Chapter - 8

Blue Cloud City - Chen Clan Martial Field.

Chen Yan'er stood at the entrance with Long Chen. She wanted to beat this guy to death. The person she most respected was her father in all her life, yet this bastard dared to curse at him. How can she bear it and not fight out as a filial daughter?

However, her father ordered her to take this bastard to the martial field. She regretted that she should have killed him with a single punch when she caught this person yesterday.

On the other side, Long Chen was highly annoyed.

He was about to leave this place when the guards of the Chen clan again tied him up and brought him all the way to this enormous building. He ignored Chen Yan'er glare; there is no reasoning with these retards anyway.

What Long Chen couldn't understand was why the hell would Chen Guang make him attend a class. Shouldn't he focus more on kicking him off to that sword sect? Even if that's not the case, he should have been locked up, not sent to a class with many kids.

"System, what's going on here? Why is it different this time?"

"Host, it's your own damn fault. You helped Chen Guang achieve some kind of enlightenment."

"System, what the hell? Are you saying I messed up?"

Both Long Chen One and Two were now laughing.

Chen Martial class was filled with many people, primarily 12 or 13-year-old teenagers. As one of the prominent aristocratic families in Blue Cloud city, it was also divided into the mainline and branch lines. The main clan only had Chen Guang and his family. However, there are many collateral relatives, including cousins and the children of the subordinates of the Chen family.

The arrival of Long Chen made many disciples of the Chen clan look away with disgust. Yesterday, the story of Long Chen's deeds had spread all over the city, and the Chen clan became a colossal joke. The disciples felt that they had lost a lot of faces. So why would they not be angry with this bastard?

Besides, they couldn't tolerate the annoyed expression on this guy's face. It felt like he was nauseated to even be here.

"I don't understand how this guy has the face to be here."

"Yes, trash of Long clan has somehow received the grace of our patriarch. I don't know what the patriarch is thinking."

"A delusional idiot, reading novels all day."

"Who knows, maybe he can comprehend Dao of novels?"

"Ha Ha Ha.."

"..."

The discussion reached Long Chen's ears. Then, seemingly, without any care, he simply walked towards the first row and sat down with his legs on the table and ankles crossed.

But this appearance made the disciples' blood boil, and everyone started shouting more abusive words.

"Hmph, I don't want to be in the same room as this evil guy. Who knows what this bastard will do?." a young lady finally stood up and loudly shouted.

Long Chen turned around and sharply glanced at the young lady and said, "Don't worry. I am not interested in your ugly ass face."

"You..."

When the young girl, mocked as ugly, stood up angrily and wanted to rush to Long Chen, a gentle voice was heard on the podium, "Enough. I will ask whoever disturbs this class."

The whole class turned muted.

Long Chen looked at the speaker. A charming young girl stood at the centre of the stage, holding a scroll.

All Long Chen's evaluated her as a mature beauty.

'How come most of the women in this place are so beautiful?'

The girl's eyes swept throughout the crowd. But, even though the girl was profoundly stunning, no one dared to look straight at her, and most of them lowered their heads.

"Last time, I talked about some of the basics of cultivation, and the topics covered Qi, channels, roots and opening the Dantian."

"Today, let's talk about body refining."

"Most of you are in the Body Quenching stage now, and the next stage is to refine the Qi. As the name suggests, it enhances the body with spiritual energy. A human body is made of external skin and internal organs. Heart, liver and other primaries as well as secondary organs."

"The easiest method is to consume pills. However, these pills are expensive, and only rich folks amongst you can access these pills."

"There are still other ways to refine the body such as various martial exercises, external stimulation. Our ancestors combined various methods to create various skills that help improve a practitioner's cultivation. Today let's talk about..."

"Teacher, Are you referring to battle skills?" A voice suddenly interrupted excitedly at this time.

The girl smiled, "Indeed. Also, if you think battle skills are simple, you are mistaken. How many people have you seen who can comprehend high-level martial arts in your stage?"

"Teacher, our Chen clan prides itself in having genii. So I don't think comprehension is an issue." Another voice sounded.

"Yes. Who in this room is not talented? Well, there is someone who is even more talented than us. A young scholar, one step away from comprehending various skills from reading books. I think you should ask that fellow." A person sneered, glancing at Long Chen.

"Haha." The whole crowd started chortling loudly.

The teacher didn't respond to this but continued, "let's talk about battle skills. There are countless practitioners in this world, but not all can comprehend martial crafts. There are many battle skills in our Chen clan. In fact, one of our ancestors comprehended a powerful skill when he came across ancient martial arts in a secret realm."

The girl paused for a while and continued: "A person can be referred to as a genius if he can comprehend battle skills in the Qi refinement stage. However, if any of you attain a minor realm in your martial arts before crossing to Qi refinement stage..."

But paused before saying, "...then you are qualified to fight for the Heavenly genius List."

Long Chen heard a sneer and glanced at Chen Yan'er sitting next to him.

"Heavenly genius List?" Someone in the crowd asked.

"A list of hundred young genii across the whole world." the girl calmly replied.

"Hiss!" everyone breathed coldly. There are so many young practitioners in the world. Top 100? Incomparable in talent. Amazing.

Long Chen was highly bored listening to all of this. His thoughts were now on the mission the system had released.

He couldn't understand any of this. Aren't these people already in the Body Quenching stage? What's with all the elements the system had mentioned?

Thinking of this, Long Chen couldn't help but ask, "Is there any way a person can refine his body with the elements?"

As soon as he voiced his question, he immediately attracted a burst of ridicule.

"Sure enough, this guy is still dumb as a rock."

"Refining body with elements. I have never heard anything this idiotic."

"I think this person could be a genius. He might perhaps comprehend that our ancestors had never thought of."

"Maybe he wants to refine his body to sit on the chair for a longer period apprehending various martial theories in the textbooks he reads."

"The fuck is wrong with these people? Don't they have anything better to do other than commenting every time I speak? Immature dumb fucks." Long Chen looked at Chen Yan'er and asked softly.

Chen Yan'er mocked, "They are myriad times better than you."

However, the girl on stage was more mature than these teenagers.

"It's impossible."

"Please explain." Long Chen was stunned and asked politely. Is the system messing with him?

"There are countless ways to achieve Dao. But a person can't quench his body with the elements. A human body has narrow veins at birth. So first, they have to quench and create a pathway for energy to travel towards Dantian, stored and converted to elemental Qi. However, elements are a level higher than spiritual energy. So how do you expect a person to quench his bones and organs without any spiritual energy converted to Qi?"

Long Chen was at a loss. He could only ask the system later.

"However..." the teacher's lips curved into a smile. "No one should be that arrogant to think that they know everything about cultivation. If any such body refining method exists, then I can only say that it's the flawless and radical technique ever."

"Anyway, let's not think of irrelevant ideas." the girl enunciated, "let's discuss more on battle skills."

The young teacher began to talk in-depth about various skills of the Chen clan. What she said was very simple and easy to understand. The more Long Chen heard, the more he appreciated this girl. He was reminded of various professors in his college who were brilliant teachers. So even though he had no understanding of cultivation or martial arts, he gained a general understanding of different things about this brand new world.

"In short, the battle skills are elementary in theory, that is, to accumulate enough battle sense to quench the body." The girl finally finished all her explanations.

"Any questions?"

As soon as the class ended, Long Chen sighed. He stretched his body, seemingly tired. He only wanted to leave as quickly as possible and take a long-needed rest.

Looking at his expressions, some people clenched their fists and wanted to beat this bastard. This young man was a disgrace. But, most importantly, the patriarch not only engaged his daughter to this animal but also allowed him to attend the martial arts classes reserved for the Chen clan's disciples.

They were indignant, no one dared to start the fight, but still, they all furiously looked at Long Chen.

Amid this crowd, a young man wearing costly and bright clothing stood up and spoke in disdain.

"Someone tell this trash that Chen martial class is not a place for rubbish. Next time he comes here, it's better to stand outside the door and listen and not ask embarrassing questions."

This young man is Chen Shan, Chen Wan'er's cousin and the core figure of the younger generation of the Chen family. In status, he is next only to the mainline of the Chen family. Also, the whole crowd knew that he was interested in Chen Wan'er.

When he first heard the engagement news, he was extremely furious. However, now that he knew about what Long Chen did yesterday, he no longer had any reservations and openly targeted him.

Chen Shan knew about the trash of the Long clan. This guy was a coward and was often bullied in his own family. Even after all that, he never dared to do anything but immersed himself in reading delusional novels. As long as this bastard dared to do anything, he could find an excuse to beat this guy up.

Long Chen didn't care about this crowd. Given his age on Earth, he didn't want to argue with a bunch of kids. However, this guy seemed around his age in this world.

So he politely asked, "Hmm? Who are you?"

No one expected Long Chen to ask this question. Chen Shan frowned. He didn't think anyone in Blue Cloud city didn't know him.

"Hmph. No wonder people call you an ignorant fool. Don't you even know who big brother Chen Shan is?" One person standing next to Chen Shan replied, "in our opinion, big brother is more suited to wed big sister Chen Wan'er."

Long Chen didn't respond to this crowd but simply asked Chen Yan'er, "Is he your cousin?".

Chen Yan'er nodded.

"Is cousin marriage a thing here?"

No response.

Long Chen laughed mockingly. "No wonder I couldn't talk sense to you people. A bunch of inbred gnats."

Chen Yan'er placed her hand on her sword.

Chen Shan heard Long Chen's words and shouted angrily, "You dare mock my Chen clan?"