Chapter 2 - Bronze medal

Before dawn, Tang Tian woke up on time.

After casually shuffling around, he turned on the light, sat down at the table, spread out the letter paper, and buried his head to rustle and write.

“Qianhui: How have you been? I miss you a lot. Everything is fine with me, don't worry. A new semester has begun, and I'm still serving as an assistant instructor for Mr. Sham's fencing class. I'm a little bored without you. They look down on me, and I don't like them. Recently, Mr. Cen's health isn't too good. He's very nice, I hope he's always healthy. How's Uncle Yu's health? Give him my regards. I really want to see the nebula waterfall in the constellation of Yingxian that you mentioned. I wonder how spectacular it can be. I'm still holding on to my cultivation, and it might continue for a long time, but I don't want to give up ......”

There was a great deal of writing, all the little things that happened in the course of the day. Carefully folding the letter paper, he put it into an envelope and sealed it.

Carefully wrote the address: Yingxian Constellation White Rainbow Star White Rainbow City Fifteenth Avenue White Rainbow Academy Third Grade Class A Shangguan Qianhui (Received).

After writing, he picked up the Heavenly Path Stamp that he had prepared long ago and stuck it on top of the envelope.

After doing this, he reared up and went to the courtyard.

The early morning air carried a hint of refreshing chill, Tang Tian stretched an arm and leg until the muscles of his entire body gradually moved, then he set up his stance and began his day's cultivation.

What he practiced was the Basic Fist Technique.

After almost a year of cultivation, his Basic Fist Technique had almost been cultivated to perfection.

The Basic Fist Technique consisted of three movements, punch, jab, and hook. The punch was full of power, heavy and fierce; the jab was light and swift, matching the pace, just like a butterfly; the hook was between the two, paying more attention to the angle of the strike.

Seemingly simple basic movements, in Tang Tian's hands full of beauty, this is after a thousand hammering, the beauty of concise coordination.

Tang Tian's expression was focused, the boring cultivation didn't make him show the slightest bit of boredom on his face.

Soon, he was drenched in sweat, his clothes all wet, bean-sized sweat snaking down his neck.

From the looks of it, a faint mist was rising all over his body.

Practicing back and forth over and over again, occasionally stopping to speculate for a moment or two, but would soon get back into practicing again. Time passed little by little, the sun jumped up from the ground, and the coldness of the morning was suddenly dispelled.

Tang Tian practiced obliviously.

Suddenly, an ear-piercing bell rang, Tang Tian stopped, time was up!

Hoo hoo hoo!

Rough gasps, resounded in the courtyard, Tang Tian leaned on his knees with both hands, bean-sized sweat slid to his chin and dripped onto the ground. When practicing, he was too focused to feel anything, but when he stopped, the feeling of exhaustion instantly overwhelmed him.

Five minutes later, Tang Genius came back from his blank state, straightened up, lifted his weak legs, and moved towards the pool in the corner of the courtyard. The pool was full of water, walking to the edge of the pool Tang Tian flopped and fell into the pool.

The pool water in the morning was cold and piercing, and the moment he fell into the pool, Tang Tian had a jolt.

Grinning with a somewhat pained expression, he had to slowly adapt to the icy cold pool water. After about two minutes of hair, his body had already adapted to the coldness of the pool water, so he sat down on his knees and began to operate his heart technique.

After five years in the Ander Academy, he had long practiced his Basic Heart Technique to perfection. The Basic Heart Technique didn't talk about roots and bones, as long as one was persistent, one or two years would be able to practice to perfection. Tang Tian's roots and bones were not good, and his five elements were average, but he was not lazy, and he had long practiced his basic heart method to perfection. He quickly began to search for the second stage heart method, but Ander Academy only taught the basic heart method, and to learn the second stage heart method, one needed to enter the academy.

But Tang Tian didn't want to waste time, so he went around trying to find a way. When Mr. Cen heard about Tang Tian's situation, he invited Tang Tian to be his assistant teacher, and he paid Tang Tian a Second Order Soul General Card [Qi Nurturing Technique] as payment for his assistant teaching.

Tang Tian only began to cultivate the second-order technique.

The [Qi Nurturing Technique] was also suitable for martial artists with poor roots and bones, and its only advantage was its long qi veins. Now Tang Tian's [Qi Nurturing Technique] was equally fast to cultivate to perfection, the lower ranked techniques were all relatively simple, emphasizing perseverance without needing too much skill.

The warm and long breath dispersed into all corners of the body, dispelling the coldness and also allowing the exhausted body to recover quickly.

An hour later, Tang Tian opened his eyes.

He became dragon-like again, and his tiredness was swept away. He didn't get up right away, but half-lay down in the pool, staring at the azure sky in a daze.

Chie wondered what she was doing at that moment ......

A soft color floated in his eyes, but soon, he came back to his senses and removed the bronze medal hanging from his neck. The bronze medallion was tied with red ropes, several of which were wrapped together, one braided by his mother and the others braided by Chie. When Chihui was in Star Wind City, she would reprogram a red rope for Tang Tian's bronze medal every year.

The copper plaque was about the size of a coin, slightly old, with a not-so-regular cross-shaped pattern on the front. Tang Tian flipped over the bronze plaque, behind the bronze plaque, was a winding river, the river seemed to have countless tiny stars twinkling inside. Tang Tian's eyes, fell on the river below, there is a row of gray numbers, the numbers dull to the extreme, if not carefully almost can not be found.

This bronze plaque had been worn by Tang Tian since he was a child, but he had only discovered the numbers a few years ago.

And the discovery that the numbers would change came after he started practicing basic martial arts.

The discovery of the bronze medal filled Tang Tian with curiosity.

Although he was big-headed, he wasn't stupid, and he soon found the pattern of the numbers changing. Every time he completed a qualified basic martial skill, the numbers would jump a little.

It was only from that day that he realized that his mother, who was ordinary in his heart, didn't seem so ordinary. He suddenly realized that he knew very little about his mom's past.

And that asshole who abandoned his wife and son ......

Tang Tian's heart was filled with a strong desire to know it all, to solve all the mysteries.

The bronze medal was the only clue in his hands.

He began to frantically cultivate the Basic Martial Skill, staring at its changes every day. After he had practiced the basic sword skill, to perfection, the numbers stopped jumping. Tang Tian started a new attempt, he tried to cultivate the second rank martial skill, the numbers didn't move at all until he replaced it with the Basic Palm Technique, only then did the numbers start to jump again.

Only basic martial arts would make the numbers jump.

Time year after year, basic martial arts techniques changed one after another, the numbers kept rising from ten thousand, twenty thousand ...... and the bronze plate still did not have any reaction. The surrounding gazes gradually changed, all sorts of sneers and mockeries abounded, and Tang Tian also changed from an Ande Academy student, to a repeat student, and then to a super repeat student.

For five years, Tang Tian remained the same.

The numbers kept changing.

99, 9400.

Tang Tian rehung the bronze medal around his neck, and he didn't notice that the gray numbers of the bronze medal suddenly lit up with a faint glow. Tang Tian jumped out of the pool, dried off the water, put on clean clothes, picked up the letter to Chie on the table, and walked out of the house.

His home was a bit farther away from the Andean Academy, and the pedestrians on the streets were sparse in the morning.

There was only one heavenly road mail service in Star Wind City, and that was the Letter Wind Post Office in the south of the city. Tang Tian's speed wasn't slow, his basic lightweight skill had long been cultivated to perfection, only to see his upper body rippling, his legs swinging in a unique rhythm. Every time a big stride was taken, it was inevitably followed by three small mincing steps, alternating back and forth.

Since it was too early, the Xinfeng Post Office was not yet open, so Tang Tian put the mail into the mailbox at the entrance of the post office.

The British Immortal Constellation is so far away, by the time Chie receives this letter, it should be three months later.

He raised his head to look at the blue sky, his heart was clear, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he turned around and walked towards the school.

When Tang Tian almost arrived at the school, there was a large group of people surrounding the school entrance, surrounding the school gate. Tang Tian frowned, today he had to be in charge of the practice session for the sword class, being late would not be good. In his heart, he was grateful for Teacher Cen's help and care for him, so he worked very hard and never came late or left early, it was a world of difference from his own style of attending classes.

“Move over!”

He pushed through the crowd, and the students who were pushed through were about to open their mouths to curse, but as soon as they saw it was Tang Tian, they immediately shrunk back.

“Gu Xiaoyu, as long as you kowtow today, I'll spare you!”

A smug boy, his nostrils almost tilted up to the sky. The clothes on the boy's body were elaborate, the material was quite good, so he was probably from a good family. He was surrounded by several strong boys, all with mocking faces, and in the dirt in front of them lay a skinny teenager, arching his body and looking pained.

“Kowtow! Hurry up, class is about to start!”

“Damn, it looks like you haven't beaten him enough!”

A few of the beaters were scolding.

Tang Tian's face revealed a look of disgust, although he was also a bully in Ander, but bullying the weak was something he never did. More crucially, these few people had blocked the school gate solidly, and in a few minutes, class would be starting.

“Newcomers?” Tang Tian stood out, looking unkind, “All get out of the way!”

“Yo drink, ate bear heart and leopard gall, dare to meddle in this young man's business?” The teenager in the lead had a mocking face.

Tang Tian knew that if he dawdled any longer, he would definitely be late, he didn't bother to talk nonsense, his body swayed, his feet made a precise side-sliding step of centimeters, and he rushed to the other party, and in the other party's horrified gaze, he fiercely pinched the other party's neck with the palm of his hand.

Like carrying a chicken, one hand picked up the other person.

Suffocation made the teenager's brain go blank.

“Stop! How dare you ask ......”

“You're finished!”

The few strong boys immediately panicked and wanted to pounce on them. Tang Tian was immensely experienced in fighting, and swung the boys in his hands, slashing at those few people.

In the blink of an eye, the guys were put down.

“Sure enough, it's still Tang Tian who's ruthless enough!”

“That's for sure, the old school bully ah! Hey, it's the same every year, if we don't clean it up a bit, these newcomers won't know the heights of heaven!”

“Speaking of which, our school's school spirit is quite good, and School Boss Tang has a lot to do with that! It's a great way to ward off evil spirits!”

Tang Tian didn't even look at these guys on the ground and hurriedly rushed towards the martial arts field.

He had just arrived at the martial arts field when the bell rang.

So close!

Tang Tian let out a long sigh of relief in his heart, then swept his gaze over the students of the Sword Art class. After yesterday's gossip, Tang Tian's infamy had spread, and all the trainees were all cautious.

Pretending to cough lightly, Tang Tian waved his hand, “Start practicing!”