Gao Wu: From Martial Arts Student to Star Emperor

On the other side, Yan Zhiyun led Ruan Liusu, Wenren Qinghe, and Wenren Qingyue back to the courtyard of their residence at Xingkong University.

After dismissing Ruan Liusu and Wenren Qingyue, Yan Zhiyun left Wenren Qinghe alone.

"Qinghe, how was your day?"

Wenren Qinghe knew what her mother was asking about, so she told her mother everything.

Upon hearing this, Yan Zhiyun looked slightly taken aback: "You mean Liu Su's boyfriend, after instrument analysis and evaluation, has entered the top 1,000 among second-tier martial artists in the three major star regions over the past ten years?"

"Yes, Mom!"

"It seems this person is also an extraordinary genius, but he's a bit too old and has suffered some setbacks; otherwise, he might not be any worse than Yan Yi."

Yan Zhiyun thought for a moment and said, "However, due to the limitations of the martial arts environment, the foundation he built during the Qi and Blood stage is too weak, making it impossible for him to break through to the True Yuan Realm. Not to mention anything else, he couldn't even withstand the first of the three tribulations of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, the Physical Difficulty. There is absolutely no possibility of him breaking through to the True Yuan Realm."

"Mom, what are the Five Signs of Decay, the Three Calamities and the Three Disasters?" Wenren Qinghe asked.

"The Five Signs of Decay of Heaven and Man are..." Yan Zhiyun wanted to explain, but then changed her tone and said, "Children shouldn't ask such questions. You'll naturally know once you break through to the tenth level of True Qi!"

"Liusu's boyfriend must be quite something. Qinghe, remember this: if you have the chance in the future, don't go too far in hurting Chen Lie. Judging from the looks of it, we can't possibly make Chen Lie back down."

However, it is essential to make the disparity between Liusu and her boyfriend clear: a True Yuan Realm cultivator has a lifespan of over three hundred years, while a tenth-level Celestial Master has only two hundred years. If the difference in martial arts is too great, the two will not be able to get along.

Let Liusu realize this: if she still insists on having this boyfriend, then we should respect her decision!

Wenren Qinghe asked, "Then what about your matchmaking between Liusu and Yan Yi...?"

"If Liusu didn't have a boyfriend, I could naturally and openly play matchmaker, but now I know that Liusu is already dating someone."

Although I really want to help my clan, I can't offend my disciple for it. Let her make her own choice.

On many planets, the bond between master and disciple in martial arts is no less than that between father and son, mother and daughter.

"I cannot make decisions for my disciple based on my own selfish interests," Yan Zhiyun said.

"Then what should I do from now on?" Wenren Qinghe asked.

"Do what needs to be done, but don't go overboard!"

Wenren Qinghe nodded slightly; she roughly understood what her mother meant.

On the other side, Chen Lie found a training room in the Martial Arts Department of the Tian Er Campus, took out several thousand yuan stones, and began to cultivate.

Over the next few days, Chen Lie waited for the start of the Newcomer Martial Arts Competition, but he would take time each day to visit the True Essence Elder's courtyard and tend to the spirit fields.

Over the course of several days, the spiritual plants in the spiritual field, which had been tended to by Chen Lie, had almost returned to normal levels.

The True Essence Realm elder was very satisfied with Chen Lie's work over the past few days. The withered and dying spiritual herbs had all come back to life after his care, and he couldn't help but praise him.

"Not bad, kid! You're quite skilled at cultivating spiritual plants. If you can shorten the growth cycle of my herbs and let this old man harvest two crops, our score will be settled!"

"Senior, what are you saying? I unintentionally destroyed your spiritual plants three times. What does it matter if I cultivated them twice?"

Whenever I have time, I will come and tend to these medicinal herbs for you.

The old man nodded and said nothing more.

The date for Wu Bi, a freshman at Xingkong University, is drawing ever closer.

That evening, after a day of training, Chen Lie returned to his dormitory in the Martial Arts Department of the Tian Er Campus.

Just as he was about to rest, Chen Lie received a message in the class group chat of Class 17 of the Martial Arts Department.

"Students, I have some news to announce."

All students who joined Starry Sky University after November of the year 7365 in the Galactic Calendar should gather in their classroom at 8:00 AM tomorrow.

We will be announcing news regarding the upcoming Starry Sky University Freshman Martial Arts Competition.

陈烈看了一下日期，发现现在已经是银河历7366年4月7号，距离4月10号的星空大学新生武比只差两天。

At this time last year, he was still striving to become the champion of Dongchuan Province's martial arts competition. Now, a year later, he has begun to prepare to win the championship of Xingkong University's freshman martial arts competition.

"Starry Sky University boasts martial arts geniuses from planets within the Ten Star Alliance. If nothing unexpected happens, the first place in this freshman martial arts competition will undoubtedly be mine!"

With Chen Lie's current strength, if he were to unleash his full power, he should be able to demonstrate the strength of a late-stage fourth-order Qi Gathering Realm cultivator.

According to Huang Yuxi, the champion of the freshmen martial arts competition in previous years was at this level.

After reading the messages in the class group chat, Chen Lie went to his room to rest.

The next morning, Chen Lie woke up and left the dormitory, heading to the classroom of Class 17 of the Martial Arts Department.

Upon arriving at the classroom, Chen Lie saw that there were more than 300 students inside, all of whom should be freshmen.

The Martial Arts Department at the Tian'er Campus has twenty classes, with over three hundred freshmen per class. Therefore, the Martial Arts Department at the Tian'er Campus has six to seven thousand students participating in the freshman martial arts competition, which is no small number.

On the classroom platform, there were five men and women in their twenties. These five were the five teaching assistants of Class 17 of the Martial Arts Department: Fang Lin, Yuan Chen, Huang Yuxi, Yue Qinglan, and Li Weiyi.

Of the five teaching assistants, Chen Lie only recognized Huang Yuxi, Yue Qinglan, and Li Weiyi. He was meeting Fang Lin and Yuan Chen for the first time, and he only learned about them from the students' noisy discussions in the classroom.

Chen Lie entered the classroom and immediately went to Huang Yuxi's side, greeting her, "Teaching Assistant!"

Huang Yuxi nodded gently: "The freshman martial arts competition starts the day after tomorrow. Be prepared and strive to be in the top ten of the entire department!"

"I will!"

Chen Lie nodded and then returned to the ranks of the new students.

Standing nearby, Yue Qinglan overheard Huang Yuxi's words and felt puzzled: "Yuxi, the teaching assistant you chose is very talented, isn't he? You actually have such high hopes for him, expecting him to be in the top ten of the entire department?"

Those who can rank among the top ten in the entire system, regardless of their cultivation level, should have combat strength no weaker than ordinary fourth-order Qi Gathering Realm mid-stage martial artists.

Huang Yuxi nodded and said, "He has the potential to be among the top 100 on the Hidden Dragon List."

"Top 100 talent?"

Yue Qinglan looked at Chen Lie, slightly surprised.

Those who are among the top 100 on the Hidden Dragon List are regulars on the list and are generally not pushed off the list.

This freshman actually has such qualifications?

Chen Lie randomly found a seat in the front row and sat down.

At this moment, Hou Yutan, Qiao Xuanxi, and Nie Chengchong Yuxing sat down next to Chen Lie.

"Brother Chen, you're different because you have a teaching assistant to guide you. The martial arts teaching assistant even pays special attention to you. We ordinary students really can't compare."

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Hou Yutan sat down next to Chen Lie and said.

Chen Lie looked at Chong Yuxing and the other two and found that Hou Yutan was already at the peak of the second-order Qi Refining Realm, while Qiao Xuanxi had faint signs of Qi Condensation, indicating that she had already entered the third-order Qi Condensation Realm. Only Nie Cheng was still in the middle of the second-order Qi Refining Realm.

"Having someone's attention is useless; you still have to prove yourself."

"That's right!"

Hou Yutan nodded and whispered to Chen Lie, "Brother Chen, we followed your advice last time and sold some divine resources. Goodness, Starry Sky University is really ruthless."

The divine source we recycled back to Starry Sky University was about 500 Star Yuan Canglong Coins per pound. Now I've asked the extraterrestrial buyers, and they're offering 500 Galaxy Coins per pound of divine source, which is close to 10,000 Star Yuan Canglong Coins!

Upon hearing this, Chen Lie was taken aback. He remembered that his perfect quality pure divine source was exchanged for spirit stones at a ratio of one to twenty.

One pound of ordinary Yuan Stones costs 3000 Canglong Coins on Canglong Star.

Prior to this, the price offered by the Jin Kingdom of Changxia Star for ordinary, inferior divine resources was five jin of Yuan Stones for one jin of divine resources, which is equivalent to 15,000 Star Yuan Canglong Coins per jin.

Upon learning the transaction price of Hou Yutan and others, Chen Lie understood that his deal with the State of Jin was worthwhile.

Because the Jin state has a mineral vein for Yuan stone, it is rich in Yuan stone. It can be said that it lacks everything except Yuan stone.

If Chen Lie asked her to take out an equivalent amount of Galaxy Coins, she definitely wouldn't agree, but when it came to Yuan Stones, she agreed without even thinking.

Chen Lie desperately needed Yuan Stones, and the fact that he could now obtain benefits from the Princess of Jin further solidified his resolve to conduct another Yuan Stone trade with Jin.

"We each contributed a thousand catties of divine source and each received 500,000 star yuan galactic coins. Now we have enough money to buy the five elements spiritual items. If we can win the top 100 in the sub-system martial arts competition this time, that will be even better, and we can save a lot of money."

"You should have hope," Chen Lie said.

"Then do you think I have a chance to get into the top fifty in my department?" Qiao Xuanxi suddenly looked at Chen Lie.

"There is hope, after all, we are all new students who have been in school for less than half a year. In terms of cultivation level, reaching the third level of Qi Condensation Realm in such a short time is already considered outstanding," Chen Lie said.

Qiao Xuanxi felt relieved upon hearing Chen Lie's words.

"From my entry-level martial artist days to now, I've spent nearly 30,000 jin of spirit stones. It's time for me to have a match with my peers."

Chen Lie has used nearly 300,000 jin of spirit stones to grow from an entry-level martial artist to the present. Despite a tenfold difference, Qiao Xuanxi is still one realm ahead of him, which is enough to show how much resources Chen Lie consumes during cultivation.

At this moment, Huang Zongcheng, the instructor of the 17th Martial Arts Class, arrived at the classroom.

A group of freshmen saw Huang Zongcheng and immediately greeted him, "Hello, Professor!"

Huang Zongcheng nodded and walked onto the podium.

"Students, the annual freshman martial arts competition is about to begin."

All freshmen must participate in this competition. Failure to participate will be considered a forfeit, and 100,000 credits will be deducted from your Star Card. Therefore, I hope everyone will actively participate.

"We belong to the Martial Arts Department of the Tianer Campus. A total of 8043 people participated in the Freshman Martial Arts Competition this time."

Due to the large number of participants, this martial arts competition will be held simultaneously in ten different arenas to save everyone's time.

The school-wide martial arts competition lasted for two days. On the first day, the top ten martial arts departments in the Tian'er Campus were determined.

The next day, the top ten students from our Tian Er Campus Martial Arts Department will compete against the top ten freshmen from the Di Er, Xuan Er, and Huang Er Campuses to determine the champion of the second-year Martial Arts Department of Xingkong University.

He will then compete with the top students from the Kendo and Mental Strength departments for the title of the top freshman at Starry Sky University in the 7366th year of the Galaxy Calendar.

I hope everyone can achieve good results.

"Because our martial arts department at the Tianer campus will be divided into ten competition zones, I've asked our martial arts teaching assistants from Class 17 to come over today to be responsible for assigning your respective competition zones."

Students can choose any martial arts assistant instructor, who will lead them to their assigned competition area.

As soon as Huang Zongcheng finished speaking, more than 300 freshmen, led by the five martial arts teaching assistants from Class 17, walked to the training ground outside the classroom.

Chen Lie walked out of the classroom and saw Huang Yuxi waving at him, so he went up to her.

"You can come with me to the second division. I know a little about some of the outstanding new students in martial arts. If you are matched with any tough opponents in the martial arts competition, I can explain it to you in advance."

Chen Lie grunted in agreement and joined Huang Yuxi's second competition zone.

The three, Chong Yuxing, Chen Lie, and others, joined Huang Yuxi's second competition zone.

Before long, the more than 300 new students were divided equally among five martial arts teaching assistants, each of whom led about 60 new students.

"Everyone who is in the second arena can send your information to me through the class group. Wait for me at the second arena of the competition area in the central campus at 8:00 a.m. on April 10th," Huang Yuxi said.

"yes!"

Many students sent their information to Huang Yuxi.

After Huang Yuxi checked the number of students and confirmed that there were no errors, she began to explain the details of the martial arts competition for all freshmen at Starry Sky University.

After finishing her explanation, Huang Yuxi said, "Remember to wait at the second competition venue in the central campus the day after tomorrow. I've collected your information. That's all for now, you can go home!"

Upon hearing this, many students quickly dispersed.

After returning, Chen Lie went back into the training room and began cultivating martial arts with spirit stones.

The martial arts competition for all freshmen at Starry Sky University likely includes many geniuses from the Ten Star Alliance planets. These individuals are undoubtedly proficient in various advanced martial arts techniques, and their combat power is certainly extraordinary.

In his previous life, Chen Lie cultivated wind and thunder-type true qi, and the martial arts he practiced all required the use of wind and thunder true qi. However, he has not cultivated wind and thunder true qi now, so he is unable to use any martial arts.

"Fortunately, I still managed to keep a spirit sword for now!"

Shen Jiuxi's sword box contains a spirit sword for nurturing the sword, which is also of a high level, belonging to the spirit treasure category, enough for Chen Lie to use his sword techniques.

With this knife, he was able to unleash powerful swordsmanship, thus making up for his shortcomings in martial arts.

The next day, just as dawn was breaking, Chen Lie went to the original forest of the Tian Er campus, to the courtyard of the True Yuan Elder.

Upon entering the courtyard, Chen Lie skillfully carried out all sorts of spiritual liquids and utensils from the houses next to the spiritual field.

He observed the condition of the spiritual plants in the spiritual field and began to prepare the spiritual liquid.

Inside the courtyard, hundreds of containers for holding spiritual liquids were arranged, and Chen Lie was preparing special spiritual liquids for each spiritual plant.

Just then, a clear and melodious sound suddenly came from outside the courtyard gate.

"Senior Shi, Shen Jiuxi has come to pay a visit."

I also specially brought you a jar of sacred wine.