Martial Arts: Starting from a Seemingly Real System

At the door of the independent Zen room in the front row of the fourth courtyard, Yan Kuan was originally smiling and greeting Qiao Rui who was walking towards him, but suddenly he saw the door of the Zen room on the right open and someone walked out, and his brows unconsciously frowned slightly.

Ma Wen had just walked out of the meditation room when he saw Qiao Rui walking towards him. He couldn't help but get furious, and his expression suddenly became ferocious. He gritted his teeth and growled, "It's you? Qiao Rui, you actually dare to appear in front of me!"

“Why not?” Qiao Rui’s expression changed instantly when he saw Ma Wencai. He snorted coldly, “Who do you think you are? If you don’t want to be beaten to a pulp, you’d better behave yourself.”

"You..." Ma Wencai was so ashamed and angry after being choked by Qiao Rui that his face turned red, veins on his forehead were bulging, his eyes were about to spit fire, and he clenched his fists as if he was ready to fight to the death.

“You two, calm down, calm down!” Seeing that the two men were on edge when they met, Yan Kuan quickly inserted himself between them and stood in front of Qiao Rui. He forced a smile on his fair and broad face and said to Ma Wencai, “Brother Ma, calm down. Junior Brother Qiao has now entered the fourth courtyard and is a regular disciple of the Prajna Hall. We will all be brothers in the future. Let’s not worry about the friction in the third courtyard!”

"You got into the fourth courtyard so quickly? No wonder you're so arrogant!" Ma Wencai frowned, and slowly loosened his clenched fists. A sinister look flashed from his triangular eyes, and he stared at Qiao Rui coldly like a venomous snake, passing Yan Kuan.

"So what if you've been admitted to the Fourth Courtyard? I remember you've been punished twice for major offenses and twice for minor offenses. You'd better not let me find an opportunity, otherwise I will definitely cripple you and expel you from Shaolin."

"Okay, I'll wait!" Qiao Rui sneered, turned around from behind Yan Kuan, stared into Ma Wencai's eyes without giving in, and said word by word: "You are only qualified to play some shameful tricks behind the scenes. If you have the guts, let's have a fair fight and show everyone what the old monk Wu Se has taught us."

“How dare you disrespect my master?” Ma Wencai said gritting his teeth.

"Haha, go and report me!" Qiao Rui glanced at Ma Wencai with disdain. Too lazy to argue with him, he walked straight towards Yan Kuan's meditation room.

Yan Kuan clasped his fists towards Ma Wencai and said, "Junior Brother Qiao will sleep in the same room with me from now on. I will go and clean up the room with him first. Excuse me, Senior Brother Ma, please do as you please!"

Ma Wencai stared at Qiao Rui's back with resentment, and secretly swore in his heart, "I won't let you be proud for too long, Qiao Rui, we'll see!"

Yan Kuan lived in one of the two best Zen rooms in the four courtyards. When Qiao Rui walked into the Zen room, he felt that it was quite spacious and could be considered a mansion.

"Don't other people have any objections to you occupying such a big room by yourself?" Qiao Rui put his luggage aside. Yan Kuan had already made the bed and bedding for him, so he could move in directly.

"What do you mean by occupying? According to the tradition of the four-courtyard complex, only the two most powerful people can live in the two best meditation rooms." Yan Kuan said with a proud smile.

"Then why is Ma Wencai here? With his skills, I'm afraid he is not qualified?" Qiao Rui asked doubtfully.

"That is Chu Tianfeng's room. Ma Wencai and Chu Tianfeng are good friends. They are also fellow apprentices and are from Luoyang. It is said that the two families are old friends. He insists on living there, and others, under the pressure of Brother Chu, naturally cannot say anything." Yan Kuan explained with a smile. Although he was kind and tolerant, he seemed to be quite disdainful of Ma Wencai in his words.

"Ma Wencai was also punished for deliberately targeting you. As an inner disciple of the Prajna Hall of the Fourth Courtyard, and a true disciple who had already become your disciple, he was punished to greet guests at the mountain gate, which he considered a great humiliation. In addition, you severely injured him with a palm, causing his prestige to plummet. He already hates you to the bone. This person is narrow-minded and will take revenge at the slightest slight. You should be careful of his revenge."

Humph, even if they were old friends, he didn't need to be so cruel and vicious to stand up for Chu Tianfeng, right? He almost had his martial arts abolished and was expelled from Shaolin. If that were the case, his life would be ruined. Chu Tianfeng was friendly with such people, so it seemed that he was not a good person.

This person wants revenge, so I will take it. Who cares? I will just do it. Qiao Rui has made up his mind that if this guy dares to plot against me again, it will not be as simple as just giving him a slap.

Since coming to this world with martial arts, Qiao Rui has gradually become more rough in his behavior. It’s not that he is not calm and steady when encountering things, but now when he handles things, he likes to use martial arts to do it, directly and domineeringly.

Old Monk Dingyi said that he was influenced by his masculine and powerful martial arts, which made him easily restless and irritable, and his internal fire was strong. If he did not practice Buddhism diligently, his heart would be burned by flames in the future, and his foundation would be destroyed.

In Qiao Rui's opinion, the old monk's words were a bit exaggerated. He just wanted him to learn Buddhism from him. But even so, he still tried hard to learn some Buddhist scriptures. Except for not becoming a monk, everything else was fine.

Lay disciples only do morning classes and not evening classes, and the same is true for the four courtyards, but Qiao Rui still does both morning and evening classes. This is a habit he developed in the back mountains. It seems that learning more Buddhist scriptures will be a good idea.

Although the senior monks in the lecture hall were not as lively as the old monk, one could still understand most of what he said. They were all about guiding people to be good, understand their true nature and transcend the self.

In the morning, Qiao Rui practiced martial arts with Yan Kuan, and in the afternoon he did some small tasks to accumulate merit points, such as organizing books in the Sutra Library, grinding medicine in the Medicine King Hall, delivering meals to the Bodhi Temple, and cleaning the Guest Hall. This allowed him to gain a deeper understanding of Shaolin.

Yan Kuan is indeed a gifted martial arts fanatic. He has learned all the basic and intermediate Shaolin martial arts ruthlessly. He is simply an encyclopedia of Shaolin's intermediate and low-level martial arts, an almighty fighting chicken.

Whenever he had time, he would teach Qiao Rui some basic Shaolin martial arts, such as finger techniques, claw techniques, leg techniques, staff techniques, gun techniques, etc. Then, every few days, he would take Qiao Rui to practice with him on the pretext of checking his learning progress, and he enjoyed doing this day after day.

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In Longxing City, in the majestic Qinglian Pavilion, the Grand Commander of the Qingtian Guards half-closed his eyes and lazily lay on the couch. He used his slender fingers to throw a emerald green and crystal clear plum into his mouth and ate it with relish.

Uncle Fu stood to one side, frowning as he looked at the half-ripe plums. He felt his teeth aching so much that he unconsciously took a half step back.

Hearing the noise, the Grand Commander woke up from his intoxication and asked lazily, "Has anything big happened in Jianghu recently?"

Uncle Fu sighed secretly. Something was wrong with the young master after he came back from Shushan. First, he angrily mobilized a large number of experts to destroy a small gang in the waters of Pengli Lake, and then he sent people to attack several branches of the Beggar Gang. Only then did he put down the inexplicable evil fire.

After a few days of normality, he became lazy and slack again in the past two months. I don't know how long it has been since he last asked about the affairs of the martial arts world. The former Grand Commander of the Qingtian Guard was famous for his diligence, self-discipline and decisiveness.

Now, his temperament has changed drastically. If I hadn’t watched him grow up, I would have thought he had become a different person.