Martial Artists' Essential Knowledge

Dormitory Area One, outside Wang Tianyu's dorm room.

"Sorry for the trouble!"

Wang Tianyu saw the man to the door, then politely thanked him.

"No need to be so polite."

The person Wang Tianyu had just seen off was a Student Union staff member.

It had to be said, the Student Union worked efficiently.

Wang Tianyu had only been back in his dorm for a short while when someone from the Student Union came over to handle the relevant procedures.

The process of joining was simple. Wang Tianyu signed his name a few times, and that was it.

Most of the time was spent with the other party introducing the Student Union's specific duties to Wang Tianyu.

Through their conversation just now, Wang Tianyu had completely grasped how the Martial Arts University Student Union operated.

Compared with student unions at ordinary schools, the Martial Arts University Student Union was far more unusual.

The Martial Arts University Student Union held considerable power, because the university's teachers were all high-ranking martial artists. They had neither the time nor the desire to deal with trivial affairs.

Besides teaching and cultivating themselves, the teachers at Martial Arts University had many other duties.

Thus, the Student Union took on part of the school's administrative work.

Since it was responsible for part of the school's management, Student Union members also enjoyed certain privileges.

Depending on their rank, Student Union members received a certain amount of school points every month.

School points could be exchanged for all kinds of martial arts resources. This was effectively the salary the school paid them.

Student Union members had a certain degree of priority when taking on school missions.

Just now, Wang Tianyu had also learned how Martial Arts University operated.

Martial Arts University was not a charity hall. The resources needed to cultivate martial arts would not be provided to students for free.

The school regularly issued missions, and students could earn corresponding school points by completing them.

If they did not complete missions, then they could forget about obtaining cultivation resources from the school.

For instance, Student Union members could use some of the school's training rooms for free.

The conditions in these training rooms were excellent, and cultivating inside them could greatly speed up one's progress.

Non-Student Union members, however, had to pay the corresponding price to use these training rooms.

Only after entering Martial Arts University did Wang Tianyu realize just how important school points were.

Exchanging for martial arts cultivation manuals required points, weapons and equipment required points, and even using certain training rooms required points.

Shaking his head, Wang Tianyu closed the door and returned to his dorm.

Sitting at the desk in the living room, Wang Tianyu picked up a book from the table.

"Martial Artists' Essential Knowledge!"

This book had been handed out when the new student training camp ended earlier. Every freshman had received one.

Opening the book, Wang Tianyu began to read carefully.

Just as its title suggested, the book covered general knowledge.

And this common knowledge was exactly what Wang Tianyu needed to understand right now.

So Wang Tianyu read it very seriously.

"Martial Apprentice! Martial Master! Martial Grandmaster! Martial King!"

Seeing these several realms of martial artists, Wang Tianyu read them aloud softly.

The first few pages of the book introduced the realms of martial artists.

Only now did Wang Tianyu finally understand the classification of martial artist realms.

"I don't even count as a martial artist apprentice yet!"

Wang Tianyu shook his head with a self-mocking smile, silently ridiculing his own strength.

The initial realm of a martial artist was Martial Apprentice, as could be seen from the name itself.

Martial Apprentice! A martial artist's apprentice!

Freshmen like Wang Tianyu did not even qualify as martial artist apprentices yet. At most, they could be considered strong ordinary people.

Martial Apprentice and Martial Master were major realms, and each major realm was further divided into three minor realms.

Based on cultivation progress, the three minor realms were divided into initial, middle, and high stages.

In other words, the Martial Apprentice realm was divided into initial-stage Martial Apprentices, middle-stage Martial Apprentices, and high-stage Martial Apprentices.

After reading about the division of martial artist realms, Wang Tianyu continued flipping through the book.

The next dozen or so pages introduced various things such as pills, energy stones, weapons, and more.

Just as the school principal had said at the beginning of training, pills and equipment truly were important to martial artists.

The book detailed the benefits that all kinds of pills and equipment could provide to martial artists.

Energy stones and pills could allow martial artists to progress faster in their cultivation.

There was no need to mention the function of equipment. With weapons in hand and armor on one's body—

The strength one could display that way would certainly be far greater than when fighting barehanded.

However, Wang Tianyu did not regret his choice.

Even if he could do it all over again, Wang Tianyu would still choose the Combat Division rather than the Pill or Equipment Division.

Later on, the book began introducing the rights and obligations of martial artists.

Things such as not deliberately harming ordinary people and not committing malicious crimes.

There were also the privileges martial artists could enjoy.

Whether in politics or business, martial artists had privileges.

Wang Tianyu only gave these matters a cursory glance.

The final few pages of the book contained information regarding invasions from the other world.

During new student training, Wang Tianyu had also learned that this world was far from peaceful.

At the training camp, the matter of otherworldly invasions had only been touched upon briefly.

One reason was limited time; another was that the setting had not been suitable for a detailed discussion.

The school's purpose had been to instill a sense of crisis in the freshmen.

Now, Wang Tianyu had obtained detailed information about the other world.

This book now explained every aspect of the otherworldly invasion in detail.

Other world was humanity's name for the invaders; the other world itself was not actually called that.

Through the book's introduction, Wang Tianyu discovered that the other world was far from simple.

That other world also possessed civilization.

Its civilization merely focused on the inheritance of martial arts rather than things like technology.

The other world's technological level was roughly comparable to that of an ancient feudal dynasty.

In the other world, modern technologies such as mobile phones and the internet simply did not exist.

Wang Tianyu had originally thought the other world focused on martial arts and had no energy to develop technology.

Only after reading the later sections did Wang Tianyu realize he had been barking up the wrong tree.

The other world and Wang Tianyu's world did not exist on the same plane.

The two worlds were connected by ten wormhole-like passages.

As for how these ten passages had appeared, or how long they had existed—

The book did not explain in detail.

Through these ten passages, people from the other world could travel to Wang Tianyu's world.

Of course, Wang Tianyu and the others could also travel through the passages to the other side.

The gravity of the other world was many times greater than that of Wang Tianyu's world. Ordinary people simply could not survive there.

Only martial artists could withstand the other world's gravity.

The book also specifically emphasized one point: perhaps because the worlds existed in different spaces—

The firearms from Wang Tianyu's side were completely useless in the other world.

Although heavy weapons such as missiles and nuclear bombs could harm martial artists from the other world, they could not be used there.

Such things could, however, be used in Wang Tianyu's home world.

But they could not exactly keep endlessly carpet-bombing their own world with nuclear weapons.

Moreover, martial artists possessed far too much destructive power. If they chose to fight in their home world, it would cause immense destruction.

Therefore, in order to resist the invasion, martial artists had chosen the other world as their battlefield.

With firearms useless and ordinary people unable to survive in the other world—

Martial artists became the absolute main force resisting the otherworldly invasion.

The book also explained the reason for the other world's invasion.

Wang Tianyu's world possessed cultivation resources that the other world lacked.

For cultivation resources alone, that was enough for the other world to launch an invasion.

The book also said that, more importantly, the other world held a considerable thirst for human blood.

Human blood was highly beneficial to the cultivation of martial artists from the other world.

Therefore, once human martial artists were captured by martial artists from the other world, they would be drained of every drop of blood and die.

These reasons were why the other world had continued invading humanity.

Fortunately, because martial artists existed, humanity had barely managed to hold back the other world's invasion.

Several photographs from otherworldly invasions were also attached to the final page of the book.

The scenes in the photographs were brutal, filled with nothing but corpses and ruins.

"Martial artists, the otherworldly invasion..."

Closing the book, Wang Tianyu's thoughts were somewhat complicated.

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