Black Rain City only had one Martial Arts Hall and one Dart Bureau. This was mainly because such establishments were difficult to sustain financially. Learning martial arts not only required tuition but also good food and drink, and the main benefit was simply physical training. Therefore, only the children of wealthy families came here to learn.
However, the Martial Arts Hall also kept disciples, who might serve as household guards for wealthy gentry or be trained as other types of guards.
Wang Linchi observed the disciples of the Martial Arts Hall training. It was just normal physical conditioning. After training, they were indeed stronger than ordinary people, but they possessed no True Qi or Inner Strength, much less any ability to break human limits. Their ability to fight demons and ghosts still relied on equipment bearing forty-nine symbols.
