Chapter 113: Years of Cultivation, Real Combat Approaches (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Virtual network, Martial Arts Knowledge Network space.

"Can I choose so many secret manuals?" Li Yuan looked at the massive number of secret manuals he could learn.

"Sure enough, anyone who attends a martial arts university can get a large amount of cultivation resources distributed by the country for free," Li Yuan sighed inwardly.

Outside, if one wanted to buy a Second-Rank secret manual, it cost at least one million Blue Star coins.

Even in the Starfire Martial Hall, it cost one million cultivation points.

In university? Learn for free.

"Let me take a look." Li Yuan clicked randomly, and he saw massive amounts of secret manuals quickly turning into individual books.

Their exteriors shimmered with light.

Secret manuals are mainly divided into four categories: techniques, source force, spirit, and body.

But Li Yuan had communicated with Teacher Li Yang and already had some understanding.

Source force manuals and body manuals are only cultivated by Second-Rank Source Martial Artists.

Himself now? Just choose some spear technique manuals to cultivate and comprehend techniques.

Spiritual manuals? To cultivate them, one must wait until spiritual force reaches Level 20.

"Technique manuals." Li Yuan clicked, and the surrounding secret manual light screens flashed again.

What was presented were spear technique manuals, saber technique manuals, sword technique manuals... manuals for all eighteen types of weapons were available, and they were all at least Second-Rank.

"Are these secret manuals all created by generations of human martial artists over hundreds of years?" Li Yuan was secretly shocked. "Many secret manuals were contributed to the martial arts library for free by powerful martial artists."

Some secret manuals were free, while others required payment.

However, for Li Yuan, there was no difference; even if payment was required, it was within the S-level free quota.

It was equivalent to Kunlun Martial Arts University helping him pay.

"Although I have a quota of 50 secret manuals, Teacher said that being greedy for too much will lead to indigestion," Li Yuan thought to himself. "For now, choosing four spear technique manuals is enough."

Li Yang had already listed the spear technique manuals Li Yuan needed to cultivate next.

"'Cloud-Governing Spear Technique,' 'True Flame Spear Technique,' 'Meteor Spear Technique,' 'Gold-Splitting Spear Technique.'" Li Yuan clicked quickly to check the numbers and names.

There were many accumulated secret manuals, so many names were the same, just with different numbers.

Confirm purchase!

"Freshman 'Li Yuan,' your free learning quota for Second-Rank secret manuals has decreased by 4, with 46 remaining," the system voice sounded. "The newly purchased technique manuals have been issued to your personal space."

"Reminder again!"

"Secret manuals are only allowed for your personal comprehension and learning; private dissemination is strictly prohibited. Once discovered, it will be severely punished," the system voice said.

Li Yuan smiled, not paying too much attention.

"Start cultivating." Li Yuan's mind moved, returning to his personal space, and he began to learn the four newly acquired spear technique manuals.

First, learn the "Cloud-Governing Spear Technique."

Li Yuan was clear about the purpose of Teacher Li Yang letting him learn spear techniques.

If the technique was only at the second or third stage, pondering one Second-Rank spear technique was enough; at this time, specialization was the most important.

Learning too much would instead easily confuse his own spear technique core, doing more harm than good.

If one reached the fourth stage, especially like Li Yuan who had already stepped into the fourth-stage mid-tier, in ancient times, they would be called a "Spear Technique Master," enough to establish a sect.

Having gradually clarified his own path, he needed to start "merging the strengths of a hundred schools."

He needed to learn more spear techniques to integrate into himself.

"According to Teacher, when his spear technique broke through to the fifth stage, he learned more than thirty Second-Rank spear technique manuals," Li Yuan thought to himself. "Absorbing the essence, only then was he able to achieve Heaven-Human Unity and step into the fifth stage."

Heaven-Human Unity? Too profound.

Li Yuan didn't quite understand it yet.

But there were successful paths summarized by generations of predecessors, and Li Yuan just needed to follow them step by step.

Shortcuts? Many things that look like shortcuts actually lead to cliffs at the end.

When Li Yuan began to learn the new spear technique, in the residential area belonging to the students of the Third Academy.

In one of the villas, the lights were bright.

In the underground martial arts room of nearly a thousand square meters, the floor and four walls here were all cast from special materials capable of withstanding the wanton explosion of a Level 19 martial artist without being destroyed.

At this moment, a capable young man wearing a black martial arts suit was holding a battle saber, cultivating saber techniques.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!" Saber lights flashed one after another. The young man in black moved like lightning, displaying incredibly terrifying saber lights, agile and dreamy, making people's hearts tremble.

His casual instantaneous explosions were all over 50 meters/second, forming terrifying afterimages in this narrow space.

When he was cultivating seriously.

Suddenly.

"Beep~ Master, Long Ya is calling you," the voice of the auxiliary AI sounded in the martial arts room.

Swish!

The young man in black stopped, and the wisps of saber light that had filled the entire martial arts room gradually dissipated.

Just now, he was pondering his own self-created saber technique.

"Answer," the young man in black said in a low voice.

Hum~

Light condensed, forming a video projection in front of the young man in black, and a woman wearing a white martial arts suit appeared in the video.

"Xiao Ya," the young man in black smiled. "Anything up?"

"Senior Brother Jin, do you know about Li Yuan's matter this afternoon?" The white-clad woman, Long Ya, had a trace of urgency on her face.

"Li Yuan?" The young man in black was stunned. "The one who surpassed me in the enrollment competition yesterday?"

"That's right," Long Ya said immediately.

"What happened this afternoon?" The young man in black smiled, very composed. His appearance couldn't be called handsome, but he had a square face, giving people a sense of justice and security.

He was Jin Huguo, the number one genius of Kunlun Martial Arts University.

He was also a martial arts genius who was quite famous within the Xia Nation.

Just having entered his junior year, his techniques had already reached the level of subtlety, and his physical fitness had reached Level 19.

"This afternoon, at the Pillar of Spirit in the Zhu Que Building," the white-clad woman stared at Jin Huguo. "Dean Li Yang took Li Yuan there. On his first attempt, Li Yuan rushed to the fifth area and stayed for several minutes, and even retreated calmly."

"Oh? The fifth area? Has his spiritual force reached the level of a Source Martial Artist?" Jin Huguo's eyes flashed with a trace of surprise. "He is only a freshman; even if his physical fitness is full marks, it's at most just over Level 10 now."

"This junior is indeed powerful," Jin Huguo sighed. "Perhaps, he will be much more powerful than me in the future."

With his strength and vision, he knew very well what Li Yuan's techniques and spiritual force meant.

There were infinite possibilities in the future.

"Senior Brother, are you not concerned at all?" The white-clad woman looked at Jin Huguo's appearance and couldn't help but say.

"Concerned about what? It's a good thing that this year can have one more genius junior," Jin Huguo smiled. "I'm worried instead that he is so dazzling just after enrollment, and without a competitor, he might lose himself and fall."

"This Li Yuan is so powerful; perhaps he will threaten your status in the school," the white-clad woman finally said bluntly.

Jin Huguo looked at the white-clad woman's appearance and wanted to laugh.

"Xiao Ya, why did you ask such a stupid question?" Jin Huguo shook his head. "Not to mention he is a freshman and I am a junior, there is no direct competition."

"Even if there is competition, so what?" Jin Huguo was very indifferent. "It's just competition within the school."

"Number one genius of Kunlun Martial Arts University? Is the title very loud? Is it useful?"

The white-clad woman was stunned.

Is it not useful?

"Since the establishment of Starfire University and Starry Sky University, our Kunlun Martial Arts University has been sinking for decades," Jin Huguo shook his head. "In last year's Global University Martial Arts Competition, only I rushed into the global top 100 in virtual combat."

"In real combat, there wasn't even one who obtained the qualification to participate. How ugly is that?" Jin Huguo shook his head.

"Senior Brother, you can't blame yourself for this," the white-clad woman said immediately. "Last year, you rushed into the top 100 in virtual combat as a sophomore, suppressing most junior students of the three major prestigious schools; that was already dazzling enough."

"Real combat competition? Among the five major prestigious schools in our Xia Nation, only two were able to participate in the main competition of the Global University Martial Arts Competition last year, and they were eliminated in the first round."

"You will definitely be able to participate in real combat in the upcoming session, and you have the possibility of rushing into the top twenty," the white-clad woman said with admiration. "That would be creating history."

Jin Huguo smiled. Top twenty?

How difficult; he could only say there was some hope.

"Not to mention that our human civilization needs more and stronger martial artists."

"Just talking about the present," Jin Huguo smiled. "If this Li Yuan is powerful enough to perform brilliantly in the Global University Martial Arts Competition and strike up the prestige of our Kunlun Martial Arts University, I will only admire him."

"As for any status in the school, it's all floating clouds."

"It's not like I'm competing to be the principal; I'll graduate sooner or later," Jin Huguo smiled. "Looking at it from another angle, previously, the school leaders placed all their bets on me alone, and I was under a lot of pressure."

"Being able to have one more person to share the pressure, why not?"

Long Ya opened her mouth but didn't speak.

She could see that Jin Huguo really didn't care.

"In a sense, I even think one Li Yuan is too few," Jin Huguo shook his head. "If every year there could be twenty or thirty Li Yuans like this, then our Kunlun Martial Arts University might be able to regain its glory and become the number one martial arts university on Blue Star again."

Long Ya couldn't help but smile.

Number one martial arts university on Blue Star? That was history from fifty years ago.

After hanging up the video.

"Li Yuan?" Jin Huguo muttered twice, smiled, and continued to ponder his saber technique.

The night of July 4th.

Including Li Yuan, the nineteen elite disciples under Li Yang gathered at "Yan He's" villa.

The villa was very large, more than enough for a banquet for dozens of people.

After the welcome ceremony ended.

"Junior Brother, do you really not have a girlfriend?" Senior Sister Shi Xiao held a red wine glass and said with a smile.

"Senior Sister."

"I just want to focus on martial arts," Li Yuan smiled. He had already sensed the senior sister's thoughts.

He even probed the senior sister's life layer: Level 15.8.

Very fierce.

Li Yuan understood in his heart that powerful martial artists have abundant energy, and they mostly believe in themselves rather than others.

Therefore, their views in many aspects are completely different from ordinary people.

Unfortunately, not to mention that Li Yuan was not interested.

Even if he were interested, it would be useless; he had just endured a "bathing" service of Body-Washing Spirit Marrow during the day and had to rest well when he went back.

After this welcome banquet.

The turmoil since enrollment completely returned to calm. In a sense, Li Yuan's university martial arts career officially kicked off.

In the general education class taken by students of the six academies together.

"Why are there requirements for your cultural courses during the college entrance examination?" As a Source Martial Artist, the general education teacher's voice was sonorous. "Martial artists are not brutes with brute force, but should use their brains."

"Life evolution is not just the development of muscles and the explosion of source force, but more importantly, the evolution of the brain."

"The entire human civilization, the entire country, needs you to become the most brilliant group of pioneers on the path of evolution for human civilization," the teacher's gaze was sharp, sweeping over every student. "You must know what you are fighting for and who you are fighting for."

"Next, I will talk about modern martial arts history."

"In the oldest era, our seven planets did not know about each other."

"Two thousand years ago, the Star Bridge appeared, and the six major planets, including our Blue Star, were able to quickly cross the starry sky through the Star Bridge to reach Flying Star, only then discovering each other's existence."

"Although they are in different starry skies, the seven major planets are all human, which is very strange. The appearance of the Star Bridge is also very mysterious; there have been many speculations, and it remains a mystery to this day."

"And Flying Star is the most mysterious and largest planet among the seven major planets."

"Since then, the Star Bridge Era has been opened. Later, this year was also set as the first year of the Seven Star Calendar."

"This starry sky was also named 'Seven Star Sea' by us," the general education teacher recounted.

Li Yuan, An Nong, Gu Qianghan, and the others were not listening very seriously.

Because these were all common knowledge.

Most of them were recounted in middle school textbooks.

"1420, the Star Bridge collapsed, evolving into the six major star realms, which were also the initial six major star realms," the teacher continued. "But through the star realms, we could still reach Flying Star."

"Cosmic source force appeared since then, and the life on the seven major planets generally became more powerful... Now the dawn of martial arts has appeared."

"But it wasn't until 1609 that our human civilization gave birth to the first Source Martial Artist," the teacher said. "From that time on, we were clear that source force, besides being in heavenly treasures, also exists in the universe's starry sky and heaven and earth."

"Since then, martial arts have risen, and human civilization has truly begun life evolution."

"By 1724, human civilization gave birth to the first Flying Heaven martial artist..."

"1746, the first star realm appeared on Tianhai Star, and a large number of star realm creatures killed their way out, causing more than 30 million deaths. It was the joint effort of many planets that finally completely suppressed the entrance of this star realm."

"That was the beginning of the nightmare."

"Then came the second star realm, the third star realm... At that time, only Tier-One and Tier-Two star realms appeared, and no Flying Heaven-level star realm creatures had appeared yet."

"Seven Star Calendar 1766, the first Tier-Three star realm appeared on Flying Star," the teacher's voice was low, and corresponding information appeared on the classroom light screen.

"Fire Demon, the first Flying Heaven-level alien race to appear, ravaged for over ten thousand kilometers, slaughtering more than eight million humans, and was finally killed by the joint efforts of several Flying Heaven martial artists."

"Then the second, the third... A ten-year star realm war, the entire Flying Star almost fell, and human deaths exceeded six billion!" The teacher's voice even revealed a trace of sorrow.

Even though hundreds of years had passed.

Even though this great catastrophe happened on the distant Flying Star, Blue Star did not suffer such a heavy blow.

But Li Yuan, An Nong, and the others still felt their hearts tremble and were shocked.

More than six billion human deaths? The human race on the entire Flying Star was almost wiped out.

How many humans are there on Blue Star today? Just over ten billion.

"Until 1782."

"Our human civilization gave birth to the first great existence surpassing the Flying Heaven level, 'Lante'," the teacher's voice suddenly rose. "Officially starting the great counterattack."

The teacher recounted many secrets that were not mentioned in middle school textbooks.

Making Li Yuan, An Nong, and the others couldn't help but prick up their ears and listen carefully.

"Ten years of war, under Lante's leadership, basically quelled the chaos."

"The First Star Realm War ended just like that."

"1820," the teacher continued to recount. "After a long four-hundred-year dark night of martial arts, the first universal high-level cultivation method of human civilization, 'Southern Underworld Ten Thousand Waters Scripture,' was finally born."

"Our human civilization's martial artists began to emerge like bamboo shoots after a spring rain."

Li Yuan sighed inwardly.

Half of the history of human civilization is a history of martial arts.

The history that followed.

Li Yuan basically knew that more and more high-level cultivation methods were born, and the entire human civilization became increasingly prosperous.

1920, a second "Star Realm War" broke out on Flying Star, and alien races surpassing the Flying Heaven level appeared.

But!

Dongfang Ji from Blue Star emerged, and with absolute dominance and martial force, swept everything away.

I don't know how many Flying Heaven-level and surpassing Flying Heaven-level star realm creatures fell into his hands.

It also allowed him to officially surpass Lante and become the recognized number one powerhouse of human civilization.

Later on.

Dongfang Ji established the Starfire Martial Hall, implemented the Seven Star Alliance, which was originally nominal, truly overriding the countries of the seven major planets, and promoted the ten-year "Seven Star Alliance Progress Movement."

Seven Star Calendar 1954, the martial arts college entrance examination was officially launched and deepened into various countries.

In the past hundred years, the entire human civilization has entered rapid development, nuclear weapons, various technological weapons have emerged... Under the unified deployment of the alliance, there has never been any overly tragic chaos.

1962, Starfire University, Starry Sky University, and Black Stone University simultaneously established branch schools on the seven major planets.

Unified recruitment and cultivation of the most top-tier geniuses.

2009, the virtual network was born, sweeping the entire human civilization, raising the speed of human civilization discovering martial arts geniuses to another major level.

While Li Yuan was thinking and recalling.

"That's all for today's class, class dismissed," the teacher said in a low voice.

Black Dragon Building, inside the real combat martial arts room.

"Clang!"

"Clang!" "Clang!" Li Yuan was engaged in an incredibly fierce real combat with Teacher Jiang Lun.

"Too weak!"

"You clearly have Fourth-Stage Mid-Tier spear technique, why can't you bring it out?"

"Aren't you a genius? How dare you call yourself a genius when you're this trash?"

"Are you angry? Furious? If you have the ability, hit me!" Jiang Lun berated Li Yuan, his roar echoing through the classroom.

He was completely devoid of the gentleness he showed during their first meeting.

"The mind must align with every part of the body, sensing every ounce of force in the long spear."

"Remember, every single ounce!"

"I scold you, and your heart becomes unstable? Your mindset is too poor, you still need to practice!"

"I tell you to kneel, you kneel; I tell you to crawl, you crawl! Why? Because your spear technique isn't strong enough."

"Because you are weak."

"Weakness is the original sin. When you fight Star Realm creatures, there are no geniuses, only the strong and the weak. A dead genius is just a pile of meat paste to be devoured!"

"Practice for me." Jiang Lun was like a tyrant, crazily tormenting Li Yuan.

But Li Yuan had to admit that sparring with him was indeed the fastest way to improve.

Even his inner heart was enduring one violent storm after another.

"The mind, from the inside out."

"First, sense the whole body."

"What is the Unity of Heaven and Man? Heaven refers to nature, and Man refers to oneself." Li Yang was tutoring Li Yuan privately: "When your skills reach the level of subtlety, you perfectly control every ounce of your own strength."

"That is when you can reach upward to sense the Heaven and Earth."

"Human strength is limited, while the power of Heaven and Earth is infinite. Only by mobilizing the power of Heaven and Earth can you make your body strong to an unimaginable degree, running beyond the speed of sound, collapsing a building with one punch... every casual outburst is hundreds of tons of punching force."

"And even... flying through the sky and burrowing into the earth."

Inside the martial arts room, in the physical therapy room.

He wiped the Body-Cleansing Spirit Marrow all over his body.

"Ah!" Li Yuan's whole body trembled in pain, his face flushed red, and the veins on his head bulged as if they were about to burst.

His muscles twitched, and his body felt as if billions of steel needles were being driven into his fingers.

This was pain that reached deep into the bone marrow.

With Li Yuan's terrifyingly strong willpower, he was still in extreme pain, his muscle fibers jumping and twisting.

If an ordinary martial artist were to endure this kind of pain, it is entirely possible they would be tortured to death.

Finally.

Li Yuan endured it with extreme difficulty; a thin layer of fine, slightly black impurities emerged on his skin.

"This month, the fifth time, finally endured it." Li Yuan muttered to himself, and he drank the portion of 'High-Yuan Spirit Spring' placed beside him with great difficulty.

Lying on the ground, unwilling to move at all, he fell into a deep sleep.

"Hum~"

The effect of the Spirit Spring took hold, and waves of powerful Yuan Force rushed crazily to every part of his body—tendons, bones, muscles, internal organs, and even blood... every part of his body was like a glutton, devouring the Yuan Force hungrily and strengthening itself.

Kunlun Martial Arts University provided Li Yuan with what could be called the best, all-around cultivation environment.

Li Yuan was growing crazily at a shocking speed—skills, actual combat, physical fitness, spiritual power... all-around progress.

This kind of progress made teachers like Li Yang and Jiang Lun marvel.

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of July.

"A raw jade indeed!"

"Tempered into steel, he is becoming stronger and stronger." Li Yang sighed with emotion: "Teacher Jiang, he was actually able to endure your tyrant-style training method."

"Haha, through my training, when he experiences life-and-death battles in the future, his probability of death will be much smaller." Jiang Lun said proudly: "Calm during battle, how do you stay calm?"

"If you haven't experienced enough, you can be calm with your mouth, but you can't be calm in your heart..." Jiang Lun prepared for another long-winded speech.

"Stop!"

"If you keep talking, I'll beat you up." Li Yang glared, and Jiang Lun immediately shut his mouth.

"You're the Dean, you're awesome. I can't afford to provoke you, can't I just leave?"

After seeing Jiang Lun off, inside the office.

"With Li Yuan's current strength?" Li Yang looked at the various combat scenes of Li Yuan on the light screen: "Still doing the actual combat assessment with the freshmen?"

"No! There's no challenge at all."

"Go to the Fourth Base." Li Yang made his decision.

Kunlun Martial Arts University has a total of five actual combat assessment bases.

The Star Realm creatures at the First Base are the weakest, and those at the Fifth Base are the strongest.

Which base a student goes to for assessment is not determined by their grade, but by their strength.

The Fourth Base? Under normal circumstances, it is prepared for third-year students.

July 29th, inside Villa No. 61032.

"Hmm?"

"My actual combat assessment base is the Fourth Base?" Li Yuan looked at the message on his smart ring, feeling slightly surprised.

He clicked to view the specific intelligence.

"Fourth Base, Star Realm creature level, generally 13, reaching up to 14?" Li Yuan subconsciously glanced at his God Palace panel.

——

【Life Layer: 11.3 (First Rank)】

Punching Force: 2250 kg

Speed: 27.1 m/s

Spiritual Power: 18.4

Spiritual Awakening Degree: 12.8% (Current cap 20%)

Skill Realm: Spear Technique (Fourth Stage 53%), Movement Technique (Fourth Stage 42%), Fist Technique (Fourth Stage 55%)

"Departing tomorrow."

"At the highest, I'm required to cross nearly three levels to fight?" Li Yuan muttered to himself: "They really think highly of me."

(End of chapter)