Chapter 41: Sensing Is Like Recognizing Characters, Talent Is Like Doing Problems
The library dedicated to Martial Arts Students is right next to the venue, a two-story small building with an old man guarding the entrance.
When Li Ye walked over, the old man didn’t even look up, just kept scrolling on his mobile phone.
Seeing this, he paused his steps, “Old man, I’m coming in.”
The old man didn’t even lift his eyelids, just waved his hand, signaling Li Ye to go in, with no intention of stopping him.
This actually stumped him.
“Old man, I said I’m coming in.” Li Ye repeated again.
The old man looked up, impatiently saying: “It’s not some dragon’s lair or tiger’s den, do you need to report to me when going in? I’m not blind, you’re not main force, why are you strutting over so confidently?”
Li Ye laughed, “Then what if it’s not main force coming over?”
“Why learn so many Martial Arts? Biting off more than you can chew, anyway it’s all Qi Blood Leap, one gate or two gates makes no difference, instead it just drags down your own progress.”
The old man waved indifferently, “Don’t worry, you can’t take them out of the school, even if you could it doesn’t matter, Martial Arts Schools don’t care for them. If you want to see them, come register for whichever one you like.”
“Alright, you rest then.”
Li Ye laughed, and walked inside.
Then he knew why the old man was so fearless.
The Martial Arts in his impression were either taught verbally and through demonstration, or turned into books. But the Martial Arts in the library weren’t like that, damn it, they were videos and introductions.
On the shelves were rows of tablets, with names and descriptions on them.
[Golden Goose Technique], gliding like a goose, arms spreading like wings.
Li Ye opened the video and tugged at the corner of his mouth again.
The one in the video wasn’t a real person, but a crude 3D dummy with only the simplest torso and limbs. The dummy in the video used the surrounding environment, taking a few steps to push off and leap up, reaching the air and spreading its arms in a soaring pose, lingering in the air for a good while, then diving down, kicking the gravel below with both feet, shattering the gravel.
This was a Martial Arts mainly for Lightness Skill, with some leg techniques.
[Ascend to Heaven Ladder], leap up lightly, arms climbing.
Li Ye opened another video, the dummy inside leaped once, its feet moving in the air, stepping on a row of green belts to quickly cross, then reaching a wall, using hands and feet together, legs kicking rapidly upward, both hands also gripping the wall to climb up, instantly making several holes.
This was Lightness Skill with Claw Technique.
Li Ye looked through them one by one, there was [Opening Stele Free Fighting Sixteen Techniques] specialized in fist techniques, each move able to split stele and shatter gravel.
[Whirlwind Technique] with fierce leg techniques, the dummy in the video really was like the Street Fighter Li Ye played in his previous life, one leg extended sweeping low turning into a whirlwind, spinning fully, kicking the enemy dummy flying with one foot.
There were also Hardening Techniques like [Iron Shirt Refining Armor Technique], [Essence Blood Condensation Technique], all for enduring strikes, with powerful flesh body Martial Arts.
There were also Weapon class Martial Arts, saber and sword, spear, sword, halberd, axe, yue, hook, fork, sword, sickle, pike, staff, whip, mace, hammer, grab, each one stranger than the last, instead common saber and spear sword were fewer, the stranger the weapon the more there were.
Li Ye looked at a few rows of Martial Arts, confirming one thing, everything these Martial Arts videos could do, his Martial Arts all encompassed, he could do them all.
Split stele crack stone? He could grip iron like mud.
Horizontally block saber and sword, he felt his hardness could do it even more easily.
Those for cultivating Strength and stamina were inferior to his Dragon Gate, those for Strength and attack inferior to his Tiger Gate, those for defense inferior to his Golden Palace.
Even in Lightness Skill, his Dragon Gate was stronger than the Martial Arts here.
Top-tier Martial Arts encompassed everything, indeed no need to learn anything else.
But Li Ye still wanted to test it.
He selected a saber technique plaque called [Azure Lotus Dust-Breaking Technique], and gave it to the gate-guarding old man.
The gate-guarding old man glanced at it, sat at the computer and clicked, “Add contact on mobile phone, I’ll send the information to you.”
Li Ye: “…”
Clearly living in a modernized world for so many years, but suddenly modernizing on Martial Arts, he surprisingly felt a bit awkward.
After getting the Martial Arts, Li Ye returned to the venue, flipping through the information as he began to circulate energy.
This Martial Arts mainly saber technique, but not only saber technique, a complete Martial Arts necessarily includes a complete chain, it also had chopping palm and such fist and foot techniques, a set of exclusive Movement Technique, and also some Hardening Technique.
The circulation route was mostly in the arms, with some legs.
In circulating energy, Li Ye was a genius among geniuses, the type who gets it after one go.
Following the given information to circulate energy, Li Ye condensed Qi and Blood, after going through the route once, he raised his palm and chopped, just like raising a saber to chop down, breaking out a fierce wind sound.
The power seemed pretty good, but that was due to his own strength, having nothing to do with the moves.
Instead, there was a problem with the Qi and Blood increase.
After circulating energy, he found this set of Martial Arts had a pitifully small increase in Qi and Blood, even smaller than Foundation Establishment Technique.
Practicing Martial Arts was not difficult for Li Ye at all, but increasing Qi and Blood, that involved talent.
This thing was like giving you a problem made from a heavenly book, Qi and Blood sense is being able to easily know what is written on the problem, talent is how to solve it.
The better the talent, the simpler the problem.
Li Ye with average talent learning Martial Arts, was like using high school knowledge to tackle a doctoral problem, and damn it a math problem, if you can’t do it you can’t, practice to death and still can’t!
No wonder so many people stay at One Dragon Gate their whole lives.
These clearly basic Martial Arts, he found hard to practice too, Martial Arts Students like them coming up from preparatory, really belonged to those with no talent.
Luckily, he was one with a cheat.
Different from his Dragon Tiger Gate, as top-tier Martial Arts it had the special effect of refining Qi and Blood, this ordinary Martial Arts, like Foundation Establishment Technique, relied on daily cultivation and eating to increase Qi and Blood.
Although no refining, by brute forcing with Qi and Blood, he could still practice this Martial Arts.
However, in power it couldn’t compare to Dragon Tiger Gate, no meaning.
“What are you practicing?”
Yao Lèdān walked over curiously at this time: “Is this your breakthrough Martial Arts?”
“No, just went to the library to learn a saber technique.”
Li Ye said truthfully: “Haven’t learned others before, wanted to try learning.”
Yao Lèdān widened her eyes, “Got it in one go? You weren’t building foundation in preparatory before, right? What divine technique needs to build foundation in preparatory?”
Li Ye smiled, “Pretty much.”
Before getting authority, wasn’t he just building foundation, learning general knowledge also counted as building foundation, otherwise where would the means to kill demons come from.
“What’s the point of practicing this basic Martial Arts, you’re practicing breakthrough Martial Arts. If it’s just for increasing Qi and Blood, Foundation Establishment Technique is enough, in increasing Qi and Blood, Foundation Establishment Technique is the strongest.”
“Ah?”
Jia Dong finished circulating energy, also came close at this time, hearing this asked: “What do you mean, the Martial Arts I learned at the Martial Arts School were for nothing? Just now Teacher Gu told me to learn a Hardening Technique, saying my physical fitness isn’t great. According to you, I just need to increase Qi and Blood?”
Yao Lèdān said: “Of course there’s a difference, if you don’t learn Martial Arts you can’t get into good university, even ordinary Martial Arts University has divisions.”
“One to Three Dragon Gates can get into ordinary Martial Arts University, but if just practicing Foundation Establishment Technique, wanting to get into good schools is basically difficult, like Security University all require Martial Arts foundation, pure Foundation Establishment Technique can’t even pass the assessment.”
“Even if wanting to graduate into good company, many companies have assessments, all testing Martial Arts strength. So you still have to practice what you should, can’t escape.”
Jia Dong clicked his tongue: “Martial Arts Students aren’t easy either.”
Yao Lèdān rolled her eyes: “Who told you it’s easy, back at school is Martial Arts Training, out of school is experience. Basic Foundation Establishment Technique, Martial Arts to increase your strength, Martial Arts to compensate your weaknesses, practice until proficient to get stronger then go experience, get more resources, then continue Martial Arts Training, busy until no time to sleep.”
“School just started, still one week to rest and adapt, cherish it, next week starts non-stop.”
