All Pursuits Are Inferior; Only Martial Training Stands Above

Before long, the Blood Qi Values of all the trainees in the Blood Essence Value Sprint Class had been measured.

"Students, I have reviewed the results of the Blood Qi tests just now, and I now have a general understanding of your performance.

"Now I'll teach everyone a brand-new Physical Fitness Training Technique. Watch carefully!"

As he spoke, Sun Jian strapped twenty-kilogram weighted sandbags to each of his limbs and began demonstrating a set of physical training exercises.

Blue Star's Body Tempering Techniques were crude and cumbersome. One had to train until completely exhausted in order to deplete the body's energy and thereby raise one's Blood Qi.

The process was extremely grueling, yet the increase in Blood Qi was painfully slow. Sometimes, even after ten days of intense training, one might not gain even 0.1 Ka of Blood Qi.

After Sun Jian demonstrated the Physical Fitness Training Technique once, he immediately had the trainees begin practicing it. He paced back and forth, offering guidance whenever he saw someone performing the technique poorly.

For Chen Lie, who possessed the Basic Body Tempering Technique popularized throughout the Central Galactic Empire, Blue Star's crude Body Tempering Techniques had no merits whatsoever. However, Mother had paid the fee, and everyone else was practicing.

Chen Lie did not want to become an oddity either, so he strapped on the weighted sandbags and began training alongside the other students.

With the martial arts insights of a Grandmaster, this sort of crude Body Tempering Technique was something he could learn after a single glance. Even improving several aspects of it would not have been difficult for him.

Sun Jian walked over to Chen Lie and saw that there was practically no flaw in the Body Tempering Technique Chen Lie was performing.

Thinking about how he had only demonstrated the technique once, while the other trainees were riddled with mistakes, he could not help but admire Chen Lie's talent. Then he shook his head. "What a pity. His family doesn't value him."

In the Martial Era, all pursuits were inferior; only martial training stood above.

If his family truly valued him, he could not possibly have ended up nutritionally deficient.

"Chen Lie, you're nutritionally deficient. You don't need to practice with the other students. Just watch from the side."

Chen Lie nodded at those words, removed the weighted sandbags strapped to his limbs, and stepped aside.

Hearing Sun Jian's words, the dozen or so trainees all looked toward Chen Lie, confusion evident on their faces.

In this day and age, there had never been a case of a Martial Arts Student suffering from nutritional deficiency. Could someone really be nutritionally deficient?

Wasn't it always excess nutrition in the body that saturated the cells, making them unable to absorb supplements and causing the nutrients to go to waste?

The day's lessons at the sprint class ended, and Chen Lie left the Martial Arts Hall early. He had intended to wait for his younger sister Chen Xingyao so they could go home together, but he saw her walking with three or four girls around fifteen or sixteen years old.

When she saw Chen Lie, Chen Xingyao seemed somewhat flustered. After saying a few words to the girls beside her, she jogged over to him.

"Big Brother, I'm with my classmates. You should go home first!"

After saying that, Chen Xingyao quickly turned and left again.

Chen Lie had no idea what was going on, so he could only nod and turn to leave.

When Chen Xingyao returned, the girls accompanying her could not help asking, "Yaoyao, who was that? Your friend?"

"That was my brother."

Chen Xingyao sighed, feeling a little embarrassed.

After all, the older brothers of her classmates had almost all entered the Elite Class long ago, while her own brother was about to be surpassed by her in Blood Qi Value. It was truly difficult to mention him with any pride.

Upon hearing this, one girl immediately said, "Xingyao, so you have an older brother? Why have we never heard you mention him before?"

"Xingyao, your brother is in the Elite Class, right? What's his Blood Qi Value now?"

"He's just in the Ordinary Class. As for his Blood Qi Value, it should be about the same as mine."

Although Chen Xingyao felt that her brother Chen Lie embarrassed her, since her classmates had asked, she could only answer honestly.

"No way? He's your older brother. He has to be at least two years older than you, right? His Blood Qi Value is about the same as yours?"

The moment Chen Xingyao said that, almost none of the girls present believed her.

They were all students from the Key Class, far beyond Martial Arts Students from the Ordinary Class. Moreover, Chen Xingyao's talent ranked among the best even in the Key Class. How could her brother possibly be weak?

Chen Xingyao could only change the subject. She did not want to discuss her brother any further.

Meanwhile, Chen Lie took a Flying Bus home.

The moment he entered, he found where the family kept the Nutrient Solution and Nutrient Bread.

After consuming the remaining six bottles of Nutrient Solution and nearly twenty packs of Nutrient Bread in one go, the hunger in Chen Lie's stomach eased slightly. However, he was still nutritionally deficient.

The energy consumed by raising his Blood Qi Value by 0.4 Ka in one go could not possibly be replenished by a few bottles of Nutrient Solution and a dozen or so packs of Nutrient Bread.

Chen Lie turned on the television, sat cross-legged on the sofa in front of it, and closed his eyes to rest.

He could feel the starving cells in his body frantically devouring the energy from the Nutrient Solution and Nutrient Bread.

With the Central Galactic Empire's Basic Body Tempering Technique, as long as his nutrition kept up, raising his Blood Qi Value would be as easy as eating and drinking.

In his previous life, his Blood Qi Value had not even reached two hundred Ka by the time he was twenty-one. His foundation had been far from solid.

With the weak foundation from his past life, he should never have been able to reach the realm of a Ninth-Order Grandmaster. Yet he had put in a hundred times the effort to make up for that unstable foundation.

Even after reaching the Grandmaster realm, he could only be considered the weakest among those of the same rank. His potential had already been exhausted.

The geniuses of the Central Galactic Empire had all reached astonishing Blood Qi Values before breaking through to become Martial Artists. Now that he had been reborn, Chen Lie naturally had to measure himself against people like them.

While Chen Lie was resting with his eyes closed, his younger sister Chen Xingyao and his mother Feng Yuelan returned home one after another.

As soon as Chen Xingyao returned, she went to the bathroom to take a shower.

At the age of fifteen, the intensity of physical training gradually increased. After a full day of high-intensity training, anyone would be drenched in sweat.

After showering, Chen Xingyao entered one of the rooms.

Suddenly, a scream rang out.

"Chen Lie, are you trying to get yourself killed?"

Hearing the commotion, Chen Lie, who had been sitting on the sofa with his eyes closed, immediately opened his eyes and headed toward the room where Chen Xingyao was.

Feng Yuelan hurried over as well. Seeing Chen Xingyao standing there with her hands on her hips, her face puffed up in anger, she could not help asking, "What is it, Yaoyao?"

"Mom, look! The Nutrient Solution you ordered just last week—there were still six bottles when I left this morning, but now there isn't even one left.

"And half a box of Nutrient Bread—now there's only an empty box!"

Seeing Feng Yuelan, Chen Xingyao immediately complained. Her large eyes glared fiercely at Chen Lie as she said, "Chen Lie must have done this!"

Feng Yuelan also looked at Chen Lie in confusion.

Chen Lie did not deny it. He nodded and said, "That's right. Today's training consumed too much energy."

"Who are you trying to fool?" Chen Xingyao snorted. "What's your Blood Qi Value? Do you think a single day of training could use up that much Nutrient Solution and Nutrient Bread?"

"Mom, if you ask me, Chen Lie definitely resold all that Nutrient Solution and Nutrient Bread. He had a motive!

"He let it slip in front of me a few days ago. Sister Lu's birthday is coming up, and he wanted to give her a gift. Sister Lu definitely wouldn't care for an ordinary gift, but he doesn't have that much money himself, so he resold the Nutrient Solution and Nutrient Bread.

"With that much Nutrient Solution and Nutrient Bread, even if he sold it cheap, he could still get five thousand Star Dollars."

Hearing her daughter say this, Feng Yuelan roughly understood what had happened.

She knew in her heart that the Lu Family girl had high aspirations, and her talent was far beyond what her son could compare to. Even if Father Lu intended to bring them together, the chances of her ultimately ending up with her son were minuscule.

Since it concerned her son's self-esteem, Feng Yuelan did not intend to investigate further. She said, "So he resold them. Let's treat those few thousand Star Dollars as an advance on his allowance."

"But we're just letting so much Nutrient Solution and Nutrient Bread go like that?" Chen Xingyao asked.

"It's fine. The Nutrient Solution we ordered this time has an absorption rate of less than twenty percent. It isn't a major brand. We won't use this brand of Nutrient Solution anymore. I'll have your father order a different brand," Feng Yuelan said.

"Really?" Chen Xingyao immediately said, "I heard from my classmates that Sunlight Group has released a new type of Nutrient Solution. They say its absorption rate can reach twenty-five percent. Many of my classmates are already using it, and they all say it works well."

"Fine. Then our family will order this Nutrient Solution from now on."

Feng Yuelan comforted Chen Xingyao a few more times before hurrying into the kitchen to get busy.

Because Chen Lie and Chen Xingyao had trained at the Martial Arts Hall all day, Feng Yuelan prepared an especially lavish dinner.

Training at this stage was extremely grueling. After an entire day, it was enough to leave anyone utterly exhausted.