Gao Wu: From Martial Arts Student to Star Emperor

Chapter 10 Sunrise Group

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Seeing Li Xianyu turn to leave, Chen Lie immediately called out to her.

Li Xianyu turned around and asked somewhat impatiently, "Senior, is there anything else?"

Chen Lie nodded and said, "Show me your Cloud Mist Steps."

Li Xianyu was immediately puzzled, but seeing Chen Lie's serious expression, she could only nod and say, "Okay."

Li Xianyu arrived at the training ground next door and began to use the Cloud and Smoke Steps, but in his heart, he began to have doubts.

Is Chen Xingyao's brother mentally unstable?

At the same time, she secretly decided that if he still refused to help her queue after she used the Cloud and Smoke Step, she would never let him waste her time again.

With mixed thoughts, Li Xianyu finished performing the flawed Cloud Smoke Step in just seven or eight minutes.

Arriving beside Chen Lie, Li Xianyu frowned slightly and said, "Are you done yet, senior?"

Chen Lie nodded and said, "Take a look at my Cloud and Mist Steps."

As he spoke, Chen Lie walked towards the training ground. With one step, he appeared in the center of the training ground, dozens of meters away.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Lie moved with agility, each step seemingly composed of dozens or even hundreds of steps, leaving behind more than a dozen afterimages scattered throughout the training ground, like a wisp of smoke, casually moving across the training ground.

"This...this is the Cloud and Mist Step?"

Li Xianyu gasped in astonishment, her mouth agape. She had never seen such graceful and elegant footwork before, as elusive as drifting smoke and floating clouds.

The sudden appearance of more than a dozen figures left her speechless.

Is such a marvelous footwork really something that someone below the level of a martial artist could master?

Chen Lie, who was far away on the other side of the training ground, took a step forward, and more than a dozen figures scattered in the training ground walked towards Li Xianyu at the same time, and overlapped one by one, arriving in front of Li Xianyu in the blink of an eye.

"What do you think of my Cloud and Mist Steps?"

Upon hearing Chen Lie's words, Li Xianyu quickly came to his senses.

What just happened? It was as if a dozen Chen Lies appeared in the training ground, all of them coming to her side and then merging into one.

How could this be? Was it too fast and caused an illusion?

"Senior... your Cloud Mist Steps have reached this level?"

Li Xianyu stammered a little; even the most renowned teacher she could learn from couldn't replicate her footwork.

Can a C-level martial art really create more than a dozen dazzling figures when used?

"One hundred thousand star coins, and I guarantee you will master this footwork within three days."

"Isn't three days too short? I really can... okay... okay."

Li Xianyu, who had been wondering, suddenly remembered something and immediately took out a dark green Star Element Card and handed it to Chen Lie.

She was afraid that Chen Lie would change his mind. Someone with such amazing footwork skills must be the top martial arts genius in Dongchuan Province.

Even if such a being casually guided her for three days, costing only 100,000 star coins, she would feel like she had made a profit.

The instructors at the martial arts school usually teach a dozen or twenty students at the same time, so it's impossible for them to focus their instruction on just one person.

Moreover, the Cloud Smoke Step taught by the martial arts school instructors is worlds apart from Chen Lie's.

Chen Lie frowned slightly, refusing the Star Coin card Li Xianyu offered, and asked, "Do you have any cash?"

"No, but there's an ATM outside the martial arts school. I can withdraw the money for you," Li Xianyu quickly replied.

"Alright, let's go!"

Following Chen Lie to the ATM outside the martial arts school, Li Xianyu blankly withdrew 100,000 star coins and handed them to Chen Lie.

Chen Lie took the star coin, nodded, and said, "Come to the martial arts school tomorrow morning, and I'll teach you footwork."

"Okay, sure!" Li Xianyu nodded.

Seeing Li Xianyu nod, Chen Lie turned and left without looking back.

Li Xianyu did not return to the martial arts school, but went home instead.

Chen Xingyao's brother is actually this amazing?

Is it possible to reach this level after only reading the Cloud Smoke Steps once, or did he already know this martial art?

But no matter how you look at it, no instructor could cultivate the Cloud Mist Step to this level, while Chen Xingyao's brother could.

Her older sister, who was in the elite class, was also considered a top student among the elite students, but compared to Chen Xingyao's brother, she could only be described as being far inferior.

"To be able to cultivate a martial art to a level that even the instructors cannot match, Chen Xingyao's brother must have very high blood and qi values."

The improvement of Qi and Blood value is closely related to the martial arts one has mastered. When Qi and Blood value reaches a certain level and encounters a bottleneck, the only way to promote the improvement of Qi and Blood value is to learn a martial arts.

"Could it be that Chen Xingyao's brother has already been shortlisted for the province's youth genius team?"

No wonder Chen Xingyao was so flustered when they bumped into her last time, saying that her brother's blood energy was only slightly higher than her own. Could it be because she couldn't reveal her brother's information?

As soon as Li Xianyu returned home, her mother greeted her: "Yuyu, did you sign up for Teacher Qu's 'Cloud and Smoke Step Instruction Course'?"

"It's already been submitted."

Li Xianyu didn't dare let her mother know that she had secretly misappropriated the money meant for learning Yunyanbu, so she told a lie.

"Okay, then you go and rest first, and come out for dinner later."

"it is good."

Li Xianyu quickly returned to his room.

Meanwhile, Chen Lie returned home and placed 100,000 star coins in cash on his bed in his room.

Having earned 100,000 star coins today, Chen Lie has found a way to make money on his own.

On Earth, it does indeed take hundreds of thousands of star coins to fully learn a C-level martial art.

Perhaps he could try taking on more students and earn tuition fees.

Chen Lie possesses martial arts insights at the Grandmaster level. The difficulty of learning a low-level martial art is roughly equivalent to asking a college student to do a primary school student's addition and subtraction problem.

Chen Lie could roughly understand a C-level martial art like Cloud Smoke Step at a glance. He even modified Cloud Smoke Step by referring to the Phantom Step, a B-level martial art he had learned in his previous life.

"Now that I have 100,000 star coins, I should consider buying some nutritional supplements."

Chen Lie looked at Xing Yuan on the bed and fell into deep thought.

He currently has no access to supplements, and the basic nutritional products available on the market simply cannot meet his needs.

While things like blood and qi essence may be nutritious, mild, and easily absorbed by the body, they are impractical and unrealistic for him.

What he needs is a supplement that is rich in nutrients and affordable.

One hundred thousand star coins may not seem like a lot, but it's definitely enough for an average family on Earth to cover their daily expenses for a year, and even more. It's just that martial arts cultivation is so expensive that this amount of money seems insignificant.

Suddenly, Chen Lie remembered that his good friend Wang Hui's family seemed to have a lot of connections. Wang Hui's father, Wang Kui, was the director of the Dongchang Municipal Government Affairs Department and also served as a member of the Political and Business Committee. He had contact with all sorts of people and should be able to help him.

So Chen Lie took out his communicator and dialed Wang Hui's number.

"Chen Lie? You want to see me? Let me make this clear first, if you want me to go to the virtual reality experience center, I can't go for the next few days."

Chen Lie asked, "What's wrong? Are you busy?"

Wang Hui said, "To be honest, my blood energy level has exceeded 1 calorie. My dad got me a bottle of blood energy essence, and I need to train hard these days to digest the medicinal effects of the blood energy essence. I really can't find the time."

Chen Lie said, "Don't worry, I won't take up much of your time. I want your dad to help me find out if there are any affordable yet highly nutritious supplements."

Wang Hui said, "Where in the world can you find something so good? Your demands are outrageous. How could a highly nutritious supplement be inexpensive?"

Chen Lie asked, "No?"

Wang Hui said, "Yes, we do have them, but most people can't use them."

Chen Lie immediately asked, "Tell me in detail."

Wang Hui, speaking through the communicator, said, "You should also know that the exotic beast meat on the market has undergone special treatment and is soaked in a precious medicinal liquid for three days before it is allowed to be sold."

Although the meat of the mythical beasts loses most of its nutrients through special processing, the energy in the meat becomes milder, making it suitable for human absorption.

While truly wild, unprocessed beast meat is highly nutritious, its explosive energy content makes it far too much for an ordinary martial arts student to digest.

Chen Lie said, "I understand. The nutritious and affordable meat you mentioned is the meat of wild exotic animals."

"That's right. The meat of wild beasts can only be eaten by martial artists or people with extremely high blood and qi values. People with slightly lower blood and qi values ​​cannot digest it."

This is the kind of thing that people who can use it don't value, and people who like it can't use it, so the price can't be high.

"So, you have connections?"

"Of course, I have a cousin who is twenty years older than me. He is the warehouse manager of Riyao Group. Although his position as warehouse manager is not considered a senior executive, it is very lucrative."

The raw, exotic beast meat that the Sunrise Group transports from the border all passes through his hands. He then takes the opportunity to keep some scraps of the meat and resell them, earning at least a million star coins a year in hidden income.

"How can your cousin, who's just a supervisor, be so blatantly greedy?"

"Not exactly. It's just that the flesh and blood of a single beast weighs at least ten thousand jin, and within those ten thousand jin of beast meat, there are at least several hundred jin of flesh and blood attached to the beast's bones."

The flesh and blood attached to the bones of the alien beasts possessed energy that was far more violent and powerful than that of other parts of the beast's flesh. Even after special treatment, ordinary martial arts students could not use it.

Even if my cousin didn't resell the scraps of that exotic beast meat, they'd probably just end up gathering dust in the Sunrise Group's warehouses as waste.

Chen Lie said, "Okay, then help me ask how many kilograms of raw exotic beast meat can be bought with 100,000 star coins."

Wang Hui, speaking over the communicator, couldn't help but ask, "What do you need this for?"

"Don't ask me that, I have my own reasons."

"Okay, I'll hang up now and call you back in a bit."

"it is good."

A few minutes after Chen Lie hung up the communicator, Wang Hui called back.

After the call connected, Wang Hui's voice came through the communicator: "I asked, and my cousin resells it to others for 6,000 star coins per catty. I told him that we have a very close relationship, so he can give it to you for 5,000 star coins per catty."

"Okay, today or tomorrow, take some time to come with me to find your cousin and buy some exotic beast meat."

"Then let's meet at the Riyue Building first thing tomorrow morning," Wang Hui said.

"it is good."

After Chen Lie finished speaking, he hung up the communicator.