In the courtyard of the Hu Mansion.

The so-called good players are actually those thirty or so people, including Si Luoyan, Di Renjie, Li Che, Sun Bin, and other outstanding apprentices.

They all broke through the blood force!

As for Yun Shan, Pang Miao, and the other apprentices, Xun Xie had always thought that they were very strong, or at least they seemed to be strong, but in the end, they still hadn't broken through to the blood strength realm yet.

Blood strength is a watershed.

No blood, you are nothing.

With blood energy, one has officially stepped into the threshold of martial arts, and one’s strength grew rapidly. From then on, you have become a true martial artist.

So, Xun Xie jumped up and entered the "noble circle", a bit like a master.

"Xiao Xie, have you broken through the blood force?"

Early in the morning, as soon as Xun Xie arrived at the Hu residence, Yun Shan ran over with unprecedented enthusiasm on his face.

Xun Xie asked in surprise, "Mr. Hu told you?"

No one knows about his breakthrough of blood energy, except Mr. Hu. He did not talk nonsense or show off. The news is most likely leaked from Mr. Hu.

"No."

Yun Shan shook his head, "Elder Hu often calls you into the main room alone. Not everyone has this kind of treatment. Those who have this kind of treatment have broken through the blood. Hehe, everyone is not blind, isn't it obvious?"

Xun Xie was stunned, such a simple method of telling? Well, it really is so, he nodded and said, "I just got lucky, I made a breakthrough after practicing."

"I've been practicing for almost three years, alas!"

Yun Shan's eyes showed envy, depression, and a complicated expression. It was himself he had told Xun Xie about initially when he had asked. He paused, "By the way, which gang have you decided to join?"

"I haven't thought about it yet." Xun Xie is not very interested in this; can he live in a gang?

There are man-eating demons and man-eating bodhisattvas in this world.

A mere gang, how many coins is that worth?

Xun Xie was a little interested in what Old Man Hu mentioned, the great force to which Blue Grain Town belonged.

Yun Shan: "There are advantages to joining a gang. You can receive a bonus every month, ranging from one or two taels to as many as ten taels and twenty taels are all possible."

Xun Xie raised his eyebrows: "After joining the gang, what do you mainly do?"

"Ordinary gang members are mainly responsible for collecting protection fees and occasionally go to the farmland to drive away wild animals. As for the core members, they usually don't have to do anything, they are very free, but if there are exotic beasts running into the farmland and destroying crops, they need to deal with them. "

Yun Shan looked at Xun Xie, "Xiao Xie, you have already broken through the blood, and your strength is there, no matter which gang you join, you will be included among the core members. I am now with Senior Brother Sun Bin do you want to join him too?"

Xun Xie was a little surprised when Yun Shan suddenly threw out a solicitation. He slowly regained his senses and found that this blood warrior status was really popular.

Xun Xie didn't speak for a while, but Yun Shan saw this and continued: "You don't have to make a decision in a hurry, think about it for a few more days. I just want to tell you that Senior Brother Sun Bin's character is well-known, and you will never lose money or blood if you mix with him."

Xun Xie nodded and said, "I'll think about it."

Yun Shan turned to leave, and after a while, a tall figure came over, it was Si Luoyan.

"Sister Si, is there something?" Xun Xie almost guessed Si Luoyan’s intention.

"Junior Brother Xun, Upright people don’t speak secretly. I want to recruit you to join the Broken Fang Gang and give you 12 taels per month. Besides, I will also give you a share of the meat of exotic animals that I hunt from time to time, how about that?" Si Luoyan said directly.

Before waiting for Xun Xie to speak, Si Luoyan continued with his tone the same:

"There must be other people recruiting you later, look around, you can compare the conditions they gave you, and then make a decision. However, I’m sincere in inviting you. I can give you a guarantee that as long as someone offers higher conditions than me, I will definitely overweight them and never disappoint you."

After speaking, Si Luoyan took a serious look at Xun Xie and turned away.

After that, three or four gang representatives came to win over Xun Xie, and they offered different conditions.

Some gangs give more money, and some gangs supply more exotic animal meat.

By evening.

Xun Xie returned to Song Mansion and was practicing painting in the study when Lan Yue, the maid, ran over and said that there were guests outside who wanted to see him by name.

Xun Xie was puzzled and saw that person.

The visitor was a black-faced young man in a red jacket and a muscular body, with a smile.

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"Young Master Xun Xie, I’m Lu Ping, from the Wolf Head Gang."

The Wolf Head Gang is known as the largest gang in Blue Grain Town, and its leader is Song Lu, the apprentice of Coach Fang.

Xun Xie was a little surprised, he had nothing to do with the Wolf Head Gang, what did this black-faced young man want from him, it couldn’t be to recruit right? Was his face that flowery?

"It turned out to be Big Brother Lu, I’ve admired you for a long time." Xun Xie said politely, "You need me for something?"

Lu Ping laughed, indicating that he came here to recruit Xun Xie to join the Wolf Head Gang.

"The conditions are like this. You can ask anything you want. The Wolf Head Gang eagerly expects Young Master Xun to join us."

The black-faced young man said with a big smile.

Xun Xie was very surprised. You must know that he was the apprentice of Old Man Hu, and most of the people in the Wolf Head Gang were apprentices of Teacher Fang, not the same master. Could it be that there is no sectarianism in this world?

Unlikely right, it was human nature after all.

Probably it's only true for this town in these conditions.

From the looks of it, that’s probably it.

The four major instructors do not accept disciples, they only accept money to teach them as apprentices, so everyone is just a student, just like students in different schools, they can be friends and play together.

Thinking of this, Xun Xie declined.

He is not short of money for the time being, he just wants to focus on cultivation and doesn't want to cause other troubles. He didn’t feel like making waves just yet.

He wasn’t eager for drama although he would eventually continue his initial goal of exploring this brand-new world, that had to wait until he had sufficient self-protection ability.

Based on the solicitations the benchmark is not as far as he thought since just blood level was so sought after.

It appears that the later levels might be more difficult than he imagined and not as smooth as he first surmised, the peak beyond the one he had just started to climb might not just be a little taller.

So, Blood Warriors were actually decent? Nonetheless,

It's not necessary to join a gang.

His cautious nature desired more strength.

Though upon further thought although Mr. Hu gave three years to give up, how many people could afford even that each month? 2 then 5 taels. Afterward, the cost jumped to a tael every day, even that wasn't the end, despite the cheaper price of a silver tael for two taels of meat, it had to be noted that the digestive ability increased with the breakthrough, so it was no different. 1095 days and 36 months, not many could afford it consistently, learning martial arts was truly expensive. No wonder the gangs are so favored with the salary each month.

No wonder there were not many youths practicing in the yard, what family would 'waste' so much money on a child?

The adult age of the apprentices is likely from saving money over the years or a cycle of getting stronger and using force to seize more profits through gang fights. The rare young would become even rarer being dead from gang fights.

The rich youths naturally had their own means and typically would not come train with everyone else. Although he heard senior brother Li Che was an example of this, a rich lad. Si Luoyan despite the bravado probably couldn't match him if he had decided to meet him and negotiate.

To support themselves even gang members probably had side jobs until they made it to a captain or something.

In the blink of an eye, the spring flowers are blooming, and the scenery is picturesque.

Time has flowed and early summer has arrived.

In the secret room, it was pitch black.

Suddenly, a faint white light emerged, illuminating the secret room hazily.

Xun Xie raised his arms halfway.

At this moment, his entire right arm and his left fist are covered with a layer of water mist, which appears 'thin as nothing' in the darkness.

"It's not bad, your blood energy has gathered so much that it can cover an entire arm and a fist" Old Man Hu twisted his beard and grinned, looking quite satisfied.

Xun Xie sighed in his heart.

It has been almost half a year since the breakthrough of blood power.

Unexpectedly, even if he had chewing gum grass assistant and ate so much animal meat, his blood energy would still increase so slowly. His plug-ins were just auxiliary after all although that being the case you should expect some auxiliary effect on cultivation.

He had only optimized his cultivation with Great Clarity.

"Xiao Xie, when your blood strength doubles and you can cover both arms, then you will advance to the second level of blood force." Old Man Hu laughed.

In his eyes, Xun Xie was only twelve or thirteen years old, and it was actually very rare to be able to cultivate so much blood energy. It was an accumulative process after all.

Xun Xie understood, he pondered for a while and said, "Mr. Hu, since I broke through the blood strength, I can run faster, jump higher, and my physical strength has increased greatly, but there is still no progress in actual combat."

Old Man Hu smiled and said, "I know you're in a hurry. In actual combat, you naturally need to practice 'martial skills'."

"Martial skills?" Xun Xie was refreshed.

"The so-called martial skills are the techniques for defeating opponents or enemies. We, martial artists, have the power to nourish blood and accumulate it, so martial skills are a unique way to transport the energy." Old man Hu said as he walked out of the secret room.

Xun Xie quickly followed.

Old Man Hu went on to say: "Ruling Spirit Kung Fu, as the name suggests, the blood energy cultivated is the power of ruling spirit, so people who practice ruling spirit are extremely powerful against living beings with spirit and can ignore the body and attack the spirit. The attack system we are best at relies on this.

Although we are not able to use the core without the final move, the attributes are merely less effective in comparison. The difficulty in learning the 5th move lies in this aspect, the soul or spirit is quite esoteric after all. Still, even without it, the kung fu is very lethal. Ruling Spirt can ignore defenses and attack the internals, as such it even has some effect on upper realms such as blood to muscle and muscle to bone, naturally, this is usually at the peak of the realm."

"Blood energy attribute, Ruling Spirit and ignoring defenses..." Xun Xie was fascinated.

Old Man Hu nodded, "To practice martial arts, first practice fists and feet and then weapons. You start with boxing. I will teach you Tiger Roaring Fist first.”

Turn around and come to the side yard.

Xun Xie swept his gaze and found that there were stone monuments erected in the side yard. The gray-black stone monuments did not reflect light at all in the sun, and they looked very miraculous with wave-like lines on their surface.

"This is a stone tablet specially made for the practice of Tiger Roaring Boxing. The stone is layered with hardness, the inside is harder than the outside with layers like an onion." Old Man Hu looked solemn and began to teach Xun Xie Tiger Roaring Boxing.

This boxing technique, to put it bluntly, is the technique of using blood energy.

For example, when you punch, it looks like a straight punch on the surface, but in fact, the blood energy in the body has a unique trajectory and the law of tremors. This shockwave is the core of the attack and lethality of tiger roaring boxing.

Xun Xie learns quickly.

This time, he kept an eye on it. Today, he won Great Clarity with ten times critical, which is why he took the opportunity to ask.

Old man Hu really taught him martial arts as he expected.

It only took a few hours for Xun Xie to become proficient at it. He learned to break the tablet and began to practice punch after punch. However, only the outer layers were broken.

"The punch should be fast, flowing, and gentle with a solid push, try to punch through all layers with one punch. The first layer is merely the base and not the goal. There are 5 layers for this stone."

Old Man Hu urged, "With the strength of your blood, you can completely break this stone tablet to the core.”

Xun Xie took a deep breath, blood rushed towards him, and gathered on his right fist. Under the sunlight, at this moment, his right fist seemed to have a flash of light.

Boom!

The gravel collapsed!

Falling apart like an old broken matryoshka.

Xun Xie smashed the stone tablet with one punch!

"Well!"

When Old Man Hu saw this, he was overjoyed, "Now you should understand the horror of blood-strength warriors. If this punch hits an ordinary person, it can kill him horribly!"

Xun Xie nodded, with a strange look in his eyes.