After taking a vial of incredibly precious body-tempering potion, he still wasn’t a match for David Bennett—if that’s not trash, what is?

But that spot at Qitian Martial Academy, he absolutely had to give it to Ethan Foster.

David Bennett, don’t blame me for being ruthless. It’s not my fault your father doesn’t control half the power in town, or that you don’t have a brother who’s a martial artist!

You can only become someone else’s stepping stone!

“Hurry up and eat, or it’ll get cold soon!” Grace Howard handed the level-four energy bar and the meat soup to David Bennett, speaking softly.

David Bennett looked at the level-four energy bar worth five hundred yuan, then glanced at his companions around him, and asked in confusion, “Grace Howard, who ordered this level-four energy bar for me?”

“Just eat it, why are you asking so much?” As Grace Howard spoke, she stuffed the level-four energy bar and the bowl of meat soup into David Bennett’s hands and turned to run off.

“Brian Sullivan, help me hand out the meals, the meal list is on the table.”

Grace Howard’s voice came from a distance, and hearing it, many classmates burst out laughing.

David Bennett vaguely started to understand something, but right now he had lowered his mental state to only half of its usual level, so for the moment he couldn’t quite figure out why.

“If you’ve got it, just eat!” Brian Sullivan cheerfully patted David Bennett on the shoulder, then called out energetically, “Time to eat! Time to eat!”

As soon as the level-four energy bar entered his mouth, a surge of heat rose in David Bennett’s abdomen. In just a few bites, he finished the energy bar and the meat soup, then quickly headed toward the training ground.

The Basic Twelve Forms—David Bennett could be said to have practiced them to perfection. Now, with the heat churning in his belly, every punch he threw whistled through the air with even more force.

Once, twice, three times...

When David Bennett finally felt all the strength in his abdomen was spent, he sat down. Barely pausing for breath, David Bennett immediately called up the regulator in his mind!

He’d just eaten a level-four energy bar—there should be some change in his strength, right?

Chapter 3: Ape-Dragon Foundation Diagram

Strength: 0.6.

Speed: 0.7.

Spirit: 1.

Constitution: 0.9.

Strength increased by 0.1. Although 0.1 isn’t much, David Bennett was filled with wild joy. With this 0.1 increase, it meant that the attribute adjustment panel would be even more useful to him in the future.

“David, go test your strength—don’t let a beauty’s kindness go to waste!” The chubby Brian Sullivan ran over with a cheeky grin.

David Bennett didn’t smile. What he was thinking about was still that level-four energy bar worth five hundred yuan.

Although Grace Howard’s family was much better off than his, five hundred yuan was probably her entire tuition for the semester. Thinking of this, David Bennett felt a bit complicated—there was a trace of sweetness, but also a bit of guilt.

“Let’s test my strength first.” Pushing aside his thoughts for now, David Bennett walked up to the punching target.

“Boom!”

“David Bennett, 605 jin, excellent!”

Hearing the mechanical voice, David Bennett felt a surge of excitement—an increase of sixty-three jin. By his own estimate, it would have taken him at least three months to gain that much strength.

Now, a single level-four energy bar had solved the problem.

“David, you broke our school’s record! At our school, the most anyone’s ever gained from a level-four energy bar is forty jin, but you, you monster, actually gained over sixty jin!”

The chubby Brian Sullivan changed his tone and said, “Heh, could it be the power of love?”

“Get out of here with your love talk!” David Bennett lightly cursed, pressing down on Brian Sullivan’s grinning head. As for Grace Howard, he usually just felt a bit of fondness, but now, his chest was filled with excitement.

“Ugh, class is about to start. I’m so jealous of freaks like you who can skip the basic courses.” Brian Sullivan wanted to joke a bit more, but suddenly noticed that the big clock on the school flagpole, missing a corner, was already pointing to four.

The hidden energy in a level-four energy bar is four hundred, but I only gained sixty jin of strength. That means the energy absorption rate is just over one-tenth.

In David Bennett’s mind, knowledge about energy conversion he’d learned before surfaced, and he couldn’t help but curse, “What a waste.”

“Now, can I start cultivating the Ape-Dragon Foundation Diagram?” As soon as this thought arose, David Bennett’s eyes lit up.

The Twelve Forms of Body-Tempering Fist they learned were issued by the Grand Federation, the most suitable martial arts for their current stage.

However, before enrolling, all these students were brought before a treasured diagram depicting apes and dragons, and told to hold the poses of the ape and dragon for ten minutes.

Unfortunately, the strongest among them, David Bennett, only managed to last three minutes.

At the time, the teacher who brought them there regretfully told them how great an opportunity they had missed.

The six illustrations on the Ape-Dragon Foundation Diagram were the top foundation-building secret technique in the entire Grand Federation. Because the Grand Federation wanted to cultivate talent, they distributed the Ape-Dragon Foundation Diagram to every school.

As long as you mastered these six illustrations, you could become an elite and receive special training from the Grand Federation.