[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-era-of-high-martial-arts":3,"chapter-era-of-high-martial-arts-era-of-high-martial-arts-chapter-6":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","High Martial Arts Era",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2215623,3909,"Chapter 6: Martial Arts is a Bottomless Pit","era-of-high-martial-arts-chapter-6",6,"\u003Cp>\"Could it be that my talent is very high?\" Li Yuan's pupils shrink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He can't help but think of the note at the end of the Divine Palace panel: \"There is some kind of unawakened higher spiritual nature hidden in the body.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan believes in the Divine Palace panel's detection; it has never been wrong in the past year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It should be more reliable than Teacher Xu Bo's speculation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The messages Teacher Xu Bo said today also gave Li Yuan more ideas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, although Li Yuan had searched many times on the virtual network, he was limited by his authorization and couldn't find many messages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My talent is high? I possess the Mind Divine Palace; perhaps this is also a kind of talent.\" Li Yuan thinks to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past hundred years, many cultivation methods have been gradually opened, and with the development of technology, a large number of martial artists have been born in human civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And those peerless martial artists who can fly to the sky and escape the earth, and even survive nuclear explosions, which of their growth experiences is not full of legends?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan doesn't think the Mind Divine Palace he possesses is an exception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Teacher, what should I do?\" Li Yuan asks actively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is very smart. Since Teacher Xu Bo took the initiative to call him over, it definitely wasn't just to encourage him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Persevere.\" Xu Bo looks at Li Yuan. He originally wanted to say \"follow the established routine,\" but changed the word when it reached his lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Li Yuan's surprised expression, Xu Bo continues: \"Your improvement speed is already very fast. Don't be too anxious about not awakening martial arts spiritual nature. With your grades, it's easy to get into a martial arts university.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"With normal practice, at most two or three years, your physical fitness should reach 10.0.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once you become a ranked martial artist, high-level cultivation methods will no longer be your shackles.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Perhaps, in the future, you can create a high-level cultivation method exclusive to yourself.\" Xu Bo laughs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Create a cultivation method?\" Li Yuan can't help but say: \"Can I?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haha, what's 'can' or 'cannot'?\" Xu Bo laughs: \"How old are you? Young, there are infinite possibilities.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even the founders of the three major Martial Arts Halls, when they were young, who knew they could achieve that kind of success?\" Xu Bo smiles and looks at Li Yuan: \"Or do you not even have the ambition to surpass me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My physical fitness is only Level 19.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan holds his breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since Xu Bo became their martial arts head teacher, he has always used the other party as his goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only now does he know the other party's strength; his physical fitness is as high as Level 19.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder he is a special-grade martial arts teacher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's talk about something practical.\" Xu Bo looks at Li Yuan: \"Although you haven't awakened martial arts spiritual nature, your physical fitness and martial arts skills are both quite good. Combined with your family situation... I will apply to the school to grant you a third-class scholarship.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Third-class scholarship?\" Li Yuan's eyes light up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Martial arts cultivation is very resource-intensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, for students with excellent martial arts grades, from the first year of high school, the state will issue various bonuses and subsidies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guanshan District No. 1 High School, as a key provincial high school, receives more state funds than ordinary high schools.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every large-scale unified exam, the top hundred in martial arts scores in the grade will receive extra rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Top fifty, a reward of 2,000 Blue Star coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Top thirty, a reward of 5,000 Blue Star coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The top twenty will receive two more portions of basic blood-qi medicinal liquid on top of the top thirty rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The top ten in the grade will receive a separate martial arts cultivation room on top of the top twenty rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The above are exam rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scholarships are even more special; they are based on grades combined with family background, and one needs a teacher's recommendation to have hope of getting one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very few people get scholarships.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have made significant progress, but your martial arts score is only in the top thirty in the grade. If you want to apply for a second-class scholarship or higher, the difficulty is relatively large,\" Xu Bo says: \"But there is still hope for a third-class scholarship. Of course, even if the application is approved, the money isn't much, just 20,000 yuan. Don't dislike it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you, Teacher.\" Li Yuan is infinitely grateful in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>20,000 yuan? It's worth two months of his aunt's salary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The total scholarship he has received since entering high school is less than 20,000.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Teacher, is there anything you want me to do?\" Li Yuan asks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nothing for you to do, just practice diligently and get a good score,\" Xu Bo waves his hand: \"Go eat. Once the application is approved, I will give you the news.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\" Li Yuan leaves, and when he exits the door, he closes it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Li Yuan leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This kid, does he think I want benefits?\" Xu Bo laughs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, his brows furrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The iron tower-like man now reveals a look of pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Need to take medicine again?\" Xu Bo endures the pain and walks towards the physical therapy room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking out of the office building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good.\" Li Yuan can't help but clench his fists, unable to suppress the joy in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before entering the office, he guessed there was good news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn't expect it to be this good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Teacher Xu didn't mention these things before because my grades were okay, but he didn't think I was excellent enough?\" Li Yuan thinks to himself: \"Today's performance, is it good enough?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan has read many books.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In some stories, many seniors like to promote juniors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the premise is that the junior is worth promoting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If one is not diligent enough, not excellent enough, then even if one encounters an opportunity, one will miss it,\" Li Yuan thinks to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should I send a message to the family group?\" This thought just surfaced in Li Yuan's mind, and he immediately suppressed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hoo!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A breeze blows by, making Li Yuan even calmer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No rush.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Teacher Xu is a special-grade teacher, but he is not school management. Even if it's approved, it will take time,\" Li Yuan thinks: \"If it's not approved, it's just a waste of joy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Better to wait until the scholarship is actually received before telling my aunt and uncle.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, this matter cannot be told to other classmates either,\" Li Yuan has already thought it through: \"Teacher Xu called me alone and let Wan Xiao leave first; he shouldn't want others to know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If the school wants to promote it, wait until the school announces it later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Past experiences, plus some books he has read, make Li Yuan understand that \"things are achieved by secrecy and failed by leakage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don't go around proclaiming things that haven't landed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go eat first.\" Li Yuan's heart returns to calm, and he runs towards the cafeteria.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guanshan District No. 1 High School has over six thousand students, so the cafeteria is very large.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan just enters the cafeteria gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Yuan, over here.\" Zhou Qi is already squatting in the distance, greeting him, with Wan Xiao, Yan Zhou, and more than ten other boys, occupying two large tables and eating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan smiles and walks over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boys in the class like to gather to eat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Yuan, your two portions of nutritional meals.\" Zhou Qi eats while pushing the two specially made meal boxes to Li Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who swiped the card? Yan Zhou?\" Li Yuan asks with a smile while sitting down to eat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I said I would pay it back.\" Yan Zhou laughs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The breakfast I brought you a few times was just hot dry noodles and egg soy milk, totaling less than fifty yuan,\" Li Yuan shakes his head: \"My two portions of nutritional meals cost one hundred and fifty.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the many boys present, the prices of the food they eat vary greatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like the ordinary two-meat-two-vegetable, three-meat-two-vegetable, a meal costs less than twenty yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Qi, Yan Zhou, and the others eat this kind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they go to academic classes at night and won't have strenuous exercise, their physical energy consumption is relatively low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Li Yuan, who still has high-intensity martial arts practice at night, eating ordinary food is not enough. In the long run, it will cause blood-qi deficiency in the body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He must eat the cafeteria's special nutritional meals, but the price is much higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One portion costs seventy-five yuan, and Li Yuan eats two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be precise, Li Yuan's normal three meals a day cost nearly three hundred yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eight thousand Blue Star coins a month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is still far from enough to support Li Yuan's normal practice; he occasionally has to eat various expensive blood-qi medicinal liquids and supplements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If physical therapy is added, the monthly expenditure is an astonishing number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is because Li Yuan is a student and can always practice in the school's martial arts classroom, where various cold weapons for training, sandbags, and fields for practicing spear techniques are all complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The effect is not as good as a separate martial arts cultivation room, but the school's martial arts classroom is free.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one goes to a regular martial arts hall in society? The rent is calculated by the hour, and ordinary families cannot afford it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Martial arts is a bottomless pit; this is no empty talk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is also the reason why Li Yuan longs to get into the top five universities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because his martial arts cultivation so far has already made it very difficult for his aunt and uncle to continue supporting him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking out of the cafeteria.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Yuan, we're going to the academic building, see you tomorrow.\" Zhou Qi and Yan Zhou say to Li Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good.\" Li Yuan nods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Students of this era, from the first year of high school, study academic courses every morning and practice martial arts in the afternoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At night? Students choose for themselves, depending on which path they want to take.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are only twenty-nine martial arts universities in the entire Xia Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And there are over a thousand academic universities nationwide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one takes the martial arts university entrance exam, the total academic score will be converted, accounting for 10%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one takes the academic course path, the martial arts score will be converted, accounting for 30% of the total score.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although one will only decide whether to take the martial arts or academic path when filling out the application, most students have a focus from the first year of high school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan returns to the martial arts classroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking around, there are less than ten people left in the classroom, empty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some students in Senior Year (Class 2) choose to focus on academic courses, which is also the choice of the vast majority of students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wanting to get into a martial arts university is indeed difficult.\" Li Yuan thinks to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiangbei Province has over a million college entrance exam candidates every year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only martial arts university, \"Jiangbei Martial Arts University,\" recruits less than ten thousand students every year, accounting for less than 1% of all candidates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guanshan District No. 1 High School, as a key provincial high school, has less than a hundred students admitted to martial arts universities every year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky is not yet dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ten or so people in the classroom are mostly chatting with each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Martial arts practice at night has no teacher supervision and relies entirely on self-discipline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Li Tianyou.\" Li Yuan's gaze falls on the figure in the corner of the classroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A boy about 1.8 meters tall, with a slightly thin face, wearing a martial arts uniform, silent, practicing basic cultivation methods very seriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not affected by the chatting of others at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the sweat on his forehead, it can be seen that he has been practicing for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So hardworking!\" Li Yuan sighs: \"As expected of the class's number one grind-king.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He doesn't disturb others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan takes out his long spear from his weapon cabinet, chooses a bright spot in the classroom, and begins his spear technique practice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why not practice basic cultivation methods?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Li Yuan gets up at three o'clock every day and comes to school to practice basic cultivation methods alone in the empty martial arts classroom for more than two hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he goes to the cafeteria for breakfast before six o'clock and goes to the academic classroom for self-study.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the afternoon, he practices cultivation methods for two hours with everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daily cultivation methods are divided into two to three times, and four hours is the best, which is the result of repeated experiments by many martial arts experts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life evolution, the tempering, recovery, and growth of body muscles and bones, all take time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too much is as bad as too little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan can use the remaining time to ponder spear techniques and footwork.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two hours later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The school bell rings across the campus. The students in the classroom have long since left one after another. Except for Li Yuan who is still practicing spear techniques, only Li Tianyou is still practicing saber techniques.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Li Yuan's field of vision, a message that only he can see suddenly pops up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Your spear technique realm has improved from Third Stage 36% to Third Stage 37%】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 7 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",2276,"2026-06-17T09:05:55.599Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","4e05196eb33f5f5725e1f520862e15a88386a28e56840521e18984cfc38c21bb","era-of-high-martial-arts-chapter-7","era-of-high-martial-arts-chapter-5",833,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhigh-martial-arts-era-cover.jpg"]