Chapter 34 - 34 34 Intelligence Update
Chapter 34 - 34 34 Intelligence Update
?Chapter 34: Chapter 34 Intelligence Update Chapter 34: Chapter 34 Intelligence Update Here is the translated text:
[Today’s intelligence update (Level 1)]
[1. Today, you studied Grand Ancestor Long Fist and acquired intelligence. The Grand Ancestor Long Fist was created by Ancestor Song of the Qian Song era. Its moves are foundational, earning it the title “mother of all fists.” At its peak, it can be trained to the Ming Jin Peak. With your talent, you can achieve entry-level mastery in two days, expert-level mastery in one month, small success in one year, great success in five years, and perfection in ten years.]
[2. Today, you learned from Wu Hong the classification of martial arts realms and gained intelligence. Martial Arts is the art of nurturing one’s vitality and blood. Enhancing one’s realm can directly benefit one’s techniques. Heavenly materials and earthly treasures, along with elixir pills, can expedite realm improvement.]
[3. Today, you were visited by Ma Liu, demanding repayment of your debts, gaining intelligence. Ma Liu has reported your plan to repay twenty-five taels of silver to Yu Sanliu. Yu Sanliu has no intention of letting you off the hook. He has ordered Ma Liu to collect the debt again in three days.]
[4. Today, you encountered Uncle Erba, gaining intelligence. Uncle Erba returned home to seek money from Aunt Erba. Though reluctant, Aunt Erba pulled out two taels of silver. Hu Zi will deliver it to you tomorrow.]
[5. Today, you passed by the foot of the back mountain and gained intelligence. At 5 a.m. this morning, a thirty-year-old Red-eyed Golden Chicken will be injured and fall into Wild Wolf Gully.]
In the evening, Chen Jie woke from his sleep, and today’s intelligence was already updated.
Chen Jie reviewed the information from start to finish, then began analyzing.
First was the Grand Ancestor Long Fist he studied today. The intelligence revealed that, while it’s a relatively basic type of boxing, it’s excellent for building a solid foundation. Moreover, achieving perfection allows one to reach Ming Jin Peak.
Ming Jin Peak—isn’t that the realm Wu Zhong and Yu Biao are both striving for?
The Ming Jin realm consists of two barriers: the Skin Barrier and the Meat Barrier. From this perspective, the Grand Ancestor Long Fist at the Small Success level should enable one to reach the Skin Buff Realm, officially making one a martial artist. Achieving great success in five years should break through the Meat Barrier and enter the late Ming Jin stage. Upon reaching perfection, shouldn’t it approach Dark Force mastery?
*Thinking this over, Chen Jie felt satisfied. After all, Wu Zhong and Yu Biao are already forty years old and still stuck at the Skin Barrier. Especially Yu Biao—hasn’t he been recently pursuing heavenly materials and earthly treasures to break through the Meat Barrier and reach the late Ming Jin stage?*
*But for himself to practice this way, he’d only need five years to catch up to them. He’d still only be twenty-three years old by then. Judging from this alone, his talent must be exceptional.*
*At the very least, far better than Wu Zhong and Yu Biao.*
*Could it be that he has some innate gifts after all?*
*Then again, talent is only part of the equation. This world seems to value resources even more. From the second piece of intelligence, it’s clear that heavenly materials, earthly treasures, and medicinal pills significantly accelerate realm improvement.*
*In other words, no amount of hard practice can compete with relying on such enhancements.*
*That’s easy to understand, after all. Using medicine to aid cultivation is common knowledge.*
As for the third and fourth pieces of intelligence regarding Ma Liu’s debt-collecting efforts and Uncle Erba’s attempt to gather money for him, Chen Jie took note of this favor from Uncle Erba.
As for Ma Liu’s persistence in targeting him, a faint sneer appeared at the corner of Chen Jie’s mouth. He didn’t plan to let Ma Liu off the hook either!
If not for worrying about dragging Yunjin and her sister into trouble, Chen Jie wouldn’t have allowed Ma Liu to live past tonight.
Finally, the fifth piece of intelligence was what interested Chen Jie the most: the Red-eyed Golden Chicken. Chen Jie had never heard of it before, but one detail caught his attention—the thirty-year-old Red-eyed Golden Chicken.
This opened up a multitude of possibilities. Generally speaking, birds don’t live long, typically lasting seven or eight years. A standard golden chicken should live for about seven or eight years before dying of old age.
But a Red-eyed Golden Chicken living for thirty years suggests there must be something special about it.
Ordinary chickens can’t survive that long.
This means the creature is likely one of the unique heavenly materials and earthly treasures of this world.
*With that realization, Chen Jie’s sleepiness instantly vanished.*
He got up and activated his Yang Chun Skill. Since he had already slept for about five hours today, he felt fully rested.
Quietly, he tiptoed out of bed. Seeing Su Yunjin’s room was silent, Chen Jie snuck outside the courtyard.
Time is pressing—he couldn’t afford to be lazy. It was still too dark to climb the mountain, so he decided to practice his punches first.
To survive and protect those he wished to protect in this world, martial power is indispensable.
Grand Ancestor Long Fist—beginning move: Sea Sand Scooping, Charging Step Palm Insertion…
In the darkness, Chen Jie threw himself into practicing the Grand Ancestor Long Fist. After two rounds of practice, he was drenched in sweat, stripped off his shirt, and continued bare-chested. By the eighth round, Chen Jie had reached his physical limit.
His breathing grew heavier, fatigue setting in. Just as he was about to give up, he suddenly recalled the day he carried Doctor Bai on the mountain—when he also felt he couldn’t go on but managed to persevere by adjusting the breathing method of the Yang Chun Skill.
*Thinking about this, Chen Jie adjusted his breathing and pushed himself forward.*
Though the Yang Chun Skill was powerful, it didn’t work instantaneously; however, after modifying his breathing technique, he found himself able to complete one more round of punches.
Continuing to push himself, the longer he persisted, the better he endured. Without stopping, he didn’t know if it was the twentieth round or the thirtieth.
Suddenly, Chen Jie felt his body lighten, and when he performed the Grand Ancestor Long Fist again, he felt as though he had mastered it effortlessly.
Even more surprisingly, Chen Jie discovered that combining the Yang Chun Skill’s breathing method with the Grand Ancestor Long Fist significantly boosted the power of the fist techniques.
This finding greatly pleased Chen Jie.
Feeling the changes, Chen Jie remembered his progress panel and summoned it.
Panel:
[Chen Jie]
[Realm: Not Yet Admitted]
[Cultivation Techniques: Yang Chun Skill (Entry-Level) Grand Ancestor Long Fist (Entry-Level)]
[Evaluation: You exhibit exceptional talent in martial arts. Additionally, you’ve discovered the powerful synergy between the Yang Chun Skill and Grand Ancestor Long Fist, achieving rapid improvement in your strength!]
Looking at the panel’s information,
his realm was still “Not Yet Admitted.” This didn’t surprise Chen Jie, as he figured the panel only recorded realms starting at martial artist status. Clearly, he wasn’t there yet—he hadn’t even broken through the Skin Buff Realm.
However, seeing his cultivation techniques listed gave him quite a pleasant surprise. Days of sleeping and practicing with the Yang Chun Skill had deepened his understanding, achieving entry-level mastery, which didn’t astonish him.
The surprise was that he had also achieved entry-level mastery of the Grand Ancestor Long Fist despite intelligence claiming it would take two days—yet he did it all in one night?
This?
*Chen Jie felt perplexed, but slowly, the realization dawned upon him—the key lay in the Yang Chun Skill.*
Based on his initial training, he should have been unable to continue after eight rounds of boxing.
Normally, this would’ve been the point to rest, delaying his progress for an indeterminate amount of time until he felt ready to train again.
But, using the Yang Chun Skill to adjust his breathing, he managed to push through, diligently completing twenty or even thirty rounds—compressing two days’ worth of effort into one night.
So achieving entry-level mastery within a single night was no longer unthinkable!
Thus, the credit for this accomplishment went entirely to the Yang Chun Skill.
*Now intrigued, Chen Jie grew curious about the cultivation method his grandfather had passed on to him. Was this Yang Chun Skill truly just a health cultivation technique?*