After giving you your instructions, you rode out of the city and arrived at He'an Town.
Ignoring the mayor's offer, you ventured alone into the mountains and found the giant tiger.
[Your goal in this battle isn't to boil the bones into soup to nourish your foundation, because such a foundation can only be brought back through martial arts cultivation. Your main objective is to test the strength of this ferocious tiger king.]
[Back then you were just a second-rate martial artist, and even in a six-on-one fight you were almost wiped out. Now that you've reached the first-rate level, are you still afraid of a little tiger like you?]
The Fierce Tiger King possessed a ferocious aura, and in terms of size, it was absolutely comparable to a first-rate martial artist with "internal strength penetrating to the bone." However, compared to a true first-rate martial artist, it was not only clumsy in its movements but also completely devoid of any fighting techniques.
[In a head-on confrontation, even you wouldn't be a match for it, but if you deflect its force properly, even a second-rate martial artist can put up a fight.]
[You had a tough time, after all, there were six of you back then, and no one else distracted the Tiger King. Every attack it made was with its full strength; a single pounce and claw could topple a large tree.]
[You seized the opportunity, your powerful energy blinding and tearing open the tiger's mouth, then with a final sliding tackle, you plunged into its belly, raised your long sword, and ripped open its entrails.]
"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, you'll enjoy the tiger meat and bone soup almost all by yourself; the remaining scraps and ingredients can be given to the restaurant.]
You left triumphantly and returned safely to Donglin City.
In the 288th year of the Daqing era, you heard that a "Martial Arts Saint" had made a move in Qingcheng, annihilating the Wu Kingdom's army of ten thousand with a single slap, and then vanished without a trace. In an instant, many martial artists flocked to Qingcheng to pay homage to the "Martial Saint's" palm print.
[There are even rumors that reclusive elders from several sects have emerged from seclusion and quietly circled around Qingcheng several times.]
In the 289th year of the Daqing reign, the two countries reached a truce.
[This year, your progress in achieving the Ultimate Internal Energy Cultivation is finally nearing completion, and you are about to begin the final step to becoming a first-rate martial artist: Infusing Internal Energy into the Bones!]
In the 290th year of the Daqing era, a chivalrous thief calling himself "The Shadowless Thief" arrived in Donglin City. He displayed first-rate skills, specializing in stealing from the wealthy families of the city and then distributing the loot to beggars and the poor.
Several wealthy families in the city asked you to help, but you couldn't be bothered. Although you are now a "privileged class," let's not even talk about the fact that the "elusive guest" didn't do anything immoral. The families he contacted were mostly notorious, and the money they offered was barely a fraction of what they deserved...
The real point is: are you asking me, a martial artist, to offend another martial artist for the sake of your family? Don't you even understand whose side I'm on?
[In the 291st year of the Great Glory, you carefully tempered your bones every day with your inner strength. Fortunately, you had previously strengthened your internal organs; otherwise, you might have vomited blood after just five minutes of tempering each day.]
[After the internal organs were in extreme condition, the treatment time was extended to three hours!]
(Although you'll run out of energy in two and a half hours)
[Daqing has been around for 293 years, you are 38 years old, and your foundation is 152%]
The progress of internal energy penetration was quite slow, but fortunately, after the "Heavenly River Circulation" was perfected, the additional bonus to internal energy had a miraculous effect on this, and in just four years, the progress reached 20%.
[In these four years, the increase in both the quantity and quality of your inner strength is eight times that of the previous twenty years! While qualification plays a role, it also demonstrates the terrifying extent of the difference!]
[If your overall energy quality score was 100 points when you first started the simulation, it would have been 150 points four years ago—a doubling in 20 years.]
[And now, it's around 230 points! (The increase in energy intensity isn't significant, but the total amount has increased, making the battle more endurance-enhancing.)]
[You have entered a period of rapid improvement in strength. Although internal energy is not the entirety of a martial artist's power, it accounts for a very large proportion!]
"Only when internal energy penetrates to the bone can one be considered a true first-rate martial artist!" you couldn't help but sigh, adjusting your standards of contempt as your strength increased.
[From this perspective, the difference in the quality of internal energy alone between a first-rate martial artist's peak and their initial stage can be several times greater!]
In the 295th year of the Daqing era, you are enjoying a meal at a restaurant when you overhear a man and woman talking next to you.
"Brother Yulang, hehe, it's so much more comfortable with you. It's so much more fun than that rigid Chu family."
"Haha, little fairy sister, there are still many beautiful sights in this world, and your brother will take you to see them all."
[You initially just listened to a few lines, mentally commenting on how cheesy the couple's relationship was, until you realized something was off and started searching through your deepest memories.]
After a long while, watching the young couple walk out of the restaurant, you finally remembered where you had seen them before, or rather, where you had heard of them.
[At the end of the second simulation, Song Yulang abducted 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 the two were truly in love. Chu Xian'er secretly harbored resentment towards you, and after you successfully brought her back to the Chu family, she poisoned you to death!]
"This is a life-or-death feud! If it weren't for you, you vicious woman, my martial arts cultivation might have reached the first-class level by the end of the second simulation. If I had been even luckier and hadn't been killed by that inhuman demon, becoming a martial arts master or grandmaster wouldn't have been a dream!"
Yun Shou nodded in agreement. Despite having only just entered the first-rate level after three simulations, his true form was still quite advanced.
However, he has a powerful late-game advantage: a foundational growth rate that increases by 1% every year, making his martial arts training speed faster and faster.
Moreover, judging from the simple words revealed in the simulator, his foundational growth seems to be different from that of other martial arts geniuses.
If other martial arts geniuses have twice the foundation of ordinary people, then their combat power and training speed will also be twice as fast. However, their lifespan does not seem to be particularly outstanding. In the simulator, it has been shown that even grandmasters only live to be one Jiazi (a Chinese sexagenary cycle), which is 150 years old.
To become a grandmaster, one's foundation must be at least twice that of an ordinary person.
In the simulation, at fifty years old, he appears much younger due to his superior foundation, and this increase in foundation also slightly extends his lifespan.
A martial arts genius with twice the foundation of an ordinary person may only manifest in martial arts prowess. If they never practice martial arts in their lifetime, they will still die of old age at the age of 100.
While his 200% foundation might not allow him to live to 200, it's possible for him to live to 120, 130, or even older without practicing martial arts!
Therefore, if the simulated self continues to live to 100 or 200 years old, by constantly building up the foundation, extending lifespan and increasing aptitude, it is not a dream to become a grandmaster in one step with just one simulation!
"Make your move, my other self, as revenge for another version of you!"
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