Chapter 4: Martial Arts Hall

【Myriad Blood Bead

Level: 1, 37%

Blood Soul: 10】

In the morning, Li Fei woke up from his bed. The first thing he did was check the Myriad Blood Bead in his body and found that the level data had changed to 1, 37%.

The Myriad Blood Bead will automatically absorb energy from his body, so his appetite has become much larger than before, and the increased part is what the Myriad Blood Bead absorbed.

It's just that Li Fei's stomach is only so big, and his digestive ability has limits, so the Myriad Blood Bead can only absorb energy slowly, and the level data can only rise slowly. The current speed is an average increase of 1% per day.

"I heard that the appetite of martial artists far exceeds that of ordinary people. After I become a martial artist, the speed of the Myriad Blood Bead's upgrade should be able to accelerate."

Li Fei can only look forward to it.

Getting up, wearing a white short shirt and black long pants, Li Fei went out for a morning run with Li Tianyu as usual.

As a student of the Stop-Conflict Department, this is one of their daily required lessons.

More than half an hour later, the two returned together and had breakfast with Li Lei and Zhang Yuqing.

After breakfast, Li Fei changed into a black student uniform and went out with Li Lei.

"Get in the car."

Li Lei greeted and opened the Jinfeng-brand sedan provided by the Inspectorate.

Li Fei skillfully sat in the passenger seat and fastened his seat belt.

Li Lei is taking him to sign up for the Martial Arts Hall today.

On the way, Li Fei saw a tram stopped at the platform, and nearly a hundred people were frantically squeezing into it.

This tram is a "new thing" that only appeared in Xingcheng last year. With this thing, it became much more convenient for many office workers who couldn't afford bicycles, and they could take the tram to and from work every day.

But because the tram hasn't been introduced for long, the laying of tracks and wires is limited, so the number is limited, and there are too many people going to work, so there are morning and evening peaks in the city every day.

This familiar scene made Li Fei feel a bit emotional. He is now a car owner and doesn't have to suffer.

When passing through a small alley, Li Fei saw the Inspectorate's van parked outside, and the alley was crowded with people, so he couldn't help but ask:

"Li Shu, what's going on?"

Li Lei glanced at the alley:

"Yesterday, the Inspectorate received a report that someone discovered an Anshen Sect stronghold. It seems it has been verified, and they are coming to seal it today."

Li Fei asked curiously when he heard this:

"Li Shu, can the people of the Anshen Sect use sorcery?"

Li Lei said disdainfully: "The core followers might know a few sorcery techniques, but they are all tricks to pretend to be gods and ghosts and bewitch people's hearts. They are useless against people with firm will."

"Then what is powerful sorcery like? Can it summon wind and rain, and move mountains and fill seas?"

Li Fei continued to ask.

The predecessor was a dull person who didn't like to communicate with Li Lei, so Li Fei could only rely on himself to extract information.

"Haha, summon wind and rain, move mountains and fill seas? Xiao Fei, you must have seen this in some novel, right?"

Li Lei was amused by Li Fei's words, "If sorcery were really that powerful, our Great Lan Dynasty wouldn't respect martial artists. The biggest role of this sorcery is still used in military formations, allowing those most elite Imperial Guard armies to practice military evil spirits. This is the reliance of the Great Lan Dynasty to dominate the world."

"Military formation? Military evil spirits?"

Li Fei didn't expect that the sorcery of this world was mainly used on the army, which was different from what he imagined.

Next, he asked Li Lei some questions about martial arts and sorcery to increase his understanding of this world.

More than twenty minutes later, Li Lei drove to a stone archway.

Three archways were opened, one large and two small. The largest was nearly twenty meters wide, with three dragon-flying and phoenix-dancing characters engraved on it—Martial Arts Hall.

Li Lei drove directly through the middle archway.

The interior of the Martial Arts Hall is very spacious, with two rows of ginkgo trees on both sides of the road, and golden leaves scattered on the ground.

It looks very similar to the vocational school Li Fei attended, but the area is larger. On the playground, hundreds of strong men wearing black short shirts are running, shouting slogans while running:

"Self-improvement!"

"Serve the country with martial arts!"

"Self-improvement!"

"Serve the country with martial arts!"

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His experience in the system in his previous life made Li Fei develop a cautious and thorough personality. Since he decided to go to the Martial Arts Hall, he had done detailed homework in advance and carefully studied the information about the Martial Arts Hall, so he knew the origin of this slogan:

Building Martial Arts Halls in various places was a policy proposed by the former Cabinet Chief Minister Tong Bo. The purpose was to hope that everyone could practice martial arts to strengthen their bodies, improve themselves, and those with talent could serve the country with martial arts, making the country constantly strong.

This slogan of "Self-improvement, serve the country with martial arts" was set by Tong Bo, and Martial Arts Halls in various places took it as a warning, requiring students to shout it out when practicing martial arts every day.

After the Mingxin Reform began, the current Cabinet Chief Minister proposed that some quotas could be given to Martial Arts Halls in various places every year to enter the Stop-Conflict Departments of the twelve universities, and the local Martial Arts Hall would bear all tuition fees for the students. The purpose was to allow those children from humble families with martial arts talent to have the opportunity to enter university and serve the country.

And the so-called "humble families" in this world refer to families with lower social status, such as families like the Li family whose head is a mid-level public official, with houses, cars, and savings, which is called a humble family.

This also made Li Fei secretly rejoice that he was lucky. If he had transmigrated into a commoner family, he wouldn't even have the qualifications to practice martial arts. Even with a cheat like the Myriad Blood Bead, it would be very difficult to change his class and destiny.

Li Lei parked the car and then took Li Fei to a building.

"Speak less after going up, and do whatever you are told."

Li Lei said seriously to Li Fei.

Li Fei nodded: "Okay."

The two went up to the fifth floor and came to an office with a "Special Lecturer" sign.

Li Fei had done his homework and knew that lecturers in the Martial Arts Hall are divided into three types: ordinary lecturers, senior lecturers, and special lecturers.

Ordinary lecturers and senior lecturers don't have anything too special, while special lecturers directly determine the strength and reputation of a Martial Arts Hall.

Li Fei didn't expect Li Lei to be able to take him to see a special lecturer.

Li Lei knocked on the door lightly.

Soon, the door opened, and a middle-aged man wearing a gray long gown, with black leather gloves on both hands and a serious expression, appeared at the door.

"Mr. Hao."

A smile appeared on Li Lei's face, and he greeted him very politely.

"Squadron Leader Li."

Mr. Hao was not smiling, just gestured for the two to enter.

After entering the door, Li Fei glanced at the nameplate on the other party's desk, which had the two characters "Hao Yi" written on it. This should be the other party's name.

After sitting down, Li Lei got straight to the point, pointing at Li Fei:

"Mr. Hao, this is the boy from my family."

Although Li Fei didn't want to call him godfather, he told outsiders that Li Fei was the boy from his family, which made many people think that Li Fei was his son.

Hao Yi looked at Li Fei, his expression softened a bit, and he nodded:

"The appearance is quite upright."

Here, I have to mention Li Fei's appearance:

He has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and is righteous. At first glance, people feel that this is a good person, an extremely upright person.

Li Lei's face was happy: "Can he enter Mr. Hao's eyes?"

Hao Yi looked at him: "Squadron Leader Li, although I owe you a favor, my students are not just anyone."

Li Fei only then knew that Li Lei had actually brought him to apprentice.

"Mr. Hao..."

"What is your score in the school's physical test and drug test?"

Hao Yi suddenly asked Li Fei.

When Li Fei heard this, he answered honestly: "Grade B-minus."

"Too low."

Hao Yi shook his head.

Li Lei sighed when he heard this. The other party only owed him a small favor, and he brought Li Fei to apprentice just to try his luck. He didn't expect it to succeed in the first place.

"Since that's the case, let's..."

"Can you endure hardship?"

Hao Yi suddenly asked.

He had been observing Li Fei's expression after shaking his head, seeing that the other party was still very calm and not disappointed because of being rejected. Coupled with such a temperament and an upright appearance, he was willing to give him a chance.

"I can endure hardship!"

Li Fei said very firmly.

During the two years he was targeted in his previous life, he worked as a beast of burden for two years. Enduring hardship had become an instinct, otherwise he wouldn't have been tired to death.

After all, when oxen and horses are tired, they know how to rest, but when beasts of burden are tired, they only know how to pour themselves a cup of coffee and continue working.

Hao Yi nodded: "Go and stand in a horse stance for me to see."

Li Fei was a cautious person by nature, and coupled with Li Lei's instructions before, he stood up without saying a word and stood in a standard horse stance in the empty space.

Seeing Li Fei so obedient, Hao Yi was even more satisfied. He picked up a small black porcelain bottle on the table, poured out a pill, stood up, and handed it to Li Fei:

"After taking this medicine, you will feel pain and itching all over your body. If you can persist in standing in a horse stance for ten minutes in this state, I will accept you as my student."

"Mr. Hao, this..."

Li Lei, who was on the side, stood up and wanted to say something.

But Hao Yi didn't look at him, just stared at Li Fei's eyes:

"Are you willing to try?"

As long as Li Fei had half a hesitation, he would take back the pill and let the other party leave.

How could Li Fei not understand that this was a test for himself?

So he took the pill and put it directly into his mouth.

"Xiao Fei!"

Li Lei shouted, but Li Fei had already chewed the pill and swallowed it into his stomach.

Faced with a pill that might be poisonous, even if he knew he could take the antidote afterwards, an ordinary person would have some fear and hesitation, but Li Fei didn't have the slightest hesitation.

This decisive scene made Mr. Hao even more satisfied with Li Fei.

However, this was not enough for him to accept Li Fei.

Although he was willing to give such a chance, if Li Fei couldn't grasp it himself, he wouldn't accept this student.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 5 =====