Talked about needs, right?
Lu Zhou was perplexed about the way Lu Chen acted. To be fair, he was skeptical and frustrated.
They never show up after entering the Main Family household, this whole time, when his ass was beaten up, they wouldn't even visit him.
Screw them!
Having such incredulous thoughts, Lu Zhou opened the gate and locked it. Inside, the earth was wrecked, and the air was misty. The phenomenon hasn't yet come back to normal.
I need to clean this up…
Coming back from the rear with utensils, he went into his first cleaning. The fractured fragments from the stone were flung into the pit and the earth was leveled using the hoe as the third support of his.
Two hours later…
Below the shade of the tree, Lu Zhou was wiping his nonexistent sweat. After breaking through to the 2nd rank of the Martial Path, his body was stronger, and his endurance was raised. With such labor was barely needed any energy at all.
Retrieving the two books from his garment, Lu Zhou flipped the early page of the Immovable Fist.
Pages after pages. He studied them and, trying to shove that underlying insight into his brain.
Immovable Fist was one of the intermediate books of the Initial rank, and the blow given by it was great. It compressed one's strength all into one, and the force was so absurd that it wasn't weaker than some middle-ranked martial arts.
Having such access to develop into stronger and breaking through one's body limit gave Lu Zhou endless excitement. He couldn't hold in his happiness and laughed with his head raised.
I am invincible…
Quite a time passed until he settled down.
In Snowy Leaf City, an initial rank of martial arts was worth a couple of hundred silvers, and the money Lu Zhou received per month was hardly 10 silver.
Of course, he couldn't take the sect skills out and advertise them. If he succeeded, he would get punished. They would ruin his cultivation and thus kick him out of the sect.
Lu Zhou had high expectations for the Immovable Fist because it strengthened one's strength.
Strong body force was the foundation and minimum requirement for Martial Path Inner Strength".
Martial Path Inner Strength was something that caused the character a proper martial artist.
" Immovable Fist and Iron Fist worked well simultaneously, will they stack the damage up? Well, let's try "
Standing up, Lu Zhou holds his stance up. With motions be followed the instructions on the books.
According to the contents of Immovable Fists, the first 10 moves were an early success.
Half a day later...
Lu Zhou had trained the Immovable Fist and the Iron Fist simultaneously in ten moves with the combination of the 50 moves in the Iron Fist. His body gave off the scent of the disgusting smell of sweat.
He felt his body strength had become stronger.
Lu Zhou felt somewhat incredible.
Immovable Fist was divided into 4 levels, and once one trained to the peak of the fourth level, there was a chance to under " Martial Path Inner Strength".
And Iron Fist was divided into 5 levels, with 50 formations, and he was already at the Initial Stage of this technique. With such fast improvement, Lu Zhou was full of smugness.
Two Initial ranked martial arts were gladly received by Lu Zhou's heart, thoughts about how the main disciples lack courtesy towards people with the same heritage, he shook his head and continued his training. Which paired up with Immovable Fist and Iron Fist.
As expected, with the foundation of Iron Fist, the speed of learning Immovable Fist was very fast.
In only half a day time, Lu Zhou learned all of the 10 moves to a beginning level.
Immovable Fist had extreme power, especially when used with Fire Fist Magic, the exploding strength was incredible.
Lu Zhou secretly clicked his tongue.
The most surprising part was that after learning Immovable Fist, the Fire Fist broke through to the next level and even went a bit further...the two skills accompanying each other had an incredible effect.
Ding!
[ Fire Fist has been upgraded to Level 9 ]
The prompt from the system makes Lu Zhou's facial expressions brighten up. Then with no hesitation in his movements, he activated the magic with a thought of his.
Whoosh------
His sleeves were scorched, and his entire arm was flowing with a simmeringly warm fire. The knuckle was in deep black, with a waved, a deep fire in fist shape flew with a twice the size of a watermelon and explode in the air exactly 50 meters in front of him.
His control over the magic was so precise that he doesn't need to activate the Throwing skill to elevated his eyesight.
The smugness on his face intensified.
" I hope that disdain on your face will last longer..."
Saying his words without anyone hearing it, Lu Zhou walked inside his home.
A drizzle of water began to fall.
The cloud above the sect was getting darker and with the time needed for a couple of spoon tea, the heavy blow from the storm happened to be the best time to bathe in the warm water...
For the next 3 days, Lu Zhou kept on learning Immovable Fist and Iron Fist, and both of the techniques trained at an incredible speed.
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In the courtyard, a topless Lu Zhou was training profusely, each movement was connected. The formations from the Fists movements were almost like he had trained it for years.
It was astonishing. His upper torso was tightly packed with muscles. The wind produced from the movement was enough to make leaves on the tree falls and the shockwaves from it were capable of killing a tiger with a punch.
He then took a deep breath and threw his fist at the stone before him.
Boom!
It exploded. Dust and particles exploded out and Lu Zhou heard his muscles fiber stretch to the maximum. Both of his arms were in the deep color of ebony. Like a polished iron, but flexible and full of power within.
" Uh..."
Lu Zhou waved his hands to brush the dust away from his sight. There was rock debris on the ground. The result of his blow was enough to make a deep dent on the ground, now the boulder that the previous host always uses for training was destroyed into small fragments.
' So, is this the limit to how strong I can become?'
No!
His expression was that of crazy, although the maximum potential limit of the muscle fiber increases with the growth of bones and muscles, that logic only worked in his previous world. He had learned a lot about this world from the memory of Lu Zhou, and it was always fascinating to know about these things.
His body of that of a 13 years old boy had changed to be able to kill a tiger and elephants in one punch, and when he thoughts about all humans in this world could do that, he calms down his urge.
Then he called his status.
[ Lu Zhou ]
[ Lifespan : 13 / 50 ]
[ Race: Humans ]
[ Cultivation: 2nd rank of Martial Path ]
[ Technique: Immovable Fist ( Upper 70% ) Iron Fist ( Middle 89 %) ]
[ Skills : Close Combat Level 18 ( 70% ), Running Level 2 ( 26%), Throwing Level 15 ( 50% ), Cooking Level 3 ( 89% ), Sewing Level 2 ( 10% ), First Aid Treatment Level 2 ( 1% )
[ Magic : Fire Fist Level 19 ( 10%) ]
[ Spiritual Energy : --- ]
[ Inventory : 2 Boxes ( None, None ) ]
[ Equipment : None ]
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For the past 3 days, he has not called his status, except for hearing the prompts and finishing his needs, the time was used to practice the technique.
When he saw the changes were significant and sometimes absurd, Lu Zhou looked at his body to satisfaction. It felt like he hadn't wasted the time.
" Well, I have no idea how the system works, without the Book of Enlightenment, everything was weird."
Book of Enlightenment was the core element to be able to gauges any skills player had been working on. Without it, the same skills would be the same and also the reason why he doesn't choose to copy any breathing technique from the Martial Arts Library.
If not, he could already become the Martial Artist with how his speed was. Every technique required the use of special energy flow, this same principle also had been implemented into the player.
" I need to be satisfied with this..."
Sighing, Lu Zhou frowned as he looked at his arm.
After the activation of the Fire Fist, his arm would be colored in deep ebony, the damage was so great that he wouldn't dare to conjure the magic to its fullest capability.
Furthermore, the knowledge from the Origin of Internal Energy enhanced his understanding of the spirit energy he had.
" Even then, how long do I need to stay in Martial Apprentice rank?...this is so absurd! "
He yearned for the Book of Enlightenment, without it, he has to forget about reaching the Martial Artist, that would use internal strength as the new foundation for their cultivations.
Urg...
Frustrated, Lu Zhou raised his hand and snapped it.
Before him, a spark of fire was ignited from the air. It's was so small as a firefly at the night, before long, it vanished.
" Good "
Nodding his head, Lu Zhou wear his clothes on and entered the house.