"This, I'm no distance away from the ninth grade."
Zhou Heng laughed.
He didn't sell out and directly explained the situation to Lin Cang.
It wasn't something worth hiding.
In fact, the distance should have been negative.
"It's fine, as long as you're willing to work hard, there's still hope for you to step onto the ninth grade before the age of twenty." Lin Cang didn't react for a moment and thought that Zhou Heng was talking about being quite a bit short of the ninth grade.
But he quickly came back to his senses and stared at Zhou Cheng incredulously, "You, what did you just say? You, you're already nine!?"
His words were almost shouted out, shocked to the extreme.
As soon as this was said, the entire martial hall became silent and deadly.
The fifty to sixty apprentices present, as well as the ten or so instructors all stopped what they were doing and turned to look at Zhou Heng.
What did they hear just now?
Zhou Heng is now in the ninth grade!
Ninth grade martial arts!
Hasn't he only been in the school for two years?
Wow!
A group of people all gathered over and surrounded Zhou Heng like they were watching some rare creature.
"Nine Pin! Zhou Heng, are you really ninth grade?"
"Oh my god, how old are you, how come you're nine?"
"That's awesome!"
"Seventeen years old and nine pints, are we going to have a list of handsome people in Long Xing!?"
"Take me! Big Brother!"
The crowd looked at Zhou Heng with envy, jealousy, shock, and admiration in their eyes.
Seventeen years old and nine pints!
It was too shocking for them.
Long Xing was not a big martial arts school.
Most of the disciples recruited also came from ordinary families.
Yu He was a special case.
Even the "territory" was only such a two-acre arena.
Therefore, the level of "students" was generally not high.
Most of the apprentices were in their forties before they could enter the Ninth Grade.
At this age, they were already past the upper limit of the Chang Xing Sect's recruitment of disciples, so naturally, they could not learn advanced martial arts from the sect.
And if one wanted to continue cultivating in the martial arts school, one had to stay behind as an instructor, which would definitely distract one's energy, making it even more difficult to refine one's martial arts.
Therefore, there were also people who would go to the rivers and lakes after the ninth grade, expecting to gain some kind of strange encounter to go further.
If one could step into the Ninth Grade in their thirties, it would already be extremely rare.
The Martial Hall would unconditionally teach him or her higher grades of martial arts.
As for the ninth grade in their twenties, since the martial hall had opened over seventy years ago, only one had appeared fifty years ago, and that was the current old master.
And the seventeen or eighteen year old Nine-Pin, and even the human list of the best-.
Such a character would definitely be considered an excellent disciple, even in the world's great martial arts sects .
It was almost impossible for the small Long Xing Martial School to appear.
If the people of the Long Xing Sect knew that a seventeen year old Nine-Pin had appeared in the Long Xing Martial Hall, it would definitely be incredibly important, and entering the outer gate would be a sure thing.
If one was lucky enough to be appreciated by a high ranking person, it might even be possible to directly become an inner disciple of the Long Xing Sect and receive the secret true teachings of a six-ranked expert!
This is really going to soar into the sky!
"Quiet down for a moment, all of you." Lin Cang raised his hand and pressed it, he seemed to have thought of something, the joy on his face faded, his expression became serious and he said to Zhou Heng, "Little Zhou, You come with me for a moment."
After saying that, he headed to the back to the teaching practice room.
Zhou Heng nodded and followed him.
The people in the martial arts hall were still marveling at Zhou Heng's genius.
Seventeen-year-old Nine-Pin ah!
Too little!
However, there were also people who noticed that something wasn't quite right with Lin Cang's face just now and couldn't help but contemplate it.
.....
The martial arts school has a separate training room for its instructors.
No one would be disturbed in there.
At this time, Zhou Heng and Lin Cang were face to face, and they were the only two here.
Lin Cang looked at Zhou Heng with a serious expression and said in a deep voice, "Little Zhou, tell me the truth, are you high on drugs?"
"Huh? Drugs?" Zhou Heng was stunned at the news display, and then realized what Lin Cang was asking, so he nodded and said, "Well, took a Tiger Bone Refining Pill to supplement the With the body's qi and blood, what's wrong with Master Lin?"
It wasn't something that was taboo, so he spoke up generously.
After all, taking medicinal pills to aid cultivation in the Lower Third Stage was actually very common.
Because this stage is mainly about the cultivation of the body's qi and blood, even the internal qi is also transformed from qi and blood, which is the so-called "refining essence and transforming qi".
Where does the "essence" come from?
This requires the body to absorb the nutrients from the food to transform it.
Because of this, people who practice martial arts usually eat a lot, some martial artists can even eat a cow.
Ultimately, this is because people usually eat vegetables, fruits and meats are not very nutritious, so they need a large intake of food to convert enough "essence".
If one took pills that concentrated spirit essence, or ate food made from the blood and marrow of strong beasts, it would greatly replenish their nutrients and speed up their own cultivation.
Zhou Heng taking the Tiger Bone Refining Pill was actually just equivalent to absorbing a large amount of nutrients in a convenient way.
It wasn't intrinsically damaging, so naturally, it wouldn't be prohibited.
"Tiger Bone Refining Form Pill?" Lin Cang was slightly relieved to hear Zhou Heng's explanation, but was extremely shocked, "How can you afford such pills? This, it's at least a thousand taels, and it's said that if it's of the highest quality, it's even worth over five thousand taels."
He had completely understood why Zhou Heng was able to ninth grade so quickly.
It was because the stage of unearned to ninth-grade was essentially a process of allowing the blood and qi to absorb nutrients to catalyze stamina through standing stakes.
As long as the nutrition was sufficient, there was money and access to good tonic medicine, and the stumping was serious and painstaking, then stepping into the Ninth Grade was not particularly difficult.
In fact, the real reason why the martial artists in Long Xing Martial Arts School were slow to cultivate, and could only enter the Ninth Grade in their thirties or even forties, was that the apprentices here were generally poor.
Most of the apprentices' family income was generally around one hundred taels of silver a year, and after normal food and clothing expenses, plus tuition, it was difficult to leave a net of forty to fifty taels.
Three or four days on weekdays can eat a meal of meat are considered good family circumstances.
They simply can't afford to eat anything good for nutrition.
This is the reason why you can't afford to buy a lot of these types of products, and you can't afford to buy them at all.
A pill like the Tiger Bone Refining Pill that was as little as 1,000 taels and as much as 5,000 taels was something that was comparable to an astronomical price for most people in the Long Xing Martial School.
It was too damn expensive!
Zhou Heng ate a Tiger Bone Refining Pill to replenish a huge amount of nutrients, while using Pile Power to catalyze the stamina, so naturally he could quickly step into the Ninth Grade.
This was entirely made out of money!
But the most important thing is that the nine items that are "smashed" out like this have no disadvantage, but rather an advantage, compared to the nine items that they have saved up through hard training and eating meat, vegetables and food bit by bit.
Thanks to the fact that the nutrition of the "tonic" is much stronger than the normal grains, fruits, vegetables and meat, the blood and qi of such a martial artist is much thicker, stronger and more powerful, and even the internal qi is easier to transform later.
A poor man and a rich martial artist is nothing more than that.
Quite true.
"It was sent to me by Liu Changsheng of the Five Elements Sect." Zhou Heng briefly told me about the previous incident, mentioning in passing that treating Yu He also required nine internal qi.
"So that's it." Lin Cang suddenly realized and sighed helplessly, "Actually, taking medicine to aid cultivation wasn't a big deal, but the problem is that you're taking part in the Chang Xing Sect's assessment for selecting outer disciples."
"The Changxing Sect specifically forbids taking medicine for cultivation? It shouldn't." Zhou Heng was confused, "It doesn't make sense."
As long as it wasn't the kind of pill that increased cultivation in the short term at the cost of damaging the foundation, it was supposed to be a reasonable cultivation aid.
It was the same as ingredients that supplemented nutrition.
Completely prohibiting people from taking medication to cultivate is no different than prohibiting people from eating and eating meat when they practice martial arts.
"It's not a ban on taking medication for cultivation." Lin Cang shook his head and said, "Rather, it will be tested on apprentices who have recently had major level breakthroughs and are still taking medication to cultivate."
"This is to prevent apprentices and martial schools from using pills that raise the level of their cultivation in a short period of time at the cost of damaging their foundation?" Zhou Heng guessed.
"That's right." Lin Cang nodded and said in a deep voice, "This time, the one who came to our Huang Tong Residence for the selection test is the true disciple of the Law Enforcement Elder of the Evergreen Sect, ranked on the human list The ninety-ninth ranked 'Falling Sky Flying Sword', Kong Cheng Shun.
"At only twenty-three years old, he is already an eighth-ranked martial daoist, a highly regarded genius in the Changxing Sect, and just like his master, iron-faced and selfless, hates people who exploit loopholes in the rules.
"You've become a ninth grade martial dao, normally you're completely exempt from the examination and can directly obtain the status of an outer disciple of the Changxing Sect, but now there's a The thing about taking drugs is that you need to be tested by Kong Cheng Shun."
"How do you test?" Zhou Heng was somewhat curious.
"The tournament." Lin Cang spoke succinctly and said, "As for the specific rules, I'm afraid we'll have to wait for Kong Cheng Shun to come down personally."
"A sparring match?" Zhou Heng smiled at the words and said, "This is good, simple and straightforward."
A Martial Dao Eighth Item.
A Martial Dao eighth grade using a sword.
Hmm.
This was really good!
"Hey, you kid, do you think you're powerful just because you stepped onto the ninth grade? That's a true disciple of a great martial arts sect, a disciple of a six-ranked expert, a handsome man on the human list!"
Lin Cang looked at Zhou Heng with such a confident look, he was furious, he was still worried about this kid's future, but he actually looked like he wasn't taking it seriously.
"Come on, let's continue what we said before, let's go over two hands and let me see how strong you are after stepping into the ninth grade."
Gotta teach this brat a lesson!
Can't let him get complacent, it's good for young people to be sharp, but not too flaky!
Thus, Lin Cang took down a longsword from the weapons rack beside him .
.....
"Lin Cang is attacking you with the martial art Thousand Mountains Layered Mountain Range Sword Technique [Nine-Pin], and you successfully parry the "Thousand Mountains Layered Mountain Range Sword Technique The proficiency of "The Thousand Mountains Layered Range Sword Technique" +0.05."
"You have used 1 point of assignable martial skill point proficiency [Ninth Grade] to increase the proficiency of the martial skill "Thousand Mountains Layered Range Sword Art" [Ninth Grade]."
"Congratulations! The proficiency of the martial art "Thousand Mountains Layered Range Sword Technique" [Ninth Grade] has reached 1, as you have learned a higher grade of sword technique and have the same grade of the same type of technique The sword technique is complete, the proficiency of that martial art +3000."
"Congratulations! Advanced proficiency in the martial art "Thousand Mountains and Mountains of Layered Mountains" [Ninth Item], and comprehension of the martial art "The Lone Nine Swords of the Broken Sword Style" [Eighth Item] Deepened, proficiency +200."
"Congratulations! Defeating the unbeatable opponent Lin Cang is rewarded with Lucky Bag [Copper] +1."
.....
Lin Cang was a little skeptical of life.
He looked at the sword in his hand, and then at Zhou Heng, who was empty-handed, and said in astonishment, "When did you learn the Thousand Mountains Layer Range! Swordplay?"