CHAPTER 44: CHAPTER 44: TECHNIQUE ACHIEVED, THE GAP BETWEEN GENIUSES

[You achieved a victory in a sparring match, Fighting Proficiency +20, Body Strengthening Proficiency +10]

[Fighting (Middle Tier): 290/1000]

[Strengthen Body (Middle Tier): 592/1000]

Looking at the settlement page in front of him, Su Tu pursed his lips slightly. Indeed, combat provides more proficiency points compared to pure cultivation.

At this pace, it won’t take long before these two skills have a chance to upgrade to High Tier.

However, as Su Tu understood the system, the proficiency increased quickly because the Skill Level was low. The closer it gets to upgrading the skills, the harder it becomes to level them up.

He wasn’t in a hurry. Although the scenery at the summit is beautiful, the fragrance along the way also mesmerizes him.

This feeling of watching himself become stronger step by step captivated him.

"You’re really a monster."

"In just two days, Prajna Seven Kills has already reached the Small Success stage..." Luo Fan flipped and stood up, his aura wandering around. He seemed unbothered by the defeat, looking as if he had cast off some shackles.

Technique Cultivation is divided into Entry Level, Small Success, Observing the Micro, Great Success, and Independent Self, five realms.

It is a meticulous task. Technique Cultivation requires mindset, movement, talent, and sometimes that flash of inspiration to see through layers of obscurity and grasp the essence of the technique.

For example, Prajna Seven Kills requires the five viscera to resonate and the body and mind to vibrate together to be considered Entry Level.

This group of students is considered geniuses, but except for Su Tu, none of the others could achieve Entry Level.

This shows the difficulty of Technique Cultivation.

However, Su Tu’s entire body just now was in harmony, with electricity emitting and his five viscera resonating without limit, clearly at the Small Success stage.

Even though the crowd had grown accustomed to being impressed, they couldn’t help but marvel at this moment.

"Oh well, somehow it just reached Small Success." Su Tu also stepped down from the ring, speaking lightly.

He truly didn’t think it was anything significant, just a Small Success. To elevate his Eternal Life skill, he needed to bring a technique to Great Success.

That requires complete mastery of a technique, to command it with ease, reaching that realm. He was still far from this goal.

Several people hearing this couldn’t help but roll their eyes.

Everyone knows that Su Tu’s unexplainable achievements are something others couldn’t reach even if they fought tooth and nail.

"Enough, Mr. Unexplainable, how about giving us a break? If you keep this up, how am I supposed to practice martial arts? If you push me too hard, I might have to go home and inherit my billion-dollar assets!"

Tang Yangwu teased.

"Then how about this, why don’t we swap places? You give me your billion-dollar assets, I don’t mind." Su Tu, the anti-Versailles fighter, replied with a heavy punch.

Tang Yangwu laughed, "That won’t do, you’re a man who will conquer the stars and the sea!"

"Try that cliché again and I’ll dock your pay!" Su Tu said as he walked over to Luo Fan.

This straightforward young man gazed at Su Tu with a complicated expression.

"You’re really impressive," Su Tu earnestly said.

Luo Fan’s fighting skills gave him considerable pressure, surpassing even Kashashitsu.

If the two were to truly go all out, with Luo Fan’s cultivation of over ninety opened acupoints and his combat skills, Su Tu felt he might not be able to win.

"A loss is a loss, it’s no big deal." Luo Fan’s tone was more relaxed than before.

"Losing to a fellow genius is better than getting embarrassed by outsiders later on. Honestly, I feel much more relaxed now."

"I used to always be on edge, thinking I had to achieve certain things, but now..."

Luo Fan looked at Su Tu before him, as if seeing a supreme Celestial Being who would one day walk upon the Star River.

"Now, my cultivation realm is significantly higher than yours. I’ve opened 99 acupoints, so in this respect at least, I am better, young man, you still need to train!"

Luo Fan abruptly joked as he shifted the topic.

After realizing the gap, he shattered his former invisible arrogance and did not become discouraged, no longer secretly comparing himself to Su Tu.

He said he’s stubborn, not foolish, and wouldn’t stubbornly compare himself to such a monster, making himself uncomfortable.

When the gap is large enough, jealousy doesn’t arise.

"Opening acupoints is a slow process. No matter how high your talent, you still need to open them one by one. We’ve all opened over eighty or ninety, so in terms of cultivation, we are better than you for now. You still have a ways to go to catch up."

Tang Yangwu chimed in timely.

This is the only aspect these martial geniuses, who’ve practiced since childhood, could boast in front of Su Tu. Oh, and money as well...

No matter how prodigious Su Tu’s talent, in the Peeping Branch Realm, he must continuously refine his physique through Basic Skill, open acupoints, and forge martial roots, which is a long process.

Generally speaking...

"Actually, it might not take that long..." Su Tu murmured to himself, stroking his chin.

Upon hearing this, Mo Ya smiled, wanting to say something.

However, Tang Yangwu’s expression suddenly changed, and his sharp eyes could clearly see that the aura around Su Tu had thickened several folds since yesterday.

He couldn’t help but exclaim, "Damn!! You opened a new acupoint??"

"Entry Tier yesterday and now opened a new acupoint today??" Tang Yangwu looked at Su Tu incredulously.

The other two were equally baffled and stunned.

Entering the tier in one day was already outrageous, and now you’re telling me he might have opened new acupoints?

What have they been cultivating all these years?

"Fortunate to have opened new acupoints," Su Tu humbly said.

"How many did you open?"

"Eleven, inexplicably..." Su Tu scratched his head, appearing puzzled about how it happened.

Upon hearing this, the group exchanged glances and looked at Su Tu’s humble facade.

Damn, once you cut this guy open, he’s actually a dark horse.

"Damn it!! Ahhh!! Now I’m jealous too!" Tang Yangwu couldn’t hold it together and charged at Su Tu.

Luo Fan squatted down and hugged Su Tu’s legs, "Damn, it seems I can only bully you for now, who knows, in the future, I might even have to address you with honorifics!"

Mo Ya joined in the ruckus as well.

They all playfully scrambled by the ring, closing the once unfamiliar distance.

The feelings during the student period may just be like this; a playfight or a few rounds of games can pull the distance very close, very close...

.....

Today’s cultivation ended early. Originally, Tang Yangwu and the others invited everyone to go for hot pot.

But Su Tu wasn’t good with spicy food, so he didn’t join. He initially wanted to find Li Hu for some questions, but since Li Hu wasn’t at the martial hall, Su Tu decided to head home directly.

On his way, Su Tu saw many shops being renovated, with some signboards covered with red cloth. With his eyesight, he could easily see the martial character engraved behind the red cloth.

"Recently, North Sea seems to have a lot more martial halls," Su Tu recalled that many large and small martial halls had appeared in various parts of North Sea recently.

This gave Su Tu a feeling of an impending storm.

He lowered his head, swiping through short videos, when he suddenly came across a video.

It was a young child who accidentally fell from a window while playing. Amid the desperate cries of its parents, a figure shot out from mid-air and caught the child.

The comment section below the video went wild.

"Is this not a movie!!!"

"Damn, are you all evolving without me!!"

"No way, he’s flying, he’s really flying!!"

Not only that, but Su Tu encountered many videos like this, featuring a towering figure single-handedly stopping two colliding trucks, or a mysterious person entering and exiting a fire scene seven times, eventually extinguishing the fire with one powerful strike.

In short, these kinds of videos suddenly swept across major platforms today, with everyone frantically discussing them. Some believed they were promotional videos shot for a super IP.

Others thought it was a symbol of a new era arriving.

Despite the immense online uproar, the Federation’s official channels had not released any statements.

"Is this laying the groundwork for the Martial Exam?" Su Tu had a faint premonition.

The sun dipped slightly, while the clouds spread like an ocean across the sky, shrouding the entire sky in dim light.

Su Tu formed an ’O’ shape with his hand, gazing through it to the horizon, feeling as if the entire world had fallen into his eyes at that moment.

This June... should be quite eventful.