In the 273rd year of the Daqing era, the depth of "Tianhe River Flow" reached the Great Perfection stage. Martial arts progress has little to do with fundamental aptitude. Last time you simulated, you reached Great Perfection during this time period, and you didn't improve any faster this time.
In the 274th year of the Daqing era, you and Zhu Baowen got along quite well. Initially, you approached him out of personal gain, but as time went on, your pretense turned to true affection, and you truly came to regard him as an elder.
[And Zhu Baowen's advice on some of your martial arts skills vaguely surpasses the vision of his self-proclaimed "martial arts master."]
In the 275th year of the Daqing era, your Qi has reached 25% of its original state, and its quality has more than doubled. Combined with the advanced stage of "Heavenly River Flow," you believe you can defeat your original self within ten rounds... the you at the beginning of the simulation.
"Going against oneself."
Yun Shou was also thinking while he was angry at his other self's "comparative method of killing the original body".
The bonus of foundation is a bit too terrifying. Even though he obtained a lot of martial arts resources in the simulation because he was in the top ten of the competition, these food and medicine resources are not amazing.
Unlike spiritual stones and essence stones used in cultivating immortals, martial arts training mainly depends on one's own basic qualifications. Those various resources can only increase the speed of his martial arts improvement by half or double at most.
Without resources, it just means spending two more years of effort.
After thinking about it, Yunshou decided to improve his foundation and martial arts skills simultaneously.
If you simply choose to cultivate martial arts, there may be no room for improvement in the first few decades of the next simulation.
If you simply choose the foundation, then after piling too much, the effect will not be obvious.
For example, the standard line for a first-rate warrior is about 130 points of foundation, so a person with 140 points of talent will practice martial arts more slowly, so his speed can be calculated as 10 points.
What about 200 points of talent? 70 points of martial arts training speed should not be enough. After all, martial arts training speed is not a pure addition, subtraction, multiplication or division of resources. But 50 points is not difficult. 60 points of talent is not a big difference. You can add it up by living for 60 years.
But if Yun Shou just piled up the foundation, there would be a difference of 10,000 years between 10,000 points and 20,000 points. It would probably take dozens of simulations to add it up, but the speed of their martial arts training would be about twice as fast.
With those dozens of opportunities, you can choose a higher level of martial arts cultivation. As your martial arts cultivation improves, your life span will also be extended. After that, you only need ten times to build up a 20,000% foundation!
This is called maximizing benefits!
In the 276th year of the Daqing era, you once again participated in the Young Talent Competition. This time, you are completely different from the one you were five years ago!
This time, the competition is taking place in Qing Kingdom. It only took you a dozen days to reach the location: the Hundred Stone Forest. This is a valley where densely packed, naturally formed stone pillars are arranged like an array. It's called a hundred stones, but in fact, there are tens of thousands of them.
[A little over ten miles west of Baishilin is the headquarters of the Yangyao Sect. This stone forest is also an ideal place for Yangyao Sect disciples to practice Qinggong.]
[In this competition, hosted by the Yangyao Sect, the participating warriors will need to maneuver and move across stone pillars to fight, putting those with bulky bodies at a significant disadvantage.]
Although some of the participants in this competition were from the previous session, your impression of them is shallow—because five years ago, these young warriors could only break into the top 100 at best. There are very few top-tier players under the age of 20, at least none from the generation five years ago.
[Whether there's one in this class or not, you don't care. You've only seen one exceptional talent once in your previous life (the last simulation). A normal "Grandmaster-level" talent can become a top-tier talent in their early 20s, a martial artist around 30, and a Grandmaster by 60.]
[At the end of this competition, you successfully took second place, and at the age of 21, you were honored as the contemporary "Second Young Hero."]
You think to yourself that it's a good thing the title you're given is Young Hero, not Senior Brother. You don't want to be called "Second Senior Brother."
[At the end of the competition, Yang Yao Sect has given you two rewards to choose from: one is to obtain a copy of the authorized Grandmaster-level martial arts: Sun Art, and the other is to obtain a large amount of martial arts resources. Enough for you to use for at least five years.]
[The first place in the competition has both. You get to choose one.]
Just as you were about to make a decision, you heard Zhu Baowen's voice: "Choose that martial art."
Your heart skipped a beat. You were now standing on a high platform. In front of you were the Grandmaster and Martial Master of Yang Yao Sect, and beside you were the rest of the top ten. So Zhu Baowen should be among the crowd below.
[But after he made the sound, no one around him showed any sign of abnormality. This is a method of "transmitting sound."]
"Voice transmission" is a relatively low-end application in many novels. Protagonists often use this method to communicate secretly in the first or second realm. In immortal cultivation literature, "spiritual communication" can be achieved after building a foundation or linking qi.
[But in this world, even though you're only a first-rate warrior, you know that even a Grandmaster wouldn't be able to perform such a delicate operation as "compressing and transmitting a sentence through some method, and then speaking it back to someone else in its original order."]
Besides "packaging and transmitting," there's another way to transmit sound: using energy like Gangjin to create a "telephone line," placing the two ends of the line at your mouth and ears to achieve the effect of private messaging.
[But this method is even more difficult! You're nearly a hundred meters away from the closest group. Creating a hundred-meter "telephone line" and transmitting sound? This also far exceeds the power of a Grandmaster!]
[Zhu Baowen is no longer acting! ]
[You chose that Grandmaster-level martial art. The Grandmaster of Yang Yao Sect was surprised by this. Since you can't practice multiple martial arts simultaneously, with your aptitude, dispersing your skills would mean you'd go from having a high probability of becoming a Grandmaster to having a near-impossible chance of becoming one.]
[Even if your basic martial arts are only at an advanced level, it is not worth switching martial arts! ]
[Your expression is strange. The people at Yangyao Sect think you might be regretting something, but you're thinking about something else.]
Master Zhu is not going to pass on the Hun Yuan Jue to me again and then run off to somewhere far away to have fun, right?
[(Oh my god, stop it! You don't even look down on Ikkunbei's foundation?)]
After receiving your prize, you were on your way back on horseback when you ran into Zhu Baowen. This old man, who looked to be in his fifties or sixties, smiled and asked if you believed in him.
You naturally responded: "You are my master, and you have guided me countless times. How could you harm your own registered disciple? Of course, I trust you 100%!"
Zhu Baowen: Well then, first, let's disband your current martial arts skills.
Yun Shou: "…"
Boss, please don't do this.