Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Training (Third Update, Please Vote)

Qin Fen went home.

No one cooked dinner that night.

His parents had not worked overtime either, and the three of them went to a restaurant together to celebrate.

When they learned that Qin Fen had taken first place in the Freshman Martial Arts Exchange Competition, won a total of eighty thousand in prize money, and received an Outstanding Youth Certificate issued by the Guard Bureau, the old couple was overjoyed. Their faces were full of smiles, and they were practically beaming.

Their child had made something of himself. They were happy from the bottom of their hearts.

Father Qin normally did not drink, but he was happy today and drank for once. Yet after only a few bottles, his face had turned bright red. In the end, Qin Fen had to support him out of the restaurant.

It was past nine at night when they returned home. After his parents went to bed, Qin Fen turned on Yangcheng TV Station, lowered the volume to the minimum, and watched the Martial Arts Exchange Competition for key schools.

Yesterday had been the opening ceremony. The competition began today.

However, the matches were held during the day, and reruns aired at night.

The Freshman Martial Arts Exchange Competition for key schools did not consist of just five people. Each school sent ten competitors.

These ten students, chosen by their schools to participate in the exchange competition, were all among the freshmen elite. They could be said to be the ten strongest freshmen, and even the weakest among them had reached the Third Realm of Jing Li.

The captain of each school had reached the Fourth Realm of Jing Li.

Their matches were far more exciting than the Freshman Martial Arts Exchange Competition Qin Fen had participated in.

Both sides had reached the Third Realm of Jing Li and possessed profound mastery. The martial arts moves they used were fierce and domineering, every punch landing solidly on flesh as they clashed with utmost intensity.

When fists and kicks landed on their bodies, they did not even need to deliberately circulate their strength. The skin and muscles at the point of impact automatically swelled, reducing the damage.

On the Arena, both sides traded blows, exhausting everything they had learned to defeat the other. The battle was extraordinarily thrilling.

This was a real battle.

Unlike the Freshman Martial Arts Exchange Competition held by Fourth High School, which had only a handful of nobodies. Of the fifty participants, only five had reached the Second Realm of Jing Li. And those Martial Arts Students who had achieved Flowing Strength either had only the power for a single punch or used shameless tactics during matches, running all over the Arena without the slightest bearing of experts. It did not resemble a battle at all.

Qin Fen became utterly absorbed and, before he knew it, it was 12 PM.

He turned off the television, took a shower, and went to sleep.

Thursday, October 15.

The Freshman Martial Arts Exchange Competition officially concluded that morning.

Aside from Shi Jian, who placed in the top ten, Shen Qiu, Li Heng, and Chen Bo had all performed rather ordinarily.

However, because of Qin Fen, Thirteen Middle School had gained tremendous recognition among the ten martial arts schools. With Shi Jian also placing in the top ten, this was an achievement Thirteen Middle School had not attained in over a decade.

When the Principal went to meetings at the Martial Arts Bureau, he was no longer as nervous as before, fearing that the Martial Arts Bureau would cut funding to Thirteen Middle School and turn it into an ordinary school. Now, whenever the Principal attended a meeting, he could hold his head higher than others.

After Teacher Zhou Wu returned to school and collected his Outstanding Teacher Certificate from the Principal's office, Qin Fen arrived at Zhou Wu's office and revealed his cultivation at the Third Realm of Jing Li.

"This is Smooth Strength. You reached the Third Realm of Jing Li, Smooth Strength, this quickly?"

Zhou Wu looked at Qin Fen, his face full of shock.

Only a month and a half had passed since the start of school.

Others were still at the First Realm of Jing Li, while Qin Fen had already reached the Third Realm of Jing Li.

Now he understood what a martial arts prodigy was.

Dragon Ascending Nation had vast lands and abundant resources, with a population of several billion. There were some martial arts prodigies with exceptional natural talent, whose one month of cultivation equaled another person's year. Even if they came from ordinary families and only encountered martial arts in Senior One, they could catch up to those wealthy students in cultivation within a single semester.

Some martial arts prodigies even opened the Mysterious Gate Aperture and nurtured Internal Family True Qi before entering Martial Arts University, becoming true Martial Artists. Across the entire country, there were only a few geniuses each year who entered Martial Arts University as Martial Artists.

Zhou Wu had only heard of such martial arts prodigies before. Looking at Qin Fen now, however, he felt as if he were witnessing a miracle—and Qin Fen was his student.

If Qin Fen opened the Mysterious Gate Aperture before being admitted to Martial Arts University, Zhou Wu would be able to brag about it for the rest of his life.

"Teacher, does that mean I can learn deeper martial arts now?"

Qin Fen asked.

"Of course." Zhou Wu nodded, then said, "Under normal circumstances, Senior One students are taught martial arts such as Galloping Horse Strength, Ten Clothes-Contact Throws, and Silken Entanglement Grappling Hand—throwing and grappling techniques. Then there is daily training to improve physical fitness. Once your cultivation breaks through to the Third Realm of Jing Li, you can be taught more advanced external training martial arts, such as Golden Bell Shield, Iron Shirt, and Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Training, as well as purely offensive martial arts such as Adamantine Tiger Subduing Fist, Bone-Melting Cotton Palm, Air-Splitting Palm, and Heart-Shattering Palm.

External training martial arts use external methods to temper the body and can also raise one's Jing Li cultivation.

Purely offensive martial arts only contain moves and methods for using Jing Li. They cannot generate Internal Strength."

Qin Fen nodded to show that he understood.

For example, Galloping Horse Strength was a basic external training martial art that could generate Internal Strength. Thunderclap Fist was rated lower second-grade, but it was a purely offensive martial art. It only contained methods for using Jing Li, such as sending Jing Li deep into the bones to shake them and make them tougher, but it could not generate new Internal Strength.

"To become a Martial Arts Teacher at a martial arts school, you do not necessarily need to master every martial art prescribed by the Martial Arts Bureau, but you must at least master five or six. Otherwise, you simply cannot teach students," Zhou Wu said. "Golden Bell Shield, Iron Shirt, and Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Training have no superiority or inferiority between them. All are lower third-grade external training martial arts, and each has its own advantages.

Golden Bell Shield ranks first in the depth of Jing Li, while Iron Shirt ranks first in defense. If cultivated to the peak of the Peak Realm, the Physical Body can resist bullets. Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Training gives the most vigorous vitality and blood, while also containing the greatest number of variations. It consists of thirteen martial arts: Iron Head Technique, Iron Sand Palm Technique, Iron Fist Technique, Eagle Claw Technique, Iron Arm Technique, Vajra Leg Technique, Iron Teeth Technique... Iron Crotch Technique.

Once you cultivate Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Training, there will be no need to cultivate other fist-and-leg martial arts.

You have just reached the Third Realm of Jing Li. The first thing you need to learn is an external training martial art that can increase your Jing Li."

"Teacher, which external training martial art do you cultivate?"

Qin Fen could not help asking.

"Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Training," Zhou Wu said. "As long as you master Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Training, the thirteen martial arts, such as Eagle Claw Technique and Iron Sand Palm Technique, will come naturally. There is basically no need to specifically cultivate other fist-and-leg martial arts."

Qin Fen nodded.

Since Teacher Zhou Wu cultivated Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Training, he could only learn Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Training as well. In any case, the three external training martial arts were all lower third-grade, so it made no real difference which one he cultivated.

As long as he cultivated it to the utmost level, his cultivation could reach the Sixth Realm of Jing Li.

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