High Martial Arts: Enlightenment after Practices-Chapter 134: The Four Star Martial Academies

Chapter 134: Chapter 134: The Four Star Martial Academies

Xu Wuyi exited the Virtual Pod and habitually walked toward the training room, preparing for his daily, unskippable cultivation of the *Hundred Refinements Melting Furnace* Pile Skills.

However, just as he reached the training room door, his personal communicator began to vibrate violently at an unprecedented frequency, the notification chimes blurring into a continuous drone.

Xu Wuyi frowned slightly, picking up his communicator to check it.

On the screen, the list of unread messages and communication requests was astonishingly long, densely packing the entire display.

The senders were a motley crew, including acquaintances like Shen Wei, Yu Peiling, and Xu Zhi, as well as many names he had only seen on the new student roster, and even completely unfamiliar IDs.

The messages were even stranger:

"Holy shit! Xu Wuyi, you’re out? The eighth floor?! How did you do it?!"

This was Shen Wei’s characteristically astonished exclamation.

"Mr. Xu, congratulations on clearing it. I was wondering if it would be convenient to discuss your insights on the sixth floor?" This was a relatively polite and tactful inquiry.

There were also those purely expressing shock and curiosity.

"Boss! I bow to you! What does the eighth-floor Star Beast even look like?"

"Xu Wuyi, I’m XXX from Xiliang Province. Let’s spar on the Battle Network sometime?"

These were challenges from those who were unconvinced or just wanted to ride his coattails.

Xu Wuyi quickly scanned through them. Most of the messages were expressions of shock, congratulations, or questions and invitations.

He thought for a moment and understood. The news that he had cleared the eighth floor must have been posted on the Battle Network’s leaderboards, causing this minor commotion.

He wasn’t surprised by this, nor did he have much interest in replying to each one.

After a moment of contemplation, his fingers swiped quickly across the virtual screen as he composed a concise, unified response:

"I’m out of seclusion. Thanks for your concern. Cultivation requires a calm mind; let’s all work hard. If you wish to spar or exchange pointers, you can make an appointment on the Battle Network. I’ll be on often after school starts."

The message was sent, clean and efficient.

It both stated his stance and left a channel for communication open, but the main focus was still on "cultivation" itself.

As for sparring, school was about to start, and he estimated there would be many things to do, like choosing courses. There was no rush.

After tapping send, Xu Wuyi switched his communicator to Do Not Disturb mode.

The world instantly became quiet.

He walked into the training room and began his daily practice.

As he slowly performed the Eighteen Beginner Forms of the *Hundred Refinements Melting Furnace* Pile Skills, his Qi and Blood began to surge, and the newborn wisp of Heart Fire in his Dantian swayed gently in response.

The Heart Fire resonated with his Qi and Blood and Spirit, bringing a completely new cultivation experience.

He immersed himself in it, his mind free of all distractions.

...

However, the waves he had caused in the outside world did not calm down because of his reply. On the contrary, they stirred up even greater ripples in certain circles.

The new students who received the reply stared at the response on their screens, momentarily at a loss for words.

"Make an appointment on the Battle Network to spar?"

Inside Villa 10 of the Hidden Dragon Garden, Zhou Hao smacked his lips and looked at Shen Wei.

"Brother Wei, are you going to make an appointment?"

Shen Wei shot him an annoyed glare. "What, so I can go get my ass kicked? That guy can clear the eighth floor now; his strength has definitely jumped to another level! If I go now, won’t I just be his sparring dummy?"

He was belligerent, but not stupid.

The memory of his last beating was still fresh in his mind. Although he felt he had improved significantly since then, at best he would only be a fifty-fifty match against the Xu Wuyi from back then.

’But how much has Xu Wuyi improved in the past month?’

’Until I can break through the sixth floor, there’s no way I’m his opponent.’

Yu Peiling gently set down her teacup and said, "He’s right. Cultivation requires a calm mind. Instead of marveling at someone else’s achievements, we should focus on improving ourselves."

Her words served as a wake-up call for many.

’That’s right. No matter how strong Xu Wuyi is, that’s his business.’

’We have to walk our own paths, one step at a time.’

The somewhat disheartened atmosphere was gradually replaced by a rekindled fighting spirit.

It was just that, after a brief silence in the group chat, the topic of "making an appointment to spar" was tacitly dropped by everyone.

...

「Star Martial University, Administrative Sector」

Inside a building that was full of futuristic technology yet retained the charm of a classical garden, He Yifeng, the Dean of the East Courtyard, was handling his daily affairs.

Star Martial University was divided into four courtyards—East, South, West, and North. Every year, new students were directly assigned to one of the four based on their province of origin and managed in batches.

The strongest among them was the West Courtyard, because according to the division, students native to Central Province were all assigned to the West Courtyard.

Since Star Martial University was located in Yuntai City, many students from Central Province, due to geographical factors, would be inclined to choose Star Martial among the Three Greats.

Overall, the quality of their student pool was higher than average.

He Yifeng looked to be about forty, with a scholarly and refined face, but his eyes held a sharp, hidden glint.

The screen beside him was displaying reports submitted by various university departments.

Suddenly, a special notification from the "Academic Affairs System" popped up.

[Notice: This year’s new student, Xu Wuyi (Origin: Dongjiang Province), has completed all eight floors of the Star Beast Hunting Ground challenge as of this afternoon.]

He Yifeng’s hand, which held a pen, paused for a moment. His gaze fell upon the name and province of origin.

"Dongjiang Province... Xu Wuyi..." he muttered, a trace of surprise appearing on his face, which quickly turned into joy. "Good lad! Someone actually managed to clear all eight floors this year?"

As the Dean of the East Courtyard, he naturally hoped for the students under his charge to be as outstanding as possible.

While the new student challenge wasn’t a perfect indicator of future success, it was definitely an important benchmark for measuring a new student’s current combat strength and potential.

Clearing all eight floors meant that this new student had reached the pinnacle of the Martial Disciple Stage, with an incredibly solid foundation.

Especially the "Feathered People" on the final floor... That was a recent addition. In previous years, it was something else.

He Yifeng knew perfectly well that changing the final floor from a regular Star Beast to the Feathered People was a decision made by the four deans themselves.

The original intention was to let students adapt to fighting the Alien Race ahead of time, but as a result, no student had been able to clear all eight floors for several years in a row.

This year was originally shaping up to be even worse than the last two—no one had even managed to see the Feathered Person. He never expected to get such a big surprise right at the very end.

"Haha, the heavens have blessed my East Courtyard! We’ve finally produced a decent seedling this year!" He Yifeng was overjoyed, unable to resist clapping his hands and chuckling softly.

He remembered this Xu Wuyi. His martial arts exam scores were excellent, and he was the top scorer from Dongjiang Province, but at the time, he hadn’t displayed this kind of absolute, generation-crushing strength.

It seemed that after entering the university, whether it was a case of Thick Accumulation and Thin Emission or some fortuitous encounter, his strength had seen explosive growth.

In his excitement, He Yifeng immediately thought of his three other "old buddies."

The Dean of the South Courtyard was leading a team off-campus and hadn’t returned, so he could be ignored for now.

But those two from the West and North Courtyards had been showing off to him quite a bit lately, bragging about the good seedlings their courtyards had recruited, like Qin Rui from Central Province and Zhao Qingwei from Xingjing.

’Hmph! Both of them are Fast Sword practitioners. Isn’t it obvious why they came all the way to Star Martial?’

’Isn’t it because the news that Lin Jianyi was coming to teach at Star Martial had leaked?’

’None of those great clans are ever easy to deal with.’

’Now, my East Courtyard has a top-tier genius who can stand head and shoulders above the rest!’

’How could I not "share" such a gratifying piece of news?’

A mischievous smile appeared on He Yifeng’s face. He immediately used his internal clearance to access the high-level administrator area of the Star Martial Battle Network and sent a communication request to the two deans.