People are in reality, transcending the other side

Chapter 188 Not Favored
The next morning, Li Qi practiced his sword again. After reaching level ten in swordsmanship, the speed at which he gained proficiency should normally decrease significantly. After all, level ten and entering the realm of divine enlightenment are completely different realms. Many people are stuck at this step and cannot make any progress.

However, it was mainly due to the improvement in his basic attributes, the miraculous effect of the "Heaven Rewards Diligence" stat on his panel, and his compatibility that had surpassed the limits of life by two levels and reached the peak leap level. As a result, he gained a total of 106 proficiency points after his swordsmanship training session in the morning, directly surpassing yesterday's 97 points and officially breaking through 100, reaching three digits.

Such a terrifying level of proficiency manifested in Li Qi as if he were divinely inspired in his sword practice. Every move was guided by a mysterious force, leading him directly to the realm of divine enlightenment. It was incredibly smooth and fluid, unlike what many people online say about suddenly losing direction after perfecting one's swordsmanship and not knowing how to continue practicing.

However, when Li Qi started the daily dungeon, he was once again brutally beaten by that martial arts master who had stepped into the air. The same move, straight and direct, was impossible to defend against.

This time, Li Qi estimated that the diameter of this world fragment had shrunk by more than ten meters. However, Li Qi also noticed that the blood-red color of the Void Light Shield was several times lighter than yesterday, indicating that this special state was about to end.

"My own instance is incomplete and unstable, so why is it that I only have instance fragments to play with? If the original instance existed, who would play it?!"

After being brutally beaten and brought back to reality, Li Qi couldn't help but ponder.

When the instance first opened, what was displayed was completely different from the actual instance afterward. They were practically two different things. Given the power of the interface, such a basic error shouldn't have occurred.

Li Qi had long considered this matter, but due to the limited information he currently possessed, he had not delved into it deeply. It wasn't until the past few days, after being repeatedly killed by martial arts masters in the dungeon fragments, that Li Qi began to ponder this issue again.

It's bad enough that a perfectly good dungeon is turned into fragments, but these fragments are also unstable. Undoubtedly, the biggest variable here is the Great Ruins.

"However, the Martial Dao Celestial is really strong. My Heroes module is still locked at the level cap of 100, and I don't know how to improve it. Asking me to fight the Martial Dao Celestial now is no different from asking my underlings to kill Tang Sanzang and his disciples in Journey to the West!"

"I can't possibly wait until I break through the six limits in reality and achieve enlightenment before going to fight with a martial arts master; that would be too late..."

"My willpower is almost at three o'clock now. Once it reaches three o'clock, I will be able to reach that flesh and blood city. It is obviously a different route there. Even if I can't get the relevant module stacking after I get there, I can still get the most basic treasure chest."

After pondering for a while, Li Qi slowly got up once his physical and mental state had recovered somewhat.

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When Li Qi went to school in the morning, he attracted the attention of many students and parents along the way. He also heard a lot of whispers around him. Some people were still talking about the battle at Bafang Pavilion three days ago, while others said that it was too early for Li Qi to fight Wang Taixu at this time. Sixteen and twenty-eight are a whole cycle apart.

This group of people generally felt that Li Qi was young and impetuous, wanting to compete with the heavens, but they also understood him quite well. After all, at this age, with such martial arts skills, if he didn't have this kind of mentality, he wouldn't be a young man, but some kind of old monster reincarnated.

Li Qi's current behavior is actually in line with the mentality of a young man.

A very small minority, however, harbored a peculiar idea. Wang Taixu, too, had inherited the glory of the Great Witch at the age of sixteen. Now, Li Qi was also sixteen, while his opponent was exactly twenty-eight. If Li Qi won, wouldn't it be a subtle shift in fortune? However, few people were optimistic about this idea. When Wang Taixu was sixteen, there were practically no talented individuals in the entire region. The strongest under twenty-eight was merely at the peak of the initial stage of cultivation, lacking a fully perfected external martial arts technique—the level of Wu Shixin.

As for the reasons, on the one hand, more than ten years ago, material conditions and even the Internet were not as developed as they are now. At that time, the two martial arts schools had just been established in Tiannan and Cangbei cities, and many talented people from ordinary families were buried.

After all, martial arts have only been around for about thirty years, and the earliest places to rise to prominence have always been big cities, not small places like the south or the north. The same applies to martial arts schools.

As for the family members, on the one hand, there was the family change fifty years ago, and on the other hand, the emergence of talents in the family was like a lottery. With martial arts, even if you have too many resources, if you don't have the talent or the perseverance, in the end it will all be for nothing.

If simply piling up resources could create experts, the world would have gone in a completely different direction long ago, and we wouldn't be in this situation now. Most likely, we'd still be living in a slave society...

With the development of the times and the flourishing of martial arts, the overall number and quality of masters are constantly improving.

In addition, Wang Taixu was an extraordinary genius to begin with.

Twelve years ago, when Wang Taixu became a Great Shaman, he was only at the peak of the realm. But twelve years later, if Li Qiru wants to become a Great Shaman, he needs to break through the second level of the limit. His opponents are not even in the same league.

Now, in the entire Tiannan region, the only person who has the highest hopes for Li Qi is probably Li Qi himself.

Given his current situation, even he himself feels terrified. While he may not be able to defeat the Martial Arts Celestial in the dungeon, defeating Wang Taixu is not a problem.

Even Wang Taixu, like Zhao Canghai, temporarily broke through to the third level of the realm.

If such a thing were to actually happen, Li Qi would have to wonder if there was some unseen force targeting him.

So, since I didn't appear, they were all stuck at their cultivation levels, only breaking through to new heights when they faced my opponent. Where did all this protagonist destiny come from...?

However, the probability of such a thing happening is not zero. After all, when you fight against a master and feel the opponent's spirit and energy, if you have some kind of intuition and insight, coupled with your own deep accumulation, it is indeed possible to break through the bottleneck.

This is why the once-every-ten-year Universal Dao Discussion attracts top experts from all over the world, even knowing the possibility of being killed if they participate, because they believe that "hearing the Dao in the morning and dying in the evening is enough."

For those who seek the Way, life and death, illusion and destruction, are all illusions; only the Way is the eternal pursuit.

(End of this chapter)