Martial Arts
The former Orphanage did not teach this sort of thing, but nearly all the teachers were proficient in martial arts—more precisely, the Killing Technique.
Any student who performed poorly would receive a rather effective beating,
Although the teachers had become more restrained, the students trained by the Orphanage were far from ordinary, and there were still cases of students being beaten to death.
As an outstanding student, Yi Chen was rarely beaten, but whenever he encountered such an incident, he would stand aside and carefully observe, memorizing the teachers' movements perfectly. After returning to the dormitory, he would train alone, and sometimes he would even find an older orphan to spar with.
In a one-on-one fight, aside from the adult employees of the Orphanage, seven-year-old Yi Chen had no opponents. He had learned all the teachers' Killing Techniques simply by observing them.
However, when he was nine, he happened to get the chance to spar with Director Cao, yet he could not touch his opponent at all and was knocked unconscious in less than a minute.
At the time, Director Cao not only did not criticize Yi Chen but instead gave him extremely high praise.
"Within the scope of humanity, you are the most gifted child I have ever seen."
Whoosh~
With the exhalation of a stream of golden breath, Yi Chen opened his eyes again and felt as if he had been "resurrected from the dead."
At the lowest level of the Monastery of Suffering, he had once abandoned the concept of flesh and existed as pure Concept of Death. Although he had discarded the concept of his inherent flesh, that incomplete body had still been preserved in the depths of the Dead Sea.
Now,
After cultivating with his lungs as the center, he actually felt