Gao Wu: Ten years of sparring experience, one move and the world knows him.

Chapter 36 Moonlit Shadows
Dongqi University has two campuses, east and west. The main campus where Zhao Rui is located is in a relatively remote location in the suburban development zone.

However, the suburbs of the provincial capital are not much worse than those near the city center, except that there are fewer comprehensive shopping malls and fewer high-rise buildings.

Zhao Rui strolled along the wide road outside the school, wandering around casually and observing his surroundings.

Many of the buildings in this area are old buildings without elevators, no more than five or six stories high, and they are quite old.

Especially those near the school, most of them are former faculty and staff dormitories or family housing.

There are also newly built modern residential areas, but they are located far from the university.

Zhao Rui walked around the campus for a long time and found a residential area that he liked. It was not far from the school gate and convenient to come and go.

The buildings are just a bit old.

He went directly to a real estate agent along the street in the neighborhood, inspected the property, and rented an apartment.

Zhao Rui is not short of money at all now. With the money he earned from his summer job, plus the "gifts" from Tiger, he has a full 60,000 yuan in his account.

The rent for this apartment is 1500 yuan per month, and the annual rent can be reduced to 1450 yuan, which is not a big burden for Zhao Rui.

The rented apartment is on the fourth floor, a three-bedroom unit with an old-style layout where the balcony is in the bedroom. The bedroom is quite large; if you live alone, there's more than enough space inside to practice boxing.

Most importantly, the furniture and appliances in this house are all ready-made, so there's no need to buy anything new. Just change the bedding and you can move in.

However, Zhao Rui did not plan to move in immediately. After all, it was the beginning of the semester and he was not sure about the school's regulations. He planned to wait a couple of days before making a decision.

After renting the apartment, Zhao Rui opened WeChat on his phone to check the locations of nearby martial arts schools, and then took a taxi there.

The martial arts school here is not much different from the one in Lincheng. After all, it is not in a bustling area of ​​the provincial capital, and it feels a bit like a taekwondo school from my previous life.

Its main purpose is to serve martial arts students in the surrounding area, providing training venues and extracurricular teaching.

It does not involve the discussion of advanced martial arts or the training and inheritance of different schools.

Zhao Rui consulted two or three people, and they did need sparring partners, but they didn't lack part-time options. If it was a full-time job, they could even conduct interviews and recruitment.

Zhao Rui thought about it and agreed. After all, this was the provincial capital, and it was next to a university, so there was no shortage of college students who wanted to work part-time.

After a brief inquiry, Zhao Rui took a taxi back to his school dormitory.

For freshmen, everything is new and exciting, and groups of two or three freshmen can be seen wandering around the campus.

Those who are both returning students and new students can be easily distinguished by those on campus; their curiosity and naivety are impossible to conceal.

Zhao Rui's dormitory was no exception. The eldest and third oldest members were the most enthusiastic. After resting briefly in the dormitory, they suggested going out for a stroll around the campus.

Since he was new to the area and didn't want to lose face, Zhao Rui went with the crowd.

Along the way, the group enjoyed the campus scenery and admired the pretty girls passing by, chatting happily.

Only the fourth brother, Chu Yunlei, was not talkative. He followed Zhao Rui and the other two like a little follower, seemingly dispensable.
After browsing for a short while, Zhao Rui's phone started ringing incessantly.

Calls came from Yang Fan and Sun Tiantian, who had already started school, both asking him what he thought about the start of the semester.

There was also a WeChat video call from the martial arts school's senior students; the group was having barbecue at a barbecue restaurant.

The idea was to let him practice his drinking skills in college, so that now that he's an adult, they can drink together when they meet again.

Zhao Rui chatted with them for a while with a smile, and then used this as an excuse to leave the "park tour" group early and return to his dormitory.

After a quick wash, I went straight to bed.

He sat cross-legged, made a hand seal to circulate his internal energy, and began his cultivation.

However, the cultivation time was not long, only thirty or forty minutes, before Le Bin and the others finished their walk and returned to their dormitory.

"Second brother, do you have a girlfriend?"

Back in the dormitory, Le Bin joked with a smile that his appearance was rather effeminate and handsome, and that he had quite a bit of "charm" when he smiled!
No, where are you?

Apart from Lebin, the other two shook their heads.

"I have a girlfriend, but she's not from our school. I'll introduce you all when you come back another day."

Lebin said with a smile.

"You're so handsome, it's obvious you have a girlfriend. My goal is to end my single life in college!"

The eldest brother, Jian Conglin, said with high spirits.

Their major is accounting, and the proportion of female students is quite high, generally around 1:3.

There is no shortage of girls.

"I wonder what the quality of the girls in our class is like?"

Jian Conglin's gaze was leisurely, as if he could see through time and space and see the situation in the girls' dormitory on campus.

"We'll find out tomorrow!"

Zhao Rui smiled and said.

"I checked the sign-in sheet during the day, but unfortunately there were no photos!"

"Knowing the name already puts you ahead of the competition, boss!"

Le Bin laughed.

"Ha ha!"

The night sky over Jeju seemed even more hazy than that of Lincheng, and the summer heat was even more intense due to the surrounding mountains.

A whirring fan in the dormitory, accompanied by a lively late-night discussion, brought a barely perceptible coolness to this newly built dorm room.

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The next morning, Zhao Rui got up early as usual, but this time he didn't practice his skills. Instead, he jogged around the campus.

While stretching their muscles, they admired the campus in the morning light.

After exercising, Zhao Rui returned to his dormitory. Everyone else was already awake. He quickly washed up and then went to the school cafeteria with the others.

There was a large restaurant next to their boys' dormitory, with three floors and a very spacious area.

Compared to high school, the university cafeteria is not only larger but also offers a wider variety of dishes. Breakfast alone boasts dozens of options, covering cuisines from all over China, from south to north and west to east. After enjoying a delicious and refreshing meal, the dormitory residents followed the flow of students to the pre-arranged lecture hall.

Today is the day for the counselors to meet, mainly for teachers and students to get to know each other and to reserve a substitute class monitor for the upcoming military training.

The process is nothing special.

The counselor's surname is Liu, and her given name is Liu Jie. She is a short, thin girl with short hair that reaches her ears.

It is said that he is a new teacher who stayed on at the university after graduating from his senior year.

The atmosphere at the meeting was relaxed. Liu Jie didn't talk about anything else; she focused on practical matters to be aware of in university and the arrangements for military training.

Zhao Rui lived a normal life as a freshman, listening to the counselor's speeches, without standing out or doing anything outrageous.

The class monitor was a tall girl named Cai Xinyue, who was pre-selected by the counselor. She was a 6 or 7 out of 10 in looks, but had a remarkable temperament and was quite outgoing and capable.

You can tell at a glance that someone who frequently serves as a class leader.

The proportion of girls in the class was about what I expected, around two-thirds. This proportion excited Jian Conglin, the class leader, and he spent the whole morning looking back and forth among the female classmates.

To further accurately find a suitable girlfriend, a solid foundation for the initial screening is laid.

After the first class, everyone gathered downstairs in the teaching building and received their own military training uniforms and shoes.

Tomorrow is the start of military training, which will last for two weeks. In addition to training on campus, we will also travel to military camps to participate in live-fire target practice!

The formats were diverse, and the participants were quite serious.

Zhao Rui didn't care about military training. With the physical qualities of a level 5 martial artist, he could handle any kind of military training.

Just because he didn't care doesn't mean others didn't care. Before military training even started, several girls had already applied to the counselor for exemption from military training.

However, none of these were allowed. According to school regulations, even if there were special circumstances preventing training, students had to stay with their class and rest on the sidelines.

After receiving his military training uniform, Zhao Rui returned to his dormitory with his roommates.

This time, the interaction among freshmen is no longer limited to their own dormitories, but has spread to between dormitories.

It was bustling with people coming and going, extremely lively.

Jian Conglin was tall and strong, and had a smoking habit. Before long, he became familiar with several other smokers from other dormitories.

Zhao Rui also made two new friends, both from the same hometown of Lincheng.

There were already few boys, and even with another class from the same department, the number of boys was only about twenty. I didn't expect there to be three from the neighboring city.

This shows how hard the people of Lincheng study.

These two from Lincheng are from schools in the county below, and they've always been in regular classes, completely different from martial arts students like Zhao Rui.

Their scores are genuinely high.

After chatting briefly with his newly acquainted classmates, Zhao Rui made an excuse, picked up his backpack, and left the dormitory.

Although it was sweltering outside, the bright moon hung high in the sky, and white clouds drifted by in an instant, leaving behind a cool and serene scene.

Seeing the scene unfold before him, Zhao Rui's inner energy surged, and he felt a surge of joy.

Perhaps it was because he had experienced a great joy in his life recently, and was slightly moved, that he felt a faint pulsation in his internal energy.

He quickly found a secluded grove of trees, leaped onto the treetop, and sat cross-legged.

Using the moonlight and the movement of clouds, he began to cultivate the ethereal divine skill taught by Li Da Nao Tou.

The Misty Divine Skill is not a top-tier martial art, but Zhao Rui currently has no better innate skill, so he can only proceed slowly and focus on increasing the capacity of his dantian first.

Before the start of the semester, he used his time as a sparring partner to accumulate five more advancement points, which he then devoted all of them to improving his internal strength.

This allowed him to reach the level of an ordinary martial artist after fifteen years of cultivation.

That's considered to be a considerable skill level.

Zhao Rui meditated for a full hour, until the moon was bright and the stars were few, and a gentle breeze caressed his face, before he finally finished his practice and jumped down from the tree.

Just as his feet touched the ground, a slightly panicked cry came from not far away.

"Who?"

Not far from the tree, a man and a woman were embracing each other, looking over in astonishment.

"Ahem, I'm just passing by! You guys continue!"

Zhao Rui smiled, stomped his feet on the ground, and leaped away.

"He's a martial artist! Let's go!"

Seeing Zhao Rui disappear in a few moments, the young couple were terrified and, forgetting their intimacy, quickly left the place.

Encountering a martial artist in the woods in the middle of the night is no joke.

Who knows if this person might suddenly have lustful thoughts!
There have been examples in the past, and although the perpetrators are usually caught, this is only what is reported in the news.

How many of them were not caught or did not report the crime?

In short, the imperial court was simply powerless to control all the martial artists.

When the couple returned to their dorm, they frantically told their roommates or friends about what had happened that night.

This grove of trees is not within the boundaries of the martial arts academy, and martial arts students generally do not come here to wander around.

Martial arts students have their own "territory," and the school provides them with a better living environment.

"Could it be a freshman? Or someone from outside the school?"

"It's possible. You should talk to your advisor about it tomorrow!"

"Ok!"

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(End of this chapter)