This... Bright Force in just one month!?

This... He could break through to Bright Force in a single month!? Hearing those words, Lin Tian was immediately drawn once more to the crowd talking behind him.

Yesterday? Someone barged into the banquet?

After he had left the banquet yesterday...

Something like that had actually happened?

Lin Tian was inwardly astonished at that moment.

After all, the word those people had used was "barged in."

The meaning that word represented was no ordinary matter.

One had to know that Zhao Cang was a powerful expert of Transforming Force.

A powerhouse at that level, in a place like theirs, was someone who could hold down an entire region alone.

Especially when it had been such an important occasion as taking in a final disciple.

Yet someone had actually dared to come looking for trouble?

"Hey, you don't know about this, do you? The person who barged in yesterday had quite the background!"

"Especially the one leading them. It's said he's a master from another Martial Academy, and just like our master, he has the strength of Transforming Force!"

"And as far as I know, when that man was young, he even had a grudge with our master!"

"That was why he barged in right at such a critical juncture, when Master was taking in his final disciple!"

After hearing those words.

Lin Tian also understood a little.

That made sense. Since he was a powerhouse of the same level, and there was also a grudge between them.

Especially the matter of a grudge.

Once there was an enmity between martial artists that could not be dissolved, it was something they would remember for a lifetime.

After all, struggles between martial artists amounted to no more than one or two kinds: one was a feud of blood kin, and the other was a feud over opportunity.

From the looks of it now, the grudge between Zhao Cang and that person from yesterday should have been the latter.

After all, the former would have meant fighting until one side died.

And from what these people said, that person yesterday had merely barged in and had not made a move...

But none of this had much to do with him anyway.

Still, it reminded him of something at this moment.

Right now, he absolutely could not expose his cultivation.

Leaving aside the fact that Zhao Cang's grudge with another Transforming Force expert might extend to the disciples of the next generation.

It would bring him countless troubles in the future.

Just the fact that he was clearly an Inferior Bone Quality right now.

Yet had achieved Bright Force at such speed.

Anyone with even a bit of discernment would find it strange.

At that time, perhaps it would become even more dangerous!

He would wait for now.

In any case, he had the Fate Grid.

Even if he did not expose his talent and thereby obtain Zhao Cang's support in resources.

His rate of improvement would not be slow.

People's hearts were complicated. Keeping a card up one's sleeve was never wrong.

With that.

Lin Tian once again immersed himself in his own world.

And very soon.

The sound of Inner Academy disciples arriving by carriage came from behind him.

That was right. Apart from the current Xiao Tian, every person who had become an Inner Academy disciple had, without exception, broken through to Bright Force.

And people like that either had a rich family background themselves.

Or they had already become someone that a certain shop or escort agency's faction valued and cultivated.

Those who were valued and cultivated.

Not only received pills and meat every month, they also received a generous amount of silver.

It could be said that after becoming a Bright Force martial artist.

One basically no longer needed to be troubled by silver.

And although after killing Zhuang Qiang and the other two, Lin Tian had obtained thirty taels of silver.

But he was now at Bright Force.

If he wanted to keep improving quickly, he had to keep up his dietary supplements.

And the dietary supplements required for Bright Force cost at least seven or eight taels of silver a month.

The silver he had would last three or four months at most.

And that was only for dietary supplements, not including medicinal pills and the like to assist cultivation.

Moreover, three months from now, he still had to pay his tuition.

Sure enough.

This path of martial training was truly a gold-devouring pit!

He would wait for now.

Wait a little longer.

When he could reveal his Bright Force cultivation.

Perhaps he could also take a nominal post with some faction.

Lin Tian was thinking.

The door behind him was directly pushed open.

Then all seven disciples of the Inner Academy entered together.

Only, at this moment, the other six seemed to be crowding around Xiao Tian as they came in?

With their arrival, everyone present fell silent and said nothing.

Even the movements of those practicing their punches became much lighter.

Only after the group had walked far away.

Did voices tinged with envy finally rise from the surroundings.

"Is that the treatment for someone with superior aptitude? Even the senior brothers and sisters who have broken through to Bright Force are so polite and attentive to him. It really makes one envious."

"Heh, otherwise, why do you think he was directly accepted by Master as his final disciple?"

"That is superior aptitude. His cultivation speed is simply not something we can imagine!"

"I heard that not long ago, under Master's guidance, Senior Brother Xiao Tian already touched the threshold of the second echo of the Mountain-Shaking Fist!"

"I imagine it won't be long before he can produce the second echo!"

"What? How long has Senior Brother Xiao Tian even been in the Martial Academy, and he has already touched the threshold of the second echo?"

"I've been here for a month, and only now can I barely produce the first echo."

"Is this the world of geniuses?"

After those discussions, gasps of amazement and envy came one after another from the people around him.

As time passed.

Without Zhuang Qiang's threat.

Lin Tian also sank into the day-after-day repetition of practicing his fists.

Everyone in the Martial Academy had also nearly grown used to Lin Tian's presence.

And as that habit took hold, everyone's discussions about Lin Tian gradually decreased as well.

Only, in this Martial Academy.

Lin Tian gained an extra nickname.

Stubborn Seed!

A Stubborn Seed who knew something could not be done, yet insisted on ramming himself into the southern wall.

Of course, fewer discussions did not mean his reputation had turned around.

It was just that everyone had unified all those discussions into a single sentence.

"Look, that Stubborn Seed has gone in there to waste time again."

This sentence was now the one Lin Tian heard the most.

And on this very day.

A sudden rumble came from the Inner Academy.

Bang, bang, bang!

Three sounds unique to the Mountain-Shaking Fist's shock-rumbles.

For three to sound out together meant this was something only possible once the fist art reached minor accomplishment.

And at this moment, Lin Tian knew very clearly that the level of that explosive sound just now.

It was not merely the simple ringing of sinews and bones in unison. This was the sound that only came when one had suffered through to Bright Force.

At this moment, perhaps only one person could produce such a sound.

Perhaps there was only one.

"Congratulations on breaking through to Bright Force, Junior Brother! To break through in a single month—Superior Bone Quality is truly extraordinary!"

Within the Inner Academy, Zhang Ming congratulated Xiao Tian.

The several fellow disciples at the side followed suit with their congratulations as well.

Even Zhao Cang, who had originally been lying in a chair, stood up with surprise and delight in his eyes and came before Xiao Tian.

"Master, your disciple has not failed the task entrusted to him!"

Xiao Tian directly ignored all the congratulations from the people around him.

He bowed straight to Zhao Cang before him.

"Good, good, good! Hahaha, you truly have not disappointed your master!"

"To achieve minor mastery of Mountain-Shaking Fist in a single month—such talent is something your master has only seen once in his life!"

And at this moment, within the Outer Academy, this piece of news was also spread.

In an instant, the crowd boiled over once again.

"What!! Senior Brother Xiao Tian broke through to Bright Force! Isn't that way too fast! This... breaking through to Bright Force in just one month!?"

In the distance, Lin Tian listened to those words.

There was not the slightest surprise in his eyes.

If breaking through in one month counted as Superior Bone Quality, then when would it be reasonable for me, with this Inferior Bone Quality, to break through?

At this moment, he looked at the Fate Grid flashing within his mind.

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