Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 236 - 236: 234: Virtual Martial Arts

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Ludu, Qixia, Xu Family Boxing Gym.

Xu Chun and his father, wearing full sets of protective gear, silently confronted each other with wooden training swords in hand.

Xu Chun’s previous conversation with his father did not go well.

He wanted to convince his father that using virtual reality technology could better promote their family’s sword techniques and also create a virtual backup for their unique sword style. As long as the technology didn’t disappear, their sword style wouldn’t be lost.

But his father said that the sword technique he used was no longer the original one.

Xu Chun had a hard time refuting that statement.

Since childhood, he had indeed learned boxing and swordsmanship from his father.

The family’s centuries-old local boxing style: Xu Family Fist. The sword technique was a lesser-known style that complemented the fist technique: Xu Sword.

However, it seemed that Xu Chun had no natural talent for the family sword style. In his father’s words: “10 years of struggling to be mediocre.”

During his university years, he voluntarily learned Plum Blossom Saber, Xingyi Linking Saber, Chandler Saber, Tai Chi Saber, Cha Saber, Mountain Splitting Saber, Liuhe Saber, Four Gate Saber, Emei Great Saber, and Spring and Autumn Great Saber.

He has dabbled in almost every mainstream and well-known sword style.

However, learning many styles left him unfocused and scattered. His father even angrily accused him of messing around.

Nevertheless, Xu Chun persisted for a few years, simplifying and consolidating his strength, and finally came up with the most comfortable sword style that he felt was the most “harmonious.”

Once he felt he had mastered his sword technique, he immediately went to his father for a sparring session.

As a result, his father pointed out numerous flaws, resulting in a one-sided defeat.

His father had witnessed the time and effort he had put in and, not wanting to discourage him further, didn’t say anything harsh, only stating, “Creating something new is not easy. Our predecessors created new styles because they had walked far enough on their path before attempting to innovate. Your foundation is shaky and your path crooked.”

Xu Chun was devastated.

He had spent countless hours traveling to various martial arts gyms to learn different sword techniques, only to create a flawed style. He had wasted so many years of his life.

How could he not feel disheartened?

After that, he lost his fighting spirit. Every day, he followed his father’s lead in managing the boxing gym, practicing his boxing and sword techniques, but in his spare time, he stopped pondering different sword styles and instead played games to pass the time.

This lifestyle continued for a full three years until the emergence of “Assassins’ Alliance.”

When playing the game for fun, he increased his level and enhanced his physical fitness. To his surprise, he found the flaws pointed out by his father gradually disappearing!

After activating the [Assassin Bloodline] skill, his physical fitness soared, and the flaws disappeared completely. His strength flowed smoothly, all as one!

This discovery excited him!

The advent of the virtual world reinvigorated his sword technique.

He realized it wasn’t that his created sword technique was bad, but that people’s physical fitness in reality couldn’t keep up with the demands of the technique. What he had developed was not a sword technique for ordinary people but a sword technique for superhumans!

Only martial arts prodigies with extraordinary talent and innately incredible physical fitness could truly unleash the power of this sword technique!

The environment in which ordinary people could use it without any obstacles and unleash its maximum power appeared far too late!

Too late by a full three years!

It was like how the can was invented in 1810, but the can opener not until 1858.

He wasn’t wrong; he was just too early!

The sword style he created might be a form of “virtual martial arts.”

His father was delighted to see him rejuvenated, but unfortunately, he didn’t support Xu Chun’s ideas.

“By forsaking reality and pursuing illusions, you are not back on the right track but sinking deeper.”

Martial artists are not easily swayed by words, so in the end, the two put on their protective gear and expressed their will through their weapons.

Xu Chun was fully focused.

It had been three years since he had invested so much concentration and dedication in a duel, and he desperately wanted to win!

Progress, swing the sword! The force follows the body, power comes from the spine, mind and sword as one!

He felt his condition was better than ever before!

However, his father only took a small step back, then tapped and pushed his sword. With very little effort, it slid past his neck guard.

Xu Chun fell silent.

This scene was exactly the same as three years ago…

Changes in mindset and willpower didn’t affect the outcome…

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If only his physical fitness were better, his speed faster, or at least his swordswoman’s aura stronger, he wouldn’t have been so easily destabilized, avoiding an immediate defeat.

Xu Chun couldn’t help but think: perhaps his father would have dealt with it differently if things were otherwise. Would the outcome really have been any different?

Xu Chun suppressed his unease, resumed his stance, and swung his sword again!

Swing the sword!

Keep swinging the sword!

Unfortunately, if it had been boxing, him being young and strong, and having relentless willpower, he might have won.

But with the saber techniques, he could hardly see any hope and was struck first time and time again.

Finally, Xu Chun stopped, panting, and couldn’t help feeling discouraged.

He even couldn’t help thinking: Perhaps I should really give up and follow my old dad to practice in the future?

It’s hard not to feel in awe of someone who could almost behead you ten times in five minutes.

He lost completely.

But what surprised him greatly was that his old dad nodded and said, “Good enough, you can go.”

“Go?” Xu Chun didn’t react for a moment, “Where to?”

“Xiajing City,” the old dad took off his helmet, turned and walked to the rack where the training equipment was stored, “Go do what you want to do.”

Of course, parents don’t want to see their children go astray, but they are even more unwilling to see their children become decadent, aimless, and waste their lives.

Now that the crooked path Xu Chun has taken has a hint of hope, even though it is somewhat suspicious and not recognized by himself, his father is willing to let him try.

The purpose of the final match was to remind him: remember to hold awe for reality, as virtual and real are different after all.

At the same time, Xu’s father sighed privately: Before long, when people talk about Randall again, it might not be about the centuries-old saber techniques anymore.

People will subconsciously think that Xu Chun’s saber techniques are the orthodox Randall.

And the real orthodox will become a tributary.

Xu Chun didn’t think about these things for the time being. He began to pack up excitedly, book tickets, and plan to go to Xiajing City.

—To his promised land!

As for what to do in Xiajing City, there was no need to think about it.

Coach, teacher, internet celebrity, professional player?

Dismiss immediately!

Xu Chun couldn’t wait to call Lincoln, and if there was a chance, of course, he would go to Cloud Dream!

The moment he decided to spread his saber techniques in the virtual world, it was destined for him to go to the center of the virtual world—Cloud Dream!

Cloud Dream, no second choice!

When the mobile phone rang, Lincoln was sitting in a nightclub watching the excitement.

The whole place had become restless, with loud music, flashing lights, and young men and women twisting their bodies passionately on the dance floor.

Dog had been sent to the security team’s car by Yue Pengju to avoid being frightened by the excessive noise of the night scene.

Xu Qiuyun sent away her best friend and returned to the nightclub, watching Lincoln.

In her words, “If you get taken advantage of after being filled with alcohol, it’s quite troublesome. I don’t feel good about explaining it to the princess.”

Lincoln just rolled his eyes.

Xu Qiuyun even asked him strangely, “You don’t seem like a stingy person, why don’t you want to open a private room and just stay here? Look, the salespeople are too lazy to deal with you.”

After hearing this, Lincoln felt like his eyes were rolling to the back of his head, and he was even more unwilling to deal with her.

Who cares if the salespeople don’t come to make small talk?

Moreover, many attractive, fashionable, and daring young ladies were sitting in the scattered seats around, waiting for men to invite them to their private rooms.

Lincoln enjoyed a passive feast for the eyes.

Xu Qiuyun didn’t mind, and she pointed out boldly, “Look at that, you should like this style, right?”

Lincoln looked over and saw a girl who was conservatively dressed but with a hint of temptation and had a seemingly innocent makeup.

“This is… the legendary pure desire style?” He guessed.

“Wrong,” Xu Qiuyun shook her head, “This is called ‘The first time my friends dragged me to the nightclub and I’m scared, can someone protect me?’

“???” Lincoln was full of question marks in his mind. What?

“So don’t be fooled,” Xu Qiuyun advised.

Lincoln found that today’s Xu Qiuyun was completely different from the one he met at school. She had little student innocence, and her attitude towards him was more of an old friend who had entered society rather than a classmate.

However, it was almost no difference, as everyone was about to graduate. Lincoln couldn’t help but think.

Just as he felt that he had experienced enough of the scattered seats and was about to use Xu Qiuyun’s card to collect some private room sensory data, his mobile phone suddenly lit up.

A text message appeared:

“Lin, are you drinking at a bar? Can I come to play with you?”

Lincoln was immediately taken aback, what’s going on? How did Camille Victoria know that I’m at a bar now?

He looked suspiciously at Xu Qiuyun, “Monitor, you didn’t send the news about me coming here to the class group, did you?

“Do I look like the gossiping type?” Xu Qiuyun was unhappy.

Lincoln became even more confused, “It can’t be that she has other friends here, and not only saw me but also specifically informed her, can it? That would be too ridiculous, right?”

But the actual situation was even more ridiculous than he could imagine— He made it to the hot searches again!