Martial Saint!
Chapter 100 - 0090 Breakthrough Fifth enters Sixth

Chapter 100: 0090 Breakthrough Fifth enters Sixth

"Thank you, teacher."

Lu Chenzhou hung up the phone and looked at the Martial Arts Tree.

Tiger Supreme Fist: Mastery (99%)

The Tiger Supreme Fist was on the verge of a breakthrough, which was the foundation of his confidence at the Sixth Rank.

"Time to sleep, tomorrow I’ll test it out at Tiger Garden."

He took out the treasured Bright God No. 1 Medicine. He was confident he could break through this month, but to be safer and strive to be stronger before the exchange competition, it was time to take the medicine.

Mainly because if he waited any longer, it would expire...

Reality isn’t a novel; there’s no such thing as exploring ancient ruins and finding millennia-old medicines that are still usable. All medicines have an effective time limit.

October 17th, a day off.

Tiger Garden.

Lu Chenzhou drank the Bright God Medicine and only felt a surge of energy rush straight to his crown.

Lu Chenzhou exhaled a breath of stale air and immediately got into position to practice his punches.

Bang!

With a punch, the air exploded, and without pausing, he continued the sequence of moves, transforming into a ferocious tiger whose strikes made the void of the Tiger Garden crackle and snap.

Wherever he passed, the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves, and not a speck of dust touched his body.

After two rounds, Lu Chenzhou felt distinctly different; his thoughts were crystal clear, and it seemed as if hundreds of little men were practicing the fist technique before his eyes.

"The efficiency has increased; the Bright God Medicine really has something special."

Lu Chenzhou couldn’t afford to waste the medicine worth a hundred thousand.

Time passed.

Lu Chenzhou became more engrossed, no longer caring about whether the Martial Arts Tree would bring him a moment of inspiration; he just kept practicing his punches, confident he would achieve the state he needed.

The medicinal effect was continuous. Lu Chenzhou, without realizing it, had been practicing for four hours straight, feeling exhilarated until a sense of clarity swept through his body, as if puncturing a layer of paper. Lu Chenzhou couldn’t help but let out a long howl. Inside the acupoints he had opened, a mysterious power nourished every cell in his body, strengthening his physique once more; his bones hummed like a sword, and his internal organs rumbled like engines.

"I should be at the Sixth Rank now."

Lu Chenzhou extended his Tiger Claw, and Dark Force erupted, piercing the strange pine tree where he practiced. The bark shattered, and he forcibly gouged several holes in the trunk.

"If this were to grip a person..."

Lu Chenzhou repressed the ferocity of the Tiger Form and lay down to rest.

He looked at Tiger Brother, who also looked back at him.

"It’s been great, but I’m about to leave."

Lu Chenzhou felt a bit reluctant to part with Tiger Brother.

"Roar."

Tiger Brother let out a low growl.

You can go now, Tiger Master.

Learning my roar every day here, annoying to death!

Lu Chenzhou rested for an hour on the earth and sky, his strength almost fully recovered. He felt some remaining medicinal effect and, thinking of the hundred thousand price tag, couldn’t resist practicing Swallow Return Fist, his auxiliary fist technique, which was not far from great success. Secondary Martial Arts only offered him a minor increase in Qi-Blood Value; Lu Chenzhou primarily needed Swallow Form to complement Tiger Form and incidentally to refine a new Divine Seed.

After several rounds, Lu Chenzhou felt his Swallow Return Fist was exceptionally on point today. When he looked at the Martial Arts Tree, his gaze sharpened—the leaves of Swallow Return Fist glimmered.

"Did inspiration strike unexpectedly?"

For a long time, Lu Chenzhou’s moments of inspiration had always been with Tiger Form Fist; he felt it might be because his personality resembled that of a tiger. He hadn’t held out much hope for Swallow Form.

He was overjoyed, his fatigue swept away.

Swallow Return Fist: Small Success (94%) → Small Success (95%)

Swallow Return Fist: Great Success (2%) → Great Success (3%)

Alert after alert kept popping up.

The Swallow Return Fist smoothly breached the barrier and achieved Great Success today!

Lu Chenzhou bent his legs slightly, and the agile strength in his muscles and bones suddenly exploded and rebounded. Without needing a run-up or a major bend in the legs, he easily jumped two meters high. He laughed heartily and took advantage of the momentum to display his already Great Success Level Sea-Sweeping Body, shooting up like a home swallow into the sky, leaping onto the odd pine, and flitting and sweeping through the branches as if even a long-armed ape would look inferior and be forced to exclaim in terror.

The same Dark Force, but Tiger Form Dark Force and Swallow Form Dark Force were distinctly different—one overpoweringly forceful, easily igniting and exploding, the other agile and light, floating almost like a fairy bird.

After the excitement subsided, Lu Chenzhou landed on the ground.

"I’m not just an ordinary tiger now, I’m a Swallow Winged Tiger... Swallow Form combined with Tiger Form, as if adding wings to a tiger, should be not much inferior to Crane Forms."

Tiger Swallow Dual Forms had great potential.

Lu Chenzhou looked toward the sun; before he knew it, he had been practicing punches from dawn until afternoon. Now, the medicine was nearly drained, and his stomach began to growl.

"Time to eat and then get some good rest. Breaking through in two fist techniques today, I’ve more than completed my assignment. Tonight, I’ll just practice Heavenly Pile Cultivation and no more punches."

Lu Chenzhou decided to reward himself with a day off.

Measurement Room.

After eating, an energetic Lu Chenzhou finished practicing Basic Boxing.

"Qi Blood Value 3.18, congratulations, you have reached the Sixth Rank standard!"

The pleasant voice entered Lu Chenzhou’s mind, and he let out a long sigh of relief.

"Sixth Rank, awesome!"

The Qi-Blood standard for the Sixth Rank was 2.98, and Lu Chenzhou had already exceeded it.

At this point in his training, he had reached the Late Stage of the Dark Force Realm. What came next was to continue polishing his Fist Technique until he grasped the most important Martial Arts skill before breaking free from shackles: Hua Realm!

The standard for Seventh Rank was 3.58.

Once "Tiger Supreme Fist" reached Great Success, naturally, he would achieve it.

Lu Chenzhou walked out of the training room feeling as if the sky was high and the sea was vast.

After a moment of thought, he headed towards Yu Zheng’s office.

...

"What? You’ve reached Sixth Rank already?"

Yu Zheng, who had just finished Heavenly Pile Cultivation, showed a surprised expression. He thought that Lu Chenzhou might reach Sixth Rank only before the winter exams; it took him three months to reach Fifth Rank, after all.

This speed was somewhat terrifying.

Lu Chenzhou’s eyes sparkled with anticipation as he asked,

"Teacher, there’s no problem with me getting Class A in the winter exams, right?"

Yu Zheng smiled and said,

"That’s definitely stable."

Suddenly, he asked,

"Chenzhou, have you reached Great Success with ’Tiger Supreme Fist’?"

Usually, one could only hope to reach Sixth Rank Qi-Blood with "Tiger Supreme Fist" at Great Success.

"No, just Small Success."

Yu Zheng suddenly realized:

"Then it must be a breakthrough in the Fist Technique you’ve been cross training."

"Yes, my ’Swallow Return Fist’ has also reached Great Success, ’Arhat Skill’ has just been mastered yesterday, and there are two movement techniques at Great Success Level, so I’ve broken through to Sixth Rank earlier."

Yu Zheng only knew Lu Chenzhou practiced a variety of Martial Arts, but he did not expect that while maintaining a pace of one Acupoint a month, the young man had also brought his cross-training Martial Arts to Great Success.

He couldn’t even imagine the effort behind it, and the boy’s talent was certainly not simple. Among Class A Martial Arts talents, he was superior. Once he reached university, he would have the potential to compete for the even higher Special Martial Arts talents.

"Wait, you’ve mastered ’Arhat Skill’ as well?"

Yu Zheng suddenly came to his senses, revealing a slightly shocked expression. He lifted Lu Chenzhou’s shirt, exposing muscles emitting a faint dark cyan sheen, like that of an Arhat statue.

Yu Zheng reached out and gently tapped.

Thud, thud, thud...

The sound was dull, as if striking greenstone.

"The body contains a cyan glow, the color like greenstone, indeed it is Stone Buddha Arhat Body!"

Yu Zheng murmured to himself. He clearly remembered that Lu Chenzhou started learning Hard Qigong in June. In just four months, he mastered a Second Class Hard Qigong to the point of disbelief. This was a cross-training prodigy, Class A talent was just his starting point.

He collected himself, stood up, and patted Lu Chenzhou on the shoulder, congratulating him:

"Enjoy your last few months of high school. Once the winter exams are over, you’ll have to say goodbye to your classmates and skip ahead to Dragon City Martial Arts University."

A smile of uncontrollable joy appeared on Lu Chenzhou’s face.

"Alright, thank you, Teacher!"

University, here I come, Lu Chenzhou!

...

Dormitory.

Lu Chenzhou shared the news of reaching Sixth Rank with his master and parents, but no one else for the time being. Times have changed, and he was now considered a Martial Arts genius, a thorn in the side of some antisocial elements. He needed to showcase his talent to the school and authorities as much as possible; against the malice of criminal forces, he had to learn to hide his skill to catch them by surprise and beat them with an unexpected move.

Over the phone, Ji Xuantong did not hide his laughter.

"It’s stable, who else but you for the Hundred School Tournament!"

"That’s an overstatement, Teacher, I’ll aim for the top three."

Lu Chenzhou was still very conservative.

Ji Xuantong knew his character was just so steady and humble.

He laughed and said,

"Top three is good, your bonus is ready!"

"Thank you, Master!"

Lu Chenzhou wasn’t being pretentious.

To him, Ji Xuantong was family, a foster father!

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