Chapter 224

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

Chen Yi ordered She Lei to film a video, recount his mistakes, and acknowledge the punishment, then played it for the students inside the martial arts hall. The "African aid construction" work lasting a full 5 years sounded terrifying just to hear about. Most importantly, because it was a punishment, salary and allowances were merely paid out without any increase.

Not even giving a chance to make money — who would still go to that godforsaken place?

Friends close to She Lei hadn't even finished watching the video before they started clamoring: "Heard that in Africa, even wearing a condom is useless, is that true?"

A crowd burst into laughter.

"No raise, and still have to go to Africa, how miserable."

"Five years is too long, three years would be about right."

Only Li Changning remained silent; he roughly understood this was the Hall Master's punishment. Compared to directly expelling him from the martial arts hall, or converting him to a staff member, this was actually somewhat preferential treatment.

"If it were me, I probably wouldn't even get the chance to go to Africa." Li Changning suddenly lost interest in thinking, only wanting to go upstairs and cultivate.

Ma Zhongcheng, who knew a bit of the inside story, said quietly: "Little Fatty, they're killing the chicken to warn the monkey, right?"

"Killing the monkey to warn the chicken, don't stick your head out." Li Changning lowered his voice.

"Fear a ball, worst case I just quit."

"Stop wild thoughts." Li Changning hurriedly grabbed Ma Zhongcheng's hand and said: "You've only learned how much so far? Body Technique Level 1 is nothing. Think about it — She Lei was the most senior Level 2 Student, and his younger brother-in-law got beaten just like that. Don't go looking for trouble."

"Then just let Little Lei go to Africa on his own?"

"One knows one's own joys and sorrows; you just cultivate Body Technique with peace of mind." Li Changning thought: if not for the exile to Africa, forget 5 years later, in 3 years She Lei would have regrets.

He was simultaneously rejoicing: "From now on I can't act so recklessly anymore. When working outside there was no chance; finally got hold of one, wasting it would be truly shameful."

Ma Zhongcheng was just shooting his mouth off for fun; once he'd said his piece comfortably he fell silent, merely discussing enthusiastically with the group of Level 1 Students exactly how many ultra-thick extra-thin condoms it would take to live normally in Africa. Li Changning let out a breath of relief; he was truly afraid Ma Zhongcheng would act recklessly and stand up to speak nonsense.

The longer he stayed in the martial arts hall, the more clearly he saw that what they were learning was absolutely not ordinary kung fu. In wuxia novels, great heroes leaving their sects still had to cripple their own martial arts — how would you even cripple Body Technique? The thought alone sent chills down the spine.

Smart people like Li Changning were not unique; as the students understood more deeply, their curiosity about the Hall Master grew heavier, until today Chen Family Martial Arts Hall had never seen a single dropout. Besides good treatment, mutual admonishment among them also played a role.

Although there were quite a few sensible fellows, Chen Yi standing on the podium did not feel proud because of it. The current martial arts hall still had a certain gap from the institution he envisioned.

He went down to the floor and said to Liu Xinyu: "Record all those messy students just now. Recruiting students is easy for us; we need to filter out the dross early on. Staff too — screen out half, fire them all. Proceed on schedule."

"Fire a fixed half of the people?"

"Yes. From now on, every three months, fire half the staff. You devise a calculation formula that incorporates years of service, Body Technique level, work performance, and so on, so the staff know under what circumstances they'll be fired... Among students, those with overly free personalities, pull them out too, cap them at Body Technique Level 3 for now, and later convert them to staff as well."

"But there are also excellent people among the staff — fire them indiscriminately without distinguishing right from wrong?"

"Landing in the bottom 50% and still called excellent? Honestly, among current students, even someone with Cao Zheng's speed might not make the qualifying line. Is Body Technique that easy to learn? Moreover, we're letting them choose suitable learning freely — we're currently in the brand-building stage, not qualified to be picky, so they got benefits. Those who don't know to cherish them, I won't cherish either."

Chen Yi was naturally comparing against Saint Qiao Kingdom's standards. As a Magic Kingdom, the overall standard of Saint Qiao Kingdom's soldiers was quite high — one could say they were genetically enhanced. Children who could become Knight Attendants there could be Knights in other kingdoms, but in terms of Body Technique resources, other kingdoms had many times fewer than Saint Qiao Kingdom. Many of their soldiers often only had General Body Arts available. Various special Body Technique methods were simply too rare; some even required special materials and could not be popularized at all. On the other hand, Knights who knew more Body Techniques were few, and High-Ranking Knights were often busy with affairs, unable to spare time to spread benevolence among the populace...

Chen Family Martial Arts Hall only recruited in Jiangbei; aside from a few local relatives and friends, the scope was relatively narrow. Among so few people, finding a few students at Knight level was quite difficult, let alone the Kingdom Knights Chen Yi had seen the most of — those were one-in-ten-thousand figures.

Liu Xinyu advocated elite-ism, but she still asked with some uncertainty: "The staff diverted out will spread Body Technique further, won't they?"

"Then what's your opinion?"

"Those in the bottom half — stop their raises, but don't fire them." Liu Xinyu pointed to the open space outside the martial arts hall: "Our numbers are growing more and more; in the future we'll definitely need to expand, and then it'll be when we need staff."

Chen Yi raised an eyebrow: "It's already reached the point of needing expansion?"

"Among the Sixth Term students, 4 have advanced to Level 1 Students, showing talent is still important — they only took a bit over a week, and didn't use Divine Oil. The two from the Security Department are even more formidable; among them Da Yang has already advanced to Level 2 Student, total time 13 days, but he used Leiti Divine Oil."

Liu Xinyu spoke with emotion too; if not for Chen Yi, she truly wouldn't have guessed the world had such miraculous kung fu and miraculous potions. But she was ultimately from a Secret Organization, and her position far above a fallen household like Yu Weichao, so she refrained from asking what she shouldn't, to avoid triggering Chen Yi's wariness. In her heart, she categorized Leiti Divine Oil as a "Gene Potion," thereby using her own understood 2 ways to explain the biological miracle.

"Who is most likely to advance to Body Technique Level 3 right now?"

"Li Haitao is fairly hardworking, should be soon. Cao Zheng from the second batch is about the same. Also, Sang Chengqiang, though newly advanced to Level 2, has astonishing progress — has potential."

"Order them all to the second floor, plus Naked Bear, to train with me. Staff won't be fired for now, but still prepare for firing — below Body Technique Level 3, not worth money."

Body Technique Level 3 students, like Naked Bear, without bows, arrows, and armor, are merely a high-end Sanda expert with keen eyes and quick hands or a relatively outstanding special forces soldier — such figures aren't many, but every city can produce a few. Triads get beaten, police still arrest, real estate developers still abuse — doesn't affect social balance.

The truly formidable are Body Technique Level 6 and above, like Liu Xinyu, Stanik, and others trained from childhood — that's the Body Technique Level 5 standard. If fighting by standard Level 6 criteria, even relying on some techniques and experience, the former's win rate is still not high.

What Liu Xinyu truly worried about was actually fear that students would leak Body Technique's secrets, and then someone could derive subsequent cultivation methods — she couldn't do it, but the world never lacks formidable figures.

But she also hadn't considered that Body Technique was formed through tens of thousands of years of innovation, ultimately creating one system after another. Using General Level 4 Body Technique to derive a Level 4 Body Technique suited to oneself requires decades of theoretical preparation and practical operation — relying purely on imagination, practicing people to death is the norm.

Chen Yi didn't care about these; he had his own timetable. In his vision, Jiangbei must be occupied, and the Binhe Road Subway Station area must be continuously brought into the fold — these require material support from outside the domain. Likewise, the West Continent must be continuously developed, needing manpower support. Although the future will certainly be commerce-led, repeating the history of colonizing continents, military force guarantee is indispensable, and in the early stage can be called the most important. Just looking at those thick-skinned, tough-fleshed transport beasts shows that the easiest-to-obtain light weapons have no effect whatsoever on the Other Continent; even heavy weapon armies facing Mages must prepare thoroughly, and still might not work.

In view of this, he concentrated the students upstairs for a second round of special training.

This time's goal had already changed from the previous reaching Level 1 to exceeding Level 3.

Only reaching Body Technique Level 3 standard can surpass ordinary natives' combat power; combined with advantages in technique and equipment, one can have relatively singular defensive capability.

In a moment, the students who heard the order all rushed to the 2nd floor. The martial arts hall was under semi-militarized management, and requirements were increasingly strict; the students waited nearly silently for the new order, not a single person whispering.

Chen Yi liked this silence — it was a proof, proving his decisions over the past period were correct, at least basically correct. It was also a guarantee, guaranteeing the students would obey orders and advance according to his thinking.

"Demonstrate your Body Technique movements once."

Chen Yi stood before the neatly arrayed ranks and began correcting the students' movements, just as Holy Knight Grendel had always corrected him.

Li Haitao was especially serious; he still had a bit of worry, afraid others would discover his secret, so early on he stood at the position closest to the Hall Master.

However, Chen Yi kept moving nonstop.

Before long, he began demonstrating techniques for others.

Cao Zheng was the first unable to hold back, shouting: "Hall Master, when you start training, it's easy to touch the Magic Net."

"Oh?" Chen Yi thought he was sucking up.

Naked Bear quickly affirmed: "I feel it too, just not certain."

Chen Yi immediately thought: Could it be the subway brought overflowing Magic Net Source Energy?

"What's the approximate range?"

"1.5 meters, or maybe within 2 meters."

"Use Body Art Third Form, everyone surround me." Chen Yi also started performing the Body Technique movements.

Including Xiong, Da Yang, Cao Zheng, and the others, they all surrounded him.

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