Rise from a Poor Family: My Martial Arts Counterattack

Chapter 385 The Crazy Martial Arts Mountain Challenge
"Master, are you really letting Junior Brother try to break into the top thirty of Martial Arts Mountain?"

Only Du Xiaofeng and Liang Hanyang remained in the courtyard.

"You think I'm joking?"

"No, this disciple thought that Master deliberately set a high goal for Junior Brother, but in reality, the real requirement for Junior Brother is only to be in the top 100."

Liang Hanyang voiced his guess: getting into the top thirty is too difficult.

When he was not yet twenty years old, he also entered the Xiantian realm, ambitiously wanting to achieve a good ranking in the Martial Arts Mountain, but in the end he failed to break into the top thirty and only ranked forty-fifth.

It's not that he could only reach this ranking. If ranked according to his actual strength, he could have been ranked thirty-first, but he gave up in the end.

Many martial artists only know that only the top thirty on Martial Arts Mountain are innate martial artists, and the rest are not.

Based on this situation, it seems that as long as there is a martial artist with innate talent, even if they are weak, they can still rank thirty-first.

But the reality is not so simple. There are more than thirty people in the entire Yan Dynasty who have entered the Xiantian realm before the age of twenty.
Take their Canglan Sect for example, in each generation there are two or three disciples who can enter the Innate Realm before they are even twenty years old.

The same was true for my class, and also for my third junior brother's class.

The Yan Dynasty has twenty-four sects, which means there are nearly a hundred innate martial artists under the age of twenty.

The reason why there are only thirty innate martial artists in Wudao Mountain is because Wudao Mountain has a special policy for innate martial artists.

When Martial Arts Mountain detects that a martial artist has broken through to the Innate Realm, regardless of the martial artist's ranking, they will have one opportunity to challenge another martial artist of the same realm.

If you succeed in the challenge, you can take the place of your opponent.

If you fail the challenge, you can only challenge others according to your ranking.

Those who break through to the Innate Realm before the age of twenty are all super geniuses of their respective sects, and they are all proud and arrogant. Once they break through to the Innate Realm, they will not challenge those below the Innate Realm, as that would be bullying the weak and would have no meaning for these geniuses.

They would all choose the most recent innate martial artist to challenge, namely the one ranked thirtieth.

If you fail the challenge, then you should leave Wudao Mountain and remove it from the rankings.

It's unclear when this unspoken rule started, but when Liang Hanyang broke through to the Innate Realm, one of his senior brothers told him that all the talented disciples of various sects would abide by this unspoken rule.

Of course, Martial Dao Mountain will not force anyone to leave. If you fail the challenge but do not leave Martial Dao Mountain, you can do so. However, if other sects discover that there are still innate martial artists who have not entered the top thirty on Martial Dao Mountain, it will be widely publicized.

A disciple from a certain sect, who had reached the Innate Realm, failed to challenge the top thirty, yet he still refused to leave Martial Dao Mountain...

Are all members of this sect such sore losers?
Even if there are some innate martial artists with incredibly thick skin who don't care about these taunts, they can't withstand the whispers and discussions among their fellow disciples, especially since other sects will definitely spread the word, which may even affect the image of their sect among young martial artists.

This pressure and guilt are not something a disciple can bear.

In Liang Hanyang's opinion, since Junior Brother Lin has just broken through to the Innate Realm, the best approach is not to rush into any challenges. As long as you haven't challenged the 30th-ranked person, it doesn't count as a failure, and you can still stay on Martial Dao Mountain. The other sects won't say anything.

Once you've trained for a while and feel confident, then you can challenge for a place in the top 30 or even higher.

He asked his junior brother Lin, who would only turn nineteen by the end of the year. There were still more than two months until the end of the year, so his junior brother Lin had fourteen months to wait and could wait ten months before taking on the challenge.

Do you know what Lin Chen's current ranking is on Wudao Mountain?

"The top 500, I guess."

"Six thousand."

Liang Hanyang: ...

He never expected that Junior Brother Lin was only ranked over 6,000th in Martial Arts Mountain. With Junior Brother Lin's strength, even before entering the Innate Realm, he could easily have made it into the top 500.

"and many more!"

Liang Hanyang suddenly remembered something. He recalled that his senior brother Gao had told him that his junior brother's record at Wudao Mountain was perfect and a winning streak.

"Master, don't tell me that Junior Brother's winning streak was achieved by climbing through each ranking, and that he's won over 90,000 matches in a row?"

"Since Lin Chen entered Wudao Mountain, he has won more than 90,000 matches, starting from 100,000th place."

Liang Hanyang fell silent. His junior brother really had time.

More than 90,000 performances...

How does Junior Brother maintain such a high frequency of battles and still improve his strength so quickly?

"The Canglan Secret Realm is about to open. Although the sect leader promised Lin Chen a spot, there are quite a few innate disciples in the sect who meet the requirements. I'm afraid some people will be dissatisfied at that time."

Du Xiaofeng said something meaningful, and Liang Hanyang was stunned. The sect leader actually gave his junior brother a spot in the Canglan Secret Realm?

If it were him, he would also be dissatisfied.

Why?
However, since he's my junior brother, there's nothing more to say.

"Master, I will stay in the sect for a while. If anyone dares to disagree, let him think twice."

As an elder, his master naturally couldn't deal with his disciples, but he had a third junior brother who didn't need to care about such things. Anyone who dared to make sarcastic remarks could be beaten up directly.

“You can only make them agree verbally, not in their hearts. But if Lin Chen can enter the top thirty of Martial Arts Mountain, that will bring glory to the sect and earn a spot. Other disciples won’t be able to gossip.”

If Lin Chen were like his two disciples, then he, as the master, wouldn't need to care at all about what the other disciples in the sect thought of Lin Chen.

However, Lin Chen has comprehended the Heart of Canglan, and his potential limit is not just that of a sect elder. Only by gaining the respect of the sect's innate disciples and receiving special treatment from the sect can he avoid opposition.

For a super sect like the Canglan Sect, stability is sometimes more important than anything else.

This is why, even though Lin Chen comprehended the Heart of Canglan, the several Supreme Elders did not take any action.

Liang Hanyang was also stunned. When did his master become someone who could win the hearts and minds of others?
If his senior brother had said that, he would have thought it was normal.

Why does it feel so strange for my own master to say this?
Among the many elders, his own master's reputation wasn't very good. ...

……

Lin Chen bid farewell to his third senior brother and returned to his own courtyard.

He immediately took out his Martial Dao Seal. Now that he had broken through to the Innate Realm, he didn't delay any longer and entered the top 1,000 in one go.

……

……

Five days later.

Lin Chen entered the top 1,000 of Wudao Mountain.

In these thousands of battles, he defeated his opponents with a single move. Towards the end, he didn't even bother to look at his opponents' names or sects.

In short, they went on a killing spree.

He just wants to keep winning, and he doesn't care who his opponents are. He won't stop even if they are from the same clan.

……

……

On the morning of the seventh day, Lin Chen once again stepped into Wudao Mountain.

Martial arts mountain.

The moment Lin Chen entered the battle plain, his opponent appeared.

Before Lin Chen could speak, the man who appeared merely glanced at Lin Chen, his arrogance vanishing, replaced by an incredulous look.

As if witnessing something unbelievable, he subconsciously rubbed his eyes.

Innate martial artist?
I am ranked 300th, not 30th.

Tong Hai was completely stunned. The oppressive aura emanating from the other party was unmistakably that of a Xiantian martial artist. His senior brother was a Xiantian expert, and he had felt this aura from his senior brother far too many times.

How can there be a martial artist with such a low ranking?
wrong.

Even though he hadn't challenged many times at Martial Arts Mountain in the past, and his ranking had never matched his strength, now that he had broken through to the Innate Realm, according to the unspoken rules of each sect, shouldn't he challenge the 30th ranked person?
The rule that a martial artist of innate talent directly challenges thirty people is known to many disciples from various sects.

As a disciple of the super sect Eight Desolate Sect, Tong Hai learned about these underlying rules from his senior brother.

Could this person be the one who failed to challenge the 30th-ranked person but did not follow the rules and leave the Martial Arts Mountain?

"Senior brother, according to the rules, the innate martial artist chooses..."

boom!
Before he could finish speaking, Tong Hai felt a sharp pain all over his body, and the next moment he was forced to leave Wudao Mountain.

"How shameless!"

Tong Hai's face was filled with anger. As a Xiantian martial artist, he had failed to challenge the 30th person and was not even allowed to speak. He couldn't swallow this insult.

"I'd like to see who this person is."

Tong Hai entered Wudao Mountain immediately, selected a challenge target, and saw the unfamiliar name ranked fourth among the top ten martial artists. He remembered it well.

He had been ranked 300th for some time, and he was already familiar with the names of the ten people ahead of him. Now, a new name had appeared at 294th place, which must be that shameless innate martial artist.

"Lin Chen of the Canglan Sect!"

After memorizing the other party's sect and name, Tong Hai immediately left his courtyard and began searching for his senior brother.

You can't ask your master about this. After all, there's no rule in Martial Arts Mountain that says a Xiantian martial artist has to give up if they fail a challenge. It's just a rule that these people follow on their own.

In his view, Lin Chen must have failed in his challenge against the top thirty and was taking his anger out on them out of embarrassment.

Master won't get involved in this, but he can have his senior brother spread the news. He doesn't believe that once all the sects know about this, Lin Chen will still have the nerve to stay on Martial Dao Mountain.

This kind of scenario isn't unique to Tong Hai.

Those who made it into the top 300 were all the best among the disciples of super sects. After being defeated by Lin Chen, they all began to expose the matter.

Lin Chen, focused solely on his challenges on Martial Arts Mountain, remained unaware of all this and continued his Martial Arts Mountain challenge.

240th.

The opponent who appeared opposite Lin Chen's eyes narrowed slightly when he saw Lin Chen.

"Senior Brother Lin?"

Before he could even speak, he left Wudao Mountain.

"What does Senior Brother Lin mean by this?"

Liu Yang's face was filled with anger. It was bad enough that Lin Chen disregarded the bond between fellow disciples and challenged his fellow disciples, but just a moment ago, he sensed the innate martial artist power emanating from Lin Chen.

As a martial artist with innate talent, why didn't he challenge the top thirty?
"So what if you broke through to the Innate Realm? You were the one who acted unjustly first, so don't blame me."

Although he was only an inner disciple, Lin Chen had gone too far, and he was not going to swallow this insult.

He wanted to spread the word about this within the sect.

(End of this chapter)