Yun Shou: I Am a Second-Rate Expert

Da Qing 291, foundation amplification 152%. You only feel your vital energy and blood astonishingly and overwhelmingly vigorous. Even though you have already entered middle age, you feel not the slightest sense of decline.

Your Iron Body Technique reaches major accomplishment.

Da Qing 292, relying on the resources provided by the Chu Family, you begin to conduct the unity of qi and strength, blood replacement and muscle condensation, advancing steadily within the realm of the second-rate.

Age still dragged you down. Starting martial arts in your twenties was truly a bit too late. Even though your foundation is not weak, this merely represents a high upper limit, not a fast speed in practicing martial arts.

This year you repeatedly recite inwardly: the main body is a total moron if it does not inherit the martial cultivation. You hope the simulator can record it in.

Yun Shou: "..."

(Martial cultivation comes bundled with related knowledge of martial arts, combat techniques, etc.)

Da Qing 294, the famous flower-picking thief Song Yulang enters the main Chu Family estate by night and abducts Chu Xian'er, the young miss of the Chu Family. You are ordered to conduct a full-city search.

You find the two in a small hut, discovering that they are being intensely affectionate with each other. This is no abduction at all; this is an elopement.

You are discovered by Song Yulang. The other party turns out to be a youthful talent whose martial cultivation approaches the first-rate at a tender age, and moreover his foundation is not much weaker than yours. The two of you cannot determine a victor for a time.

Dozens of bouts later, Song Yulang gains the upper hand by virtue of exquisite combat techniques (while that Chu Xian'er keeps cheering him on). You are gradually suppressed and sustain injuries, and Song Yulang intensifies his offensive, meaning to cripple you.

At the critical moment, your teammates arrive, and Song Yulang can only flee with Chu Xian'er. But since they have already been discovered, how could he, burdened with an ordinary woman, possibly escape the encirclement and interception of a group of martial artists?

Throughout the process, Chu Xian'er constantly hurls abuses at you and your teammates. You turn a deaf ear to it; after all, your wages are not paid by her.

Soon, Song Yulang escapes the encirclement nursing injuries, but leaves Chu Xian'er right where she is. Chu Xian'er keeps shouting that she will make you all pay.

Yet the Chu Family Head heaps praise upon you. Song Yulang is already considered a genius martial artist of the Wind and Cloud Youth Ranking level, and being able to entangle with him for quite some time is already enough to warrant being called a fine hand.

Half a month later, Chu Xian'er apologizes to you, saying that she was too young and had her eyes blinded by Song Yulang's sweet words.

You drink her tea of apology, and half an hour later your abdomen suddenly suffers excruciating pain as black lines crawl all over your meridians... You die!

Yun Shou: "..."

"???"

"What the fuck, a brainless simp!"

He does not blame the self in the simulator, because he himself never expected—who could ever suspect that poison would be slipped like this?

You act out of the essence of a bodyguard and the orders of a noble family head by forbidding her to date, and she turns around and slips poison to kill you?

Yun Shou dares to affirm that this madwoman will definitely be punished by the Chu Family Head afterward, but before that happens, he has already been murdered!

Please select the following rewards to inherit.

1. Detailed memories of twenty-five years.

2. Second-rate martial artist's martial advancement + related memories of martial arts and combat techniques.

3. An increase of 25% in foundation.

"I choose 2." Yun Shou does not hesitate.

Even though that fellow in the simulator cursed him as a total moron, but...

"Who asked me to indulge you."

The instant he makes his choice—

Muscles, vital energy and blood, physical body!

Yun Shou's essence, qi, and spirit are soaring at a terrifying speed!

The formidable muscle strength is several times stronger than before. He can now split wood with a single palm strike and crumble bricks with a single punch in an injury-free state!

The rich force of vital energy and blood makes him only wish to lift his head and roar to the heavens, qi and blood surging within his body like a great river to provide a continuous stream of power!

The resilient skin and membranes allow him to unleash his hands and feet wildly without needing to worry about pulling his own muscles or wearing down his joints!

Not only that!

Yun Shou takes a deep breath. Within his body, which has already surpassed the limits of past-life humanity, an extraordinary and wondrous power bursts forth.

Internal force!

Like a pale white little snake, it moves according to his will, traveling through the meridians among his limbs and skeletal bones.

Yun Shou pinches a bluestone on the ground, holding it in the palm of his hand.

As the internal force, resembling a nimble little snake, darts about, his arm transmits a subtle sensation of soreness and swelling while that strand of internal force has already melted into the meridians of his palm.

Power erupts!

Crack!

A crisp sound comes from his palm, and a trace of a crack has already surfaced upon the bluestone.

Yun Shou relaxes his hand. The bluestone drops to the ground, shattering into two pieces with a slap.

Under the blessing of internal force, I am already able to grip and fracture a stone the size of a fist. This kind of power used on a human body—I'm afraid there's nowhere that could withstand a squeeze from me!

Moreover, bones are hollow and strip-shaped, whereas this bluestone is solid and elliptical!

"A second-rate martial artist, a bone-crushing maniac, one punch per person!" Yun Shou senses it carefully. Even though the Iron Body Technique is a common-street martial art, it is still orthodox martial learning after all, and its body cultivation is comprehensive.

This martial art has already been practiced to major accomplishment by his simulated self, and additionally provides a certain degree of defensive power. This defensive power has nothing to do with the realm of a "second-rate martial artist," being purely a characteristic of the martial art!

Aside from the Iron Body Technique at major accomplishment, he has also learned a set of "Overlord Saber Technique," having practiced it to a certain standard as well.

"I can now be considered a minor expert as well. Of course, I am much weaker than that peak-state self in the simulation."

Yun Shou's current foundation is only 129%, originally accompanied by severe damage to his vital energy during his youth and so forth. However, the vital energy replenished in the simulation seems to have been brought back as well, so the amplification remains 129%, but his base foundation has risen, perhaps comparable to the previous 132% or 133%.

Meanwhile, his foundation in the simulation was as high as 155%! It was 26% higher than now, and this is no small gap, roughly equivalent to several standout ordinary people chosen out of a hundred, versus a minor genius chosen out of tens of thousands.

And there is also the factor of the physical body. Under the condition of being the exact same person, he at 30 years old will definitely be able to defeat his 10-year-old self—even though both individuals' martial cultivation levels are set to be completely identical.

Ha, that Song Yulang who could originally fight to a draw for dozens of bouts—if he ran into the present me, wouldn't I finish him off in less than three sword strikes? Yun Shou makes a snide remark.

Though, that Song Yulang probably hasn't even been born yet...

In order not to be complacent and not to swell with arrogance, Yun Shou deeply dissects his various flaws and shortcomings.

Yet he still cannot suppress the corners of his mouth, which are increasingly poking toward the sky.

He steers his boat, enters the lake, and leaves the lake shore by several li.

On the empty surface of the lake where only a few nearby black-dot figures can be seen, he laughs aloud.

"A second-rate martial artist!"

"Ha! What do you call second-rate!?"

"I am a second-rate expert!"

"That Qing He Gang leader—at the very most, could he possibly have a first-rate level?"

"In a few days, I'm going to fiercely trample him beneath my feet, dammit!"

Throughout this entire day, Yun Shou is extremely joyous.

His eyes are bright and full of spirit, bursting with a sharp glint. This is a second-rate martial artist, the symbol of having birthed internal force within the body and possessing martial skill.

Yet he pays no mind, because although this bit belongs to martial memories and was inherited along with option 2, it is somewhat excessively trivial.

During his years in the Chu Family, absolutely no one ever told him or taught him, "You must pretend to be a passerby, eat the pig to devour the tiger, and hide the sharp edge of your gaze..."

This consequently leads to the avaricious shopkeeper gazing at him with somewhat strange eyes when he hands over his catch of fish in the evening.

This brat, why is he a bit dazzling today? Is it my imagination?

"Forty copper coins." When the shopkeeper hands over the copper coins, his hands are uncharacteristically a bit cleaner: originally he meant to secretly pocket four coins, but this time he only docks two.