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

You begin to feel bored, withdraw from the group, and head towards the eastern mountains.

Xu Fei: "Are we going to slaughter pigs again to avenge a past life's grudge?"

After traveling for some time, you arrived at the outer edge of the mountain range. Looking at the lush green forests before you, a brand new idea came to you.

Xu Fei: "...?"

Xu Fei: "...!"

[Ten years old, winter has arrived, the weather is dry.]

"Good heavens, this is outrageous!"

You waited until the wind changed direction, then lit a fire.

[The winters in this era bring thick snowfall, with a dense layer of snow covering the treetops, but what does that have to do with the tree trunks you're about to burn?]

The space between the tree trunks was incredibly dry, and the flames spread between them. As the snow above gradually melted and dripped or crashed down, the fires had already reached dozens or even hundreds of nearby trees.

Forest fires spread from mountain to mountain. You heard the roars of wild beasts, the howls of bears, the cries of wild boars, and the screams of savages, but what does that have to do with you?

Anyway, the fire won't reach you.

"Ne Zha".

"What a twisted psychopath!" Xu Fei angrily condemned the simulator's behavior. "I would never do such a thing!"

You discover that beyond a few mountains, another part of the mountain range remains unaffected by the fire, so you continue running to set fires there.

"Heartless! Utterly depraved!" Xu Fei cursed the sinner.

A day later, you walk into a mountain range that has been largely burned down. Scattered embers, charred corpses, and swirling ashes dot the ground.

You found the boar king's carcass deep in the mountains. Its enormous body, about the size of a small house, wasn't badly charred; perhaps... it suffocated.

[Achievement Obtained: World Destruction - Level 2]

"Burn a lot more, thank you."

"Let's see if we can create a Level 3 World Destruction."

Although you may have killed some of the savages who lived in these mountains, you have forgiven yourself.

After all, the savages living here are cannibals who were driven out of the area. You almost fell for their trap before; they have no choice but to slaughter you.

At age 11, you traversed the mountains, finding no enemy, and then headed south.

Using the Central Plains as a reference point, this means heading southeast in this world.

This is a wide river, several kilometers wide, with several small islands in the middle, each a few hundred meters long and wide. You discover that these islands are inhabited by savages who live by fishing and hunting.

But they don't weave fishing nets or fish; they only use sharpened branches to spear fish, or they jump into the river to catch them.

However, the river is too turbulent, allowing fishing only on very rare occasions. At other times, only highly skilled swimmers can provide a stable catch for the island's inhabitants.

You couldn't help but step forward—

[Ding! Please make a choice!]

Option 1: Put aside your fighting spirit, rest here, and experience life. Let these savages accept you.

Option Two: I'm going to fight my way through the world! I'll turn these savages into my slaves!

Xu Fei: "Let's keep it normal."

Choose option two.

This is the most normal option.

"If you, as a man, don't have any ambition, what am I supposed to do with earning points?"

"At worst, I'll just not absorb these memories this time, to prevent myself from becoming a really, really bad person."

You demand that the fishermen and savages submit to you; naturally, they will not agree.

You knocked down several on the riverbank on the spot, while the rest jumped into the river and swam to the island.

[You've never practiced swimming in this life. You have memories of it, but not muscle memory, and you've never swum in a fast-flowing river.]

"So you have to practice swimming, run to the other side, and conquer them?"

You spent three days gathering materials from the surrounding area to weave a simple long-pole net, and then you started catching fish.

That afternoon, you showed the savages on the opposite island your large catch of fish.

So they immediately swam over, crying and shouting that they wanted to be your slaves, even though they didn't know what slaves meant.

In their eyes, slaves and slave owners were roughly the same as the difference between an ordinary savage and a savage chieftain.

[Actually... you're much kinder than the savage chieftain, though that's what you call him, you don't even deserve to be called a slave owner.]

You taught them how to make simple nets, weave fishing nets, and hand-twirl fishing rods, and you stayed here for over a month.

The main goal is to learn to swim, at least to the point where swimming skills can be purchased with points.

Xu Fei: "Oh no, I never expected the real bad guy to be me!"

It shouldn't be like this. He should be a healthy, normal person with a normal brain... When did he become like this?

He analyzed it in depth and came to a conclusion.

Although Simu Fei knew that it was a simulated world that could be overturned and rebuilt countless times, and although he knew that after he graduated from the simulated world, his memories would return to the mind of his original self in the outside world.

But every savage he encountered, their different emotions and appearances, were real.

Every inch of soil, every bird song, every fragrance of flowers... is 100% real!

Some people can be moved to tears watching anime through a screen, while others can experience sweet romance even in games with only a dozen or so options. But in Flight Simulator, he actually entered the simulated world and lived there for over ten years!

Although practicing the "Hot-Blooded Kung Fu" has impaired his mental state and made him prone to extremes, he is genuinely capable of putting himself in others' shoes, after all, he is right there.

As for Xu Fei himself, who was outside the simulation... he was simply looking at a piece of text and experiencing some subtle physical sensations.

It has nothing to do with human nature or morality; it's purely a matter of perspective.

He plays Stellaris, and for flight simulators, he plays Stardew Valley.

[Your extraordinary control allows you to learn to swim very quickly. In less than three months, you feel that your swimming skills have reached their peak, so you prepare to leave again, leaving behind a legend.]

But just as you were about to leave, a fishing net on a small island was torn apart while being pulled in, leaving a large hole.

Based on the thickness of the rope, you judge that it would require incredible strength to do this; even a normal small wild boar couldn't break this net.

[Many of the villagers also reported that their fishing rods and lines were repeatedly snapped, as if some enormous creature was swimming below.]

Your eyes lit up instantly.

[Big cargo underwater!]

[Is this human if it's not a rescue operation?]