Chapter 6: Martial Arts is a Money Pit

"Could it be that my talent is high?" Li Yuan's pupils shrank.

He couldn't help but think of the note at the end of the Divine Palace panel: "There is some unawakened high-level spirituality hidden in the body."

Li Yuan believed in the Divine Palace panel's detection, which had never been wrong in the past year.

It should be more reliable than Teacher Xu's speculation.

The messages Teacher Xu said today also gave Li Yuan more ideas.

Previously, although Li Yuan had searched many times on the virtual network, he suffered from insufficient authorization, and many messages could not be searched.

"My talent is high? I possess the Spiritual Divine Palace, perhaps this is also a kind of talent." Li Yuan recited silently.

Over the past hundred years, numerous cultivation methods have been gradually opened, and with the development of technology, a large number of martial artists have been born in human civilization.

And those peerless martial artists who can fly into the sky and escape the earth, and even survive nuclear explosions, which one's growth experience is not full of legends?

Li Yuan didn't think the Spiritual Divine Palace he possessed would be an exception.

"Teacher, what should I do?" Li Yuan asked actively.

He was very smart. Since Teacher Xu took the initiative to call him over, it definitely wasn't just to encourage him.

"Persevere." Xu Bo looked at Li Yuan. He originally wanted to say "follow the rules," but changed it to a word when it reached his lips.

Seeing Li Yuan's surprised face, Xu Bo continued: "Your progress speed is already very fast, and you don't have to be too anxious about not awakening martial arts spirituality. With your grades, it's easy to get into a martial arts university."

"According to normal practice, in at most two or three years, your physical fitness should be able to reach 10.0."

"Once you become an Entry Rank martial artist, high-stage cultivation methods will no longer be your shackles."

"Maybe, in the future, you can create a high-stage cultivation method exclusive to yourself." Xu Bo smiled.

"Create a cultivation method?" Li Yuan couldn't help but say: "Can I?"

"Haha, what can't you?" Xu Bo laughed: "How old are you? Young, there are infinite possibilities."

"Even the founders of the three Martial Arts Halls, when they were young, who knew they could achieve that kind of achievement?" Xu Bo smiled and looked at Li Yuan: "The founders of the three Martial Arts Halls are too far away, but don't you even have the ambition to surpass me?"

"My physical fitness is only 19."

Li Yuan held his breath.

Ever since Xu Bo became his martial arts homeroom teacher, he had always taken the other party as his goal.

Only now did he know the other party's strength, his physical fitness actually reached 19.

No wonder he is a special-grade martial arts teacher.

"Let's talk about something practical." Xu Bo looked at Li Yuan: "Although you haven't awakened martial arts spirituality, your physical fitness and martial arts skills are quite good. Combined with your family situation... I will apply to the school to give you a third-class scholarship."

"Third-class scholarship?" Li Yuan's eyes lit up.

Martial arts cultivation is very resource-intensive.

Therefore, for students with excellent martial arts grades, starting from the first year of high school, the state will issue various bonuses and subsidies.

Guanshan District No. 1 High School, as a key provincial middle school, receives more state funds than ordinary middle schools.

Every large-scale unified exam, the top hundred in martial arts scores in the grade will have extra rewards.

Top fifty, reward 2,000 Blue Star coins.

Top thirty, reward 5,000 Blue Star coins.

The top twenty will have more rewards than the top thirty, and will receive two more portions of basic blood-nourishing liquid this semester.

The top ten in the grade will be separately equipped with an independent martial arts cultivation room on top of the top twenty rewards.

The above are exam rewards.

Scholarships are more special, combining grades with family background, and also require teacher recommendation to have hope of getting them.

Very few people get scholarships.

"You have made great 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 said: "But there is still hope for a third-class scholarship. Of course, even if it is applied for, the money is not much, just 20,000 yuan, don't dislike it."

"Teacher, you've put in the effort." Li Yuan was extremely grateful in his heart.

20,000 yuan? It's worth two months of his aunt's salary.

All the scholarships he received since entering high school added up to less than 20,000.

"Teacher, what do you want me to do?" Li Yuan asked.

"You don't need to do anything, just practice hard and get a good score." Xu Bo waved his hand: "Go eat, when the application is approved, I will give you the news."

"Yes." Li Yuan left, and when exiting the door, he closed it smoothly.

Watching Li Yuan leave.

"This kid, does he think I want benefits?" Xu Bo shook his head and smiled.

Suddenly his brows frowned.

The iron tower-like man actually revealed a trace of pain at this moment.

"Need to take medicine again?" Xu Bo endured the pain and walked towards the physical therapy room.

Walking out of the office building.

"Good." Li Yuan couldn't help but clench his fists, somewhat unable to suppress the joy in his heart.

Before entering the office, he guessed there was good news.

But he didn't expect it to be this good.

"Teacher Xu hadn't mentioned these things before because my grades were okay in the past, but he didn't think I was excellent enough?" Li Yuan thought secretly: "Today's performance, is it enough?"

Li Yuan had read many books.

In some stories, many seniors like to promote juniors.

But the premise is that the junior is worth promoting.

"If one is not hard-working enough, not excellent enough, then even if one encounters an opportunity, one will miss it." Li Yuan recited silently.

"Send a message to the family group?" Li Yuan's mind just floated this thought, and immediately suppressed it.

Hoo!

A gust of wind blew by, making Li Yuan even calmer.

"No rush."

"Teacher Xu is a special-grade teacher, but he is not the school's management. Even if it succeeds, it will take time for the application to be approved." Li Yuan thought secretly: "If it doesn't succeed, it's just a waste of joy."

"Better wait until the scholarship is truly down, then tell uncle and aunt."

"Well, this matter, can't tell other classmates either." Li Yuan had already thought through: "Teacher Xu called me alone, and let Wan Xiao leave first, it should be because he didn't want others to know."

"If the school wants to publicize, wait until the school announces it in the future."

The experience all along, plus some books he read, made Li Yuan understand "things are achieved by secrecy, and words lead to failure."

Don't publicize things that haven't landed.

"Go eat first." Li Yuan's heart returned to calm, and he ran towards the cafeteria.

Guanshan District No. 1 High School has over six thousand students, so the cafeteria area is very large.

Li Yuan just entered the cafeteria door.

"Brother Yuan, over here." Zhou Qi was already squatting in the distance, greeting him, and with more than ten boys including Wan Xiao and Yan Zhou, they were occupying two large tables and eating.

Li Yuan saw this and walked over with a smile.

Boys in the class like to eat in groups.

"Brother Yuan, your two portions of nutritional meals." Zhou Qi ate while pushing the two specially made meal boxes to Li Yuan.

"Who swiped the card? Yan Zhou?" Li Yuan asked with a smile while sitting down to eat.

"I said I would pay it back." Yan Zhou smiled.

"The few times I brought you breakfast, it was just hot dry noodles and egg soy milk, adding up to less than fifty yuan." Li Yuan shook his head: "My two portions of nutritional meals cost one hundred and fifty."

Among the boys present, the price difference of the meals they ate was very large.

Like ordinary two meat and two vegetables, three meat and two vegetables, a meal is less than twenty yuan.

Zhou Qi, Yan Zhou, and the others ate this kind.

Because they go to cultural classes at night and won't have strenuous exercise, their physical strength consumption is relatively small.

Like Li Yuan, who has high-intensity martial arts cultivation at night, eating ordinary meals is not enough. Long-term, it will cause physical blood deficiency.

Must eat the cafeteria's special nutritional meals, but the price is much higher.

One portion is seventy-five yuan, and Li Yuan has to eat two portions.

To be precise, Li Yuan's normal three meals a day cost nearly three hundred a day.

At least eight thousand Blue Star coins a month.

This is still far from enough to support Li Yuan's normal cultivation, and occasionally he has to eat various expensive blood-nourishing liquids and supplements.

If physical therapy is added, the monthly expenditure is an astonishing number.

This is still because Li Yuan is a student and can always cultivate in the school's martial arts classroom, where various cold weapons for training, sandbags, and venues for practicing spear techniques are very complete.

The effect can't catch up to a separate martial arts cultivation room, but the school's martial arts classroom wins by being free.

If going to a regular martial arts gym in society? The rent is calculated by the hour, and ordinary families can't afford it at all.

Martial arts is a money pit, not an empty talk.

This is also the reason why Li Yuan longs to get into the top five prestigious universities.

Because his martial arts cultivation to date, his uncle and aunt have already found it very difficult to continue supporting.

Walking out of the cafeteria.

"Brother Yuan, we are going to the cultural building, see you tomorrow." Zhou Qi and Yan Zhou said to Li Yuan.

"Good." Li Yuan nodded.

Students in this era, starting from the first year of high school, have to study cultural courses every morning and conduct martial arts cultivation in the afternoon.

At night? Students choose for themselves, looking at which path they want to take.

Martial arts universities, there are only twenty-nine in the entire Xia Nation.

And cultural universities, there are over a thousand in the country.

If taking the martial arts university entrance exam, the total cultural score will be converted, accounting for 10%.

If taking the cultural course path, the martial arts score will be converted, accounting for 30% of the total score.

Although one will only decide whether to take the martial arts or cultural path when filling out the application, most students will have a focus starting from the first year of high school.

Li Yuan returned to the martial arts classroom.

Looking around, there were less than ten people left in the classroom, empty.

Some students in Senior Year (2) choose to focus on cultural courses, which is also the choice of the vast majority of students.

"Wanting to get into a martial arts university is indeed difficult." Li Yuan thought secretly.

Jiangbei Province has over a million college entrance exam candidates every year.

The only martial arts university, "Jiangbei Martial Arts University," recruits less than ten thousand people every year, accounting for less than 1% of all candidates.

Guanshan District No. 1 High School, as a key provincial school, has less than a hundred students getting into martial arts universities every year.

The sky is not dark yet.

The ten or so people in the classroom are mostly chatting with each other.

Martial arts cultivation at night, without teacher supervision, relies entirely on self-discipline.

"Li Tianyou." Li Yuan's gaze fell on that figure in the corner of the classroom.

A boy about 1.8 meters tall, with a slightly thin face, wearing a martial arts uniform, silent, practicing basic cultivation methods very seriously.

Not affected by the chatting of others at all.

From the sweat on his forehead, it can be seen that he has been practicing for a while.

"So diligent!" Li Yuan sighed secretly: "As expected of the class's number one roll king."

Didn't disturb others.

Li Yuan took out his spear from his weapon cabinet, chose a bright place in the classroom, and started spear technique cultivation.

Why not practice basic cultivation methods?

Because Li Yuan wakes up at 3 o'clock every day, comes to school, and practices basic cultivation methods alone in the empty martial arts classroom for more than two hours.

Then, go to the cafeteria for breakfast before 6 o'clock, and go to the cultural classroom for self-study.

In the afternoon, practice cultivation methods for two hours with everyone.

Daily cultivation methods are divided into two to three times, and four hours is the best. This is what numerous martial arts experts have repeatedly experimented with.

Life evolution, the hammering, recovery, and growth of physical tendons and bones all take time.

Too much is as bad as too little.

The remaining time, Li Yuan can use to ponder spear techniques and movement techniques.

Two hours later.

The bell for the end of school echoed on campus. The students in the classroom had already left one after another. Except for Li Yuan who was still practicing spear techniques, only Li Tianyou was still practicing saber techniques.

Suddenly.

In Li Yuan's field of vision, a piece of information that only he could see suddenly popped up.

【Your spear technique realm has improved from stage 3 36% to stage 3 37%】

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 7 =====