Chapter 61: Chapter 41: Talent Development, Scholar’s Distress 2
Translator: 549690339
That is to say, Lu Yuan’s body will, from now on, always retain the age of sixteen.
Sixteen, what a flawless age.
What man doesn’t want to go back to his youth? Who isn’t a youth at heart?
Others may only be able to daydream with regret.
But Lu Yuan is here to loudly tell them, “You can only dream of it, but I will always be a sixteen-year-old boy.”
“My golden finger says so.”
Time has frozen.
What’s frozen isn’t just youth or lifespan, but also the physical foundation of
Lu Yuan.
Under this frozen timeline, he will forever maintain the youthful vigor of a sixteen-year-old, and likewise, his body will also retain the peak quality of a
sixteen-year-old.
In other words, as long as his body isn’t completely destroyed in one go, making life thoroughly impossible, then minor problems like overexerting oneself during inner strength practice wouldn’t exist for this immortal body of his.
Isn’t it just a lack of vitality?
Eat more meat, provide some energy supply, and then the body will recover to its peak instantly.
The body is eternal, this is the ability given by the gift of immortality, and it will never change.
And what Lu Yuan needs to do is to provide energy to this ability to maintain its operation.
“Therefore, while others can only practice inner strength for two hours a day, I can now practice four, six, or even twelve hours a day without stopping.
As long as energy supply is guaranteed to maintain this lock, the body will have no problems at all.”
People who often watch martial arts dramas or read novels will probably often come across these sentences.
So-and-so has twenty years of inner strength, so-and-so has fifty years of inner strength, the protagonist even simply has a hundred years of inner strength.
These are concepts proposed by novels and dramas.
As for Lu Yuan, who has actually practiced martial arts and collected a lot of information from the Jianghu, he can tell everyone accurately that in this world, such a concept exists.
The specific principle is probably the theory of essence and blood mentioned above.
Because the human body has a limit, and the soul and blood in many people’s bodies can only support a person to practice inner strength for two hours a day, any more and it will harm the body and bring a shorter life.
In this way, the increase in the intensity of a person’s inner strength each day is actually limited.
So, under the condition that most people have similar increases, those who have practiced longer have higher inner strength, right?
Therefore, you have twenty years of inner strength, I have fifty years of inner strength, while everyone’s skills and techniques are of similar level, isn’t it possible to directly crush the opponent with one’s profound inner strength?
So the depth of a person’s inner strength, how many years of foundation they have, in the Jianghu, is actually one of the standards to measure whether a
person is strong or not.
Of course, some people are exceptionally gifted and naturally have better foundations, able to practice for longer periods of time.
Some people just have better luck than others.
Able to practice for three hours a day, or even four hours, achieving the same achievements as others in half, or even less time.
Practicing martial arts, in fact, also requires a lot of talent.
“Fortunately, with the gift of immortality, I can barely count as a genius.” Smoothing out these thoughts, Lu Yuan immediately felt better: “Then there’s no problem.”
But be happy as he might, thinking about the protagonists of the novels he read before crossing over, he still felt a bit disappointed towards his lock-on ability, “Compared to diligently practicing everyday, grinding time, leveling up, I really don’t want to work hard.
When will I get a chance like those protagonists who fell off a cliff and not only learned divine skills, but also gained exotic fruits and beasts to increase their internal strength?
I just want to have a good cheat…
Recalling his research on his own golden finger and the exploration of buff like transverser’s qi luck aura over the past two years, Lu Yuan felt full of complaints.
In fact, ever since he obtained the Cloud Palm and discovered that this was a martial arts world.
When he was hunting in the mountains, he hadn’t stopped running towards cliffs and caves.
But after running through twenty or thirty cliffs and caves , and thoroughly searching mountains within hundred miles, he had found no senior’s remains or inheritance of divine skills whatsoever.
Even the shadows of the exotic beasts were nowhere to be seen.
What was everywhere were fierce wild beasts and disgusting poisonous insects, which nearly got him several times.
In the end, after bumping into dozens of walls and confirming that he really didn’t have any protagonist’s aura, Lu Yuan gave up and accepted his fate.
Since then, he has set his feet on the ground, day after day, diligently practicing martial arts.
“However, according to the current progress, the time to practice internal strength has doubled every day, and the accumulation of inner strength and the opening of meridians have also become faster.
Perhaps I could master the Hand’s Taiyin Lung Meridian in just a year and a half, instead of the three years I originally thought it would take.
If I work even harder, I might be able to master it within a year,” Lu Yuan thought to himself.
The acceleration of internal strength training brings benefits in all aspects.
It’s not just about the accumulation of inner strength, but breakthroughs in my own learning curve.
If I could master the Hand’s Taiyin Lung Meridian in one year, and then spend another year mastering the Hand’s Yangming Large Intestine Meridian, I could become a third-rate talent in the Jianghu.
“In that case, it would take me five years to become a third-rate character in Jianghu after traversing time. If I think about it, it sounds like a decent accomplishment…”
Lu Yuan thought about the exploits of other traversing seniors and felt a bit bitter, saying, “Forget it, at least I went from being non-existent to being part of the martial arts world. Being third-rate is better than having nothing.”
“Train, train, I love training.”
Humming a random, out-of-tune song, Lu Yuan performed a routine palm technique to warm up before retiring to his room to cultivate his inner strength.
Without the protagonist’s Qi Luck or the ability to enrich himself with gold, as
a regular longevity-seeker, all I can do now is rely on my hard work and outlast everyone else.
But considering the progress I’m making now, maybe I can do it?
The martial arts world gradually fell into calm.
While Lu Yuan was busy cultivating his inner strength, Sun Siwen, on the other hand, had less time to spend with him. He began to buckle down and prepare for the Imperial Examination that would take place in a few months.
It’s already late May, and there are only four months left until the Imperial Examination in early October.
For Sun Siwen, who is set on earning the scholastic title of Juren, there isn’t much time left for him to prepare for the imperial exam.
However, studying exam questions isn’t too difficult for someone like him, who has been praised for his thorough preparation and potential.
Well, at least Sun Siwen thinks it’s not too difficult.
Once he passed the Scholar’s Examination, he became a little conceited.
While the exam isn’t a big issue, problems outside the exam room are giving Sun Siwen a headache.
If he just had to study exam questions and prepare for the imperial exam, he could just study quietly at home.
However, the Juren Examination isn’t like the previous Scholar’s Exam that he could take in the county town.
The Juren Examination is held in the prefectural city.
The Yuzhang Prefecture is over 700 miles away from Dayu County. The journey alone will take half a month.
But what’s the situation now?
It’s not quite a war-torn mess, but it’s not far off with all the bandits running amok.
Right now, the entire Luling Prefecture is teeming with bandits.
The notorious Black Wind Gang attracted numerous bandits from the martial arts world, and they’ve joined forces, wreaking havoc over Luling Prefecture. They’ve even stirred up chaos in the surrounding prefectures.
Under such circumstances.
You’re asking Sun Siwen, a frail scholar, to travel a long distance to the prefectural city to take an exam. Isn’t that like asking for his life? These bandits don’t care if you’re a scholar or if you have a Scholar’s Degree.
They kill people for two reasons: wealth and pleasure.
Funnily enough.
Examinees usually carry quite a bit of travel money. Besides, scholars are often fair-skinned and handsome, some even more attractive than country girls.
For some unscrupulous robbers, this is quite appealing.
While at the tavern, Lu Yuan often hears about handsome scholars who fell into the hands of the Black Wind Gang. They lost their money, and some even lost their lives, becoming laughing stocks.
As a regular at the tavern, Sun Siwen obviously heard these stories too.
Therefore.
Considering himself a pretty boy, Sun Siwen began to worry.
“Being good-looking can sometimes be troublesome.” With this thought, he
became even more worried..