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

Xu Fei covered his face, feeling helpless about the risky behavior of the simulated flight.

Choose one.

[Zhengdong, casually shooting down hundreds of wild boars, then delivering a final, powerful shot that pierced the head of the wild boar king, shattering the skull, passing through its neck, and penetrating its chest and abdomen!]

The two-meter-long iron spear, with one and a half meters remaining inside its body.

Perhaps it didn't hit the brain directly, but tilted slightly, resulting in a half-meter-long iron pillar protruding from the giant wild boar's head, making it look like some kind of fat, solitary beast. It ran through the forest for more than ten minutes before collapsing, sending countless trees flying along the way.

[Southeast, you've honed your swimming skills once again. With your control attributes increasing, you feel your swimming ability has definitely reached the elite level through practice!]

Downstream from the Yangtze River, in a calm, crystal-clear body of water, you spot a school of fish.

A colorful school of fish swam leisurely in the shallow water. Most of them were carp, but their scales were a riot of colors—purple, red, white, gold…

When you approach, these enormous carp don't scatter; instead, they come closer and kiss you relentlessly with their lips.

However, most of the time they're aimed at your hair, the tip of your ear, or long, thin parts like your fingers.

You gestured to indicate the size, then exclaimed with delight: "What a great opportunity!"

Xu Fei provided the voiceover.

He was actually lying.

Even if those fish were bursting, they still wouldn't fit inside.

[You swung your steel spear to repel them, but these carp weren't trying to be cute. Their teeth are located inside their mouths and are called "pharyngeal teeth," meaning they need to swallow their food a certain distance before they can chew it.]

They kiss your fingers, but their real purpose is to swallow them, chew them up, and eat them!

Although there's a high probability I won't be able to bite it, I don't want to treat a fish like a herring.

You swim deeper into the center of the school of fish; the Magikarp is not among them.

But you discovered a huge jade stone, slowly radiating various strange energies.

It's not vital energy; it's a different kind of substance.

[A dozen or so large carp, each about two meters long, with scales that were golden with a hint of purple, surrounded the jade, their lips rubbing against it...]

[You see a depression right above the jade stone, as if... as if someone often lies there!]

【"baby!"】

"I knew there was treasure here!"

"It seems this giant jade stone is the reason why that Magikarp grew to such a large size!"

You swam forward without hesitation, a move that naturally drew a backlash from the surrounding carp.

[The water here is nearly thirty meters deep, creating considerable resistance, but you can still easily shatter the skulls of those two-meter-long carp with a single shot.]

They surged towards you frantically, and you engaged in battle in this tranquil body of water. Your iron spear flashed, and vibrant, beautiful scales rained down, staining the entire stretch of water crimson with their blood.

A moment later, you swam ashore carrying a large one.

[There are too many of them, and it's underwater combat. You've already exhausted most of your life force by killing just four or five hundred. If you don't leave now, you might be left there forever once your strength is depleted.]

[You went into the water three times in a row, killing hundreds of carp each time, and finally, on the third time, you witnessed the return of the Magikarp King.]

[After the undeniable instant kill, the school of carp gathered there completely scattered!]

You toss the Magikarp back onto the shore and instruct your waiting underlings to clean it up and not waste it.

[It's a regional beast king after all; its nutritional content is several times higher than that of ordinary wild beasts.]

Next was the jade stone, flat in shape, five meters long, four meters wide, and about two meters high, with a concave section in the middle, resembling a large, bluish-white bar of soap.

This thing weighs at least tens of tons; it's impossible to lift it ashore, not even with buoyancy.

They simply broke it into pieces and transported it back to land in multiple batches.

Its texture is incredibly hard. Even with a powerful strike like "Celestial Collapse" against the resistance of water, you can only chip off a piece of jade the size of a fingernail. You have no choice but to enhance the destructive power by imbuing the spear with your inner intent.

This single poke could create a crack several tens of centimeters long, and its depth is currently unknown.

However, the intent of the spear cannot be used too frequently—it consumes mental energy, and overuse will lead to mental fatigue, drowsiness, and an inability to concentrate.

However, even in perfect condition, it can be used hundreds of times in a row with ease.

[You chisel off pieces of jade weighing two or three hundred pounds each and carry them back up. This is because you can't use much leverage in the water; you can't swim while carrying something too heavy. Otherwise, carrying two thousand pounds at a time wouldn't be difficult.]

When you'd carved about halfway through, after moving a large piece of jade, you suddenly saw a bluish-white liquid flowing from the cross-section of the broken stone!

"What is this?"

[“Monkey King embryo… oh no, the legendary stalactite chalcedony?”]

"If it were that monkey, would it mistake this for its brother?"

Xu Fei stroked his chin, deep in thought, his mind racing.

Which stone does Monkey King think is prettier, and which stone feels better to the touch?

Gemstones, jadeite, Hetian jade... or just ordinary blue rock?

In the brief few seconds you were stunned, wisps of chalcedony seeped into the water.

"So many carp used to live in this area..."

"Won't they lay their eggs here?"

【"and even……"】

[Stop thinking. If you continue, not only will the article fail to pass censorship, but you yourself won't be able to accept it.]

[Ignoring everything else, you suddenly leaned down and brought your head close, aiming a powerful inhale at the spot where the jade marrow was still flowing!]

The bluish-white chalcedony has a very thick texture, but is tasteless.

You move your mouth, holding a large clump, but only swallow a few drops, attempting to digest it.

They did indeed integrate into your body, but after waiting for several seconds, you didn't feel any change.

The remaining chalcedony is still seeping out, and you can't hold much more in your mouth. Right now, you can only sense that it's generally harmless.

[Harmless... then swallow it!]

He swallowed it bite by bite, until his stomach gradually swelled.

After quickly digesting and absorbing the swallowed chalcedony, you suddenly punched your lower abdomen, forcing out all the excess river water from your stomach, and continued to frantically inhale the remaining chalcedony!

Ultimately, you estimate that this large jade stone originally contained two to three liters of chalcedony, and that you ingested at least one liter.

After getting ashore, you feel an itch all over your body.

The itching subsided after a while.

[It stopped itching for a while, then it started itching again.]

[It took you half a month of this recurring itching to subside.]

[In the end, I realized that I didn't seem to have changed much compared to before.]

But you've already guessed something.

[You carried all these jade stones ashore, ground them into powder piece by piece, mixed them with water, and fed the powder to some of the tribespeople, planning to return in two years to observe the changes in them.]

Xu Fei then opened the information interface.

Look at the talent descriptions in the last row.

[Perfect Body (Increases all attributes by 10%, maximum 18 points)]

"……really!"

……

(The original color of the chalcedony was pure white, but Shen He slapped it back onto me.)