Chapter 8

【You have obtained the appreciation of a sect noble girl, completing the acquaintance plot.】

【Completing the mission 'Acquaintance', calculating rewards...】

【Mission rating D.】

【Obtained 10 achievement points!】

【Name: Li Rui】

【Age: 0】

【Talent: Wu Gu】

【Achievement: 60/100】

This is also possible?!

Li Rui was a bit dumbfounded; he was just standing in the stables, how did he inexplicably get appreciation, and even obtained '10' achievement points.

It's really sitting at home, wealth comes from the sky.

Obtained '10' achievement points without any effort.

The sect noble girl should refer to the girl who was accompanying the Zhu family's eldest young master just now.

He didn't even know what he did to actually get that girl's appreciation.

But he certainly wouldn't refuse the achievement points obtained for nothing.

Divine Couple.

Li Rui's mouth twitched.

His age is enough to be that girl's grandfather; the generation gap is simply too large.

Although it's said that men are youths until they die, he likes mature women with long legs; that girl's face is okay, but her legs aren't long enough or thin enough.

He really couldn't raise any interest.

The next second, he seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes lit up.

"Perhaps the 'Divine Couple' achievement doesn't need to truly become a couple, or even truly like someone, or even be the same person!"

"As long as you gain favor, you can increase achievement points; the only requirement might be that the identity must be noble enough."

The scope of favor is too wide.

It's not just love; for example, respect is also a kind of favor.

At this moment, that Huaqing Sect girl was a full achievement pool in Li Rui's eyes!

But Li Rui had no intention of actively showing favor to that girl.

Being too servile won't earn respect, only contempt.

Only sufficient strength can earn others' respect.

There are no fewer than ten great sects like the Huaqing Sect in Yun Province.

There are far more than a hundred sect noble girls.

He now has a Wu Gu and his strength is improving by leaps and bounds; when he becomes stronger in the future, those noble girls will take the initiative to throw themselves at him, so why bother to die for one Huaqing Sect girl.

"Take it slow."

Li Rui had long passed the pure age of being hot-headed; being steady and enduring loneliness is the most practical thing.

Days passed one by one.

The Zhu family's eldest young master stayed for an exceptionally long time this time, often bringing the three people from the Huaqing Sect in and out.

After coming and going, the servants of the Zhu residence also knew of their existence.

The servants of the Zhu residence had no entertainment activities.

The Zhu family head marrying a sixteen-year-old concubine three years ago was talked about for a long time after tea and dinner, let alone fresh things like the Huaqing Sect.

On the martial arts arena, the Zhu family guards were chatting in groups of three or five.

Li Rui was also among them.

Naturally, they talked about the Zhu eldest young master and the Huaqing Sect.

A young guard brought up the topic: "What rank do you think the eldest young master and his senior brothers and junior brothers are?"

Yang Yong touched his chin: "The eldest young master entered the rank a few years ago, and I haven't heard of any breakthrough; I guess they should all be Ninth-Rank."

Listening to Yang Yong's analysis, the other guards also nodded in agreement.

Another guard said: "Do you think it's possible it's Eighth-Rank?"

Hearing the two words 'Eighth-Rank', the others all grinned.

Really dare to say it.

Some martial arts hall masters in the city are only Eighth-Rank; those three youths and the eldest young master are about the same age, at most not over twenty.

An Eighth-Rank under twenty.

Ghost.

Don't even dare to think about it.

Thinking that they practiced martial arts for a lifetime and didn't even touch the threshold of a martial arts master, while others might already be Eighth-Rank, the gap between people is really bigger than between dogs.

Li Rui, who was on the side, mostly just agreed with a few words.

The words of that martial arts instructor forty years ago floated into his mind.

"Practice skin, practice bone, then practice sinew; small practice, medium practice, then big practice, only then can one be considered to have entered the gate."

When he was still 'Little Li' and not 'Old Li', he also fantasized that he might be a martial arts genius, saved silver for several years, and went to the martial arts hall happily.

In the end, reality slapped him hard.

Not only did he not succeed in martial arts, but he was also scammed out of five taels of silver by the martial arts hall.

It made his heart ache for a long time.

But it wasn't without gains; at least he knew the realm division of the cultivation system in this world.

"Heaven and earth first opened, the Emperor set nine ranks. Strong people in the world are divided into nine ranks according to their strength, and each realm is divided into small, medium, and big practice."

"The first three ranks are Stone Skin, Bronze Bone, Willow Sinew; these are the three realms of shedding the mortal."

"Those who can practice to Willow Sinew have sinews and bones like iron, and their strength is frighteningly large; one punch out, a graze causes injury, a touch causes death."

Above that is the Primordial Realm; those are too far away from Li Rui, because there are no experts above Willow Sinew in Qinghe County; perhaps only after reaching Anning Prefecture can one know.

Entering the Stone Skin Realm is also called entering the rank in the Jianghu.

Once entering the rank, one can be uprightly called a martial arts master.

Going to those martial arts halls in the city can also make one an instructor, respected by others.

In the Zhu family, those who haven't entered the rank can only be called guards, but once they enter the rank, they will be hired by the Zhu Master as town-residence martial arts masters and automatically shed their lowly status.

But how difficult is practicing martial arts.

Anyway, Li Rui has been in the Zhu family for so many years and hasn't seen a guard enter the rank and shed their status, and hasn't even heard of it in all of Qinghe.

Time flies.

A heavy snow that fell for three days and three nights turned the whole world into a vast expanse of white.

In the room.

Hu, hu, hu...

Li Rui practiced boxing shirtless, strong blood and Qi wandering in his blood vessels, and even in the bitter cold of the twelfth lunar month, he didn't feel cold at all.

His arms rotated in turns like a windmill, and he could faintly hear the sound of wind, which was extremely extraordinary.

Fist wind!

Although some people in the past life claimed to be able to hit fist wind, in reality, it was just relying on the sleeves to fan the wind, which cannot be mentioned in the same breath as Li Rui's current fist wind.

Li Rui had secretly tried, and he could lift a full four-hundred-jin stone pier.

Fierce as a horse.

It is rare for the Eight-Section Brocade to be practiced to this degree in all of Qinghe.

There are no trash techniques, only trash people.

Now Li Rui can still kill people with the Eight-Section Brocade.

And all of this is due to the Wu Gu.

Ever since he had the Wu Gu, practicing was simply a thousand miles a day; what others took years to practice, he only used a short month, and he could clearly feel himself getting stronger every day.

Suddenly!

He felt his blood boiling, his heart beating powerfully, and he could even hear the sound of 'pu-tong'.

Clenched his fist.

Li Rui looked at his palm in disbelief; in just an instant, his strength had increased by more than double!

Not only that, the skin of his palm had an extra layer of crystal-clear outer skin at some point, and it felt very resilient to the touch.

His pupils widened, then turned into ecstasy.

In his mind, he recalled what the martial arts instructor in the martial arts hall had said.

"Qi rushes to the bull, skin like jade, enter the Stone Skin Realm!"

(End of chapter)