chapter 8 Perfect body skills!

The whole place fell into dead silence again. No one would have thought that the final result would be like this.
Stanley glanced at everyone present, then snorted and walked away.
The crowd automatically made way for a passage, and no one dared to block the road in front of Stanley at this time.
"Stanley in this junior grade is simply a freak!"
"I heard that some people develop their talent in martial arts later, but with accumulated experience, their strength improves quickly!"
"He just glanced at everyone, obviously with the intention of warning. Brothers, please be careful in the future and don't offend this guy."
"Grover is completely finished. This time he brought his misfortune upon himself and Stanley used it to establish his authority."
Many people were talking about it, but they had to admit the strength shown by Stanley, because in the Martial Hall, strong strength was the basis for gaining a foothold and the respect of others.
After leaving the black stone area, Stanley did not return to his residence, but entered a bamboo forest.
There were several open spaces near the bamboo forest. I n each open space, wooden stakes were set up, tall or low, long and short, and the distances between each pair of neighbouring wooden stakes were different. It was all intricately complex.
Most of the students in the Martial Hall choose this place to practice their body skills.
Stanley jumped up and landed on a wooden stake. He could see that every wooden stake had traces of time. Every year, the Hall would recruit new students. Groups of young people, who yearned for martial arts and were not afraid of hardships, practiced martial arts hard here.
Only by enduring hardship could one become a master. When Stanley was very young, his father told him this truth. In the year when he first entered the martial arts hall, the teacher also told everyone this in his first grade.
The meridians running route of the second-grade body technique One-inch Kick emerged in his mind. While deducing improvements based on the life meridian diagram, Stanley's figure also instantly moved on the wooden stake.
Snapped!
With a tap of his toes, he lifted up his body, jumping from a short wooden stake to a tall wooden stake. His moving was relatively slow at the beginning, and he needed to get familiar with the rhythm of his movements, but later on, he became faster and faster.
Thump!
Suddenly, he made a wrong step, because the distances from each wooden stake to any other nearby stake was different. When the speed was slow, it could be accurately controlled, but once the speed increased, it was easy to make mistakes.
After falling off the stake, Stanley jumped up and practiced his movements again.
Unconsciously, time passed by like this, and he was immersed in the practice of body skills, so intoxicated that he almost forgot himself.
In addition to internal strength, there were four levels of martial body skills, namely as basis, small achievement, great achievement and perfection.
The small achievement state of second-grade martial arts was equivalent to the basic state of third-grade martial arts. The great achievement state second-grade could be equivalent to the small achievement of third-grade. The perfect state second-grade could even be equivalent to the great achievement of third-grade!
Therefore, unless they were at the same level, the higher the martial arts grade was, the stronger the power was. However, if one could cultivate low-grade martial arts to a high level, it was not difficult to defeat the strong with the weak.
Dragon and Tiger Boxing was practiced by Stanley to the great achievement state with the help of the super comprehension given by the Life and Death Bead. Grover had practiced two third-grade martial arts, but his mastery was not even basic, so he naturally could not be his opponent.
In the next half month, Stanley was immersed in hard training, practicing martial arts and body skills during the day, and practicing internal exercises in his room at night to improve his cultivation.
During this period, every student who was about to take the annual assessment was working hard for their future.
"Hugh hadn't had any movement during this period. I heard from other people that he recently spent a lot of money to buy a Qi Nourishing Pill and plans to break through to the eighth level of body training."
In the early morning of this day, Stanley woke up from his cultivation state, muttering to himself in his heart.
His cultivation and strength were steadily improving, and his opponents were also improving, and Hugh's training conditions were better than him.
Martial arts training became more and more difficult as it progressed, so external objects were needed to assist in speeding up the training, so that one could break through the limit within a limited lifespan.
It was said that if one could reach The Cultivation Realm Xian Tian, he could surpass the limits of mortals and have a lifespan of three hundred years!
Before Xiantian, even warriors in The Cultivation Realm Qi Hai were just mortals who were merely more powerful than ordinary people.
"It seems I have to improve faster!"
As the time for the annual assessment was getting closer, Stanley did not have any worries, but was even more full of fighting spirit.
The practice of Dragon and Tiger Boxing had steadily improved. Although it was still at the level of great achievement, it was not far from perfection.
Only the movement skill One-inch Kick improved the slowest, so Stanley made it more difficult for himself. He got some thorns covered with sharp barbs and spread them in the wooden stake area where he practiced the movement skills. In this way, once he took any wrong step he would fall and be scratched and stabbed by thorns.
Not only that, he also whittled each wooden stake thinner, forcing himself to go beyond the limit!
His crazy practice had recently attracted the attention of many martial arts students. At first, the news came from students who came here to practice body skills.
A group of people gathered not far away to watch Stanley practicing his movements on a thinned wooden stake. His clothes were in tatters and had scars everywhere. On the thorns below, there were also bloodstains and spikes everywhere. The top of the barb was black and shiny.
"Does this guy still want his life?"
"No wonder his strength had improved so quickly. With such hard training, it's hard not to improve quickly!"
Everyone who came to see Stanley practice martial arts was full of shock. Some people who were also born in poverty were inspired and began to work hard and practice hard.
On the wooden stake, Stanley had already practiced One-inch Kick to the limit of small acheivement, but he vaguely felt that he was still one step away from the great acheivement.
He moved quickly on the wooden stakes with his eyes closed, sometimes rushing forward, sometimes moving sideways, and sometimes retreating sharply. His body movements were erratic, and it was not a routine exercise.
If one practiced martial arts and body skills according to routines, even if he was familiar with them, he was still just a beginner. Only by understanding the essence of the artistic conception and mastering the key points could one enter the realm of small acheivement.
And if one wanted to reach the state of great success or even perfection, he needed not only hard work and enlightenment, but also opportunities.
Sometimes, with a flash of inspiration, one might be able to seize the opportunity to push his martial arts practice beyond its limits and reach a higher level.
There were no shortcuts in practicing martial arts. Talent and qualifications were important, but the heart of martial arts and opportunity were equally important.
In the past, he was confused and didn't know what martial arts was, but since integrating with the Life and Death Bead, Stanley had truly made his mark in martial arts.
Although his cultivation level was still low, he already had the heart of martial arts!
"Great acheivement!"
On the wooden stake, Stanley's figure suddenly stopped moving. The wind moved, the clouds moved, the heaven and earth moved, but he was the only thing who didn't move!
He suddenly opened his eyes, and a smile appeared on his lips. He jumped up, and went far away disappearing from everyone's sight.
"His speed is so fast. Could it be that his movement skills have reached the level of small acheivement?"
"I heard that Stanley selected three second-grade martial arts from the library, namely invert bone material, Dragon and Tiger Boxing Fist, and One-inch Kick."
"Invert bone material doesn't matter, but Dragon and Tiger Boxing and One-inch Kick are notoriously the most difficult to practice among the second-grade martial arts. No one knows how many people have tried it. It's difficult to even get started, let alone to be advanced.”
"It seems that the last time Stanley and Grover fought, the Dragon and Tiger Boxing he performed was comparable to the third-grade martial arts in the small acheivement realm, which shows that his Dragon and Tiger Boxing must be at great acheivement level!"
People were talking a lot, speculating on Stanley's current strength. The Dragon and Tiger Boxing in the great acheivement realm was obvious to all, but body skills were more difficult to practice than martial arts. Everyone felt that the possibility of his great acheivement realm was unlikely, and at most he had reached the small acheivement realm.
Despite this, everyone was surprised. With great acheivement Dragon and Tiger Boxing and small acheivement One-inch Kick, even at the fifth level of body training, his overall strength could compete with that of the seventh level.
"The seventh level of physical training is already comparable to the top ones in the intermediate grade. This guy is really awesome."
"But no matter how hard he tries, it is impossible to beat Hugh Wang, because Hugh is about to leave seclusion, and his cultivation level will definitely reach the eighth level of body training by then. He could enter the advanced grade in this year's assessment!"
"Anyone who could enter the advanced grade is the elite of the martial arts hall. Grover and Hugh were not at the same level at all."
"The Zhang family is also a force in Qingyun City. What did Stanley think at the beginning that he would go against the Zhang family?"
Although Stanley's recent performance had been more unexpected each time, no one believed that he could beat Hugh who was at the eighth level of body training.
With all his martial arts and body skills completed, Stanley returned to his residence.
"Relatively speaking, my cultivation level is improving slowly." In the room, Stanley frowned. His cultivation level had reached the limit of the fifth level of, but he had been unable to break through to the sixth level.
Martial arts training was difficult step by step. Each realm had nine levels, meaning that it was comparable to climbing to the nine levels of heaven. Every step was more difficult than the last.
The hardships of practicing martial arts were far from being as simple as talking about it. Especially during the recent period of hard training, Stanley had a deep understanding of it.
"When cultivation reaches my current level, I need some auxiliary means to speed up the improvement. Otherwise, although my cultivation could be improved, it will take too long."
Stanley had never slacked off in the cultivation of internal energy, but relying only on running the internal exercise to breathe the vitality of heaven and earth, the growth rate of internal energy was very slow.
The most common means of assisting martial arts training were elixirs and formations. For The Cultivation Realm Lian Ti warriors, first-grade elixirs were also the most commonly used means. In comparison, formations were even more expensive.
But Stanley was very clear about his conditions. The family only had twenty or thirty taels of silver depending on his father every month, and a first-grade Qi Nourishing Pill could easily cost hundreds or even thousands of taels of silver!
For example, Hugh broke through the eighth level of body refining in this retreat by taking Qi Nourishing Pill. For the consumption of one retreat, an ordinary family would not be able to make so much money in a lifetime.
Stanley knew very well that if he didn't think of another way, didn't know how long it would take for him to break through to The Cultivation Realm Qi Hai and become a true martial artist.
Stanley didn't pay much attention to the annual assessment one month later, and even the competition with Hugh didn't bother him because his goals were already set in the longer term.
What many warriors pursue throughout their lives was just to break through to The Cultivation Realm Qi Hai, and some with slightly more ambitious goals hoped to become The Cultivation Realm Xian Tian martial artist.
But Stanley was not satisfied with all that. After integrating into the Life and Death Bead, he had various unique conditions. If he could not make big achievements in martial arts, he would be very sorry for himself.
"It's time to do something." Stanley narrowed his eyes and had some ideas in his mind.