After dinner, Lu Chenzhou went down to the training grounds beneath the dormitory building to practice his fists. There was only a month left until the summer exams, and everyone was training hard beneath the scorching sunset.
It was not as if there were no air-conditioned rooms, but nobody went inside to train. Martial artists whose vitality and blood had broken 2 were generally unfazed by heat or cold. Since that was the case, they trained through the bitterest days of winter and the hottest days of summer.
In ancient times, martial arts training emphasized absorbing "the spiritual qi of heaven and earth, the essence of sun and moon." This kept a martial artist's yang energy flourishing and offered a slight restraining effect against Void Entities.
Night fell.
Some went to rest, while others continued punching.
"Tianyu, you reached the Sixth Stage?"
"Yeah."
The two young lovers from martial families had finished sparring.
The other students cast envious looks their way.
"Sixth Stage in their first year of high school... I can't imagine how strong they'll be by senior year."
"Exactly. They really are disciples of martial families!"
After the Anli Realm, breaking through stages became difficult. Even with Huo Tianyu's advantages, she had been stuck at the Fifth Stage for more than half a year. The other students would already be satisfied if they could reach the Fifth Stage before the college entrance exams.
As for breaking through into the Huali Realm, that was even harder.
Liu Huan understood that deeply. Back then, he had surged through the first three stages like a bamboo shoot splitting rock, taking less than half a year. Yet he had now been stuck at the Sixth Stage for over half a year, unable to break through.
Once the topic came up, the students