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

The free opportunities have been exhausted; what follows is the paid content.

That's a charging interface; you can charge it with energy, which is then used to power up the simulation.

Each time a prehistoric simulation is initiated, one unit of "energy" is consumed.

There are two main methods of recharging, one of which is using his own "extraordinary energy".

He doesn't have that. At the very least, one needs to become a first-level martial soldier to possess the most basic extraordinary energy "blood breath" within their body. Right now, Xu Fei is stuck at the martial student level, so naturally he can't use this method.

The second method involves consuming external energy to power the simulator. The limitation of this method is that "the external energy must belong to the user".

Xu Fei reached out and grabbed a wisp of air in front of him, asking the simulator to extract the vital energy contained in the air... and it actually succeeded, causing the progress bar to rise by a negligible amount.

However, when he asked the simulator to drain the vital energy contained in the air within a radius of 100 meters, he failed miserably: that air did not belong to him!

After numerous experiments, he eventually discovered that he could only sell trace amounts of vital energy contained in the air within a radius of about one meter, and he could only do this at home, because the outside air did not belong to him.

However, there is a way to make the outside air your own: either take a deep breath of the outside air and inhale it into your stomach, quickly marking ownership.

Alternatively, you can stay in a certain area for a few dozen seconds, allowing your body temperature or breath to spread out, like a dog marking its territory by urinating, defining a radius of one meter in the air.

However... this method sells out too slowly. After he sells out all the air (vital energy) in his house, the air itself still exists even after losing its vital energy, and the vital energy mixed with the air from the outside flows in very slowly.

It's even slower to claim territory outside; it takes tens of seconds to determine an area!

Xu Fei did a quick estimate and figured he would need to sell "vitality" for about six months to accumulate one bar of energy.

If he works hard to improve his lung capacity and takes deep breaths outside, he can accumulate one bar of energy in about a month.

But this has to be the kind of work that doesn't involve any rest, 24 hours a day, 30 days a month.

Therefore, these methods are directly eliminated.

"It's time to use my uncorrupted, not-so-sharp, intelligent brain!"

After three consecutive simulations, Xu Fei, whose cultivation had greatly increased, walked out of the room and out of the residential area.

It was nearing evening when he crossed two streets and arrived at the entrance of a "Kowon Martial Arts Hall".

The glass door was tightly closed, without a single gap, locking the high concentration of vital energy inside the martial arts hall.

"Hello, are you here to register for martial arts training?"

A tall, leggy young woman walked over in high heels. Seeing Xu Fei's face, which clearly still resembled that of a student, she smiled even more broadly: "Martial arts students get a 50% discount!"

Martial arts practitioners have extremely low requirements for vital energy; they only need vital energy as a catalyst to begin practicing martial arts.

The demand for vital energy is not high for warriors of the first realm.

Therefore, students enjoy discounts because the vast majority of students are only at the Martial Student level, and the very few Martial Soldiers consume very little vital energy.

Anyway, the martial arts gym won't lose money.

"I just came to look around."

Xu Fei declined a few times and then entered the museum.

The concentration of vital energy in the air was seven or eight times that of the outside world. Xu Fei couldn't help but increase his breathing rate. Regardless of whether his idea could be realized, he wanted to get some vital energy now.

Accompanied by the young lady, he arrived at a "Yuan Yong Machine".

The Yuan Yong Machine is similar to a humidifier. As long as "Yuan Crystals" are placed inside the instrument, the internal device will automatically grind and pulverize the dozens of pure Yuan Crystals, and then release the high concentration of Yuan Qi contained within them, which will slowly blend into the surrounding air.

A single pure elemental crystal is enough to provide nine hours of cultivation for an ordinary martial artist who has just entered the second realm!

Xu Fei looked at the ventilation port of the Yuan Yong machine with a look of novelty on his face.

"Oh, this is the 'Purple Sky Qi' brand elemental surge machine that we just received three months ago. Its elemental crystal striking efficiency is as high as [per second]..."

Upon seeing this, the waiter who had been following him immediately began to introduce the advanced equipment in the martial arts school to Xu Fei.

Xu Fei nodded in agreement from time to time, a look of satisfaction gradually appearing on his face, as if he was about to pay for the course at any moment.

But he was actually timing it perfectly!

If he just stands here for a few dozen seconds, he might be able to claim ownership of those Yuan Crystals as his own. Then he can secretly spend two or three Yuan Crystals to recharge his simulator... and he'll get the simulation attempts, right?

Consider it a small investment they're making in advance. If he gets good results in the martial arts exam, he'll definitely beat this martial arts gym.

Xu Fei stood there for one minute, two minutes, three minutes... without any reaction.

Not only could he not extract the elemental crystals inside the instrument, he also couldn't extract the vital energy from the high-quality air inside the martial arts hall.

"I'll think about it."

Xu Fei nodded to the waitress and left the martial arts hall.

He paused for a minute on the street outside the martial arts hall, a moment that could be used to sell air.

Arriving at a small shop next to the martial arts school, you can also sell trace amounts of vital energy there.

Only martial arts schools are not allowed.

"So there's a distinction like ownership."

The boy seemed to be deep in thought.

"The air on the street is ownerless, and even the air in ordinary shops is ownerless, so I only need to stay in the vicinity for a few dozen seconds to determine that the air belongs to me."

"However, the elemental crystals and even the air inside the 'Gaoyuan Martial Arts Hall' are owned by someone. What they're selling is the cost of breathing that 'high-concentration elemental energy.' No matter how long I stay without paying for classes, I can't acquire ownership of them."

"...Unless I take a deep breath, but I can't stay there forever since I haven't bought the course."

"Tsk, the little trick I finally came up with has been blocked just like that."

Xu Fei felt quite regretful.

As for buying courses and frantically trying to recoup his investment... he never even considered it from the beginning.

Because that means he would have to inhale for nearly a hundred hours to accumulate enough for one simulation opportunity, and his mouth would be ruined.

"Fortunately, I remember that the school has some special awards for martial arts geniuses."

"Someone like me, who hasn't even broken through to the Martial Soldier level yet, already possesses a whopping 33 points in Physique... it's not an exaggeration to say I have a mid-level talent, right?"

"Having intermediate-level talent before even entering the extraordinary realm, shouldn't I be rewarded with ten or eight Yuan Crystals?"

"I just have to be careful with everything I do lately, to avoid breaking through without realizing it."

Xu Fei's current basic stats have far exceeded the upper limit of the Martial Student realm. He can almost feel the thin membrane inside his body being slightly pulled with every casual movement.

Boundary barriers.

What ordinary martial artists need to endure for three or four years to break through, or to face a life-or-death crisis to overcome, is now something he has to carefully maintain, lest he accidentally tear that layer of martial arts membrane.