I Can Replicate Martial Arts-Chapter 209 - 105: Someone Is Cursing You (2)
In a good mood, Zhao Rui asked with a smile as he exchanged moves with Sun Hao.
At his words, Sun Hao’s face darkened. "I didn’t make the top hundred," he said, displeased.
Zhao Rui was stunned.
’A guy this strong didn’t even make the top hundred?’
"For real?"
"Just here at the base, there are two guys at my level who are stronger than me, not to mention the six in the True Transformation Realm. And that’s without even counting you university students and disciples from the martial arts dojos."
"Er, right. You’ve got a point. Huaxia is a big place."
Zhao Rui couldn’t help but chuckle.
Seeing Zhao Rui’s calm and relaxed demeanor, Sun Hao felt a prickle of annoyance.
’He knew that if this dragged on, the result would be the same.’
’Might as well go all out and try one more time. If I can’t win, then that’s that.’
With that thought, he forced Zhao Rui back with a palm strike and declared, "Let’s go one more round. If I lose this time, I’ll concede."
"Er, what good is you conceding? Why don’t you just buy me dinner instead?"
"Deal!"
Sun Hao readily agreed, simultaneously circulating his Seven-Star Divine Skill and gathering his full Power without reservation.
"Take this!"
Sun Hao’s figure shot forward. His right hand struck out like a thunderbolt, unleashing the Seven-Star Palm Force directly at Zhao Rui.
Zhao Rui’s eyes saw straight through the Palm Force, the flow of Inner Strength in the technique already materializing in his mind.
He stood his ground as his own Inner Strength surged forth. His Great Nine Heavens Hand technique split from one strike into several, hammering repeatedly at the weak points in Sun Hao’s Palm Force.
With a series of sharp BANGS...
A blast of Gang Wind erupted from the point where their palms met, scattering in all directions.
Sun Hao’s powerful Palm Force had already been severely weakened by the Great Nine Heavens Hand. How could he possibly be a match for Zhao Rui, who was now at the peak of his momentum?
The stalemate lasted for only half a breath before Sun Hao was sent flying back by a palm strike, sliding several meters before he managed to stop himself.
Such a loud and obvious commotion naturally drew the attention of the others.
Even Bai Wenlong noticed the situation and strode over, his expression darkening.
"What’s going on? What are you two doing?"
Bai Wenlong’s sharp gaze swept over the two of them.
"We were just sparring, Coach," Zhao Rui explained with a smile.
Hearing Zhao Rui’s words, Bai Wenlong’s eyes narrowed as he turned his gaze to Sun Hao.
As the head coach of the Youth Training Team, he knew the dispositions of the kids under his command.
Zhao Rui was the outsider, and these kids had tried to stir up trouble before. It was inevitable that this was just another one of those instances.
That meant the problem must lie with Sun Hao.
Sun Hao wore a conflicted expression. After a long hesitation, he mumbled, "We really were just sparring. I’m sorry, Coach. I got a little too competitive."
Seeing him hem and haw, how could Bai Wenlong not know something fishy was going on?
But since the kid wasn’t talking, he couldn’t very well press the issue in front of so many people.
After all, both of them said it was just a spar. Pressing the matter further would be pointless.
Seeing this, Bai Wenlong reprimanded them both, telling them to get their attitudes straight during training and cut out the shenanigans.
’Everyone knew what this was about—an attempt to put the newcomer in his place. Hadn’t the same thing happened right at the beginning?’
’It wasn’t a big deal if they wanted to start something, but the real issue was starting something only to get completely shut down. Now *that* was a problem.’
With Bai Wenlong’s intervention, the training center returned to normal.
After that last exchange, Sun Hao knew with certainty that he was no match for Zhao Rui, so he gave up any thought of challenging him again. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺
As for the others’ request, it wasn’t that he didn’t want to carry it out, but that he was simply incapable of doing so!
After calming down, Sun Hao began to ponder Zhao Rui’s style of Martial Arts.
Thinking back, he realized that Zhao Rui seemed to have an incredible sensitivity to Martial Arts, always managing to find the flaws in his techniques after just a short exchange.
He’d heard of a Martial Art called Dai Zongfu How that could rapidly pinpoint the flaws in an opponent’s Martial Arts Techniques.
’Could it be that he knows that type of Martial Art?’
Sun Hao was suddenly convinced he was right.
’If I train with him for too long, won’t he see through my entire repertoire? No way, I can’t be his partner. Whoever wants the job can have it.’
With that decided, as soon as the training session ended, he found the team mainstay who had put him up to it.
He told him straight up that he couldn’t win.
The mainstay was a bit stunned. ’This Zhao Rui guy is that strong? He easily subdued Sun Hao, one of the top members of our team, without even breaking a sweat?’
A glint flashed in his eyes. He knew it was no longer realistic to rely on others to teach Zhao Rui a lesson.
The only way was to openly set up another tournament and have the mainstays like them step into the ring themselves.
But the guy hadn’t participated last time; he probably wouldn’t show up even if they held another one.
"Forget it. Since he doesn’t want to stand out, there’s no need for us to provoke him. He’s probably one of Dongda’s pillars, too. We’ll have a chance to face him eventually."
After a moment of thought, the mainstay gave up on the idea of causing trouble.
With the drama over, the training center returned to its peaceful daily training routine.
Everyone worked hard to shore up their weaknesses and perfect their Cultivation Techniques.
After copying three of Sun Hao’s Martial Arts, Zhao Rui was surprised to find that he had already encountered all the others Sun Hao knew, so there was no need to copy them.
So, out of curiosity, he asked Sun Hao about the selection process for the Youth Training Team.
He learned that most of the Youth Training Team members were recruited from various martial arts sports academies across the province.
Their fundamental skills were all more or less the same—Lightweight Skill, Hard Skill, and Capture techniques all followed the same style, sometimes even using the exact same Cultivation Technique.
This was a stark contrast to the diverse, assorted styles of the university students.
They were trained systematically, with the best chosen from the group.
University students, on the other hand, were outstanding individuals selected from a vast pool of recent high school graduates.
These students came from complex Martial Arts backgrounds, so naturally, the variety of their Martial Arts was greater.
Zhao Rui shook his head helplessly. ’Oh well, I’ve already copied plenty.’
These three people had contributed fourteen Advancement Points.
He had already exceeded his goal.
He previously had sixteen Advancement Points. To reach Level 9, he had spent twelve, leaving him with four.
Later, he gained another eleven Advancement Points from the freshmen and from teaching at the Zhengyang Martial Arts Academy.
But reaching Level 10 cost him another seven.
After all the additions and subtractions, he now had twenty-two Advancement Points on hand.
That was pretty good.
Back in his room, Zhao Rui immediately used twenty of those Advancement Points to open more of his acupoints.
In total, he had now opened twenty-eight Acupoints.
His perception of the True Qi outside his body was now on a completely different level than before.
He felt that even though he wasn’t at the Grandmaster Realm, just by supplementing his power with external True Qi, his endurance could match seventy to eighty percent of a Grandmaster’s.
If he opened all 361 major acupoints in his body and could then generate his own True Qi internally, creating a perfect connection between inside and out, his True Qi would be endless.
Wouldn’t that mean...
An image of the cliffs on Mount Emei’s Backside surfaced in Zhao Rui’s mind.
’If that were the case, wouldn’t I be able to scale cliffs as if they were flat ground and leap into the air as if riding the clouds?’
’That would truly be the bearing of an Immortal.’
Zhao Rui was lost in a rapturous daydream.
But this was just a fantasy. He wasn’t sure if it could really be that powerful.
With this new motivation, Zhao Rui, who had originally planned on lying low for a while, felt an urgent need to acquire more Advancement Points as soon as possible.
So, the next morning, he put in a request with the assistant coach to spar with other team members during the morning practice session.
His reason was that he wanted to adapt to different opponents and familiarize himself with different Martial Arts Techniques.
It was a noble-sounding excuse.
The plain truth was that he didn’t want to be paired with Sun Hao anymore; there was nothing left to learn from him.
The assistant coach was at a loss for words. After a moment’s thought, he said, "Go ask around and see if anyone’s willing to switch with you."
Hearing this, Zhao Rui immediately found Cai Zhengyang and arranged to switch opponents with him.
What could Cai Zhengyang say? Since he couldn’t refuse, he might as well just accept it gracefully.
And so, Zhao Rui got a new training partner.
This time, the change didn’t cause as much of a stir.
A switch was just a switch. The Youth Training Team had already given up on the idea of teaching him a lesson, so they certainly weren’t going to stir up more trouble over this.
Whoever he picked would just have to deal with it.
As for the Eastern Martial Body students, seeing that the Youth Training Team wasn’t making a move, they naturally weren’t going to get involved either.
Just like that, a month flew by in the blink of an eye.
It was finally time for Zhao Rui and his group to leave. A month together wasn’t a short period, all things considered.
Training together day after day, they had all gradually gotten to know one another, and much of the initial hostility had faded.
An electric cart carried Wang Zhanshan and the five students, who were reluctant to leave, slowly toward the base exit.
"Zhao Rui’s leaving!"
Someone shouted, and a group from the Youth Training Team ran out. They yelled at the departing cart, "Get lost, Zhao Rui! We’ll see you in the ring and beat the shit out of you!"
"Brother Rui, I think someone was just cussing you out!"
"You misheard."
"I’m serious!"
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