Live Another Eighty Years, and the War Between the Two Races Erupts

[Year 57. 75 years old.]

[After abandoning the demonic path, you focused on searching for earth veins and cultivating various martial arts techniques. Relying on the "Proficiency" trait, you frantically elevated your technique realms.]

[You discovered that the highest realm of a technique wasn't actually Perfection. Above Perfection, there was a realm called "Sublime Mastery"!]

[When you asked Zhenpin, he, like most martial artists, believed that "Perfection" was the ultimate limit of any technique. This showed that the number of people who could train a technique to Sublime Mastery was incredibly rare!]

[Even more miraculously, there should be an even higher level above Sublime Mastery, because you could still continue practicing to increase your proficiency.]

[It was just that upon reaching this realm, the number of repetitions required—even for a mid-tier technique—was extremely exaggerated. For higher-quality techniques, the required number of times skyrocketed exponentially.]

[Isn't it just a matter of needing time?]

[This really wasn't a big problem for you.]

[If one simulation wasn't enough, you would do two. If two weren't enough, you would do three. Sooner or later, you would max out the proficiency realms of all your techniques!]

[But for other martial artists, if they could train a few main techniques to the Great Success or Perfection realms over their entire lifetimes, they would already be considered individuals with heaven-defying comprehension.]

[Year 62. 80 years old.]

[Extracting traits...]

[Extraction successful!]

["Veteran Tomato User" (Purple Epic): Your poison resistance is extremely high. Ordinary mundane poisons are ineffective against you. Special toxins, such as pill toxins, demonic toxins, and technique toxins, will have their toxicity drastically reduced.]

[Adjust traits?]

[Yes / No]

"This trait is quite useful. Poison resistance is very important, otherwise, it's easy to fall prey to underhanded schemes."

With the "Proficiency" trait, the previously often-equipped "Hard Work Pays Off" and "Stroke of Genius" could be discarded.

So now, the equipment slots were quite spacious.

[You replaced "Demonic Aura" with "Veteran Tomato User".]

[Zhenpin wanted to wander the continent. This was a goal he had set after seeing through the vanity of the mortal world in his middle age.]

[You wanted to search for earth veins.]

[Thus, the two of you unemployed vagabonds happened to travel together, becoming a pair of drifters roaming the Five Regions.]

[The Five Regions were massive.]

[Over these past few years, you had only managed to return from Western Liang to the Central Plains.]

[This was the second time you had lived to 80 years old in the simulation.]

[Last time, you died right after turning 80, and you were just a poor old man in White Cloud County with very little knowledge of the outside world.]

[This time was different.]

[During your travels, you and Zhenpin learned that a major event had occurred in the world.]

[The Human Race and the Demon Race had once established a "non-aggression" pact.]

[Meaning, experts above the Martial King realm from both races were forbidden from killing each other's people, let alone launching large-scale offensives.]

[As for those below the Martial King realm, whether it was humans hunting demons for materials or demons eating humans to increase their cultivation, it was left up to their respective fates.]

[If you eat humans and get chopped down by the Demon Slaying Division, don't complain.]

[If you hunt demons and get counter-killed, don't cry foul either.]

[Neither side was allowed to call for the older generation after the younger ones were beaten, bringing combat power above the Martial King realm into the fray.]

[This was the same principle as Martial Kings not going to the frontlines in internal human conflicts.]

[It was to prevent the situation from deteriorating to an uncontrollable point.]

[However, five years ago, the Demon Race broke this pact.]

[The Demon Race appointed a Great Demon Monkey Vanguard, who led a hundred thousand demons to charge out of the Great Wilderness and launch a blitzkrieg on the Eastern Wasteland!]

[Behind this vanguard army was an elite demon army of a million troops, overseen by the Four Great Demon Ancestors, led by the Azure Dragon!]

[Although there were some human martial artist factions stationed in the Eastern Wasteland, such as the number one sect of the Five Regions, the Limitless Sword Sect.]

[But this time, the enemy was playing for keeps.]

[Facing combat power at the Demon Ancestor level, even the Limitless Sword Sect could only temporarily retreat.]

[Now, the war between the Human Race and the Demon Race had completely erupted.]

[Human mighty figures and Demon Ancestors were facing off at the Firmament Ridge, the boundary line between the Eastern Wasteland and the Central Plains.]

[This mountain range, towering into the clouds, became a natural barrier that halted the advancing steps of the demon army.]

[If the Demon Race didn't deal with the human bigwigs from various factions on the Firmament Ridge, even if they crossed this mountain range, these people would attack from behind, making it impossible for them to defend both their front and rear.]

[The Central Plains, the Northern Territory, and the Southern Frontier, which had previously been fighting each other over who was the orthodox ruler, had already called a truce.]

[The supreme leaders of the three parties mobilized the martial artist factions within their borders to head to the frontlines at the Firmament Ridge to join the war.]

[The Great Qian Imperial Family of the Central Plains, the Hundred Nations Alliance centered around the Empress in the Southern Frontier, and the Nomadic Tribe Alliance of the Northern Territory did not cower either. They all put aside their mutual grievances and personally led their troops into battle, joining forces to deal with the great enemy of the human race.]

[The three nations of Western Liang performed consistently as usual, still fighting over who the real heretics were.]

[Those who went to the frontlines of the war between the two races were all martial artists. There were no mortals, nor were there any armies made up of mortals.]

[It would be useless for them to go; it would only needlessly increase the number of casualties and damage the foundation of the human race.]

[However, the war was not only at the Firmament Ridge.]

[In the early stages of the war, when the human defense lines were not yet stable, that Great Demon Monkey Vanguard led tens of thousands of elite demons and slaughtered their way into the borders of the Central Plains.]

[They broke the whole into parts, scattering and rallying the scattered demons distributed throughout the Central Plains, carrying out bloody massacres against humans everywhere.]

[Those demons living in human territory usually acted subserviently and hid carefully.]

[They only dared to kill a person occasionally to satisfy their cravings.]

[Well, now that the Great Demon Monkey Vanguard had arrived with a batch of elites, they went completely mad.]

[The Demon Slaying Division was exhausted from rushing about and suffered heavy casualties.]

[The frontline combat power of the human race was now all at the front resisting the demon army, leading to scattered attacks in the rear that were impossible to defend against.]

[In towns and villages everywhere, mountains of corpses and seas of blood left behind by the demons' ravages could be seen, a gruesome sight to behold.]

[Along the way, you and Zhenpin had already killed quite a few evil-doing demons.]

[Seeing your calm, unhurried, and effortless demeanor when killing demons, Zhenpin once suspected that you were hiding your true cultivation.]

["Benefactor Chen, for the Demon Race to mobilize such a massive force, there is something fishy about this matter..."]

["Hmph! These beasts! What's so fishy about it? It's perfectly justified for humans to kill demons, and it's also in the demons' nature to eat humans! The two sides could never coexist in the first place. I see this great war as inevitable."]

["But the two races have lived in peace for tens of thousands of years. Why did the Demon Race suddenly make a move?"]

["Lived in peace? I don't think so."]

[You had seen demons pretending to be river gods in rivers to eat people.]

[You had seen demons colluding with corrupt officials to scourge a region.]

[You had seen demon bigshots wiping out human sects with a single flick of their tails.]

[Therefore, you never felt that the Human Race and the Demon Race lived in peace. The enmity between the two races had always been accumulating day by day.]

[You just didn't expect that before the Human Race made a move, the Demon Race would come killing first.]

[Truly ridiculous!]

[The demons wreaking havoc everywhere actually spurred your fighting spirit.]

[Now there would be no shortage of demon souls!]