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

An ordinary life can almost make you forget your past vows, but thankfully, a simulator helps you rediscover your original aspirations.

"Bullshit."

"I don't like fighting at all."

"I just want to develop properly and then defeat the enemy with ten or a hundred times the strength."

"Just play it safe while you're developing. Even if you want to fight... you'll have to have enough strength before you go for it!"

Xu Fei felt that his idea was correct.

However, he overlooked one point: his development time was too short. He could just buy things a little bit every day. Even if he was just "playing it safe," he only needed to "play it safe" for a few days.

But flight simulators... those are all measured in years.

When you're weak, it's not a big deal, but when you gain enough power in the simulator to surpass the strength of a normal adult, and there aren't any decent opponents around...

If he continues to endure it, he will be no different from the son-in-law in the "Dragon King" novel, getting slapped in the face by extras, being spat on and shitted on, but still having to endure it: the agreed time has not arrived, I cannot reveal my true identity!

Of course, one shouldn't be so extreme in life.

Having ambition is one thing, but simply not wanting to spend years doing nothing in a tiny place doesn't mean you have to confront that crocodile patriarch head-on—that's suicide!

At eight years old, you figured you were old enough to start practicing martial arts.

[You also broke through to the Martial Soldier level this year, but to your slight regret, your awakened talent did not turn out as you hoped: you did not awaken a physical talent that could increase your stats.]

What you have awakened is a functional physical talent.

【"The slightest disturbance"】

As the name suggests, this talent greatly enhances the user's eyesight and hearing, enabling them to distinguish extremely faint wind sounds and clearly see the movement of grass at a considerable distance.

"It's probably related to how carefully I've been observing the prey's movements since I started hunting."

You seem to be deep in thought.

Xu Fei nodded, "It's worth it."

This talent is quite good; it's considered a minor gem among low-level talents.

Many veterans who returned from Tianmen, or police officers responsible for searching for members of foreign cults and fugitives within Shenhua territory, greatly admired this talent.

They are willing to trade two "robust" qualities for one "troublesome moment".

In the same year, you encountered another savage tribe. This tribe had just been raided by cannibals, but it was more like a sacrifice to avert disaster.

They were cowardly; when faced with strong and fierce cannibals, they not only did not resist, but instead chose the meatiest member of their own tribe to offer up.

They were more like humanoid cattle and sheep raised by cannibals.

You learn from them that there is a large cannibalistic settlement nearby, home to one or two hundred thugs. They are the rulers of this area of ​​the grasslands, herding more than a dozen smaller savage tribes.

Although there were many more people being herded, fear was ingrained in their hearts, and they dared not resist.

So you set a fire.

The fire rolled towards the settlement from afar. When you arrived, you only saw a dozen or so wretched savages wielding weapons made of human bones.

They're gone.

You also seized the opportunity to win over numerous savage tribes within a radius of hundreds of miles, and were regarded as a ruler and a hero.

[At age 9, he vigorously developed animal husbandry on the vast grasslands.]

[At age 10, your livestock farming is thriving. You lead a hunting party to kill jackals, lions, and tigers roaming the area, gaining combat experience and improving your marksmanship.]

In autumn, you take five trusted men on patrol to the most remote border region, the closest pasture to the heart of the grasslands.

On the distant edge of your field of vision, you see a flock of white dots moving slowly. You know they are sheep, enclosed by a two-meter-high fence to protect them from roaming wolves.

But suddenly, the white dots scattered in panic. A huge creature lunged over the fence, tearing one of the white dots to shreds in a few swift movements, causing it to explode in a pool of crimson blood.

[With the "Wind and Grass Sway" talent, you can clearly see that it is a saber-toothed tiger that can be called a behemoth!]

The sheep weren't even as tall as its legs; this saber-toothed tiger was estimated to be over two meters tall, twice the size of other saber-toothed tigers!

It is six meters long and probably weighs more than three tons!

On land, it's an absolutely unbeatable killing machine!

"And it's a feline with relatively high combat power for its size, with a reaction speed seven times faster than the Haji!"

"Run! Run!"

[Ding! Please make a choice!]

Option 1: Go to the Central Plains, mine large quantities of iron ore, significantly arm yourselves, and refine your marksmanship.

[Option 2: Burn the big cat to death, then choose option 1]

Xu Fei: "..."

"But then again..."

"If nothing unexpected happens, it will be the 'King of Saber-toothed Tigers'."

"Speaking of which, I don't think I've ever gotten the first kill on the northern boss yet."

Xu Fei counted them carefully on his fingers.

Northern grasslands, saber-toothed tiger king; eastern mountains, wild boar king; southeastern great river, carp king; southwestern snow mountains, polar bear king; northwestern giant lake, crocodile king; central plains, savage king Tie Man (suspected).

The swamps in the south, the deep rift valleys in the northeast, the Maluo rainforest in the west... these three places are unclear.

"Let's take down this saber-toothed tiger first."

"I choose option two: set it on fire."

[The wind follows the tiger, the clouds follow the dragon; facing the raging curtain of fire, the saber-toothed tiger simply leaped through it.]

He casually rolled around a few times on the ground covered in ashes to extinguish the flames on his body. In the end, only some of his fur was singed, and he was not seriously injured as you might have imagined.

The effects of fire attacks on the grasslands were far less significant than those of the Yunsen fire many years ago.

Instead of replicating your heroic act of burning that Yunsen saber-toothed tiger to death, you let that tiger enjoy a whole roasted lamb.

"He's a bit tough to kill."

You and your men retreat.

"...So sometimes choosing is the same as not choosing at all."

Two months later, devastating news arrived one after another: the saber-toothed tiger emerged from the depths of the grasslands and set its sights on your grazing land.

You even heard that after the saber-toothed tiger came to the ranch, it didn't attack the people (the herders), but just kept showing off the cattle and sheep being raised there.

[A saber-toothed tiger of this size is no less intelligent than a savage. In its eyes, the "savages" are a group of sensible little brothers who will proactively help it to gather food together so that it can enjoy it to its heart's content.]

It won't bother the herders until it has finished eating all the food in the pasture.

One piece of bad news after another reached your ears.

"The Saber Tiger King is here! Another ranch is about to fall!"