At the entrance of Pearl Academy, a green-shirted teenager dressed in casual clothes was staring at the entrance of the academy with an expectant look on his face. As the music of the academy broke up classes, the doors of the academy opened and a group of teenage boys and girls rushed out of the academy’s gates.
The green-shirted boy looked at the group of young men and women rushing out of the academy gates and a trace of envy flashed in his eyes. This envy was soon hidden from him, and then his eyes searched the crowd.
A moment later the teenager’s gaze brightened and he rushed up to a long-haired young girl in a purple flower dress, handed over a bouquet of flowers in his hand and said, “Mamoru, this is for you.”
The young girl paused, her skin as white and smooth as if it had been poured over with milk. When she looked up at the young man, her beautiful face immediately made the young boys and girls around her lose their lustre. It is not appropriate to describe her as a crane, but as she stood here, she did make the young boys and girls around her lose their youthful glow.
Even if her face still looked a little green, that perfect figure had already taken on a contour, and one could imagine how radiant she would be in a few more years. Everyone in the whole academy knew her, the number one beauty of Pearl City, Zhen Man.
Zhen Man looked at the young man who loved her almost to her bones in front of her, and did not accept the flower in his hand, but was silent for a full ten seconds before she said softly, “Di Jiu, I have just crossed the realm of warrior today, and will soon be leaving Ji Guo, take care of yourself, we will meet again in the future.”
Di Jiu’s hand trembled and the bouquet of flowers fell out of his hand and scattered on the ground.
How could he not be clear about the meaning of Zhen Man’s words, he knew that sooner or later, Zhen Man’s martial arts qualification would have to leave Ji Guo, he just didn’t expect it to be so soon. To practise martial arts, as long as one crossed into the warrior realm before the age of twenty, one could leave the Ji Kingdom for the Luyuan Empire.
He had just completed his martial arts test at the age of sixteen yesterday and still failed, and I’m afraid that everyone in the entire Pearl City, not to mention Yan Man, knew about this news.
“I’m sorry!” Zhen Man lowered her head and whispered three words, sighing secretly in her heart as she walked around Di Jiu and quickly walked away.
It wasn’t that she didn’t give Di Jiu a chance, she had waited for him, but unfortunately, he still failed the Martial Root Test for the third time. In fact even if Di Jiu’s martial root came out a little worse on the third test, she would not have left Ji Guo so soon.
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The martial arts culture is extremely strong in both the country of Ji and the continent of Arun where Ji is located. Although the level of technology here is just as very high, only martial arts training is king here. All technological talents are at the service of the martial arts, and the ruler of any country here must be a strong martial artist.
You must have martial roots to learn martial arts on the Arun continent. Without them or if they do not appear, no matter how hard you work, you will only be able to strengthen your body and not become a true martial powerhouse.
There are several age levels for testing martial roots, and the first test for martial roots is before the age of five. The first test is before the age of five. If a person is tested at this time and has martial roots, they are usually of excellent martial roots.
If the first test shows no Martial Root, it does not mean that you cannot practise martial arts, and some people’s Martial Root appears at the age of 12. If martial roots do not appear at the age of twelve, then you will have to wait until the last test at sixteen.
If there is no Martial Root at the age of sixteen, then it means that one cannot practice martial arts. The entire Aaronic continent has not yet heard of a case where Martial Root appears after the age of sixteen.
Di Jiu had been extremely intelligent since he was a child and was once rumoured to be the number one prodigy in the Ji Kingdom. His father, Di Shirt, even placed all his trust in the prosperity of the Di family’s martial dao on Di Jiu.
There is a saying that with great hope comes great disappointment, and the first test Di Jiu actually had no martial arts roots, which meant that he could not practise martial arts.
As he watched people of his age trying to learn martial arts, his peers, who were originally the same as himself, gradually left him behind, Di Jiu could only devote all his energy to his studies.
The education in Jieguo was not just about theoretical knowledge, but a combination of realistic technology and theory. Before he was twelve years old, Di Jiu had spent eight years learning almost everything that others would take twenty or thirty years to learn. He even designed a new type of flying machine.
However, at the time of his second test at the age of twelve, Di Jiu still had no martial roots.
At this time, not only Di Jiu, but also Di Jiu’s father, became anxious. Di Jiu had also completely lost interest in continuing to study technology and culture. He had previously worked hard to learn about technology simply to use up the time that others had spent studying martial arts. Now that he had tested twice in a row without martial roots, how could he be in the mood to study?
Di Jiu’s father told Di Jiu not to be anxious and that there would be a third Martial Root test at the age of sixteen.
But Di Jiu was not willing to continue this chance of waiting and he started to study medicine.
While technological talents were worthless and of the lowest status in the Aaronic Continent, the medical dao was second only to the martial dao. If one could achieve success in medicine, one would be more respected than the average martial artist.
Di Jiu did not study medicine because it was second only to martial arts, but because he was worried that at the age of 16, when he took his third test, he would still have no martial roots.
Xue Tuo, the medical dao master of the Ji Kingdom, had said that the top medical dao masters could, through means, allow martial artists without martial roots to cultivate. By studying the Dao of Medicine, Di Jiu was leaving himself a way out. In case, at the age of sixteen, he still had no martial roots, he wanted to open up a path for himself through his medical dao.
He had never told anyone this kind of thing, because if he said it, it would only cause people to laugh.
A medical master who could allow those without martial roots to practise was an existence countless times more prestigious than that of King Ji, and there might not even be one in the entire Aaron Continent.
The Di family was already extremely wealthy, and Di Shirt was the number one god of war and the number one general in the Ji Kingdom. Di Jiu was the only son of Di Shirt, so what medical book would he want that he didn’t have?
In four years, Di Jiu had read almost all the medical books that the Di family could obtain, and had even studied under such great physicians as Xue Tuo, Wan Chuan and Fang Xilin. In addition, Di Jiu was already extremely intelligent, and after four years of studying medicine, his level of medical dao was even higher than that of several great physicians.
When Di Jiu was fifteen years old, he fell in love with a girl, Zhen Man, the number one beauty in the Pearl City of Ji Kingdom.
The first time he saw Zhen Man, Di Jiu fell in love with her to the very core of his being. Whether it was because he was an amorous teenager or because Zhen Man was just too beautiful, from the moment he saw Zhen Man, he could never forget her.
Di Jiu, who had not even told his father of his purpose in studying medicine, told him of his love for Zhen Man, and he hoped that his father would go to the Zhen family to propose a marriage for him.
Although Di had six sons, five of them died in the king’s service, leaving Di Jiu alone. Not to mention the fact that Di Jiu had always been strong and studious, even if Di Jiu played around every day, he would personally go to the house to ask for a marriage if his son saw a girl from any family.
Di Shirt was the number one general in Ji, controlling more than 70% of Ji’s army. It could be said that he was an existence above all others. He personally went to the Yan family to ask for a marriage, so it could be said that he was giving face.
Faced with Di Shirt’s marriage proposal, the Yan family neither said yes nor no, but only said that they would let the children get along first.
When Di Jiu’s courtship came, Yan Man likewise neither refused nor accepted, but just got a little closer as usual.
When Di Jiu turned sixteen, his fears became reality. At the age of sixteen, Di Jiu’s third martial arts root test was still nil.