Chapter 203: Steel Steel Steel, So Much Fun!

Although the number of equippable traits was already incomparable to the first simulation.

For Chen Yi, the number of useful traits was also increasing.

He still felt that the trait slots were insufficient.

For example, the replaced traits "Man and Sword as One", "Treasure-Sniffing Nose", and "Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger" were all useful.

Unfortunately, with limited slots, he could only make choices.

"I hope this simulation can yield a stable method to break through to the Martial King Realm. Breaking through to the Martial King Realm is the transition from the Middle Martial Path to the Late Martial Path, which can increase the number of equippable trait slots by three in one go!"

[At this moment, you are flying over the Great Wastes.]

[The area of the Great Wastes is extremely vast, with virtually no traces of human activity to be seen. Demons of the Demon Tribe can be seen frequently, but it's basically a case of vast land and sparse demons.]

[Moreover, the Demon Tribe has a strong sense of territory, especially the demons of the Great Wastes.]

[Some demons live alone, while others live in groups. Within their respective territories, they absolutely do not allow other demons to set foot under normal circumstances.]

[Following the "Human World Topographical Map" given to you by the Sword Lord, you fly in a straight line towards the direction of the Holy Lands.]

[After equipping Heartsteel, you couldn't wait to get some steel.]

[At first, you used what was readily available, summoning the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, wanting to have an intense PK with him.]

[To make the Ten Thousand Souls Banner qualify as an "enemy" for the trait's judgment, you let the banner attack you freely.]

[Upon hearing that he could beat you up, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner immediately perked up entirely.]

["Bro! We're brothers, how could I possibly hurt you!"]

["Then let the Demon Refining Pot come..."]

["But to help you test your new technique, I must step up! What does the Demon Refining Pot know!"]

[Unfortunately, after some testing, you found that no matter how the Ten Thousand Souls Banner attacked you, even causing you some substantial damage, you didn't feel Heartsteel activating.]

[The Ten Thousand Souls Banner, however, thoroughly enjoyed beating you up.]

["This is the feeling! Ahh! Ahh!"]

[Then, you pulled the Ten Thousand Souls Banner out from among the spirit artifacts and beat it up for an hour.]

[You understood.]

[The trait does not allow you to deliberately create enemies for yourself. Using this method to stack steel in advance is not permitted.]

[Subsequently, you descended to the ground, arriving before a demon.]

[This demon was extremely stubborn and thick-headed.]

["Where did this human come from? Tired of living, daring to come to my territory??"]

[He was speaking the demon language.]

[But you had learned the demon language in the last simulation and were already proficient in it.]

[When this demon entered the hundred-meter range around you.]

["Ding!"]

[You heard a crisp sound of iron being cast.]

["Ding!"]

[It "dinged" once per second. Three seconds later, you saw a red spherical mark appear above this demon's head.]

["Human! Why are you staring at me! Do you want to fight me? Do you think I'm afraid of you?!"]

[You smiled disdainfully.]

[I'm waiting for Heartsteel to finish marking, what are you waiting for?]

[You charged forward, throwing a simple, unadorned punch that smashed into this guy.]

["Clang!!"]

[This was the unique attack sound effect of successfully stacking steel.]

[Heartsteel, one stack!]

[With one hundred times the destructive power of a normal attack, plus double the strength of your right arm, this poor Soul Tempering Realm demon test subject was instantly turned into a bloody mist by you!]

["Too strong! Just this enhancement to normal attacks is incredible, and it can also recover injuries, stack combat power, and increase size!"]

Chen Yi outside the simulation was drooling with envy.

What a massive killer weapon for team fights and prolonged battles!

Injured? It recovers. The longer you fight, the higher your combat power gets, and your size increases too!

By the end, it would be left fist high damage, right fist high damage!

What martial arts, what spirit artifacts!

Imagine a sky-scraping giant, wielding mountain-sized fists, smashing here, pounding there!

How could the enemy even fight?!

"Currently, I don't know how the Dragon-Man tribe is supposed to win."

Chen Yi leaned back in a tactical posture, his confidence bursting.

[You found a group of communal demons in the Great Wastes and played with steel with them for several days.]

[To make stacking steel easier, you held back with each punch, ensuring you didn't kill them.]

[When you stacked to the current maximum of one thousand layers, your height had already surpassed twenty meters!]

[Your clothes were all torn to shreds, your wild hair flying, your entire body of bronzed skin brimming with a sense of power!]

[A single punch smashed out, the wind and clouds changed color, the earth shook and mountains trembled, mountains and rivers shattered, rivers flowed backward!]

[The demons all over the mountains and plains cried out for their dear father!]

["Steel is still more fun, haha!"]

[You timely stopped, disengaged from combat, and continued flying deeper into the Great Wastes.]

[If you kept messing around here, you'd probably attract a Demon Ancestor.]

[Even with one thousand layers of steel, taking on a Demon Ancestor alone would still be somewhat overestimating your abilities.]

[The gap between realms cannot be simply measured by combat power.]

[Take the Martial King Realm versus the Spirit Condensation Realm.]

[Even if you greatly increase the combat power of a Spirit Condensation Realm martial artist, could he take on a Martial King alone?]

[Obviously not, unless that Martial King is an idiot.]

[As long as the Martial King stays in the air and doesn't come down, the Spirit Condensation Realm martial artist can do nothing to him.]

[During these days of you practicing Heartsteel, the family inside your body had plenty of comments.]

[Ten Thousand Souls Banner: "Kid, where did you get this unorthodox method from again?! Is it this outrageous?! You're only twenty-two? This is what twenty-two looks like???"]

[Demon Refining Pot: "Oh my!! Congratulations, Master! Congratulations, Master! Your divine technique has reached Great Achievement! Master, when will you be number one in the human world?"]

[Qiankun Mirror: "Little brother is indeed fierce, Cauldron Little Brother, you have a good eye! I observe this young man has the bearing of a Human Emperor! I'm not leaving."]

[Nine Provinces Cauldron: "Kun Brother, have a peach."]

[Hu Chacha inside the Ten Thousand Souls Banner: "Ah shit!!! What's the deal with this person?! Why has he gotten stronger again!! How can there be such a freak among humans?!"]

[Feng Yucheng inside the Ten Thousand Souls Banner: "I actually died at the hands of such a great power? Me?"]

[Fish Demon inside the Ten Thousand Souls Banner: "Plus one."]

[The collection of spirit bodies and souls in your belly was just too lively.]

[Seemingly adventuring alone, you were actually dragging the whole family along.]

[As you disengaged from combat, the steel layers began to gradually fall off, and your size slowly returned to normal.]

[Your journey through the Great Wastes continued.]

[With the "Traffic Light" trait, you avoided many dangers.]

[You estimated that those areas flagged as dangerous were probably places where Demon Ancestors were active.]

[With your current combat power, only a Demon Ancestor could threaten you.]

[The view ahead turned red.]

["Danger? Hah, minor issue, a wise man doesn't fight when the odds are against him, detour."]

[You were originally supposed to fly from west to east. The east was a sea of red, so you detoured south.]

[After flying for over a hundred miles, the east was still red.]

["Hah, minor issue, continue detouring."]

[A few days later.]

["Damn it?! What exactly is ahead, why is it still red?!"]

[You took out the Human World Topographical Map given by the Sword Lord, repeatedly comparing the terrain and approximate location.]

["Forbidden Land?"]

[On this "longitude line" where the red vision was located—assuming the human world had longitude and latitude lines.]

[There was a place called the Great Wastes Forbidden Land.]

[What you found strange was, you had already detoured, not encountering the Forbidden Land head-on, so why was it still showing red?]