Gao Wu: My martial arts technique has entries.

Chapter 12 Gunmanship
"I estimate that I will master the Iron Armor Technique in the next few days. When the Golden Spear also reaches the mastery level, I will have a great chance of entering the top 1,000, or even the top 500."

"After all, my technique has entries, and those who have also mastered external skills and martial arts are probably no match for me."

Chu Kuang pondered this in his heart, a hint of anticipation creeping into his eyes.

There are rewards for the top 1,000 in the Tianheng City ranking competition. Even if you are only ranked 1,000th, you will receive 10,000 Federal Coins. For every 100 places you improve your ranking, you will receive an additional 10,000 Federal Coins.

In addition, those who rank in the top 1,000 or top 500 can apply for an interest-free loan of 100,000 federal dollars.

In other words, a student can apply for a maximum of 300,000 yuan in interest-free loans from the Tianheng City ranking competition.

This amount of money is nothing to a second-generation rich kid like Lin Shuyao, but it is much-needed cultivation resources for Chu Kuang.

Having made up his mind, Chu Kuang first adjusted his state, then diluted the source energy potion and swallowed it.

"boom--"

In an instant, that immense energy surged forth once more, and Chu Kuang felt his dormant cells begin to awaken, his physical constitution and potential seemingly greatly enhanced.

"There are countless cells in the human body. Most of these cells are dormant and dim, with a very low affinity for source energy and various energies. However, a few cells are as bright and active as stars."

"The more bright and active cells one has, the faster one can cultivate martial arts and the easier it is to break through bottlenecks. This is why people use this to distinguish the grade of one's innate talent."

Chu Kuang murmured to himself, recalling the classification of innate talent.

Only about one-thousandth of his body cells are active, while the cells of those with the best bone structure are said to be as active as one percent, making them ten times faster at cultivating martial arts.

At this moment, under the awakening effect of the source energy potion, the dormant cells in his body began to awaken continuously, exceeding three per thousand in the blink of an eye, and even continued to climb until it reached five per thousand before stopping.

"Awakening dormant cells and temporarily enhancing aptitude and potential, no wonder the Source Energy Potion can help people break through to the Transcendent Realm."

Chu Kuang murmured to himself, then shook off all distracting thoughts and focused wholeheartedly on practicing the basic spear techniques.

He has been practicing basic marksmanship for many years, and now he has completely reached the pinnacle of mastery. The 99% mastery level also means that his basic marksmanship has reached its true limit.

The reason he couldn't break through to perfection was because his aptitude was insufficient, and he needed a lot of time to hone it before he could break through. Now, with the source energy potion temporarily boosting his aptitude, this bottleneck suddenly disappeared.

What he needs to do now is to take advantage of the time before the effects of the energy potion wear off and refine his basic marksmanship to perfection at all costs.

The basic spear techniques consist of thirty-six moves, including thrusting, stabbing, parrying, deflecting, blocking, seizing, twisting, picking, pressing, chopping, and striking, etc. However, they are a fusion of the essence of spear techniques from all over the world.

Chu Kuang was now wholeheartedly practicing the basic spear technique, and on his first attempt, he sensed an invisible bottleneck.

On the second try, he felt he had a clue, and by the third try, he had cracked a hole in the bottleneck.

He continued practicing until he had completed the seventh repetition of the basic gun technique, at which point he finally broke through the bottleneck and reached a state of perfection.

Basic Spear Techniques [Perfect 0/3]: The general outline of all spear techniques in the world. Easy to learn but difficult to master. The Holy Court of the Human Race integrated the spear techniques of all races and deduced them from the Primordial Intelligence. It is the most suitable foundational method for the human race in the way of spear.

Attached entry: General Principles of Spear Techniques [Jin].

General Principles of Spear Techniques [Gold]: All spear techniques under heaven originate from this. When practicing any spear or halberd martial art that does not exceed the basic spear technique level, the training speed will increase tenfold, and the difficulty of breaking through the bottleneck will be reduced tenfold.

"Perfect marksmanship, all done."

Chu Kuang took a deep breath and casually brandished his spear, instantly feeling a sense of pride and power, as if he owned the world.

With the support of the General Principles of Spear Techniques, his talent in cultivating basic spear and halberd martial arts was probably no less than that of Ye Qingfeng.

"After mastering the basic spear technique, the Golden Spear can be mastered within ten days, and can reach perfection within a month."

Chu Kuang murmured to himself, his eyes gleaming with intense light.

His original goal was simply to be among the top 100 in the school during the final exams, but now it seems he has the potential to make it into the top 20 or even the top 10.

With this confidence, he slowly took a deep breath, then withdrew all his thoughts and continued to practice his marksmanship and external martial arts.

At this point, the remaining energy of the source energy potion was almost gone, and there was definitely not enough time to use it to cultivate other basic martial arts.

Chu Kuang took the opportunity to continue practicing Iron Armor Technique and Golden Spear, hoping to take advantage of the last bit of medicinal power to further advance the two advanced martial arts.

As he continued his cultivation, a day passed by in the blink of an eye. By the time he came back to his senses from his immersive cultivation, it was already late at night.

Spear of the Rending Gold [Minor Success 17%], Iron Armor Skill [Minor Success 73%]

"Significant progress has been made. If I had enough source energy potions, my cultivation speed could probably increase several times over."

Chu Kuang glanced at the panel, then shook his head with a wry smile.

A single dose of source energy potion costs 100,000 yuan. If it were used directly as a nutrient solution to increase cultivation speed, let alone a commoner family like his, even a family like Lin Shuya's probably couldn't afford it.

Putting the thought aside, and seeing that it was already dinner time, Chu Kuang finally left the martial arts room.

At the dinner table, Chu Kuang told the three of them that he had mastered the basic marksmanship. Chu's parents were overjoyed and gave Chu Kuang even more encouragement.

After dinner, Chu Kuang wasn't in a hurry to sleep. Instead, he headed straight for the villa area in the city center. Although martial arts training was important, tutoring Lin Shuya was one of his key avenues for acquiring resources.

At the Lin family home, Chu Kuang met Lin Shuyao again. After exchanging greetings, he began teaching Lin Shuyao martial arts.

Lin Shuya's aptitude and comprehension seem to be quite high. Chu Kuang planned to teach her one move a day, so that she would have 36 days to master the basic techniques. However, she mastered today's move in just 20 minutes.

Seeing this, Chu Kuang had no choice but to teach him the second move.

"Brother Chu can be faster, so I can see it clearly."

After learning two techniques, Lin Shuya was still not satisfied.

Seeing this, Chu Kuang said, "Learning martial arts requires a gradual approach. With your current physical condition, one hour of external martial arts training every day is enough."

"Let me teach you another basic spear technique. That way, after you finish practicing your external skills, you can use the extra time and space to practice your spear technique."

Lin Shuya's eyes lit up, and she immediately said, "Okay!"

Seeing that he agreed, Chu Kuang said, "I'll teach you a move, starting with the spear thrusting style."

As he spoke, Chu Kuang personally demonstrated the basic spear technique once, and then taught her the first move of the basic spear technique.

The teaching lasted for quite some time, until more than half an hour later, when he finally taught Lin Shuya the first basic spear technique and then slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your basic marksmanship is now perfected."

Just then, he heard a calm voice.

Chu Kuang looked up and noticed that Lin Shuyao had appeared outside the gate at some point.

It turned out that Lin Shuyao had been practicing in the martial arts room next door. It wasn't until Chu Kuang had been teaching for an hour that she realized he hadn't left and came to the door to check on him. She then saw Chu Kuang teaching Lin Shuyao spear techniques.

At this moment, Lin Shuyao felt a surge of surprise.

She was already surprised that Chu Kuang's basic external skills were perfected, but she didn't expect that his basic spear technique was also perfected.

It should be noted that it is rare even in the top classes of No. 3 Middle School to have mastered two fundamental martial arts techniques together and reached the perfection of both.

Thinking of this, Lin Shuyao said, "From now on, you can add a spear technique class for Shuya. Just teach her two moves of external martial arts and spear technique every day, and I'll add three hundred to the class fee."

"Another three hundred?"

Chu Kuang's face lit up with surprise. Six hundred yuan a day for teaching was an amazing income for him.

Lin Shuyao remained calm, holding her longsword, and said, "Shuya is supposed to have five classes anyway, learning external martial arts, internal martial arts, weapons, fist and palm techniques, as well as movement techniques."

"However, since we haven't mastered the external skills yet, and we haven't found a suitable teacher, we'll postpone the other courses for now."

"Now that your basic marksmanship is perfected, there's no need to find another weapons instructor for her for the time being."

Chu Kuang couldn't help but smile upon hearing this; this was the advantage of the high versatility of marksmanship.

Even if Lin Shuya doesn't particularly like marksmanship, she can definitely master the basics of marksmanship in the early stages without any problems.

If it were a different weapon, Lin Shuya might not have learned it if she didn't like it.

With Lin Shuya's talent, learning two gun techniques and external skills every day wouldn't take much time at all. For Chu Kuang, it was equivalent to earning extra tuition fees in the same amount of time, which was a very profitable deal for him.

Therefore, Chu Kuang did not hesitate at all and said directly, "Then thank you very much."

Lin Shuyao didn't say much and directly transferred 600 Federal Coins to him.

Chu Kuang accepted the Federal currency and prepared to leave with a hint of surprise, but Lin Shuyao suddenly called him back before he was about to leave.

"Wait a moment."

Lin Shuyao spoke, giving him a complicated look, but her gaze remained firm as she said, "You need to be careful. Don't go to crowded places these days."

Chu Kuang was stunned for a moment, and wanted to ask why, but he saw that Lin Shuyao had already returned to the house.

Knowing that the other party couldn't say more, he could only leave the villa area and head towards his own home with this question in mind.

"Sister, you like him?"

As soon as Lin Shuyao returned to the house, she saw Lin Shuya winking and making faces.

Lin Shuyao's eyebrows shot up immediately, and she reached out to strike, but Lin Shuya quickly dodged, chattering on and on: "I can sense that you definitely have feelings for him."

"What do you know."

(End of this chapter)