After five days of training, relying on his good eyesight and body foundation, SuYu finally achieved stage two. He was only a step away from achieving stage three, the peak of universal Stroke.
At stage three, the power of universal Stroke is even more swift and fierce. It was said that if the practitioner achieved upper tier, their fist and legs attack would be continuous, oppressing the opponent and not giving them a chance to counter attack.
However, SuYu felt that his level of maturity was not nearly enough to achieve stage three in universal Stroke. He decided to temporarily stop training.
As SuYu did not have any arriws with him, he could not practice the secret book of hundred foot piercing arrow. As such, he was only left with shadow cloud, which he was looking forward to. He flipped open the book and started to read carefully.
At that moment, SuYu became worried. After he had read hundreds of word, he felt dizzy. He did not understand the book's content, causing his head to spin.
"Pff! This cultivation technique is so hard to understand; that's why it requires such powerful insight, seems like mine is not powerful enough." SuYu discovered a hard truth. However, he was persistent and could not give up on what he had decided.
"I don't believe that I can't understand this book!" SuYu rubbed his palm against his sleeves, and fixed his eyes upon the book. His distinct crystalline pupils appeared.
For two hours, SuYu was still as a rock. Suddenly, he fell down on the ground and fell asleep. Without realizing, he activated the abilities of his crystalline pupils. Even though two hours had passed in the actual world he had been trying to understand the book for good twenty hours! His mind was exhausted, and he finally fell asleep.
For one hour, he flipped his body back up smartly and continued to read the book of cultivation technique with great concentration, causing him to enter the time accelerated space. After two hours, he fell asleep again.
An hour later, he got up and continue reading the book. He repeated this process for two whole days.
Taking away the time he used to sleep and rest, he had been trying to understand the book for 320 hours. He did not eat or drink, did not sleep or rest, for a total of 13 full days!
At this point, SuYu's eyes turned bloodshot and his head was spinning. However, his face wore a silly smile. "I have succeeded!" Although he had only understood the process of attaining stage one, it was considered successful! SuYu laughed.
His insight was not very powerful; it could only be considered above average. However, due to his diligence, he managed to succeed in understanding the book.
SuYu bent his knees and exerted force on his legs. His body was like a swallow soaring in the sky, with a stride of around two meters. His body was as light as a swan goose feather, floating lightly in the forest.
His silhouette was like the wind, jumping gracefully in the forest, as though he had the shadow of the white clouds, drifting away quickly and freely like nature; it was also as if he was floating gracefully like a duckweed, capturing the attention of those who caught a glimpse at him as he drifted along the direction of the waves.
A young lady with a purple shirt was amazed. "Hey, young princess, look at that handsome movement technique. From his speed alone, he should have achieved at least level two upper tier."
Beside her was a girl who wore a light yellow dress and had a thin, delicate figure. She was petite and dainty, with big, round eyes that made her look adorable. She had an exquisite face, looking as though it had been carefully carved. Her skin was as white as snow, resembling a porcelain doll.
After hearing what the young lady said, the beautiful opened her eyes big and looked around. However, she did not see anyone. The beautiful lady suddenly stared at the lady wearing purple shirt. "Hmph! Cut the crap, let's quickly enter the mountain, kill the beasts and sell them for money, buy spirit elixirs to raise our inner strength which will then strengthen our body!"
"Stupid father, he had frozen all my money, causing me to take the risk and enter the mountainous forest! I am going to go on a hunger strike!" The beautiful lady complained angrily.
The lady wearing the purple shirt laughed, turned around and rushed towards a 15- or 16-year old body guard who had been following them and instructed him, "li Minghai, please take note to protect the you g princess from a ny threats."
"Understood!" The young man answered excitedly. When his eyes swept across the beautiful ladies back, they hid a deep passion.
The beautiful lady turned back and glared at him, replying with disdain, "protect me? You? Hmph, I only brought you here to help me carry the prey! I do not need anyone to protect me!"
As 5he martial arts training institute only holds duel in the arena once every six months, it attracted a lot of attention. It was like the monthly examinations in schools on earth.
There were hundred students sporadically waiting at the side of the arena. There were students who was participating in the duel. Some of them had been issued a challenge by the challenger, while some of them had issued challenges to the others.
"Who is SuYu?" A sweet and charming voice echoed among the crowd.
SuYu tilted his head. An ugly looking young lady around 15 years of age, wearing a loose and comfortable black shirt, with dishelved hair and her face full of pimples, was glancing left and right, looking for SuYu.
In that area, the crowd automatically separated for her. The crowd were fearful of her but detested her at the same time.
"You were the one who issued me a challenge? Chen Feng !" SuYu did not cower in fear. Anything that came his way, he would have to face sooner or later.
The black shirted young lady was indeed Chen Feng. Her bright eyes fell on SuYu. As she came closer, her eyes seemed to be filled with charm. She looked up and down, nodded her head with a slight laughter and commended, "not bad; handsome and delicate, you are to big sister's liking."
"It's a pity that I am not interested in that face of yours which says 'i'm sorry' to the crowd." SuYu crossed his arms and stood up. Even though he was secretly defending himself against been poisoned by Chen Feng, he was still rude to her.
Since she was his enemy, why should he be polite?
"Hey, look at that kid; is he looking to die? Chen Feng hates anyone who calls her ugly!"
"Shh! Keep it soft! Chen Feng is narrow minded. The pretty female senior who was disfigured last year secretly called Chen Feng ugly. Hence, she was issued a challenge by Chen Feng and was secretly poisoned."
"The frightening part about Chen Feng is that her poisoning techniques were very strange; you would not realize that you had been poisoned. When the poison start to take effect later on, the institute is unable to catch her red-handed. As such, up until today, she still remains at large."
"This kid SuYu doesn't ring a bell. However, he secretly called her ugly and she found out. Now, he is going to suffer."
At this moment, a white bearded refree slowly walked into the arena, and declared emphatically, "begin the duel!"
Chen Feng showed no signs of anger but instead she smiled even more. No matter how one looked at her smile, it looked evil when combined with her toad-like face.
"Little boy, big sister would treat you nicely later!" Every word she said sounded cold and vicious.
"It is still unknown who the winner would be!" SuYu said cold heartedly.
"First round, Gold student, li Minghao, versus silver student, Xu Sen."
Li Minghao had achieved level three lower tier of the martial path! Xu Sen had also achieved level three lower tier of the martial path.
Li Minghao was a student in the same batch as SuYu when he was recruited. After being in the training institute for one year, he achieved level three of the martial path.
As for Xu Sen, he belonged to the previous batch of the older silver students. He only managed to achieve level three of the martial path after two years. Moreover, among the silver students, Xu Sen's abilities were above average. This was the gap between Gold and Silver students; it was also the difference between their talents!
"Xu Sen, you have the guts to challenge me!" Li Minghao crossed his arms and stood up, looking at Xu Sen scornfully.
Xu Sen looked at li Minghao with reddish eyes and had an expression of hatred. He gnashed his teeth and said, "li Minghao! Both of us cannot exist together! Qian er and I are childhood sweethearts who grew up together. However, you forcefully robbed her from me. If I don't take my revenge today, then I'm not a man!"
Xu Sen was a bit agitated that he said this out loud as though the crowd was non existent. Beneath the stage, SuYu's heart was slightly moved. He had a similar experience to Xu Sen.
Li Minghao laughed loud. You're speaking of Li Qian, that little lady? Ha ha, she threw herself at me; why do I need to forcefully snatch her away? Although I had had enough fun and dumped her, I must say that she was not too bad and gave me a good time."
Even though li Minghao was only 15 years old, and from a prestigious family, he found it easy to play with women.
"If you wanted to blame someone, blame it on your own inability to capture the heart of the lady you love."
Li Minghao laughed coldly. "It is still not too late for you to take back that trash now? Maybe she would have a change of heart Haha..."
"I will kill you!" Xu Sen's inner strength rose to it's maximum, and he had lost any form of reasoning .
"Swift Horizontal Knife!" Xu Sen roared loudly. His inner strength was like a rainbow, fierce and astonishing. He took out a horse Slaying Knife, held it firmly and plunged towards Li Minghao's neck.
The execution of his moves was astonishing, fast like a startled swan.
As SuYu watched the match, his heart was racing. If he were the one facing Xu Sen's knives, he would have no hope of surviving.
Li Minghao sneered, "heartless fallen petals!"
His palms were so swift and tactful like the shadow of a beautiful snake, floating and twisting it's body. He was as fast as lightning, and his speed was superior to the horse Slaying Knife.
A layer of shadow flickered. Li Minghao's palms were wrapped around Xu Sen's knife, and they continued to wriggle upward. Immediately after that, Li Minghao's five fingers came together to form a crane mouth and ruthlessly pecked at Xu Sen's wrist.
When Xu Sen felt the pain, the horse Slaying Knife dropped from his hand. Given this opportunity, li Minghao casually stretched his palm forward and jabbed Xu Sen in his chest.
Ahh-
As though he got an electric shock, Xu Sen screamed loudly and was sent flying bacwards. As he flew, he spit out a pool of blood and fainted on the spot.
SuYu's pupils shrunk.
He is so strong. Even though both of them had achieved level three of the martial path, Xu Sen was unable to block a single move of Li Minghao! SuYu was stunned.
One side of the arena was full of shocked silver students. Among the silver students, Xu Sen was ranked number three. Even though he is this strong, he still suffered a crunching defeat!
This was the difference between Gold and Silver students! Not only was there a big difference in their talents, the difference between the power of their cultivation technique was great as well.
Heartless fallen petals belonged to medium level cultivation techniques while swift horizontal knife belonged to basic level cultivation techniques. When compared, the difference between the cultivation techniques was huge.
Li Minghao walked down the stage, relaxed. As he walked past Xu Sen, he took out his student number plate. Every student have a number plate that was used as a form of identification in the martial arts training institute. Li Minghao's student number plate was light Gold in color. As for SuYu, his student number plate was a dim slivery grey color.
At that moment, Xu Sen's silvery white student number plate in his chest glowed dimly for a few minutes. A ray of silver light then flew into li Minghao's number plate and the light Gold color became slightly brighter for a minute.
Upon seeing that, li Minghao spit at Xu Sen's face with disdain. "Only this much martial energy! What a waste of my time!"
Martial arts energy was what the Martial arts training institute used to measure the students standard of ability. With the least amount of martial arts energy like SuYu, the student number plate would have a dim and silvery grey color, meaning that his ability was one of the lowest.
With the most amount of martial arts energy, such as li Minghao, the student number plate would be light Gold in color.
Apart from duel's and the student cultivation base, a comprehensive consideration of the students ability , could also affect the color of their number plate.
The only way for a silver student to become a gold student was to fight continuously and seize their opponent's martial arts energy to become stronger. There would come a day when the martial arts energy reached it's maximum. At this stage, the student number plate would change into that of gold student's, meaning the student would officially become a gold student.
From the on, if a gold student wished to have a special resources for training, the martial arts training institute would open their door for them.
All the silver students wished to become a gold student; becoming a gold student was their target.
The crowed saw li Minghao off with respect, and they did not dare to breathe heavily. A few more matches followed, but none of them involved any gold students.
"Tenth round, silver student, Chen Feng versus silver student Zeng Tao."
SuYu's face turned to that of fear; it was an opportunity for him to observe Chen Feng.