Embodying Myriad Traits, I Will Ultimately Become Immortal

Meng Chuan crossed his arms.

"Those little moves of yours, and you thought you could sneak-attack me?"

"You have no idea—the barrier between us has only grown thicker and thicker."

Wang Yue climbed up from the ground and wailed deeply:

"Fuck!!!"

Teacher Luo had informed him in advance that he had something to do that evening. After leaving the martial arts gym, Meng Chuan went straight home.

Late at night in his bedroom, Meng Chuan's legs shook like sieves, sweat continuously dripping from his head onto the floor.

He had no time to wipe it away, because his stamina was already nearing its limit.

Whoosh!

Meng Chuan collapsed onto the bed.

After a full five hours, the Three Powers Stance had made another major breakthrough.

Grand Unity Three Talents Stance: Human Stance (47%) → (48%), pending limit break

A single stance session lasted five whole hours. Every time he practiced the stance, he had to challenge the limits of the human body.

How difficult was the path of martial arts!

Just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Meng Chuan was practicing his punches on the rooftop as usual early in the morning when Teacher Luo called with good news.

"Good news, Meng Chuan. The optimization review for the National Obligatory Basic Fist Art has passed."

Meng Chuan's heart suddenly tightened when he heard it, and he felt a little excited.

He had always been steady and composed, but this news was simply too good.

"Really, Teacher Luo? Then what should I do now?"

"Come over here first. We'll talk when you get here!"

"Alright."

Meng Chuan went downstairs and headed out, saying goodbye to his uncle.

"Going to the martial arts gym to practice again, Chuan'er? You need to balance work and rest sometimes."

Meng Chuan said with a smile:

"I'm not going to practice martial arts. There's news about the National Obligatory Basic Fist Art optimization, so I'm going to see my master."

When Meng Yongzhi heard that, he sprang up from the sofa.

"Good! Hahaha, I knew you could do it!"

"Hurry on over, and remember to bring back the certificate!"

At Luo Guanyun's home.

"After discussion, the evaluation team has preliminarily deemed it a reasonable optimization. Next, the National Obligatory Basic Fist Art you optimized will undergo small-scale pilot observation."

"Tell Meng Chuan to get ready and come over this afternoon. A big shot wants to meet him."

Bai Junfeng's voice came through the other end of the phone. Meng Chuan, standing nearby, could not help but feel delighted.

Luo Guanyun laughed heartily beside him.

"Hahaha, I knew my disciple would make it!"

"Old Bai, which big shot are you talking about?"

Bai Junfeng paused for a moment before speaking.

"The reviser of the previous version of the National Obligatory Basic Fist Art, the honorary president of the Martial Arts Association, a sixth-limit Heavenly King-level Martial Artist."

"Ever-Changing Strategist - Zhao Yingchun."

"Holy shit!"

Luo Guanyun fell silent, inwardly thunderstruck.

He had already prepared himself mentally, but he truly had not expected the big shot Bai Junfeng mentioned to be Heavenly King Zhao Yingchun.

Ever-Changing Strategist Zhao Yingchun—a living fossil of Great Chu who had lived for nearly five hundred years—had revised the National Obligatory Basic Fist Art several times throughout his life, determined to improve the physical constitution of Great Chu's people from the very foundations.

At the same time, he was one of the founders of the first-generation Martial Arts Association. He had accompanied the Grand Ancestor in bringing the Martial Arts Association onto the stage of history, becoming a pioneer of Great Chu's martial arts era.

Although Heavenly King-level Martial Artists were no longer the ceiling of human combat power, Zhao Yingchun was the master of that ceiling!

The current ceiling of humanity's combat power, the Heaven-Tilting Great Sage - Zhao Linyuan, was precisely his direct disciple, personally taught by him.

In the old days before the founding of Great Chu, martial arts had been dominated by jianghu sects and gangs, martial arts clans, and powerful families.

Zhao Yingchun had been born into a martial arts clan with strict bloodline rules. Yet when turmoil swept through Great Chu and beyond, he resolutely abandoned his clan identity and followed the Grand Ancestor to conquer the realm.

In the end, he shattered the barriers of sects and clans, taking the lead in launching the famous Tianshan Reform.

He replaced sects and powerful families with the university and school system, gradually integrating martial arts with technology and pioneering the modern system of qi-and-blood martial arts.

From that moment onward, Great Chu officially entered the era of martial arts for all!

Had it been any other Heavenly King-level powerhouse, Luo Guanyun would never have lost his composure like this.

But Zhao Yingchun was the teacher of a Great Sage, a founding father of Great Chu. A legendary figure of that caliber wanted to meet Meng Chuan—someone else might have gone completely mad on the spot.

Luo Guanyun tried his best to suppress his emotions and slowly said to Meng Chuan:

"President Zhao wants to meet you."

Meng Chuan instantly grew nervous, not knowing what to say for a moment.

On the other end of the phone, Bai Junfeng laughed.

"Gone stupid? Meng Chuan's right there, isn't he? When I learned the news, I wasn't any less shocked than you two."

"Calm yourselves down. President Zhao just wants to see who could revise the National Obligatory Basic Fist Art on top of his foundation. There's no other meaning to it."

"Remember to come to the Martial Arts Association on time—2 p.m. Make sure you remember!"

After the call ended, Luo Guanyun sat on the sofa, overwhelmed with emotion.

"Chuan'er, when we meet the president this afternoon, we must mind our manners. Whatever President Zhao asks, just answer truthfully. Don't get nervous!"

"Alright, Master. I understand."

Meng Chuan felt that, judging by his master's appearance, he was even more nervous than Meng Chuan himself.

Right now, he looked like an elementary school student waiting for the teacher to call on him to recite a text, unable to sit still on the sofa.

After casually eating something, Luo Guanyun impatiently dragged Meng Chuan to the Martial Arts Association.

Once they arrived, Meng Chuan was already familiar with the layout of the Martial Arts Association, having come here many times before to test the National Obligatory Basic Fist Art.

Bai Junfeng had been waiting there all along. When he saw Luo Guanyun arrive with Meng Chuan, he rose to greet them.

"You're here, Old Luo. President Zhao was delayed on the way. Let's collect the award and receive the medal first. Once we finish the other procedures, we'll wait for President Zhao."

Luo Guanyun let out a long breath.

"Ah, now I can relax. You had my heart pounding all the way here."

"Why is your heart pounding? President Zhao is meeting Meng Chuan. What does that have to do with you?"

Luo Guanyun blew his beard and glared.

"You old vulture, Meng Chuan is my disciple. So what?"

Hearing his master giving someone another nickname, Meng Chuan recalled Chief Long, the "Bald Ape," and could not help but chuckle softly.

"Stop mocking me in front of the kid. Enough chatter—Old Luo, wait here. I'll take Meng Chuan to collect his award."

Martial artists valued efficiency and did not care for so many cumbersome formalities.

Before long, the two emerged from the Hall of Honor.

The most eye-catching thing was the medal in Meng Chuan's hands, entirely silver with specks of golden light shimmering at its center.

"Great Chu Silver-Base Golden Lion Medal."

Four vigorous little characters were engraved on the back of the medal: Entrusted in Peril.

Luo Guanyun reached out and took Meng Chuan's Silver Medal, his heart filled with emotion.

"I fought for my life in Dream Lake for seven days and seven nights before I earned a Silver Medal. You brat really have good luck."

"Those who hold a Silver Medal may travel unimpeded throughout Great Chu. All public transportation is free, with no need to queue, and public healthcare is free for life."

Luo Guanyun returned the medal to Meng Chuan.

"Those are just the basics. You'll also receive a ten-percent discount on everything on the Martial Arts Association's official shopping site, and bonus points for either yourself or your children within three generations when taking the martial arts entrance exam."

"The exact number of bonus points is decided each year by the various martial arts universities, but even the nine elite martial arts universities guarantee at least three extra points."

"Put it away. Just keep it at home later. These privileges will be displayed and activated on your citizen ID card, so you don't need to carry the medal with you whenever you go out."

Upon hearing this, Meng Chuan opened the electronic citizen ID card on his phone.