The Fourth Disaster: People become gods through high martial arts and gaming

Chapter 186 Martial Artist Development and the Monster Tide
The City of Light, Obsidian Martial Arts School.

Under the blazing sun at noon, a time when undocumented immigrants should be resting, thousands of people who had reached the apprentice level lined up in the newly built martial arts school's courtyard, their eyes burning with longing as they gazed at the magnificent Obsidian Martial Arts School.

In front of the large courtyard built by the martial arts school, a luxury car slowly stopped at the gate. Two half-scaled tribe beauties stepped out, which made many homeless people in line take notice. However, when they saw the Phosphorus Fire Gang logo on the luxury car, they couldn't help but lower their heads and dared not look at it again.

"Xia Ling, is this the good place you said would be for training?"

A fiery half-scaled woman with an oval face, a pointed chin, and wearing a dark blue training t-shirt and shorts, frowned deeply as she looked at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall standing tall on the dilapidated street.

Xia Ling and her classmate from the same university, Zhuguang University, were participating in the Five Cities Grand Competition together. As competitors of similar strength, she thought that the place Xia Ling had specially invited her to train together would be some kind of powerful place, but she never expected it to be a martial arts gym located in an abandoned area.

"Zovie, I'm not lying to you, this really is a great place to train." Xia Ling looked at Zovie, who was frowning, and couldn't help but chuckle. "You must have heard of the Obsidian Martial Arts School recently, right? Especially last night, they sent six martial artists to wipe out the Twin Heads Gang."

"Of course I know that, but what does that have to do with our training?" Zoe glanced at the four large characters "Obsidian Martial Arts School" written on the magnificent gate of the martial arts school in the distance. These four characters are now known to almost everyone in the City of Light, and it is already a top-level force in the suburbs.

But this has absolutely nothing to do with the people they are going to participate in the Five Cities Grand Competition. After all, no matter how famous the Obsidian Martial Arts School is, it cannot affect their ranking in the Five Cities Grand Competition.

“Then I can tell you that those six martial artists were all trained by the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy.” Xia Ling looked at the long line of apprentices and couldn’t help but sigh. “Now so many apprentices, even advanced apprentices, are coming to the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, just to join and improve their skills there.”

"Those six martial artists were all trained by the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy. You're not lying to me, are you?" Zoe couldn't help but look at Xia Ling, her mouth slightly open, her beautiful eyes full of disbelief.

The rise of the Obsidian Martial Arts School is now known to everyone in the City of Light; it can be said to have grown from a wild gang.

It's already a miracle that Obsidian Martial Arts Academy could produce a genius master like Lin Qi. After all, it's extremely difficult for a normal large suburban force to cultivate even one martial artist. It's hard to imagine that Obsidian Martial Arts Academy could cultivate six of them single-handedly.

“Of course,” Xia Ling said with certainty. “I have witnessed the rise of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy. I have known Lin Qi since he was not a martial artist. His speed of progress is unprecedented in my life. And now the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy has trained six martial artists, which is enough to show that the training method of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is not low.”

"This time, the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is not only recruiting a large number of disciples, but also opening up its training methods and teaching many martial arts techniques to the public. Aren't you interested?"

"If that's the case, then the Obsidian Martial Arts School is indeed extraordinary." Zoe couldn't help but become interested in the Obsidian Martial Arts School as well.

Although she belongs to a family in the city, she is not valued by the family and does not even have the qualifications to be an heir. After all, her martial arts talent is really average. It would be better to give so many resources to the talented family members than to someone with such average talent like her.

But now, listening to Xia Ling say this, Obsidian Martial Arts Academy must have a very powerful training method. Otherwise, it would be impossible to train six martial artists in one go. Even the martial arts academies in the city cannot do such a thing. They would be lucky to train two or three a year.

If she can truly become a martial artist through this, her status in the family will be greatly enhanced, and it's not impossible for her to enter the genius training camp three years later.

“However, the Five Cities Grand Competition is only a few days away now, so there’s no point in learning training methods now. As for learning martial arts, I’ve already mastered one martial artist-level technique. Learning other martial artist-level techniques, not to mention the time commitment, wouldn’t improve us much even if we did learn them,” Zoe said.

"Don't worry, Master Lin said that this martial arts training will also include VIP treatment. As long as you spend one energy crystal, you can activate VIP treatment and learn the unique martial arts techniques of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy. Among these unique martial arts techniques are even high-level martial arts techniques." Xia Ling smiled.

"High-level martial arts techniques? Is Obsidian Martial Arts Academy really willing to teach this?" Zoe was astonished.

High-level martial arts techniques are generally at the sixth level. Even the major forces in the city would not easily teach them to their own members, let alone outsiders.

"Alright, let's go in and take a look." Xia Ling looked at the surprised Zoe and pulled her directly into the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

As the two entered the Obsidian Martial Arts School, they saw that the huge training ground on the first floor was already crowded with people who had come to learn training methods and martial arts techniques. Among these people were not only regular residents of the suburbs, but also apprentices from many gangs in the wild and suburbs. The Obsidian Martial Arts School did not mind at all, and accepted all orders as long as they were paid, without any intention of keeping anything from them.

"Hello, we need to process two VIP cards." Xia Ling looked at the beautiful human receptionist hired by the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy and directly took out two energy crystals. "Xia Ling, you're going to spend too much. I can process my own VIP cards." Zoe watched Xia Ling pay and carefully took out one of her energy crystals, which she used to break through to the Martial Artist realm, and handed it to the receptionist with a pained expression.

"Alright, please take these two VIP cards." The human beauty at the front desk put away the two energy crystals, then took out two jet-black metal cards and a list. "You two are now VIPs of this martial arts school. These are the exclusive martial arts techniques offered by our school. The price for these techniques is 500,000 bits, and the teaching fee for one hour is 10,000 bits. If you are a formal disciple of our school, these fees will be reduced by 20%."

The words of the receptionist seemed to have no effect on Xia Ling and Zuo Wei, who were only staring intently at the A4-sized list.

The martial arts techniques recorded above are few, only seven in total: Star Pointing, Wave Blade, Sword Qi Slash, Boundless Full Moon, Spiral Demon Spear Kill, Sword Control Technique, and Eight Leaves One Blade Flash. However, each technique is marked with its sixth stage level.

The strongest Star Point can reach 95% of the sixth stage, while the weakest Spiral Demon Spear Kill can reach 65% of the sixth stage. Any one of these martial arts techniques would be a family heirloom for a martial arts school in the city, but now they can all learn them at will, which is simply unbelievable.

"I'll learn the Star Pointing skill." Xia Ling looked at the Star Pointing skill, which was almost at the seventh level, and paid 500,000 bits without hesitation.

"I'm good at swordsmanship, so I'll learn the Eight Leaves One-Sword Flash." Zoe glanced at it and decided to choose the fast sword technique she was best at.

"Okay, please go to the training room. The two coaches will be there shortly." The receptionist nodded, then tapped her smartwatch and sent a notification to Luo Wushang and Chen Ya.

As Xia Ling and Zuo Wei headed to the training room, they suddenly saw a woman wearing a metal mask and an old man in B4-level armor walk into the martial arts hall, instantly silencing the entire first-floor training area.

"Why is Estina here?" Zoe looked at the three-eyed woman wearing a metal mask with surprise, her heart filled with shock. "Could she also be here to study?"

Estina is a well-known celebrity in the city nowadays. She has even become the first in line to inherit the main family of the Blanc family. She is an absolute top-tier potential genius and can be said to be one of the top five geniuses of her generation. She is simply unattainable.

"As expected, she's here too." Xia Ling looked at Estina walking straight into the owner's lounge without any surprise.

She and Estina had witnessed the growth of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy firsthand. Now, the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy had a total of eight martial artists in charge. Among the major forces in the entire suburbs, probably apart from the two forces that were recognized as being ranked first and second, no other force had so many martial artists.

With the addition of Lin Qi, a genius martial artist, it's a foregone conclusion that Obsidian Martial Arts Academy will expand into the city in the future. Estina has no reason not to come and cooperate.

Inside the owner's lounge.

"Miss Tina, I wonder what brings you here so suddenly?" Lin Qi said with a smile, looking at Estina, who was dressed in a white dress but exuded a sense of danger.

His impression of Estina was that of a powerful young lady from a wealthy family. Not to mention that Estina had now become a martial artist, and even a certified genius martial artist by the Martial Artist Association, which was even more unimaginable.

It's hard to imagine that such a young lady would come in person after he refused her invitation last time.

"Master Lin is joking. As a genius martial artist, what advice could I possibly give you?" Estina chuckled nonchalantly. "I'm here on behalf of the Blanc family, with the intention of cooperating with the Obsidian Martial Arts School."

"Cooperation? I don't know how to cooperate?" Lin Qi asked curiously.

The main family of the Bolan family is located in the city center of the City of Light. They can be considered a first-class family. There are probably no fewer than two known Bone Forging Realm martial artists. It can be said that the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy simply cannot reach their level.

"Master Lin, you should know about the Azure Sky," Estina said with a smile. "Azure Sky was destroyed by a monster tide, and the city's higher-ups have almost finished investigating this matter. According to the investigation results of the various investigation teams sent out by the city, for some unknown reason, the monster tide that attacked Azure Sky has dispersed to various parts of our region, resulting in a large number of monsters in our area. Furthermore, with winter approaching and food shortages, the fighting among the monsters has become increasingly fierce, and even the towns near our city have been attacked by monsters quite a few times."

"Based on the analysis of our investigators in the City of Light, our region is likely to experience a monster horde that attacks major cities in the surrounding area, and our City of Light may very well be the first to be affected!"

(End of this chapter)