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Anyang Martial Arts School.

Shi Yi's disciple-acceptance ceremony was held as scheduled.

At the ceremony, Shi Yi saw many new faces.

Besides a few local gentry from Anyuan Town, most of the attendees were disciples of Anyang Martial Arts School.

The ceremony wasn't grand, but it was normal.

Except for the initial recruitment of disciples and the final closing disciple, other disciple acceptances wouldn't be overly publicized.

Shi Yi followed the etiquette, presented the customary gift, performed the disciple-acceptance rites, listened to Lu Feng's lecture, and heard the announcement of the school rules.

After the entire process was completed, Shi Yi officially became Lu Feng's disciple.

From then on, in the eyes of others in Anyuan Town, their relationship was one of shared glory and shared loss.

Such disciple-acceptance ceremonies were becoming increasingly rare on Earth. Only some traditional industries might retain such practices.

As times developed on Earth, most people had gradually shifted to paying for skills, and the relationship between master and disciple was no longer as close. Sometimes, it even led to a situation where a master starved after teaching a disciple.

Everything was geared towards money, and benevolence and morality were slowly being discarded! It was ironic, yet very realistic, that some people could rise to prominence precisely because they were less virtuous than others.

At the ceremony, Shi Yi also met the disciples Lu Feng had mentioned who were still alive, apart from the third, sixth, and eighth disciples.

Of the twelve disciples Lu Feng had previously taken, five had died.

Only the fourth and twelfth disciples remained at Anyang Martial Arts School. The seventh and eleventh were outside; the former was in a security escort agency, and the latter had joined the army.

At the disciple-acceptance ceremony, Shi Yi only saw the fourth, seventh, and twelfth disciples.

The three disciples were very friendly towards Shi Yi, clearly aware of some of the circumstances.

Among them, the twelfth disciple was Zhao Cheng, who had been accepted by Lu Feng a few years before Shi Yi and had been there for several years.

In recent years, Lu Feng had stopped accepting disciples, which was also related to those individuals not meeting his requirements for bone structure, comprehension, and so on.

As the disciple-acceptance ceremony concluded, everyone dispersed.

Shi Yi had finally integrated into Anyuan Town and was no longer an unknown person.

At the very least, when others spoke of Anyang Martial Arts School, they might mention him in passing.

He had gained some fame through Anyang Martial Arts School.

In the rented room in Anyuan Town.

"The martial arts section on my panel finally shows the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Strength Training Fist, and it even skipped the beginner stage, directly reaching the minor accomplishment realm."

After Shi Yi completed a full set of the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Strength Training Fist, the martial arts section on his panel displayed the technique, and the prompt changed directly from (Beginner) to (Minor Accomplishment).

It was as if it detected his cultivation progress and automatically upgraded.

This allowed Shi Yi to confirm that the absence of a prompt in the martial arts section previously was due to the incompleteness of the technique.

During his daily cultivation, Shi Yi mostly practiced only the six moves of the Blood Essence Realm. He could feel his own Blood Essence growing and his strength increasing.

However, he couldn't see the progress of the technique in the martial arts section.

"My progress in the Blood Essence Realm is quite good."

"At my current cultivation speed, it will take at most two months for me to complete the accumulation of the Blood Essence Realm, and then I can attempt to break through to the Flesh and Blood Realm."

"It's a pity the panel doesn't show the specific progress behind the martial arts; otherwise, I could accurately calculate the time."

Even without seeing the specific progress of the technique, Shi Yi could roughly estimate his body's Blood Essence accumulation based on his physical condition.

He could clearly see the changes in his Blood Essence with his Double Pupils, so this was not difficult for him.

This cultivation speed was already fast for ordinary people, but for Shi Yi, it could be even faster.

The factor limiting Shi Yi from accelerating his Blood Essence accumulation was not the technique, bone structure, or comprehension, but cultivation resources.

The Blood Nourishing Powder provided by Anyang Martial Arts School was quite good for ordinary people, but for Shi Yi, who had already broken through to the Blood Essence Realm, its effect was somewhat mediocre!

"I should also try the supplementary medicinal recipes that my senior brothers gifted me together to see how much my cultivation progress can be improved."

After successfully becoming a disciple, Shi Yi's three senior brothers gifted him two medicinal recipes to aid in Blood Essence Realm cultivation.

These recipes were very precious to ordinary people, but they were nothing to those who possessed them, as these recipes could be purchased at Anhe Martial Arts School in Ninghe County.

Anyang Martial Arts School, as a subordinate martial arts school of Anhe Martial Arts School, naturally also had medicinal recipes to aid in Blood Essence Realm cultivation, but they had to comply with Anhe Martial Arts School's rules and purchase them with money.

Shi Yi had seen the prices listed behind the recipes; each portion cost around two taels of silver.

Using the two supplementary medicinal recipes together would cost approximately four taels.

One dose of the medicine could be brewed for two days, meaning Shi Yi would need to spend two taels of silver daily if he wanted to take supplementary medicine for cultivation.

If converted to Earth's currency, it would be around four hundred yuan per day.

"Martial Path cultivation is too costly!"

Shi Yi lamented slightly in his heart.

"I wonder if the herbs on Earth are useful?"

This thought popped into Shi Yi's mind.

He hadn't tried Earth's herbs yet and wasn't sure if they would be useful for now.

"I should try the herbs from Earth too."

"If I can't find the medicinal ingredients in Anyuan Town later, this will be another option."

Shi Yi had looked at two auxiliary prescriptions and recognized some of the ingredient names, feeling they were similar to those on Earth.

As for whether they were the same, Shi Yi still needed to confirm with the actual items.

For the ingredients whose names he didn't recognize, he currently had no better solution.

Learning all these characters had become Shi Yi's immediate priority.

Fortunately, he had asked Zhao Cheng, who said arrangements had been made and he would be taken to study with an old scholar in a couple of days, just needing to prepare the tuition fee.

"I was first in my grade at Anlan First High School, and after over a month in the Central Great World, I still haven't learned all the characters. It's truly frustrating."

Shi Yi was also filled with emotion.

In this era, it was said that "poverty favors scholarship, wealth favors martial arts," but for ordinary people, studying was not a simple matter.

Finding a teacher, tuition fees, and daily expenses were all problems that needed to be solved.

It was common for a family to have one person studying, with their parents and siblings all supporting them. Even so, that scholar might not necessarily achieve official success.

It was also because of this that Shi Yi's process of learning characters was a bit more troublesome.

Previously, he had learned some characters by borrowing methods like recognizing door plaques and couplets, but not all of them.

Therefore, professional learning was necessary.

He needed to eliminate illiteracy and not be an ignorant person.

"It's gotten dark now, and it's getting late. I'll head back to Earth to rest."

After glancing at the sky, Shi Yi decided not to stay any longer.

Normally, as Lu Feng's disciple, ordinary people wouldn't bother him or attack him. However, anything could happen.

When sleeping, people are at their most relaxed and most vulnerable to being ambushed.

Therefore, after renting his room, Shi Yi never stayed there at night, always returning to Earth.

After all, in Great Xia on Earth, his safety was guaranteed, and he could sleep more peacefully.

After extinguishing the candlelight, Shi Yi's thoughts stirred, and he vanished from the room.