High Martial Arts Races: I Ascend to the Future in a Simulation

[At age 7, the savages under your command have gradually achieved considerable success in martial arts training, which has attracted many other savage tribes to join you. Your number of followers now exceeds one hundred.]

[Achievement Obtained: Boss]

Xu Fei silently pulled out the emulator settings.

Turn off the feature that allows you to repeatedly simulate achievements.

From now on, the simulator will only display newly acquired achievements.

At age 8, you led your savage tribe northwestward, arriving at a vast lake where the opposite shore was nowhere in sight.

This is a vast ecosystem that supplies water to all living things within a radius of hundreds of miles.

[It's amazing that tigers can drink water alongside cattle and sheep at the lake's edge without incident, because this isn't a place of conflict.]

However, once they've traveled a certain distance from the lake, it's a different story.

You think so too.

[Achievement: Rhinoceros Hunter]

[Achievement: Elephant Hunter]

"Those henchmen..."

"Oh, right!"

Xu Fei suddenly realized something: "That last combat power ranking...did they include things like elephants in it?"

"Otherwise, there's really no reason why they'd only rank around 600th."

"After all, although those savages live in a primordial environment, they don't know martial arts. If their physique can reach 11 or 12 points, it's because they are self-taught and exceptionally talented."

Xu Fei recalled the memories in his mind. Although a very small number of wild people in the prehistoric era were born with low-level talents, they could only have a physique of 14 or 15 points at most.

"...except for that Iron Barbarian."

At age 9, in the summer, you started practicing swimming in the lake. After swallowing water for half a month, you finally learned the doggy paddle.

Your savages followed suit, and you then warned them against urinating or defecating in the lake.

"That's how fish are always dried."

[Shortly afterward, you discover that a savage has gone missing. At first, you suspect that he went out hunting alone and was killed by an animal.]

[Until one day, you see a savage swimming in the middle of a lake suddenly engulfed by a huge splash, his massive, black mouth biting his lower body and dragging him deep underwater.]

You realize there are crocodiles in this lake.

Judging from its long snout, the creature's body length should be no less than seven meters.

[Giant crocodile!]

Xu Fei: "..."

In his world, he would only mock it as a piece of trash, merely a delicacy in the cafeteria, one he himself had ordered countless times.

However, in that prehistoric era, an ordinary person who could fight a three- or four-meter-long crocodile would be considered an absolute superhuman, and they would have to be armed.

Xu Fei took a deep breath. Although he encountered crocodiles in the last simulation, he had not actually fought them because he was too young at the time.

The seven-meter-long crocodile in this simulation would be one thing if it were on land, but it happened to be in the water...

Normal soldiers at the seventh or eighth dan level would be no match for him without sufficient experience in water combat!

"Speaking of which, I memorized all that iron smelting knowledge before, did this kid actually make any weapons?"

[A seven-meter-long crocodile is no match for your bamboo and stone weapons. You can't help but feel a little disappointed; if it were easier to find minerals in your birthplace, hunting a crocodile wouldn't be so difficult.]

Xu Fei: "I had no choice."

The simulator has not yet been updated to a version that allows switching spawn locations.

He guessed that once he completed the prehistoric era and his map exploration and ascension progress reached 100%, the simulator would receive an update.

Holding your breath is definitely not in your nature, but you've decided to wait a few years before dealing with this giant crocodile. Your physique has now reached the level of a formal martial artist, and you've decided to wait until you successfully break through before battling it!

Xu Fei: "???"

Open the panel.

[Age 9, Constitution: 20, Control: 19, Strength: 20, Spirit: 19]

"So... we're about to reach the first realm?"

"He inherited the legacy of two generations, and at the age of nine, he attained extraordinary understanding of the Dao."

"Yay!"

At age 10, continuing to practice the "Hot-Blooded Kung Fu" will no longer enhance your physique; it can only weaken your current cultivation level. However, before age 16, your physique will slowly increase over time until it breaks through the 20-point cultivation level cap.

[With your physique gradually surpassing twenty points, the barrier of your cultivation level, which was already being refined, is becoming increasingly fragile.]

[In the same year, a pack of wolves charged towards your pack. Wielding a wooden-pole, stone-tipped spear, you fought and killed seventeen ferocious wolves, your body covered in hot blood and fragments of entrails.]

When you trample the head of the leading wolf king under your feet, you feel only a clear sky and a distant breeze.

Something is rushing away, and something else is returning like a tidal wave.

You have become a first-level warrior!

The torn barrier transformed into invisible nectar, cleansing your entire body and simultaneously condensing into a "talent" that will accompany you for eternity!

[Talent: Health!]

"He has a new talent!" Xu Fei exclaimed with joy.

Health is also a kind of physical talent, but it is a state talent in a small branch. It can greatly improve a person's resistance to external negative states such as diseases and parasites.

At the same time, it also greatly enhances resistance to internal negative conditions such as kidney deficiency and high blood pressure.

The slowdowns in martial arts training caused by various illnesses and eating junk food became largely irrelevant after acquiring this talent.

Why did he only advance two levels of martial arts cultivation at the age of 16 in the last simulation? Wasn't it because he was hampered by various diseases and the harsh prehistoric environment?

However, this talent is actually quite similar to that of a strategist in "modern times".

For formal martial artists, the usefulness of health talent is negligible.

Many people would rather choose physical strength or even worse physical attributes than health.

Martial artists are almost never sick, and the effects of health on detoxification are extremely weak.

As for that so-called resistance to kidney deficiency and sheep tail... that's laughable. Martial artists would never get that kind of disease.

There are many benefits to practicing martial arts!

Therefore, even if a martial artist who has not broken through to the extraordinary realm awakens this talent ahead of time, he will still sigh with regret!

But Xu Fei is already very satisfied.

"Even a weak talent is cute."

"You've already done a great job, don't be discouraged."

"It's okay to fail at one gacha pull. You can keep trying and you'll eventually pull an SSR."

"Go for it! You're the best! You can do it!"

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