Will you refuse to sign with the Chu Family and think the Gong Family will sign you instead?

Inside the Training Room.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Blood-red Crimson Gang winds spiraled around Chen Yan's fists, their momentum vast and majestic, as though they would shred everything apart.

"Could it be that Chu Feiyuan still doesn't understand..."

A glint of anger flashed through Chen Yan's eyes as he suddenly threw a punch.

Rumble!

It was as if ten thousand thunderclaps had exploded at once. The surging Crimson Gang abruptly reversed, sweeping forth with Chen Yan's punch and ravaging the entire Bluestone Wall.

Screech, screech, screech...

It was like countless iron spikes carving through metal, the clangor ringing out without end.

"I'm trying to kill him!"

A trace of cold light flickered in Chen Yan's eyes as he withdrew his fist.

So strong!

The Entering Subtlety-level [Crimson Heart Fist] was enough for Chen Yan to smash an entire classroom to pieces with a single punch.

He was bare-chested, his body covered in countless scars. Some wounds had yet to scar over, leaving flesh exposed.

Three and a half Strength Stripes, two Skin Stripes, two Bone Stripes, and two Meridian Stripes were clearly visible across his chest.

This was the result of Chen Yan's unceasing slaughter in the Breeding Area over the past few days.

Taking out a kitchen cleaver he had brought from the kitchen, Chen Yan first lightly scraped it across his skin. It left no mark.

Chen Yan's expression changed.

With a bang, he used twenty percent of his strength to chop the cleaver down onto his arm.

It did not hurt. Only a Shallow Stripe appeared on Chen Yan's arm.

Continue!

Fifty percent strength!

A white mark appeared on his arm, while the cleaver's blade curled.

Chen Yan did not test it any further. The strength of his Physical Body had already reached a new level.

Very good.

[Saint Breaking Realm: Level 3 (72/75)]

[Saint Breaking Fruit:

Strength: (24/100)

Blood: (76/100)

Technique: (32/100)

Physique: (23/100)]

The Saint Breaking Tree was nearly ready to level up again.

Chen Yan sensed the area around his heart. Yin Zhe swirled chaotically, scattering chills in all directions.

Though he had not gone to the Blood Sensing Chamber these past few days, Chen Yan cultivated the [Chaos Abyss Art] every night, gaining an increasingly profound grasp of Yin Zhe.

His Heart Accumulation and Forging Degree had already reached fifty-five percent.

It was not much.

But Yin Zhe Qi and Blood was unlike an ordinary person's Qi and Blood; its quality was exceptionally high.

His fifty-five percent Accumulation and Forging Degree might be even stronger than someone else's eighty percent.

What was more, Chen Yan's foremost goal was not to raise his Accumulation and Forging Degree.

Chen Yan extended one hand, and a strand of red-and-white Qi and Blood radiance emerged above his fingertips.

From the originally pure-white Yin Zhe Qi and Blood, Chen Yan could now strip away most of its outwardly released energy. At the very least, he could greatly restrain the chill he emitted.

Taking out his Martial Merit Badge, Chen Yan first looked at the task section.

[Optional Task: Join the Tianbang Boxing Tournament and obtain Bronze Rank certification. Reward: 50 Martial Merit Points.

Tianbang Boxing Tournament contact point: ...]

[Optional Task: Kill Wang Lu the Bandit of Luoshan County. Reward: 200 Martial Merit Points.

Please select the task one day in advance.]

[Cultivation Task: Condense three new Substantial Patterns within one week. Reward: 200 Martial Merit Points. (2/7)]

[Cultivation Task: Reach 75% Heart Accumulation and Forging Degree within one month. Reward: 500 Martial Merit Points. (2/30)]

[Cultivation Task: Kill one First Order Ancient Beast. Reward: 10 Martial Merit Points.]

Among the available missions, Chen Yan intended to sign up for the Tianbang Boxing Tournament.

According to Luo Puxin, the Tianbang Boxing Tournament had an enormous background. If he performed well, he might even obtain an Azure Sky Level martial technique.

Chen Yan was definitely going.

Looking at the training missions, they respectively corresponded to Body Tempering, Qi and Blood, and combat.

Chen Yan had already earned 450 Martial Merit Points from the Body Tempering missions.

After all, condensing three Pattern Lines each week earned 200 Martial Merit Points. Since receiving his Martial Merit Badge, Chen Yan had already condensed eight Pattern Lines.

He had also earned fifty Martial Merit Points in Qi and Blood.

However, the new mission required his Heart Accumulation and Forging Degree to reach seventy-five percent...

Chen Yan had heard that even Chu Xuansheng's Accumulation and Forging Degree was only around seventy percent. Ordinary students could no longer continue accumulating and forging once they reached forty or fifty percent, and could only begin opening up their other internal organs.

Chen Yan gave a faint smile, unconcerned.

As for killing Ancient Beasts, Chen Yan had killed quite a few in the Breeding Area.

Yet none of them had been recorded by his Martial Merit Badge. According to Luo Puxin, it was because the Ancient Beasts in the Breeding Area had lost their Ancient Meaning.

True Ancient Beasts were powerful, mysterious, and incomparably ferocious, with a distinctive Ancient Meaning contained within their flesh and blood.

Those within the Breeding Area did not count as Ancient Beasts in the truest sense.

Chen Yan's Martial Merit Points had now reached seven hundred.

Even if he went to contemplate [Hundred Spears Dark Stab], he could contemplate it for seven hours.

A sound came from outside the Training Room.

Chen Yan opened the door and saw Luo Puxin sitting on the sofa.

"You earned a total of 1,215 points over the past few days. Not bad."

Luo Puxin smoked as he looked at Chen Yan with a beaming smile.

He was very satisfied with Chen Yan's performance today.

"The Military Martial Guard needs top-tier geniuses—not only the very best, but those with courage as well.

"You didn't make me choose wrong."

The Military Martial Guard's cultivation of Heavenly Prides was not something a contract from the Chu Family or Gong Family could compare to. The resources invested would only be greater.

"Bro Luo, I want to train in the Eight Forms of Extreme Refinement."

Chen Yan poured Luo Puxin a cup of tea and spoke with a smile.

[Eight Forms of Extreme Refinement]!

It was precisely the Body Tempering Martial Arts used by that bronze statue at Qingshan High School.

A single striking motion had already benefited Chen Yan immensely.

Even now, as Chen Yan grew stronger step by step, he still could not deny the effect of [Eight Forms of Extreme Refinement].

If one movement was already like this, what if he truly mastered all of it?

More importantly, [Eight Forms of Extreme Refinement] was a Martial Grade A external refinement method.

And the Town Martial Class had it.

Luo Puxin froze. Here it came again.

Back in the Breeding Area, Chen Yan had already asked him about [Eight Forms of Extreme Refinement].

Chen Yan wanted to learn [Eight Forms of Extreme Refinement]. In truth, every Body Tempering genius wanted to learn [Eight Forms of Extreme Refinement].

The Town Martial Class had it, but only one person was training in it.

Luo Puxin lit a cigarette and said faintly, "The Eight Forms of Extreme Refinement was created by Qin Prefecture Governor Lu Xunyang. Lu Xunyang was born unable to cultivate Qi and Blood, with meridians so severed he could be called utterly hopeless.

"Even walking the Body Tempering Path was incomparably difficult for him. In the end, he used steel needles to pierce his body and forcibly opened his meridians.

"The Eight Forms of Extreme Refinement he created is only suited to those born unable to cultivate Qi and Blood."

Luo Puxin said earnestly, "Chen Yan, you can cultivate Qi and Blood. Training in the Eight Forms of Extreme Refinement will be harder than climbing to the heavens—at least three times as difficult, though the benefits are indeed immense."

Luo Puxin was speechless. The name [Eight Forms of Extreme Refinement] alone could probably scare off plenty of people.

"I want to give it a try."

Chen Yan smiled.

Today, [Crimson Heart Fist] had entered Entering Subtlety.

He had kept wondering whether [Crimson Heart Fist] was connected to that punch he alone knew when he had first entered Body Tempering.

It wasn't.

And yet, it seemed it was.

They were one and the same thing.

A kind of artistic conception, something akin to truth itself.

Was this True Intent?

Chen Yan recalled the white light that had appeared within the Saint Breaking Tree.

He wanted to try the Eight Forms of Extreme Refinement.

"Alright."

Luo Puxin offered no further advice. Chen Yan's talent was excellent—better than his own. Perhaps he did not need his advice.

It was already afternoon.

Blood Sensing Chamber.

Chen Yan saw Chu Feiyuan again. The other man was staring at him with a dark expression.

Chen Yan entered the Blood Sensing Chamber. He now had twelve hundred points, and one hour in the Blood Sensing Chamber cost ten points.

He could cultivate for over a hundred hours.

Once Chen Yan entered the Blood Sensing Chamber, Chu Feiyuan's face turned even more livid.

"Add some extra ingredients for him!"

He looked at the Teacher beside him and spoke through gritted teeth.

"Keep adding. If his tendons get clogged, he'll never fully awaken his Blood Energy."

The Teacher spoke hesitantly.

"I told you to do it!" Chu Feiyuan's voice grew colder.

The Teacher nodded and walked toward the Qi and Blood Chamber.

"Chen Yan, your talent on the Body Tempering Path is very strong. Coming to the Blood Sensing Chamber to try awakening... is truly a bit of a waste of time."

From his seat, Wu Chuqi looked at Chen Yan with a smile.

"I still want to give it a try." A trace of struggle surfaced in Chen Yan's eyes.

"I understand. Good luck!" Wu Chuqi gave him an encouraging look.

But Wu Chuqi soon fell silent.

He suddenly remembered that Li Shaowu, whom Chen Yan had beaten senseless, had ranked first in the previous test.

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Inside the Blood Sensing Chamber, the other students looked at Chen Yan. Some admired him, some sighed with feeling, while others secretly measured themselves against him.

This time, Chen Yan once again sat at the very back, in a spot no one noticed.

Ssssss.

Red Mist seeped out from the rune-inscribed wall beside him.

The blood sensing began.

Chen Yan felt the dense Blood Energy around him. Within his Saint Breaking Realm, the Red Light representing Blood Energy and the Ink Light representing Elemental Energy shone against each other.

This Red Mist contained even more mixed and impure Elemental Energy.

Chu Feiyuan really held a grudge.

Chen Yan sighed inwardly.

Why, thank you.

Suppressing the chill, Chen Yan moved close to the Green Wall. Yin Zhe seeped inside, passed through pipes carrying blazing Red Mist, and reached a storage tank filled with Ancient Beast Meat.

The Ancient Beast flesh inside was exceptionally fresh and tender. It had clearly just been replaced.

Time to suck it dry!

Terrifying Red Light surged within his Saint Breaking Realm, and a [Blood] Character Saint Breaking Fruit rapidly ripened.

He swallowed it.

The Blood Energy contained within the [Blood] Character Saint Breaking Fruit caused Chen Yan no discomfort at all, as though it had always been part of him.

The agony during his previous blood sensing had mainly been because Yin Zhe had swallowed it whole and forcefully injected Blood Energy into Chen Yan's heart.

At the same time, Yin Zhe was also rapidly absorbing the ice Elemental Energy and Blood Energy inside the storage tank.

There was too much!

Chen Yan focused on the inside of his heart.

Blood Energy began to Accumulate and Forge.

Fifty-five percent!

Fifty-six!

Fifty-seven!

Fifty-eight!

Sixty-three!

Three [Blood] Character Saint Breaking Fruits entered his stomach, and his Saint Breaking Realm advanced!

[Saint Breaking Realm: Level 4 (0/500)]

[Saint Breaking Fruit:

Strength: (26/100)

Blood: (0/100)

Technique: (35/100)

Physique: (29/100)

Formation: (0/100)]

[Formation] Character Saint Breaking Fruit.

Chen Yan's heart stirred, and the next moment, he continued absorbing it!

Within his heart, his Accumulation and Forging Degree skyrocketed!

Time slowly passed.

Five hours later.

"Chu Feiyuan, you idiot, you moron!!!"

"If Chen Yan could defeat Li Shaowu so quickly, then he's no ordinary genius."

"You took this kind of contract to him—of course he'd think you were insulting him!"

"Idiot, moron! How does the Chu Family have trash like you?!"

Inside the Chu Family residence, the white-haired elder cursed Chu Feiyuan viciously.

Chu Feiyuan, who had originally intended to complain to his family about Chen Yan, had gone pale by now.

"A genius like him may not compare to Xuansheng or Xuanxian on the Body Tempering Path, but he's still far better than ordinary people. Get the hell out!"

The Chu Family head bellowed:

"Keep negotiating! How could you even bring out such a low-grade contract?!"

Chu Feiyuan left in disgrace, his heart churning with resentment.

But now, he also understood his own mistake.

He had underestimated Chen Yan.

With a new contract in hand, Chu Feiyuan did not return to First Martial High until seven that evening.

The moment he arrived at the Blood Sensing Chamber, Chu Feiyuan saw the Blood Sensing Teacher's ugly expression.

"Brother Chu, we're running out of blood feed again." The Blood Sensing Teacher spoke hesitantly.

"Hm?" Chu Feiyuan froze, then snapped in a low voice:

"How is that possible? The blood feed was only just replaced, and you're saying there isn't enough already?

Are you trying to fool me here?!"

Chu Feiyuan's face flushed red. A pool of blood feed was not cheap—he simply could not believe it could be used up so quickly.

When he entered the Qi and Blood Chamber and saw the qi and blood progress bar, Chu Feiyuan's face suddenly went deathly pale.

There really was not much left.

What was going on?

Outside the Qi and Blood Chamber, qi and blood suddenly roared. Chu Feiyuan walked over.

There, he saw a group of people gathered around a youth whose entire body glimmered with bloody light.

"Fourth Uncle, I've reached the Four Zang!"

The youth named Chu Bizo looked at Chu Feiyuan in delight. He had just emerged from the Blood Sensing Chamber.

"The Four Zang?!" Chu Feiyuan was startled, then burst into laughter as well.

"Good, good, good!"

Chu Bizo also wore a smile.

"This time, I ranked sixth in the Town Martial Class. But now that I've reached the Four Zang, I can make a run for the top five!"

Chu Bizo towered above the crowd; today, he had broken into the Four Zang in one stroke, his spirits soaring.

"No wonder!"

Chu Feiyuan said with a sigh and a smile:

"I was wondering why Qi and Blood had been used up so quickly today. So it was you, kid. What's your accumulation degree?"

"Sixty-five!" Chu Bizo answered, drawing startled exclamations from all around.

"Sixty-five. Not bad, very good!" Chu Feiyuan laughed heartily. The Chu Family truly had no shortage of talent.

Nearby, a tall, handsome young man flushed red and hurried away.

It was going to explode again.

Chen Yan's gaze was strained. Today, he was completely full.

He had kept absorbing with Yin Zhe, and his Heart Accumulation and Forging Degree had reached one hundred.

Although his accumulation degree would drop after he returned and circulated the [Chaos Abyss Art], at this moment, it was an absolute one hundred percent.

The more Chen Yan thought about it, the more urgent he felt. How could it be one hundred?

Could someone really reach one hundred accumulation degree?

He had considered that possibility while absorbing, but he had been greedy.

Terrifying.

It was going to explode.

"Chen Yan, wait a moment."

Not far away, Chu Feiyuan spotted Chen Yan and hurriedly called out to stop him. Seeing Chen Yan's complexion, his heart trembled.

He had absorbed too much impure blood.

At this moment, everyone else turned to look at Chen Yan, each harboring their own thoughts.

Most of them assumed Chu Feiyuan was about to make things difficult for Chen Yan.

"Chen Yan, the contract this morning was indeed my fault." Chu Feiyuan wore an apologetic expression. "This is a new contract. Take a look."

He held out the contract.

Everyone around them froze. Chu Feiyuan was admitting fault!

This...

Chen Yan only quickened his pace, unwilling to pay Chu Feiyuan any mind.

"Chen Yan!" Chu Feiyuan called after him.

Chen Yan frowned.

"You can see it too. I'm in a lot of pain right now."

Chu Feiyuan was taken aback. He knew Chen Yan was like this because he had absorbed too much Impure Blood Energy.

"You clearly failed your awakening, yet you insisted on continuing to try!"

At the side, the Chu Family youth named Chu Bizo shouted in a low voice:

"Your own problem—why blame my Chu Family?"

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes, but Chu Feiyuan shot Chu Bizo a fierce look.

"Bizo, shut up!"

Chu Bizo froze. Chu Feiyuan was actually reprimanding him.

He had just entered the Four Zang.

"Chen Yan, here's the contract. Take it back first." Chu Feiyuan held out the contract again.

But Chen Yan's eyes turned mocking and cold.

"Chu Feiyuan, don't you understand?"

Chu Feiyuan froze as Chen Yan continued:

"The reason I refused to sign wasn't actually because of the terms. It was because of you!"

If he signed, where would he get so much Impure Blood Energy?

Please, give me more.

Chu Feiyuan's gaze turned cold.

"Chen Yan, you're far too arrogant because of your talent!"

Chen Yan ignored him and left alone.

"If you don't sign with my Chu Family, do you really think you still have a chance? Do you think the Gong Family will sign you?"

He shouted:

"The Gong Family only signs prodigies like Chu Xuansheng. Do you think you can afford to put on airs?!"