"Clap, clap, clap..."
After Zhou Ling finished demonstrating his martial technique, the classroom fell silent for a moment, then erupted in enthusiastic applause!
"Badass!"
"A tiger's roar with every thrust-that's definitely major accomplishment in the Tiger Roar Sky-Piercing Spear!"
"If he used that in the assessment, he'd get at least 25 points, right?"
Exclamations and chatter rang out nonstop. Sun Hao couldn't help muttering, "Fucking 25 points. Our total scores probably won't even beat his martial technique score."
"No way?"
Luo Han counted on his fingers. "I reckon I can score around 40."
Sun Hao froze, only then remembering that Luo Han was at Skin Grinding Third Stage and had reached entry level in the Mountain-Crushing Strike fist technique.
"Get lost, get lost! You're no brother of mine!"
Sun Hao irritably shoved the fatty away, then draped an arm around Xu Yuan's shoulders. "Brother Yuan, now it's just us two fellow sufferers."
Xu Yuan didn't respond. He stood there dazed, still immersed in the shock within him.
He had reached minor accomplishment in the second-tier martial technique, Tiger Roar Sky-Piercing Spear...
Yes! Without any manual or mental method, just by watching Zhou Ling perform it once, the martial god's brain had let him comprehend a second-tier martial technique to minor accomplishment out of thin air!
"Thump, thump, thump!"
His heart pounded wildly as though it were dancing at a club. Only four words drifted through Xu Yuan's mind: Holy shit! A cheat!
"Teacher, how was that?"
Standing amid the circle of students, Zhou Ling still had no idea someone had freeloaded his martial technique. He held his spear at an angle, the arrogance on his face even greater than before!
"Major accomplishment in Tiger Roar Sky-Piercing Spear. As far as the technique itself goes, there's nothing I can teach you."
Lin Yuan shook his head, perfectly candid. "But spear techniques place the greatest emphasis on explosive short-range power. Your execution needs speed and slowness, steadiness and urgency. Only then can your strength reach the spear tip and unleash that short-range power!"
"Your spear has nothing but brute force. You aren't bringing out its true power at all! Wang Fengtang at First High and Qin Kuan at No. 2 Middle School both do better than you in this regard."
As a senior martial arts teacher, Lin Yuan taught at No. 3 Middle School, but students from other schools occasionally came to him for tutoring too.
Thus, he knew quite a few things about some of the students at other schools.
He named these two now to give Zhou Ling two targets to learn from, while also tamping down the boy's arrogance.
But Zhou Ling's expression stiffened at his words.
He had come today specifically to show off, and thought he had pulled it off smoothly. Now, not only had Lin Yuan pointed out his flaws, he had also put him down by comparison. He immediately found it a little hard to save face.
Only after a full five seconds of silence did he retreat, his face dark, without even a word of thanks.
Lin Yuan shook his head inwardly.
In martial cultivation, one could not lack an unbowed spine, but neither could one harbor arrogance.
Zhou Ling had good talent and a good background, but his arrogance was excessive. His future achievements might not amount to much.
"My turn."
Seeing Zhou Ling step back, student number two stepped forward of his own accord. His presence was no weaker than Zhou Ling's, and was even somewhat stronger!
Zhang Juye, another top student with fourth-tier divine talent and Skin Grinding Seventh Stage cultivation!
And like Zhou Ling, Zhang Juye came from no ordinary background. Besides the martial techniques taught in their martial arts class, he also had a second-tier saber technique, Sea-Overturning Wave-Listening Slash.
Xu Yuan smacked his lips. Was he about to freeload another second-tier martial technique?
But this time, he was getting ahead of himself. Not everyone was as ostentatious as Zhou Ling.
Zhang Juye didn't bring out Sea-Overturning Wave-Listening Slash to show off. Instead, he walked empty-handed up to the practice dummy, preparing to perform the Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt taught in their martial arts class.
This was the companion martial technique to the class's cultivation method, the Savage Bull Skin-Toughening Method, so it was also the martial technique chosen by the most students.
Xu Yuan had chosen it too.
"Boom!!!"
As Zhang Juye unleashed his major-accomplishment Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt, driving an elbow into the practice dummy's chest like Kyo Kusanagi unleashing his ultimate in The King of Fighters, the martial god's brain once again transmitted insights to Xu Yuan inside his mind.
Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt, minor accomplishment!
Though he had expected it, Xu Yuan's heart still began pounding wildly again!
The feeling of quietly making a fortune made his heart tremble uncontrollably!
...The lesson continued.
One student after another stepped forward in student-number order to perform their martial techniques, then received guidance from Lin Yuan.
Some gained a measure of understanding after the guidance and stepped aside to practice on their own.
Others knitted their brows, feeling as though they had gained some new understanding, yet it was so hazy they couldn't grasp that elusive, intangible thing.
At this point, Xu Yuan's brows furrowed too.
He had thought that the more he watched, the more insights the martial god's brain would provide, and his mastery of martial techniques would keep rising.
But that wasn't how things turned out.
Whether it was Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt, Mountain-Crushing Strike, or Wind-Swayed Sword... once he reached minor accomplishment, watching more yielded no new insights.
That makes you a bit of a chicken rib, bro... Xu Yuan couldn't help muttering inwardly.
Practicing martial techniques depended heavily on talent, but entry level and minor accomplishment weren't all that difficult.
That was because these two realms were merely the "form" of a martial technique.
As long as they were willing to put in the hard work, even martial artists with somewhat poor martial talent could practice most martial techniques to minor accomplishment.
It simply took more time.
If this was the limit of what the martial god's brain could do, then even being able to freeload other people's martial techniques wouldn't be particularly useful.
Huh? Could it be that watching other people perform martial techniques only lets me see the "form," so the martial god's brain only provides insights at the minor-accomplishment realm?
If I gave it the mental method manual directly, would something new emerge?
Something stirred in Xu Yuan's mind, and then his heart grew fiery.
The next moment, without any effort on Xu Yuan's part, the cultivation method for Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt, which his predecessor had long since memorized backward and forward, surfaced in his mind.
Along with it came a complex, abstract illustration-the visualization diagram for Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt.
As these two things appeared, the martial god's brain seemed to sense something, and the writhing of its cerebral cortex suddenly sped up a little.
Before long, fresh insights into Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt streamed out of the martial god's brain!
Only, the situation was different from before again.
Previously, what the martial god's brain had given him were clear, straightforward answers.
Without needing him to understand or absorb them, his mastery of a martial technique could rise to minor accomplishment on its own.
Now, however, what the martial god's brain provided resembled a series of questions.
These questions weren't difficult, though. On the contrary, they were extremely simple.
So simple that it was like looking at elementary school math problems.
[A 2B pencil costs 0.8 yuan wholesale and sells for 2 yuan. If a kid bro wants to earn 168 yuan to buy a skin, how many 2Bs does he need to sell?]
That wasn't what they actually meant, but that was exactly what they felt like.
I get it!
Understanding dawned on Xu Yuan.
Entry level and minor accomplishment in martial techniques were "form," while major accomplishment, perfection, and the transformation realm were "spirit," "intent," and "Dao."
The former was visible to the naked eye, so he only needed to "watch" for the martial god's brain to bring him to minor accomplishment.
But the latter three were all things invisible to the naked eye, which had to be comprehended through cultivation methods and visualization diagrams.
Even the martial god's brain couldn't give him the answers to those three steps directly. It could only help make those incredibly obscure, incomprehensible things simple and easy to understand!
Awesome, my brain bro!
Xu Yuan couldn't help giving the martial god's brain a thumbs-up in his mind!
Immediately afterward, he eagerly began working through those fresh insights.
He wanted to see what realm these insights from the martial god's brain could let him reach in Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt.
If he could reach the transformation realm, next Monday's assessment would no longer be a problem!
No, it wasn't a question of whether he could pass the assessment.
If he could reach the transformation realm, even if he stuck a cigarette between his lips right in front of the principal, the principal would probably have to offer him a light...