Get to It!

At six in the morning, Gao Wu woke from a deep sleep on time.

He had been busy for half the night yesterday, settling the video collaboration, chatting with Shang Qingjun for a long time, and finally injecting another Blood Dragon Agent. His nightlife had been truly fulfilling.

Gao Wu quickly took care of his hygiene, put on his weighted clothing, and headed out.

After waiting at the school gate for two minutes, he saw Shen Yue arrive on an electric bike.

Today, Shen Yue would film Gao Wu's workout and turn it into a short video for upload. To that end, he had specially prepared a small drone.

The new camera had facial recognition. Once it locked onto Gao Wu's face, it could automatically follow and film him.

"Can your electric bike handle it?" Gao Wu reminded him. "It's nearly twenty-five kilometers there and back."

"Forty kilometers would be no problem. Don't worry." Shen Yue patted the little electric bike beneath him, looking utterly confident.

He was not worried about the battery. It was just that the morning temperature was low, and riding an electric bike for dozens of kilometers was truly miserable.

Shen Yue hung an action camera on Gao Wu's chest, while he wore a head-mounted action camera himself.

"Strive unceasingly, forge a stronger self! Get to it!"

Gao Wu pointed at the camera and shouted passionately, then turned and strode forward into a run.

He had learned this routine from an internet celebrity in his previous life, making a few minor adjustments in hopes of replicating that path to success in this world.

Small-time influencers were easy to manufacture through all kinds of mature commercial formulas.

But becoming a major influencer was practically a mystical art.

No one could say what point might strike the market audience and bring in enormous traffic. Maintaining that enormous traffic was even more complicated.

Gao Wu wanted to become an influencer mainly to obtain large amounts of Merit. Of course, making money from it would also be very, very nice.

With money, he could buy all kinds of top-tier resources. He could give his family a better life. Unfortunately, money was hard to earn in any world.

Martial Artists were everywhere in this world, and there was a vast sea of short videos about martial arts practice. It was vastly different from his previous life.

Fortunately, these Martial Artists mainly taught various techniques or flaunted their strength and wealth. Most had yet to realize the essence of short videos.

Few people wanted to learn knowledge through short videos, nor were they particularly willing to watch others show off. At least, most people merely wanted emotional value. They merely wanted to please themselves.

In Gao Wu's view, the most important thing about short videos was still conveying emotion.

Saving people was a powerful positive emotion, and turning the tables against the wind was also a positive emotion. But short videos with stories and intense emotions like that could not happen every day.

His workout videos were not meant to teach others how to exercise. They merely conveyed an active, uplifting attitude.

In this respect, Gao Wu felt that he had a great advantage. It also suited his personality, so he did not need to deliberately disguise himself and create a persona...

Gao Wu wore thin athletic clothes beneath an eighty-kilogram weighted vest, yet his steps remained light, agile, and powerful.

The small drone followed behind Gao Wu, filming him from above at an angle and occasionally circling around him.

Shen Yue rode his electric bike behind him. Before long, white vapor was already rising from Gao Wu's body, while Shen Yue's little face had turned blue from the cold and his entire body shivered.

The main problem was that once they left the city, the wind without buildings to block it was icy and bone-piercing. Though Shen Yue had prepared for it, he had not expected it to be this cold outside.

Whether for the sake of friendship or for their short-video venture, he could only grit his teeth and follow.

Bailong Mountain was not tall, only seven or eight hundred meters, but even so, Shen Yue lacked the strength to climb it. Fortunately, the drone could continue filming Gao Wu.

Gao Wu practiced the Nine Dragon Forms on the mountaintop for half an hour before running back to the school dormitory.

Shen Yue's nose was running from the cold, so he took the video footage home first. Gao Wu could tell that he had caught a cold from the chill.

Sure enough, Shen Yue did not come to class that entire morning.

It was not until noon that Shen Yue contacted Gao Wu through Feixin and sent him the edited video.

It opened with Gao Wu pointing at the camera and shouting, "Strive unceasingly, forge a stronger self!"

That was followed by a string of workout scenes, set to stirring music and rapidly cut footage, ending with the four lines from Hot-Blooded Youth sung by Gao Wu.

The video was only twenty seconds long, yet it effectively conveyed emotion through imagery and was very well put together. It even carried a distinct air of hot-blooded fervor.

Gao Wu was very satisfied. Shen Yue truly had some talent for filming videos and had executed Gao Wu's intentions perfectly.

"I linked your video about turning the tables in adversity with the video of you saving someone, and I also directed some traffic over. The new video has more than thirty thousand likes and several thousand comments. It's getting good traction."

Shen Yue said, "I just checked the rankings. You've already entered the top two hundred. You're improving quickly!"

"It's still far too far away." Gao Wu shook his head. The Middle School Martial Arts League was already more than halfway over. Unless he could take down five opponents by himself in every match, he could only enter the top ten.

In truth, that was absolutely impossible.

Dongjiang Middle School alone had more than ten Advanced Martial Artists, most of whom were concentrated in good schools like First Middle School and Third Middle School.

Even if he luckily defeated an Advanced Martial Artist, he could not possibly lead his team to victory.

Half of martial arts points came from team points. If the team was weak, no matter how powerful an individual was, they could not achieve a very high ranking. This was also meant to cultivate collective awareness in teenagers.

When the Martial Arts Academy admitted students, individual points carried extremely high weight.

As for the school's recommendation quota, Huang Hai would never give it to him.

Besides, such recommendation quotas could only get one into second-rate schools. Even if it were given to him, he would not want it.

Only by reaching the top ten on the rankings would he qualify to interview at Anjing University, Beizhou's most prestigious university.

From beginning to end, Gao Wu's goal had been Anjing University. Going there would not only allow him to reunite with Shang Qingjun, but also let him enjoy Beizhou's finest martial arts resources.

Martial arts in this world had developed for more than a century alongside biochemical technology, with the wisdom of countless people forging it into a complete system.

Though the Boundless Merit Book was wondrous, for now it could ultimately serve only as an auxiliary tool.

If he wanted to achieve something in martial arts, if he wanted to become the strongest person under heaven, he had to actively integrate himself into the modern martial arts system.

He could no longer obtain enough individual points through the Middle School League. Fortunately, there were other ways to acquire large amounts of martial arts points.

He was not even an Advanced Martial Artist yet. Steadily cultivating step by step was already too late, so he could only borrow as much as possible from the wondrous power of the Boundless Merit Book.

If he could raise the Azure Dragon Divine Qi Incantation by one realm, or awaken another Divine Mantra, he would be confident of entering Anjing University.

Gao Wu discussed several ways to draw traffic to the video with Shen Yue, such as reposting the video link in the class group and asking classmates to help share it.

Though this method was inefficient, its cost was extremely low.

Or they could establish contact with public organizations such as the school and the Middle School Martial Arts League committee, asking them to help promote it.

These organizations had many channel resources and at least some influence locally.

"We're insignificant. Organizations like the school won't care about us at all..."

Shen Yue suggested, "Why not try the Song Family? The Song Family has plenty of money and enormous influence across all kinds of channels."

"Forget it."

Gao Wu shook his head. He could tell that Song Yunhe did not think much of him. The man was simply deep and calculating, so he had not shown it on his face.

"For now, let's leave it at that. Making short videos also depends on fate. We'll first build our content steadily. Maybe when the right opportunity comes along, we'll suddenly explode."

During afternoon training, Gao Wu went heavy.

At the Martial Artist stage, the focus was mainly on tempering muscles and bones, and the most important training method was lifting iron.

Only high-intensity, heavy-weight training could unleash the body's potential. After all, the body was the foundation of martial arts and the key to awakening source power.

When Huang Long entered the training hall, he saw Gao Wu doing deadlifts in a tank top.

He glanced at the thick barbell plates, and his heart tightened. They weighed a full eight hundred and fifty kilograms, even heavier than the barbell he usually used.

Gao Wu was banging out set after set, completing ten sets of deadlifts in one breath and displaying astonishing endurance.

The intense anaerobic stimulation made the veins across Gao Wu's body bulge one after another, while surging power continuously radiated from his lean frame.

The other Martial Arts Team members watched silently as well. Pulling an eight-hundred-and-fifty-kilogram barbell was not especially outrageous. The key was doing ten consecutive sets of deadlifts. That was terrifying.

The last time Gao Wu defeated Bai Xiang, they could still claim it was the effect of the agent.

But now that even his training intensity had reached this level, every member of the Martial Arts Team felt immense pressure. Huang Long especially so...

Huang Hai was somewhat surprised as well. The Blood Dragon Agent could stimulate one's vitality and blood, strengthening the bones and muscles, but the human body also had a limit to what it could endure.

Training like Gao Wu did could easily ruin his body.

Yet Huang Hai did not stop him. Instead, he publicly praised Gao Wu and told the other team members to learn from him.

During a break in training, Huang Long could not help approaching Huang Hai and asking quietly, "Third Uncle, is the Blood Dragon Agent really that effective? I want to try it too..."

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