[Year 57, age 75.]
[After abandoning the wicked path, you focused on searching for Earth Veins and cultivating various techniques. Relying on the "Proficiency" trait, you frantically increased the realm of your techniques.]
[You discovered that the highest realm of a technique is actually not Perfection; above Perfection, there is a level called "Transcendent Mastery"!]
[When you asked Zhen Pin, he, like most martial artists, believed that "Perfection" was the ultimate limit of a technique's realm, which shows that very few people can train a technique to the Transcendent Mastery level!]
[Even more miraculous is that there should be an even higher level above Transcendent Mastery, because you can still continue practicing to increase proficiency.]
[It's just that reaching this realm, even for a Mid-Grade technique, requires an extremely exaggerated number of practice repetitions. For higher quality techniques, the required number increases exponentially.]
[Isn't it just a matter of needing time?]
[This really isn't a big problem for you.]
[If one simulation isn't enough, then two; if two aren't enough, then three. Sooner or later, you'll be able to max out the proficiency realm of all your techniques!]
[But for other martial artists, in their entire lifetime, being able to train a few main techniques to Great Achievement or Perfection already marks them as individuals with heaven-defying comprehension.]
[Year 62, age 80.]
[Drawing a trait...]
[Draw successful!]
["Senior Tomato User" (Purple Epic): Your poison resistance is extremely high. Common worldly poisons are ineffective against you. Special toxins, such as Pill Toxins, demon poisons, technique poisons, etc., have their toxicity greatly reduced.]
[Adjust trait?]
[Yes/No]
"This trait is still quite useful. Poison resistance is important, otherwise it's easy to get ambushed."
After obtaining the "Proficiency" trait, the previously often-carried "Effort Guarantees Reward" and "Sudden Inspiration" could be discarded.
So now the equipped slots were quite ample.
[You replaced "Monster Aura" with "Senior Tomato User".]
[Zhen Pin wanted to wander the continent; this was a goal he set for himself after seeing through the vanity of the mortal world in his middle age.]
[You wanted to search for Earth Veins.]
[So the two of you, a pair of unemployed vagrants, happened to travel together, becoming a pair of wanderers roaming the Five Domains.]
[The Five Domains are vast.]
[In these past few years, you only managed to return from Xiliang back to the Central Plains.]
[This was the second time you lived to 80 in a simulation.]
[Last time, you died as soon as you turned 80, and you were just a poor old man in Baiyun County town, knowing very little about information from the outside world.]
[This time was different.]
[While wandering, you and Zhen Pin learned that something major had happened in the world.]
[The human race and the demon race had once made a "mutual non-aggression" pact.]
[That is, experts of the Martial King realm and above from both races could not kill members of the other race, nor could they launch large-scale offensives.]
[As for those below the Martial King realm, whether it was humans hunting demons for materials, or demons eating humans to enhance their cultivation, it was left to their respective fates.]
[If you eat a human and get executed by the Demon Slaying Division, don't cry injustice.]
[If you hunt a demon and get killed in return, don't call it unfair.]
[Neither side could call in their elders after fighting the young, bringing Martial King level or higher combat power into the conflict.]
[This was the same principle as Martial Kings not going to the front lines within the human race.]
[It was to prevent the situation from escalating to an uncontrollable level.]
[However, five years ago, the demon race broke this agreement.]
[The demon race side appointed a Great Vanguard Demon Ape, leading a hundred thousand demons, who charged out from the Great Wastes first, launching a blitzkrieg on the Eastern Wastes!]
[Behind this vanguard army, there was a million-strong elite demon army commanded by the four great Demon Ancestors headed by the Azure Dragon!]
[Although there were some human martial artist forces stationed in the Eastern Wastes, such as the Five Domains' number one sect, the Limitless Sword Sect.]
[This time, however, the other side was serious.]
[Facing combat power at the level of Demon Ancestors, even the Limitless Sword Sect could only temporarily retreat.]
[Now, the war between the human race and the demon race had fully erupted.]
[Human Grandmasters and Demon Ancestors were confronting each other at Cangqiong Ridge, the dividing line between the Eastern Wastes and the Central Plains.]
[This towering, cloud-piercing mountain range became a natural barrier, blocking the advance of the demon army.]
[If the demons did not deal with the human powerhouses from various forces on Cangqiong Ridge, even if they crossed this mountain range, these people would attack from behind, leaving them caught between two fronts.]
[The Central Plains, Northern Frontier, and Southern Borderlands, who were originally fighting each other over who was the legitimate orthodox power, had already ceased hostilities.]
[The highest leaders of the three sides mobilized martial artist forces within their territories to go to the front lines at Cangqiong Ridge to participate in the war.]
[The Great Qian imperial family of the Central Plains, the Hundred Kingdoms Alliance centered around the Female Emperor in the Southern Borderlands, and the nomadic tribal alliance of the Northern Frontier also did not turtle up. They all set aside their mutual grievances, personally led their forces, and joined hands to deal with the great enemy of the human race.]
[The three countries of Xiliang performed stably as usual, still arguing over who were the heretics.]
[Those going to the front lines of the two-race war were all martial artists; there were no ordinary mortals, nor armies composed of mortals.]
[They would be useless if they went, only adding massive casualties in vain, which would harm the foundation of the human race.]
[However, the war was not only at Cangqiong Ridge.]
[That Great Vanguard Demon Ape, during the early stages of the war when the human defense lines were not yet stable, led tens of thousands of elite demons and charged into the territory of the Central Plains.]
[They split into smaller groups, dispersed, gathered the scattered demons distributed across various places in the Central Plains, and carried out bloody massacres against the local human populations.]
[Those demons living in human territory usually acted meekly and hid carefully.]
[They only occasionally dared to kill a person to satisfy their craving.]
[Now it was great; the Great Vanguard Demon Ape brought a batch of elites, and they went completely insane.]
[The Demon Slaying Division was exhausted from running around everywhere, suffering many sacrifices.]
[The frontline combat power of the human race was now all at the front resisting the main demon army, leading to scattered attacks in the rear that were impossible to guard against completely.]
[In towns and villages everywhere, one could see mountains of corpses and seas of blood left behind by demon atrocities, a scene too horrible to endure.]
[As you and Zhen Pin traveled along, you had already killed quite a few evil demons.]
[Seeing your calm, composed, and effortless manner when killing demons, Zhen Pin once suspected you were hiding your true cultivation level.]
["Patron Chen, for the demon race to mobilize on such a large scale, there's something fishy about this situation..."]
["Hmph! These beasts! What's fishy about it? Humans killing demons is perfectly justified, and demons eating humans is also in their nature! The two sides simply cannot coexist; I think this great war is unavoidable."]
["But the two races have coexisted peacefully for tens of thousands of years. Why would the demons suddenly take action?"]
["Coexisted peacefully? I don't think that's necessarily true."]
[You have seen demons impersonating the River God in the river to eat people.]
[You have seen demons colluding with corrupt officials to bring disaster to a region.]
[You have seen a demon powerhouse wipe out a human sect with a single swipe of its tail.]
[So you never felt that humans and demons coexisted peacefully; the enmity between the two races had been accumulating day by day.]
[You just didn't expect that before humans took action, the demons would be the first to come killing.]
[How ridiculous!]
[The demons causing chaos everywhere instead ignited your fighting spirit.]
[Now Demon Souls won't be lacking!]
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