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Chapter 602 Martial Warrior, Traces of Legacy

Three months later, in the Green Grass Tribe.

Winter is the hardest time to endure on the desolate continent.

In winter, snow blade storms, formed by violent spiritual energy, can reach terrifying temperatures of minus two hundred degrees Celsius. They appear randomly, like meat grinders equipped with bone-scraping steel knives, taking away almost all exposed creatures in an area.

Even the hardest metal ores and the most stubborn rocks will be pulverized by this blizzard, which manifests as almost tangible energy, and become part of the earth.

Therefore, during the winter, apart from extremely powerful ferocious beasts, most other ferocious beasts and wild animals, including humans, will choose to stay in their dens.

They either hibernate or rely on the food they stocked up in the fall to survive.

In such an environment, hunting becomes almost an impractical activity.

Certainly, many ferocious beasts and wild animals, such as bears and snakes, choose to hibernate or take a comfortable nap during the winter.

As long as you can get close enough, you can easily complete challenges beyond your level, just like Fan Jiang and Zhang Da, achieving kills that would be impossible under normal circumstances.

If successful, this would not only be a huge boost to the tribe's food and warm fur supplies, but would also collectively elevate the combat power of the tribe's beast warriors to a whole new level.

But why do so few people do it?

Almost no one would choose this method of stealing chickens unless they were truly on the verge of desperation.

This is because, in the past, no one had been able to figure out the reason for the formation of the Snowblade Storm.

It's like some kind of special mechanism that randomly selects a few places on the map to clean up.

Just as I said.

Apart from the extremely powerful Beast King, no one dared to gamble their life against fate.

After all, if one encounters such a catastrophic natural disaster during the journey, one can immediately declare goodbye to the world.

As things normally unfold.

Xiaoshan's hunting team was wiped out by the Toad Beast King. To buy time for her people, Qingcao chose to burn her life force and died in battle against the Nightmare Beast.

Even if the few remaining Beastblood Warriors manage to lead their people out of the Nightmare Beasts' hunting range, they will face extremely harsh survival challenges during the winter, having lost nearly half of their survival supplies.

Aside from physically strong beast warriors, ordinary people would have almost no chance of surviving in the wilderness during winter.

Fortunately, Lu Wenwu arrived.

A good life will then come.

While we shouldn't spoil overgrown children, we certainly can't just stand by and watch dozens of people freeze or starve to death right before our eyes, can we?
Even a game needs a low-difficulty beginner village.

You can't just learn [1+1=2] and immediately challenge Wei Dongyi, can you?
That's just too ridiculous.

Free-range grazing is not advisable.

Early developmental support and training are also essential.

Therefore, after Lu Wenwu had finished exploring the new training system he named the Martial Mark Warrior, he began his familiar teaching career.

Having previously played a university professor in the previous instance, he was quite adept at this.

It's pretty much the same as building the Spirit Chef system from scratch before!
This time I'll have to work harder, creating more shadow clones to sturdy up the map for exploration.

This was a piece of cake for Lu Wenwu, whose physical strength was practically limitless.

That very night, he created a thousand clones, which, after being grouped together, began to explore in all directions.

Winter, a season when everything is dormant, reduces many distractions and is the perfect time for exploration.

After thoroughly pushing himself to the limit, Lu Wenwu's primitive man teaching plan officially began.

The first and most important thing to do is to pass on the new cultivation system that everyone can practice.

Lu Wenwu originally intended to name it Beast Soul Master.

After all, a very important part of cultivation is devouring the souls and wills of ferocious beasts and plundering their power!

This is not only a tribute, but also a perfect fit. How wonderful!
As a result, Xiao Bao rejected the initial name proposal outright.

The reason given was that the name was too unlucky.

Lu Wenwu thought about it and felt it made sense.

After much deliberation, he named it the Warrior with the Mark of Martial Arts.

This is because after Qingcao successfully condensed the Blood Pill and refined and devoured the Nightmare Beast's soul through the Spiritual Fire, he obtained his first innate ability.

A dark animal mark reappeared on her skin, which had become fair and flawless due to the body change.

When not activating its power, it remains hidden beneath the skin, indistinguishable from ordinary skin.

When the grass uses the Nightmare Beast's stolen talent to fight, the dark beast mark reappears and emits a strange and profound light.

This made Lu Wenwu even more nervous.

This sense of déjà vu is really similar.

By plundering the power of ferocious beasts, corresponding color markers will appear, and the abilities will glow when used. At most, one innate divine power can be plundered in a major stage.
It's a spirit ring.jpg
It's perfectly accurate to call it a variant of the ten-thousand-year soul ring!
Except for the absence of a Martial Soul, it has everything!
Well.
For a martial arts warrior to break through a realm, it's not necessary to plunder the power of ferocious beasts. Breaking through on their own is perfectly fine. Plundering is merely a means to enhance one's own foundation.

It exists, but you don't have to use it.

This is something that must be used.

The difference is quite significant.

Let's return to the topic of the black beast marks that appeared after the looting.

At that time, Lu Wenwu even suspected that if he had devoured a beast king crystal core comparable to the second or third level of the Ascension God, would the color of the beast mark have turned red or gold?
If it devours the crystal core of a ferocious beast with a slightly lower cultivation level, will the beast mark turn white, yellow, or purple?
If that's the case, then he'll have to first look for anyone on this continent with the surname Tang.

Fortunately, after a series of experiments, the results were encouraging.

There was no "tribute" of changing the color of the beast marks according to cultivation level.

The color of the beast mark is only related to the innate attributes of the warrior with the mark, as well as the attributes of the beast itself, with a probability of about 50/50.

There are also cases like Xiaoshan, who are inherently inclined towards the fire element, but after plundering the innate divine power of a wind-attribute beast king, they obtained an orange-green gradient beast mark.

In short, Lu Wenwu can teach these ancient humans with peace of mind, without worrying about anything going wrong.

Besides plundering power from the souls—no, the ferocious beasts—Lu Wenwu also selected some simple and easy-to-learn martial arts techniques from his skill set accumulated over the years to teach everyone as a foundation.

If one does not have a favorite beastly divine power, one can learn and summarize on one's own to cultivate a powerful martial skill, and then imprint it on one's blood core as one's natal divine power. This is also an option.

This will create a unique mark that belongs to you.

The Mark of Martial Arts!

This is also the origin of the name "Martial Mark Warrior".

Lu Wenwu hopes that one day, when the ancient human race no longer needs to rely on plundering ferocious beasts and their supernatural powers to grow rapidly, they will still remember his original intention in creating this cultivation system.

Cultivate martial arts and become an outstanding warrior who embodies the unique characteristics of martial arts!

Instead of developing into something like the Tang Dynasty Continent, where without soul rings and soul bones provided by soul beasts, soul masters would immediately become complete blanks, or even lose their ability to advance—a truly heaven-defying situation.

If things really develop to that point, Lu Wenwu's blood pressure would probably be very high.

When Lu Wenwu designed the Blood Pill, he referenced the Golden Core in the cultivation system and the Demon Core in the cultivation method of the demon race to some extent.

In the path of immortality, a single golden elixir determines the Great Dao and inscribes one's own path.

Some outstanding and talented cultivators, upon clarifying their path to enlightenment, will develop a unique and continuously evolving innate divine ability from within their golden core.

The most common and traditional path among demons is to continuously grow stronger by condensing and strengthening their demon cores, which in turn nourishes and tempers their bodies. This path almost always results in the birth of innate supernatural abilities after the demon core is condensed.

It could be inherited from one's bloodline, or it could be unique to oneself.

Lu Wenwu felt that in the current environment, it was acceptable to slightly sacrifice other aspects of the Golden Core and Demon Core, focusing instead on enhancing power. If peace were to ever be achieved, then they would trust in the wisdom of future generations.

As long as the high-level martial warriors of the Ancient Human Race who have cultivated to the seventh seal or above are not fools, they should be able to easily discover the hints and backdoors that Lu Wenwu deliberately left in the basic cultivation method, and modify and optimize the structure of the Blood Pill on their own.

This will likely lead to the development of different targeted cultivation methods and various different cultivation paths.

It could be to enhance a certain trait or to fit a certain attribute, or something like that.

If no one discovers and modifies it.
That can only be described as the fate of the ancient human race.

You can't expect the founders to create versions thousands or tens of thousands of years in the future, can you?

That would be rather unreasonable.

Therefore, after a series of adjustments and modifications by Lu Wenwu, the Blood Pill became what it is now, capable of being inscribed with nine martial seals.

It can belong to oneself, or it can belong to a ferocious beast.

If you are not satisfied in the future, you can change it by dissipating the corresponding amount of cultivation points.

However, compared to directly plundering innate supernatural abilities from ferocious beasts, the disadvantage of cultivating one's own methods is that it is slow.

Cultivation is slow, formation is slow, and leveling up is slow.

As everyone knows, unless it's a monster with extraordinary comprehension like Lu Wenwu, or someone like Wang Teng who has cheat codes, it's impossible.

It is very difficult to master a martial art to a high level.

If judged by the standards of the dungeon system, in order to inscribe one's martial arts skills onto the Blood Pill, one's proficiency must at least reach the level of "effortless mastery".

Some more profound teachings require one to cultivate to the point of "entering the inner sanctum" before one can even barely memorize them.

Even with high comprehension and rapid cultivation speed, it would still take at least a year to go from a complete blank slate to a level of proficiency.

We still need to take time off for training.

The ancient human race, having never been exposed to this before, were now cultivating themselves.
That speed was outrageously slow.

Truly starting from scratch.

They even have to start with the academic subjects, otherwise they simply won't understand what's written in the transmission of magical arts.

Stubborn Green Grass then chose a fire-based spell from Lu Wenwu to cultivate.

She was the only one who chose to condense a trace of herself.

In the morning, Qingcao would get up and study cultural knowledge together with the other members of the tribe.

In the afternoon, we will have a martial arts class together with our tribesmen, focusing on combat.

During her rest time after dinner, she would attend Lu Wenwu's one-on-one private lessons, receiving targeted magical guidance until late at night.

Then he meditated and practiced until dawn, repeating the activities of the previous day.

However, the rather awkward thing is...
Not everything will get a response.

At least the response won't be that quick.

Even after the three-month-long winter had completely ended and the season of rejuvenation had arrived, she still hadn't reached the standard to independently imprint her magic and condense martial marks.

This is a very sad story.

Lu Wenwu thought that Qingcao's comprehension and talent were not bad.

This isn't her problem; it's the environment's problem.

In this environment where survival is paramount, there is no time to carefully refine her; we must choose someone who can quickly develop combat capabilities.

The talent of plundering ferocious beasts condenses beast marks, which are quick to form and can be used directly, with an extremely high minimum performance level.

Furthermore, subsequent upgrades are easy; you only need to continuously fuse with the talents of the same or similar ferocious beasts.

The few drawbacks might be that some of the innate abilities are not suitable for humans to utilize, and it would be difficult to break through the original skill's maximum limit, which would require breakthroughs in other areas.

The martial marks condense on their own, but the process is slow, the cultivation is slow, and the lower limit is extremely low. Even after they are fully formed, they require a long period of training to unleash their full power.

Further upgrades are also quite difficult, requiring breakthroughs in skill comprehension, reforging the Blood Pill Martial Seal, and re-condensing the Martial Mark.

But the upper limit is infinite.

In peacetime, the mere advantage of having an infinitely large upper limit is enough to make it surpass Beast Mark and become the only choice for geniuses.

Not to mention the more flexible variations, the unexpected use of non-template skills, and so on.

Until the gap in hard power becomes catastrophic, information is of paramount importance.

Know yourself and the enemy, a hundred battles will never end.

But that was during peacetime, when there was ample time to hone oneself.

Just like those cultivators, they can spend hundreds of years in an incredibly extravagant way just to master a single technique.

There is no peace on the ancient continent now; every day is a test of survival.

This caused the value of beast marks to skyrocket, making them far more cost-effective than martial marks.

For this reason, Lu Wenwu acknowledges personal choices, but in principle, he does not encourage choosing martial marks now, and prefers to focus on plundering beast marks.

It's fast and easy to use.

In just one winter, the Green Grass Tribe has undergone a complete transformation.

Apart from Qingcao, whose strength only stabilized at S-rank (four-seal warrior) due to the integration of her spirit and flesh and the cultivation of martial marks, everyone else has made a huge breakthrough in their cultivation.

Xiaoshan successfully broke through to a level comparable to A-rank and became a three-seal warrior.

The Beast Warriors, who were originally mostly at the C-rank, have all stepped into the level of second-tier warriors, comparable to B-rank warriors, after rebuilding their foundations and repairing their hidden injuries.

Two of them were only half a step away from the three seals.

The tribespeople, who were originally just ordinary people, except for a newborn baby, all the men, women, and children, regardless of age or gender, have stepped into the extraordinary realm under Mao Mao's continuous hunting.

They ignited their spiritual fire, condensed their blood essence, and completed at least one plunder of the ferocious beast's mark, becoming a one-mark warrior.

Even the weakest of the first-order warriors can easily defeat a normal beast-blooded warrior.

Several members of the clan who were exceptionally talented in the Martial Mark Warrior system even reached the second mark level.

He went from being an ordinary person with no strength to becoming a superhuman he had always dreamed of, standing on equal footing with the veteran beast-blood warriors of his tribe.

This is certainly due to the fact that Lu Wenwu's Martial Mark Warrior system incorporates demonic techniques, allowing for rapid advancement and the ability to quickly break through realms using the flesh and blood of other living beings.

But most importantly, the Ancient Continent itself is a top-tier high-magic world.

Its strength even surpasses that of the [Martial Arts Showdown] world, and it can accommodate pseudo-immortals to stay for a long time.

The world's strength and the quality of its spiritual energy resources are both extremely terrifying, with the abundance of spiritual energy even far exceeding that of the Dragon Mansion Small World before it was purified.

Previously, the ancient human race was weak and their cultivation progress was poor simply because they had a treasure mountain but no way to advance.

Now that Lu Wenwu has opened the door to this treasure mountain for them, their cultivation progress is naturally rapid.

Just as the earth is rejuvenating and spring is about to arrive.

Lu Wenwu received two messages after the shadow clone exploded.

Good news: It seems to have found the place where the "General's Statue" was passed down!

Even better news: A beast king comparable to a third-tier god roams there, and the shadow clone was destroyed by him.

(End of this chapter)