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

At 16, all four of your innate talents have revived, and your annual natural growth in these four stats has reached its limit. From now on, every bit of progress you make will depend entirely on your own efforts.

At 17, you suddenly realize, with a daze, that your growth in strength has slowed significantly. Although the vibrant blood and energy within your bones still flow powerfully, and you still possess formidable energy, vigorous vitality, and an indomitable spirit, you realize that you seem to have reached your peak.

The pinnacle of life.

This means you've reached the summit, and from here on, there's only downward mobility; there's no further room for advancement.

[On the day before this simulation began, you claimed to numerous school leaders that you possessed astonishing martial arts skills, but in reality, among martial arts practitioners, your skills were only average.]

Now, pushed to the extreme by "Hot-Blooded Kung Fu," it's almost predictable that your future will be extremely difficult!

Xu Fei: "..."

He opened the panel.

[17 years old, Physique: 36 (43), Control: 30 (35), Strength: 35 (40), Divine Soul: 27 (29), Talent: ...]

"It's alright, I guess."

Because of the excessive exploitation of his body's potential since childhood, the effect of more than ten years of practicing the Blood Strike Technique was only equivalent to increasing his constitution from 30 points to 36 points.

However, these attribute values ​​are not simply calculated by addition and subtraction. The actual difference between 30 points of constitution and 36 points of constitution is not 20%, but more than 30%.

Xu Fei felt that the gains from this simulation were acceptable. Although his attributes did not increase much in this simulation, it was because he squeezed his potential in advance and forced himself to practice martial arts at an age when it was not suitable for him.

He just didn't expect to reach his limit so quickly... He decided to try a different method next time.

Try practicing proper martial arts first, and then practice the Hot Blood Technique when you are seventeen or eighteen years old and your body has grown enough, and see if you can unleash it to a higher level.

Furthermore, once they reach adulthood, their brains will be more fully developed, and the impact of intellectual decline should be less.

At 18, you've honed your "Hot-Blooded Kung Fu" to an exceptionally high level. You've used your extraordinary wisdom to "improve" it, making it even more ferocious and ruthless, further pushing your own limits!

No, this seems to be more than just depleting potential; it's drastically reducing your lifespan! Therefore, you feel your strength increasing again, and your physique and power continue to advance by leaps and bounds.

"However, I don't care."

Xu Fei got out of bed and propped her chin up with her index fingers.

[You have renamed your improved "Hot-Blooded Kung Fu" to "Extreme Breaking Kung Fu".]

[Meaning: To push the limits and achieve the ultimate breakthrough!]

At 19, you began to vigorously develop agriculture and animal husbandry. From this moment on, the civilization of the savages began a major transformation towards an agricultural society.

Although the number of beasts remains large, the main reason for the transformation of civilization is that you have successfully selected sufficiently superior seeds over the years.

Seven or eight years ago, when the savage slaves conquered by the tribes first began farming, the vast majority of the grass seeds they collected could only yield a few dozen kilograms per mu (a Chinese unit of area, approximately 0.165 acres), with edible portions possibly not even reaching ten kilograms.

Furthermore, the vast majority of farmland suffered poor harvests or even total crop failure; a handful of seeds were planted, but not a single grain was produced.

This isn't just because the grass seeds are of poor quality, but also because the wild people don't know how to cultivate plants. At most, they just follow your instructions to water and remove pests, without any concept of the seasons or even how much water to use.

Many seedlings either died from drought or drowning!

Now, you can at least reliably yield over 100 jin of potatoes per mu; however, wheat yields are still only around 40 jin per mu.

Some of the savages even offered watermelons and peaches, but upon tasting them, you realize they lack the sweetness and crispness of later generations; some were even sour they could make your teeth ache.

[That same year, your adopted son, whom you renamed Tie Man, turned eight. This kid has a very stubborn personality; he's always shouting and wanting to fight. Not to mention his peers, even seventeen or eighteen-year-old young savages are no match for him.]

[Lately, he's been constantly clamoring to join a hunting party to hunt wild animals, all for the thrill of combat.]

You decided to test his strength and had a simple hand-to-hand combat match with him.

[Naturally, you crushed him, kicked him to the ground, and only when he was on the ground for the thirty-third time did he show a hint of dejection.]

[But... you've roughly estimated his current strength; it's roughly equivalent to the strength of someone with 30 points of Constitution.]

Are you sure? It's definitely him.

[The Iron Barbarian you encountered earlier wasn't some secret martial artist from a "wild mountain forest where savages pass down their martial arts"; he was just the little guy in front of you!]

"He definitely possesses talent, not just one intermediate talent, but possibly even an advanced one!"

Xu Fei gasped for breath.

He put the water glass aside and, sensing the tactile sensations from the simulator, felt a surge of emotions as he looked at the small, dark-skinned, and muscular man before him.

His "powerful body" is just hype, but Tie Man probably really has that talent, or even a superior alternative, such as the advanced talent Steel Bones.

"If this kid were here, he could definitely get into a top martial arts university, or even one of the top 100 martial arts schools."

"...But I'll be pretty much done after buying all the rewards from this simulation."

Xu Fei murmured to herself.

With a level 1, fifth stage cultivation and five minor talents, although he can't beat a true level 2 martial artist and has no hope of getting into the top 100 martial arts schools, he's guaranteed a place in a top martial arts university!

An hour ago, he only had a slight hope of getting into the "key" university in the third tier of Wuhan University (Uncle Niu thinks that his guarantee of getting into a key university is based on the premise that he has truly awakened a mid-to-high-level talent, which is evaluated based on combat strength).

Now, he is certain to be admitted to the "top-tier Wuhan University," which is ranked fourth.

"I can't reveal my physical talents to the outside world for a while, but I can show the principal and the others my three minor talents: health, excellent memory, and agility..."

[At 20 years old, for the past two years you've either been hunting wild animals, studying extreme techniques, or developing farming and animal husbandry.]

The Central Plains are vast and rich in resources. The time it takes to slaughter one elephant is enough for two more to migrate from other places, so it doesn't cause any significant ecological changes.

In some territories yet to be conquered, savage tribes, fearing you, circulate numerous legends about you, such as your tribe's fondness for eating raw iron and copper, and how each of you has a copper head and iron skin.

After all, once the iron enters your tribe, it only transforms into armor and helmets that you wear. Some savages have also spread rumors that you throw those stones into flames to roast them—that's clearly roasting meat with those crimson wild beasts!

"He's truly become Chi You."

"Why not catch a bear named Kimi to ride?"

With your strong support, the savage tribes under your command have finally evolved into tribes, possessing culture and various occupational divisions, and a hierarchy has emerged between tribesmen and slaves.

However, you have left a path for advancement: slaves who have worked for three years and acquired skills such as farming or blacksmithing can regain their freedom and become free citizens or join a tribe.

[Of course they chose to join. Over the years, the wealth of your tribe has spread throughout the Central Plains. Besides the defeated, even many scattered savages have come to join this dream paradise, their aim being to become tribe slaves.]

[Because slaves could eat their fill and did not have to worry about attacks from wild animals, hunts by cannibals, or being buried by snow in winter.]

[Achievement: The Flame of Civilization]