Martial Hero Rebirth

Previously in chapter 11, there's a sentence like this: "if one didn't train in internal strength, one would never be able to really become part of pugilistic world!". Seems like I misunderstood the meaning back then so i have changed it into "if one didn't train in internal strength, one would always remain as an ungraded martial artists!" (raw : "不练内功，终为不入流！")

 Apparently the ranks are like this, 不入流, 三流, 二流, 一流, and so on..

"Senior Brother Lin Yi, congratulations on winning the first courtyard!"

"Congratulations Senior Brother Lin Yi. Your match just now was too exciting."

"Senior Brother Lin Yi, after seeing your match, my comprehension towards Huashan Swordplay is much deeper now. This is all your credit, Senior Brother Lin Yi."

Numerous new disciples congratulated Lin Yi with smiling faces. Each of them showed expression of wanting to converse more with him.

"Thank you, thank you! If there's any problems regarding sword arts, do find me and I'll try my best to help you. We are all disciples under the same sect. Everyone don't need to be embarrassed and can just come."

Lin Yi smilingly nodded his head, kept thanking and gave out his promise.

"Okay!"

"Senior Brother Lin Yi is magnanimous indeed!"

"Senior Brother Lin Yi is a good man!"

The crowd applauded loudly, all of them were filled with smiles, feeling extremely happy. Under competitive atmosphere in lower courtyard, which one of those from the ranks of one hundred strongest disciples that wouldn't hold on to their techniques and would give guidance to the others. Yet, Senior Brother Lin Yi was different. He actually told everyone to find him if they were to have something they didn't understand.

All of the new disciples that had seen how formidable Lin Yi was were applauding loudly and feeling delighted. They held even more respect for Lin Yi now.

Everyone called him Senior Brother Lin Yi. From this, it could be seen that they had all recognized Lin Yi in their hearts.

Everyone gradually went back to their own dormitories, trying to digest what they had comprehended regarding sword arts just now. Though the crowd had finally dispersed, but the sensation that Lin Yi had caused didn't disappear. Instead, as the disciples went back and discussed among each other, the news that Lin Yi had managed to defeat the ranks of one hundred strongest new disciples had spread throughout the entire lower courtyard.

After seeing everyone had left, Lin Yi could finally check out his harvest.

Experience : 57,200

Became the number one among the new disciples, awarded 3,000 combat experience points.

Defeated the first seat of the new disciples, Han Bai, awarded 1,000 combat experience points.

System Notification

Seeing that he had more than fifty thousand combat experience points, Lin Yi was extremely happy. Huashan's Arts of Lightness could be upgraded now!

"Senior Brother Lin Yi, you are so powerful. You had actually managed to defeat Han Bai. Senior Brother Lin Yi, you are this!" Jiang Xiaoyu appeared in front of Lin Yi while raising his thumb, with a face filled with admiration.

Not waiting for Lin Yi's reply, he took a glance at the first courtyard, a trace of longing could be seen in his eyes, "Wow, independent courtyard, served by maids, chores handled by servants. Senior Brother Lin Yi, you are free from poverty and have become rich now!"

Lin Yi felt delighted in his heart, glanced at Jiang Xiaoyu, "You like this courtyard?"

"Of course! A spacious house with a small courtyard, compared to a thatched hut for two, of course is much better. Who wouldn't want it!" Jiang Xiaoyu nodded repeatedly. He looked at the first courtyard while drooling.

"Want to live here? Then you have to work hard and challenge the ranks of one hundred strongest new disciples, so you can live here!" Lin Yi patted Jiang Xiaoyu's shoulder then he walked into the first courtyard.

From now on, he would live in the courtyard. As for the thatched hut, he didn't even want to go back to there anymore.

"Senior Brother Lin Yi, I will work ward, for the courtyard!" Jiang Xiaoyu stared at the back of Lin Yi who went into the courtyard. He clenched his fist, resolving his determination.

"Oh right, Xiaoyu…" Lin Yi suddenly halted his steps, his voice resounded.

"Senior Brother Lin Yi, just say, what do you want me to do?" Jiang Xiaoyu was very excited. He nodded repeatedly like a puppy. He thought Lin Yi wanted him to move into the first courtyard and enjoy the luxury life akin to rich young masters.

"Help me bring over my clothes at the dorm!"

Jiang Xiaoyu almost fell down when he heard this. Then he asked with a bitter face, "Senior Brother Lin Yi, are you really going to leave me all alone in the thatched hut? Do you think it's proper for you to do this?"

"Xiaoyu, you are a good kid. I can't bear to leave you all alone in the thatched hut either. However, in order to let you develop the right concepts towards the world, life, and common value so that you can be a good normal boy with three fundamental concepts, you will continue to stay there for time being. Want to live in courtyard? Then work hard and fight for it!" After finishing his words, Lin Yi directly turned around and walked into the courtyard, disappearing from Jiang Xiaoyu's view.

"Alright then…." Jiang Xiaoyu tottered back to his thatched hut with a bitter step. For every step taken, he glanced back thrice. Each time he glanced at the independent courtyards, he could only swallow back his saliva.

…….

The news of Lin Yi defeating the ranks of one hundred strongest new disciples, the genius youth Han Bai, spread not only among the ten thousand of new disciples. As the old disciples who came to view the battle went back, the name of Lin Yi spread quickly and remembered by those old disciples.

They came to know a powerful figure had appeared among the new disciples, one that even Han Bai couldn't contend with.

Inside the independent courtyards for one hundred strongest disciples in lower courtyard, the tenth courtyard.

Shangguan Yun woke up from his meditation. He opened his eyes then took a look at the area below his navel and let out a bitter smile.

"Internal strength is too hard to practise. From the second year I joined Huashan until now, the fourth year, it has been more than two years. To think I haven't managed to sense the qi balance, how could I even start properly!"

"One who don't train in internal strength will always remain as ungraded martial artists!"

"Now I finally understand why there's such a sentence in pugilistic world. Internal strength is too powerful. The difference of having internal strength and not is simply too much! As long as one can't practise internal strength successfully, one could never enter upper courtyard!"

He had been an old disciple for four years. If he was still unable to move to upper courtyard this year, he would have too leave Huashan. This made Shangguan Yun very anxious. He was also once a genius disciple. Otherwise, he couldn't enter the ranks of ten strongest disciples in lower courtyard.

Having stayed in lower courtyard for so many years, he had seen numerous disciples within the ranks of one hundred strongest disciples failed to move to upper courtyard and left Huashan miserably. Instead, there were some inconspicuous or even useless disciples who practised internal strength successfully and moved up to upper courtyard.

He was dedicated with regards to the pursuit of internal strength.

However, two years had passed and he was still unable to make head or tails of it.

He could sense the threshold, yet he was unable to break through it no matter what.

The frustration he felt in his heart was difficult to put into words.

No matter how deep his comprehension towards Huashan Swordplay was, no matter how high the mastery he had reached, he still didn't have the qualification to move up to upper courtyard.

Internal strength was a huge moat which prevented him from moving a step forward.

He could also be counted as someone with reputation in Huashan with broad vision and big heart. He didn't want to become someone of lowest existence in Huashan and remain as an ungraded martial artist for the rest of his life.

He wanted to stay in Huashan, practise high grade internal strength and become a young hero known throughout the pugilistic world!

Just like one of the Huashan's core disciples, Linghu Feng. Though he was young, he was already a second-grade martial artist, known as Young Hero Linghu. Battling throughout pugilistic world, cladded in white with an excellent steed, and accompanied by beautiful ladies.

He walked out from his practice room to the main hall. While sipping the tea prepared by his maid, he glanced at a lower courtyard disciple under him.

"The new disciples have enrolled for more than one month so the ranks of one hundred strongest new disciples should have been established. How is the Huashan Swordplay's mastery of that genius Han Bai? Did he enter the ranks of one hundred strongest new disciples? Did he become number one?"

Shangguan Yun had always been concerned with the emergence of geniuses from new disciples. However, he didn't mean to groom them. Instead, what he liked to do most was to suppress the new disciples, especially the geniuses.

This was a method for him to seek thrill so as to suppress his frustration caused by inability to practise internal strength successfully. Every year, suppressing the geniuses from new disciples and exhibiting the might of old disciples was his most enthusiastic activity.

He held a hope deep within his heart, which was to suppress the new disciples so that no geniuses would emerge. He hoped that by doing this, the higher-ups from Huashan would pick some old disciples from the ranks of one hundred strongest lower courtyard's disciples to move up to upper courtyard.

The time he could continue to stay in Huashan was less than a year now, so he became more enthusiastic in doing this.

It wasn't entirely wishful thinking as it had a precedent before. At that time, the martial arts of the lower courtyard disciples were too low, forcing the higher-ups to lower their standards of upper courtyard's admission.

After all, upper courtyard needed to replenish its disciples as well!

Disciples of upper courtyard didn't want disciples of lower courtyard to practise safely continuously in Huashan. They had to leave Huashan one day and walk throughout the pugilistic world. Just like the six doors established by various righteous factions, none of the core disciples would want to go there. As such, it could only be filled by disciples from upper courtyard.

Every year, there would be several disciples from upper courtyard who died.

"Replying back to Senior Brother Shangguan, Han Bai has reached intermediate stage for both Huashan Swordplay and Huashan's Arts of Lightness!" The old disciple replied.

"Ss!"

Shangguan Yun gasped.

To be able to reach intermediate stage for both Huashan Swordplay and Huashan's Arts of Lightness, what kind of genius was this?

It was comparable to Linghu Feng whom he idolized.

It was said that that year, Linghu Feng had also reached intermediate stage for both Huashan Swordplay and Huashan's Arts of Lightness in one month.

This Han Bai was a genius indeed!

Shangguan Yun couldn't help but sighed. Back then, he took full three months to master both skills to intermediate stage.

Back then, he was also referred as a genius. However, compared to Han Bai —- it wasn't worth mentioning!

"This Han Bai should be the number one among the new disciples, right?" A trace of jealousy flashed past Shangguan Yun's eyes. The more talented someone was, the more he wanted to suppress them. What he liked to do most was to suppress geniuses to the point they couldn't raise their heads. When he was doing this kind of thing, he would be filled with excitement!

To suppress a genius comparable to Senior Brother Linghu Feng… The thought of it felt wonderful to him.

"Han Bai… He was once the number one."

"What?" Shanggun Yun stagnated. He accurately caught the wording of the old disciple, "So Han Bai isn't the number one anymore?"

"He was number one until yesterday. Today, he was defeated by someone named Lin Yi, becoming the number two!" The old disciple answered while nodding his head.

"Lin Yi defeated Han Bai? Who is this man? I have never heard of him before?" Shangguan Yun was puzzled.

"Lin Yi was someone unknown before. He is fifteen now, almost sixteen. Entering Huashan was quite hard for him. Hence, no one paid attention to him before. But these past few days, he shocked the entire lower courtyard! He challenged the ranks of one hundred strongest new disciples, fighting against twenty people each day. In five days, he went from the one hundredth seat straight up to the first seat. It was at this noon, he defeated Han Bai and became the number one among the new disciples!"

"There's this kind of man?" Shangguan Yun's eyes shone brightly. The thought of suppressing someone who was even more talented than Han Bai made him trembled with excitement.

"Arrange some people to probe Lin Yi's martial arts out, I want to have some fun!" Shangguan Yun let out a weird smile while passing down the order.

"Okay, Senior Brother Shangguan, I will go right away!" The old disciple nodded then walked out from the courtyard to start preparing.

"Lin Yi? Someone who is even more talented than Han Bai? Interesting, interesting!" Shangguan Yun was alone in the hall. He seemed to think of something as he gesticulated excitedly.