Chapter 152: The Missed Opportunity in Fangu

Fang Jie lied on a flat and cold marble slab, and he felt like he was a lamb that was waiting to be butchered. His upper body was naked, and his muscular chest and eight pack were all shown. Many people would be jealous of him having such a great physique at such a young age.

Fang Jie wasn’t used to being surrounded and watched by others, but he couldn’t go back on his words after he agreed to Principal Zhou’s research.

However, he didn’t know that Professor Qiu Yu would be researching his body as well.

Qiu Yu stood beside Fang Jie and concentrated on his abdomen. She didn’t feel anything strange staring at this muscular male body, but Fang Jie felt uncomfortable, so he moved his body slightly from time to time.

Qiu Yu frowned and said in a low voice, “Don’t move! How can I observe when you are moving?”

Fang Jie thought, “How can you take advantage of me so boldly?”

However, he wanted to know more about his body as well, so he tried to calm down.

Qiu Yu’s eyes stared at Fang Jie’s abdomen. After a long time, she looked at his limbs. In the end, Fang Jie was sure that even though he had his pants on, no secret was hidden.

“How is it?” Principal Zhou asked as he sat on the side and drank tea.

“It is strange.” Qiu Yu shook her head and answered, “I’m sure that he doesn’t have a sea of qi, so there aren’t meridians connecting to it. However, the 11 qi-points in his body are all open. I don’t understand it. What is the use of these qi-points when they aren’t connected to the sea of qi?”

Principal Zhou frowned and thought for a moment, then he said, “See if there are internal forces inside his qi-points.”

Qiu Yu nodded and concentrated on Fang Jie’s body again.

When Fang Jie heard that there were now 11 opened qi-points in his body, he was surprised but didn’t ask anything. After he left Fangu, he learned that his qi-points were gradually opening. He had zero opened qi-point in Fangu, but he now had 11 opened qi-points after less than a year.

Qiu Yu was looking at him, yet he was pondering. “Could it be that my body is becoming stronger because of these qi-points?”

It made sense from the perspective of cultivation. When more qi-points that were connected to the sea of qi opened, more internal forces would be stored. Also, with more opened qi-points, the body should become stronger. However, only those with 36 or more opened qi-points could cultivate. Right now, Fang Jie was only an ordinary person from this perspective.

Only when the 36 unique qi-points in the four limbs and torso opened could the internal forces travel through the body smoothly, tempering the body and creating circulation.

Fang Jie only had 11 qi-points, and they were isolated from each other.

“No!” Qiu Yu confirmed after observing for a while, “Not a trace of internal forces could be detected in the 11 opened qi-points. His physique is on-par and even a little above the physique of ordinary cultivators because his muscles are strong. His strength is from his muscles and not internal forces.”

“His strength from muscles can be compared to strength from internal forces?” Principal Zhou asked after thinking for a while, “Where are these 11 qi-points?”

“Three in each of the two arms, two in each of the two legs…”

“What about the last one?”

“In…” Qiu Yu suddenly blushed and murmured after hesitating for a while, “In between his legs…”

“Huh?” Principal Zhou was surprised, and he walked over and looked at Fang Jie while speaking with resignation, “I never heard of a single case where a qi-point appeared there. Could that thing unleash internal forces as well?”

Qiu Yu blushed and reminded, “He doesn’t have internal forces.”

“Right… Then he is quite talented. Damn it! Such a useless talent!” Principal Zhou cursed, but he sounded a little jealous.

Fang Jie blushed, but he spoke with pride, “Who said this is useless? Just ask what ability all men want! At least 70 percent of them would want this!”

“Low!” Principal Zhou spoke with slight anger, “Too low and vulgar!”

Fang Jie argued, “As long as my talent is useful. It would add joy to life.”

Qiu Yu turned around awkwardly and stopped looking at Fang Jie, and Principal Zhou stroked his beard angrily, stayed silent, and stared at Fang Jie.

Fang Jie felt like he wasn’t in the wrong since he was proud of what he had.

…

-Under the waterfall in the back of the Martial Arts Academy-

After being researched in the morning, Qiu Yu took Fang Jie to this place.

Fang Jie was sure that Qiu Yu brought him here and asked him to experience the huge pressure under the waterfall because of his righteous debate with Principal Zhou in the morning.

Not to appear weak, Fang Jie took off all his clothes. There was little difference in wearing and not wearing clothes to this female professor who had a pair of white eyes. Fang Jie believed that even if he was wearing iron plates instead of clothes, he couldn’t block that pair of white eyes.

Qiu Yu realized that she couldn’t do anything to this shameless young man, so she turned around not to look at him anymore.

Fang Jie thought about many things when he stood under this waterfall last time. For example, he thought about his red eyes.

This time, he didn’t think about anything and focused on sensing the changes to his body.

The water fell from the mountain, landing on Fang Jie’s body like endless fists. It felt like Fang Jie had a practice partner who would never get tired.

Fang Jie concentrated and felt the subtle changes inside his body as the waterfall landed on him.

Since the water dropped down continuously, Fang Jie soon got used to it and couldn’t sense it again. In order to capture that glimpse of sensation, Fang Jie took a step back and moved most of his body out of the waterfall. Then, he reached out an arm to sense the power of the waterfall.

After he moved his torso out of the waterfall, waterdrops would only hit his torso from time to time.

Fang Jie was looking for this effect.

When the waterdrops hit his body occasionally, Fang Jie would concentrate his energy on sensing the reaction of the part of his body that got hit. Although it seemed easy, it was difficult in reality. It was extremely tough to capture this momentary reaction.

Qiu Yu had turned around and was blanking out while starting at a wildflower in afar. After a while, she suddenly thought about Fang Jie and realized that not many noises were being made.

She turned around and saw that young man closing his eyes and reaching out one of his arms. It looked like he turned into a rock, and he stood still naked.

Qiu Yu soon realized what Fang Jie was trying to do, and she looked at him with appreciation. Although this young man’s method was dumb, it wasn’t simple for him to realize what to look out for. She ignored his mature body and was only interested in how long it would take this young man to realize the changes in his body.

Fortunately, Fang Jie didn’t make her wait for too long.

About an hour later, Fang Jie opened his eyes and heaved a long sigh.

“So it is like this,” Fang Jie thought to himself.

As if the waterdrops and the water stream were attacks, his muscles would instantly react after being hit. Since the water stream was continuous, his muscles wouldn’t change after reacting. That made it hard for Fang Jie to sense anything.

However, waterdrops were different. Although they hit Fang Jie from time to time, and Fang Jie’s muscles reacted in split-seconds, Fang Jie detected the changes after repeated attempts.

His muscles would instantly harden after being hit. Since the waterdrops didn’t have a ton of force, it was difficult to detect the response from the muscles.

Fang Jie only managed to detect it after concentrating for a while.

Fang Jie understood that his muscles would respond to external forces. After being hit, that part of his body would harden and block the incoming forces. Since the waterdrops were light, all the incoming forces were negated. However, if someone punched Fang Jie with force, only a portion of the incoming forces would be eliminated.

Fang Jie thought in joy, “If my body continues to grow, will I be able to ignore all attacks in the future?”

After thinking about that, Fang Jie instantly turned around and wanted to ask Qiu Yu. Then, he realized that he was naked and quickly put on his uniform that was already wet on the side.

He jumped out of the waterfall and asked Qiu Yu quickly, “Professor, can I ask you something?”

“What is it?”

Qiu Yu straightened her bangs and waited for Fang Jie’s question.

“Is there such a physique in the world that can’t be hurt by sabers and spears? Something in the real world and not imaginary?”

“Yes.”

“Who has it?”

“I heard…” Qiu Yu paused for a second and said with a strange tone, “I heard that the Buddhist Sect has 3,000 golden-body monk soldiers, and they can’t be harmed by sabers and spears. I don’t know if they are born this way, or they cultivated a special technique. Also, the old monk who captured you that day; he mastered a unique technique of the Buddhist Sect. Even the flying swords of powerful cultivators couldn’t harm him, let alone ordinary weapons.”

“Huh?”

Fang Jie froze for a second and asked angrily, “How come only the people of the Buddhist Sect have this ability? Isn’t there a cultivator of Great Sui who has this physique?”

“Yes… Luo Yao,” Qiu Yu said after a moment of silence, “If you want to know more about it, you should ask Principal Zhou. I don’t know much about the Buddhist Sect. There is someone else who you can ask, if he is willing to talk to you. However, you can’t find him now.”

“Who?”

“You saw him the other day. There was a senior in a sapphire robe when we attacked that old monk together. He knows more about the golden body of the Buddhist Sect. It is because… he battled those golden-body monk soldiers about 11 years ago.”

“Where is he now?” Fang Jie asked.

“He should be chasing after that old monk. Also, the village woman who saved you that day went with him.”

Fang Jie froze for a second and finally understood why Du Hongxian left so quickly without talking to him. He couldn’t help but think, “So, she went with that senior in the sapphire robe to chase after that old monk. Did I underestimate her before? She is so powerful. Does she know things about the Buddhist Sect as well? Otherwise, why did she chase after that old monk?”

Fang Jie suddenly realized that he missed many people and many things. He wondered why he didn’t realize that both Su Tugou and Du Hongxian were cultivation masters who potentially had battled the people of the Buddhist Sect before. He could have gotten answers to many questions on his mind back at Fangu.