Chapter 38: White Rainbow Sword
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The Fuliang Municipal Martial Arts Institute had prohibited any visitation, not even when Chi Qiaosong had a wrestler's identification.
After finishing lunch, the two of them returned to Ink Ridge County.
Li Weiwei returned to the academy while Chi Qiaosong headed back home.
"Brother!" Chi Qiaowu and Chi Xiaoya greeted him while two-year-old Chi Qiaodong stumbled out the door.
He was very close to his siblings, mostly because he would bring home snacks for them. Even though the original Chi Qiaosong was now replaced by the one from earth, he still took great care of them and would always buy things for them when he went home.
"Go have some fun." Chi Qiaosong gave the snacks to his siblings. Since he was a 25-year-old man mentally, it was hard for him to play with children.
"Are you heading to the farmhouse? Dinner is almost ready," the second aunt said when she noticed the young boy was about to head to the hillside plot.
"There's something I have to do first."
"Is that so? Then tell your uncle to come back when you guys are done. He's at the farmhouse too."
"Okay!'
The greenhouse was 3/15 hectares big now and was one of the Chi family's most valuable assets. That was why, even when Chi Qiaosong was not home, his father and uncle would take turns guarding the farmhouse.
"Qiaosong, you're back."
"Yup."
"A yellow flower has bloomed on the bay tree. It's quite an interesting sight," the uncle told the young boy about what he had discovered.
Chi Qiaosong wasn't too surprised to hear that.
During his trip to the zoo, he did master the foundation of the Fierce Tiger Heavy Fist from the skinny tiger.
"Really? I'll go check it out first."
"Sure thing."
Chi Qiaosong headed to the bay tree alone.
A small yellow flower could be found on one of the tree's branches. When he focused on it, he could see the information on the tree.
"Hmm... Crazed Bull Heavy Fist, completed. 12 Paths Spring Kick, completed. Yu Sword Skill, completed. And, lastly, the Fierce Tiger Heavy Fist is at 1 percent..."
Just as he had expected, the flower representing the Fierce Tiger Heavy Fist had bloomed.
Without hesitation, Chi Qiaosong used a bag of fertilizer on the tree.
The flower immediately fully bloomed and started to wither away. A fruit has now replaced the flower but has yet to fully mature. Checking it once again, he noticed that the progress for the skill had gone from 1 percent to 26 percent.
"It's just like the Purple Cloud Serenity. I'll need three more bags for it to fully mature." It wasn't an unexpected outcome.
Just like how internal strength was more challenging to train than external skills, the Threshold martial art was much more complicated to learn. So it was natural that more fertilizers were needed.
After tossing the remaining two bags of fertilizer in, the progression reached 76 percent. The fruit had grown bigger as well and would be fully mature once he had another bag of fertilizer.
"I'm sure I can increase it by training every day, but it would be very slow. So using fertilizers is the quickest way."
That marked the end of his training of the Fierce Tiger Heavy Fist.
All he had to do was do the regular training from that day onward and look for a new Threshold martial art to train in. Then, once October arrived, he would be able to master the Fierce Tiger Heavy Fist fully.
"I wonder if that would allow me to break through the Wrestler Plane and enter the Warrior Plane," he wondered.
From what he had learned, some martial artists had advanced into the Warrior Plane by mastering the Fierce Tiger Heavy Fist, but such an occurrence was very rare.
Since he was limited by his lack of talent for martial arts, there was a low chance that he would be one in a million.
Chi Qiaosong then returned to the farmhouse. "Uncle!"
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
"I used a secret technique to help the flower fully bloom. There's fruit on it now. Please take good care of it. Don't let Qiaowu and Moshan pluck it, and be wary of the small animals too."
"I know. Those three spirit roots are treasures to us. So don't worry about it." The uncle tapped his chest a few times to show his confidence.
The grown man did not ask his nephew about the secret technique.
Mr. Chi had been telling his younger brother that the young boy had a revelation.
That was why all they had to do was take good care of the farm and let the young boy handle the rest of the things that happened on the farm. Since miracle and ghost occurrences were a norm in the Daxia Republic, they weren't surprised by the revelation, especially not when newspapers like Fox News focused on writing revelations about martial artists.
On certain days, there would be news of a commander raising a few levels by consuming herbs. The next day, news of a general taming a fox spirit or the child of a wealthy family using dark arts to harm his family would spread.
There was a lot of weird news spreading around the country.
The truth was that it was hard for an ordinary person to experience such an occurrence. It was only because the newspapers kept reporting the stories of survivors that caused people to think these types of events happened daily.
When it was almost dinner time, Chi Qiaosong carried a bucket of water to water the Rainbow Gourd Vines.
He also checked the growth rate of the gourds while he did that.
"13 percent for the red gourd, 4 percent for the orange, 1 percent for the yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet."
It had been more than a week since he moved the gourds into the greenhouse.
Only the red and orange had grown a little among seven of them, while the other five gourds remained the same. If things remained the same, all the gourds wouldn't be fully mature after winter had passed.
"If that's the rate I get a week, and there are only 52 weeks in a year, then these will only get to halfway after a year. Are you telling me that every gourd needs at least two years to mature? Something is wrong here..." Chi Qiaosong mumbled as he looked at the flowers on the Rainbow Gourd Vines. "These little flowers have been at 1 percent for a long time. Even two years might not be enough for them to grow."
He would need even more time than he had expected for all the gourds to mature.
Unfortunately, the fertilizers could not work on exterior spirit roots.
All he could do was patiently wait.
Even the weakest wind would make a person shiver during the night of late September.
Chi Qiaosong continued to study the Cloudy Bookbag Seven Slips every night as he waited for October to arrive. During that time, he would continue to learn the Fierce Tiger Heavy Fist from Hao Bozhao.
However, he didn't need to learn from Xu Jingyang anymore.
Instead, after giving a few gifts to Kong Hongcai, the class instructor for Class 7 of Year 57, he started to learn the White Rainbow Sword.
Yet, Kong Hongcai felt that it was better for the young boy to learn the 6 Joint Mantis Hands.
"I've heard from Xu Jingyang that you want to learn another skill because you've hit a brick wall with learning the Fierce Tiger Heavy Fist," Kong Hongcai said. "I ran into the same problem when I was younger. Although the Fierce Tiger Heavy Fist is an improved version of the Crazed Bull Heavy Fist, the two have different styles. Instead, I was able to advance to the Warrior Plane by mastering the 6 Joint Mantis Hands. So I suggest you take this route too."
"But, sir, I still feel like I should learn the White Rainbow Sword instead since I have mastered the Yu Sword Skill. I think it's better to learn a few weapon-based martial arts," Chi Qiaosong insisted.
There were too many similarities between the Fierce Tiger Heavy Fist and the 6 Joint Mantis Hands, so he didn't want to spend fertilizer on it.
In the end, he would eventually master the Fierce Tiger Heavy Fist in a month.
"You young people are just too impatient. This will bring you a lot of trouble when you grow up." Kong Hongcai sighed.
However, the instructor still treated Chi Qiaosong better than other students, as the successful student was taught by him.
Also, Chi Qiaosong had given a lot of gifts as well. In the end, the instructor nodded. "Fine. I'll teach you the White Rainbow Sword. If you manage to get to the advanced stuff, you'll be able to reach the Warrior Plane. This skill has a lot of firepower, but it's tough to master fully. Even I've hit a wall after practicing it for ten years."
"That's what I want to learn!" Chi Qiaosong insisted.
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