Gu Yang seemed to have expected this. Hearing that, he merely shook his head with a smile. "I don't think the request is excessive, but I still need to check with the principal."
Right in front of Li Ye, he made the call. Once it connected, he quickly got to the point.
"Principal, six hundred Nutrient Solutions and three hundred thousand for every training session. You only want the Nutrient Solutions, right, Li Ye?"
As he spoke, he turned to confirm it with Li Ye.
After Li Ye nodded, Gu Yang listened for a while longer. "Yes. All right, I understand."
After hanging up, he said to Li Ye, "It's fine. The school agreed. There's only one requirement: you can't transfer schools midway. It's the same for the martial arts competition. As long as you produce results, you won't be shortchanged on anything you deserve!"
"The school really values this sort of thing."
Li Ye smiled. "No testing needed?"
Gu Yang smiled as well. "Ningjiang City and its eight subordinate counties have a total of sixty-seven high schools and two thousand Martial Arts Students. Xiang Feipeng, whom you defeated so easily, can rank among the top fifty. Defeating him already proves your strength. Now you can even clear out and wipe out a Training Point—who would dare ask you to take a test? I definitely couldn't beat you."
He had graduated from a Key Martial Arts University too, entering at the Fourth Dragon Gate. But there were differences even among martial artists. He lacked the talent to charge straight through the barriers. By the time he graduated from university, he had only reached the Sixth Dragon Gate. After wasting more than a decade, he had merely made progress through one more leap.
Of the Nine Dragon Gate Leaps, each higher realm was harder to leap through. Once people reached a certain age, their qi and blood began to decline, no longer as vigorous as in youth. Before university graduation was basically the peak period for martial arts training. If they failed to break through then, whatever realm they were in after graduation was not likely to see much further advancement.
Gu Yang was nearing forty. He had broken through to the Seven Dragon Gate at twenty-eight, and from then until now, there had not been the slightest possibility of further progress.
Thinking of this, Gu Yang sighed. "If you don't break through before graduating university, there's no hope for the rest of your life. People like Fu Yan are far too rare. Sometimes, I even envy people like you who directly train breakthrough martial arts. With talent and perseverance, you're bound to make a name for yourselves someday."
"A talent like you, the school would smash pots and sell iron to keep. Just don't look down on us when our treatment can't compare to others'."
"As long as you're not trying to rip me off, I'm easy enough to talk to." Li Ye smiled.
After all, he attended school here. At present, he had no bad impression of the place. As long as the benefits kept up, there was no need for him to transfer. He also had close friends here.
"Fine. We'll provide you with the full amount of Nutrient Solutions later. Do you have a bank card? We'll transfer the three hundred thousand directly to it."
Hearing that, Li Ye gave him his bank card number, then took his leave.
After he left, Gu Yang shook his head again. "Only Nutrient Solutions, huh."
In terms of effectiveness, these things definitely could not compare to high-quality ingredients. Their advantage lay only in being stable and easy to absorb, and they were allocated from above, with every school receiving a quota.
It was not difficult to provide Nutrient Solutions. One could say Li Ye's request was quite modest. The only issue was the sheer quantity.
Li Ye needed six hundred for one training session. They certainly could not produce that many themselves, but they could trade with other schools. If these things could be traded, Martial Arts Students would all trade them away. Anyone with even a little capability would choose ingredients better than Nutrient Solutions.
Giving Li Ye so many meant the class's weekly allotment definitely had to be adjusted. But if they exchanged the weekly Nutrient Solutions for better things, surely no one would object.
Even if they did object, it would not matter. A genius like this had to be kept. The martial arts competition could win the school even more resources.
Otherwise, with Xiang Feipeng's temperament, what ordinary school could tolerate him? But there was no helping it—strength ruled supreme.
Gu Yang smiled. "No. 14 Middle School has really stepped in dog shit these past few years."
Putting Fu Chuxue aside, with Li Ye added to the mix and Xiang Feipeng recovering later, they could firmly secure third place and contend for even higher in the City Martial Arts Competition.
After Li Ye went outside, all the students had arrived.
"Li the Vajra."
At the sight of Li Ye, Yao Leden beamed with delight. Clearly a delicate, energetic short-haired beauty, she now rubbed her hands like a fly and smiled ingratiatingly.
"Next time you train, can you capture them all alive? I know you're capable. I'll raise my cut a little more—I'll give you twenty percent. Can you capture them all alive for me?"
She had originally been quite angry. According to past arrangements, half the students she had negotiated with would sell her what they gained from training.
Yet yesterday, she had only gotten one.
Li Ye had not sold his other gains to her either.
The problem definitely lay with Li Ye. Though she could not swallow it, on second thought, he was enticing too!
He alone ruled the Training Point. If they could reach an agreement, would that not be equivalent to her packaging up everything from the Training Point? Even if she only got one-third, she would make a fortune. Better still if they could be captured alive—the price would be even higher.
"You sold that mantis from yesterday?" Li Ye smiled.
Yao Leden proudly raised her chin. "Twenty-five thousand. One buyer really liked it and bought it back for a collection."
Who would complain about having too much money? A little extra pocket money was always good.
"Tsk, what a profiteer. One flip of the hand and the price doubled." Li Ye smiled.
He did not have any ill feelings toward her. At least she had told him the real price. Being able to sell it for so much was her skill. Li Ye himself could not find such a channel anyway.
He could not exactly trouble Pan Zhengyang or Sun Shun over such a trivial matter.
"But you won't be able to find me during the next training session. Gu Yang just spoke to me and told me not to participate. I agreed."
"Like Fu Chuxue?"
Yao Leden froze for a moment, then nodded. "That's how it should be. You're too strong. You're clearly only at the Three Dragon Gate, yet you displayed crushing strength. If this goes on for a few more sessions, we won't even qualify to drink the soup."
"Brother Ye."
Deng Hao and Jia Dong entered the training hall at that moment. Seeing Li Ye, they greeted him. They had barely exchanged a few words when a tower-like youth approached with a group of people.
When everyone looked over, Deng Hao and Jia Dong instinctively shifted back. Over two meters tall, with knotted muscles and vigorous qi and blood, he truly gave off an oppressive air.
But they quickly came to their senses. Standing behind Li Ye, they all straightened their backs.
Their big brother was right here. What was there to fear?
"Brother Li!"
Yang Jie called out. His body was noticeably bent as he lowered his head. "Thank you for saving me yesterday."
"We're classmates. It was just lending a hand, no need to be so polite. Is your arm better?"
Li Ye looked at Yang Jie's arm. It was still wrapped in bandages, but it did not seem to affect his movements much.
"Another day of observation and it should be about done. The martial art I practice focuses on recovery. It was only a fracture. After applying medicine for one night, it's almost healed." Yang Jie said.
In the world of martial arts, there were many miraculous medicines. Medicine similar to the Black Jade Bone-Connecting Paste from Li Ye's previous life was no different from mass-produced goods with Divine Land's modern scientific methods.
"If you need anything in the future, just call out. You're much better than Xiang Feipeng. I acknowledge you."
Yang Jie spoke very directly. "Everyone around me acknowledges you too!"
"Brother Ye!"
"Brother Li!"
"Brother Li, you were incredible yesterday! You wiped out the Training Point all by yourself!"
The people behind Yang Jie all called out.
Influenced by them, even more Martial Arts Students gathered around, all wearing smiles as they shouted over one another.
"Damn. You're collecting little brothers." Deng Hao clicked his tongue.
Jia Dong nodded. "As it should be. Brother Ye has always been popular. It's only showing now."
He was not surprised. He had been observing these past few days as well, and he had determined that Brother Ye would definitely have influence.
That Fu Chuxue was like a divine dragon whose head could be seen but whose tail could not. She was cold to the bone; no one could even get a word in with her.
Xiang Feipeng had once tried speaking to her, only to be slapped into the hospital for two weeks.
That fellow himself was even more beastly. He threw his weight around in the Martial Arts Class. Other than Fu Chuxue, whom he could not beat, everyone else had been beaten by him. He had formed a small clique and acted like a tyrant, picking fights with anyone he disliked.
Guo Chuming followed him, which was why he acted so arrogantly despite only being at the First Dragon Gate.
Only because Xiang Feipeng achieved results in martial arts competitions and brought some benefits to the students did they dare not speak out despite their anger.
Yang Jie was not bad either, but his strength was a little lacking. Even so, he had gathered a group of people who did not want to be bullied and barely held their ground.
On Li Ye's first day, he had overwhelmed Xiang Feipeng, nearly slapping him to death. For many people, that had been incredibly satisfying.
But the time had still been too short for it to ferment. Yesterday's rescue of Yang Jie, however, had put everyone at ease.
Easy to get along with, not a bully, and strong besides.
With First Place nowhere to be seen and second place hated by heaven and resented by man, Li Ye had appeared, naturally gathering people's hearts around him.
The Martial Arts Class of No. 14 Middle School had gone too long without a big brother!
Only five or six people in the entire class remained huddled in the corner. Everyone else had gathered around Li Ye.
Deng Hao provocatively swept his gaze toward Guo Chuming by the corner, baring his teeth in a grin.
"Old Guo must be having a hard time now. Serves him right! Those who act mad will surely be taken by heaven; if heaven doesn't take them, Brother Ye will."
"That's right!"
Yao Leden chimed in. "I'm announcing something: the Martial Arts Class has only one big brother, and that's my Brother Li!"
"Enough. Go train. We're all classmates—what big brother or not?" Li Ye smiled and waved his hand, signaling everyone to disperse.
That was simply the spirit of seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds. In the past, he might have felt somewhat satisfied by this, but now he only wanted to break through the Dragon Gate as quickly as possible.
Throughout the morning, the Martial Arts Students continued practicing martial arts and refining their qi and blood in targeted ways. It was not until nearly noon dismissal that Gu Yang led a group of people inside. They pulled two carts carrying a food cabinet and a large box.
"Everyone stop for a moment. We're handing out yesterday's training rewards." Gu Yang clapped his hands.
"Huh? There are rewards too?"
Deng Hao, standing nearby, froze. They had not done anything yesterday.
"There will definitely be compensation." Yao Leden smiled.
"After all, the school's main goal is to help people improve their qi and blood, not truly make them compete. This was an unexpected accident, but what should be given will still be given."
"Come line up."
Gu Yang called out. "Starting today, your weekly allotments will change. Nutrient Solutions will no longer be distributed. Instead, I'll provide each of you with better ingredients tailored to strengthen your martial arts. Yao Leden."
Seeing Yao Leden come up first, he took a rabbit from the food cabinet. It had been skinned, gutted, and had its head removed. "Ghost Shadow Chasing Wind Rabbit. Eating more of it can improve your reaction speed. It suits your martial arts. Toss this into the blender when you eat."
"No way."
Yao Leden's eyes widened. "You're giving me such a good ingredient and telling me to toss it into a blender?!"
She was not surprised that Gu Yang had suddenly given her a high-grade ingredient. She recognized this thing. It could be simply prepared into a dish, tasted good, and had excellent effects. It could improve reaction speed and boost explosive power. Outside, she could not get one for less than thirty thousand.
Throwing it into a blender was too wasteful.
"Stop talking nonsense. It has to be eaten with the cafeteria ingredients for the greatest effect."
Gu Yang tossed her the rabbit and had her leave, calling for the next person.
As the instructor, he would plan what each person should eat based on their martial arts. Eating certain ingredients in a targeted manner was beneficial to training.
Yao Leden's martial arts excelled in agility and explosive power, making ingredients of this type suitable for her.
For someone like Yang Jie, the advice was to eat more ingredients that increased strength and fortified bones.
The reason outside martial arts academies could be so popular was that, aside from better martial arts, they also had their own specialties in targeted dietary supplementation.
Thus, Gu Yang did not find it strange that Li Ye wanted only Nutrient Solutions. Perhaps for the martial art he practiced, Nutrient Solutions worked even better than ingredients.
Only after distributing everyone's ingredients did he look at Li Ye and pat the other box on the cart. "The money has been transferred. There are six hundred doses here. Check them."
The corners of Li Ye's lips lifted. He opened the box and saw it filled with test-tube-sized vials. He nodded in satisfaction. "No problem."
This batch was more than enough for him to break through to the Fourth Dragon Gate!
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