Martial Arts: Starting from a Seemingly Real System

"The biggest rule of the Sanjinyuan is that you must obey the coach's arrangements in everything!" The young man swallowed and stammered.

"Do you understand?" Coach Ma raised the corner of his mouth and looked at Qiao Rui provocatively.

Where did this broken rule come from? Is this what he relies on? Qiao Rui frowned slightly and said in a deep voice: "I came to Shaolin to learn martial arts and abide by the Shaolin sect rules and regulations, but it seems that there is no such rule in the Shaolin sect rules!"

"Hey, very good!" Master Ma sneered. He turned his head to look at the disciples who were gathering outside the door and said loudly, "Qiao Rui, the new disciple who entered the third courtyard, was disobedient and talked back to the master. He will be punished by not being allowed to have dinner today as a warning to others!"

He turned and left after he finished speaking, not worrying at all whether Qiao Rui would carry out his punishment. "If you know what's best for you, it's fine. If you don't, hmph..."

Seeing Master Ma walking away, the young man breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Qiao Rui, hesitated for a moment, and whispered, "It's best not to go against Lord Ma. If you bring it to the Discipline Institute, you will be three points weaker even if you are right!"

"Well, thank you!" Qiao Rui nodded. Although this young man was timid and cowardly, he had a good heart.

The young man said nothing more, walked quickly out of the Gui room, and ran to the dining hall to eat.

Well, now not only is there no food, he doesn’t even have steamed buns to eat. Qiao Rui shook his head and smiled bitterly, then started cleaning the room again.

After hearing the young man's reminder, Qiao Rui did not really challenge the authority of Lord Ma. It was not that he did not dare, but he felt it was not worth it. This guy was obviously fearless. He came here to become a disciple and find a backer, so he could not lose the big picture for the small.

Besides, he probably wouldn't stay in the third courtyard for too long. He saw that the disciples were practicing some basic martial arts in the afternoon, and he didn't want to waste his time here.

After cleaning the house inside and out and putting his toiletries in place, Qiao Rui looked at the common bunk and, after some thought, decided to move the bedding to bunk number ten. He then lay down on bunk number one with his clothes on. He really couldn't sleep by the window as there was always a faint smell.

"This Ma guy is obviously targeting me, but why is he doing this?" Qiao Rui thought to himself while lying on the bed. "It's my first day here and I don't even know him. How come I feel like I've offended him?"

Qiao Rui recalled and analyzed all the details since he entered Shaolin, but he couldn't find any suspicious points. That guy had been unfriendly to him from the beginning, as if he had a grudge against him for stealing his wife.

Unable to figure out the reason, Qiao Rui simply stopped thinking about it. When the enemy comes, we will fight back with our generals; when the water comes, we will block it with earth. We will just deal with it as it comes.

Have a good night's sleep!

"Ding! Ding! Ding..."

At the beginning of the Mao hour, the morning bell rang melodiously, breaking the silence of dawn, and all the disciples in the third courtyard got up to wash.

At 2:30 am, a half-hour morning class begins. Monks have morning and evening classes, but lay disciples only need to do morning classes. There will be monks in the lecture hall to read some simple scriptures.

At 2:00 a.m., start breakfast.

The dining hall is not as solemn as the morning class. Everyone is practicing martial arts, which consumes a lot of energy. Therefore, they eat with the wind and pick up food like snatching, which is rather casual and noisy.

After finishing morning lessons with the other disciples, Qiao Rui came to the dining hall. Some of the disciples who had seen him in conflict with Master Ma last night kept some distance from him, as if they were afraid of Master Ma's anger.

Qiao Rui didn't care about these people keeping their distance. He held a large bowl in his hand and searched around the dining hall.

"Little brother!" Qiao Rui finally found the young man who led the way yesterday, and walked over quickly to say hello.

The young man heard someone calling him, turned around and found it was Qiao Rui. He instinctively wanted to dodge, but hesitated and stopped there.

"What's your name, little brother? My name is Qiao Rui!" Qiao Rui said with a smile.

"Bian Xiaoying!" The boy blushed and spoke in a whisper. The name sounded rather feminine and he was a little embarrassed to say it out loud.

"Oh, Xiao Bian, let's go together!" Qiao Rui said, pointing to the empty seat next to him.

Bian Xiaoying was a little hesitant, but still nodded, and sat down with Qiao Rui at two empty seats to eat.

"Do you know how to enter the fourth courtyard?" After taking a few bites of rice, Qiao Rui asked directly.

Bian Xiaoying paused while eating, looked at Qiao Rui in confusion, and buried his head in eating again, "It's still a long way for you to enter the Fourth Courtyard, why are you asking this?" His martial arts skills were poor, so he couldn't tell Qiao Rui's level, and just thought he was an ordinary newcomer.

Qiao Rui smiled. Seeing that Bian Xiaoying glanced at the pot of wild mushrooms in front of the strong men from time to time while eating, but did not dare to pick up the chopsticks, he brought the plate of wild mushrooms over and pushed it in front of Bian Xiaoying, "Tell me about entering the fourth courtyard!"

"Damn it, how dare you steal my food!" Before Bian Xiaoying could react, the man opposite her became angry and reached out to snatch the food back.

"Get out!" Qiao Rui uttered the word coldly.

He turned his fingers, held the chopsticks upside down and tapped them casually, and the end of the chopsticks accurately touched the Zhongzhu point on the back of the man's hand.

The man only felt a pain on the back of his hand, and then his whole arm became numb and weak, and fell on the dining table. When the people opposite saw this, they couldn't help but change color, shocked and angry.

"you......"

Without waiting for them to say anything, Qiao Rui glared at them with a cold look. Those guys immediately felt as if they were falling into an icy cave and were too scared to make a sound. The man from before was even more silent. He lowered his head, hugged his arms and rubbed them hard. It took him a while to recover.

Ignoring those people, Qiao Rui pushed the dish again and said to Bian Xiaoying with a smile: "Eat more if you like it!"

Bian Xiaoying looked at Qiao Rui in surprise, then started eating voraciously, filling her mouth with wild mushrooms, enjoying the meal very much.

After finishing the vegetarian meal, Bian Xiaoying and Qiao Rui became closer. As they slowly walked out of the vegetarian hall, Bian Xiaoying began to talk about things.

"After entering the Third Courtyard, you must practice the four basic martial arts of Luohan Fist, Wei Tuo Palm, Wind and Fire Staff, and Mountain-Splitting Knife until you have achieved some minor success within one year. Then you must learn the Shaolin internal skills and open up a proper meridian within three years. If you cannot do this, you will be advised to leave Shaolin and you are not allowed to be called a Shaolin disciple outside."

"After opening up a meridian, choose one of the four basic martial arts of fist, palm, stick and knife as your main skill, practice it until you have mastered it thoroughly, then learn the corresponding intermediate martial arts, and practice it until you have mastered it thoroughly. When you have opened up three meridians and entered the third level, you can apply for the assessment, and after passing it, you can enter the fourth courtyard."

"Generally speaking, this process takes ten years, but you..." Bian Xiaoying paused, "But I'm afraid it won't take that long for you!"

He now understood that Qiao Rui was quite skilled and was a talented disciple, but he didn't know exactly how skilled he was.

"Apply for assessment, what are you assessing?" Qiao Rui asked.

"If you defeat the examiner with the Shaolin martial arts you have learned, you will pass." said Bian Xiaoying.

This is simple. Qiao Rui heaved a sigh of relief. With his own aptitude and comprehension, he should be able to master these low-level and intermediate martial arts moves very quickly. He did not plan to stay in Shaolin for too long. He still had many things to do and many people to find, such as Jiang Xueyun and Liu Xinyue...

Therefore, he wanted to enter the Fourth Courtyard as soon as possible, become a disciple, learn some top-level martial arts, and then roam the world in search of the beauty.

As they were talking, the two walked to the martial arts arena in the west wing, where many lay disciples who had finished their breakfast had already arrived.

At the beginning of the Chen hour, all lay disciples gathered together and began to practice.