A Single Day to Enter the Grade, Fierce Dragon Soars Skyward!

A Single Day to Enter the Grade, Fierce Dragon Soars Skyward!

Generally speaking, Su Tu only gained Proficiency after completing a round of training for the corresponding skill.

For example, the system prompt would only appear after he finished a test paper, completed a set of Straight Punches, or ended a workout.

But Burial of Immortals increased Proficiency in real time.

Almost every twenty minutes, he gained 20 Proficiency.

In other words, his body underwent a transformation every twenty minutes. Not only could he feel his physical body improving, but he could also directly see his skill Proficiency rising through the System Panel prompts.

It was a sense of accomplishment that nothing else could compare to.

As a result, even though cultivating his Base Skill was agonizing and tedious, Su Tu remained thoroughly delighted in both body and mind.

Body Strengthening (Mid Grade): 362/1000

Spiritual Wisdom (Mid Grade): 183/1000

Cooking (Initial Grade): 200/300

Combat (Initial Grade): 160/300

Dao Gathering (Initial Grade): 30/300

The System Panel quietly appeared before him. Body Strengthening's Proficiency had now surpassed Spiritual Wisdom's. It had to be said that effort only held real value when applied in the right direction.

To improve his Spiritual Wisdom now, Su Tu still had to keep doing problems. A full test paper only raised his Spiritual Wisdom Proficiency by one point.

But practicing Burial of Immortals for twenty minutes raised his Body Strengthening Proficiency by twenty points. How could the two compare?

I should find a way to raise my Spiritual Wisdom faster.

Su Tu thought to himself, but quickly turned his attention back to his body and immersed himself fully in his Base Skill.

"The Qi in my body is growing stronger."

Su Tu felt the Qi within him steadily growing as it circulated throughout his body. If that clump of Qi had once been a planted seed, then now it faintly showed signs of breaking through the soil and growing into a sapling.

Crack~

It sounded as though something inside his body had broken open.

The next moment, all the Qi that had been flowing along his blood vessels surged toward one part of his body.

"This is!!"

Su Tu seemed to sense it. His movements stopped, and both his body and mind sank into stillness.

Zhou Wuliang watched Su Tu cultivate his Base Skill with a complicated expression.

"A Base Skill comprehended from an ancient book cannot be clearly seen or imitated. How am I supposed to teach this kid?"

As he looked at his student, Zhou Wuliang felt both joy and worry.

That mysterious ancient book had come from an ancient immortal site. Those who comprehended a Base Skill from it all possessed supreme talent. The true essence of their Base Skills lay not in form, but in spirit. Even if others watched their stances, it would be useless.

Zhou Wuliang was pleased that his student possessed such terrifying talent and could comprehend a Base Skill from that mysterious ancient book. But he was also worried because he simply could not guide Su Tu in cultivating it.

A Base Skill comprehended from the mysterious ancient book could only be practiced and used to draw in Qi by its comprehender. Others could not offer guidance at all.

Zhou Wuliang was quite troubled. Others worried that their students lacked talent and could not be taught, while he was troubled because his student was too talented. Zhou Wuliang's response to such trouble was, give me more! Let this old man bear this pain alone!

Zhou Wuliang valued Su Tu greatly. Because of this, he had planted Cognitive Seals in those students, preventing them from speaking of how the Seventh Grade Base Skill had failed to activate Su Tu's talent.

And that was merely a small measure he used to conceal Su Tu's talent.

This Cognitive Seal was not difficult to remove. His students all had considerable backgrounds, and their families possessed methods to break his seal.

But he had left the seal there precisely so that others would break it!

Upon seeing a monster like Su Tu, those students would surely report to their families. Once they discovered that he had planted Cognitive Seals on them, those old foxes would certainly deduce Su Tu's astonishing talent and have their younger family members befriend him.

If someone in those families was suspicious and removed the seal, they would discover the astonishing talent Su Tu had displayed, confirming their original assumptions.

Since the Federation's founding, anyone who had gained insight from that mysterious ancient book had been a Supreme Heaven's Pride. Such geniuses could not be hidden, so Zhou Wuliang used this method of creating suspicion to tell others that he had taken in a genius student.

The first layer concealed Su Tu's talent, while the second verified his potential. As for the rest, that depended on everyone else's imagination.

It could be said that Zhou Wuliang had gone to great lengths for Su Tu.

Now, his greatest concern regarding Su Tu was how to teach him.

There was no helping it. His talent was simply too high!!

At the start of a martial artist's path, one cultivated a Base Skill to enter a grade, then filled the 108 apertures throughout the body with Qi to reach completion.

As for Base Skills, he could no longer teach Su Tu anything.

"Once this child enters a grade, I can teach him combat techniques."

"I just wonder how long it will take him to enter a grade."

For a martial artist to enter a grade, they needed to guide that strand of Qi within their body into an aperture. The process of going from zero to one was the hardest.

Before Qi circulated through the body, the many apertures within were sealed shut. They had to be blasted open with powerful Qi. Yet some who had only just grasped Qi could not even sense its existence, much less use it to strike open an aperture.

This stage of entering a grade was often enough to determine one's talent in the Martial Dao.

Zhou Wuliang had investigated before. Among his disciples, Luo Fan and Mo Ya had entered a grade the fastest. They had spent just over a month sensing Qi. Tang Yangwu had been slightly slower, taking three months, while the other students had taken even longer, most of them spending a year.

And they could already be considered rather talented. Most martial artists needed several years just to find their Qi Sense.

It was said that among the New Stars, there was once a Supreme Heaven's Pride who took only three days to find their Qi Sense, guide Qi into an aperture, and successfully enter a grade. That person was now one of the stars of the Martial Dao, qualified to contend for a "Crown Title."

His own student was also an incredible monster. He just did not know how long it would take Su Tu to find his Qi Sense and guide Qi into an aperture.

Just as Zhou Wuliang was thinking, he suddenly sensed a faint fluctuation.

Following that fluctuation with his gaze, he saw Su Tu standing upright, his entire body seeming to be enveloped by an indescribable aura.

"Qi Through the Flesh!!" Zhou Wuliang's eyes involuntarily widened at the sight.

"Could he truly be monstrous to such an extent!!"

Qi Through the Flesh meant that Qi had reached the first aperture. The physical body could then direct Qi, covering itself in a layer of Qi to bolster its strength.

And Su Tu was currently displaying the signs of Qi Through the Flesh.

That meant he had already... successfully entered a grade and stepped into Branch Peeking!!

Su Tu clenched his fists and felt power filling every inch of his body. It did not feel like mere physical strength, but more like an indescribable enhancement.

He could clearly feel that his essence, energy, and spirit had all grown much stronger, and his control over his body had become far clearer.

"So this is what entering a grade feels like. Not bad," Su Tu said softly.

But Zhou Wuliang, who was watching from the side, stared with his tiger-like eyes wide open. He looked at the young figure before him as though he were watching a newborn sun rise.

His heart was filled with joy, yet also with an indescribable regret.

"Yesterday, he had only comprehended his Base Skill. Today was his first true cultivation session, yet he successfully entered a grade!"

"Looking across the entire Federation, its countless lineages and innumerable geniuses, I have never heard of anyone advancing at such a speed!!"

"This child's talent in physical cultivation is simply unimaginable. With that talent alone, he could carve out a path for himself!"

"To think such a monster is my student... What a pity that the karmic ties around me have yet to be resolved. I cannot take on more disciples."

Compared to Zhou Wuliang's regret—

The other students, having sensed Su Tu's change, all widened their eyes and looked at him as though they had seen a ghost.

They could sense the changes in Su Tu and clearly see the layer of Qi covering his body.

"Is this for real? Today should be his first time officially cultivating a Base Skill, right? He actually entered a grade in a single day?" The speaker was a fair-skinned chubby boy, his eyes filled with shock.

Beside him, a tall, thin figure's lips trembled. "He must be some great expert reincarnated, or a Heavenly King reborn. That's how novels always write it!"

"I wonder what grade of Base Skill he's cultivating. There isn't even a trace of pain on his face. Instead, he's charging forward through the rapids. That's too absurd. Is he really an ordinary person?" The girl with twin ponytails frowned.

For members of these great families, a little investigation was enough to reveal that Su Tu was merely an ordinary student from the North Sea. But that was precisely why they were so shocked. They had consumed all kinds of supplements and precious medicines since childhood, watched martial artists circulate Qi, and still spent a long time before successfully entering a grade.

Yet Su Tu, an ordinary person who had never come into contact with the Martial Dao, had directly entered a grade in a single day. One could only imagine their shock.

Luo Fan and Mo Ya said nothing, but their eyes were filled with deep astonishment. Entering a grade in one day—even among the New Stars, they had never heard of such a person!!

Among the crowd, only Tang Yangwu wore a smile. Sure enough, his judgment had not been wrong. A genius of this caliber would surely become a Fierce Dragon soaring into the sky in the future. Befriending him was absolutely the best investment he had ever made!

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