Chapter 63 - Martial Techniques

Li Jie came back to his room after finishing his chores and practices, which were instructed to him by his master, he had already brought all the techniques from the training pagoda to his room, where he started reading them one by one.

Looking at all the martial techniques, he sighed, which were a lot to learn, according to his knowledge, most of the cultivators would choose a specific specialization to focus on which were martial techniques related to sword, fist, spear, and many more, but his master had given him techniques of all types, which was confusing for him, as he thought that he will be mostly focusing on using sword type martial techniques but for now that wasn't the case as he looked into it, whereas his trust in his master was unwavering, that's why despite his confusion, he started reading them.

The martial techniques in this continent are of the following stages, first are Martial Techniques, which can be used by practitioners of the Student stage to Grandmaster stage, they mostly utilize the physical characteristics of a human body to the peak, be it strength, agility, speed, and endurance.

The martial techniques are further divided into further tiers, which are basic tier, intermediate tier, advance tier, peak tier,and apex tier.

Basic tier martial techniques are the most common ones which are easily available for any cultivator in this continent easily, as they are also extremely cheap in cost, while those martial techniques of intermediate tier can be bought, but are extremely expensive, whereas those of advance and peak tier are very rare and only available in the ruling force's treasury, which is only shared among the direct descendants or core disciples.

Apex tier martial techniques are a legend, which no one has, nor does anyone in this continent even have any information related to it, every increase in the tier of a martial technique helps in increasing the combat ability of a practitioner by several every tier creates a gap between the same stage cultivators that is hard to fill.

For example, if two same stage practitioners, where one of them is using a basic tier, while the other uses intermediate tier, the one who uses the intermediate tier martial technique can easily defeat the practitioner of basic tier without much effort, that is why most cultivators try to find martial arts of higher tier as possible, which will help them in increasing their whole combat power.

The second type of martial techniques are Essence energy martial techniques, which utilizes the essence energy found in the environment in the martial techniques, these techniques are used by practitioners of Essence Gathering stage to Essence Crystallisation stage, which are also further divided into a basic tier, intermediate tier, advance tier, peak tier, and apex tier.

In this continent, most of the forces also have Essence energy martial techniques, but only the topmost ruling forces of this continent have Essence energy martial techniques of advance and peak tier, even the basic tier of Essence energy martial techniques cannot be bought with money but traded with natural treasures or something of equal value and apex tier of this technique wasn't available in this continent.

As for the last type of martial techniques, which are also called Reality infusion techniques, only the basic tiers are available and that too is only available in the ruling forces of this continent, but these techniques are only used by the patriarchs or the leaders of the ruling forces, not even the elders of those ruling forces are taught this technique as for the higher tier of Reality infusion techniques, those are not available at the moment and even if they are, they are closely guarded for no one to know.

Li Jie first started reading the Fist manual, which comprised of fist techniques, it's name was "Boulder Fist Technique", even the name wasn't cool according to him, after all, what could he expect from a basic tier martial technique, after reading it, he found out that this martial technique's fist movements are not complex and easy to understand, compared to higher tier martial techniques which are quite complex and they take time to understand, this is relatively easy.

From what he could see, he could learn all the other types of martial techniques given to him by his master easily, now that he looks at it, it will take him little to no time, when he completes learning all of them.

After reading all the martial techniques given to him by his master, he found out that one was fist type martial technique while others were movement type and defense type and archery type, which were "Rushing Ox step technique" and "Muscle Strengthening technique", "Eyes Piercing Shot Technique", which had their own concepts but not much complex to practice, and this makes it easy for Li Jie to start practicing these techniques without much problem.

He first started with the "Boulder Fist Technique", which had the concept that to practice it, the practitioner has to carry heavy weights on their wrists while punching on-air by using the movements which were described in the manual, and with the increase in mastery, the practitioner has to increase the weights in his wrists to increase the difficulty, which will help the practitioner to increase his understanding of the martial techniques, Li Jie found it to be very simple, where those of higher tier martial techniques will also include the usage of weak points of opponents body and many more, but this martial technique just completely focuses on the power of his fists.

As for the "Rushing Ox step technique", it simply required the practitioner to carry huge rocks on his back, while moving at fast speeds, without falling down, after complete mastery of this technique, the practitioner's feet stabilizes and is nailed to the ground, while it is a speed type technique, it focuses more on the stability of the practitioner's footwork.

The "Muscle Strengthening technique" on the other hand requires the practitioner to get hit on certain areas of his body with iron rods, which will help him in strengthening and tightening the muscles, just looking at the process gave him chills, but he knew that this kind of pain will be nothing as compared to what he will have to tolerate the pain in the future.

As for the last one, the "Eyes Piercing Shot Technique", it requires him to use bow and arrows first and learn to shoot arrows in different kinds of environments.

Li Jie first decided to learn the "Boulder Fist Technique" first, then he will learn others after he gets basic mastery in this technique, he started learning this Fist technique right away in one of the training areas where other kids of the Li family were also training.

When he reached the training area, everyone there looked at him with apprehension.

"Just what is he doing here, isn't it said that he is a cripple, what's the use of him to be here",

"Shut up, are you crazy what if someone hears you man, if you want to die, then it's ok, don't take me down with you"

"Ugh why is this calamity here, we don't want to have anything with him, we can't even train in peace, just why did he have to come here, Looks like I will have to leave earlier than I thought"

"Damn it's better if I leave this place, or else I will not even realize, how I died"

Just like this many started whispering or had such thoughts towards Li Jie, who just came here, looking at Li Jie, who came here to train, Li Jie knew that they would act this way, but he never knew that they would be this much repulsed by him, still, he didn't care about them and started to practice his Fist technique.

After some time little by little, everyone started to leave the training room, now that Li Jie was here, Li Jie just stopped getting bothered by them and started to concentrate on himself.

Those kids who went back started complaining to their parents about how Li Jie disturbed them from practicing and that it is his fault, that they had to go out early.

Hearing their kids, the parents felt incensed, that even if Li Jie is the son of the patriarch, he doesn't have the right to disturb their kid's practice.

All of the kid's parents decided to take this to complain to the patriarch, but what no one knew was that the kids didn't completely tell their parents the truth, they were afraid of getting punished, so they made up this lie, but what they didn't know was this would just bring them more calamity then they could ever think, just the consequences of one simple of theirs will shake them to the very core.

Unknown to Li Jie, who was calmly practicing his Fist Technique, he didn't know that a mob was going to his parents, to act justice on him, but even if he knew, it wouldn't bother him, because he had unwavering trust in his father.