Chapter 9

End of the ninth month of practicing martial arts in the Wu Tang.

Early morning, the three instructors, including Yu Yongnian, appeared in the Martial Arts Arena at the same time.

The students practicing boxing in the Martial Arts Arena all stopped and looked at the three instructors.

Except for the first month they entered the Wu Tang, the three instructors would appear in the Martial Arts Arena at the same time; in the following months, the time the instructors appeared in the Martial Arts Arena was not fixed, and they all appeared one after another.

Now that the three instructors appeared at the same time again, is there any important matter to announce?

Yu Yu Jiaoxi Liu in the middle scanned all the students in the field and said loudly: "The Wuzheng Office has issued an announcement; in order to encourage everyone to learn martial arts, any student whose strength reaches four hundred pounds and can increase their strength by fifty pounds in the next month will receive a reward of three taels of silver; if they can increase it by one hundred pounds, they will be rewarded with ten taels of silver."

Yu Yu Jiaoxi Liu's words immediately caused a discussion among the students at the scene.

Not excitement, but complaining.

"Are you kidding? Increase strength by one hundred pounds in a month?"

"After I reached three hundred pounds, I spent nearly two taels of silver every month, and my strength only increased by less than thirty pounds. To increase by fifty pounds at four hundred pounds of strength, how much silver does that cost?"

"Fifty pounds at least requires drinking nourishing soup every day, plus beef; without ten taels of silver, it's impossible to do it; as for increasing by one hundred pounds, that's something I don't even dare to think about."

In the nine-plus months of martial arts life in the Wu Tang, these students also deeply understood the gold content of the sentence that the more you pursue quick success in learning martial arts, the higher the cost.

Before entering the Wu Tang, some students also learned about it from youths in the same village who had learned martial arts in the Wu Tang, but understanding is understanding; if it's not their own personal experience, they are always suspicious.

Or more accurately, they have a fluke mentality, feeling that they are different.

Youths have confidence and lofty ambitions!

But the nine months of Wu Tang life gave them a clear understanding of themselves and they had already given up the idea of quick success.

"This reward is probably prepared for people like Lin Lin Shixiong Lu; only they can get it."

"Lin Lin Shixiong Lu and the others can't get it either; Lin Lin Shixiong Lu and the others have long since stepped into five hundred pounds; maybe someone in the next class can get it."

The students expressed their ungratefulness, and the three instructors were not surprised; when they saw this official document, the three of them could already guess the students' reaction.

This is not encouragement; at most, it is icing on the cake.

Students with ordinary family backgrounds can't use it, and for people like Lu Yongfeng with good family backgrounds, they don't look down on this little reward.

……

……

"Which noble person is this, so wise and martial? Isn't this reward tailored for me?"

In the crowd, Lin Chen's eyes shone; increasing strength by fifty pounds in a month and rewarding three taels of silver—this is sending money to himself.

His strength reached four hundred pounds just yesterday.

"Panel."

Lin Chen whispered in his heart, and the panel appeared.

【Name: Lin Chen】

【Profession: Martial Practitioner】

【Qi and Blood: 2003/3000】

【Fate: 【Everything Falls into Place】: First Stage of the Martial Way, persistent and constant, step-by-step progression, unstoppable momentum, no bottleneck constraints.】

According to his current growth of 10 points of Qi and Blood every day, 300 points in a month, which is 60 pounds of strength, the reward of three taels of silver can definitely be obtained.

Even the reward of ten taels of silver is not impossible to charge toward.

"Students whose strength reaches four hundred pounds, come up to test your strength and register."

While Lin Chen was thinking, Yu Yu Jiaoxi Liu spoke again.

Yu Yu Jiaoxi Liu didn't care what the students were thinking; this was an official document issued by the Wuzheng Office, and their Wu Tang naturally had to follow it.

They had to count the students in the Wu Tang whose strength reached four hundred pounds first, and then report it to the Wuzheng Office.

After a few breaths, a student walked out of the queue, walked to the four-hundred-and-forty-pound stone block, and lifted the four-hundred-and-forty-pound stone block relatively easily.

"Yang Lin, 440 pounds."

Yu Yu Jiaoxi Chen on the side was responsible for registration, scanned Yang Lin's state, and wrote the number in the booklet.

Next, another student walked out and lifted a 420-pound stone block.

"Li Dong, 420 pounds."

"Chu Dong, 410 pounds."

"Zheng Kai, 440 pounds."

Lin Chen paid attention to the pounds reported by Yu Yu Jiaoxi Chen, and then saw the state of Yang Lin and the other four lifting the stone block, and understood in his heart that the instructors were letting water go.

Taking Yang Lin as an example, he lifted the four-hundred-and-forty-pound stone block, and his appearance wasn't particularly strenuous; his strength was definitely more than 440 pounds, but close to 450 pounds; the instructor directly wiped out the zero.

The instructors are all good people.

However, the instructors letting water go also had a degree; they just wiped out the zero.

Previously, Zheng Kai clearly wanted to hide his strength and went to lift the 420-pound stone block, and even pretended to be strenuous, which even fooled him.

However, Yu Yu Jiaoxi Liu directly asked Zheng Kai to change to another stone block to lift; seeing Zheng Kai finally lift the 440-pound stone block, Lin Chen knew that Zheng Kai had hidden such a big heart.

So the three instructors would let water go, but wouldn't fake it.

For the three instructors, they had reasons to explain wiping out the zero; the stone blocks in the Wu Tang were all in units of ten, so naturally, they were registered in whole numbers, and the Wuzheng Office wouldn't care about these.

"Yan Dexing, what are you coming up for? Your strength has already broken through five hundred pounds; go down."

Yu Yu Jiaoxi Liu looked at the youth walking over and glared at him with displeasure.

Yan Dexing walked back dejectedly; he came up to lift the stone block, naturally not for the reward, but just wanted to show off.

"And Lu Yongfeng, Cheng Ying, Zhao Jingchuan, Xu Botao, you few, don't need to test either."

Listening to Yu Yu Jiaoxi Liu's words, all the students at the scene looked at these five, with envy in their eyes; these five had strength breaking five hundred pounds.

"Are there any other students?"

Yu Yu Jiaoxi Liu said this casually according to the rules; he didn't expect other students to stand out; students whose strength could reach four hundred pounds were already second only to Lu Yongfeng and the others in the Wu Tang, and he already had a count in his heart of which students could reach it as an instructor.

Lin Chen pondered for a while and walked out of the queue.

"Lin Chen, what are you doing?"

Gu Fei saw Lin Chen walking toward the front and was somewhat stunned; by the time he reacted and reached out to pull him, Lin Chen had already walked out of the crowd.

Seeing Lin Chen walking toward the stone block, the eyes of all the students at the scene fell on him.

"What is he doing?"

"Don't tell me his strength reached four hundred pounds?"

"If Lin Chen's strength could reach four hundred pounds, I would have already practiced Essence and Qi."

The students at the scene had doubts and mockery, but no one could believe that Lin Chen's strength reached four hundred pounds.

Lu Yongfeng and the others, who were deprived of the qualification to participate in the test, were talking to each other; originally, they didn't even look at this side, but at this moment, hearing the discussion, they all looked over.

"What is Lin Chen doing? Wanting to say that his strength increased by two hundred pounds in three months?" Cheng Ying was puzzled?

"Even beef can't be bought, relying on helping in the canteen to exempt food expenses; if he could increase his strength by two hundred pounds, then what are we?"

Yan Dexing curled his lips; the five of them spent more than three months from two hundred pounds to four hundred pounds, and only Lu Yongfeng in the field managed to increase his strength by two hundred pounds within three months.

And each of them spent nearly twenty taels in these three months; as for Lu Yongfeng, he definitely broke twenty taels.

If Lin Chen could catch up with them, wouldn't their money be spent in vain?

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