Dawn of a New Era - Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Bow Stance Pierce

Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
On the morning of the second day, Chen Shouyi opened his eyes. He was in a daze for over ten seconds before he finally recalled the miraculous encounter yesterday.

Although his mind was clear, after yesterday night, it felt like he was in a beautiful dream. Everything felt surreal.

He cautiously probed as he summoned the “Book of Knowledge”.

Only when the illusory attributes panel appeared in his mind did he finally heave a sigh of relief.

“This is real, it is not a dream. I’m really already different!”

He mumbled silently. His chest seemed to be filled with strength, and his entire body was overflowing with motivation power.

At this moment, he discovered that the Accumulated Energy in his info panel had risen. Yesterday after the optimization, he was only left with 0.2 Accumulated Energy. Now, after a good night’s sleep, the number became 0.24.

Maybe after a few days, he would be able to optimize more things once again.

He stretched his hand out and grabbed his handphone that was placed at the side of his bed. He glanced at the time; it was only 5.30 am.

Right now, if it was the past him, he would have continued sleeping for one more hour, only rising unwillingly at 6.30 am after being awakened by his mother.

But at this moment, he didn’t feel like sleeping.

He rapidly sat up from his bed.

“Si~”

At the next instant, he felt the muscles of his entire body become extremely sore and painful. But such feelings caused him to have a look of joy on his face.

According to logic, for people like him who usually practiced the Thirty-six Stances of Body Training a few times every night, he wouldn’t usually feel so sore. There was only one reason why such a phenomenon appeared. The training he had done must have involved many muscles he had never trained before.

This was undoubtedly a good thing. This meant that the optimized Thirty-six Stances of Body Training could train the muscles of his body more thoroughly and deeply.

He gritted his teeth and endured the soreness and pain as he walked into the bathroom for a quick shower.

After showering, while he was brushing his teeth, Chen Xingyue clad in her pajamas walked in. Her eyes were semi-closed, and there was a dazed look on her face as she walked toward the toilet. Just when she was preparing to pull down her pants, Chen Shouyi hurriedly coughed loudly.

Chen Xingyue instantly opened her eyes wide, staring at Chen Shouyi as her gaze turned sharp. Her aura gushed out, and only after she saw her brother did she return to normal. She rebuked, “Elder brother, how loathsome, you gave me a scare.”

Chen Shouyi was the one who was badly frightened by her, his heart pounding. Under that terrifying aura, he felt like he was a harmless little bunny before her that she could crush at will.

After all, this was his younger sister. Chen Shouyi had a psychological advantage. He swiftly recollected himself and retorted, “How can you blame me? Why didn’t you see carefully before entering?”

“Who asked you to wake up so early today for nothing? Also, you are half-naked with only a piece of underwear. Don’t you feel shame standing like this before your younger sister?”

Chen Shouyi glanced down. All of a sudden, he felt speechless to retort.

What a sharp-tongued younger sister. Yesterday, he still felt that his younger sister had become more adorable. But just one day had passed and her younger sister already revealed her original self.

In the end, Chen Shouyi who was speechless could only frown and snort coldly. He hurriedly brushed his teeth and returned to his room with a snort.

…

“Father, mother! I’m going to school now.”

Taking the buns Mother Chen had bought, he munched on them as he rode his bicycle and headed toward school.

“Be careful on the road!”

“I know!”

After eating four meat buns, he realized that his hunger wasn’t sated yet. He had no choice but to head to a small food store and bought another five meat buns before he finally felt full.

…

The moment Sun Xin entered the class, he had a face filled with resentment as he complained, “You didn’t come yesterday. I was almost angered to death. It wasn’t easy for me to rise to the gold-rank and I encountered an elementary school student as my teammate, causing me to drop back into silver.”

Chen Shouyi was memorizing english words as he replied, “What’s there to be angry about? Isn’t that just a game? You can simply climb up again.”

Mother Chen was very strict, which resulted in the fact that he rarely played games. He also didn’t have the condition to play because he didn’t even have a computer at home. Even for his handphone, he had received it after his parents had bought a new handphone for themselves, retiring their old one. His phone could only surf the web and make some calls. Well, his parents were worried that he might be corrupted by bad examples.

“You… Sigh, why don’t I have a common topic with you…” Sun Xin depressedly mumbled. At this moment, he discovered something. “Ai, what’s going on with you today? Why are you working so hard? Were you provoked by something?”

In usual times, although Chen Shouyi worked hard, he wouldn’t work so hard to this extent. Even when speaking to him, Chen Shouyi was multitasking, nagging at him while memorizing english words.

“We are already in our final year. If we don’t work hard, it would be too late.” Chen Shouyi didn’t even turn his head back as he spoke. Now, he was filled with motivation; his entire being was brimming with enthusiasm.

Regardless of the Martial Apprentice Test or the college entrance examinations, he had to pass one of them at the very least.

Sun Xin laughed. He put down his bag and was not bothered at all.

He had already heard such words from Chen Shouyi numerous times. But every time, Chen Shouyi only had short-lived enthusiasm. A few days later, Chen Shouyi would revert to his original state.

…

In the afternoon, at the basketball court of Dongning No. 5 High School, tens of rubber body models were lined up neatly in two rows.

Young males and females in uniform had wooden swords in their hands as they continued performing piercing actions toward the rubber models.

‘Pak, pak’ sounds echoed out unceasingly.

A middle-aged man dressed in sports attire paced about the crowd and constantly adjusted the postures and movements of the students.

Other than the bow stance being one of the test requirements for martial apprentices with regards to cold weapons, other short-range weapons like swords were not restricted too. Regardless of sabers, swords, staves or daggers, everything was fine. However, a sword was more main-stream. In addition, their class’s teacher that was in charge of physical education was more proficient in sword techniques. Hence, he only taught sword techniques to the students.

Chen Shouyi had a serious expression on his face as he pierced out again and again with his sword, aiming for the rubber model and knocking it askew.

The upper part of the rubber model was constructed to be similar to a human body. However, it didn’t have any legs, only a round spheroid shape at the bottom. Over ten kilograms of metal was contained within the sphere. The rubber model was like a roly-poly toy; thus, no matter how great the exerted force was, it was impossible to make it fall flat.

“Every standard piercing attack executed with the bow stance is a reflection of the cooperation of the entire muscles in your body.”

“When executing piercing attacks in the bow stance, do not depend on brute force. It doesn’t mean the greater the force you exerted, the better the effect would be. You have to properly experience your unleashed strength and see if harmonization occurred between your muscles.”

“From your left foot stepping on the ground, to your leg, to your waist, to your chest, to your shoulder, to your finger. You can feel it for yourself to see if each part of your body has exerted strength or not. Did all the crucial parts of your body work together to unleash the displayed might?”

“The human body is full of natural pivots. If you used the least amount of force to unleash the greatest might, your strength would explosively surge from the lowest level all the way through to your sword tip.

“If all of you have some degree of mastery with regards to ‘Entering Meditation to Train One’s Body’, you will find it slightly easier to achieve this step. If you haven’t achieved it yet, you can only practice more.”

The physical education teacher listed out the requirements of the piercing attacks. He had already gone through this many times, and Chen Shouyi could already memorize his words perfectly.

In this internet era, knowledge was cheap. One only had to move their finger and they would be able to gain a vast amount of knowledge and information. There were scripts, videos, and teaching materials available everywhere.

However, knowledge was one thing. Wanting to perfectly execute that was extremely difficult. Including him, the vast majority of people had no way to execute a perfect Bow Stance Pierce. This was the basic movement in sword techniques.

To gain an elementary proficiency in sword techniques was very difficult. It was unknown how many people had qualified body conditions, yet they were blocked by this stage.

As for the ‘Entering Meditation to Train One’s Body’, that was even more difficult. Just entering meditation alone was full of obstacles for Chen Shouyi. There was no need to mention attempting to ‘refine and train’ his body in the void that meditation brought.

Compared to the relatively smooth movements of others, Chen Shouyi’s muscles were so stiff that it was as though they were stone slabs. It was truly a tragic sight.

But even so, he still seriously pierced out, working hard to experience each part of his body as they worked together to unleash might, attempting to make his movements closer to the criteria required.

Luckily, both Sun Xin who was at the side and Zhao Yifeng in front of him were performing even shittier than him, causing him to feel somewhat comforted.

The lesson soon ended.

The three of them gathered again and returned to the classroom together.

“I’m so tired that I feel like dying. There’s no meaning in the martial class at all. We might as well skip it.” Zhao Yifeng panted and his black chubby face was filled with sweat.

“You should lose some weight.” Chen Shouyi couldn’t help but comment when he saw this. “Females would never love fat guys.”

“You speak like there’s someone who is in love with you.” Zhao Yifeng answered back sarcastically.

Chen Shouyi. “…”

In this class, Chen Shouyi was basically an unknown, like a transparent person. Other than mixing together with his two bad friends, chatting with them about everything under the sun, he would usually be quiet and uncommunicative. Occasionally, when the female students greeted him, his face would even blush unknowingly.

“Do you guys know how a woman tastes like?” Sun Xin had a curious look on his face as he interrupted from the side.

“Isn’t this simple? Just spend some money and you will know.” Zhao Yifeng had a lustful look on his face. “I know a pretty good place that’s very safe. Should we head there one day?”

“I’ll pass. I don’t go to such places.” Chen Shouyi hurriedly rejected in fright.

He absolutely didn’t dare to go to such places. When he thought of these places, he would instantly think about sexually transmitted diseases, the police, the disappointment of his parents, as well as the ridicule and disdain of his younger sister.

Especially for the last part, when he thought of that scene, he couldn’t help but tremble.

Maybe, the end of the world was probably no different from this, right?