Practice a Hundred Times, and Its Meaning Reveals Itself

On the way home, Xu Wuyi felt his steps grow much lighter, as though he were walking on clouds, yet he felt unusually grounded.

When he pushed open the door, the scent of dinner still filled the house.

As usual, his parents asked whether the food suited his taste and whether studying was too exhausting.

Xu Wuyi suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and ate and chatted as normal, without mentioning the Blood Energy Potion.

It was not that he wanted to hide it, but that he did not know how to bring it up. He also feared that his parents would worry, or feel they owed someone an enormous favor.

Children from poor families grew up early. In essence, pressure made people mature. Xu Wuyi's family could not be called poor, but he had long understood the financial pressure martial arts training brought.

A mature man had to be able to keep things bottled up and shoulder responsibility.

After dinner, Xu Wuyi immediately returned to his room and locked the door before taking out the metal box again. He carefully removed a Blood Energy Potion.

He carefully read the instructions, committing every precaution to memory.

"After taking it for the first time, it is recommended that you continue body-tempering training for more than four hours to digest the medicinal effects as thoroughly as possible."

Xu Wuyi could not possibly train for no less than four hours at night, nor was school an appropriate place for it. He could only take it at home.

The winter break would begin the day after tomorrow. Xu Wuyi also understood why Teacher Wang had chosen this time to give him the potion.

Two days later, winter break began, and Xu Wuyi's training entered a new stage.

The day's plan began in the morning. At five o'clock in the morning, Xu Wuyi was already standing in the training room on time.

There was a small training room at home. Other than being reasonably clean and tidy, it had no equipment or apparatus to assist him. But Xu Wuyi had trained like this since childhood, and he was already quite satisfied.

After mentally preparing himself, Xu Wuyi picked up a Blood Energy Potion and tipped his head back, downing it in one gulp.

The liquid had no strange taste. Instead, it carried a peculiar warm sweetness. After sliding down his throat, it swiftly transformed into a surging heat that exploded violently and rushed through his limbs and bones!

"Urgh!"

Xu Wuyi let out a muffled groan. It felt as though the blood throughout his body had instantly begun to boil. An immense energy far beyond his imagination rampaged through him, turning his skin visibly red as veins bulged faintly beneath its surface.

The powerful sensation of energy even left him slightly dizzy, his entire body filled with strength that had nowhere to go.

He could not waste it!

Not even the slightest bit!

That was Xu Wuyi's first thought. He undoubtedly possessed a traditional virtue of his people—poverty.

So he endured his physical discomfort and the bloated feeling of energy, quickly assuming the opening stance of the Basic Body Tempering Method, Holding the Origin and Guarding the One.

This time was completely different!

The blood energy that previously required careful focus to slowly guide now surged forward along the method's circulation route beneath the potion's energy, like a released flood roaring through an opened dam.

With every movement, he felt his blood energy surge and churn. The soreness, swelling, and heat it brought were dozens of times stronger than usual!

This was training efficiency far beyond normal!

Xu Wuyi completely forgot the time and forgot his exhaustion, frantically practicing the Basic Body Tempering Method over and over, cycling through its nine forms without end.

Supported by the medicinal effects, his stamina seemed inexhaustible, while his mind was abnormally exhilarated.

For anyone else, their movements would often become distorted in this state, and the effects of their training would decline.

But after his practice over the past period, Xu Wuyi's insistence on standard movements had practically become a bodily instinct. Even now, his movements remained precise.

[Standard training completed today: 15 times]

[Basic Body Tempering Method current realm: Entry Level (1.2%)]

[Standard training completed today: 32 times]

[Basic Body Tempering Method current realm: Entry Level (2.8%)]

[Standard training completed today: 61 times]

[Basic Body Tempering Method current realm: Entry Level (4.5%)]

The numbers on the panel were jumping at an unprecedented speed.

Before today, Xu Wuyi's limit for practicing the Basic Body Tempering Method in a single day had been around forty standard repetitions.

That had only been possible when he first grasped the rudiments of "intent" and received a temporary boost.

Yet now, with the Blood Energy Potion, he had surpassed an entire day's previous progress in just one or two hours.

However, as the first wave of powerful medicinal energy was digested, exhaustion began to emerge.

His sweat was no longer merely seeping out. It streamed continuously down his forehead, neck, and back like rivulets, gathering into a puddle on the floor.

Xu Wuyi's tracksuit was thoroughly soaked and clung tightly to his body, each movement accompanied by faint splashing sounds.

His muscles began protesting with aching pain, while his mental exhilaration was gradually replaced by exhaustion surging over him like a tide.

Xu Wuyi clenched his teeth. His body was urging him to stop and rest, but he did not want to stop.

He could not stop!

He could not waste it!

The first dose had the best effect!

He bit his lips hard enough to draw blood. The scent of blood mixed with the smell of sweat, stimulating his nerves.

Yet Xu Wuyi's eyes grew brighter and more focused. Other than the constantly shifting numbers in his sea of consciousness and the circulation of blood energy within his body, everything outside seemed to vanish.

[Standard training completed today: 78 times]

[Standard training completed today: 89 times]

[Standard training completed today: 97 times]

Four hours had long since passed. By the ninety-seventh repetition, Xu Wuyi felt his consciousness beginning to blur. His body was as heavy as if filled with lead, and every raised hand and every turn had become exceptionally difficult. He relied entirely on sheer willpower to keep moving.

Ninety-eight!

Ninety-nine!

At this point, Xu Wuyi had long forgotten everything else. He did not even have the strength to look at the numbers on the panel. Only instinct drove his body onward.

He did not want to waste anything, nor did he want to miss a single opportunity. He knew his talent was ordinary. If he wanted to achieve something, he had to put in several times more effort than others!

Opening stance, breathing, blood energy guidance... Complete!

[Standard training completed today: 100 times.]

[Practice a hundred times, and its meaning reveals itself!]

[Effective training today has reached one hundred times. Obtained one "Epiphany."]

At the instant the number changed—

Bzzzz!

It was as though a great bell had sounded in the depths of his mind, or a clear spring had poured down upon his head!

Xu Wuyi was briefly dazed, finally jolted out of his crazed state. Then he immediately noticed the change in his sea of consciousness.

The Bronze Ancient Book suddenly shone brilliantly, and a torrent of cool, clear, indescribable insight instantly swept through his entire consciousness!

The countless details of his past practice of the Basic Body Tempering Method, every subtle sensation of blood energy circulation, every piece of Teacher Wang's guidance, even every thought he had during his spar with Han Mengmeng...

All those scattered pieces of understanding and experience collided and fused at an unprecedented speed beneath the torrent of insight, before becoming fully integrated!

Everything suddenly became clear!

Many crucial points that had once baffled him no matter how much he thought about them became instantly clear. Xu Wuyi even felt that his understanding of this martial art had reached a new level. Looking back at many previous problems, he could only think, It should have been like this.

He did not know how much time had passed. When Xu Wuyi finally emerged from that state of Epiphany, he found that he was still holding his training posture, yet his entire body felt clear and refreshed, as if he had been reborn.

The surging medicinal energy within him had already been completely absorbed and transformed into vast reserves of blood energy.

When he checked the time again, it was already past eleven in the morning, and his stomach had long been rumbling with hunger.

This training session had taken him more than six full hours.

His consciousness eagerly sank into his sea of consciousness.

[Martial Dao Diligence Record]

Martial Art: Basic Body Tempering Method

Current Realm: Entry Level (20.5%)

Martial Art Trait: Not unlocked

Evaluation: Solid foundation, gradually reaching a higher state.

20.5%!

After six hours of training, his proficiency had soared directly from 0.8% to over 19%!

"If it were calculated only by the number of training repetitions, my progress would be at most around 10%... In other words, a single Epiphany directly gave me nearly 10% progress?"

The effect of one Epiphany was even stronger than a precious bottle of Blood Energy Potion!

Of course, that applied only to the proficiency of the Basic Body Tempering Method. The Blood Energy Potion also improved his blood energy.

But then again, improvements in blood energy were only temporary, while martial art proficiency was something that truly belonged to Xu Wuyi himself!

Practice a hundred times, and its meaning reveals itself.

So the Martial Dao Diligence Record had an effect like this?