Chapter 28: A Noble Son from a Humble Family, a Rare Treasure of the World

This day!

Lin Chen practiced until late at night, and then got up again before dawn to practice.

【Qingfeng Palm Not Yet Entered +1】

【Qingfeng Palm Not Yet Entered +1】

Not until dawn did he stop again.

【Qingfeng Palm: Not Yet Entered (16/100)】

Among these, 10 points were gained between dark and dawn, and 6 points were gained during the day.

This was the comprehension enhancement effect brought by the "Black Horse to the End" title.

"Mother, I'm going to the Wu Tang."

After breakfast, Lin Chen didn't continue practicing martial arts. He greeted his mother and headed to the Wu Tang in town.

The Wu Tang was so deserted that not a single figure could be seen; even the servants and handymen had left. Lin Chen headed straight for Yu Yu Jiaoxi's courtyard.

The courtyard gate was open. When Lin Chen entered, Yu Yongnian was packing his luggage. Seeing Lin Chen enter, he put down the items in his hand, scanned Lin Chen up and down, and nodded: "Not bad, you've stepped into the Aperture-Opening Stage. Your whole body's Qi and blood have begun to be restrained."

The current Lin Chen gave people a feeling of being full of vitality, but he no longer had the ruddy appearance he had before.

After opening his apertures, Qi and blood were restrained and no longer floated on the surface of the body.

Looking at his instructor, Lin Chen also discovered that the instructor was somewhat different from before. The instructor used to be a bit too steady, but today he saw vitality in him.

A thirty-year-old man's spirit and appearance changing drastically only happens in two situations: getting promoted and rich, or a second spring.

In this world, that meant an improvement in Martial Way stage or a second spring.

In such a short time, the instructor's stage shouldn't have improved, so it must be a second spring.

So the instructor and Inspector Su……

Lin Chen had a fire of gossip in his heart and asked curiously: "Yu Yu Jiaoxi, are you going back now?"

"After the New Year, I will no longer teach at the Wu Tang. I have already resigned from the position of instructor to the Martial Affairs Office."

Yu Yongnian didn't hide this news from Lin Chen. He didn't plan to continue teaching; that was a decision he made yesterday.

When he first came to teach at the Wu Tang, it was only because he had lost the heart to advance in the Martial Way, so he sought a quiet place to spend the rest of his life.

His parents passed away five years ago. Although he had a younger sister, his parents had married her off early to save money for his martial arts training.

Because of this reason, his sister wasn't close to him. He went to his brother-in-law's house a few times, but his sister and brother-in-law treated him more with awe, lacking that sibling affection. Later, he simply stopped going and would let the postman send some silver every year.

Now, giving up the position of Wu Tang instructor was because of Jiang Jiang Shijie Su.

On this trip bringing Lin Chen into the city, he was made drunk by Jiang Jiang Shijie Su, and the two of them were considered to have been honest with each other; the window paper had been pierced.

Over the years, he wasn't completely unaware of Jiang Jiang Shijie's feelings for him, but thinking of the gap in their family backgrounds, he felt inferior and pretended not to know.

Now that he had expressed his heart to Jiang Jiang Shijie, he would step onto the path of the Martial Way again and strive to participate in the Martial Examination two years later.

When Lin Chen heard that the instructor was no longer working at the Wu Tang, his first reaction was that the instructor had figured it out.

The instructor had figured it out; how could hard rice be as fragrant as soft rice?

Following Inspector Su, he didn't look down on the salary of being an instructor anymore.

"This disciple congratulates the instructor." Lin Chen blinked and congratulated him.

Yu Yongnian didn't react when he heard Lin Chen's words. Where did the joy come from?

"Tell me about your situation at the Qingfeng Wu Tang and the Jingshui Wu Tang."

Always feeling that Lin Chen's look at him was a bit strange, Yu Yongnian felt a rare awkwardness in his heart and changed the subject very stiffly.

"This disciple first went to the Qingfeng Wu Tang and received the Qingfeng Palm manual, then went to the Jingshui Wu Tang……"

Lin Chen told the process at the Wu Tang in detail, including the fact that it took him half an hour to practice to produce Qi in his apertures.

"Vice Kong Kong Guanzhu Kong asked you not to spread the word?"

This time, it was Yu Yongnian's turn to have a strange expression. He could vaguely guess the thoughts of this Vice Kong Kong Guanzhu Kong.

On the day Lin Chen left, Jiang Jiang Shijie had told him that he was resentful of the major martial halls, feeling that Lin Chen had suffered discrimination, but from the perspective of the martial halls, their choices were not wrong.

Because no one could prove that Lin Chen had only spent twenty taels to practice to produce Qi.

It was only because of the Wu Tang's records and the instructor's words that many students would exploit this loophole in the future. He also woke up to this fact afterward, only because he was too angry at the time and ignored this point.

"Since Vice Kong Kong Guanzhu Kong said so, you shouldn't spread the word."

That Vice Kong Kong Guanzhu Kong should have confirmed from Lin Chen's aperture-opening time that Lin Chen really only spent twenty taels to practice to produce Qi. Not letting Lin Chen tell others should be because she had other thoughts.

Regardless of what thoughts Vice Kong Kong Guanzhu Kong had, it wasn't a bad thing for Lin Chen.

"This disciple will listen to the instructor."

Lin Chen hadn't noticed the strange expression that flashed across Yu Yongnian's face just now. He was surprised by the instructor's mention of "Vice Kong Kong Guanzhu Kong."

That Yu Yu Jiaoxi Kong was actually a Vice Kong Kong Guanzhu; he had thought she was just an ordinary instructor.

Since that Vice Kong Kong Guanzhu Kong and the instructor didn't want him to spread the word, it meant that spreading this matter would indeed have an impact on him.

Yu Yongnian nodded slightly, then walked into the room and took out a booklet.

"This records some of my practice insights in the Aperture-Opening Stage. You can take it home and read it."

"Thank you, Yu Yu Jiaoxi."

Lin Chen took the booklet without rushing to open it. He was full of gratitude toward the instructor.

He was just an ordinary student in the Wu Tang, but Yu Yu Jiaoxi was truly good to him.

If it weren't for the meme of "stabbing the foster father" from his previous life that was enduring in his mind, he would really want to say to the instructor: "A teacher for a day, a father for life."

"After reaching the Aperture-Opening Stage and coming into contact with real martial arts techniques, the competition from now on will not just be a simple comparison of stage height. The monthly student competitions in major martial halls are mainly based on actual combat."

"The only shortcut to opening apertures is spending money. You are at a disadvantage in this point, so in the early stage, you must put more energy into the practice of techniques and use the proficiency of techniques to make up for the gap in stage."

Lin Chen listened carefully. He knew that Yu Yu Jiaoxi was planning a path of the Martial Way for him.

"In Martial Way battles, although the stage is the main factor, techniques are also extremely important. The eight major martial halls have dozens of martial arts techniques, but each martial hall only has one famous technique. Do you know the reason?"

Lin Chen shook his head. In terms of understanding information about the Martial Way, he was at the bottom.

"Martial arts techniques are divided into Ranked and Unranked. Unranked techniques can only allow you to exert all your own strength, while Ranked techniques can allow you to exert several times the strength of your current stage. The signature martial arts of the eight major martial halls all belong to Ranked techniques."

After the words fell!

Yu Yongnian closed his right hand into a palm and patted the stone table lightly.

Bang!

The stone table shattered in response, and gravel splashed.

"This is the Qingfeng Palm. When the Qingfeng Palm is practiced to perfection, it can reach ten times your current strength."

Seeing Lin Chen's shocked expression, Yu Yongnian smiled: "If you practice the Qingfeng Palm to the Minor Success stage, you can also do it in the early stage of the Aperture-Opening Stage."

"Yu Yu Jiaoxi, how many stages are there for Ranked techniques?" Lin Chen asked in a deep voice.

"Proficient, Mastery, Minor Success, Major Success, Perfection."

Lin Chen pondered for a while, so his current "Not Yet Entered" didn't even count as the first stage.

"Yu Yu Jiaoxi, how does this disciple know which stage I have practiced to?"

This was the question that just popped up in Lin Chen's mind. He had a panel and could determine which stage his technique proficiency was at. Other martial practitioners didn't have a panel, so how did they know what stage they had practiced to?

"For techniques that have entered the Ranked Tier, different stages have different manifestations. Taking the Qingfeng Palm as an example, if it reaches the Mastery stage, when you strike, the palm wind will howl; if it reaches Minor Success, the palm wind can blow sand and roll leaves; at Major Success, the palm wind is like a storm tearing things apart, making people fearful. As for the Perfection stage, it is returning to the basics, returning to simplicity, yet containing infinite power."

Regarding the Qingfeng Palm, Yu Yongnian was extremely familiar: "The techniques of the other seven families also have different manifestations when they reach the Mastery stage. I have written these down in the booklet. You can check them when you have time."

"After reaching the Proficient stage, it depends on your comprehension of the technique. Some students can reach Mastery in half a year, while others need a year or even longer. You mentioned the term 'genius' in the Wu Tang before. There is indeed such a thing as a genius in Martial Way comprehension."

Yu Yongnian recalled the scene where Lin Chen boasted that he was a genius and said with a smile: "If you can practice the Qingfeng Palm to Mastery within half a year after becoming Proficient, you can indeed be called a Martial Way genius."

"The reason I didn't tell you these things before was, firstly, I was afraid you would be too ambitious and think too much, and secondly, the theory of comprehension is more illusory."

"People choose techniques, and techniques choose people. Some people make rapid progress learning the Qingfeng Palm, but their progress learning the Mantis Fist is mediocre. The reason for this also has a lot to do with the martial practitioner's own nature."

"Unless any technique can be learned with rapid progress, but I haven't seen such a genius in Poyang County yet."

Although these words were a bit cruel, Yu Yongnian had to point this out. Students from ordinary family backgrounds cannot hold any unrealistic fantasies or fluke mentality.

"From Not Yet Entered to Proficient, the Qingfeng Palm relies on diligent practice. You are insufficient in financial resources, so you need to make up for it with techniques. My requirement for you is that before entering the Wu Tang, the Qingfeng Palm must at least be Entered."

Diligent practice, practice more.

This was the path of the Martial Way that Yu Yongnian planned for Lin Chen.

For poor people learning martial arts, only this path is feasible.

"This disciple understands the instructor's meaning and will definitely practice the Qingfeng Palm diligently every day."

Lin Chen nodded heavily. He understood the principle the instructor said.

"Mm, the Wu Tang will be closed after today, you should leave early too."

Having said what needed to be said, Yu Yongnian didn't delay any longer and reached out to pick up the bundle on the table. Seeing this, Lin Chen stepped forward and picked up the bundle first: "Yu Yu Jiaoxi, I will see you off to the horse stable."

Seeing Lin Chen's action, Yu Yongnian smiled and didn't refuse Lin Chen's diligence.

……

……

Horse stable.

Yu Yongnian took a large date-red horse. After getting on the horse, he waved at Lin Chen: "Go back. If you encounter anything, you can go to the Su Prefecture to find Inspector Su."

"This disciple remembers."

Hearing Lin Chen's words, Yu Yongnian smiled slightly and didn't persuade him anymore. He whipped the horse and left gracefully.

Waiting until Yu Yu Jiaoxi's figure was no longer visible, Lin Chen withdrew his gaze and looked at the booklet in his hand to flip through it.

Upon flipping through it, he was stunned.

Tucked into the last page of the booklet was a banknote.

A banknote with a face value of twenty taels.

【Seeing your poverty but firm ambition, practicing diligently without fatigue, you are truly a noble son of a humble family, a rare treasure of the world.】

【You should use this gold as a boat and oar, breaking through the waves on the sea of the Martial Way, exploring to obtain the pearl, and achieving extraordinary things.】

He didn't know if it was the dust kicked up by the horse's hooves that got into his eyes, or what, but Lin Chen only felt his eyes were astringent.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 29 =====