Zhao Yuan has made up his mind to cripple you in this battle, and then bring you back to Yangyao Sect.
You can't reason with them, and you can't beat them in a fight. You only have one option left: run!
This is also your greatest advantage as a teenager!
Adults are generally larger, have more strength and power, but also weigh more.
While younger people may be weaker and have less internal energy, they are also lighter, and within the same weight class, their muscle strength and internal energy intensity are not necessarily lower!
Therefore, you are much faster when using your lightness skill than when you are in your adult form. When you find the right opportunity to run away, even Zhao Yuan is left behind.
The distance between you didn't shorten over time; instead, it maintained a certain balance. In a short while, you were chased all the way to Qinghu Lake.
[Find a boat to row away? Too slow! Top-tier martial artists can walk on water. You're gliding across the lake as if it were flat ground, with Zhao Yuan following closely two hundred meters behind.]
The waves crashed open, and the two of you, one after the other, seemed poised to traverse the entire Qinghu Lake.
[Ten li, twenty li, thirty li... You've penetrated over eighty li into Qinghu!]
[You began to circle back and forth repeatedly, with no intention of crossing Qinghu Lake back to land, because you knew that only in the lake was there a glimmer of hope... You two martial arts masters chased each other for hundreds of miles around Qinghu Lake, alarming countless fishermen!]
Finally, Zhao Yuan let out a cold snort, took a powerful step, and the water beneath his feet spread out in a circle. He had already leaped over a hundred meters into the air. Glancing around, he locked onto a direction, no longer chasing you, but running towards the nearest shore.
He has little energy left; if he continues chasing, he might not be able to reach the shore, and he himself will be in danger.
You breathed a sigh of relief and stopped. Most of your body was submerged in the water. You only had enough energy to run another six or seven miles across the lake; you really couldn't hold on any longer.
[Now you don't even dare to run on the lake, saving your energy for more important moments. Fortunately, you learned to swim in the two years after you fell into the water, and you swam with all your might in the opposite direction from Zhao Yuan.]
A few hours later, you unexpectedly encounter a fisherman heading back to his village. Upon further inquiry, you learn that he belongs to the Waterweed Gang, a partner of the Green Harvest Gang, with the two gangs having established a shipping organization.
[You haven't revealed your identity, but to prevent Zhao Yuan from trapping you as soon as you land, you've used your martial arts skills to force the fishermen to spend the night on the lake, allowing you to recover your strength, etc.]
The next morning, you caught several large fish weighing dozens of kilograms for the fishermen as payment, and had them take you to the outskirts of the fishing village. You changed your clothes and watched to see if there was any sign of trouble in this village, which was more than a hundred miles away from Qinghe Village.
[Nothing yet, but by noon, members of the local Waterweed Gang had already come to post wanted posters. These were offered by a high-ranking disciple of the Yangyao Sect, and the bounty was far greater than that offered by the official authorities!]
Seeing the fisherman who brought you back with a shifty look in his eyes, you knew he couldn't refuse the five taels of silver reward for "reporting the prisoner's whereabouts." You sighed and began your escape.
[The sect's wanted notices are far more effective than those of the government. The Yangyao Sect has laid a wide net in the vicinity, and as soon as someone is discovered, at least a top-tier Yangyao Sect disciple will arrive immediately.]
[You feel this sect is overreacting. Is it really necessary to hunt them down like this? It seems like they've mobilized the entire sect's strength.]
[When you were pushed to the limit, you crippled a top-tier disciple of the Yangyao Sect in a fight. Then… one day, in a crowd, you heard that a grandmaster from the Yangyao Sect had appeared, and he vowed to kill you with his club.]
[Your appearance, your name, and many other pieces of information about you have been posted everywhere. Ordinary sects wouldn't have such power and influence… but the Yangyao Sect has an unparalleled Grandmaster.]
[Moreover, he only made a move once ten years ago, making him the most recent appearance of a supreme grandmaster in the Qing Kingdom. His existence within the Yangyao Sect signifies the sect's high status and strong influence.]
[For the first time, you felt utterly trapped, with nowhere to turn. It was as if the Qing Kingdom had formed an invisible hand, ready to grasp you in its palm.]
Yun Shou: "..."
It's his turn to experience being an enemy of the world.
Thankfully it's just a simulation. If I had failed this time, I would have been completely wiped out from the start if we restarted.
Ultimately, you fled north, to a desolate wasteland where nothing remained, and the only direction that the Yangyao Sect's blockade wasn't so tight.
Because it was so desolate, the only sign of life was the weeds on the ground; not even a wild rabbit or sparrow could be seen.
[There is almost no way out of the Northern Wilderness, but the blockade is tightening. A Grandmaster stands high above, waiting for any movement within the network before launching a surprise attack from hundreds of miles away, delivering a fatal blow. You have no other choice.]
"Yangyao Sect, Yangyao Sect, you gave me martial arts, and I should be grateful for that. I could repay your kindness a thousandfold if I become a Martial Emperor or Martial Saint in the future... But from this moment on, all grudges are settled."
You plunged headlong into the northern wilderness mountains.
A month later, after trekking thousands of miles, your provisions have run out, and there is no turning back. Before you lies only barren mountains and withered trees. Just as despair is about to set in, you faintly hear the sound of water.
[It was the sound of the sea. After traveling several dozen miles, you came to see the boundless ocean. Standing on a cliff, with turbulent waves crashing below, you leaped into the sea. But as you turned around, you saw a cave on the inner side of the cliff. Gathering your last bit of strength, you jumped inside.]
Yun Shou was taken aback: "Jump off a cliff, into a cave?"
Wow, I guess I'm getting this kind of treatment too.
Wait, why does that last sentence sound so familiar?
"Uh... it's another battle royale where everyone is your enemy, and it's another one where you jump off a cliff into a cave. This simulation is quite interesting."
He suddenly felt hopeful.
I thought I wouldn't last a year and would die, but who knew there would be a turnaround?
Inside the cave, you are overjoyed, for on the stone wall deep within, there are large sections of blood-red characters carved into it. Upon closer inspection, the first half of the text is a biography, while the second half is a martial arts manual.
Although the writing on the stone wall appears to be over a thousand years old, it's amazing that the writing system in this world hasn't changed for thousands of years, which is why you can read it.
The first half of his biography recounts a terrifying era of martial arts, completely different from the current Three Kingdoms period. In that era, demonic martial artists were rampant, killing, slaughtering clans, and using human bodies as medicine...
Then, a young genius suddenly appeared, vowing to exterminate all demonic martial artists in the world. However, his method was not to shatter darkness with light, but to integrate demonic power into martial arts, becoming the demon of all demons.
He possessed a terrifyingly inhuman talent, having thoroughly studied martial arts manuals, and spontaneously created a peerless demonic art: the Blood Essence Fusion Technique.
[The more similar a creature is to its own, such as a human of the same race, the better the effect of absorbing its essence and blood!]
What are the effects?
[Enhance martial arts aptitude and forcefully accelerate martial arts progress!]
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