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

"Although my main martial art is 'Blood Blade,' I have reached the perfection level over the years, and I am only one crucial opportunity away from achieving the ultimate form."

"Given your ability to apply knowledge to other situations, I can still offer you some pointers, at least enough to identify the weaknesses in your marksmanship."

"Even if you are proficient in all martial arts, it is unlikely that you could have mastered spear techniques to the perfect level in just a few days."

"Next, I will control my strength and speed to a level similar to yours."

Huang Pingjun casually twirled his sword. He was actually present when Xu Fei and Ji Xuanjun were sparring yesterday, but Ji Xuanjun's spear skills were only at the proficient level, so it was not surprising that he was found to have a weakness and killed instantly.

In addition, although the two were of similar strength, Xu Fei's physique was better able to withstand bursts of power and he had a higher degree of control, so that one battle was not enough to demonstrate his true marksmanship level.

Huang Pingjun stood with his sword raised, gesturing for Xu Fei to make the first move.

Xu Fei didn't stand on ceremony with him and charged forward with his gun.

This time, the soles of the shoes didn't crack because they were replaced with more durable martial arts shoes.

Aside from not using his blood and qi to amplify his power and concealing his spear intent, Xu Fei pushed his combat abilities to the limit in all other aspects!

The Dragon Crosses the River!

Straight thrust!

Huang Pingjun's expression changed drastically, not because he had seen through Xu Fei's superb spear skills—he couldn't see much from a simple thrust—but because he was surprised by the speed Xu Fei displayed!

This sudden acceleration from zero to tens of meters per second... is already at the level of a martial arts master!

As the spearhead approached, he swiftly parried with his sword.

Bang Bang Bang!

The sound of metal clashing rang out repeatedly!

Zhao Ziqing, who was watching from the sidelines, didn't even blink before she saw several sparks fly as the two exchanged three blows in the blink of an eye!

Guns and knives almost danced together, leaving afterimages!

Throughout the entire process, Huang Pingjun followed his initial statement and used only the same strength and speed as Xu Fei.

But he kept blocking and resisting Xu Fei's attacks, without ever retaliating with a single strike.

It wasn't that he was kind and decided to train the students by defending and taking hits on his own, but rather that Xu Fei's attacks were too intense, leaving him no room to counterattack!

The two men swung their weapons wildly, leaving afterimages on their retinas. In less than a minute, they faced each other more than two hundred times!

Suddenly, Xu Fei seized an opening with his spear, bypassed the defense, and thrust it fiercely towards Huang Pingjun's shoulder!

Bah!

Huang Pingjun retreated more than ten meters and suddenly shouted "Stop!" which stopped Xu Fei, who was chasing him, from two meters away.

The head of the teaching department was now truly terrified!

He didn't break out in a cold sweat, didn't pant heavily, and didn't feel tired or sore—the intensity of the battle just now was not light for a newly promoted martial artist, but for him it wasn't even a warm-up.

He could have easily grabbed Xu Fei's rifle when the gun had a moment of weakness, but he didn't do so only to prevent the recoil from injuring the student. His physique was more than one or two times stronger than Xu Fei's.

A tingling sensation on the scalp is caused by heart palpitations!

"Perfect?"

With an expression of disbelief still on his face, Huang Pingjun asked.

But the next second, he shook his head violently: "Perfect couldn't possibly break through my defenses. Your marksmanship... is it perfect?!"

Xu Fei nodded: "Probably."

He also discovered his shortcomings from the previous exchange.

After Huang Pingjun suppressed his strength to a level comparable to his, with his supreme marksmanship, he should only need thirty or forty moves to break through the headmaster's defenses.

However, it actually took more than two hundred moves, which is a lack of combat experience.

Xu Fei possesses almost all the combat experience and memories inherited from the simulation. He has experienced far more battles than Huang Pingjun, and his combat experience is incredibly rich.

It can be said that it was those battles that honed his marksmanship to a pinnacle over two decades of simulations.

However, he lacks experience in fighting against "sword masters".

In prehistoric times, his enemies included tigers, lions, elephants, some savages he taught spear techniques to, and some savages who were very good at hand-to-hand combat, but he had no opponents who used knives!

At most, some savages might have polished stone knives, but when those savages used stone knives, they would just slash randomly, which doesn't make them skilled knife users.

Therefore, in the previous exchange, he attacked more than two hundred times before finding the pattern and seizing the opportunity to insert his spear into that opening.

"Perfect... How is this possible!?"

Huang Pingjun could hardly believe what was happening before his eyes; it was simply beyond reason.

He suddenly took a step forward, his surging blood and qi bringing an astonishing aura as he approached Xu Fei: "This, when did you reach the pinnacle of marksmanship? You've only been practicing marksmanship for a few days!"

"Even with mastery of all martial arts, it's difficult for a soldier to reach the perfect level of ordinary martial arts within a week, let alone the ultimate level. Mastery of all martial arts offers extremely little help to the ultimate level!"

"To be honest, I don't think it's that difficult."

Xu Fei shrugged: "Every time I practice martial arts, when I think back on it late at night, I feel a flood of thoughts, like a spring of water, like... cough cough cough!"

"In short, the results of the day's practice will be automatically analyzed and dissected in my mind at night, as if I have refined decades of skills in an instant."

"So very quickly, very quickly, my basic marksmanship reached perfection."

"This is simply impossible for someone to be proficient in all martial arts!"

The head of the teaching department was practically screaming, and Xu Fei felt a speck of saliva land on his cheek.

But seeing the other person's inexplicably grief-stricken expression, he felt too embarrassed to wipe it off in front of them.

After all, he was the second major investor who invested 36.5 yuan worth of crystals in two separate transactions, so at least some respect should be shown to him.

Huang Pingjun was genuinely on the verge of collapse. Although he wasn't a "sword fanatic," the perfect-level Bloodthirst Blade was his pride and joy over the years.

Beginner, proficient, expert, perfect, ultimate.

He mastered the Bloodthirsty Blade to perfection fifteen years ago!

For fifteen years straight, he had been seeking the opportunity to perfect his swordsmanship.

Before he could succeed, a teenager who had only been learning marksmanship for two days succeeded.

Two days, not two years!

This is a human!?

That halberd handle isn't human!

Taking a deep breath—and then using his breath to calm the pent-up emotions in his chest—Huang Pingjun raised his face and said seriously, "Xu Fei, I suspect that your talent for breaking through to the Martial Weapon Awakening is not the same as the Mastery of All Martial Arts."

"But the master of all martial arts!"

The former is a high-level talent, while the latter is a top-level talent!

There are countless Martial Grandmasters among the human race, yet not a single one possesses top-tier talent.

"even……"

Huang Pingjun swallowed the rest of his words.

King-level talent?

That would be too fantastical, too unbelievable.

If Xu Fei were to awaken a King-level talent upon breaking through to the Martial Soldier level, he would directly bypass the "Nine-Star Prodigy" category and immediately be recognized as a "monster"!

"I think that's possible too." Xu Fei nodded in agreement: "It seems my aptitude is still beyond my imagination."

The dean of students was about to join him in his reflections when he suddenly remembered his own job: he was facing students.

And he's only a 16-year-old boy. Such a boy, after suddenly gaining enormous power, is most prone to complacency, arrogance, and even loss of control.

Then, his tone shifted temporarily: "But you must not be arrogant. You must know that there are always people better than you, and there is always something beyond your understanding. The ultimate level of marksmanship is far from being reached."

"It should be understood that to reach the pinnacle, one must condense the true essence of martial arts!"

"Using the gun as the vessel and gun skills as the refining agent, what is condensed is the essence of the gun!"

"However, if you want to condense the true essence of martial arts, mastery of all martial arts and the origin of all martial arts won't help, because that requires an extremely strong will and an invincible belief!"

"That's the level you should strive for!"

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(Fourth update ԅ(¯ㅂ¯ԅ))