Martial Artist Families

"I'm not sure whether Qingjiang has any powerful martial artist families. Besides, my parents are ordinary people. I didn't come from a martial artist family."

When Wang Tianyu said this, he did not feel the slightest bit embarrassed.

There was nothing inferior about coming from an ordinary family.

Although Yang Guangqing's expression was strange, Wang Tianyu still had no intention of hiding anything.

Wang Tianyu had actually heard of martial artist families before.

Once a person of power and influence emerged in a family, the entire family could rise to greatness.

The same was true if a powerful martial artist appeared within a family.

Under that person's influence, their younger relatives would find it easier to embark on the path of martial arts.

Over time, numerous martial artist families of all sizes would naturally emerge.

The young descendants of these martial artist families were far stronger than ordinary people, whether in ability or knowledge.

That was perfectly normal. These martial artist families possessed far more resources than ordinary people.

Their cultivation experience and cultivation resources were things ordinary people simply could not compare with.

To give a simple example, if Wang Tianyu had not had the system, he could never have reached his current level.

Because without the system, Wang Tianyu might not even have been able to surpass Deng Rensheng.

And Deng Rensheng merely had a martial artist elder backing him.

As for those martial artist families, the number of martial artists within them could be said to be countless.

Yet merely such a small martial artist connection had allowed Deng Rensheng to stand head and shoulders above the rest in the martial arts class test.

Had Wang Tianyu not appeared, Deng Rensheng would have had no problem getting into a martial arts university.

From this, one could see just how formidable those so-called martial artist families were.

"Then your luck really is quite good."

Yang Guangqing smiled. The smile on his face was strange, carrying disdain and contempt.

After hearing about Wang Tianyu's background, Yang Guangqing had already imagined Wang Tianyu's entire martial arts exam.

In a little place like Qingjiang City, the thousand martial arts exam candidates had surely all been so weak they had no friends.

Wang Tianyu was probably just the tallest dwarf among them.

Neither outstanding above nor below, Wang Tianyu had faced a group of competitors even weaker than himself, so it was hardly strange that he had earned high marks.

"Maybe."

Seeing Yang Guangqing's demeanor, Wang Tianyu frowned.

Though Wang Tianyu did not immediately lose his temper in the face of Yang Guangqing's contempt, he no longer had any desire to continue talking to him.

"Heh heh!"

Yang Guangqing was brutally realistic. He did not even want to exchange empty pleasantries.

Originally, Yang Guangqing had thought Wang Tianyu was also a descendant of a martial artist family.

That was why he had taken the initiative to strike up a conversation, hoping to befriend Wang Tianyu.

But after learning Wang Tianyu's true background,

Yang Guangqing no longer had any interest in getting to know him.

Yang Guangqing was a very proud person. In his eyes, there was simply no need to know someone like Wang Tianyu.

As for Wang Tianyu's respectable martial arts exam score? Could Wang Tianyu be some commoner genius?

Yang Guangqing had considered that too. A good score still depended on where it had been earned.

The rules of the martial arts exam were uniform across the country, and those dire wolves were all raised by official institutions.

There was little difference in the dire wolves' strength, which was fair enough.

But the gap in strength between candidates was enormous.

If Wang Tianyu had taken the martial arts exam in a major city, Yang Guangqing would not have been so dismissive.

But Wang Tianyu had come from a remote little city.

The quality of martial arts exam candidates in small cities was poor. In Yang Guangqing's view, anyone with a little strength could stand out there.

So Yang Guangqing figured Wang Tianyu was merely a "lucky one."

Yang Guangqing himself had taken the martial arts exam in the provincial capital of Sichuan Province. The provincial capital had a huge population base and many martial artist families.

Therefore, competition among martial arts exam candidates in the provincial capital was also the fiercest in the entire province.

Yang Guangqing had not been very lucky. There had been another person from a martial artist family in his examination zone.

Since that person was evenly matched with Yang Guangqing, the two had sensibly chosen to avoid fighting each other.

Because someone else had been competing with him, even though Yang Guangqing had worked hard to seize the points of the other candidates, he still had not obtained a particularly good martial arts exam score.

According to Yang Guangqing's calculations, if that other person had not been in the examination grounds, he himself could have scored at least a thousand points on the martial arts exam.

Yang Guangqing understood the teaching environment at martial arts universities very well. A martial arts university was not merely a college campus; competition within was brutally harsh.

A luck-based contestant like Wang Tianyu would soon be eliminated by those with real strength.

Therefore, in Yang Guangqing's eyes, Wang Tianyu had no value worth befriending.

Besides, Yang Guangqing's room number came after Wang Tianyu's.

That meant Wang Tianyu's martial arts exam score was higher than Yang Guangqing's.

That was also one of the reasons Yang Guangqing disliked Wang Tianyu.

Yang Guangqing acted however he pleased. Without giving Wang Tianyu even a shred of face, he simply turned around and left.

"Martial artist families?"

Wang Tianyu sneered. Yang Guangqing's contempt had been far too blatant.

Although Yang Guangqing had affected his mood, Wang Tianyu had not forgotten his original plan.

After Yang Guangqing left, Wang Tianyu still intended to stroll around the campus.

"Wang Tianyu, look at that girl. Good heavens, those legs are way too long. If I could just get a feel... tsk tsk tsk..."

The speaker was a very ordinary-looking boy. He was not tall, only around 1.7 meters.

Yet the words coming from this ordinary-looking boy's mouth gave him an extra air of lechery.

"Iron Egg, she's obviously an upperclassman. If she hears you, just wait to get skinned alive."

Wang Tianyu looked at the boy beside him and said with a smile.

This boy Wang Tianyu called Iron Egg was someone he had met an hour earlier.

Iron Egg's real name was Zhu Sirun, and he was also a freshman this year.

It had been Zhu Sirun's own request that Wang Tianyu call him Iron Egg.

Zhu Sirun said all his friends called him that.

As it happened, not long after Yang Guangqing left, Zhu Sirun came out of Room 10 in Dormitory Area One.

Like Yang Guangqing, Zhu Sirun had also taken the initiative to greet Wang Tianyu.

At the time, Wang Tianyu had not been in a good mood, so he initially ignored Zhu Sirun.

With Yang Guangqing's example right there, Wang Tianyu had no intention of letting history repeat itself.

But Zhu Sirun was extremely outgoing. Unlike Yang Guangqing, he did not ask Wang Tianyu about his family background.

After learning Wang Tianyu's name, he did not pry into anything else.

Zhu Sirun was indeed very skilled at dealing with people.

In less than an hour, Wang Tianyu had already grown used to Zhu Sirun's presence.

"I'm just talking big. I know my limits. The beauties at martial arts universities are all fiery—I don't want to get beaten into a pig's head."

Zhu Sirun smiled as well.

"Come on, let's find something to eat first. My treat."

The campus of Sichuan First Martial University was huge. Wang Tianyu and Zhu Sirun spent an hour walking around, yet had only explored one corner of the school.

"Cafeteria Three, this is the place. Come on, let's eat."

There were not many people dining in the cafeteria. After getting some food, Wang Tianyu and Zhu Sirun found a place to sit.

"What kind of meat is this? Why is it so expensive?"

At that moment, two meat dishes sat on Wang Tianyu's tray.

Though the portions of the two dishes were not large, that little bit of food had cost quite a bit at checkout.

"This is good stuff. It's gray wolf meat—the same thing we encountered during the martial arts exam. Gray wolf meat is good for the body, and it tastes pretty good too."

Zhu Sirun wore an expression that said this was truly good stuff. After speaking, he took a big bite himself.

"Gray wolf meat?"

Wang Tianyu recalled the dire wolves he had encountered during his martial arts exam.

Wang Tianyu picked up a piece of gray wolf meat from his plate and put it into his mouth.

The gray wolf meat had a very good texture, and Wang Tianyu soon finished everything on his tray.

"Is this gray wolf meat from the ones we killed during the martial arts exam?"

After finishing the gray wolf meat, Wang Tianyu grew curious about where it came from.

"Probably not. Gray wolves are bred in huge numbers. Quite a few are slaughtered every day for meat."

Hearing Zhu Sirun's words, Wang Tianyu paused.

During the martial arts exam, many candidates had been injured by dire wolves. Some had even died beneath their claws.

Yet these fierce-looking dire wolves were actually just animals bred for meat.

The stark contrast left Wang Tianyu somewhat dazed.

"Let's go. We can wander around somewhere else. This school really is huge."

Wang Tianyu had originally wanted to ask about gray wolf breeding, but Zhu Sirun had already stood and headed outside.