Martial Arts Require Perseverance

The award ceremony ended quickly.

All the teachers and students dispersed.

Qin Fen received an Outstanding Youth Certificate, while his Martial Arts Teacher, Zhou Wu, also received an Outstanding Teacher Certificate.

However, Zhou Wu was leading the Freshman Martial Arts Exchange Competition at Fourth High School, so his Outstanding Teacher Certificate was temporarily kept in the principal's office.

Although the award ceremony had ended, Qin Fen's name spread throughout Thirteen Middle School. Not only did the Senior One classes know of Qin Fen, but even the academic and martial arts students in Senior Two and Senior Three had heard his name.

Winning first place in the Freshman Martial Arts Exchange Competition was one thing, but he had even dared to fight Aliens. That was not something an ordinary person could do; it required enough courage.

Aliens were humanity's great enemies. They would not hold back when fighting humans, and one moment of carelessness could cost someone their life. Even some Senior Three Martial Arts Students had no experience fighting Aliens.

They could not help asking themselves whether they would dare rush forward and fight for their lives if they encountered an Alien.

Their answer was uncertainty. And uncertainty meant fear already existed in their hearts.

No wonder Qin Fen was so outstanding. Not only did he train diligently, but he also had the courage to fight Aliens. He fully deserved the Outstanding Youth Certificate issued by the Guard Bureau; all these honors were rightfully his.

If they dared fight Aliens as well, the Guard Bureau would also issue them Outstanding Youth Certificates.

After the award ceremony, Qin Fen went to the principal's office to collect his reward.

The fifty-thousand-yuan prize money from the Freshman Martial Arts Exchange Competition and the school's thirty-thousand-yuan reward came to eighty thousand yuan in total, all of which was transferred into Qin Fen's account.

After that, the principal delivered a long speech of encouragement, telling Qin Fen to keep up the good work and achieve greater glory. Captain Chen from the Guard Bureau also invited Qin Fen to visit the Guard Bureau when he had time.

More than ten minutes later, Qin Fen finally left the principal's office.

He did not return to his classroom or go to the Martial Arts Hall to train. Whenever he remembered being surrounded by a group of students on the athletic field, all scrambling to introduce their younger sisters and older sisters to him, he shuddered.

Qin Fen took a taxi to Thunder Spirit Martial Arts Hall to train.

The training equipment at Thunder Spirit Martial Arts Hall was more comprehensive than that at Thirteen Middle School.

There were many training rooms in the martial arts hall, and using one cost only ten yuan per hour.

Qin Fen chose a secluded training room and quietly experienced the changes in the Jing Li within his body.

Once Jing Li reached the Third Realm, it could not only be released and withdrawn smoothly, but also had all kinds of other uses.

For example, with Jing Li refined to the smallest detail, he could precisely control the circulation of his blood, accelerate metabolism and cell division, and allow his injuries to recover more quickly. When combined with medicinal oil, it could shorten recovery time even further.

Furthermore, Jing Li could penetrate deep into the internal organs, expel toxins accumulated within them, revitalize those organs, and even slow their aging.

In short, reaching the Third Realm of Jing Li came with countless benefits.

Qin Fen: Quasi-Martial Artist

Martial Arts: Galloping Horse Strength/Peak Perfection (500/500), Eighteen Falls Upon Touching/Entering the Hall and Reaching the Inner Chamber (35/100), Thunderclap Fist/Entering the Hall and Reaching the Inner Chamber (150/500)

Righteous Qi Value: 100

Qin Fen summoned the Panel.

Galloping Horse Strength's proficiency had risen to 500 points, reaching its peak and unable to improve any further. The Third Realm of Jing Li was the limit of Galloping Horse Strength. To break through to the Fourth Realm of Jing Li, he could only cultivate more advanced martial arts.

Once the Freshman Martial Arts Exchange Competition ended in a couple of days, he could seek out his Martial Arts Teacher Zhou Wu to learn deeper martial arts. These 100 points of Righteous Qi Value could allow any newly learned martial art to directly cross the Rudimentary Understanding stage and reach the First Glimpse of the Path.

After Qin Fen finished his massage, he began training Thunderclap Fist.

As Thunderclap Fist's realm improved, Qin Fen discovered that even after applying Thunder Spirit Martial Arts Hall's exclusive medicinal ointment to assist his training, his progress was much slower than before.

After an entire day, he had only gained three proficiency points.

Qin Fen checked the official website. Besides applying the exclusive medicinal ointment to improve progress, there was another method for training Thunderclap Fist: electrical stimulation. Its effects were even better than the exclusive medicinal ointment.

For Thunderclap Fist to reach the Peak Realm, one had to endure electrical stimulation.

Thunder emerged from the mountains, and all things sprouted. The earliest amino acids of life had also formed when lightning struck the various elements in the ocean, producing the most primitive cells under powerful electrical currents.

But humans could not allow themselves to be struck by real lightning. That would be seeking death.

Even Martial Artists who had opened the Mysterious Gate Aperture and nurtured Internal Family True Qi would be struck dead by a single bolt of lightning.

The current used in electrical stimulation could be controlled within a safe range, but the process still caused tremendous pain. Few people could endure such pain. Anyone with slightly fragile nerves might faint from the shock the instant the current flowed through them and lose consciousness.

Even so, electrical stimulation was extremely expensive, costing ten thousand yuan per session.

However, according to the description, before the electrical stimulation, there would be a series of procedures including specialized massages, acupuncture, therapeutic manipulation, and medicinal baths. If one could withstand electrical stimulation training, Thunderclap Fist would progress extremely quickly. At the Entering the Hall and Reaching the Inner Chamber realm, it would take only a dozen or so days to reach Comprehensive Mastery.

With normal training, it would take at least around a year. Even with the exclusive medicinal ointment, it would still take more than half a year.

Practicing martial arts was not a simple matter. One could not casually train a few times and become a martial arts expert. It required persistence over years and months. In truth, cultivating Jing Li was not difficult.

Even someone with poor talent and aptitude could cultivate Jing Li by persevering for a year.

But that did not mean that once you cultivated Jing Li, you would possess it for the rest of your life.

If you stopped training for two or three months and let your martial arts fall into disuse, your cultivation would regress.

It was the same principle as fitness training for ordinary people. Only by exercising every day could you maintain a perfect physique. If you spent two or three months eating well, being lazy, and refusing to exercise, yet still wanted to maintain a perfect figure, you were dreaming.

Therefore, martial arts training required perseverance. Once one slackened, one's cultivation would regress.

Practicing martial arts every day required spending a great deal of money: Nutritional Meals, medicinal ointments and massages, medicines and acupuncture, medicinal oils and therapeutic manipulation, medicinal baths, and even learning martial arts itself cost money.

In short, practicing martial arts meant spending money. It was a bottomless pit.

The saying that scholars came from poor families while martial artists came from rich ones was not without reason.

Cultivating Jing Li was not difficult.

What was difficult was maintaining one's realm without regressing.

Therefore, even though Righteous Qi Value could increase his martial arts proficiency, Qin Fen would still persist in training every day. Righteous Qi Value could only serve as an accelerant and could not be relied on excessively. He had to cultivate the habit of daily training and could not slack off in the slightest.