[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-becoming-a-saint-through-physical-cultivation-st":3,"chapter-becoming-a-saint-through-physical-cultivation-st-starting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-chapter-5":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starting with the Diamond Exercise to Achieve Sagehood Through the Physical Body",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2125578,3478,"Chapter 5","starting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-chapter-5",5,"\u003Cp>The Huang family’s bone checking ended. Out of nearly two hundred youths, exactly ten were left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The best bone structure was the Yi-Upper youth, the only one with an Yi-grade bone structure. The second was Bing-Upper, also only one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang’s Bing-Lower bone structure ranked third, but he wasn’t the only one; there were three youths with Bing-Lower, and the remaining five were all Ding-Upper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The master who checked the bones left directly, and a big shot from the Huang family appeared again—the Second Master of the Huang family, the younger brother of the family head—Huang Ping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Congratulations to all the talents for standing out…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Ping looked kind and first congratulated everyone selected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, he talked about the Huang family’s cultivation plan for everyone, giving different levels of support based on different bone structure grades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The highest was the Yi-Upper youth, a boy named Lu Ren, with a monthly cultivation cost of eight taels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, it wasn’t given as cash, but in the form of apprenticeship fees, food, medicinal soups, etc.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bing-Upper got four taels a month, and Xu Yang’s Bing-Lower got three taels a month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Excluding the apprenticeship fee paid to the school, his meal standard at the school was one tael of silver per month, which allowed for meat at all three meals and three bowls of body-strengthening soup per month—exactly one tael of silver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, the Huang family sending them to practice martial arts meant the apprenticeship fee was lower than if they went to sign up themselves—just one tael of silver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Ding-Upper, there was only two taels of support. Besides the one tael for the apprenticeship fee, the remaining one tael was for food, with no medicinal soup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Ping said a lot, talking about the requirement to become a Huang family retainer after becoming a martial artist, and also about the retaliation from the Huang family if they went back on their word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spoke for a quarter of an hour until his mouth was dry before finishing. Not a single person withdrew; everyone accepted the conditions of being cultivated by the Huang family and becoming their retainers in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Ping left, and the middle-aged man who had appeared with Zhou Shunchang earlier appeared again, immediately wanting to take everyone to the martial arts school to start training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fifth Master, please wait a moment. I have a few words for my nephew.” Zhou Shunchang pointed at Xu Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone then realized that this middle-aged man was also from the Huang family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This Bing-Lower kid is your nephew?” Huang Jin looked surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Shunchang held his head high: “My own nephew!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Jin smiled: “So it’s one of our own. That’s really not bad.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of Zhou Shunchang’s relationship, he showed goodwill toward Xu Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Shunchang ran to Xu Yang’s side. There wasn’t much to say, really; he just stuffed one tael of silver into Xu Yang’s hand and urged him to practice hard and not waste this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ten of them soon followed Huang Jin out of the Huang family courtyard and arrived in front of a large courtyard, from which came bursts of shouting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s actually the Weiyuan Hall!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang looked at the three gilded characters above the courtyard and couldn’t help but feel a sense of realization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his original plan, he had intended to come to Weiyuan Hall to apprentice after getting the money, because it was the cheapest of the dozen or so martial arts schools in Qingyuan County. He hadn’t expected the Huang family to choose Weiyuan Hall as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Huang family probably chose Weiyuan Hall because it was cheap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following Huang Jin inside, the first thing that caught his eye was a huge training ground, equipped with all kinds of training gear: stone locks, swords, plum blossom stakes, etc.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A dozen or so sturdy youths were practicing punches, their bronze-colored skin looking as if it had been oiled, sweat pouring down like rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a plum blossom stake not far away, a man in a white training suit saw the group appear and jumped down, landing without a sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Greetings, Fifth Master Huang!” He walked over quickly and cupped his hands at Huang Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You all wait here quietly. I’m going in to see Master Lin.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Jin left this sentence and walked away with the man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I can finally practice martial arts!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I must become a martial artist.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With no Huang family members around, the group of selected youths could no longer suppress the excitement in their hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, although some had decent families, they weren’t much better off than Xu Yang, who dug for food in the dirt; otherwise, they wouldn’t have had to \"sell themselves\" to the Huang family to get the chance to train.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being able to train naturally made them excited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everyone, whether at Weiyuan Hall or the Huang family, from now on we are brothers eating from the same pot. We should work together.” Luo Dehu was in high spirits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s how it should be!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That goes without saying. As long as one’s brain isn’t broken, everyone understands that there is strength in unity.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he spoke, several people immediately echoed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was Bing-Lower, ranking in the third tier, so his words carried considerable weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang watched coldly, not echoing him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He and Xu Laoer weren’t even of one mind despite being father and son, let alone these ten people who were meeting for the first time today. Eating from the same pot didn’t mean they were of the same mind; even fellow travelers couldn’t be relied upon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were a few others who, like him, didn’t speak. They clearly didn’t think much of this alliance; they weren’t eating from the same pot—they would be competitors in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Huang family couldn’t support their training forever. In the future, some would be eliminated, and some resources would be reallocated to more talented people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Huang Ping hadn’t explicitly stated this before, he had hinted at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Lu, your bone structure is the best. You will lead us to serve the Huang family in the future. Why don’t you say a word about whether everyone should unite?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Dehu saw that Xu Yang and the others didn’t respond, but he didn’t care; instead, he looked at Lu Ren, who had the Yi-Upper bone structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ren was his target, and he only wanted to unite with Lu Ren.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others might not know what an Yi-Upper bone structure meant, but he knew it too well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of bone structure, in a city of hundreds of thousands like Qingyuan, might not appear in a year. He was a true genius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Naturally… naturally we should unite.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ren’s face flushed red, and he was still a bit shy and inferior. Judging by the patched clothes he had been wearing earlier, his family conditions should be very poor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, things were a bit different now. After his Yi-Upper bone structure was discovered, the Huang family had already changed him into a fine cotton suit, revealing the image of a young genius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Haha… everyone heard Brother Lu’s words. Now, let’s each state our names so we can get to know each other.” Luo Dehu laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This guy had the potential of a lackey, already showing signs of \"relying on the powerful to bully others,\" and started giving orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll go first. My name is Luo Dehu!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spoke first, but before the next person could speak, a curse came from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you want to bark like a dog, get out and bark. Don’t disturb our training here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice was loud, and he had been jumping around incessantly, finally drawing the dissatisfaction of those practicing nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang almost couldn’t help but laugh, and the others were also holding it in uncomfortably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Dehu’s face flushed red, but he was too afraid to talk back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a sycophant who knew how to climb the social ladder, so he naturally knew that those practicing at Weiyuan Hall were all \"young masters\" whose families could afford the fees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they weren’t young masters, they had started training early, and he couldn’t afford to offend them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at Lu Ren for help, but Lu Ren, though coerced by him, wasn’t a fool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Huang Jin walked over with a burly, dignified-looking middle-aged man, resolving his embarrassment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This middle-aged man was none other than the master of Weiyuan Hall, Lin Cheng!\u003C\u002Fp>",1427,"2026-06-16T11:21:15.023Z","2026-06-16T12:23:14.066Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","1a1cdfcf1fd824d8873af42e089ef02a1e7a654918428f97060e85700332c267","starting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-chapter-6","starting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-chapter-4",410,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-cover.jpg"]