Hunting God Era

Chapter 36 Martial Arts
Guo Chuming initially tried to get up and fight back, but the kick Li Ye delivered caused him a sharp pain in his chest. He tried to get up, but Deng Hao and Jia Dong's punches and kicks were very heavy. Several times he tried to get up, but he was still knocked to the ground.

Deng Hao focused on the upper body, delivering powerful palm strikes and punches to Guo Chuming's torso. Jia Dong, on the other hand, attacked the lower body. He seemed to know that Guo Chuming's skills lay in his legs, and as soon as Guo Chuming made a move to get up, he kicked his legs hard.

Li Ye couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Are you waiting for the other party to cause trouble?

He doesn't have that kind of mentality; he prefers to strike first and then scare people away so they won't cause trouble.

It wasn't just Guo Chuming who couldn't forget them; Deng Hao and Jia Dong spent a lot of money during the summer vacation to break through the Dragon Gate, which was also partly due to Guo Chuming. They couldn't forget Guo Chuming either!

"Ouch! Stop hitting me! Stop hitting me!"

Just a moment later, Guo Chuming instinctively curled up, covering his head and groaning.

He had a good plan: once he saw the person, he would take revenge; at worst, they would fight for hundreds of rounds, with each side injuring the other, and then he would gain the upper hand and avenge the ambush he suffered last time.

He'd thought it through! He'd thought it through!
"stop!"

Finally, someone in the venue reacted. A group of people huddled to the side of Li Ye rushed forward at the sound, and one of them even jumped into the air, leaping up like a hungry tiger pouncing on a sheep, and pounced straight on the two people who were beating each other.

Snapped!
The moment the figure leaped onto the ground, Li Ye took three steps, grabbed his ankle, and pulled him down, sending him sprawling face-first into the mud.

He then kicked one person to the side, knocking him to the ground. He then turned his body to the side, grabbed another person's throat with one hand in a claw-like motion, and shoved him backward, causing him to collide with another person and fall to the ground.

In no time, the men who rushed over were all on the ground. The sound didn't stop Deng Hao and Jia Dong, but Li Ye's sharp skills made them stop and stare blankly at the sound.

"Grass!"

The only one in the group who hadn't made a move stepped forward quickly, his fists swinging, causing a gust of wind to billow inside his school uniform, and his blood and energy surged, causing his movements to jump three times.

"Don't be so arrogant. In the world of martial arts, the strong are respected! Witness Fei Zhishang's 'Lightning Thunder Fist'!"

Snapped!
A fist suddenly appeared in his face. When the fist was thrown, you could even see that his nose bone was dented by the punch, causing him to fly backward and fall to the ground.

Li Yeyou walked up to the man, put away his fist, and shook his head. "You're still making a fuss before a fight? If you had that kind of energy, you would have already made your move."

"What are you doing!"

Just then, a shout rang out at the entrance of the venue.

A middle-aged man strode over and demanded, "What's going on?!"

Guo Chuming got a chance to catch his breath and pointed at Li Ye and the others, shouting, "Teacher! They ganged up on me!"

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man looked at them, and Deng Hao and Jia Dong immediately stood on either side, lowering their heads.

He glanced again at the person lying next to Li Ye, then turned to look at Li Ye.

Li Ye laughed and said, "It's just a normal sparring match. Guo Chuming made an appointment with us in the preparatory school cafeteria before summer vacation, and now he's fulfilling his promise. Teacher, if this counts as a group fight, the other side should have more people than us, right?"

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man clicked his tongue and cursed, "Preparatory school cafeteria. Shameful! This time it's even more shameful, losing to the newcomers despite having more people! Guo Chuming, if you can't train, just drop out of school to avoid making a fool of yourself! Stay here for now, and go to the hospital yourself after the opening ceremony!"

The middle-aged man then looked at Li Ye and the others, "You are Li Ye? The form says you are from the Three Dragon Gates. Let me see if you can activate your Qi and Blood."

Upon hearing this, the three of them activated their qi and blood, displaying their own dynamic frequencies.

The middle-aged man nodded approvingly: "Very good. Keep practicing, you might become a martial arts prodigy. I am your martial arts teacher, Gu Yang. Stay here for now. After the opening ceremony, we will give you all a unified training session. Try not to cause trouble. It's understandable that martial artists have strong blood and might not be able to control themselves, but there are other ways to resolve things here. It's best not to fight in private."

With that, he walked out again.

The teacher's intervention also prevented Li Ye and his friends from fighting.

The men who had been knocked down by Li Ye got up and helped Guo Chuming and Fei Zhishang to the side to quiet down, occasionally glancing at Li Ye with resentment.

Li Ye found a secluded corner and leaned against it, looking around.

There weren't many martial arts students in the venue, only about thirty in total, including those who came in after them.

The Fourteenth Middle School was just an ordinary middle school, and the number of students majoring in martial arts was within Li Ye's expectations.

"Brother Ye, how did you become so amazing? There are several of you, including one from the Three Dragons Sect like you."

Deng Hao gestured wildly and said, "Just slap them a few times, and they'll all fall down!"

Li Ye smiled but didn't say anything.

"Brother Ye, something's not right."

Jia Dong observed his surroundings, his gaze meeting that of the resentful Guo Chuming before he nudged Li Ye in the ribs: "Is nobody paying attention to us?"

“Yeah. Could it be that we were too violent? That shouldn’t be the case, they started it first,” Deng Hao said belatedly.

Li Ye understood.

In this world, as long as you start a group, people will naturally follow, regardless of whether they are useful or not.

Given Guo Chuming's personality, he must have offended people in the martial arts department, otherwise there wouldn't have been so many of them. They are clearly a small group.

However, his little group seemed quite domineering. Even though Li Ye dealt with them swiftly, no one seemed to come over on their own initiative.

"I'll go ask."

Deng Hao, a restless man, ran straight to a man practicing his light-body skills on a wooden stake. Just as he was about to speak, the man jumped off the stake repeatedly, as if avoiding some kind of plague, and quickly dodged away.

Deng Hao frowned and went to find the next one, but it was the same. The guy practicing boxing left quickly before anyone could get close.

"What kind of ferocious and powerful demon is this?"

Jia Dong clicked his tongue in astonishment: "So terrifying, such profound pressure!"

"almost."

Just as he finished speaking, a person walked over from nearby and said, "Those people dare not offend Xiang Feipeng."

She was a female classmate with neat short hair. Her school uniform couldn't hide her long legs, giving the impression that her legs started right below her neck.

Beauty is not important; what matters is that martial artists are never lacking in strength, especially women. Once they break through the Dragon Gate, their Qi and blood become tangible, and everyone has delicate skin.

Besides, she's very pretty, with big eyes and small lips, and she exudes vitality.

The female classmate smiled at Li Ye and said, "Li Ye, my name is Yao Ledan. We're in the same year, from the Third Dragon Gate."

Another Three Dragon Gate
"Hello." Li Ye nodded. "You know me?"

Yao Ledan laughed and said, "Guo Chuming lost face in the preparatory school cafeteria before, and the whole martial arts department knows about it. It's hard not to know you."

"So what's going on?" Li Ye asked.

"Here."

Yao Ledan gestured with her mouth toward Guo Chuming's group, "Just like you, they also have a leader named Xiang Feipeng, who is very powerful and no one dares to offend him. They can only endure being bullied on a daily basis, but you guys have really stood up for them today."

Li Ye asked in surprise, "There can be school bullies among martial arts students?"

What's the point of all that martial prowess?

Before Deng Hao broke through the Dragon Gate, he dared to fight Guo Chuming just because Guo Chuming scolded him. Whether he could win or not was one thing, but whether he dared to fight was another.

Young people who practice martial arts are inherently brave and courageous. How could they withstand provocation? Otherwise, why would they spend so much money and endure so much hardship just to be trampled on?
They're already like this before even breaking through the Dragon Gate; once they do, they should be even more daring to throw punches. "Our concept of a school bully is different from that of ordinary people."

Yao Ledan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's not that no one has ever beaten us before, and they've beaten us pretty badly. Last year, twenty-five people came at us together, and he picked them all and beat them into submission."

"So amazing?" Jia Dong exclaimed in surprise.

“He’s formidable and neurotic. Everyone here has been sent to the hospital by him, the least one stayed for a month. You guys who hit his people, be careful.”

As she spoke, she looked at Li Ye and said, "Your martial arts seem to be quite strong. You knocked Fei Zhishang down with one punch, but you need to be more careful. Xiang Feipeng likes to torment people like you. He is from the Four Dragons Sect and is a level higher than you in terms of Qi and Blood."

“Tell me, aren’t you afraid?” Li Ye asked.

Yao Ledan said nonchalantly, "Hmph, I just can't beat him. My family isn't any worse off than his. I just came over to tell you because I like you guys."

"Doesn't the teacher care?" Jia Dong asked, puzzled.

"Why didn't you think of the teacher when you were hitting someone?"

Yao Ledan chuckled: "It's just a verbal warning. At worst, we'll go to the hospital. That's all there is to martial arts. Don't let Fei Zhishang's chuunibyou fool you; he was absolutely right. In the martial arts world, the strong are respected, and it's the same in martial arts school. If you can fight and have high cultivation, you can be a key player and bring glory to the school."

"Main force?"

"Yes, the main players, those who participate in the league's martial arts competition. There are only three spots for each school, and Xiang Feipeng is ranked second. The resources for us martial arts students, including the meals you ate in the cafeteria when you were preparatory students, were all earned by them with their own fists and kicks."

Li Ye immediately became interested and was about to ask a question when Jia Dong instantly understood and flattered him:

"Senior, tell us about it. We're new here and don't know anything. We've heard that martial arts students have good treatment and resources, much better than us preparatory students who are struggling. We even heard that martial arts training is free."

"You're calling us old when we're in the same year."

Yao Ledan waved her hand, "We martial arts students are not like other students. As you can see, there are no seats and no grade distinctions. Once you break through the Dragon Gate, you become a martial arts student. After all, the main purpose is to improve your qi and blood."

"But since everyone's entered the martial arts department, the school provides resources, guaranteeing at least one bottle of nutrient solution per person per week."

"What nutrient solution?"

Upon hearing this, Li Ye felt a chill run down his spine for no apparent reason.

"It's the nutrient solution that's sold to martial artists at the Dragon Gate Realm. It's easy to absorb and digest. Don't try to use it rectally, the effect is the same, and it'll just make you nauseous."

Yao Ledan seemed to have thought of something, and her face fell.

"This part is provided by the school for free, but if you want more, you have to compete for it with your martial arts skills. You know what training is, right?"

I know that.

The canteen for preparatory students was built by the martial arts students through their training.

"All the high schools in the city hold martial arts competitions regularly. The winners are eligible to choose good training sites, while the losers can only choose from the rest. The school will give rewards for choosing good training sites. You can keep the items you get at the training sites or exchange them with the school. It is recommended to exchange them with the school, as the price is the fairest."

"Better ingredients, better weapons, better martial arts, more money. Money is the least valuable thing, but there are so many benefits. We can even get more bottles of nutrient solution."

"Pity"

Yao Ledan looked at Li Ye with regret and said:
"You're in your last year. If you had come a year earlier, you might have become a key player, and your treatment would have been much better than that of ordinary martial arts students like us."

"Hey? Why can't he be one? Brother Ye reached the Three Dragon Gate in one summer vacation," Deng Hao said, unconvinced.

Yao Ledan smiled slightly: "Don't say I'm pouring cold water on people. If you enter the martial arts department after the preparatory course, and you do it in your senior year of high school, you'd be lucky if you could improve your Qi and Blood to the Four Dragon Gate level once a year at the normal pace."

"You should know how much hardship and money you've endured during the summer vacation at the Three Dragon Gate. But the further you go, the harder it is to circulate your qi and blood. Our strongest one here... well, she can't count, she's too special. Anyway, the second strongest one is Xiang Feipeng, who's only at the Four Dragon Gate."

Li Ye also understood that after he reached the Three Dragon Gates, the amount of Qi and Blood he would gain for each subsequent breakthrough would be 600 points, and the value would be even higher with each leap.

For a normal person with his average aptitude, even if he practiced from elementary school to the second year of high school, he would only increase his points by 80.

Many students who enter university through the "One Dragon Gate" system still don't make any significant progress after four years; class teacher Yan Menglu is a prime example.

It's just that he has authority and magical weapons, so it looks simple.

But he could only watch; during this time, Li Ye also felt that he had suffered enough.

He killed demons, practiced martial arts, ate constantly, then continued practicing martial arts, and even killed someone.
There was also a so-called aristocratic family that coveted his magical treasure, a family that normal people couldn't even come into contact with.

He just wanted to practice martial arts properly, kill a few more gods, and climb to the top of the nine realms of martial arts.

But so much had happened in just two months, which made him quite irritable.

"The principal is here!"

Someone said something, and everyone looked towards the door.

At the entrance, Gu Yang walked in with a group of people.

The leader was also a middle-aged man whom everyone recognized—the principal of No. 14 Middle School. Principals aren't categorized by academic or martial arts backgrounds; there's only one.

There were several other people around the principal.

Besides the vice principal and director who accompanied him at the end, to his left and right was a burly young man, probably two meters tall, with a tower-like physique and exposed arm muscles as bulging as steel bars, exuding a steely strength as he walked.

A master of external martial arts!

On the right was a boy who seemed familiar to Li Ye. He wasn't wearing a school uniform, but a black martial arts uniform embroidered with a large white bird with outstretched wings. He was nonchalant, looking around, and had a sinister air about him.

There was also a familiar aura about Li Ye.
He seems to be not much different from that spendthrift Ren Xu.

Accompanying the principal was a woman.
"Holy crap! A stunning beauty!" Jia Dong exclaimed instinctively.

She was also a young girl, with a youthful and energetic ponytail that swayed as she walked, but her expression wasn't as lively, like her 'world-traveling' master, who always had a cold face.

Her eyebrows were thin and sharp, without a trace of softness. Her eyes were quite large and bright, but her gaze was indifferent. Her high and straight nose had an aggressive coldness, and her red lips were tightly pursed, naturally not smiling.

He exudes an aura that keeps strangers at bay.

However, her figure is in stark contrast to her face. Although her face suggests a tall and slender figure, her curves are impossible to conceal under her school uniform. Her calves are straight, her thighs are rounded, her hips are wide past her shoulders, and her waist is as thin as a palm. Her upper body also shows a tall and upright posture as she walks.

She is indeed a great beauty.

"Is this the first place winner?" Li Ye asked Yao Ledan, who was standing next to him.

She looks like she's number one.

Yao Ledan didn't say anything contradictory, and nodded, "Yes, the special first place, Fu Chuxue, Eight Dragons Gate."

Deng Hao's eyes widened. "How much?!"

Li Ye thought for a moment and said, "The surname is Fu. This surname is very famous in Ningjiang."

Yao Ledan said, "Just as you thought, she is the daughter of Fu Yan, a famous martial artist in our province."

Jia Dong gasped, "Really? I've never heard of such a big shot attending our regular high school?"

She shrugged: "That's why it's special."

(End of this chapter)