Martial Saint!
Chapter 132 - 0121 Seventh Rank Qi-Blood_2

Chapter 132: 0121 Seventh Rank Qi-Blood_2

Lu Chenzhou set a modest goal for himself in his heart.

Before turning 18, he aimed to join the top 500!

...

March 10th.

On this day, the class teacher, who had always been as elusive as a "Divine Dragon," finally asked Lu Chenzhou to visit him at his residence in villa number 11 of the villa area, where he grew something common like fruits and vegetables and had some flowerpots containing medicinal herbs.

"Stone Bowl, Liuwu Grass, Bai Lingzi..."

Lu Chenzhou took this opportunity to review the "Martial Arts Inner Scripture."

"Young man, come in."

Lu Chenzhou looked toward the door at the sound.

"Qingtian Cang, senior?"

The man in front of him had white hair but a youthful face, and his eyes were as sharp as an eagle’s.

It was Li Shoukun, Ji Xuantong’s teacher.

"Come in."

"I had no idea our class teacher was you, senior... Master didn’t mention it."

"He doesn’t know either. The teachers of the talent class must keep a low profile to prevent certain hostile forces from specifically studying my capabilities to facilitate your assassination."

"I see."

Qingtian Cang invited Lu Chenzhou to sit down and smiled,

"Not bad, breaking into Seventh Rank just a month after enrolling. Have you grasped the Hua Realm yet?"

"Not yet, but soon."

"You’ve been in the Ranks for only a year and a half and have already broken through to Seven straightaway. It’s normal to struggle to keep up with martial arts skills due to the rapid advancement in Qi-Blood. According to the judge’s committee’s expectations of you, it would be sufficient to reach Ninth Rank in four years to remain in the talent class. Are you confident?"

"Yes!"

Qingtian Cang smiled and said,

"Good. You are Ji Xuantong’s disciple, which makes you my grand-disciple. I intended to give you a welcoming gift, but given my position as the class teacher, it wouldn’t be appropriate. A little disparity is better than unfairness. I am not skilled in Tiger Form, so I cannot teach you Fist Techniques, but if you have any basic questions about Fist Theory, feel free to come and see me privately."

"Thank you, senior."

Qingtian Cang said seriously,

"The talent class will soon have training for new students. Make sure you’re prepared in advance. Training can be dangerous; you may assist the police in dealing with the vicious Black Knights or Cultists. The training grade adds a significant bonus to the Hidden Dragon List. During this period, professionals from the Su City police will train you all."

"Teacher, would it be convenient to tell me the training location?"

"It would not."

Lu Chenzhou didn’t ask any further. He guessed that to prevent dark forces from assassinating talented individuals during training, top-level Martial Arts Universities kept such training confidential. Announcing the training loudly might indeed lure and catch criminals, but it wouldn’t be responsible for the safety of the talented.

...

Villa number 32.

"Dad, how much do we have in our savings?"

Lu Chenzhou walked in and asked Lu Guoping, who had just finished practicing his punches.

Lu Guoping checked his phone.

"Let me see... it’s a little over 1.4 million."

"In fixed deposit?"

"Initially, I converted it all to a checking account to buy your medicine, so there’s not much interest."

"Then lend me a million."

"All right, but what do you need it for?"

"I want to buy a protection suit, one that is bulletproof and can ward off void attacks."

"Okay, I’ll transfer it to you right now."

[Your account ending in 9527 has received a transfer of 1.35 million, balance: 4.4 million.]

"Thanks, Dad. I’ll pay you back soon; I only need a million."

"You can just use it; it’s meant for you anyway."

Living on campus, the couple had very few expenses.

Lu Chenzhou returned to his bedroom, muttering to himself,

"I have enough Martial Arts Supplements for another five months; there’s no need to keep these savings. The 39 Great Merits will suffice for a while, but now I am short by 600 thousand..."

Earning six hundred thousand in two months would be difficult.

He needed to ensure time for Martial Arts Cultivation at this stage and did not want to take on missions.

Teaching Fist Technique privately would only make a small amount of money.

"I’ll have to borrow money."

Lu Chenzhou thought it over and decided to find Qin Zheng. Knowing Ji Xuantong’s character, he would definitely offer it for free, and Lu Chenzhou didn’t want to always be asking for money.

He dialed Qin Zheng’s number and asked in a low voice,

"Qin Zheng, I’ve run into a bit of an emergency recently, could I borrow six hundred thousand?"

Today was an off day, and Qin Zheng obviously had just woken up.

"Six hundred thousand? I’ll have to ask my dad."

"Thanks a lot, I’ll write up an IOU."

Before long, Lu Chenzhou’s phone received a message.

[Your account ending in 9527 has received a deposit of 600,000, balance 5,000,000.]

Qin Zheng said,

"Just use it as needed, my dad said you can pay it back whenever you have the money."

"Alright, I’ll pay back this along with the money for the gloves."

"No, that’s a separate thing, the gloves were a gift."

Qin Zheng was too kind... Lu Chenzhou would never forget this good brother.

Before hanging up, Qin Zheng said,

"Chenzhou, let’s get together for a meal and meet up when you’re free."

"Sure."

Lu Chenzhou quickly placed an order for a protection suit worth five million, and his balance went back to zero.

Frankly, his heart was bleeding.

A suite in the Inner City.

Gone, just like that.

The delivery of a five-million-item is really fast. That evening, Lu Chenzhou arrived at the school’s delivery room and received the heavily safeguarded package. Back at the villa’s bedroom, he opened the package to find a dark cyan Void Protection Suit.

The protection suit came in a two-piece set, a jacket and pants.

"It’s so thin, almost like thermal underwear... This kind of protection suit can only prevent bullets from penetrating, but can’t defend against the impact force, can it?"

Lu Chenzhou had his doubts and placed the suit on a wooden dummy. He grabbed a kitchen knife and violently chopped it towards the chest. The moment the blade made contact with the soft fabric, the material of the protection suit instantly tensed up in response to the force.

Thud!

The kitchen knife seemed to have hit a metal sheet and was deflected. He checked the spot that was cut, there was a slight indent which was rapidly restoring itself to the normal fabric material.

"What an amazing material, no wonder it costs five million."

Lu Chenzhou applied Dark Force with a palm strike on the clothing. A significant portion of the force was dissipated, with the remaining energy striking the wooden dummy, causing it to shake uncontrollably.

"Even Dark Force can be buffered to some extent?"

He tried the protection suit on, finding it very close-fitting and stretchy, encased in a sense of being wrapped in soft water, with waves of warmth nourishing his body in the sharp winter chill.

"This is the power of technology."

Lu Chenzhou practiced a set of Black Tiger Fist wearing the protection suit, feeling no sense of restraint at all, just like wearing loose training clothes. It could definitely be worn under the training clothes, so he didn’t have to take off the protection suit except for showering and competing.

"With this suit, low-tier Hard Qi Gong really isn’t much use, for a martial artist, this protection suit is enough... No wonder Hard Qi Gong is gradually being phased out by the times. But I still need to practice it, as a protection suit will always be external, true strength is rooted in the body."

Hard Qi Gong had almost always put Lu Chenzhou in an unbeatable position when fighting within the same realm and it had saved his life on several occasions. With the Martial Arts Tree, he believed Hard Qi Gong had great potential.

He tried light blows to the crotch area and realized that before the suit could harden to protect, the crotch area still suffered a significant impact, offering little protection to vital parts.

No choice, that area is simply too exposed...

In many Hard Qi Gong methods, the crotch area is a known weak point.

"It seems I still need to practice ’Iron Crotch Skill’."

...

Time flew by.

Before you knew it, it was March 31st. Inside the villa’s Martial Arts Room, Lu Chenzhou savored the exhilarating sensation of breaking through in his martial arts, looking at the healthy Martial Arts Tree that now stood six feet tall.

[Sea-sweeping Body: Great Success (100%) → Perfection]

A constant flow of mysterious power surged from the acupoint into his lower body and throughout, a subtle power allowed his bones, while maintaining the hardness of Tiger Form, to gain a touch of agility, and his muscles became more slender and smooth, even more flawless.

Faintly, he could hear the sound of waves crashing against the shore and swarms of swallows flying, and Lu Chenzhou himself almost seemed to transform into a free-swimming swallow, riding the winds and breaking the waves across the vast ocean!

"Sea-sweeping Body," perfected!

Since this movement technique was a secondary discipline, he hadn’t spent as much time on the Flying Swallow Sea Flying routine and, without the occasional stroke of inspiration, it took him over a year to achieve perfection. Compared to the eight months it took for "Mountain Crossing Body," it was indeed much slower, but his progress still far exceeded that of his high school classmates who practiced Swallow Form Body Technique.

A flower representing "Sea-sweeping Body" on the tree’s branch fully bloomed and then faded instantly, leaving behind a faint blue-glossy white fruit. As the seed fell, it turned into a stream of light that vanished into the newly opened Shaochong Acupoint.

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