High Martial Arts: Starting from the Strongest Junior High Student

"I understand!" Chen Shi said firmly.

Shangyuan raised his index finger and said seriously, "Every year, geniuses come here to receive my training and comprehend powerful external martial arts."

"This is the cause I have devoted my life to. The average activation rate is over 76%. More than five children have comprehended the Divine External Skill with my help, including your grandfather, who was a big, chubby boy back then."

Upon hearing this, Chen Shi was startled, thinking to himself that the middle-aged Taoist in front of him, who looked to be in his forties or fifties, was actually so old.

He continued, "No one knows better than me how to help someone master the external martial arts that suit them. From now on, follow my instructions!"

"For the next month, I'll be personally watching you most of the time to make sure you don't have any ulterior motives!"

"The external thoughts I'm referring to aren't evil thoughts, but rather the idea that you might have the desire to train or activate other abilities—you absolutely mustn't let that arise!"

Chen Shi nodded emphatically: "I will do whatever you say."

"But there's something I'm curious about."

Are there different levels of external martial arts skills?

"No." Shangyuan shook his head: "The strength of your external skills is only determined by the level of stimulation during comprehension; the final product is whatever it is."

"What follows is a contest of the strength of qi."

"The stronger the internal energy, the greater the power that external martial arts can unleash!"

Chen Shi raised an eyebrow: "But my qi seems to be still very weak."

Shangyuan said calmly, "Yes, it takes at least a year of practice to see results. Every morning and before going to bed at night, use the Heaven and Earth Breathing Method for half an hour and practice a set of Eight Vajra Exercises. Then, swallow the Qi Gong Pearl, and your Qi will gradually increase."

Chen Shi: "Sigh."

"What's wrong? Why are you sighing?" Shangyuan asked.

Chen Shi's expression was complicated: "Basic abilities, Qi, superpower development, and various competitions along the way, I can't miss the three absorption stages a day, it's exhausting."

"It is tiring." Shangyuan nodded and said, "So around the time you reach the second or third year of high school, the gap between your peers will gradually widen, and university is the real watershed, when you will have to face a lot of special training for the demon race."

Those who can't withstand this level of training will naturally be eliminated.

"Especially since you now have the support of the Academic Star System."

"Before, when everyone lacked money to cultivate, they had a reason to rest. Now that you have no shortage of resources, you have even more reason to rest."

"But that also means you'll be moving very, very fast."

"Calculations show that geniuses who grow with the help of the Star Learning System can become Martial Gods within 30 years at the fastest!"

"This is an astonishing speed. The youngest Martial God in human history was 60 years old and trained for 48 years!"

"Keep up the good work! Focus on mastering the external skills first!"

"Furthermore, a portion of the destructive power of external martial arts comes from your basic strength!"

"Yes, you possess immortal blood and incredibly strong basic power, so your external martial arts should greatly enhance your combat abilities as soon as they are revealed!"

"Alright, let's go have breakfast first, then we'll start training!"

Shangyuan led Chen Shi back to the Taoist temple. At this time, many Taoists dressed in blue robes and neat clothes had already woken up and entered the dining hall in pairs. Chen Shi felt that they were students.

A group of students, on their way to the cafeteria for breakfast, discussed academic issues, chatting and laughing. Regardless of age, their faces radiated youthful energy.

At this time.

Chen Shi looked back at Senior Brother Shangyuan, and suddenly many things became clear.

He's like a dean of academic affairs!

This doesn't resemble the Taoist temple people imagine.

Senior Brother Shangyuan loved braised pork trotters rice. After eating and drinking his fill, he patted Chen Shi on the shoulder and led him to the training ground.

Chen Shi got up and told Shangyuan his thoughts.

"I feel that the Mud and Dust Dao Sect is like an academy."

"Yes." Shangyuan nodded and said, "Everyone you just saw in the cafeteria were the cream of the crop from the four great academies, experts in internal and external martial arts research. They were unwilling to go to the battlefield, and it would be a waste for them to stay in the school because of their great talent. So I would go down the mountain to find them and ask them if they would like to join the Daoist sect."

"Anything is fine, just want to be isolated from the world."

"I thought this would be a stepping stone to prevent them from coming here, but I didn't expect that my senior brothers and sisters would want to isolate themselves from the world."

Chen Shi raised an eyebrow and asked, "What about marriage and having children?"

Shangyuan shook his head: "Most of them don't have that need."

"If it weren't for the rules of the sect, they wouldn't even pay much attention to eating and sleeping."

"You actually woke up quite a few people yesterday. Our rule is to turn off the lights at 10 p.m. and get up at 5 a.m.

"But it doesn't matter, most of them are just huddled in their blankets thinking about things and don't actually sleep."

Chen Shi said in a daze, "It feels so different from what I imagined."

"The ancient Taoist sect was called the Mysterious Sect," Shangyuan said calmly. "They were truly transcendent beings, single-mindedly cultivating the Tao for the sole purpose of achieving immortality."

"But our elders don't allow capable people on this land to eat for free."

"So after the founding of the country, he eliminated all the so-called supernatural forces."

"Either lower your head and honestly serve the human race, or..."

Shangyuan clicked his tongue in amazement and said, "Disappear."

Chen Shi's heart skipped a beat.

"Our Mud and Dust Sect actually has a history of a thousand years. I entered the sect 330 years ago. At that time, the sect leader was not yet the sect leader. He was the senior brother, and I was the junior uncle. The current junior uncle is Xuanxu."

"At that time, we were also fleeing from disaster, so we ran up the mountain and happened to meet Li Yu and his seven companions who were also going up the mountain."

"They had a meeting afterwards."

"Probably in three years."

"The gates of the Mud and Dust Path are fully open, welcoming anyone seeking refuge here!"

"Then the sect leader led the eldest disciple and a group of disciples down the mountain, and I, a kid in my early twenties, became the oldest."

"It took seven or eight years for him to leave."

"Only the eldest brother returned that day. There were thousands of memorial tablets and many urns in the ancestral hall."

"On the day the country was founded, the emperor himself came to our place to invite us to watch the founding ceremony."

"I was already an adult by then."

"I remember him asking his senior brother if he wanted to become the ruler of Zhongzhou."

"My senior brother said he should stay here."

"Then they assigned my senior a position in Congress, which was ranked eighth, but he almost never went to Congress."

"As the seven brothers left one by one, he inexplicably rose to second place. Then, when Long Yichuan said he wanted to be second, his senior brother gave him the spot."

"However, he went to Congress last time, and that time it was to discuss whether or not to prepare for a full-scale war."

Chen Shi frowned, his emotions fluctuating with the words of his senior brother, Shangyuan.

At this time.

Shangyuan stood in front of a huge iron stake, patted the gleaming silver metal on it, and said with his head down, "I have been waiting for this day."

"Finally, the war is about to begin."

"I believe my senior brother has been waiting for this day as well."

After saying that, he took a deep breath and looked at Chen Shi: "Come on, use your combined strength to hit this iron stake."

Chen Shi walked straight forward, but the turmoil in his heart had not yet subsided.

Why are they so eager for a total war?

That year, Shangyuan was just a child.

Even the eldest brother wasn't as powerful as he is now.

They could only watch helplessly as their senior brother and sect leader fell.

But now everything is different; they will surely make the demon race and the monster race hear the final song played by the mud and dust.