23: Chapter 23 Conversion

Regardless, he could not ignore the situation involving Su Yuanjiang and Su Yunxia; he had to think of a way to handle this.

Su Jiuchuan did not expect the Fuyuan Escort Agency to be of any help, so he made an excuse about going out to gather information and left.

[Do you wish to use the simulator? Using it once will consume 1000 points of money.]

Yes.

[At eighteen, you became a Fifth-Rank Martial Artist. Because you offended the City Lord of Hechuan, your entire family migrated to Xuzhou.]

[Su Yuanjiang and Su Yunxia were captured by Lu Cheng, the Third Young Master of the Lu Family. You knew that with your current strength, you had no way to save them.]

[Therefore, you went into seclusion to Cultivate.]

[At forty-five, you were still in the Fifth-Rank Realm; you knew that your martial Dao had reached its end. You planned to head to the Lu Family to take revenge.]

[You snuck into the Lu Family residence but were discovered by the guards. You were killed on the spot, dying at the age of forty-five.]

Su Jiuchuan was truly depressed. He had long had a premonition, and now it was confirmed: his Aptitude had reached its limit.

However, having experienced Rebirth, he was unwilling to remain stuck in the Fifth-Rank Realm forever.

[Simulation ended. You may choose to retain one of the following options.]

[1. Martial Dao Realm at age forty-five.]

[2. Martial Dao experience at age forty-five.]

[3. Life wisdom at age forty-five.]

Without much hesitation, he chose option one.

True Qi surged within his body. Su Jiuchuan could feel that his True Qi was extremely full, but a few key acupoints remained impassable.

Is this a shackle?

Su Jiuchuan sighed again, but he was still unwilling to give up.

Continue the simulation.

[At eighteen, you became a Fifth-Rank Martial Artist. Your second elder sister and eldest brother were captured by the Lu Family.]

[You had no choice but to hope for a Breakthrough in your Realm. However, you already knew that a Bottleneck had arrived, and you did not know how to proceed.]

[At twenty, you traveled everywhere seeking renowned masters, but all the experts shook their heads and refused after examining your Aptitude.]

[At twenty-one, you were already in despair and returned to Xuzhou.]

[At twenty-two, you refused to give up and intended to seek a Breakthrough between life and death. You began to challenge experts of the same level. Relying on that blade technique you realized from an unnamed sword manual, you were invincible among your peers.]

[At twenty-three, after Gu Liangcai, the master of the Hefeng Martial Arts Hall, was defeated by you, he instead set aside his previous grievances and married his daughter to you.]

[At twenty-four, one day you drank the pork rib soup your wife made and collapsed to the ground. It turned out that Gu Liangcai, in order to obtain your blade technique, had his daughter poison you.]

[Under torture, you did not give up. You knew that if you handed over the blade technique, you would undoubtedly die.]

[Half a year later, when you were tortured to the brink of death, Xue Mingcai appeared. She was already an Innate expert and killed everyone in the Hefeng Martial Arts Hall with a wave of her hand.]

[She told you that the real reason you were stuck in the Fifth-Rank Realm was that your Cultivation Technique was too low-level. To repay the kindness you showed her back then, she taught you the top-tier Cultivation Technique, the "Xuanxin Art," and then drifted away.]

[At twenty-five, although you obtained the top-tier Cultivation Technique, you had been tortured for too long, and your physical Foundation had been destroyed. Unable to successfully switch your Cultivation Technique, you finally died of depression at the age of twenty-five.]

This was too frustrating; Su Jiuchuan felt so depressed he wanted to cry. It was too miserable.

Not only was he tortured for half a year, but even after finally obtaining a top-tier Cultivation Technique, he could not even practice it.

That Xue Mingcai was too exaggerated. It had only been seven years; he was still struggling in the Fifth-Rank Realm, while she had already broken through to become an Innate expert. Comparing people like this really made one want to die of anger.

[Simulation ended. You may choose to retain one of the following options.]

[1. Martial Dao Realm at age twenty-five.]

[2. Martial Dao experience at age twenty-five.]

[3. Life wisdom at age twenty-five.]

This time, he did not hesitate and directly chose option two.

Suddenly, a profound and mysterious Cultivation Technique appeared in his mind: the "Xuanxin Art."

The Cultivation Technique Su Jiuchuan was currently practicing was the "Blood Fiend Art." This technique came from the army; after practicing it, the flow of True Qi was indeed exceptionally fierce and powerful, but it also caused significant damage to his Meridians. Therefore, it was very difficult to advance to a higher level.

However, for the army, this kind of Cultivation Technique was not a problem because in battles involving tens of thousands of people, ordinary soldiers did not need a very high Realm; being able to kill the enemy as quickly as possible was enough.

But for noble families and clans, they pursued higher Realms, so Disciples of these families disdained to practice such Cultivation Techniques.

Su Jiuchuan had struggled for so many years in the simulated life, so being stuck here was normal. This was also the reason why most high-ranking Martial Artists did not come from the bottom rungs of society; if you had no accumulation, where would you go to find those high-level Cultivation Techniques?

Perhaps you might spend decades just to find one high-level Cultivation Technique. You would then need to spend several more decades converting the True Qi in your body into the True Qi of the high-level Cultivation Technique. By the time you finished converting, your lifespan might already be up, and your whole life would just be like that.

Therefore, to become a high-ranking Martial Artist, it truly required generations of effort, and this also required you to be lucky enough to obtain high-level Cultivation Techniques.

Perhaps this was the true reason why noble families and clans in this world stood above ordinary people.

Of course, this might be a weakness for others, but it was not one for Su Jiuchuan.

In the simulated life, he had plenty of time. Thinking of this, Su Jiuchuan could not help but feel relieved; he finally saw hope.

Continue the simulation.

[At eighteen, you fled Xuzhou.]

[In the nearby mountains and forests, you completely abandoned the "Blood Fiend Art" within your body.]

[At twenty, after taking two years to heal the hidden injuries in your body, you officially began to Cultivate the "Xuanxin Art."]

[At twenty-one, you broke through again to become a Ninth-Rank Martial Artist. One day, while you were Cultivating in the mountains, you were bumped into by Shen Xiuru, who immediately captured you and tortured you to death. You died at the age of twenty-one.]

This... Su Jiuchuan only then remembered that he had offended too many people near Xuzhou; he could not stay there!

[Simulation ended. You may choose to retain one of the following options.]

[1. Martial Dao Realm at age twenty-one.]

[2. Martial Dao experience at age twenty-one.]

[3. Life wisdom at age twenty-one.]

Su Jiuchuan chose option one.

This time, the True Qi in his body slowly decreased, and the acupoints that had originally been broken through slowly became blocked again.

After about the time it takes to burn an incense stick, the True Qi in his body gradually reached a balance, returning to the initial Ninth-Rank Martial Artist Realm.

This experience was truly amazing!

Su Jiuchuan silently contemplated the True Qi in his Meridians.

In the past, when True Qi circulated in his body, it moved quickly, and when it flowed through his Meridians, there was a slight, hot, painful sensation; although not severe, it was present.

But now, it was completely different. The True Qi circulated slowly and warmly, and his Meridians actually felt a sense of comfort as the True Qi flowed through them. After one complete cycle, it felt like drinking a bowl of ice water during the hottest days of summer; his whole body felt extremely refreshed.

Was this the difference between top-tier True Qi and low-level True Qi?