The reason he invested experience points into martial arts instead of qi and blood was that insight into martial arts was difficult to measure with the naked eye.
It was easy enough for Zhang Wan to hide it.
But the sudden change in his qi and blood could not escape the eyes of Instructor Liu, the teaching instructor.
Zhang Wan also had no means of concealing the changes in his qi and blood.
With all these concerns weighing on him, Zhang Wan had continued to hold back from investing experience points into the Qi and Blood Realm.
"But the time to improve this situation is almost here." Zhang Wan opened his eyes and cast a subtle glance at Xu Hui.
Once little geniuses like Xu Hui among the fifth-level students began breaking through to the Houtian Realm, he would be able to gradually invest experience points into his qi and blood.
With Xu Hui and the others growing and breaking through, they would draw Instructor Liu and the others' attention away. Then his own growth and maturity would not seem so abrupt.
"With jade and pearl shining brilliantly in front, even a stubborn stone can disguise itself as uncut jade and fish in troubled waters." Zhang Wan smiled faintly.
Before long, the rest period ended.
The instructor responsible for teaching the basics of martial arts arrived.
The students of Fifth-Level Class Wu began their morning academic lessons.
Zhang Wan studied and memorized earnestly.
This martial knowledge was all foundational. If he wanted to avoid taking a wrong turn in the future, he had to engrave it all in his heart.
Moreover, if he wanted to travel through the Martial World in the future,
and did not want to miss treasures or fall victim to insidious tricks and ambushes, then he could not afford to miss any of this knowledge.
Over the past five years, Zhang Wan had spent quite a lot of effort in this area.
But the more he studied, the more clearly he understood his own ignorance.
The Martial World was far too vast. There were too many insidious methods, and countless heavenly treasures, poisonous creatures, and demon beasts. In five years, all he could learn was but a drop in the ocean.
This was destined to be something that would consume countless hours and immense effort.
After the morning academic lessons, lunch consisted of another meal that was not particularly sumptuous but had both rice and meat, with enough to fill their stomachs, along with a vat of medicinal soup.
Zhang Wan and the others ate far more at this meal than they had at breakfast.
If they did not eat more now, they would not be able to endure the afternoon martial lessons.
In terms of martial arts, Zhang Wan and the others had only learned the complete martial art known as the Ox Demon Body Tempering Fist.
However, Instructor Liu had also taught them a few other methods.
In particular, Instructor Liu had taught them some other methods of tempering their physiques.
These methods worked together with the Ox Demon Body Tempering Fist to train their bodies and temper their qi and blood.
Those exercises were incredibly grueling. At the beginning, Zhang Wan had been tormented half to death.
Even now, Zhang Wan still found them difficult to endure.
However, those exercises were indeed useful, and they had a considerable effect on improving the physical body.
After an entire afternoon of training, Zhang Wan was exhausted.
Even someone like Xu Hui, who had already reached the Mortal Limit, was exhausted to the point of death.
Of course, that was because Xu Hui's training volume was far greater than Zhang Wan and the others'.
Otherwise, given Xu Hui's physique and quantity of qi and blood, with the same training volume, even if Zhang Wan collapsed from exhaustion, Xu Hui could still guarantee that he had ample strength remaining.
After the afternoon martial lessons, the students had another filling meal before returning to their shared sleeping quarters to rest.
There were a full sixteen children sleeping in Zhang Wan's shared quarters.
They were all students of Fifth-Level Class Wu.
Zhang Wan also had the best relationship with his bunkmates.
But they were all just children. Their relationship had nothing to do with mutual interests and was quite pure.
Although Zhang Wan sometimes found these children's ignorant childishness somewhat unbearable,
he did not dislike them, and he rather enjoyed this pure relationship.
At the hour before dawn, when a new day arrived,
a small gift box popped up on the system panel. When it opened, it burst out with three experience points.
His available experience points changed from 7,886 to 7,889.
When Zhang Wan woke up the next morning and saw the change in his experience points, he knew that he had randomly obtained three experience points during the night.
A small wave of joy immediately welled up in his heart.
Every night, he randomly received one to three experience points, but most of the time he received only one or two. It was rare for him to obtain three experience points.
Each time he received three experience points, although it was only one more point, it was still something worth being slightly happy about.
After his happiness came another day of study and training.
Time flowed like water, slipping away soundlessly.
Before long, Zhang Wan and the others were promoted to sixth-level students.
Then, two months after they advanced to sixth-level students, some of the students in Zhang Wan's academic year began breaking through and advancing to become Houtian martial artists!
With the first person breaking through, the students ranked ahead of Zhang Wan's generation began advancing one after another.
Xu Hui also advanced quickly, breaking through to the Houtian Realm.
After these students became Houtian martial artists, they became outer sect disciples of the Jade Bone Sect, but they continued staying at the Beginner Martial Arts Academy to study.
In the mornings, they still studied martial knowledge together with the other students, continuing to lay a foundation for the road ahead. In the afternoons, they separated from the other students and began cultivating as outer sect disciples.
Zhang Wan had only heard a little about this part. He would have to wait until he became an outer sect disciple himself to learn the details.
After Xu Hui and the others broke through to the Houtian Realm, Zhang Wan no longer had any concerns.
He could now use his experience points freely to improve himself.
After this period passed, Zhang Wan had also grown somewhat through his own cultivation. Now, he only needed one experience point to raise his qi and blood to the limit.
At the same time, his available experience points had increased to 8,090.
One experience point was truly insignificant compared with this enormous fortune.
Some time had passed since Xu Hui and the others broke through, and some students ranked within the top hundred of their level had already begun breaking through. At this point, his improvement would no longer be unusual.
He directly used one experience point, raising his qi and blood to the limit.
As his qi and blood rose and his tempering reached perfection, Zhang Wan did not feel the slightest discomfort. His qi and blood also showed no sign of slipping beyond his control, as though he had cultivated and tempered them to the utmost through his own hard work.
The marvel of the experience points left Zhang Wan sighing in admiration.
Once his qi and blood were perfected and raised to the limit, Zhang Wan vaguely sensed the door blocking his path.
At the same time, new changes appeared on the system panel.
Host: Zhang Wan (ten years old) Realm: Peak Mortal Qi and Blood Realm (thirty experience points can raise qi and blood to the Mortal Limit/already perfected) Realm bottleneck: Houtian bottleneck (three experience points can break through the bottleneck) Cultivation Method and Martial Skill: Mortal Martial Art—Ox Demon Body Tempering Fist (seven experience points can perfect it/already perfected) Available experience points: 8,089
Zhang Wan looked at the additional line on the panel, surprised.
He had not expected experience points to be usable for breaking through bottlenecks, but he was not overly shocked.
The ability to raise his realm and improve his comprehension of martial arts was already beyond imagination. Now that experience points could also be used to break through bottlenecks, it was not something that astonished him too much.
What he felt more strongly was delight.
If experience points could be used to break through bottlenecks, then his path in martial arts would become countless times smoother!
Combined with the function that improved his cultivation,
as long as he had enough experience points, he could completely ascend to the very top in a single leap!
Unfortunately, his only way of obtaining experience points was still receiving them randomly each day.
The number of experience points he could accumulate remained limited.
He had to plan their use carefully.
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