Han Zhen's Inquiry

On Saturday morning, while the sky was still dim, Chen Mochuan had already arrived at school.

Two weeks had passed since he first accompanied Li Biao to the Mingxin Martial Arts Hall.

During this period, aside from Sundays when the school was closed, he spent his entire day immersed in the martial arts hall.

On regular school days, he would go to Mingxin every evening to take advantage of the free massage and late-night snacks.

What comforted him was that even with such high-frequency use of his Gold Member benefits, the staff at Mingxin never showed any dissatisfaction.

He even discovered that in the last few days, the masseur had been using an ointment even better than the Shuluo Powder.

This made him feel that his rate of Qi and blood growth had accelerated by a fraction recently.

He had once asked the masseur for the reason, but the other party only said that seeing him visit Mingxin every night despite such exhaustion made him a high-quality member, and thus they provided the extra perks.

Chen Mochuan knew this was a rehearsed script, but since there was no malice, he accepted the benefit with peace of mind.

After the massage, if his body wasn't particularly exhausted, he would use the virtual pod at the martial arts hall to log into the Heaven Martial Battle Net and play a few ranked matches before heading home.

This directly resulted in a reduction of his sleep time, but perhaps due to the physical changes brought about by the awakening of his Spirit Talent, even with less sleep, he felt more energetic than before, and his recovery ability had also significantly improved.

With the assistance of the Mingxin Martial Arts Hall, he had made substantial progress in various martial arts techniques.

Although the Tiger Fiend Fist had the most explosive progress on the first day, its subsequent improvement remained steady; it took only ten days to break through from the entry level to the proficiency level, after which the speed of improvement slowed slightly.

The Foundation Building Fist improved rapidly under the dual push of daily hard training and ranked battles.

Although the Root-Solidifying Stance could not be improved through combat like the two fist techniques and could only be polished slowly through hard work and digesting the insights absorbed by Spirit Devourer, progress was slightly slower, but Chen Mochuan had already taken a step further and begun to specialize in the sixteenth stance.

The golden light screen faithfully recorded every bit of his progress:

[Spirit Master: Chen Mochuan]

[Status: Qi and Blood Full]

[Spirit Talent: Spirit Devourer (Can devour the spirituality of all things to benefit oneself)]

[Qi and Blood Value: 3.66]

[Techniques:]

[Root-Solidifying Stance: Great Success (28%)]

[Foundation Building Fist: Great Success (43%)]

[Tiger Fiend Fist: Proficiency (16%)]

Just like this, Chen Mochuan lived a life revolving around his home, the school, and the Mingxin Martial Arts Hall, tirelessly improving his strength; Mingxin had become his stable base for cultivation.

However, Chen Mochuan felt that while Mingxin was great in every way, there was one drawback: the business hours were not 24/7. It only opened at 7:00 AM and closed at 11:00 PM; otherwise, he might have chosen to live directly in the hall.

Entering the teaching building, Chen Mochuan walked quickly upstairs and, after verifying his identity, entered the Martial Arts Arena for the elite class.

Unlike in the past, he was the third person to arrive today.

In the Martial Arts Arena at 5:30 AM, Jiang Hao and Su Zhining, who ranked in the top two of the grade, had already begun training before him.

Chen Mochuan was not late; rather, stimulated by his breakthrough to Great Success in both the Root-Solidifying Stance and the Foundation Building Fist over the past two weeks, many classmates had begun to try to imitate his schedule, even arriving at school earlier and leaving later.

It was just that most people could not persist and gave up one after another.

This was not because they lacked perseverance, but because these people lacked a tool like the golden light screen to monitor their physical state in real-time, making the risk of injury from continuous high-intensity training extremely high.

Sure enough, some who followed the training for just over a week suffered from overexertion injuries, which directly affected their subsequent martial arts practice.

One had to know that there were only 200 days left until the College Entrance Exam, and they had already entered the pre-exam sprint state; every day was precious.

Consequently, most people were wary and chose to quit.

Currently, only Jiang Hao and Su Zhining remained.

Although the Qi and blood values of these two were the best in the school, reaching the level of a seventh-stage martial artist, Chen Mochuan believed that their current unscientific high-intensity training would be difficult to sustain.

However, both of them were competitive by nature, like a pair of natural rivals, neither willing to admit defeat or give up first, resulting in a stalemate. They even competed over who arrived at school earlier, leading to them arriving even earlier than Chen Mochuan now.

The two even privately asked Chen Mochuan what the secret was to maintaining such a high-intensity training schedule for a long time.

Chen Mochuan naturally could not tell them about the golden light screen, so he changed to a more practical explanation: "Don't force yourself too much. Rest when you feel tired, and continue training when you are rested. Remember to eat more to replenish your energy. That's all."

But such honest words were not accepted by the two, who thought Chen Mochuan was holding back.

This left Chen Mochuan unable to laugh or cry, so he stopped talking. Anyway, the Martial Arts Arena was large enough for the three of them to practice their own things without interfering with each other, so it didn't matter.

Chen Mochuan walked to a corner far from the two, quietly activated Spirit Devourer, and precisely captured two firefly-sized specks of martial arts spirituality related to the Root-Solidifying Stance within the arena.

[You activated "Spirit Devourer" and absorbed 2 fragments of incomplete martial arts insights, gaining a deeper understanding of the Root-Solidifying Stance.]

Recently, a portion of the martial arts insights Chen Mochuan had previously absorbed into his mind had been digested, freeing up some capacity to absorb new insights.

However, the smaller cluster of Tiger Fiend Fist spiritual light he had absorbed at Mingxin was enough for him to digest for a long time, and the larger cluster wouldn't run away on its own; he could absorb it sooner or later, so there was no rush.

The insights on the Foundation Building Fist from Han Hao's Martial Arts Notes were also enough to last for a while.

Therefore, he turned his target to the Root-Solidifying Stance, where his own insights were relatively weak, and the class Martial Arts Arena was the best place he could find to absorb them at the moment.

During this time, he frequently used the Spirit Devourer ability, and his control over this Spirit Talent became increasingly proficient.

He could now distinguish which martial arts technique each bit of spirituality corresponded to among the many, and perform targeted absorption.

Although the teaching building had only been renovated and rebuilt the year before last, the Martial Arts Arena only contained incomplete insights regarding the Root-Solidifying Stance and the Foundation Building Fist, all sourced from his classmates.

Fortunately, even though his classmates' mastery of the Root-Solidifying Stance could not compare to his own, they had at least reached the level of proficiency, which still provided him with useful analogies.

After sorting, integrating, and refining the essence while discarding the dross, Chen Mochuan fused these insights with his own understanding, and these realizations still proved beneficial to his practice of the Root-Solidifying Stance.

Nowadays, every time he absorbed two portions of incomplete insights, it was just enough to satisfy his daily cultivation requirements for the Root-Solidifying Stance; this allowed for effective improvement while avoiding the mental shock he had suffered from absorbing too many incomplete insights back at the residential complex square.

Just as Chen Mochuan finished absorbing today's insights and immersed himself in training, his homeroom teacher, Han Zhen, arrived at the school early.

He first called Jiang Hao and Su Zhining away, but returned to the Martial Arts Arena shortly after to call Chen Mochuan alone to his office.

As soon as he entered the door, Han Zhen asked straightforwardly, "You have already awakened your Spirit Talent, haven't you?"