Rise from a Low-class Family to Martial Artist

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Instructor Zhang loves to use Senior Brother Lin to discourage them. They truly believed what Instructor Zhang said, that Senior Brother Lin had an easy time doing body refining training here.

Now it seems they were all deceived by Instructor Zhang!!!

Even Senior Brother Lin, back then here, went through hell, enduring unbearable inhuman pain.

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Canglan Lake.

Lin Chen’s figure descended from the sky, flashed, and disappeared before the eyes of many disciples by the lake.

"Someone just dove into the lake, right? My eyes weren’t playing tricks on me, were they?"

"Where did this person come from? You must be seeing things!"

"Nonsense, if I were seeing things, how do you explain that ripple in the water?"

Lin Chen’s speed was so fast that the disciples of Canglan Martial Arts Academy on site couldn’t make out his form. Just as the disciples were still discussing, excited voices came from not far away.

"Hurry, there’s news from the instructor that Senior Brother Lin has returned to our Canglan Martial Arts Academy and will meet us at the Martial Arts Arena!"

"Senior Brother Lin? Which Senior Brother Lin?"

Some who were slow didn’t react right away, standing there foolishly asking questions, while others immediately rushed down the mountain, intending to snatch a front-row spot.

"Fools, besides Senior Brother Lin Chen, who else is worthy of such a notification from the instructor?"

"Holy shit, it’s Senior Brother Lin Chen! I chose Canglan Martial Arts Academy precisely because of Senior Brother Lin Chen, and I must secure a good spot no matter what."

"Well, who didn’t choose Canglan Martial Arts Academy because of Senior Brother Lin Chen?"

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In the blink of an eye, all the figures by Canglan Lake’s shore disappeared, and at this moment Lin Chen had already reached the bottom of Canglan Lake.

With his current realm, he could clearly sense the Canglan energy flowing from that fissure. However, due to the restriction of the array, the speed at which the Canglan energy overflowed was not fast.

With both hands forming a seal, Lin Chen operated the Azure Wave Technique, the energy from the fissure seemed to sense something, and surged violently against the fissure.

One quarter, two quarters of an hour...

The original shallow fissure turned into an opening large enough for a person to traverse, and the entire lake surface changed from light blue to deep blue at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This deep blue color of the lake water usually only appeared when Canglan Creek was fully opened.

Lin Chen did not fully open Canglan Creek. The energy of Canglan inside the senior’s cave, if fully released, would be completely gone within three years, but at the current speed, it could be maintained for a century.

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Half a two-hour later, Lin Chen returned to the courtyard arranged for him by the Academy Director.

"I looked into it, and in truth, this Canglan Martial Arts Academy isn’t of much help to you."

Yin Yue spoke softly as she saw Lin Chen return. According to her understanding, Canglan Martial Arts Academy merely provided Lin Chen with some training pointers, as for resources, the resources for the Refining Viscera Realm weren’t much.

"For you or for the current me, these aids really aren’t much. But for the past me, these aids were like delivering charcoal in the snow, a huge favor."

Lin Chen looked earnestly at Yin Yue. Yin Yue came from a noble background, and the resources given by the academy to the disciples were probably not even worth noticing or had never even been heard of by her.

Yin Yue furrowed her brow slightly. She could understand the meaning in Lin Chen’s words but still didn’t quite get it.

The resources and guidance given could fully be repaid with a few Flame Coins. Why waste time on this matter?

Lin Chen didn’t care whether Yin Yue truly understood or not. Once his divine thought perceived that the disciples of the academy had already gathered at the Martial Arts Arena, his figure flashed and disappeared from the courtyard.

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One day later.

The Martial Arts Alliance published an article to all martial artists on Canglan Island.

The article’s author was: Canglan Island’s top martial artist, a Celestial Pride disciple of the Canglan Sect, and the Flame Dynasty’s top martial artist from Martial Arts Mountain, Lin Chen.

The article was titled "Morning Grinding Proverb of Canglan Martial Arts Academy," documenting the words Lin Chen spoke to the disciples at the Martial Arts Arena of Canglan Martial Arts Academy.

The full text was divided into three sections: The first section was Lin Chen recalling his martial path journey at Canglan Martial Arts Academy, the second section was Lin Chen recounting his journey from Canglan Island to the Flame Dynasty, transitioning from the first talent of Canglan Island to an unknown ordinary martial artist in the Flame Dynasty, describing his evolving mindset along the way.

The third section was Lin Chen’s encouragement and expectation for the disciples of Canglan Martial Arts Academy, and at the invitation of the academy’s director and teachers, Lin Chen left a poetic inscription on the stone tablet at the Martial Arts Arena.

With repeated practice, the weapon’s edge is honed; cultivations revisited, the path is grasped.

Do not envy others who walk the clouded road; even a slow bird will soar to become a roc.

This article spread throughout the entirety of Liang in just one day, and in three days it had reached every corner of Canglan Island.

Poyang Lake, Linhu Village.

Looking at the announcement brought by his teacher, Lin Chen felt a tinge of helplessness: "Lord Kong praised me too highly."

This time, Lin Chen was truly embarrassed. The poem he wrote at the end wasn’t exactly plagiarized, but neither was it very poetic, just about on the level of doggerel.

"The poem isn’t important, it’s the one who writes it that matters. Even if others wrote it elegantly, so what?"

Jia Nanzhu stroked his beard with a smile, then sighed: "Lord Kong and the others have it hard too. Canglan Island now has contact with the outside world, and though it’s thanks to you that we aren’t bullied by other islands, the more we interact with the outside, the more we realize how lacking our island’s martial resources are. Never mind East Sea Divine Palace and the Eastern Sea land’s sects, even other islands have quite a few martial artists who reach middle or upper grade by the age of twenty, while on Canglan Island they are so few."