Chapter 575: After Practising for Seven Months
After arriving in the hidden world, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue did not stay still.
Originally, they planned to spend time with the kids and Qing Rui.
Unfortunately, everyone was preparing for the martial tournament.
Since they couldn’t see the kids, the two began to explore the hidden world.
The hidden world was similar to an ordinary society.
There were shops, restaurants, and other hallmarks of a society.
However, there were also some differences to the modern society.
In addition to ordinary shops, there were also stores that sold martial arts resources.
Among the resources, blood powders were the most popular.
As the name suggested, blood powders were specially processed powders made from animal blood.
From what Yu Nianzhen understood, these powders were made by mixing animal blood and herbs before powdering the end product.
Based on the type of animal blood and herbs used, there were different kinds of blood powders.
Unfortunately, after buying and trying a few, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue discovered that the blood powders were useless to them.
Excluding blood powders, the most popular martial arts resources were herb pills.
Compared to pills in the Cangxing world, the pills in the hidden world were extremely crude.
However, they were effective for mortals and were very useful when practising martial arts.
Other than blood powders and herb pills, there were also many weapon shops.
Unfortunately, the variety of weapons was limited.
After a casual survey, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen noticed that shops mostly stocked swords, spears, hammers, axes, staffs, bows, and whips.
Still, the two couldn’t help but admire the martial artists in the hidden world.
Despite the limitations they faced, the martial artists were extremely diligent.
They worked hard and never thought of giving up.
"These people will experience rapid growth if they go to the Cangxing world." Jiang Yue sighed while looking at a group of children who were practising in the public training field.
"Mmmm." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
However, he had some reservations.
If the martial artists went to the Cangxing world, they would encounter more resources than they had ever seen.
At that time, they would likely develop in one of two ways.
In the first way, they would work hard to take advantage of the opportunity.
If that happened, they would achieve rapid growth and their future would be limitless.
On the contrary, the abundance of resources could have a negative effect.
Rather than motivate the martial artists, it could make them complacent.
If that happened, they would achieve nothing in the Cangxing world.
’Every moment contains infinite realities and every choice gives birth to infinite outcomes.’ Yu Nianzhen thought with a meaningful look in his eyes.
"Azhen, shall we head back?"
"Let’s go." Yu Nianzhen said, held his lover’s hand, and the two leisurely returned to their borrowed villa.
Soon, it was the day of the martial arts tournament.
On this day, thousands of people left their homes and headed towards the martial arts arena.
The arena was located on the outskirts of the Eastern side of the hidden world.
At a glance, the arena could seat more than twenty thousand people.
Unfortunately, the population of the hidden world was less than five thousand.
At this moment, despite the excitement of the martial tournament, the sparsely populated arena revealed a hint of vicissitudes.
"Master Jiang, Swordswoman Yu, let’s sit together." Gu Dong invited as soon as he saw the two.
"Divine master Gu." Jiang Yue greeted and Yu Nianzhen nodded at the old man.
"Master Jiang, our Gu family has good seats." Gu Cheng encouraged and Jiang Yue turned to look at the young man.
"Are you participating in the martial tournament?" He asked.
Hearing this, Gu Cheng nodded with an embarrassed look.
This year, Gu Cheng was twenty-three.
Unfortunately, his talent was mediocre and after practising for most of his life, his martial arts were only at the peak of the innate stage.
"If you look down on yourself, no one will have a reason to look up to you." Yu Nianzhen suddenly said while looking at the young man.
When he heard this, Gu Cheng was momentarily confused.
However, he soon realised that Yu Yue had seen through his insecurities.
Reflexively, he felt ashamed and wanted to lower his head in embarrassment.
However, when he thought about what Yu Yue said, he immediately corrected his attitude.
"I understand. Thank you, swordswoman Yu." He said with a solemn expression.
Seeing he had figured it out, Yu Nianzhen nodded but said nothing.
"Let’s hurry up to take our seats." Gu Dong reminded with an urgent look.
When he saw this, Jiang Yue raised his eyebrow in question.
"Master Jiang, you don’t know that my grandfather and ancestor Zhong have been fighting over the arena seats for many years now. If we don’t hurry, ancestor Zhong will take his family to grab our seats." Gu Feiyan explained.
Hearing this, Jiang Yue didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
However, he did as the Romans did and hurriedly followed the Gu family to grab seats.
Soon after, the group took their seats and waited for the tournament to start.
"Divine master Gu, is there anyone we should look forward to?" Jiang Yue said.
"The finals will likely be between Xiao Qian and Xiao Tang. However, other than them, our hidden world still has some talents." Gu Dong said and began to introduce the talents.
Time passed in this way and people from the big families began to arrive.
Wu family...
Li family...
Luo family...
Qian family...
Tang family...
Jiang family...
Xue family...
By the time the Xue family arrived, it was almost time for the tournament to begin.
However, despite the tight schedule, the three prospective disciples still took time to come over to greet Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue.
Seeing the three, Yu Nianzhen smiled.
"You have made some progress." He said.
"Master, you can tell without seeing our demonstration?" Qian Chen asked with an incredulous expression.
"I can also tell." Jiang Yue chuckled.
"Master’s husband, how can you tell?" Xue Hua asked and the surrounding people curiously waited for the answer.
