Chapter 5: Intermediate Martial Apprentice

Wait a minute!

Henry Stone was stunned. Why hadn’t he encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation?

In Huayuan Country, martial artists are divided into three ranks: the lowest is Martial Apprentice, followed by Martial Master, and the highest is Martial Lord. It is said that above Martial Lord, there is an even higher realm known as Martial Venerable.

Martial artists improve their strength through arduous physical training, but the human body has its limits. Once this limit is reached, a martial artist’s strength can no longer increase.

Unless they break through!

Thus, the cultivation of a martial artist is a process of breaking through limits step by step.

The first limit is a strength of one thousand jin. After breaking through, the upper limit of a martial artist’s strength rises to three thousand jin.

Henry Stone broke through the first strength limit more than a year ago, successfully reaching a thousand jin of strength. Because of this, he became a junior Martial Apprentice. Next was the three-thousand-jin limit; after breaking through, he would be considered an intermediate Martial Apprentice.

But now, he clearly possessed four thousand jin of strength, yet he still hadn’t hit a bottleneck?

What was going on?

“Is it because of the Nine Revolutions Sky-Stealing Sutra?” Henry Stone’s heart pounded. A treasured technique that could even cause Yuan Chengmie’s demise was anything but ordinary!

Not only did it allow Henry Stone’s strength to soar, but even his upper limit of strength surpassed common sense.

“No one can know about this technique,” Henry Stone said to himself. Otherwise, it would bring him unimaginable trouble.

Unless he became strong enough.

Such a rapid increase in strength was certainly a good thing, but it also had side effects—Henry Stone was hungry again.

He put down the wild wolf on his back and started roasting it once more.

To be honest, it tasted terrible—there wasn’t even a grain of salt. Fortunately, he was too hungry to care about the flavor.

After cultivating the Nine Revolutions Sky-Stealing Sutra twice, Henry Stone also came to a conclusion: after his soul power was depleted, it would fully recover in a day.

In other words, he could practice the Nine Revolutions Sky-Stealing Sutra every day.

With an increase of two thousand jin of strength per day, in just three more days, he would possess ten thousand jin of strength.

What did that mean?

Even a junior Martial Master’s strength only started at ten thousand jin!

And in Mengyang City, Martial Masters were the highest combat force. It was said that even the most powerful city lord was only an intermediate Martial Master.

From start to finish, it would take only five days for Henry Stone to rival a junior Martial Master. In seven or eight days, he could challenge an intermediate Martial Master. No one would believe it if he told them.

Henry Stone revealed a smile. As long as he healed his meridian injuries, he would have nothing to fear in Mengyang City.

“Foster father, I will definitely avenge you.” Henry Stone clenched his fist. After experiencing the warmth and coldness of human relationships, he missed the warmth his foster father had given him even more. Unfortunately, his foster father had been killed three years ago.

Henry Stone knew who the murderer was, but his strength was far from enough to take revenge, so he could only endure.

He wouldn’t have to wait much longer.

On the third day, Henry Stone stopped gathering herbs and focused solely on hunting.

Four thousand jin of strength—terrifying! With a spear thrown from afar, any tiger or wolf would fall in a single blow—provided he hit the target.

Even if he missed, it didn’t matter. With his current strength, tigers were no longer much of a threat.

The key was, his strength was still increasing at a crazy rate.

That afternoon, he continued to cultivate the Nine Revolutions Sky-Stealing Sutra.

Seizing the power of heaven and earth, transforming it into his own.

Henry Stone’s strength rose to six thousand jin, yet he still hadn’t hit the second bottleneck.

Heavens! The starting point for a senior Martial Apprentice was six thousand jin of strength!

On the fourth day, Henry Stone’s strength reached eight thousand jin. On the fifth day, it reached ten thousand jin.

At this point, Henry Stone finally felt that he had reached his limit.

There was a strange restraint within his body, suppressing his strength at this level, making it impossible to go further.

Henry Stone decided to return.

He had experience with breakthroughs, which required continuous high-intensity training to squeeze out his potential and break through the limit.

However, his meridians were injured, making such training impossible. So, he had to go back and prepare Dragon-Tiger Ointment. Once his injuries healed, he could break through the limit.

His intermediate Martial Apprentice starting point was actually the same as other people’s junior Martial Master—two whole realms higher!

Who would believe it?

Henry Stone headed out of the mountains, but Dayun Mountain was too vast, and he had traveled quite far these past few days. One day wasn’t enough for him to return to the academy.

No matter, one more day wouldn’t make a difference.

But he couldn’t waste his soul power, so Henry Stone continued to cultivate the Nine Revolutions Sky-Stealing Sutra.

Heaven and earth energy surged in, transforming into his strength, but his body had reached its limit and could not increase any further. This created a conflict, and as more energy poured in, the conflict became even more intense.

Henry Stone felt as if his whole body was swelling with energy, about to explode at any moment.

Just as he was about to stop, he suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood, but his whole body felt a wave of relief. The surging energy was continuously absorbed and transformed into his strength.

The limit... was broken!