[The Baishui Martial Arts School rebuked the Qinghe Gang for breaking the rules and recklessly encroaching on other people's territory. Your loyal Right Protector, Xu Ruohai, sneered and said, "It's just a matter of order; whoever is stronger takes more."]

[During the third simulation, you joined a martial arts school in Yangxue City. At that time, other martial arts schools moved into Yangxue City, and your school, Tianhe Martial Arts School, fought a best-of-five battle against the relocated Xiaguang Martial Arts School.]

The enemy has achieved enough victories in battle, thus their entry has been successful.

In this life, although there are differences between martial arts schools and gangs—for example, a martial arts school is a kind of independent, more detached semi-official organization, that half of it being above the official level.]

In contrast, gangs, while potentially possessing more skilled fighters, are not strictly regulated organizations; they are semi-official, with the other half subordinate to the government.

In the struggle for power, it's not about officialdom, but about the martial arts world and military might.

[The Baishui Martial Arts School proposes a best-of-three match. If you win two matches, they will cede the fishing village on the shore of Qinghu Lake outside Lihu City; otherwise, you must withdraw and refrain from further incursions for ten years.]

[In the first match, a battle between second-rate martial artists, your third-in-command, Iron Thunderbolt, was defeated!]

[In the second match, a battle between top-tier martial artists, your Right Protector Xu Ruohai was defeated!]

[There won't be a third match. You've already lost two out of three matches in this best-of-three contest, without even making a single move. The entire Qinghe Gang has been utterly defeated.]

Yun Shou: "A bunch of boiling dregs."

[Your face darkened. You should have realized this sooner. How could the quality of martial artists in a gang compare to that of a martial arts school? Even with Xu Ruohai, this martial arts genius who was picked up by chance, his talent is at most at the first-rate level.]

[If Xu Ruohai were a second-rate martial artist and had completed his blood transfusion and flesh coagulation, then you might still have a chance to win the first battle.]

However, he was only a first-rate martial artist. Not only was his talent mediocre among first-rate practitioners, but he hadn't even completed the Internal Organs Extreme Training. Of course, he couldn't defeat the elite first-rate martial artists in the martial arts school.

[You are not satisfied and want to fight Bai Jianghe, the master of Baishui Martial Arts School, alone!]

This is a separate duel; the outcome does not involve territorial disputes.

This battle lasted a full three hundred rounds. With the enhancement of his cultivation technique, Bai Jianghe's foundational aptitude was at least one hundred and eighty percent, and he had also reached a relatively advanced stage of harmonious resonance between his muscles and bones.

[If you were to fight at your peak in the simulation, you could defeat him in twenty or thirty rounds. However, while your current foundation is stronger than his, you are still a teenager; your martial arts are at the grandmaster level, but he has reached the perfection stage... With these advantages and disadvantages, you are not significantly stronger than him.]

Ultimately, you gradually gained the upper hand with a slight advantage, defeating Bai Jianghe and causing him to vomit blood.

Bai Jianghe glanced at you with a strange look in his eyes, and finally said, "A talented young man has emerged," before leading his many disciples back to the city.

【You also take the Qinghe Gang members back with you.】

[You originally thought that the following days would be spent practicing martial arts every day, improving your martial arts skills, and then, a year and a half later, you would have a big fashion show at the Young Talents Competition, and finally, just before the arrival of the alien demons, you would finish your journey through the Three Kingdoms.]

But the unexpected happened so quickly; you didn't even make it through a year, and before you could even recoup the expenses from the simulation, an uninvited guest arrived.

[He is a martial artist, a martial artist who has condensed the will of martial arts, a martial artist who has one foot in the Grandmaster realm!]

With a casual palm strike, he unleashed a burst of light, and Xu Ruohai was sent flying, coughing up blood.

[A martial arts master from the Yangyao Sect!]

Yun Shou was taken aback, then realized what had happened.

In the simulation, and even now, he seems to have paid no attention to one thing: the inheritance of martial arts!

Each sect and martial arts school places great importance on its own unique martial arts!

If someone is found to have stolen the martial arts, their skills will be revoked!

There are two kinds of so-called revocation of martial arts skills. The gentle kind is to cripple your martial arts cultivation. The other kind is simpler: if the person is gone, the matter of the martial arts being leaked is naturally gone as well.

Yun Shou's Sun Technique has the legitimate authorization of the Yangyao Sect, but he won it by ranking second in the last simulation competition.

In reality... Yun Shou was actually quite cautious. He hadn't used his exclusive martial skill "Heavenly River Flow" during the Young Talents Competition, so it wasn't discovered at the time.

And the reason for this exposure...

[Zhao Yuan, a martial arts instructor from the Yangyao Sect, said that it was Master Bai of the Baishui Martial Arts School who approached them, saying that a teenager had mastered the Sun-Shining Technique and seemed to be a core disciple of the Yangyao Sect.]

However, this "core disciple" was appointed as the leader of a gang, which was too unusual, so Bai Jianghe went to Yangyao Sect to inquire about it.

"Damn it, it really is you!" Yun Shou was in a bad mood: "Bai Shui Martial Arts School, right? Bai Jianghe, right?"

It seems that the blazing white energy transformed by the Sun Technique is too distinctive, unlike the more common blue energy flowing through the Heavenly River.

Or perhaps Bai Jianghe was very familiar with the Yangyao Sect and had some communication with them, which is why he was able to directly discern Yun Shou's fundamental martial arts and also realize at the time that he had no connection with the Yangyao Sect.

After the fight, he said, "Young hero, you're awesome!" but then turned around and reported it to the Yangyao Sect.

"I'll remember that, you old sly fox!"

[You paused for a moment, then told Zhao Yuan of the Yangyao Sect: "About six months ago, I met a mysterious old martial artist, and so on and so forth."]

Zhao Yuan sneered: "Do you think I don't know which of my senior uncles is currently traveling the martial world? The cultivation level and whereabouts of every disciple and elder in the sect are recorded. The only Grand Elder has been in seclusion for ten years. You can only fool yourself with this little lie."

He took out a long staff made of hollow steel, its blade gleaming with white light: "Tell me the truth, where did you get your Sunburst Technique?"

You were silent for a moment, then said, "Can't I just find it?"

Zhao Yuan chuckled, then suddenly attacked: "Then I'll take back your martial arts!"

You are no match for him.

[Of course he's no match for Zhao Yuan. He looks no older than thirty or forty, and his actual age is no more than forty-five. Yet he has already condensed his martial will, and only needs the unification of his essence, energy, and spirit to break through to the Grandmaster level.]

[His displayed talent goes beyond being a "grandmaster seed," indicating he's destined to become a grandmaster, and may even be a top genius with the potential to become a great grandmaster. His martial arts aptitude might even rival yours now!]

[His martial arts aptitude might only be able to catch up, but his martial arts cultivation has already far surpassed yours! The gap between you is too great; in the very first exchange, you would be at a complete disadvantage!]

[In just over ten moves, you were forced back dozens of steps by a single blow from the staff, your energy circulation nearly disrupted. In that life-or-death moment, you chose to follow your heart, shouting that you could join the Yangyao Sect. You are a fourteen-year-old martial artist, with the potential to become a supreme grandmaster in the future.]

Zhao Yuan: "You little thief who stole our martial arts techniques, dare to push your luck?!"

[You're losing your temper. This martial arts master from Yangyao Sect is too rigid and inflexible. He doesn't understand that rules are rigid, but people are flexible.]