A week ago, Leon was still no match for Zhu Jinfeng.

Later, Zhu Jinfeng realized the key to the problem. Recently, she had been attending extra classes at Ye Qingzhou's house every day, naturally aware of Ye Qingzhou's secret training for Leon.

So she approached Ye Qingzhou right after the club activities ended: "What did you do to Leon? His foundation and cultivation are improving too fast, it doesn't make sense."

Ye Qingzhou stopped, carefully scrutinizing Zhu Jinfeng.

The young girl in front of him was filled with raging fighting spirit, extremely suitable as a guinea pig.

Ye Qingzhou extended a hand to Zhu Jinfeng, waving it in front of her eyes: "I need five million."

"Okay."

Zhu Jinfeng, who wasn't short on money, agreed without hesitation.

"First things first, the technique is still not fully developed. It might make you ugly."

"Heh, I don't care."

Obviously, Zhu Jinfeng had a warrior's personality; in pursuit of higher realms on the Martial Dao path, she did not care much about changes in her appearance.

Ye Qingzhou appreciated her determination: "Not bad, very spirited, come find me after school."

"Alright."

After school, Ye Qingzhou brought Zhu Jinfeng back home.

In one corner of the second floor of the villa, there was an empty room, originally a storage room, now transformed by Ye Qingzhou into a soundproof quiet room.

After inviting Zhu Jinfeng in, Ye Qingzhou rolled up his sleeves, his first words were: "Take off your clothes first."

"Ah?"

"What do you mean 'ah'? Hurry up and take them off."

Zhu Jinfeng gave Ye Qingzhou a long, deep look, but ultimately chose to comply.

Ye Qingzhou spoke again: "Okay, turn your back to me."

Zhu Jinfeng bit her lip; to become stronger, she could only endure the discomfort in her heart and turned around.

Ye Qingzhou ignored her excessively well-developed figure and pointed his fingers like a sword, quickly tapping the lung, kidney, liver, heart, and spleen acupoints on her back.

"Hmm~"

Zhu Jinfeng's organs felt as though they were being devoured by fire, causing her to groan in pain.

"It will hurt a bit at first, bear with it, you'll get used to it later."

Ye Qingzhou began channeling Dragon's Inner Breath, attempting to mobilize the flow of the five Qi within Zhu Jinfeng's body.

Two hours later, Ye Qingzhou exhaled and gathered his breath: "Alright, the first session is over."

Phew~

After getting dressed, Zhu Jinfeng turned around, her deep gaze fixed on Ye Qingzhou: "I've memorized the inner breath flow method just now, are you sure you won't regret selling a peerless martial art for five million?"

Coming from a martial arts family and being a rare genius herself, Zhu Jinfeng's keen insight naturally discerned the value of Dragon's Inner Breath.

Without a doubt, such a technique, capable of efficiently refining one's body and enhancing inner breath, would tempt even top-tier large sects to personally compete to snatch it.

Sell it off?

No one would trade such level of martial arts technique for money!

However, Ye Qingzhou didn't seem to care much; no matter how strong the technique, it ultimately depended on who practiced it.

A true expert is always progressing, never afraid of challenges.

Those who destroy the technique after learning, fearing that others might use it to defeat them, even with high martial arts skills, are only discouraged in spirit, with limited lifelong achievements.

Zhu Jinfeng was shocked to see Ye Qingzhou seemingly indifferent: "Aren't you afraid I'll spread it around?"

Ye Qingzhou smiled nonchalantly: "I advise you not to, the technique is not yet completely perfected. After Leon practiced, scales grew on his body, I can't guarantee what will grow on yours."

Upon hearing about scales, Zhu Jinfeng became somewhat nervous: "Can't they be removed?"

"Not at the moment, so it's best not to practice blindly. Every time, you must train under my guidance, or else I won't handle accidents."

"Alright."

Zhu Jinfeng nodded.

After more than ten days, Xu Yuebing, who took leave to return home, successfully forged her Martial Bone and returned safely.

It must be said that she, already naturally beautiful, now possessed an additional ethereal aura, like a fairy descending to earth, untouched by the slightest worldly impurity.

Sublime and graceful, pure and flawless.

Through Cicada Awakening, Ye Qingzhou sensed an added deep aura within Xu Yuebing: "Has your Yin Skill also reached mastery?"

Xu Yuebing smiled radiantly; when she looked at Ye Qingzhou, her chin was raised high, with a slightly proud expression: "Indeed, I now have Martial Bone too."

"Ice Skin Jade Bone, ethereal and transcendent, excellent indeed."

Ye Qingzhou was quite interested in the Bone Forging Secret Technique passed down by the Linjiang Xu Clan. It was rumored that the Xu Clan had historical female patriarchs who practiced a special cultivation technique, making their sword Qi like frost, capable of freezing rivers with a single sword and blocking flowing waters, with tremendous power.

...

After school, at the Fighting Center.

Xu Lan gathered all the martial arts novices; initially a seven-person team, now including Zhu Jinfeng, it became eight people.

"The City Martial Arts Association has issued a notice. Starting this year, parts of the secret realm within Lingyun Grotto Heaven will be open to martial arts novices from Linjiang, Zhaoling, Yan City, and Forest City. However, the quota is limited to only twenty, so those interested must compete for ranking."

This major announcement quickly sparked discussion among everyone.

Miao Yi couldn't help but ask: "Isn't Grotto Heaven Secret Realm only open to professional level martial artists?"

Like the Thunder Accumulation Mountain Secret Realm he had previously visited for secluded cultivation, and Jiuyi Mountain, both were man-made secret realms. The danger level was clearly not comparable to the secrets within Grotto Heaven.

Xu Lan patiently explained: "The exploration team of the Martial Arts Association recently completed exploring several secret realms near Sword Sect. Although there are still dangers, they are controllable. So now they can be taken out for some hands-on practice."

In terms of education and training of talent, Dongji Kingdom has always emphasized practice, believing that practice is the only test of truth.

Furthermore, martial artists are not greenhouse flowers, especially those under the high expectations of the Martial Arts Novice plan, which has been heavily funded by the officials, they need to show some results.

Martial arts novices are screened through competitions, talents among talents, with strength far exceeding average apprentice-level martial artists, thus meeting the basic conditions for exploring Grotto Heaven tasks.

Even though there are some risks, they are within manageable limits.

Hou Fei couldn't help but complain: "Isn't Lingyun Grotto Heaven within our Linjiang City territory? Why allow schools from Zhaoling, Yan City, and Forest City to snatch our quota?"

Xu Lan sighed: "Because Linjiang City's local Martial Arts Association alone cannot completely suppress Lingyun Grotto Heaven, so to obtain support from martial artists in surrounding cities, a four-city resource-sharing agreement was privately reached years ago."

Ye Qingzhou, however, cast his gaze toward Leon and Zhu Jinfeng, his mind filled with thoughts.

These two hastily transferred over before Grotto Heaven even opened.

It can only be said that connections are indeed everywhere.

Even in today's internet-era, where it has entered thousands of households, absolute equality of information is still unattainable; there are always those holding high-value information that ordinary people cannot easily access.

Three days later, Ye Qingzhou and a group of eight followed Xu Lan, their lead teacher, and boarded a rented luxury air-conditioned bus to Lingyun Grotto Heaven.

The selection will take place there.

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