Ultimate Move "Hidden Dragon in the Rocky Ravine"

Ultimate Move "Hidden Dragon in the Rocky Ravine"

Xu Bo and the Black Robe woman passed by outside the classroom. They had concealed their auras, and they had not observed for long, so Li Yuan had not noticed them at all.

He was completely immersed in his training.

Although Li Yuan was serious when studying academic subjects, he approached them with the mindset of "completing a task," so it was difficult for his efficiency to reach its peak.

But when practicing his fist techniques and spear techniques, feeling his physical fitness and martial skills gradually improve, Li Yuan felt joy from the bottom of his heart.

His focus had reached the extreme.

When doing something, only by immersing oneself in it and truly loving it from the heart could one make the greatest progress.

Time trickled away, second by second.

Suddenly.

[Your fist technique realm has increased from Level 3, 88% to Level 3, 89%]

[Your punching force has increased from 426 kilograms to 427 kilograms]

[Your speed has increased from 14.4 meters per second to 14.5 meters per second]

Three notifications appeared in Li Yuan's field of vision in quick succession, and the data on his Divine Palace Panel changed as well.

Yet, immersed in his training, he had not even noticed the slight improvement in his physical fitness.

Not until his Smart Ring Watch suddenly vibrated.

"Already five-thirty? Time really flies." Only then did Li Yuan snap out of it.

He was covered in sweat.

"Hmm? My physical fitness has improved a little again?" Only then did Li Yuan notice the notification on the Divine Palace Panel.

He felt even more satisfied.

"A little progress every day—keep at it, and it will add up," Li Yuan thought to himself.

Ever since he had awakened the Mind Divine Palace a year ago and learned the Great Sun Starry Sky Sutra, as long as Li Yuan meditated for two hours each day and endured that hellish torment of his mind being scorched, all physical exhaustion would be wiped clean. It was far more effective than sleeping or deep therapeutic treatment.

From then on, he developed the habit of coming to school after three in the morning to train.

Even during holidays, he would find a place downstairs in his residential complex and train alone.

He pushed himself to the absolute limit.

Only then had he achieved such meteoric progress in martial arts over the past year.

Li Yuan wiped the sweat from his body and put the towel away.

Then he suddenly sensed something and turned around.

"Tianyou? You came so early?" Li Yuan smiled at the thin figure carrying a backpack.

"You came even earlier than I did." Li Tianyou looked at Li Yuan with slight surprise.

"I only got here a little while ago. I just put down my bag." Li Yuan took out his spear and smiled. "I left evening self-study earlier than you yesterday, so naturally I need to work harder during morning self-study."

"Is that so?" Li Tianyou stared at Li Yuan doubtfully.

He could no longer remember how many times this had happened.

Every evening self-study session, he was always the last one to leave the classroom, so his classmates called him the "top grinder."

But!!

Only Li Tianyou knew that whether he arrived at the classroom at six-thirty, six-fifteen, or even six sharp, there would always be someone already there—Li Yuan.

Today, he had deliberately arrived early, at five-forty.

Yet Li Yuan was still already standing in the classroom.

"Pfft!"

Not far away, Li Yuan took out his spear and silently began practicing his spear technique.

Could it be that Li Yuan came to school at five-thirty every day? Or even earlier? Li Tianyou could not help thinking as he watched Li Yuan.

Then he shook his head to himself.

Impossible!

"My home is only one street away from school. You could say I live very close."

"When I occasionally arrive after five, I get a little sleepy during the day." Li Tianyou thought to himself, If I want to stay energetic throughout the day, I still have to get up at six-fifteen.

Li Tianyou was also extremely self-disciplined.

"Li Yuan's family is only slightly better off than mine. He can't afford advanced therapy, and he lives so far away... If he wants to get to school by five-thirty, he'd have to get up at five. His body couldn't take it."

"He must be like me, only occasionally coming to school after five to train."

"It's just that these few times, we happened to run into each other." Li Tianyou guessed.

He did not dwell on it and began practicing the Basic Cultivation Method by himself.

Not until six-thirty.

The sky was already fully bright when several classmates began arriving at the martial arts classroom one after another.

"You two grind kings are both here again?" Several classmates teased them, then each began training on their own.

It was not that the students of Class 2, Grade 3 were not hardworking. Rather, most students focused on academic subjects. Even if they arrived early, most would go to the academic classroom to review their lessons.

"Clang~"

Li Yuan put his spear into the weapon cabinet and left the classroom for the cafeteria.

It was time for breakfast.

Three meals a day, eaten at scheduled times, with extra food or reduced portions according to the body's needs.

That was a basic discipline for a martial arts student.

After breakfast.

Li Yuan headed straight to the academic classroom and began a morning of academic study.

Day after day.

Li Yuan trained methodically.

For Grade 3 students, whether they focused on academic subjects or martial arts.

The process was extremely dull and stifling.

But Li Yuan knew very well that there had never been such a thing as a true genius.

Genius had always been 99% sweat and 1% talent. Sometimes, when breaking through a bottleneck, that 1% of talent truly mattered more.

But without that 99% sweat, no matter how great one's talent, it would ultimately be a pavilion suspended in midair.

Because this world never lacked geniuses.

What it lacked had always been geniuses willing to work hard.

Day after day, and in the blink of an eye, it was already mid-September.

During that time, Li Yuan found time to visit the Guanshan District Branch of the Starry Sky Martial Hall and asked Uncle Zhong to buy him an entire box of basic vitality medicine. It cost him 19,000 Blue Star Coins.

Uncle Zhong was a friend of Li Changzhou, Li Yuan's uncle. He was an official-rank martial artist and also a member of the Starry Sky Martial Hall, so he could get a discount on basic vitality medicine.

Even so, the expense pained Li Yuan.

But he had no choice but to spend it.

Without basic vitality medicine, the speed of improvement in his physical fitness would be at least cut in half.

His body might not even be able to withstand such frenzied training and would develop deficits.

Martial arts required not only talent and hard work, but also money piled into it.

None of the three could be lacking.

And now, more than ten days had passed since Teacher Xu Bo promised him a "third-tier scholarship."

Li Yuan yearned for it in his heart.

But during this time, whether in martial arts class or when he ran into Teacher Xu Bo between classes, Li Yuan never mentioned it.

It was as though the conversation between them had never happened.

"I can only wait for this scholarship. I absolutely cannot ask for it," Li Yuan sighed inwardly.

Because he was not qualified to.

Since Teacher Xu Bo had not mentioned it, he must have encountered some difficulty.

Asking about it would only make the other party unhappy.

In the blink of an eye, another five days passed.

The moonlight was hazy, casting cold radiance across the asphalt road outside the Grade 3 school building.

In the spacious martial arts classroom of Class 2, Grade 3, more than ten students trained separately.

At one side of the training ground, Li Yuan was immersed in spear practice.

He stood there like an unshakable boulder, carrying an invisible pressure as he gripped his spear with both hands.

Again and again, he practiced the various techniques of the long spear.

"Puff!"

"Whoosh!" The spearhead carved invisible arcs through the air, forming layer upon layer of afterimages. At times, it was swift as a gale, launching fierce, direct thrusts.

Boom! Then it became firm as bedrock, the spear shadows flowing and winding without end.

Every turn, lift, thrust, block, and upward sweep Li Yuan made landed flawlessly on the points he had envisioned in his heart.

As his spine bent like a bow and his waist twisted, the muscles, tendons, and bones throughout his body moved with the spear. He had reached an exceptionally high realm where body, mind, and weapon fused as one.

Suddenly.

Li Yuan, who had just held his spear in a defensive blocking stance, abruptly surged forward with a ferocious thrust, like a giant dragon lurking amid ten thousand rocky ravines, erupting after gathering its strength.

Before this thrust erupted, it had concealed itself to the utmost limit.

But when it erupted, its might was terrifying to the utmost limit as well.

Boom! The spear shadow blurred in an instant, and the air itself faintly exploded.

This scene.

Startled the surrounding students, and they could not help turning to look at the move Li Yuan had unleashed.

"I've finally perfected this killing move completely."

"Hidden Dragon in the Rocky Ravine!" Li Yuan withdrew his spear. A faint gleam flashed in his eyes. "With this killing move, combined with the killing move I created before, Bedrock Pillar, one for attack and one for defense, complementing each other."

"I have every hope of pushing my Gold Rank points past 500 on the Starry Sky Fighting Net."

The Starry Sky Fighting Net had long established that.

Anyone who reached 500 points in Gold Rank before turning eighteen would receive a reward of 50,000 Blue Star Coins.

"Hmm?" Li Yuan suddenly noticed the notification from the Divine Palace Panel.

[Your spear technique realm has increased from Level 3, 40% to Level 3, 46%]

(End of Chapter)