Beginning With Max Enlightenment: I Confront The Immortals With Martial Arts

Chapter 18: Gifted

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Zhou You had already grasped the Iron Skin Technique, but he had never practiced it.

It was not that Zhou You could not bear the hardship of cultivating external martial arts.

Instead, the characteristics of practicing external martial arts were very obvious.

The bald man’s fist was black and rough. It was obvious that he had practiced an external martial arts fist technique.

Moreover, with his current status as an apprentice apothecary, his hands had to be very agile and sharp.

After searching the bald man’s body, he took out a money bag and a booklet. He then turned around and left.

After running a short distance…

Pah pah pah pah!

A series of sounds of heavy objects colliding rang out one after another. The sound was loud and indistinct.

Splash!

The ground trembled and the branches swayed.

This… someone was fighting!

From the sound of it, it was at least a few hundred meters away.

The sound of the battle came from some distance away, but it was still so clear.

It was obvious that both sides were experts.

One of them ought to be Uncle-Master Tan.

The other party should be the pirates.

Unexpectedly, there was such an expert among the pirates!

Then should he still meet up with Uncle-Master Tan?

If they encountered powerful pirates, wouldn’t they be walking into a tiger’s den?

He might as well go deep into the mountains. The mountains were vast, and the pirates would not be able to find him.

Just as Zhou You was hesitating, a loud shout suddenly sounded from afar.

“Little Jiu, take Master Cheng away first. I’ll be there soon.”

Upon hearing this, Zhou You turned around and disappeared into the mountains without hesitation.

After running non-stop for more than ten minutes, there was no more movement behind him. Zhou You heaved a sigh of relief and sat on the ground. He looked down the mountain through the gaps in the branches.

The sapphire lake was calm. There were no boats or pirates on the surface.

It was as if nothing had happened just now.

He wondered how Old Cheng was doing now.

How was Zhao Qing?

How were the others?

Did they manage to escape?

With a sigh, Zhou You suddenly turned around and grabbed with his left hand.

Hiss!

An emerald green snake as thick as a finger opened its mouth and hissed. Zhou You grabbed it by its weak spot and coiled its body around his shoulder.

Pftt!

He exerted strength with his fingertips, and the green snake drooped weakly.

Zhou You casually threw it into the distance and tried his best to determine the direction before heading towards the mountain path he had come from.

In the mountains, it was easy to get lost if one did not walk along the road.

Not long after, Zhou You glanced at a certain spot at the foot of the mountain from the corner of his eye. His expression suddenly froze, and he hurriedly squatted down and hid behind a rock.

He carefully poked his head out and looked down the mountain from the corner of his eye.

Experts could feel the gazes of others.

In the stream at the foot of the mountain, boats rowed across the lake and stopped on both sides.

The pirates followed the line of boats as if they were walking on flat ground and quickly disappeared.

“There should be a secret cave at the foot of the mountain. This is probably the pirates’ lair.”

Zhou You quickly made a judgment. “No wonder these pirates appeared so suddenly and so quickly.”

Although he was wandering around the mountain and the pirates were at the foot of the mountain, the straight line was less than 100 meters away. He did not dare to move recklessly. He lay on the ground and slowly retreated.

After retreating more than 100 meters, he got up and jogged away.

Without much trouble, he returned to the dojo before dark.

When he came back, he found out that two inner disciples had been killed, and all the apprentices had been wiped out.

Tan Fei was also slightly injured.

On the other hand, Cheng Yiqing was safe and sound. Zhao Qing took him away immediately.

No one cared about the death of a few apprentices. They just gave the promised reward to their families.

However, the death of two inner disciples still made Lu Chuanfeng furious.

After a detailed discussion with Tan Fei, he suppressed this matter.

According to Tan Fei, the leader of the pirates who fought with him was also a Visceral Tempering martial artist!

There were also many Purification and Bone Forging Stage martial artists under him.

If not for the Tiger Fist Dojo’s prestige, he would not have been able to escape unscathed considering his strength.

This was what Zhou You learned later.

After returning this time, Zhou You no longer went out casually. He studied in peace and practiced martial arts diligently.

Zhou You had obtained more than 100 taels of silver from the pirate. It was enough to last him for a period of time.

There was also an Iron Arm Fist manual.

One of the basic external martial arts techniques of the Iron Skin Dojo.

After flipping through it and recording it on the interface, he threw it to the back of his mind and still did not plan to practice the technique.

…

In the blink of an eye, a month had passed.

On March 1st.

The Iron Skin Dojo held a banquet to celebrate dojo master, Du Lianzong, accepting a fine student.

Zhou You followed Cheng Yiqing to the banquet and met the main star of the banquet, a dark and thin youth.

The young man’s name was Lin Yu, and he was born in a remote mountain village.

He was not tall and had an ordinary face.

He did not have any martial arts skills.

However, the reason why he could be taken in as a disciple by Du Lianzhong was very simple.

He was born with innate divine strength!

Lin Yu was naturally strong. Although he was only 15 years old this year, his arms already had the strength of 500 kilograms, and he had the ability to pull a galloping horse.

Du Lianzhong went out to visit a friend and passed by Lin Yu’s hometown. When he heard the rumors about Lin Yu, he personally went to see him. He was instantly shocked and accepted him as a disciple.

In this world, there were people with innate strength. Their muscles and bones were different from ordinary people.

Without needing to cultivate, he already possessed strength that far exceeded that of ordinary people.

Once he officially started practicing martial arts, his cultivation in the Body and Bone Forging stages would advance by leaps and bounds.

After that, he would have a huge advantage over ordinary people.

In other words, as long as a person with innate divine strength did not die prematurely, they could smoothly cultivate to the Greater Mastery Stage of Visceral Tempering.

In at most ten years, the Iron Skin Dojo would have one more master at Visceral Tempering.

Du Lianzong was only at the Greater Mastery Stage of Visceral Tempering.

It took ten years to master Visceral Tempering… one had to go through Body Forging, Bone Forging, Purification, and Visceral Tempering.

Each realm was further divided into three small realms: Beginner, Medium, and Later (Greater Mastery). There were a total of twelve small realms.

Breaking through twelve minor realms in ten years meant that each minor realm breakthrough could not exceed ten months!

The first level of the Ferocious Tiger Fist represented a small realm.

It had been three months since Zhou You became a martial artist. He still needed about two months to break through to the next level.

It took five months.

It seemed that there was plenty of time.

However, the further he practiced, the longer it took to break through each small realm.

With his current speed of practicing martial arts, Zhou You was not confident that he could reach the Greater Mastery Stage of Visceral Tempering in ten years.

Unless he could obtain more Martial Arts Points to increase his Affinity.

The higher the Affinity, the faster the cultivation speed.

In order to obtain more Martial Arts Points, he needed to obtain more tonics and even medicinal pills.

After returning, Zhou You paid attention to gather information.

Soon, he discovered that there was a special physique in this world that allowed one to practice martial arts at lightning speed, far surpassing others.

Some people were born with divine strength and could resist large tripods.

Some people had bronze skin and iron bones. They were born strong and invulnerable.

Some people had extraordinary Comprehension abilities and grasped skills immediately.

There were even people who naturally learned the subsequent martial arts without needing a mental cultivation method.

After learning that there were such talented people in the world, Zhou You’s eyes lit up.

Wasn’t he one of them?

There were very few talented people and they were one in a million.

However, Mengyang City had produced a person with innate divine strength.

Why couldn’t there be another person with extraordinary Comprehension abilities?

However, he felt sorry for Old Cheng.