All Pursuits Are Lowly, Only Martial Training Reigns Supreme

Before long, every student in the blood vitality sprint class had finished their blood vitality tests.

"Students, I've reviewed the results of your blood vitality tests. I now have a general understanding of your performance.

Now I'll teach you a brand-new physical training technique. Watch carefully!"

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

Blue Star's body-tempering techniques were crude and cumbersome. A person had to train until they were utterly exhausted before they could deplete the energy within their body and thereby raise their blood vitality.

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

After Sun Jian demonstrated the physical training technique once, he immediately had the students begin practicing it. He paced back and forth, correcting any student whose movements were lacking.

To Chen Lie, who possessed the Central Galactic Empire's widely taught basic body-tempering technique, Blue Star's crude body-tempering methods had no merit whatsoever. But his mother had paid the fee, and everyone else was training.

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

With the martial insights of a grandmaster, this sort of crude body-tempering technique was something he could master at a glance. Even improving a few aspects of it would not have been difficult for him.

Sun Jian walked over to Chen Lie and saw that there was virtually nothing flawed about his execution of the body-tempering technique.

Thinking of how he had only demonstrated the technique once, while the other students' practice was full of mistakes, he could not help admiring 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 lowly; only martial training reigned supreme.

If his family truly valued him, he could not possibly have ended up suffering from nutritional deficiency.

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

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

Upon hearing Sun Jian's words, the dozen or so students all looked toward Chen Lie, confusion apparent 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 actually be nutritionally deficient?

Wasn't it always excess nutrients in the body that saturated one's cells, preventing them from absorbing supplements and causing nutrients to go to waste?

The day's sprint class ended, and Chen Lie left the martial arts gym early. He had originally 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 Chen Xingyao saw Chen Lie, she seemed somewhat flustered. After saying a few words to the girls beside her, she jogged over to him.

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

With 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 traveling with her could not help asking, "Xingyao, who was that? Your friend?"

"My brother."

Chen Xingyao sighed, feeling a little embarrassed.

After all, among her classmates who had older brothers, nearly all of them had entered elite classes long ago. Her own brother, however, was about to be surpassed by her in blood vitality. It was truly rather humiliating.

As soon as one of the girls heard that, she said, "Xingyao, so you have an older brother? Why haven't we ever heard you mention him before?"

"Xingyao, your brother is in the elite class, right? What's his blood vitality at now?"

"He's in a regular class. As for his blood vitality, it should be about the same as mine."

Although Chen Xingyao felt that her brother Chen Lie was embarrassing her, since her classmates had asked, she could only answer truthfully.

"No way, he's your brother. He's at least two years older than you, right? His blood vitality is about the same as yours?"

As soon as Chen Xingyao said that, nearly all the girls present refused to believe it.

They were all students from key classes, far beyond ordinary martial arts students. And with Chen Xingyao's talent, she ranked among the very best even in a 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 in a state of nutritional deficiency.

Raising his blood vitality by 0.4 points in one go had consumed far more energy than a few bottles of nutrient solution and a dozen packs of nutrient bread could replenish.

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 vitality would be as easy as eating and drinking.

In his previous life, his blood vitality had not even reached two hundred points by the time he was twenty-one, so his foundation had been weak.

With the unstable foundation he had in his previous life, he should never have been able to reach the realm of a ninth-rank grandmaster. Yet he had put in a hundred times the effort to make up for that unstable foundation.

Even after he later reached the grandmaster realm, he had only been 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 levels of blood vitality before breaking through to become martial artists. Now that he had been reborn, Chen Lie naturally intended to follow their example.

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

The moment Chen Xingyao got home, she went to the bathroom to take a shower.

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

After her shower, Chen Xingyao entered a suite.

Suddenly, a scream rang out.

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

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

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

"Mom, look! The nutrient solution you ordered just last week—there were still six bottles when I left this morning, but now not a single bottle is left.

And there was half a box of nutrient bread. Now there's only an empty box left!"

The moment she saw Feng Yuelan, Chen Xingyao immediately complained, glaring fiercely at Chen Lie with her large eyes. "Chen Lie definitely did this!"

Feng Yuelan also looked at Chen Lie in confusion.

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

"Who are you trying to fool?" Chen Xingyao snorted coldly. "How much blood vitality do you even have? Could a single day of training possibly 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!

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

Even if he sold that much nutrient solution and nutrient bread cheaply, he could still get five thousand star credits for them."

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

She knew full well that the Lu family's daughter had lofty aspirations, and her talent was far beyond what her own son could compare to. Even if Father Lu intended to bring them together, the chances of her ultimately ending up with her son were extremely slim.

Since it concerned her son's self-esteem, Feng Yuelan did not intend to pursue the matter. "So he resold them. Treat those few thousand star credits as an advance on his allowance."

"But are we just letting that much nutrient solution and nutrient bread go?" 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 Sunflare Group released a new type of nutrient solution. They say its absorption rate can reach twenty-five percent. A lot of my classmates are already using it, and they all say it works well."

"Alright, then our family will order that nutrient solution from now on."

After comforting Chen Xingyao a little more, Feng Yuelan hurried into the kitchen.

Since Chen Lie and Chen Xingyao had trained at the martial arts gym all day, Feng Yuelan prepared an especially lavish dinner.

Training at this stage was extremely grueling. A full day of it was enough to leave anyone utterly exhausted.