Overthrow Qing, Eliminate Foreigners

[The Nalan Yuanshu you defeated refused to accept his loss and challenged you again.

To repay him for helping you break through, you did not refuse and fought him once more.]

[But times had changed. Having reached the Hua Jin realm, not only had your moves become unfathomable, every strike as elusive as an antelope hanging its horns, but the power throughout your body had also surged.

Nalan Yuanshu could not even defeat you before your breakthrough, much less now.

Thus, in merely three moves, you easily subdued Nalan Yuanshu.]

[After suffering another defeat, Nalan Yuanshu immediately guessed that you had reached the Hua Jin realm. He readily admitted defeat and wished to invite you to become an adviser to his Admiral's Residence, promising many benefits.

In short: plenty of money, little work, and high status.

Unfortunately, your ambitions lay elsewhere. Moreover, having just broken through, you needed a quiet environment to consolidate your realm, so you could only politely decline Nalan Yuanshu's invitation.

Nalan Yuanshu said that the doors of his Admiral's Residence would always remain open to you, then reluctantly watched you leave.]

[Thirty-ninth year. After ten years of arduous cultivation, your strength steadily advanced, and you had stabilized your Hua Jin realm several years ago.

Besides the Perfection Level Hun Yuan Pi Li Quan, you also revised and adjusted the other first-rate martial arts you had learned, bringing each of them to the Perfection Level.]

[The hardest thing in the world was making a breakthrough from zero to one. Now that you had achieved that breakthrough, what remained was as simple as one plus one equaling two.

Thus, over the past ten years, aside from consolidating your strength, you perfected forty-eight of the first-rate martial arts you knew to the Perfection Level.

These included, but were not limited to, Huo Family Fist, Flying Swallow Skill, Marble Skill, Golden Bell Shield, Iron Shirt, Foot Shooting Skill... and many more.

Your talent, "Eating is a Blessing," had completely ceased to work on your thirtieth birthday. On that very day, your body officially reached the limit of this lifetime.]

[According to your original plan, you intended to deduce every martial art you knew to perfection before leaving seclusion.

But plans could not keep up with change. Just one day ago, news rapidly spread through the streets and alleys of Guangzhou, and you heard it while eating out: the Eight-Nation Alliance had captured Beijing!

This immediately reminded you that you seemed to have missed many important plotlines in this world.

Once Upon a Time in China II, Once Upon a Time in China III, and Once Upon a Time in China IV.

And the Eight-Nation Alliance's capture of Beijing was precisely the plot at the end of Once Upon a Time in China IV.]

[Upon hearing the news, you could only sigh that seclusion had made you miss too much. You also knew that this Qing government was beyond saving.

At the same time, a bold idea arose in your mind: Overthrow Qing, Eliminate Foreigners!

To you, the greatest use of this simulation world was to increase your strength.

And now, your strength had more or less reached the peak of this Martial World.

The first thing you needed to do was deduce as many first-rate martial arts as possible to the Perfection Level. The second was to alter this world's destined course as much as possible, thereby raising your evaluation once the simulation ended.

In this world at the end of the Qing Dynasty, what could possibly have a greater impact than directly overthrowing Qing Dynasty rule?

If there was, it would be wiping out every foreign army!

If you could accomplish both at once, then when the simulation ended, your evaluation would be at least Excellent, perhaps even directly reaching Perfect!]

[Three days later, after leaving Guangzhou, you arrived in Hong Kong and began asking around for Sun Wen's whereabouts.

To overthrow the Qing Court, you could not do it alone, no matter how powerful you were—even if your strength increased tenfold.

So, you needed allies.

And in this era, you believed the best allies were Sun Wen and the group of like-minded, aspiring individuals behind him.]

[It took you a full three days to find Sun Wen, and you met him under the identity of Wong Fei Hung's friend.

This was thanks to the fact that you had gone into seclusion before making too many changes to the plot of Once Upon a Time in China II, allowing Wong Fei Hung and Sun Wen to meet and become friends just as they had in the original story.

You yourself were not a nobody. Although Sun Wen did not practice martial arts, martial artists accompanied him, and one of them had heard of your name.]

[Thus, you easily gained Sun Wen's trust and stated that you wished to join him in revolution.

Sun Wen naturally welcomed your participation.

You said that you would give him a great gift seven days later, but first asked him to lend you a large ship, twenty assistants, and fifty loads of rice.

Though puzzled, Sun Wen readily agreed to your request.]

[Three days later, with everything prepared, you set sail straight for the high seas.]

[The great gift you spoke of was the treasure of the pirate Zhang Baozai from Once Upon a Time in China V.

Revolution required more than burning passion—it required vast amounts of money!

So, you intended to find Zhang Baozai's lair before Wong Fei Hung did and loot it clean.

According to your calculations, Wong Fei Hung and his group were still on the road from Beijing to Guangzhou.]

[The sea was vast. Not to mention the merchant ship you rode, even an aircraft carrier from later generations would be as inconspicuous as a grain of sand in the desert.

Thus, you drifted at sea for three full days without seeing the slightest trace of pirates, leaving you at a loss and secretly regretting not giving yourself more time.]

[Just as you were regretting it, the first mate reported that a pirate ship flying the skull flag was speeding toward you, immediately filling you with delight.]

[The waters you were in were an area frequently haunted by Zhang Baozai's pirates.

Therefore, there was an eighty percent chance that any pirates appearing in these waters were Zhang Baozai's men—your target for this journey!]