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Chapter 18 - Chapter 18: Settling the Gains

[Character Card]

[Name: Li Jin]

[Talents: Weak Comprehension Bonus, Arm Strength, Robustness]

[Highest Identity: Lord of the Mortal Dynasty, Jinn Dynasty; Martial Arts Mythological Supreme Grandmaster of the Mortal Martial World]

[Cultivation: Mortal Martial Dao Innate Great Perfection]

[Items: 1 unopened storage bag, mid-level magical artifact Cyan Blade, initial stage magical artifact Blazing Fire Ring, 1 Invisibility Talisman, 1 Wind-controlling Talisman, 2 Hundred-year Vermilion Fruit, 1 Bright God Fruit, 200ml Netherworld Cold Spring, 3 Thousand-year-old Ginseng, 2 Thousand-year-old Ganoderma, 1 Celestial Snow Lotus]

[Cultivation Techniques: Nameless Calming Heart Method, Ten Extremes Martial Arts (Severing Flame Palm, Sun Fist, Wind Chasing Leg, Ten Thousand Dragon Claws, Wind and Cloud Finger, Demon Slayer Saber, Phoenix Spear, Heaven-cutting Sword, Overlord Halberd, Unrivaled Stick), Celestial Demon Heart Devouring Technique, Red Gold True Body.]

[Character Card generated, first cycle simulation completed, evaluation Upper A, simulation times: 2, reward settlement in progress...]

[You gain 2 card summoning times; Card Summoning: You can summon/inhabit the peak period of this card character for fifteen minutes, but cannot acquire items inherent to the character]

[Congratulations, you gain 300 simulation points; simulation points can be used to exchange for talent items, cultivation techniques, insights, and cultivation experience of character cards, and can be exchanged for cultivation time. Simulation points can be obtained from reality, please explore on your own]

[Congratulations, you gain talent: Weak Comprehension Bonus, items: unopened storage bag, 200ml Netherworld Cold Spring, cultivation techniques: Wind Chasing Leg, Demon Slayer Saber]

[The exchange limit for cultivation technique insights and cultivation experience in this simulation is fifty percent, please exchange cautiously]

[The first cycle simulation successful, unlocking other abilities of the simulator, please explore specific matters on your own.]

[Second cycle simulation requirement: 10 Spirit Points, would you like to start the second cycle simulation?]

"No."

Not to mention, Jiang Ming has not yet digested the rewards from the first simulation.

The second simulation actually requires ten Spirit Points, and talents can only be chosen once. Jiang Ming needs to prepare Spirit Points to exchange for Spirit Root talent, needing at least twenty-five Spirit Points to start the second simulation.

The scroll is put away, and the golden light dissipates.

Jiang Ming returned to the room.

However, in his eyes, the golden light had not yet dissipated.

A scroll, yet to be opened, from which golden text floated to form his personal information.

Also, a card depicting a character.

The front of the card depicted a middle-aged man, dressed in dark attire and carrying a sword, standing at the highest step, with countless people prostrating and chanting long live, and at his feet lay the corpse of a cultivator.

An imposing aura as sharp and as deep as an abyss came forth, standing at the peak yet solitary.

Lord of Great Jinn, Jianghu legend, Li Jin.

Although Li Jin was born because of Jiang Ming, as Jiang Ming's cycle simulation, in a sense, Li Jin is Jiang Ming.

Yet looking at this card, Jiang Ming felt a sense of unfamiliarity.

Clearly, this was Jiang Ming's cycle, and in the simulation, Jiang Ming made many choices under Li Jin's identity.

But at this moment, Li Jin instead felt like an independent existence.

"Receive rewards."

A plain and ordinary bag, and a jade bottle appeared in front of Jiang Ming.

Meanwhile, Jiang Ming experienced sharp pain in his mind, followed by clarity.

Things that Jiang Ming couldn't understand before became clear, his mind was thinking faster than ever.

This is the weak comprehension bonus, although it is termed as weak, Jiang Ming felt the world before him had never been so clear.

Li Jin could establish his own school and create the Ten Extremes Martial Arts, supported by an immense martial arts foundation and mainly this comprehension bonus.

Following this were two martial arts.

From Li Jin's Ten Extremes Martial Arts, the Demon Slayer Saber and Wind Chasing Leg.

Countless pieces of information about these two martial arts appeared in Jiang Ming's mind.

After a long time, Jiang Ming slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air and opened his eyes.

"I see."

The martial arts obtained from the Character Card differ from the initial reward of cultivation and Red Gold Flame-breaking Palm as beginner benefits.

Jiang Ming needs to actively cultivate these martial arts.

As he cultivates, experiences related to these martial arts gradually appear, accelerating Jiang Ming's cultivation at an abnormal speed.

Meanwhile, cultivation itself can only exchange cultivation experience, not directly obtaining cultivation level, but simulation points can be used to exchange for cultivation time, allowing self-cultivation within the simulator.

It seems unnecessary, but Jiang Ming understood why the simulator was set up this way.

It was to prioritize Jiang Ming's own personality rather than being influenced by the simulated personality.

All martial arts on the card carry fragmented memories from the characters of the cycle simulation.

The Red Gold Flame-breaking Palm had already changed Jiang Ming's character to some extent, transforming him from a modern person with no martial prowess into a martial artist with certain Jianghu experience after transmigrating to modern times.

For Jiang Ming, the benefits far outweighed the drawbacks for now.

But if Li Jin's fragmented memories are continually infused, Li Jin will eventually take over.

Jiang Ming will disappear, and Li Jin will appear here instead.

This is why Jiang Ming needs to cultivate independently.

It's also why the simulator encourages Jiang Ming to reduce the number of simulations; the more simulations, the less Jiang Ming resembles Jiang Ming, and the fifty percent limit on exchanging for cultivation technique insights and cultivation experiences may also relate to the number of simulations.

Because cultivation technique insights and experiences inevitably carry the imprint of the cycle simulation character, cultivation even more so, Li Jin and Jiang Ming, in essence, still have two separate bodies, and the True Qi and Qi-Blood cultivated by both differ.

The simulator actively separates Jiang Ming from the simulation Jiang Ming in Jiuzhou to avoid any repercussions.

As for talents and items, there are fewer restrictions.

"If it's like this... fifty percent..."

Jiang Ming's gaze shifted to the Character Card, where it flickered with golden light.

Cultivation experience can be put aside for now, cultivation level need not reach Innate Great Perfection, since he will eventually embark on the path of cultivation, and mortal martial arts seem more like a transition.

He must definitely exchange for talents.

As for martial arts, not all of the Ten Extremes Martial Arts need be exchanged; currently, his combination of three martial arts covers both offense and defense, but what Jiang Ming lacks now is a cultivation technique.

The Celestial Demon Heart Devouring Technique and Nameless Calming Heart Method, considered Li Jin's cheat techniques, must be exchanged.

The Red Gold True Body will be kept as an option, while any excess simulation points can be used to exchange for unused cultivation techniques.

Jiang Ming quickly devised a plan.

Then, without hesitation, Jiang Ming redeemed the remaining two talents.

Jiang Ming could feel his heart suddenly pounding.

Qi-blood emerged from the depths of his body, transported by the heart, rushing into every corner like a tide.

This wasn't a quantitative change but a qualitative one.

Meanwhile, Jiang Ming could feel the veins on his arm wriggling, returning to normal after a while.

If robustness increased Jiang Ming's overall quality, arm strength appended a special skill.

Jiang Ming anticipated that his Red Gold Flame-breaking Palm's power could increase by at least twenty percent, and practicing hand techniques would have certain bonus effects as well.

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