[After 291 years of great achievements, your foundation has increased by 152%. You feel an astonishing surge of vitality throughout your body, and although you are already middle-aged, you feel no signs of decline.]

Your Iron Body Technique has been perfected.

In the 292nd year of the Daqing era, with the resources provided by the Chu family, you began to unify your qi and strength, and transform your blood and flesh, steadily progressing towards the second-rate realm.

[Your age is holding you back. Starting martial arts in your twenties is really late. Even if your foundation is strong, it only means you have a high ceiling, not that you can learn quickly.]

[Throughout the year, you repeatedly told yourself: "If the original body doesn't inherit martial arts cultivation, then you're a complete idiot. I hope the emulator can record it."]

Yun Shou: "..."

(Martial arts cultivation includes knowledge of martial arts techniques and related skills.)

In the 294th year of the Daqing era, the notorious womanizer Song Yulang broke into the Chu family mansion at night and abducted Chu Xian'er, the family's daughter. You are ordered to conduct a city-wide manhunt.

You find two people in a small house, and discover they are incredibly intimate. This isn't just casual sex; it's an elopement.

[You have been discovered by Song Yulang, a young prodigy whose martial arts skills are approaching first-rate at such a young age, and whose foundation is not much weaker than yours. For the time being, neither of you can determine a winner.]

After dozens of rounds, Song Yulang gained the upper hand with his exquisite martial arts skills (Chu Xian'er kept cheering him on), and you were gradually suppressed, suffering injuries. Song Yulang intensified his offensive, intending to cripple you.

At the critical moment, your teammates arrived, and Song Yulang could only escape with Chu Xian'er. But now that they had been discovered, how could he, with an ordinary woman in tow, escape the encirclement of a group of martial artists?

[Chu Xian'er kept verbally abusing you and your teammates throughout the process, but you ignored it. It's not like she paid your wages.]

Soon, Song Yulang escaped the encirclement wounded, but left Chu Xian'er behind. Chu Xian'er kept shouting that she would teach them a lesson.

[However, the Chu family head praised you highly. Song Yulang is already considered a genius martial artist on the "Young Prodigies Ranking." To be able to entangle with him for so long is enough to qualify you as a skilled fighter.]

Two weeks later, Chu Xian'er apologized to you, saying that she was too young and had been blinded by Song Yulang's sweet talk.

[You drank her apology tea, and half an hour later, you suddenly experienced excruciating abdominal pain, and dark lines appeared on your veins... You died!]

Yun Shou: "..."

"???"

"Holy crap, a shark-armed, love-struck idiot!"

He didn't blame himself in the simulator, because he hadn't expected it either; who could have imagined the poison?

Out of your protective instincts and the orders of the family head, you prevented her from having a romantic relationship, and she turned around and poisoned you to death?

Yun Shou was certain that this madwoman would be punished by the Chu family head, but before that, he would have been killed!

Please select the following reward inheritance options.

1. Detailed memories of twenty-five years.

2. The martial arts progress and related memories of martial arts skills of a second-rate martial artist.

3. Increase the foundation by 25%.

“I choose option 2.” Yun Shou said without hesitation.

Even though the guy in the simulator called him a big idiot, but...

"That's what happens when I spoil you."

The chosen moment—

Muscles, blood and energy, physique!

Yun Shou's energy and spirit are soaring at an alarming rate!

His powerful muscles are several times stronger than before, and he can now chop wood with one palm and smash bricks with one punch without getting hurt!

The abundant blood and qi made him want to roar to the sky. The blood and qi surged through his body like a river, providing a continuous source of power!

His resilient skin allows him to unleash his full power without worrying about straining himself or wearing down his joints!

That's not all!

Yun Shou took a deep breath, and a strange, extraordinary power burst forth from his body, which had already surpassed the limits of humanity in his previous life.

Internal strength!

Like a pale white snake, it moves with the will of the heart, winding through the veins of the limbs and bones.

Yun Shou picked up a piece of bluestone from the ground and held it in his palm.

With a swift, snake-like surge of internal energy, he felt a slight soreness in his arm as the energy merged into the meridians of his palm.

Unleash your power!

Click!

A crisp sound came from the palm of his hand, and a crack appeared on the bluestone.

Yun Shou released his grip, and the bluestone fell to the ground, breaking into two pieces with a thud.

"With the support of internal energy, I can already crack a stone the size of a fist. If this power were applied to the human body, probably no part of it could withstand my squeeze!"

Moreover, the bone is hollow and long, while the bluestone is solid and oval!

"A second-rate martial artist, the Bone-Shattering Demon, can kill a person with one punch!" Yun Shou carefully sensed it. Although Iron Body Skill was a common martial art, it was still a legitimate martial art and it trained the body comprehensively.

This martial art has been mastered by the simulated self and has also provided additional defensive capabilities. This defensive capability is unrelated to the level of a "second-rate martial artist" and is purely a unique feature of the martial art!

In addition to mastering the Iron Body Skill, he also learned the "Overlord Saber Technique" and mastered it to a certain level.

"I'm considered a minor expert now, though of course, I'm much weaker than my peak performance in the simulation."

Yun Shou's current foundation is only 129%, which was originally accompanied by the severe damage to his vital energy during his youth. However, the vital energy replenished in the simulation seems to have been brought back as well, so the increase is still 129%, but the basic foundation has increased, which may be equivalent to the previous 132% or 133%.

In the simulation, his foundation level reached 155%! That's 26% higher than now, which is a significant difference, roughly equivalent to the difference between a few outstanding ordinary people and a few dozen geniuses.

Furthermore, there's the factor of physical strength. Under the same circumstances, he would definitely be able to defeat his 10-year-old self at age 30—even though both of their martial arts levels are set to be exactly the same.

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