
Yunshou: "Can you tolerate this?"
You thought about it and decided that randomly sowing seeds in the simulation wasn't a good idea. Carrying too much would be too chaotic. Besides, you didn't want to be hanged on a tree. You just wanted to live a happy and free life.
Just as you were about to start by saying you knew nothing, that you were just a child and that the fight was just for fun, Lin Youbai's gaze suddenly shifted, from possession to a look of boredom.
She spoke first: "I don't want children."
[you:"..."]
[You almost red-hot: I haven't even rejected you yet, and you already look down on me? ]
[Little Lin's hometown guy, have you ever heard of a top-notch 14-year-old genius?!]
[The Lin family expressed their apologies to you and gave you a large amount of gold and silver as compensation.]
[It's one thing that my eldest daughter isn't interested, but I absolutely cannot neglect this young genius in other areas.]
You snorted coldly, took the money and left.
"If you spend half of this money, it will be enough for the people you know in Qinghe Village to buy homes in the city and live a good life."
In the 270th year of Daqing, you were humiliated in Qingcheng and decided to move to another city for development.
You settled down in Donglin City, but did not immediately demonstrate your top-notch skills. Instead, you slowly practiced martial arts on your own.
[Donglin City is a small town without any martial arts schools stationed there. First-rate martial artists are considered top-tier.]
[You occasionally raid gangs both large and small inside and outside the city, defeating those third-rate and second-rate fighters, and use the money they take from the people to benefit yourself.]
In the 271st year of the Daqing era, you set out for Hengduan Cliff, the location of this year's Young Talent Competition. The organizer is the Meteor Sect, renowned for their incredibly fast and powerful swords, like meteors streaking across the sky.
If you win first place in the competition, you will receive the authorized master martial arts from the Meteor Sect, and become famous throughout the world, becoming the best martial artist of your generation and known as the "Young Hero."
(Regardless of whether changing your profession will ruin your foundation, you are allowed to practice anyway.)
The Hengduan Cliff Martial Arts Competition lasted seventeen consecutive days, including various round-robin and even alternating battles, to maintain fairness as much as possible and prevent incidents such as "the second-place finisher encountering the first-place finisher at the start and being tragically eliminated."
[Finally, you ranked 20th.]
[Regarding this result, you can only say: the top ten are all monsters! ]
[Not just the top ten, there are two young warriors ahead of you, both of whom are only second-rate... You are the weakest of the seventeen first-rate warriors in the entire competition.]
Yun Shou: "…"
Okay, I understand.
To be able to become a first-class warrior before the age of 25, one's martial arts aptitude and basic foundation cannot be limited to the 130-point breakthrough requirement. It may be twice that of an ordinary person.
Therefore, those second-rate warriors with twice or more than twice the foundation can indeed defeat him by jumping one level higher!
"Wait until this simulation is over, and watch me live to 180, I'll triple my foundation and then come back to kill all those gifted monsters!"
Yun Shou snorted coldly and painted a rosy picture for himself in the simulation.
Even though he couldn't hear it.
Although he still needs to work hard to get this big pie.
But it doesn't matter, he painted it anyway.
[The Meteor Sect allows you to choose a high-level martial art and a powerful martial art. You looked at them and felt that none of the options they offered were as good as Tianhe Luan. However, you didn't want to waste them, so you chose the one you liked the most.]
Many people have been asking about your master. Even though you're unskilled, you're only sixteen, and what you've shown is already impressive. Tell them that your master is a mysterious master.
Among those asking questions is a core disciple of the Tianhe Martial Arts School. Cold sweat drips down your back, but thankfully, he doesn't suspect anything. There are so many martial arts that can cause your energy to appear blue, and your energy's extra flexibility isn't particularly noticeable...
[And you mainly relied on swordsmanship in the competition to avoid running into the heir of the "Tianhe Martial Arts School." You didn't use the supporting martial arts of "Tianhe River Flow."]
[The main reason is that in the past few decades, there has been no sign of the martial arts school passing on any of its martial arts to outsiders.]
It's like when you're walking down the street and see someone who looks a lot like you. You wouldn't doubt that they're your brother, and at most you'd sigh, "We're destined to be together."
But if your parents have been lamenting in your ear every day since you were little, "You had an older brother, and it's all our fault for not taking good care of him, so he got lost..." then you probably need to take them for a paternity test.
[The competition was quite rewarding. At least I acquired a powerful martial art, although it's not compatible with the other martial art I chose at the same time.]
You return to Donglin City and continue your daily martial arts training.
In the 272nd year of the Daqing era, you are 17 years old and your foundation is at 131%. You discover that the speed at which your internal organs are being tempered is extremely slow. This isn't just a slow pace, but a slow pace that's even beyond imagination.
[During the third simulation, you achieved first-class status at the age of forty-three, and at the age of forty-seven, your progress in organ mastery had reached the third level. Considering that it may take a year to stabilize and control your energy after a breakthrough, you can only make about 10% progress per year.]
[Even if your foundation now is not as good as it was back then, you are still young and this is the time when your martial arts progress is the fastest. So after three consecutive years, you should have made at least 50% of your progress.
[You think this isn't excessive. Even if the difficulty increases as your Viscera Extreme Victory approaches perfection, there's no need to get stuck like this in the early stages. Your current Viscera Extreme Victory progress is less than 35%.]
[You've thought of a possibility. This time, the Heart Path must choose a foundation.]
Yunshou also thought of that possibility.
He had seen a similar setting in a novel before, which was a story about cultivating immortals.
That cultivation text has a "spiritual power overflow" setting. Simply put, if you don't practice for a long time, your cultivation will regress!
Just like those muscular guys in the gym, if you don't exercise for a long time, your muscles will automatically degenerate into fat.
In that immortal cultivation novel, if you rely on taking pills and spirit stones to force a breakthrough to a higher realm.
Then, when you lose these external aids, you will find that the spiritual power you gather through normal practice is not as much as the spiritual power you automatically dissipate every day - of course, if you don't practice, it will dissipate faster.
so,
If one's martial arts aptitude and foundation are too low, will it not be able to support a higher level of martial arts, leading to a decline in strength?