stjorthotic Chapter 176 Martial Arts Exchange
Chapter 176 Martial Arts Exchange
Chapter 176 Martial Arts Exchange
After speaking, Dong Qichao, the president of the Guannei Province Martial Arts Association, said, "Therefore, today, we have specially invited a martial arts genius who was admitted to Starry Sky University to popularize martial arts outside the stars for you."
As you may know, there is a huge difference between martial arts on Earth and martial arts outside of Earth. You people may be considered outstanding martial arts geniuses on Earth, but outside of Earth, you can only be considered average.
"You all have a very good chance of getting into Starry Sky University in the future. I hope you can all recognize the gap between yourselves and the geniuses from beyond the stars in advance, so that you won't be unable to bear the huge gap later, causing unnecessary trouble and affecting your martial arts."
"Alright, next, please welcome Xie Yaohui, the champion of the genius group of the 7362nd year of the Galaxy Calendar in Guannei Province, a student who has been admitted to Starry Sky University, to the stage to give a speech."
Students in the audience, if you have any questions, feel free to ask them on the spot. Consider it a good opportunity to familiarize yourself with Starry Sky University.
After Dong Qichao finished speaking, a young man in his early twenties walked into the venue.
After the young man went on stage, he glanced at the geniuses from the eight provinces below the stage and said, "Hello everyone, I am Xie Yaohui, a first-year student at Xingkong University."
Next, I will share my insights from a year of martial arts training at Starry Sky University—
Xie Yaohui then launched into a long speech.
After speaking for nearly an hour, Xie Yaohui finished sharing his insights on martial arts.
Many members of the eight-province genius group in the audience listened with rapt attention.
Chen Lie, sitting in the first row, listened to the speech and yawned out of boredom.
After sharing his insights on martial arts, Xie Yaohui said, "I've finished explaining martial arts. Does anyone have any questions about extraterrestrial life?"
At this moment, a female genius from Sichuan Province raised her hand and asked, "Senior Xie, what is Starry Sky University like, and where is it located?"
"Starry Sky University, located in the central part of the Azure Sky Starfield, is the best and largest martial arts university outside the stars, with more than two million students. It is about 0.23 light-years away from Blue Star," Xie Yaohui replied.
"Does anyone know if there's really such a big difference between the martial arts on our planet Earth and those from beyond?" the female member asked again.
"Big, bigger than you can imagine."
In terms of the purity of Qi and blood alone, at our Blue Star University, those with Qi and blood values exceeding five times the normal level are considered top-tier geniuses, one in ten million.
However, in extraterrestrial settings, five times the strength is merely average; at Starry Sky University, I've seen martial arts geniuses with seven times the strength.
"Seven times the strength? Can martial arts geniuses from outer space really reach that level?"
Is such a multiplier of strength truly achievable by a human?
"Yes, seven times the strength. If one's blood energy reaches three thousand calories, wouldn't that be more than twenty thousand jun of strength? Wouldn't that make one a humanoid beast?"
The members of the Yunchuan Province genius group around Chen Lie were in an uproar.
Shen Miaowei and Ji Lingxuan couldn't help but exchange glances.
Seven times the strength is simply a fantasy on Earth.
"So there are such high energy levels outside of space."
Xie Yaohui said, "The martial arts outside the stars far surpass those on Earth, and go far beyond just physical strength."
Do you think that refining your Qi and blood to the point of being like a paste is the end of the Qi and blood stage?
No, there is an even deeper level of limit beyond what you think is the ultimate limit of Qi and Blood.
The top geniuses at Starry Sky University will all reach the second peak of Qi and Blood.
That is, abundant vital energy transforms into a rainbow, capable of soaring ten feet into the sky.
"A second peak of Qi and Blood?"
The members of the Eight Provinces Genius Group were shocked.
The pinnacle of Qi and Blood isn't even the end of the Qi and Blood stage? Is there some second pinnacle?
Why does it feel like I'm still a long way from becoming a martial artist?
Ordinary martial arts students from the eight provinces usually break through to become martial artists when they reach two or three hundred units of Qi and blood. These martial arts geniuses from their respective provinces have ten times the Qi and blood of ordinary martial arts students, yet they are still endlessly far from becoming martial artists.
Xie Yaohui added, "The Qi and Blood stage is the stage for building the foundation of martial arts. The further we go in the Qi and Blood stage, the more benefits it will bring to our future martial arts."
In addition, I would like to advise you that even if you really have no room for improvement in the Qi and Blood stage, do not rush to become a martial artist. You must go to Starry Sky University to learn powerful Qi Gong.
Qigong is a martial arts practice that cultivates true qi.
Everyone knows that when one's Qi and Blood value reaches 100 calories, one can cultivate True Qi in the Dantian, a skill only advanced martial artists possess. However, without the corresponding Qi cultivation techniques, you can only cultivate the most basic True Qi, greatly impacting a martial artist's combat power, damaging future potential, and affecting a martial artist's entire life.
As soon as Xie Yaohui finished speaking, a boy immediately asked, "Excuse me, what is the use of this qigong?"
"Qigong is a method of cultivating true qi. The true qi cultivated by people who do not practice qigong is ordinary true qi without any attributes."
However, Starry Sky University possesses the most advanced Qigong techniques from beyond the stars. Depending on a person's constitution, they can choose the appropriate Qigong to cultivate true Qi of different attributes.
For example, wind, ice, and thunder—these are all different kinds of true energy.
Or it could be the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—a type of true energy that is one level stronger than other types of true energy.
After these few people asked questions first, many others quickly stood up to ask their own questions.
After an unknown amount of time, the question-and-answer session on the stage finally ended.
A dozen or so staff members began to announce: "Dear students, it's lunchtime. Our gathering will end at 12 noon and close at 2 pm."
It's lunchtime now. Please proceed to the hotel's second-floor restaurant for lunch.
After the staff finished giving the instructions, more than 200 people from eight provinces including Sichuan and Shaanxi got up and went to the restaurant on the second floor.
Chen Lie stood up and said to Shen Miaowei, "I'm going back to Dongchuan Province."
Shen Miaowei quickly said, "Shall I see you off?"
"No need, it's just a few steps away, there's nothing to give."
Chen Lie waved his hand.
Seeing that Chen Lie was about to leave, Shen Miaowei immediately said, "Mr. Chen Lie, I heard that the Guannei Province Divine Sense Master Association is holding a special event tonight, inviting many Divine Sense Masters from the eight provinces of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and even other provinces."
It seems to be some kind of mission. Every attending Divine Sense Master can receive two jin of Spirit-Nourishing Flowers, but the rule is that only Apprentice Divine Sense Masters with a Consciousness Sea Rating of at least 20, or those under twenty years old who have entered the Rank Divine Sense Master stage, are eligible.
"Only two catties of Spirit-Nourishing Flowers? There's no need to make the trip." Chen Lie refused directly.
If there weren't a thousand catties of Spirit-Nourishing Flowers piled up in his training room at home, he might have made a trip for those two catties of Spirit-Nourishing Flowers, but there's no need for that now.
"No, it's not that. The Guannei Province Divine Sense Master Association has gathered so many Divine Sense Masters together to solve a problem. I heard from my elders that they invited the top twenty trainee Divine Sense Masters from the Blue Star Divine Sense Master Association from Blue Star University this time."
The Association of Spiritual Masters of the Inner Province is willing to offer a spiritual treasure as a reward to the person who can solve this problem.
Given your expertise in mental power, you are very likely to receive this reward.
Anyway, the talent gathering lasts for two days, so it won't hurt for us to go out tonight.
Upon hearing that there was also a spiritual energy treasure, Chen Lie immediately became interested: "Alright, you can call me when you go tonight."
"Um!"
Shen Miaowei nodded.
Chen Lie left the Yunchuan Province Genius Group and returned to the Dongchuan Province Genius Group, where he went up to the second-floor restaurant with the other members.
After queuing up at the second-floor restaurant and getting lunch, Chen Lie went to sit down at the Dongchuan Province's dining area.
"Chen Lie, you're back?"
Seeing Chen Lie sit down next to her with a tray, Luo Zhixun quickly waved.
Chen Lie hummed in agreement.
"You actually know Shen Miaowei, one of the two Qi Blood Realm experts in Yunchuan Province?" Luo Zhixun asked.
"Yes, I met him by chance when I was getting certified as a Divine Sense Master." Chen Lie nodded.
"I see."
Luo Zhixun then nodded.
The members of the Dongchuan Province Genius Team began to eat slowly.
Tang Jiu'er, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but say, "Guannei Province truly lives up to its reputation as the number one province among the eight provinces of Sichuan and Shaanxi. It's incredibly wealthy. Look at this ordinary meal, which actually includes meat from a fourth-tier exotic beast and a hundred-year-old spiritual herb."
This lunch costs at least a million Singapore dollars. We have over two hundred people, and it's going to last two days. The provincial government will have to allocate a billion Singapore dollars just for the meals at the gathering.
Luo Zhixun smiled slightly and said, "The gathering of eight provinces is just for the sake of face and to give a good impression to other provinces. Even if it were Dongchuan, we would raise the meal expenses to the highest standard."
"That's true." Tang Jiu'er nodded.
Chen Lie ate very quickly; in less than ten minutes, he finished the entire meal of spiritual medicine and beast meat.
After finishing his meal, he went to the rest area next to the restaurant.
Soon after, the members of the Dongchuan Province Genius Team finished their lunch and went to the rest area.
At this moment, Lu Qingyun and two members of the Dongchuan Province genius team also arrived at the rest area.
Upon seeing Chen Lie, he was extremely displeased and said sarcastically, "Oh, isn't this one of the two newest members of our genius team?"
What? Giving up on clinging to Yunnan Province? Why are you back in our Dongchuan Province's genius group?
Chen Lie glanced at Lu Qingyun and said, "Idiot."
"#, say that again?"
Upon hearing Chen Lie's insults, Lu Qingyun flew into a rage.
"I said you're an idiot, so what?"
"You're fucking asking for it!"
Enraged, Lu Qingyun couldn't control himself and wanted to attack Chen Lie.
Two members of the Dongchuan Province genius team immediately pulled Lu Qingyun back and advised, "Qingyun, calm down. This is not the place to fight."
Lu Qingyun sneered, "Kid, you just wait. You'll see when we get back to Dongchuan!"
"Idiot." Chen Lie shook his head.
Lu Qingyun's anger rose again, but considering that this was a foreign province and a gathering place for geniuses from eight provinces, he had no choice but to suppress his anger and turn to the other side of the rest area.
After about an hour in the rest area, Jiang Xiaodong, the deacon of the Martial Arts Association who led the genius team from Dongchuan Province, arrived.
As soon as Jiang Xiaodong arrived, he immediately said, "Classmates, we just received a notice about the assembly. After you've rested for a while, head to the third floor of the hotel to attend the Eight Provinces Genius Exchange Meeting."
"understood."
Several members of the genius team responded.
Chen Lie glanced at the time and realized it was almost two o'clock. So he went up to the third floor of the hotel with many members of the genius team. The third floor of the hotel was much more spacious than the lobby on the first floor.
As soon as Chen Lie arrived on the third floor, he saw that the entire third-floor hall was divided into more than a hundred booths, each with a number.
Before long, the geniuses from the eight provinces who came up from the second floor one after another.
When it was 2 p.m., the announcement on the third floor suddenly came on.
"Hello everyone, our gathering this afternoon from the Eight Provinces Conference is the Eight Provinces Genius Exchange Meeting."
Next, I will announce the rules of the exchange meeting.
To more effectively facilitate communication among members of the eight-province talent team, we will adopt a lottery system.
"A total of 278 members of the genius group from eight provinces participated in this gathering. The lobby on the third floor of the hotel was divided into 139 booths, each with a corresponding number."
"Later, all members will draw lots on stage. The two students who draw the same card number will have a martial arts exchange. During the exchange, each student must point out one weakness in the other's martial arts and offer correction."
"Now start lining up and come up one by one to draw lots."
After the broadcast ended, the leaders of the martial arts associations from each province immediately arranged for the members of their respective province's genius teams to line up and draw lots.
The whole queuing process took about ten minutes. After the queue was fully formed, people started going up to draw lots from the first row on the left.
After the members in front of him went up to draw lots one by one, Chen Lie also went up to the stage and randomly picked a slip of paper from the lottery box.
Before long, all two hundred-plus members of the genius team had finished drawing lots.
The announcement came over the loudspeaker again from the third-floor lobby.
"The drawing of lots is over. Now, students can look at the card number on their slips of paper and go to that card for martial arts exchange."
After the announcement, Chen Lie opened the slip of paper and saw that it said slot number 58, so he went to slot number 58.
The hotel's third-floor lobby is over 2,500 square meters. Even if it's divided into more than 100 booths, each booth is still over 10 square meters.
When Chen Lie arrived at booth number 58, he saw that the booth was empty, and knew that the person who drew the same booth had not yet arrived, so he went into the booth and waited.
A moment later, a stunningly beautiful girl dressed in a martial arts uniform with a high ponytail walked over from a distance and entered booth number 58.
"Position number 58, Ji Lingxuan from Yunnan Province."
The stunningly beautiful girl with a high ponytail announced her name and took out a lottery ticket with the number 58 as soon as she arrived.
Upon seeing this, Chen Lie also took out slip number 58: "Dongchuan Province, Chen Lie".
Ji Lingxuan said calmly, "The meeting requires that we point out a deficiency in the other party's martial arts and correct it."
Why don't you practice first, and I'll help you find the areas where you're lacking.
Chen Lie shook his head and said, "My martial arts have no shortcomings. Let me tell you about yours."
Since we drew the same card slot and are all from the three provinces of Sichuan, it can be considered a kind of fate.
Tell me, what aspect of your shortcomings do you want me to correct?
A strange expression appeared on Ji Lingxuan's serene face.
She never expected that this member of the Dongchuan Province genius group would speak so arrogantly in front of her.