Published: February 19, 2025
Chapter 24: Intuition
“Hah!”
Accompanied by a low shout, Chen Chu stepped forward, wielding his knife with both hands, performing upward slashes and downward strikes. The blade’s wind was fierce as he advanced with diagonal cuts and quick thrusts, followed by sweeping turns.
The knife embodies the courage of a hundred weapons, fierce and domineering; one must wield it with the grandeur of a fierce tiger descending the mountain.
While Chen Chu was training the basic knife techniques, other students gradually came to the third floor, each finding an unoccupied area to train.
These students all came from Class Three, including Iray, who was among the first to establish his foundation, and ordinary students who had only recently completed their foundation establishment, totaling about ten individuals.
According to school regulations, during the first year of high school, a martial arts teacher oversees five classes, providing only basic instruction.
When the second semester begins, the students who have established their foundations will be combined into one class for cultural and martial studies.
At that point, they will officially be considered Pang Long's students, with numbers just under a hundred.
By the second semester, some of these students will drop out, as many with slow progress and poor aptitude will choose to give up.
After all, not everyone can endure the arduous cultivation that often involves stagnation for half a year or even a year.
Soon, all the training areas on the third floor were filled. Some students, like Chen Chu, were practicing knife and sword techniques, while others trained with staffs and other weapons.
Additionally, there were those practicing fist and leg techniques.
Regardless of whether they were training palm techniques or weaponry, the students exhibited a powerful aura with every move they made, the sound of wind whooshing around them astounding.
While these students practiced their techniques, Pang Long occasionally came out to inspect, offering advice to those struggling with their training.
Some classmates would consult him with their doubts.
However, on this level, Lin Xue and Xia Youhui were hardly seen; they had found a temporary activity room to practice, waiting for approval for the official training room.
Furthermore, talented students from wealthier families in other classes often rented their own training rooms to practice quietly and diligently.
After training for nearly half an hour, Chen Chu finally stopped, drenched in sweat, gasping for air, waiting for the Qi and blood within him to gradually calm down.
Next, he would engage in formal training.
Listening to the sounds of his classmates practicing—shouts and the wind generated by their punches and kicks—Chen Chu gripped the knife handle in his right hand and placed it diagonally behind him.
At the same time, he relaxed his entire body, closed his eyes, and concentrated all his attention on the blade behind him.
The sharpness of the knife stimulated his senses, amplifying them infinitely.
With the mind's eye bright blade, the enlightened one is external, while the mind's eye is internal, allowing cultivators to train into a state known as the mind's eye, akin to a sixth sense that can perceive danger beforehand.
The primary purpose of this practice was to evade ambushes from the cunning mutated beasts in the forest.
Mutated beasts are a collective term used by officials for those mutated creatures, not limited to large animals like lions and tigers.
Over the decades, some animals and insects have even transformed into entirely different species, possessing bizarre abilities that catch many cultivators off guard during sudden attacks.
This was also the reason Chen Chu chose this particular knife technique; the pursuit of powerful strength hinges on survival.
However, although this knife technique was special, few students chose to practice it due to its high entry requirements, necessitating extraordinary mental perception.