Won't the head become pointy?

Although Gu Yang couldn't teach the path to breaking through realms, he was thorough in his guidance for ordinary Martial Arts Students.

Jia Dong's Ape Strike Method focused on hitting vital points with swift attacks and agile, varied footwork. The martial arts learned at the martial arts school were a bit more intense than those at the university, as they had paid for them.

However, their physical bodies were indeed a bit weaker, so it was correct to have him supplement with an Iron Body Technique.

Deng Hao's Hammering City Breaker was powerful but clumsy, lacking any Lightness Skill beyond being able to jump a bit higher.

After Gu Yang's guidance, he had Deng Hao supplement with a Lightness Skill, and once he truly got the hang of it, they would see about adding a martial art that emphasized perception and reaction.

Throughout the morning, Li Ye watched him guide the Martial Arts Students, addressing their weaknesses or intensifying their Blood Essence if they had none.

The entire Martial Arts Major, along with the Foundation Building Technique, meant each student had at least three martial arts to rely on. Li Ye watched them constantly circulate energy and practice moves, finding ways to increase their Blood Essence and intensity.

After all, no matter the martial art, practicing it day in and day out would surely increase Blood Essence. For them, Blood Essence was intensity.

"Are you just going to watch? Not going to practice?"

Yao Leden, resting after a round of training, asked curiously, "Are the people on the breaking through realms path very lazy? I thought Xiang Feipeng was working very hard too."

Li Ye's lips curled into a smile. "While strength gained through sweat is good, my method is even more rare."

Honestly, Li Ye envied this kind of effort that came from sweat. Once upon a time, he too had wanted to be a tough guy who grew stronger through sheer effort.

Now, however, he grew stronger through Authority. He was probably no longer a tough guy.

He was a diamond tough guy.

"Ring ring ring—"

The dismissal bell rang, and Gu Yang clapped his hands, signaling everyone to stop.

Yao Leden said, "Let's go, time to eat."

Like the preparatory course, lunch for the Martial Arts Major was also provided by the cafeteria, in a large hall connected to the back of the training grounds.

As they walked towards the cafeteria, Deng Hao asked with a grin, "Sister Le, is the Martial Arts Major cafeteria a bit better than the preparatory course cafeteria?"

Yao Leden said proudly, "In terms of quality, it's definitely not just a little bit better. They prepare scraps for the preparatory course."

"In terms of quality?" Li Ye felt like Yao Leden was gritting her teeth when she spoke.

"You'll know when you eat it."

Yao Leden sighed slightly and they entered the cafeteria hall together.

Then, Li Ye understood why Yao Leden was gritting her teeth.

The food in the Martial Arts Major cafeteria wasn't like the preparatory course cafeteria, where they could still make dishes. Although it was also self-serve, the choices were...

On the food counter, there was rice, meat, vegetables, and fruits. Everything was cooked, washed, and cleaned. Beside it was a condiment station with various strange powders.

And those Martial Arts Students, expertly selecting some ingredients, put them all into a blender cup, added some strange powders and oils, along with water, and blended it into a paste. They then forced themselves to drink it down with pained expressions.

"What is this?" Jia Dong was dumbfounded.

"It's all good stuff."

Yao Leden picked up a few peeled eggs. "Look at this, Iron Feather Brocade Egg. It promotes repair, aids development, supplements nutrition, enhances immunity, and strengthens internal organs... a total of nine benefits. Top-grade ingredients that you can't buy outside."

As she spoke, she snatched the large blender cup from Jia Dong's hand. "You calling me Sister Le isn't for nothing. Sister Le will choose for you."

She threw a few eggs into the blender cup. "Energy supply."

Then she found some pieces of meat of unknown type, some red, some white. When she picked them up, they were as hard as iron and made a crisp sound when dropped into the blender cup.

"Strengthen physique."

"Digest and absorb."

"Qi and strength boost."

"Body repair."

"Endurance and stamina."

"Refresh and invigorate."

Eggs, meat, vegetables, fruits, and a lump of rice. Yao Leden also added a few spoonfuls of strange powder, which definitely didn't look like seasoning. Finally, she scooped in a spoonful of oil, added water, pressed the button, and blended it into a paste with a humming sound. She handed it to Jia Dong.

She gave a thumbs-up. "I call this the Nine-Turn Thunderclap Paste. After drinking it, your energy will greatly increase, making you hyper for the entire afternoon. It guarantees you won't feel tired while practicing martial arts. It's truly the best method for strengthening the body, practicing martial arts, and for robbing and killing!"

"Did you just say robbing and killing?"

Jia Dong's expression froze. He instinctively took the blender cup. As he brought it closer, he almost gagged.

"What is this?!"

"It's something to guarantee your martial arts practice, just one thing: it tastes terrible!"

Yao Leden's face was bitter. "It tastes incredibly awful!"

Deng Hao curiously leaned over to smell it and immediately retreated two meters, exclaiming, "No, where's the chef? Pre-packaged would be fine! Is this taste something humans can eat?"

He had originally thought the Ironclad Boar meat was bad enough, but he didn't expect there were masters here.

The preparatory course cafeteria was just unpalatable, sometimes with a pleasant surprise that was edible.

Could this thing... really be touched by humans?

"You think this is a restaurant? Let me tell you, the reason ingredients outside are expensive is simple: high-quality ingredients that are easy to cook and taste good are incredibly rare!"

Yao Leden rolled her eyes. "Where are there so many effective and easy-to-cook ingredients? If someone could make something like that, why would they be stuck being a cook in a high school? They'd be hired away long ago. It's normal to prioritize effectiveness over taste. The secret to getting stronger is powerful, just get rid of your taste buds first!"

"This thing, besides tasting awful, is incredibly effective. If you eat it day after day, year after year, you'll definitely..."

"Then I'll definitely want to die."

Deng Hao interrupted Yao Leden, and despite his disbelief, picked up an egg from the food station and put it in his mouth.

Crack!

The sound of teeth biting into something hard made Deng Hao spit the egg back into his mixing cup. The egg white shattered like glass, revealing a yolk solidified like iron, completely lacking any softness.

"This is disgusting!"

Not only was it hard to bite, but the taste made Deng Hao open his mouth, stick out his tongue, and gasp for air. "It's like an enhanced version of VapoRub!"

Yao Leden said, "Don't try any tricks. Blending it into a paste is the way to go. This is the culmination of years of experience."

Deng Hao looked at the roughly three-liter cup in his hand and asked suspiciously, "After eating this, won't my head turn pointy?"

"Who knows," Yao Leden shrugged. "It's a good thing either way. Look, Li Ye's already started."

While Yao Leden was speaking, Li Ye had already begun taking food. Following her earlier ratio, he mixed rice, eggs, meat, vegetables, fruits, and those strange powders. He added oil and water, sat down at a spot, and started mixing.

After it was blended into a paste, he just brought it close to his nose and a peculiar aroma rushed into his nostrils, clearing his mind slightly.

It was like horseradish mixed with VapoRub, plus a hint of damp earth with a muddy smell, and a stench akin to a stink bug, along with the taste of two discarded cigarette butts.

In short, it was weird.

So...

Magic Treasure!

Li Ye took out the Five Flavors Chopsticks he carried with him, stuck them into the mixing cup, and drank it like porridge.

Now the taste was right, like drinking fresh congee. It went down his throat with a gulp, and he finished it all.

Yao Leden, who had only managed to drink a third of hers, stopped instinctively when she saw Li Ye finish. "You warrior!"

After saying that, she regretted it and shook her head, staring at the paste, unable to bring herself to eat it.

She wasn't new here, but every time she ate in the cafeteria, she had to psych herself up. It was best to drink it all in one go. Now that she had stopped, she had to prepare herself all over again.

As for Deng Hao and Jia Dong, after taking a large gulp, they leaned their heads against their cups, feeling like they had lost their souls.

"Brother Ye, how did you drink that? Did using chopsticks really trick you?" Deng Hao asked weakly.

"Just think about getting stronger. I'll go get another cup."

Li Ye picked up his empty cup and walked back to the food station.

After drinking this cup, combined with the effect of the Five Flavors Chopsticks, his Blood Essence increased by 1 point.

It was indeed much more than what the preparatory course cafeteria offered.

However, what surprised Li Ye even more was the Nutrient Solution!

Without the aid of the Five Flavors Chopsticks, one dose gave him 5 points!

He had spent his summer vacation eating the expensive ingredients Pan Zhengyang provided, which only gave him sixty to seventy points per meal, and that was with the Five Flavors Chopsticks.

Thinking about it, four doses of Nutrient Solution were worth a hundred thousand yuan?

"Is it because of my Dragon Blood?" Li Ye mused.

His Authority allowed for perfect absorption. Even the weakest Dragon Blood was still Dragon Blood. While others might only feel a slight effect, for him, it was a huge benefit.

While calculating, Li Ye selected ingredients, continued mixing, and drank it down without any hesitation, as if pouring it into some bottomless abyss that couldn't be disturbed.

Deng Hao, having finally finished his painful drink, saw Li Ye continuously mixing and drinking cup after cup. He couldn't help but exclaim:

"Brother Ye, you can eat even more during the summer break!"

Yao Leden, however, was surprised. "Feasting on delicacies? Is your martial art practiced by eating?"

"You know quite a bit."

A smile flickered across Li Ye's lips, and he readily admitted it.

He was indeed practicing the art of feasting on delicacies, so he could use this excuse to eat more.

And then, he 'ate' a little more.

The other students had already stopped eating. They were supposed to leave, but now they were all sitting there, staring in astonishment as Li Ye busied himself selecting ingredients, mixing them into a paste, and quickly drinking it down.

The food on the station was visibly decreasing, further astonishing them.

Why could he eat so much?!

Even someone practicing the Adamantine Gate martial art couldn't eat this much!

They looked at Li Ye, then at Yang Jie.

The towering strongman, initially with a flushed face and unwilling to be outdone, had also gone to the food station to get ingredients.

He couldn't win in a fight, he wasn't as imposing, Xiang Feipeng could easily deal with him, and Li Ye could just as easily smash Xiang Feipeng.

But when it came to eating, he absolutely refused to admit defeat.

Then, at most, Yang Jie could only manage six cups before clutching his stomach and slumping onto the chair.

He had reached his limit.

Li Ye stopped at fifty cups, not because he couldn't eat anymore, but because the buffet was out of food.

"Can the school prepare more?"

With an excuse, he ate to his heart's content.

If you ask, it's a feast fit for royalty!

"You can go ask," Yao Leden said dazedly.

She knew that those who practiced the Adamantine Gate could eat a lot, and that there were always those who could eat even more. There was even a saying about martial artists feasting like royalty.

But was this ability to eat too much!

Li Ye nodded, feeling the 50 points of Blood Essence he had gained, and a smile appeared on his face.

The amount given was small, but the quantity was large. Now that he was a martial artist, he could finally eat to his heart's content.

And he had also identified a faster path to breakthrough.

At his current pace, if he were to break through with pure martial arts, he would need 6,000 points of Blood Essence to convert.

Putting aside the cost, just the sheer quantity would definitely attract attention if he tried to consume it all at once.

He wasn't just eating once. The Nine Dragon Gate Leaps required more and more as he progressed.

Unless he followed the conventional path, slowly accumulating over time, he wouldn't be able to get into a top Martial Arts University within a year.

His Master had entrusted him with getting into a Top Martial Arts University before he died, even telling him to practice the Foundation Building Technique first if necessary.

Although his family could manage now, why settle for less when he could have more?

With his own income, Li Ye could pay off the 200,000 debt in two years. But he couldn't let his parents live in that old neighborhood forever. Even if they were willing, Li Ye needed good resources to advance further in martial arts and see more of the world.

A Top Martial Arts University was definitely the best option.

Unless he killed another god and obtained new Authority, he would need to find a more convenient way to break through.

Li Ye had been thinking about this before school started, but it seemed like it could be solved now.

Nutrient Solution with Dragon Blood components!

One tube of Nutrient Solution gave 5 points, and combined with the Five Flavors Chopsticks, it gave him 15 points of Blood Essence.

These palm-sized, test-tube-like Nutrient Solutions, a few hundred of them, would only fill about ten small mineral water bottles.

Such a small amount of liquid wouldn't attract any attention.

And he could exchange for these items through training, combined with eating at the cafeteria every day, he wouldn't need that much time to enter the Fourth Dragon Gate.

"If I go for training, how do I exchange for Nutrient Solution?" Li Ye asked.

"You want Nutrient Solution?"

Yao Leden asked strangely, "That stuff isn't good, not as good as high-end ingredients. But there's none on the market, only quotas at the school. If you want to exchange for it, one demon can be exchanged for one tube."

Li Ye nodded, hoping that the Training Points would indeed refresh regularly!