A Lone Figure Sent Off by Snow Sweeping the Sky!

Chapter 6: A Lone Figure Sent Off by Snow Sweeping the Sky! [Fifty-second year, age seventy.]

[Drawing trait...]

[The guaranteed draw from "The Older the More Fortunate" has been triggered!]

[Draw successful!]

["Effort Will Be Rewarded" (Green): When you persist in doing something, you will certainly gain something from it, though perhaps not much.]

[Adjust trait?]

[Yes/No]

[You used "Effort Will Be Rewarded" to replace "The Older the More Fortunate".]

[Ten years of training, yet still an ordinary man upon return.]

[Niu Dandan's grandson had already been born, yet you still came to Thunderbolt Martial Hall's training grounds every day, diligently and painstakingly practicing martial arts.]

[Unlike others, who studied martial arts and sparred in actual combat...]

[You were basically playing solo, practicing only one External Cultivation technique: Reckless Bull Strength.]

[Ten years had passed. Though your Blood Qi had improved, it still failed to meet the standard of a Martial Artist.]

[At first, Niu Dandan still charged you tuition. Later, he simply stopped.]

[Respect the old and cherish the young.]

[With an elder in the house, it was like having a treasure.]

[With you, this lucky mascot, around, Thunderbolt Martial Hall became a check-in spot for many people from the surrounding villages and counties, indirectly promoting the hall.]

["All apprentices! Look! This is Grandpa Chen Dong, who began cultivating the Martial Dao at sixty. He is now seventy and still has yet to step into the Martial Dao!"]

[Niu Dandan's son, Niu Youqian, was now the master of Thunderbolt Martial Hall and was mainly responsible for recruiting apprentices.]

[Another group of newcomers had arrived today, and Niu Youqian was using you as material to fire them up.]

["What can we see in Grandpa Chen?
Ah—right! Whether or not one can succeed in cultivating the Martial Dao, one must take that first step. Even if you end up like him, still treading water at seventy, at least you will not regret having once given it your all!"]

[As he spoke, you, who were practicing, felt a warm current within your Dantian and shouted excitedly.]

["Master! I've entered the Body Refining Realm!"]

[Niu Dandan went over and checked your pulse, only to find that it was indeed true.]

[Niu Youqian immediately changed his tune.]

["Ah—right! Grandpa Chen began cultivating the Martial Dao at sixty and still succeeded. What is impossible for children like you, only thirteen or fourteen years old? Nothing in the world is difficult if one has the will!"]

[Niu Dandan was sincerely happy for you.]

[That night, he kept you at the martial hall for a family dinner.]

["Grandpa Chen, I've actually heard your story too. Back then, the food at Yuelai Inn was famous throughout all the villages for miles around! What a pity..."]

[When he spoke of that sorrowful part, even Niu Dandan, an outsider, felt his eyes redden over your experiences.]

["Though I do not know why you still insist on putting yourself through this at such an advanced age, practicing martial arts here with me, I wish you a long life and good health! From now on, the martial hall will be your home. I'll arrange a small room for you, and you can live here."]

[After more than ten years, you once again felt the warmth of home.]

[Yet you still did not forget the mission of this life.]

[Draw more traits! Practice more martial arts! The more you inherited after the simulation ended, the better!]

[You knew that your Root Bone was poor and that you were too old, making your cultivation speed exceptionally slow.]

[Thus, you did not waste time learning martial arts. You practiced only External Cultivation to raise your Blood Qi.]

[Year after year, you cultivated at sunrise and rested at sunset.]

[Balancing work and rest, with attention to health.]

[That head of white hair briefly showed traces of black.]

[Sixty-first year, age seventy-nine.]

[After entering the Martial Dao, your cultivation slowly rose and had now reached the Third Stage of Body Refining.]

[Though you had not encountered demons, war, or disasters caused by Martial Artists over the years, your body still slid uncontrollably toward the abyss of decline.]

[The Martial Dao could only briefly restore your youth; it could not stop the frantic pace of your aging.]

[A sudden chill left you paralyzed in bed, unable to practice any longer.]

[Niu Dandan had grown old as well.]

[The martial hall's business had been hit by martial sects. It could no longer recruit apprentices and was already on the verge of closing.]

[Fortunately, he had made some money recruiting apprentices in his early years.]

[He hired servants to attend to your daily needs.]

[Today, hearing that you were not doing well, he hurried over to visit.]

["Grandpa Chen, how are you feeling today?"]

["About to die."]

[You looked at the trait-draw countdown before you, hoping only that you could die a little slower and make it to the guaranteed draw at eighty.]

["Don't talk nonsense. You're supposed to live to a hundred!"]

["Dandan, living to a hundred is not so easy. I lost my wife in middle age, watched white-haired parents send off their black-haired child, and saw my life's livelihood destroyed in a single stroke. This heart of mine has long been riddled with a thousand wounds..."]

[Outside, the cold wind howled, and heavy snow drifted through the air.]

[Watching the snowstorm, Niu Dandan sighed.]

["Grandpa Chen, in a person's life, days of suffering are the main theme, while moments of happiness are merely interludes..."]

[Niu Dandan held your wrinkled hand, feeling your body temperature gradually turn cold.]

[Sixty-second year, age eighty.]

[Beginning trait draw...]

[The guaranteed draw from "The Older the More Fortunate" has been triggered!]

[Draw successful!]

["Serious Punch" (Green): When you do not use martial arts and make ordinary attacks with fists or feet, your destructive power can increase by up to ten times, and you will not suffer fractures from the recoil! However, one strand of hair will fall out each time.]

[Adjust trait?]

[Yes/No]

[You chose No.]

[You died of old age.]

[Simulation Evaluation:]

[Leaping into the cold river, soaring amid its waves; how many times had the Mortal World buried dying lamps? A withered branch met spring wind at sixty, yet still raised its fist toward the vast heavens!]

[Congratulations, you have obtained the following inheritances:]

[1. Memories of sixty-two years of life;]

[2. Cultivation at the Third Stage of Body Refining;]

[3. A total of sixty-two traits, including "Serious Punch" (Green), "Effort Will Be Rewarded" (Green), "The Older the More Fortunate" (Green), "Low-Grade Bone Structure" (Green), "The Beauty of Ji Ni" (White), "White Strip in the Waves" (White)...;]

[4. External Cultivation Reckless Bull Strength (Entry Level).]