Martial Saint!
Chapter 280 - 0195 I am the Pride of Heaven! (4k for monthly ticket and subscription)_2

Chapter 280: 0195 I am the Pride of Heaven! (4k for monthly ticket and subscription)_2

...

The privileged rights of the Heavenly Chosen were numerous and generous, spanning over a dozen points.

"The first one is incredibly useful to me."

Lu Chenzhou had been worried that if he wanted to stack Divine Seeds in the future, practicing so many types of martial arts would cost him Great Merit to take masters. Now, as long as it involves a teacher from Dragon City Martial Arts University, he could freely acquire common martial arts knowledge.

Other privileges like True Skills, Divine Weapons, and Great Medicines were also very useful. To prevent students from reaping without sowing, even the Heavenly Chosen couldn’t acquire resources for free.

In this regard, there was no difference from regular students.

The only difference was that the Heavenly Chosen had higher access.

Any martial arts or Great Medicine could be purchased if one had the money.

Regular students, even if they had the money, were not eligible to buy.

"Hidden Weapon Pavilion..."

This was something Lu Chenzhou had never even heard of.

He logged into the dark web using his account.

[Welcome to the Hidden Weapon Pavilion]

[The Hidden Weapon Pavilion is a school secret. Please do not disclose any information found within, violators will have their Heavenly Chosen status revoked, be expelled, and severely guilty will be transferred to judicial authorities.]

The screen changed, and images of Divine Weapons appeared.

Lu Chenzhou casually browsed through a few images, his gaze stopping on one.

It was a pitch-black long spear, scarred all over, engraved with a hanging-eyed white-fronted tiger, surrounded by continuously flowing patterns of clouds and mist.

[Tiger Gall·Long Spear]

[Length: Ten feet]

[Weight: 223 pounds]

[Forging Material: Outer Heaven Mysterious Iron, Exotic Tiger Bone, White Mica...]

[Quality: Low Grade (Master Level Divine Weapon)]

[Divine Properties: Can enhance aura and courage, capture ghosts to serve, temper with demon blood, shock enemy’s mind.]

[Origin: Old World "Tiger King Valley" Divine Weapon, handed down over 1700 years, nurtured by nine generations of disciples, destroyed at the end of the Feudal Dynasty. The spear was obtained by Ling Kong Shangren and passed down to disciples, the previous owner was Martial Arts Master "Cloud Piercing Spear·Yang Jian," who returned the spear to the Hidden Weapon Pavilion before his natural death.

This spear, using Exotic Tiger Bone, possibly from ancient powerful mutant beasts, although the residual will of its previous owners has been polished away, its use is not recommended for non-martial artists.]

[Price: 50,000 Great Merit, 20,000 Great Merit refundable if returned unusable.]

Lu Chenzhou was stunned.

"What a spear, possessing so many divine properties."

Among cold weapons, aside from using Fist Blades that accompany fist techniques, Lu Chenzhou’s truly favored Soldier Attack Skill was actually spear skill, as the saying goes, ’an inch longer, an inch stronger’.

The spear, the king of all weapons!

If one masters spear skills, one has a definite advantage in cold weapons combat.

In Elephant Form Martial Arts, Dragon Form, and Snake Form, spear skills were often favored.

With Tiger Form, the premiere martial arts is "White Tiger Breaking Army Spear."

Of course, with Tiger Form, sabers are more common.

For example, the famous "Five Tigers Life-cutting Saber."

"So this is what a Divine Weapon is."

Lu Chenzhou had only heard of the power of Divine Weapons before. The material of Divine Weapons might not compare to modern high-tech Alloy Void Blades, but because they are nurtured over long periods, forged with Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, or even Great Void carcasses, over years and years, mysterious divine properties are born, unmatched by Void Blades.

Therefore, top powerhouses like to use Divine Weapons.

For example, Principal Wang, who carries three Divine Weapons.

Lu Chenzhou briefly glanced at the others.

[Divine Weapon·Jiao Slayer Sword, Middle Grade Grandmaster Divine Weapon, old treasure of "Great River Gang", handed down over 2000 years... Price: 200,000 Great Merit.]

[Divine Weapon Ice Phoenix Sky Frost Sword, High Grade Great Grandmaster Divine Weapon, old treasure of "Xiao Ji Night Palace", handed down over 3000 years... Price: 1,430,000 Great Merit.]

Lu Chenzhou noted, generally, the longer the hand-down period, the stronger the forger, and the better materials used, the higher the quality of the Divine Weapon, and the more outrageous the price.

"If you think about it, it’s not expensive... These are not for sale, each piece is unique, otherwise just any low-grade Divine Weapon would cause an uproar in Da Xia, attracting countless people, and someone would surely buy it for 100 billion."

Moreover, these Divine Weapons are also antiques.

Not to mention, Divine Weapons inherently possess immense power.

If not for his status as Heavenly Chosen, he wouldn’t even qualify to see such Divine Weapons.

He counted, the entire Hidden Weapon Pavilion held only 36 Divine Weapons.

These were all the Divine Weapons accumulated by Dragon City as a Top Martial Arts University.

The vast majority were low-grade, with very few middle-grade ones.

There were only three high-grade ones, namely [Ice Phoenix Sky Frost Sword], [Ten Directions All Destruction Spear], and [White Bone Netherworld Blade], each priced over a million Great Merit, with the most expensive being Ten Directions All Destruction, valued at 2 million Great Merit. As for anything above high-grade...

Sorry, there were none.

The current Divine Weapon system peaked at Great Grandmaster Divine Weapons.

After all, the Martial Arts Kings were a modern phenomenon, the strong of those times are largely still alive, even if they forged Divine Weapons, they used them for themselves. And because they are relatively newly nourished, their power and divine properties might not compare with ancient Great Grandmaster Divine Weapons.

Hence, even top powerhouses bound by Breakthrough Six and Breakthrough Seven rarely use Divine Weapons; their own bodies are as swords, spears, sabers, free and at ease. Whether or not they wield cold weapons, it doesn’t matter much. Of course, if more powerful high-tech Divine Weapons appear in the future, these powerhouses would likely be happy to use them.

Closing the Hidden Weapon Pavilion, Lu Chenzhou mused:

"Better save up, Mountain Lord will last me a long time... Besides, if I keep using it, one day, Mountain Lord will become the supreme Divine Weapon."

...

A week later.

The Martial Arts college entrance exam had ended.

That day, after finishing his cultivation, Lu Chenzhou looked at the Fangshan High School group chat.

[Liu Huan: Hahaha, I got accepted into Class 2.]

[Yuan Zhigang: Me too, Class 2.]

[Tiger Teeth Girl: Damn, I’m in Class 3!]

[Wen Tiange: No worries, I’m also in Class 3.]

[Yuan Zhigang: Then I’ll transfer to Class 3 as well, it doesn’t make much of a difference anyway.]

[Tiger Teeth Girl: Don’t, just stay in Class 2, no need to accompany me.]

[Liu Huan: Geez... you two just show off.]

[Liu Quanhai: Just asking timidly, is anyone in Class 4?]

Lu Chenzhou took a look around.

All of his familiar friends had passed into Dragon City Martial Arts University.

He hadn’t chatted in the group for a long time and typed:

[Welcome, old classmates!]

Everyone jokingly replied:

[Lu Top Scorer! We’ll come to join you soon, wait for us!]

Lu Chenzhou messaged Wang Gang next.

[How’s it going?]

Wang Gang replied quickly:

[Buddy, I won’t let you down. I’ve entered the "Star Group," an experimental class at Galaxy Martial University, where we have specific Hard Qigong instructors to teach us, you know, the cross-training vibe at Galaxy is top-notch.]

Lu Chenzhou breathed a sigh of relief.

[That’s great, how’s your Vajra Palm coming along?]

Wang Gang sent a photo of his glowing hand.

[Hehehe, how about that, the color’s just right, huh? I’ve reached Perfection!]

[Right on...]

[How about you? Let me see your Golden Body, you must have beginner level by now?]

[Let’s not dishearten you.]

[How about your Iron Crotch Skill? I’ve been feeling a bit frisky lately... this cultivation technique really boosts virility, Chenzhou, are you still a virgin? I’m certainly not.]

[...]

Typical Wang Gang, always leaving Lu Chenzhou speechless.

Finally, Lu Chenzhou messaged Du to say hello.

[Lu Chenzhou: How did it go, did the exams go smoothly?]

[Du: Brother Lu, I’ve reached Fifth Rank and got into Class 2 at Pingjiang Martial Arts University, thanks for your concern. I heard you’re now the top scorer at Dragon City, truly happy for you.]

[Lu Chenzhou: Keep it up, and let me know if you face any difficulties.]

[Du: You’re about to become a Martial Artist yourself, right?]

[Lu Chenzhou: Yeah.]

On the other end of the phone, Du went silent.

Perhaps Lu Chenzhou was like a Martial Immortal descended to the mundane world to play among mortals?

The moment of sudden realization unlocked his golden shackles, only then did he know that he was the chosen one!

...

Mid-August.

Liu Huan and the others made a grand entrance with drums and gongs to Dragon City Martial Arts University.

This time during the Martial Arts college entrance exam, Dragon City had admitted a hundred people.

The size of the regular classes continued to expand and increase.

But for the genius class, it remained just their 8 people.

Geniuses, too few.

Not to mention, other schools were also covetously watching; as a branch, Su City Dragon Martial didn’t attract as much as the main campuses in Yangtze River Delta’s Jiangnan Wu University and Magic City Martial Arts University.

Lu Chenzhou had a simple meal with his old classmates and then showed them around the university, Liu Huan and the top scorer walking proudly arm in arm.

That day.

Practice Room.

Within Lu Chenzhou’s Dantian, an invisible Qi spread, transforming into a swirling misty sea of clouds, on which a Golden Tiger with Innate Strength lay, enlarging slightly.

The Qi Sea leisurely rotated, the Golden Tiger swimming along joyously, enjoying this feeling. Using the Dantian as home and the Qi Sea as bed was the way to nurture Innate Strength.

"Dantian Qi Sea, completed."