Chapter 5: I Have High Hopes for You (Thanks to the Silver Alliance of 'Wandering Desperate Gamble'!)

The setting sun slants, and the campus is shrouded in golden afterglow.

Groups of students, wearing uniform school uniforms and martial arts uniforms, walk out of the classroom, crowding and walking towards the cafeteria, with laughter all the way.

Li Yuan and Wan Xiao walk out of the senior year teaching building, bypass a large flower bed, and enter the office building.

At the end of the corridor on the left of the first floor is Xu Bo's office.

It is called an office, but it is actually a martial arts room with an astonishing floor area.

"Report."

"Report." The two arrive at the door. Li Yuan scans the room and estimates that this martial arts room already exceeds five hundred square meters.

This is his second time here.

Instruments like the life blood-qi detector and fist strength test field are all placed here, and they are clearly more advanced.

On one side of the wall, there are cold weapons such as spears, staffs, and axes, most of which are unsharpened.

But there are also sharpened cold weapons.

Li Yuan even glimpses a separate bathroom and physical therapy room at the end of the office.

"Li Yuan, this is the real martial arts cultivation room. Ranked martial artists can cultivate here with peace of mind," Wan Xiao whispers from the side, his eyes filled with envy: "My family's cultivation room is less than one hundred square meters, not even one-fifth the size of Teacher Xu's here, and there's no specialized physical therapy room."

"If I want physical therapy for my body on weekdays, I have to have my dad drive me to the Martial Arts Hall, which is very troublesome."

Li Yuan doesn't speak.

Physical therapy room? His family doesn't even have a separate cultivation room.

As for going to the Martial Arts Hall? He doesn't have the money for that.

As far as Li Yuan knows, a martial arts room like the one in front of him, occupying several hundred square meters, costs at least ten million Blue Star coins just for the renovation.

The price of rough-cast housing in Jiangcheng, in slightly better locations, can exceed twenty thousand Blue Star coins per square meter.

According to Li Yuan's estimation, the martial arts room in front of him is worth at least twenty million Blue Star coins.

What is the average monthly salary in Jiangcheng? Li Yuan remembers seeing it in the news not long ago; it should be 11,342 Blue Star coins.

The median income is even lower.

"You two come in." Teacher Xu Bo stands in the center of the martial arts room. He is like an iron tower, especially that metal right arm, which is full of deterrence.

Xu Bo's aura is more restrained than it was in the classroom just now.

But in the dark, it gives people a more dangerous feeling.

"Teacher." Li Yuan and Wan Xiao are very well-behaved.

"Wan Xiao, I have already submitted your transfer application. It should be approved before six o'clock tonight. After approval, you go directly to the elite class to report tomorrow," Xu Bo looks at Wan Xiao.

Wan Xiao's nickname is "Bear," and he is burly, but he looks small in front of Xu Bo.

"So fast?" Wan Xiao is caught off guard.

"Don't worry, I'm not driving you away," Xu Bo says coldly, but with great patience: "Awakening spiritual nature means you can practice high-level cultivation methods, and the cultivation efficiency far exceeds basic cultivation methods."

"With the college entrance exam getting closer, you awakened martial arts spiritual nature very late. Entering the elite class early might give you an extra point in the college entrance exam."

Xu Bo continues: "After the application is approved, the introductory chapter that suits you, which you tried in the test just now, will be sent to your school account. I remember you have a cultivation room at home, so don't go to self-study tonight, go home and try practicing one by one."

"After reporting tomorrow, the teacher in the elite class will teach you one-on-one until you have completely learned it," Xu Bo says.

"Thank you, Teacher." Wan Xiao says gratefully.

He already understands that Xu Bo is not driving him away, but is seriously considering it for him.

"Go." Xu Bo waves his hand.

Wan Xiao bows and turns to leave.

"Li Yuan." Xu Bo looks at Li Yuan again, a hint of curiosity flashing in his eyes: "Your spear technique and footwork should have both reached the third stage."

Third stage? Li Yuan is stunned.

In daily high school teaching, there is no such thing as first, second, or third stage.

There are only skill scores.

"Oh, I forgot." Xu Bo sees Li Yuan's expression and reacts: "This is the way ranked martial artists speak. Then let me change the question: Have you reached the Gold rank on the Starry Sky Combat Network?" "I just reached it half a month ago," Li Yuan says.

Blue Star and even the seven planets have virtual networks covering their respective planets, with a simulation realism exceeding 70%, and the most popular game on the virtual network is the "Starry Sky Combat Network."

"The Starry Sky Combat Network is very special; it's not just a simple game." Xu Bo looks at Li Yuan: "It mainly tests a person's martial arts skills and is also very good for training people."

Li Yuan can't help but nod.

The reason why the Starry Sky Combat Network is prevalent and promoted by the entire Seven-Star Alliance on every planet is inseparable from its huge promoting effect on reality.

"Being able to stand firm at the Gold rank shows that your spear technique and footwork should have reached the third stage," Xu Bo says: "At your age, being able to reach this level in martial arts skills is very good."

Li Yuan laughs: "It's because the teacher taught me well."

Xu Bo rarely squeezes out a smile on his cold face.

"Your physical fitness is also improving very fast." Xu Bo looks at him with curiosity: "Can you tell the teacher the reason?"

He is indeed curious.

"I just practice normally," Li Yuan shakes his head: "Teacher should know my family background; I can't afford those special medicines."

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"Don't worry, the teacher isn't suspecting you of using forbidden drugs that stimulate life potential," Xu Bo says.

In this era, there are some special treasures that can rapidly improve physical fitness, but most of them overdraw life potential and encourage growth by pulling up the seedlings.

After using them, there will be serious sequelae; at best, strength will be hard to improve, and at worst, one will have a short life.

Decades ago, when the martial arts college entrance exam first started, many students used them privately, hoping to get into a good university.

Later, as the rules of the martial arts college entrance exam were perfected, these types of drugs and medicinal liquids were listed as forbidden drugs and cannot be produced or used at will.

Before the college entrance exam, various instruments will be used to conduct comprehensive tests on students.

"Normal practice has this kind of progress? Very good!" Xu Bo rarely shows a smile: "I have high hopes for you to become a martial artist."

"High hopes for me?" Li Yuan is stunned.

Since the other party took over as class teacher, he has indeed been valued.

But it was limited to a teacher's emphasis on a good student.

High hopes for him to become a martial artist? This is the first time Teacher Xu has said this.

Becoming a martial artist is too difficult!

"Teacher, I haven't awakened martial arts spiritual nature yet," Li Yuan can't help but say.

"Is spiritual nature awakening very important?" Xu Bo asks back.

Li Yuan is puzzled. Isn't it important?

"It is very important," Xu Bo says to himself: "But in a sense, it is also not important."

Li Yuan is even more puzzled.

"What is martial arts spiritual nature? In essence, it is the degree of compatibility with the seven high-level cultivation methods," Xu Bo says: "Only with a compatibility rate exceeding ninety percent can one practice high-level cultivation methods in advance, which will make the physical fitness improvement efficiency a big step higher." Xu Bo says: "Then, the hope of becoming a powerful martial artist will greatly increase."

"This is the reason why the Seven-Star Alliance attaches great importance to martial arts spiritual nature."

"Including the top five universities in the country, they also prefer students who have awakened martial arts spiritual nature for this reason."

"After all, practicing high-level cultivation methods early makes it more likely to become a ranked martial artist, and the younger one becomes a martial artist, the greater the hope of achieving great success."

Li Yuan can't help but nod.

When young, blood-qi is vigorous, and martial arts cultivation breakthrough is easier.

"Martial arts cultivation is a magical evolution of life." Xu Bo has a light in his eyes: "In fact, we humans still know very little about life cultivation. Whether it is the seven basic cultivation methods or the seven high-level cultivation methods... they have all been gradually summarized by many high-level martial artists of the Seven-Star Alliance over hundreds of years."

"More than eighty years ago, during the first martial arts college entrance exam, the Seven-Star Alliance only announced three high-level cultivation methods."

Li Yuan's eyes light up.

Many messages that Teacher Xu Bo said, he didn't know very well before.

"The purpose of all cultivation methods is to promote life evolution, causing our physical fitness to continuously improve." Xu Bo looks at Li Yuan: "And you, only practicing basic cultivation methods, without any precious resources, your physical fitness improvement speed is faster than most students in the elite class."

"What does this explain?"

"Your true talent is very high." Xu Bo sighs slightly: "It's just that you are not compatible with any of the seven high-level cultivation methods."

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