Just Starting Out: You Want to Become Number One Under Heaven

"Sure enough, I entered a world. All those years of research weren't wasted."

Lu Xingshi merged himself with the Martial Arts Game Character, and sure enough, arrived in this Martial Arts World along with it.

His existence was rather special. Though he controlled the Martial Arts Game Character, he was more like its Game System than the Game Villager itself.

So even if it died, he would be fine. At most, he would return to his own farming management game.

Moreover, he had not lost contact with his farming management game. He could still control it and could even take items out of it.

"Did I bring over my entire fortune?" Lu Xingshi noticed something unusual.

But he quickly began examining the code data further. Having the Martial Arts Game Character allowed him to gain more.

"The Innate Traits can be modified now too, but it costs five hundred thousand per modification? Why don't you just rob me?" Lu Xingshi said this aloud, but he was already considering making changes.

After entering this unknown Martial Arts World, he discovered that aside from Peerless Genius, his other four Innate Traits were all one-time traits.

The Innate Trait, Direct Disciple of a Great Sect, showed as activated, while the other three remained inactive, indicating that certain conditions had to be met first.

Next, he would need to search for, or wait for, a top-tier sect or Hidden Sect near him.

Once they took effect, he could directly swap them for other Innate Traits. But as for exactly how, he would need to take a closer look. He always felt that Innate Traits were not so simple, and replacing them casually might cause problems.

The best method, naturally, would be to find the code data for the number of Innate Trait slots. Then spending Gold Coins to modify them would be the true solution.

"Huh, there are achievements too?" Lu Xingshi suddenly discovered that achievements had appeared after the Martial Arts Game Character entered this Martial Arts World.

There were currently only two.

They were Just Starting Out and Number One Under Heaven.

Just Starting Out: Receive a Just Starting Out-level evaluation in the martial world. Reward: Innate Trait Slot +1

Number One Under Heaven: Become Number One Under Heaven. Reward: New DLC purchase rights

"Ah, this..."

Looking at those two achievements, Lu Xingshi did not know how to complain for a moment.

Could those two really be placed together? It was like sending an elementary school student who had studied addition for three days to participate in an advanced physics experiment.

Fortunately, after looking again, he found that unlike Number One Under Heaven, which could only be completed once, the Just Starting Out achievement had follow-up achievements.

"But an Innate Trait slot as a reward really is quite nice. Achievements really are good things."

As Lu Xingshi spoke, he checked the follow-ups through the console, and his expression immediately collapsed.

"So these are the only two good things."

All the achievement rewards after Just Starting Out were cultivation technique experience and ability experience. They did not even give main attribute experience.

Besides these two achievements, there were other hidden achievements, all of them massive clumps of code he could not understand. Only after completing or activating them could he understand the code data. Those rewards were a little better: main attribute experience, along with some things he could not comprehend.

The problem was that he himself could directly modify them.

For example, raising a main attribute straight to its cap of 100 points required only ten million Gold Coins.

But Lu Xingshi did not intend to do that. He would observe things first. Main attribute experience was not impossible to obtain, while Gold Coins were equivalent to his health bar and food supply; he could not spend them carelessly.

Anything that could be completed through time was not a problem.

"What a pity. Traits can't stack."

"Otherwise, I'd choose Peerless Genius for all of them, then crush everything with overwhelming attributes."

He could stack all five Innate Traits as Peerless Genius, but only one could take effect. Duplicates could not be activated.

"In that case, I'll make another hundred or so Martial Arts Game Characters. As they say, many hands make light work... Holy shit, why is it so expensive???"

Lu Xingshi was completely dumbfounded. He checked, and a single Martial Arts Game Character required a full hundred million Gold Coins.

After doing the math, he found that it amounted to one-seventh of his total assets, making him immediately abandon the idea.

Spending one-seventh of his health bar to create one Game Villager was simply not worth it.

"Next time. Once my Gold Coins rise from nine digits to ten digits, I'll make one then." Lu Xingshi decided that next time, he definitely would.

"But why is the price difference so enormous?"

Lu Xingshi could not help pondering it. His management Game Villagers only required ten thousand Gold Coins, while Martial Arts Game Characters required one hundred million.

He quickly found the difference.

"Management Game Villagers are native characters from the farming management game, while Martial Arts Game Characters are outsiders. One is the cost price, and the other should be the retail price."

As for more information, he could not figure it out. He needed more observation to support his guesses.

"I originally planned to create tens of thousands of Martial Arts Game Characters and just steamroll everything, but what a pity..."

No need to say more. If ten thousand Game Villagers with Peerless Genius appeared and developed for a while, he feared he could directly occupy the entire world.

If Peerless Genius could appear so easily, it would not have the words "peerless" in its name.

"This is... an official road?" Lu Xingshi observed his surroundings. Not far away stood a town.

"Then next, I'll have to gather some information."

What Lu Xingshi needed to do was activate the Innate Traits on himself as quickly as possible, so he could improve himself as soon as possible.

On the Martial Arts Game Character's attribute panel, aside from Innate Traits, every other ability and cultivation technique was blank, a completely empty slate.

"But why do I feel like my condition is much better?"

"Is it the effect of Peerless Genius, the difference between Game Villagers, or both?"

He had controlled management Game Villagers before, but had never experienced such a good effect.

Management Game Villagers were more like ordinary people. Unlike this Martial Arts Game Character, which made him feel light as a swallow and strong as an ox. It was probably because of the 10 points of Physical Constitution.

"Most likely, it's both. Then the upcoming 10 points of Comprehension and 10 points of Mental Fortitude may have other uses as well."

Because the game itself was only a semi-finished product and required Lu Xingshi to complete it himself, even after installing the Martial Arts DLC, what he obtained was likely only a semi-finished product.

Otherwise, how could there be only two achievements? There had to be more.

Fortunately, semi-finished products had their advantages too. Lu Xingshi could completely use the console to turn it into whatever he wanted, rather than being restricted by the Game System's rules and regulations.

After sorting himself out, he headed toward the distant town. There was no need to worry about his attire either. The Martial Arts Game Character wore ancient-style clothes and had his hair tied up; it should be native dress for this world, so there was no need to worry about standing out too much.