Martial Recruitment Accelerator

The other teachers had already gotten off work and gone home.

Li Yuan looked at the Talent Point he had just acquired and decided to sit in the office a while longer.

He closed his eyes and looked toward the Light Screen.

The "Enlightenment" branch had already lit up two Talents.

The first, [Mind Enlightenment], had helped him understand cultivation methods, while the second, [Enlightenment to Perfection], had helped him see through them completely.

Now that he was facing actual combat, Li Yuan had already decided that this Third Talent Point would be used on the "Combat" branch.

He controlled his thoughts and moved the Talent Point onto the first box under "Combat."

The box immediately lit up, revealing the first Talent in the "Combat" branch: [Martial Recruitment Accelerator].

"Martial Recruitment Accelerator: Greatly increases the speed at which Martial Skills are mastered."

The description of the Talent was just a simple sentence.

Yet that simple sentence was enough to excite Li Yuan.

After teaching for many years, Li Yuan usually divided a student's Talent into two parts when assessing them.

The first was comprehension, and the second was physique.

Comprehension was a person's ability to understand—whether they could grasp and learn something.

Physique, meanwhile, determined whether they could successfully practice it after understanding it.

There were quite a few people in this world who could understand cultivation methods after reading them.

But when asked to learn them, their progress became incomparably slow.

As the saying went, the eyes had learned it, but the hands and feet had not.

When that happened, it meant the person's physique was lacking, though their comprehension was decent.

The first Talent in the "Combat" branch greatly enhanced one's physique.

After confirming his newly acquired Talent, Li Yuan got up and left the school.

After returning to his rented place, he ate a simple dinner.

At seven thirty, the sky had only just darkened and was not yet completely black.

Li Yuan found the secluded clearing where he often practiced and began drilling Cloud Extreme Fist.

The greatest flaw of this Martial Skill, Cloud Extreme Fist, was its difficulty.

Its difficulty had even affected its value.

The difficulty of Cloud Extreme Fist was not limited to one aspect.

It was difficult not only to study and understand, but also to put into practice.

Moreover, because of its difficulty, its performance in actual combat was somewhat poor.

It was not that Cloud Extreme Fist was unsuitable for combat. Its difficulty simply meant that mistakes were often made in battle.

Once a mistake was made, the effectiveness of this exquisite and powerful fist technique would be greatly diminished.

After gaining the [Enlightenment to Perfection] Talent, Li Yuan had also considered whether he should immediately begin cultivating Cloud Extreme Fist.

He had already thoroughly understood the manual that studied it.

But if he had started practicing Cloud Extreme Fist before, getting started would certainly not have been a problem. The issue was that he had no idea how long it would take to master it proficiently.

For martial artists, Martial Skills usable in actual combat usually required years of cultivation.

Only after several years of familiarity could they be unleashed in battle as naturally as instinct.

Without reaching that level of familiarity, they simply could not be used in actual combat.

He could not exactly see an opponent launching an attack and still need time to think about which move would be best to counter it.

With that level of mastery, even if one's martial realm was a grade higher, they still would not be able to defeat their opponent.

Li Yuan knew that Cloud Extreme Fist was an excellent fist technique. There was a reason it had been classified as a High-grade Martial Skill.

He had not spent time cultivating it before because there was no way he could master it proficiently and use it in actual combat within a short time.

But now, things were different.

The Talent [Martial Recruitment Accelerator] would bring enormous changes to his cultivation path!

Three Transformations, Nine Extremes, Cloud and Extreme as one.

Cloud formed the shape, while Extreme served as the core.

Cloud Extreme Fist was divided into three forms: Flowing Cloud Form, Cloud Gathering Form, and Scattering Cloud Form.

Each form had three variations, and every variation specialized in a different direction.

Those variations were Extreme Force Form, Extreme Speed Form, and Extreme Guard Form.

It could be said that as long as one mastered Cloud Extreme Fist to a high level, they could handle any situation.

The greatest advantage of Cloud Extreme Fist did not lie in those variations.

Rather, it was that those variations could be switched between at any time.

It might clearly be a guard form, yet in an instant it could transform into Extreme Force fist power.

Its changes could even be described as bizarre.

The core reason Cloud Extreme Fist felt difficult to learn was that these changes were hard to master.

It was difficult to understand, and even harder to master.

With a Martial Skill of such difficulty, even if Li Yuan had grasped its essence, he should have found practicing it difficult.

Yet at that moment, Li Yuan felt that everything came naturally to him.

After understanding Cloud Extreme Fist, practicing it was remarkably easy.

Those variations that sounded incomparably complex did not require much effort to master.

His eyes understood it, and his hands followed.

At this cultivation speed, Li Yuan felt that by tomorrow night, he would be able to master Cloud Extreme Fist proficiently.

This kind of proficiency meant a level of mastery that could be used in actual combat.

Li Yuan practiced until one in the morning before returning to his rented place to rest.

Living in such a remote suburb actually felt rather good to Li Yuan now.

There was nowhere in the city where one could casually cultivate and practice.

If one wanted a place to train, they had to spend money renting a practice room.

Not only were practice rooms in the city expensive, they were usually quite cramped.

Training in the suburbs was much more casual.

When practicing Martial Skills with considerable power, he could also let loose more freely.

There were still three days before the competition for the Youth Martial Tournament qualification.

This weekend, the fight for that qualification would officially begin.

To be honest, even if Li Yuan had not obtained this Third Talent Point, he would still have been confident.

His understanding of the cultivation methods and Martial Skills he practiced already ran deeper than that of ordinary people.

His current physical foundation had reached the limit of the Fourth Grade Realm.

The Collapse Extreme Fist he had mastered was inferior to Cloud Extreme Fist, but it was still not bad.

However, Li Yuan also knew that things would not be so simple.

Jin Fan was a Grandmaster's disciple, and his status was even more distinguished than expected.

Barring surprises, his strength was also greater than expected.

But most of Li Yuan's anxiety and worries had now vanished.

Once he mastered Cloud Extreme Fist, Li Yuan truly feared no martial artist of the same age.

He had to fight for this Youth Martial Tournament qualification, and he had to win it.

He had stagnated at the Fourth Grade Realm for too long. He had to seize this opportunity and step into the Fifth Grade!

Furthermore, achieving a certain ranking in the Youth Martial Tournament would bring other rewards.

After his strength increased, Li Yuan had developed a few more ambitions regarding the Youth Martial Tournament.

If he obtained a Youth Martial Tournament qualification, he would not need to think only about the daily B-grade Nutrient Fluid as before.

He could also set his sights on those treasures that could benefit martial artists. It was not as though he had no chance.

If he could achieve some results in the Youth Martial Tournament, not only would advancing to the Fifth Grade be secure, he might even gain another boost in strength after advancing.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan simply got out of bed and searched for information.

He wanted to see what rewards this year's Southeast Youth Martial Tournament would offer.

After searching online for a while, Li Yuan quickly found the answer.

This year's Youth Martial Tournament in the Southeast Region would award the champion ten bottles of A-grade Nutrient Fluid and a High-grade protective inner armor.

Protective inner armor was extremely important to cultivators.

Before taking the battlefield, protective inner armor was even more important than top-tier weapons.

It could greatly reduce the likelihood of a martial artist being injured during cultivation.

Of course, on a real battlefield, weapons and armaments were still more important.