[After the instructions are completed, you will ride out of the city and arrive at He'an Town.]
You ignored the mayor's call and went into the mountains alone, finding the giant tiger.
[In this battle, your goal isn't to boil the bones into soup to nourish your foundation, as this kind of acquired foundation can only be brought back through martial arts cultivation. Your main goal is to test the strength of this Tiger King.]
"Back then, I was just a second-rate warrior, and even when I fought six against one, I was still almost wiped out. Now that you've become a first-rate warrior, why would I still be afraid of a little tiger like you?"
The Tiger King possesses a ferocious aura. Considering its size, it is undoubtedly comparable to a top-tier warrior with "Bone-penetrating Qi." However, compared to a true top-tier warrior, it is not only clumsy in its movements, but also lacks any special moves.
[If it goes head-on, even you wouldn't be its match. However, with proper force management, even a second-rate warrior could deal with it.]
[Your fight was quite strenuous. After all, there were six of them, and no one else could distract the Tiger King. Each of its attacks was full strength, and with one pounce and one grab, it could knock down a large tree.]
You seize the opportunity, blinding its eyes with your powerful energy, ripping its mouth open, and with one last sliding shovel, you dive into the tiger's belly, raising your long knife and ripping it open.
"What Tiger King? I killed him with a single sliding tackle."
[Drag the giant tiger's carcass back to He'an Town and have the restaurant chef prepare a feast. This time, the tiger meat feast and tiger bone soup will be enjoyed almost exclusively by you. The leftover leftovers will be given to the restaurant.]
You left and returned safely to Donglin City.
In the 288th year of the Daqing era, you heard that a "Martial Arts Sage" attacked Qingcheng, annihilating the entire Wu Kingdom army with a single slap before vanishing into thin air. For a time, many martial artists flocked to Qingcheng to see the "Martial Sage's" palm print.
[There are even rumors that several reclusive elders from various sects have come out of seclusion for this purpose, quietly circling the outer reaches of Qingcheng several times.]
In the 289th year of Daqing, the two countries reached a truce.
[This year, your internal organs are finally nearing completion. You are about to begin the final step to becoming a top-notch warrior: cultivating energy into your bones!]
In the 290th year of the Daqing reign, a chivalrous thief who called himself "The Shadowless One" arrived in Donglin City. He displayed exceptional skill, specializing in stealing the wealth of the city's wealthy and distributing it to the beggars and the poor.
Several wealthy families in the city have asked you to help, but you're too lazy to care. Although you're now a "privileged class," not to mention that the "Traceless Guest" didn't do anything wrong, most of the other families you approached were from families with a bad reputation, and the money they took was just a small fortune...
[The real point is: I, a warrior, am forced to offend another warrior for your family? Have you figured out which side I'm sitting on?]
In the 291st year of Daqing, you carefully used your energy to strengthen your bones every day. Fortunately, you had previously strengthened your internal organs, otherwise you would have vomited blood after just five minutes of exercise.
[After the internal organs were strengthened, the time was extended to three hours! ]
[(Although you'll be exhausted in two and a half hours)]
In the 293rd year of Daqing, you are 38 years old and your foundation is 152%.
The progress of the Qi entering the bones was quite slow. Fortunately, after completing the "Heavenly River Flow", the additional bonus to the Qi had a miraculous effect. In just four years, the progress reached 20%.
[In the past four years, the total amount and quality of your Qi has increased eight times faster than in the previous twenty years! While this is influenced by your aptitude, it also proves the terrifying disparity!]
If your overall energy quality value was 100 points when the simulation began, then it was 150 points four years ago. In 20 years, it has doubled.
[And now, it's around 230 points! (The increase in energy intensity isn't significant, but the total amount has increased, allowing for a more sustained battle.)]
[You have entered a period of rapid strength growth. Although Qi is not the entire strength of a warrior, it definitely accounts for a large proportion!]
"Only when the Qi has penetrated the bones can one be considered a true first-rate warrior!" You couldn't help but sigh. As your strength increased, you adjusted your standards of contempt accordingly.
[It seems that the limit of a first-rate warrior is several times greater than that of a beginner, simply in terms of the quality of their energy!]
[In the year 295 of Daqing, you were enjoying a meal at a restaurant when you heard a conversation between a man and a woman next to you.]
"Brother Yulang, hehe, it's more comfortable to be with you. It's much more interesting than that old-fashioned Chu family."
"Hahaha, Sister Xian'er, there are still many beautiful sights in this world. I'm going to take you to see them all."
You had simply listened to a few sentences, mentally complaining about the cheesy couple, until you realized something was amiss and began digging deep into your past memories.
After a long while, as you watched the young couple leave the restaurant, you finally remembered where you had seen them before, or rather, where you had heard of them before.
[At the end of the second simulation, Song Yulang kidnapped Chu Xian'er, the daughter of the Chu family. At that time, you were the captain of the Chu family's guards, and your assigned task was to bring Chu Xian'er back.]
[It turns out that the two of them truly loved each other. Chu Xian'er secretly hated you, and after you successfully brought her back to the Chu family, she poisoned you to death!]
"This is a life-or-death revenge. If it weren't for you, a vicious woman, I might have reached first-rate martial arts skills by the end of the second simulation. If I'd been luckier and hadn't been killed by that inhuman demon, becoming a martial artist or even a grandmaster wouldn't be a dream!"
Yun Shou nodded in agreement. Even though he had done three simulations, his body was only at the first-rate level.
But he has a late-stage plug-in: foundation increase, which increases by 1% every year, and his martial arts training speed will become faster and faster.
Moreover, judging from the information revealed in the simple language of the simulator, his foundation enhancement seems to be different from those of other martial arts geniuses.
If the foundation of other martial arts geniuses is twice that of ordinary people, then their combat effectiveness and training speed will also be twice as fast, but their lifespan does not seem to be outstanding. It has appeared in the simulator: the master only lives to one Kun Jia Zi, or one hundred and fifty years old.
To become a master, one's foundation must be at least twice that of an ordinary person.
However, in the simulation, at the age of fifty, he looked much younger due to his higher foundation. This increase in foundation also had a slight effect of extending life.
A martial arts genius has twice the foundation of an ordinary person, which may only be reflected in the power of force. If he does not practice martial arts in this life, he will still die of old age when he reaches the age of 100.
Although his 200% foundation would not allow him to live to 200 years old, it is possible for him to live to 120, 130 or even older without practicing martial arts!
Therefore, once the simulated self continues to live and reaches 100 or 200 years old, relying on the continuous accumulation of foundation, continuous extension of life and increase of qualifications, it is not a dream to become a master in one step with just one simulation!
"Go ahead, my other self, and consider it revenge for my other self!"