51: Crazy practice

At this moment, if Shen Bei wanted to officially become a Martial Artist by Cultivating “Seven Stars Fist,” he still needed to temper and hone his Physique.

In this world, Cultivating any Martial Skill requires attributes to support it.

For example, the minimum standard for Cultivating this Seven Stars Fist is that Physique, Strength, and Agility must all reach above 20 points!

This is absolutely fatal for freshmen at the Martial Arts University.

Normally, students' attribute points are quite skewed.

Either their Strength is high, or their Physique is strong.

To Cultivate this Martial Skill, one would have to take targeted pills.

This process would prolong the time.

But Shen Bei completely ignored it.

In the eyes of the Martial Arts University teachers, Shen Bei's attributes were too average, with no outstanding points.

Despite being the Champion, he could be considered mediocre.

However, now, this Seven Stars Fist Martial Skill seemed tailor-made for Shen Bei!

Extremely comfortable!

Of course, a Martial Artist must remember one creed: “Do not judge a hero by data.”

Although Shen Bei's three attributes met the standard, how much of those attributes he could actually utilize was an unknown.

Even if Shen Bei's Physique attribute was 25 points, his real Physique for resisting blows might only be 15 or 18 points.

This is why one needs to constantly hone Qi and blood and bone structure, so that the surface data and the real data remain consistent, only then is it considered completely safe.

Late at night, it was quiet and deserted.

In Jian Tong's backyard.

This backyard was quite large, not only with a swimming pool but also with rockeries and strange stones displayed within.

It was clear that these were trinkets Jian Shan usually meticulously arranged.

When a man reaches middle age, he either fishes or collects strange and unusual things.

Rise!

A thirty-jin blue boulder was lifted by Shen Bei with both hands, and then he continuously squatted, and after reaching his limit, he leaped up fiercely, like a frog.

This is a very special method of strength training: “Golden Toad Leaps into Water.”

It can greatly train body strength, but it consumes a lot of physical strength and can easily sprain tendons and bones, causing injury; people without extremely good Physique attributes simply cannot use this method to practice.

Shen Bei had once seen Liao Zhongyang use this method to train in First High School's gymnasium.

He directly learned by observation, adopting it as his own.

One time, two times, three times, four times..........

Shen Bei kept jumping, and whenever he felt exhausted, he would stop, pop a qi and blood pill he got from You Wuchang, nourish every inch of his muscles, and then continue training.

After hundreds of jumps, Shen Bei gritted his teeth, not stopping, and began to madly punch hard stones!

Bang bang bang!

Shen Bei's fists continuously smashed against a rock, punch after punch, fierce and violent, like a mad bull, flesh and blood flying, joints cracking, seemingly about to shatter! The intense pain, the excruciating pain, made him almost faint, but he gritted his teeth and held on!

After his hands were bloody and bruised, he flew up with his left and right legs, kicking fiercely.

Boom boom boom! Boom boom boom!

His legs kicked the stone, all swollen, bruised, and skin torn!

Then he used his body to collide, all parts of his body—back, shoulders, waist, abdomen, chest, neck—colliding with the hard stone! He was battered and bruised all over.

Splash!

After completing these trainings, Shen Bei, regardless of his body injuries, leaped into the dark swimming pool and continuously swam, fighting against the swirling currents in the middle.

He used every method, high-intensity training, to torment his body.

This was absolutely a devilish workout, even students in the Martial Arts University would not be able to physically endure such devilish training.

More importantly, their will would not be able to endure it.

Who could endure the agony of dying and coming back to life every day? But Shen Bei gritted his teeth and persevered.

He treated the expensive qi and blood pills like candy, popping them without a care, providing a continuous supply of Qi and blood.

At the same time, the ginseng, bird's nest, and deer antler stored in Jian Tong's home unceremoniously entered Shen Bei's stomach.

No matter how much damage he sustained during training, even broken bones and torn tendons, he would recover completely after a night's sleep.

One day, two days, three days........

Every morning, Shen Bei went to the Labor Market to look for work.

The daily settlement panel could not stop.

Most of the night, he used devilish high-intensity training to torment his body, thereby tempering it, so that his real attributes and data attributes would align.

Gradually, his body grew stronger and stronger; his previously somewhat lean muscles filled out, and each muscle became tight and firm, his limbs flexible and powerful.

However, on the surface, he just looked a bit sturdier than before, but he knew that the density of his muscles and bones had greatly increased, and his weight had increased by a full twenty to thirty jin.

Ten days later, when Shen Bei practiced “Golden Toad Leaps into Water,” he could gradually carry a fifty-jin, or even eighty-jin, boulder and jump around.

Strength training is the most basic but also the most important part of the entire Cultivation process, directly affecting the achievements of Cultivating Martial Skills.

The purer the strength trained, the greater the future achievements will be.

“One hundred jin!”

Fifteen days later, Shen Bei carried a full one-hundred-jin boulder, moving with ease like a frog, leaping four or five steps at a time, jumping thirty-six times without a red face or shortness of breath.

Deep footprints in circles were left on the backyard ground.

Heave!

Then, he threw this one-hundred-jin boulder upwards, throwing it two or three people high, and as it whistled down, he lifted his hands, his whole body's tendons and bones creaked, and he actually caught the stone head-on.

Snap!

With a low roar, Shen Bei held the one-hundred-jin boulder with one hand and fiercely punched a small tree as thick as a bowl with the other, immediately causing the wood of the small tree to break and split apart.

Bang!

Throwing down the one-hundred-jin boulder, Shen Bei stood on the spot, his body proudly upright, actually faintly showing a hint of a true Martial Artist's Aura, no longer looking like a novice at first glance.

At this moment, he finally completed his strength training, every part of his limbs, waist, and abdomen had been trained.

Shen Bei clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking, the sound filled with confidence.

In terms of arm strength, Shen Bei could lift a hundred-jin boulder with one hand and perform various movements, while those Martial Arts freshmen could not.

Next, Cultivating various Moves to connect all the strength throughout his body, who knew how fierce he would become.

Shen Bei's muscles in every part of his body now were like a group of tigers and wolves that had not yet united; after Cultivating Moves, these tigers and wolves would become elites that respond to every call and are connected from head to tail, making them even more formidable.

That night, looking at the stars in the sky, Shen Bei took a deep breath, sat cross-legged, gazed far into the distance, observed the trajectory of the stars, and understood and comprehended the various Moves of the Seven Stars Fist Martial Skill Secret Manual.

Shen Bei felt that he had already achieved the basic attributes required to Cultivate “Seven Stars Fist!”