Legendary Idle Game

"Can someone without aptitude truly not practice martial arts?"

Great Qian Dynasty, Kaiyang City, Lin Family estate.

In the early morning, before the sun had even risen, shouts and cries already echoed across the martial arts training ground. Numerous disciples practiced fists and kicks or regulated their breath and circulation, their rising and falling figures brimming with youthful vigor.

At the edge of the ground, someone clenched their fists tight, watching the dragon-spirited and tiger-vigorous disciples in the center, their eyes filled with reluctance.

"Without aptitude, of course one can still practice martial arts."

A clear and pleasant voice came from behind.

Everyone turned their heads to see a youth walking slowly closer.

The youth had an upright posture and handsome features. Even though he wore a practitioner's suit, a calm composure naturally emanated between his brows.

"Young Family Head."

Several people at the edge of the ground hastily bowed in salute.

Lin Chen nodded slightly, his gaze sweeping across the crowd before finally landing on the questioner's nervous face as he repeated himself.

"Without aptitude, of course one can still practice martial arts."

"Even though difficulties are numerous, the Great Dao numbers fifty, the Heavenly Derivation numbers forty-nine, and humanity escapes with one."

"In the end, everyone possesses a thread of variable destiny. If one manages to grasp it, one can defy the heavens and change their fate."

Lin Chen's tone was calm, not so much encouraging as stating an irrefutable fact.

Several people hastily nodded in acknowledgment.

As for whether they truly understood, didn't understand, or just pretended to understand, that was unknown.

Lin Chen did not care either, merely offering a brief bit of guidance before turning and leaving amidst the gaze of the crowd.

He was not comforting anyone.

He was simply passing by and felt inspired upon hearing those words.

Because just this morning, Lin Chen had grasped his own thread of variable destiny and successfully defied the heavens to change his fate.

His mind condensed slightly as a translucent panel, visible only to him, quietly materialized before his eyes:

[Role]: Lin Chen
[Age]: 16/79
[Life-Bound Divine Artifact]: Iron Sword (Rank 1 Ordinary)
[Realm]: Body Tempering Realm Fifth Layer (0/40)
[Martial Arts]: Eight Extremes Fist
[Idle]: Inactive
Remarks: This is a legendary idle game.

Characters can gain corresponding experience and various dropped items by farming monsters in different maps, thereby constantly leveling up and growing stronger.

This was Lin Chen's thread of variable destiny.

He simply called it:

Cheating!

So what if one lacked martial dao aptitude?

I possess a method capable of moving mountains, severing seas, opening heavens, destroying earths, plucking stars, and chasing moons... Attribute Allocation!

Ahem, the origin of the matter had to start from a few days ago.

On the night a few days ago, Lin Chen practiced the Eight Extremes Fist just like usual, tempering his body and refining his physical strength in hopes of breaking through to the Body Tempering Realm Sixth Layer as soon as possible.

As a result, the more he practiced, the darker his vision suddenly became, and he actually passed out cold directly. When he woke up this morning, Lin Chen discovered that he was cheating.

"Fortunately, I was a transmigrator to begin with. Although it's a reincarnation rebirth, without this layer of identity, during the time I passed out, I'm afraid someone else would have transmigrated and seized my body, then cheated to slaughter everywhere, marry a wealthy and beautiful woman, and reach the pinnacle of life..."

Lin Chen pondered as he hurried back to his courtyard room.

As the Young Family Head, having inexplicably fallen unconscious for several days, he had reported his safety to his parents the very first moment he woke up today. Only at this moment, returning to his chambers, did Lin Chen have the time to calm his mind and carefully ponder how to use this awakened system.

After instructing the maidservant that he was going into secluded cultivation and that no one was to disturb him, Lin Chen began to study it intently.

"Wait, a legendary idle game? Why does this interface feel so familiar..."

Studying the system interface, Lin Chen only felt a strong sense of déjà vu.

He racked his brains for a moment before finally reacting—wasn't this a game he had played in his past life?

He remembered this game was named War God, boasting ultra-high drop rates, exhilarating leveling, and gifting VIP 8 upon logging in.

Yet to put it nicely, the gameplay of this game actually lacked any new ideas, still following the routine of offline idling, farming monsters to level up, and fighting world bosses.

The only slight difference was the addition of a Life-Bound Divine Artifact, which could devour other equipment for infinite growth, substantially increasing the efficiency of idling and farming monsters.

He remembered when he first started playing, among the rewards on the first day of the game's login, he claimed a pile of enhancement stones that allowed him to upgrade his Life-Bound Divine Artifact directly to +18, sending his combat power skyrocketing by tens of thousands.

Thanks to this, he was able to clear the screen with a single slash in the early stage, giving him extremely high mob-grinding efficiency, and within just a few days, he reached level one hundred--(though a few months later even a stray dog by the side of the road was level three hundred).

As he recalled that game, Lin Chen's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

If it really is that legendary game, then the key point is idling...

Lin Chen's sight fell on the idle section and he gently clicked into it.

Immediately, scenes flashed before his eyes.

There were the Primordial Wilderness, the Big Dipper Star Domain, as well as mountains of corpses and seas of blood, ruined planets, and the Dark Heavenly Court...

Lin Chen felt as though he were placed in a bloody battlefield. He raised his eyes to look around, and before him were only profound darkness and endless decay, while infinite enemies lurked within the darkness, stirring restlessly.

Finally, countless visions swept past Lin Chen's eyes like shifting sand before vanishing entirely, leaving only a desolate mountain, rarely visited by people, to appear before him.

Beside the mountain entrance stood a wooden plaque, and three bloody characters were written on it, warning those who dared to break into the mountain—Fierce Wolf Mountain.

[Map: Fierce Wolf Mountain]

[Recommended Level: Lv. 1 ~ Lv. 10]

[Idle Yield: 9~11 EXP per month, with a minuscule probability of dropping Spirit Stones, Spirit Herbs, equipment...]

[You may invest a wisp of divided spirit to hunt demons in Fierce Wolf Mountain, obtaining corresponding EXP and various resources.]

(Note 1: The divided spirit inherits the main body's combat power, and the Life-Bound Divine Artifact also constitutes a part of one's own combat power.)

(Note 2: The stronger the combat power and the higher the quality of the Life-Bound Divine Artifact, the faster the mob-grinding efficiency and the greater the yield obtained.)

[Whether to start idling?]

It really is like this.

Offline idling, grinding mobs to level up, ultra-high drop rates—a legendary game has got to have this flavor!

A smile appeared on Lin Chen's face.

He was far too familiar with this routine, having heavily spent money and whaled to surge his combat power when the server first launched!

Currently, my idle yield is 9 to 11 points of EXP per month, and breaking through to the sixth layer of the Body Tempering Realm requires 40 points of EXP. According to this efficiency, idling for four months will do it.

This speed was not considered slow. One had to know that Lin Chen started cultivating at the age of fourteen, and enjoying the cultivation of first-tier Lineage resources, two years had passed since then, yet he was still only at the fifth layer of the Body Tempering Realm.

This was not because he did not work hard, but rather because he was restricted by his aptitude.

As the saying went, divine abilities could not rival heavenly cycles, and hard work could not rival talent; that was precisely how it was.

The martial path is long and arduous, and it inherently requires the meticulous effort of grinding away like water wearing down stone to advance one's cultivation step by step. Four months is not a long time, and I can simply set my mind at ease and idle in Fierce Wolf Mountain.

As for the Life-Bound Divine Artifact, its quality is currently only rank 1 ordinary, leaving a huge room for growth.

I can take advantage of these few months to collect a batch of armaments and equipment. When the idling ends, I can have the Life-Bound Divine Artifact devour them to raise its quality, and in this way my idle efficiency will improve quite a bit...

After making his decision, Lin Chen immediately initiated idling in Fierce Wolf Mountain.

As for the next morning, he proceeded to the martial arena to continue his cultivation just like usual.

The more one harbored fortuitous encounters, the more one needed to act ordinary.

As a transmigration traveler, Lin Chen might have been completely unremarkable elsewhere, but solely in the Cautious Way, he had already comprehended the ultimate profundity!