Chapter 2

: Dantian Shattered, Awakening Panel

Lin Fang didn't know how she got out of the doctor's office.

She staggered down the corridor, but never dared to go to her son's ward.

The family's only hope of becoming a martial artist was gone just like that, and she didn't know how to face her son.

She didn't even dare to step into her son's hospital room; seeing him made her burst into tears.

"Auntie, what's wrong?"

A nurse noticed that Lin Fang seemed dazed and couldn't help but go up to ask her what was wrong.

"No, I'm fine."

Lin Fang wiped away her tears and forced a smile. "Girl, I'm fine. You go ahead with your work."

"It's good that you're alright. If you're not feeling well, please sit down and rest in the seat next to you."

Knowing that Lin Fang didn't want to talk much, the nurse didn't ask any further questions. Seeing Lin Fang sit down in the seat next to her, she left.

Sitting in her seat, Lin Fang couldn't help but silently shed tears whenever she thought about her son's situation.

The doctor's words echoed in my mind:

"A shattered dantian is basically impossible to repair unless there's some rare and precious treasure. Or you could take him to the capital; perhaps there's a way."

My husband and I are ordinary people. Our son wasn't a genius to begin with, and our daughter is frail and sickly. We have no other relatives. Where would we get the money to go to the capital?

It's difficult for ordinary people to even enter or leave Jiangbei City, let alone the distant capital.

Lin Fang grew up in Jiangbei City and had never left the city.

Ferocious beasts roam outside the city; only those who become martial artists can leave.

There was nothing but despair!

Lin Fang wished she could suffer in her son's place.

"Who on earth is targeting my son like this? We're just ordinary people, who have we offended?"

Lin Fang just couldn't understand it!

My son is usually hardworking and diligent, and I've never heard him mention offending anyone at school.

She didn't know how much time had passed when Lin Fang suddenly heard her husband's voice.

"Fangfang, why are you sitting here all alone?"

Lin Fang looked up and saw her husband holding the lunchbox. Finally, she couldn't hold back anymore, stood up immediately, hugged her husband, and cried.

"Brother Yuan, our son, he, he..."

"Don't cry, what happened to our son?"

The thought of his son's accident made Chen Mingyuan anxious. Before Lin Fang could answer, he said, "Let go and take me to see him."

"Brother Yuan, wait a minute. My son is alright, let me explain first."

Thinking about her son, Lin Fang immediately came to her senses; she had no intention of discussing this matter in her son's hospital room.

He also didn't want to talk about his son's shattered dantian in public.

Soon the two reached an empty stairwell, where Lin Fang, while crying, repeated what the doctor had said to her husband.

After hearing this, Chen Mingyuan also couldn't accept it.

But how could he not believe the attending physician?

He was a man, and he didn't make a scene.

Chen Mingyuan held Lin Fang in his arms, gently patting her back to comfort her.

"It's good that I'm alive. I have all my limbs, I can live an ordinary life, and I can find a job to support myself in the future."

"But I don't know how to face him. Becoming a martial artist is his only wish. He has been diligently practicing stance training since he was 6 years old, and for the past 12 years, he has not taken a single day off."

"He said he wanted to become a martial artist, earn lots and lots of money to treat his sister's illness, and give us a better life."

"But now everything is gone. With his dantian shattered, he can't become a martial artist at all. How can we tell him?"

"How will he cope if he finds out he can't become a martial artist?"

……

the other side.

Chen Mo was the only patient in the ward.

Chen Mo slowly woke up, the pain in his body had subsided by most, and he felt much better.

He looked around, but couldn't find his mother.

He figured they'd gone to eat, so he didn't think much of it.

Just as he was thinking about how to kill time, he suddenly saw a golden light screen appear in front of him.

"Virtual projection?"

Chen Mo immediately had this idea: although thermal weapons became ineffective after the appearance of the Abyss Rift, technology was further developed because of the products of the Abyss.

Virtual projection has already been realized; it's used in schools for watching documentaries and teaching martial arts techniques.

After he saw what was displayed on the screen, he confirmed that it was not a virtual projection, but rather his plugin had arrived.

[Host: Chen Mo]

[Talent: Heaven rewards diligence (you reap what you sow, and one certificate proves it forever)]

[Realm: Fifth-Rank Martial Apprentice (Dantian Shattered) Health: 51 Spirit: 99]

[Exercise: Basic Stance Training (172/200)]

【武技:基础拳法小成(42/200)基础刀法小成(33/200)基础身法入门(89/100)】

General proficiency points: 0

Chen Mo was very familiar with this panel; he had played a single-player martial arts game in his previous life that had a very similar panel.

In the game, you gain one point of proficiency every time you defeat a monster.

However, the panel in front of us is different; cultivating martial arts techniques does not require fighting monsters.

Having read many novels in his previous life, if he understood correctly, the "Heaven rewards diligence" in the talent section simply means that as long as you work hard, you will reap the rewards. Moreover, once you learn the skills and martial arts techniques, you will never forget them, nor will you regress due to years of not practicing.

Any martial arts technique or skill can be successfully learned through diligent practice once it is recorded on the panel.

There are no requirements for comprehension or learning threshold.

In other words, it means possessing extraordinary comprehension, but it takes time to acquire it.

He can learn the martial arts techniques that geniuses can learn, and he can also learn the martial arts techniques that geniuses cannot learn.

This is very much in line with his current personality; if he lacks talent, he makes up for it with hard work.

Twelve years of consistent practice is the best proof.

Unfortunately, he didn't have this panel back then, so he couldn't see the progress bar and most of his efforts were in vain.

If he had awakened this talent at the age of 6, by now, 12 years later, he would at least be a martial arts master, if not a grandmaster.

However, it's not too late now.

With this panel, he can become a martial artist in a short time.

From now on, he will definitely become a "liver king" and work his ass off to the end of time.

However, upon looking at the realm section, it was noted that his dantian was shattered.

Chen Mo was dumbfounded; his path in martial arts was about to be cut off!

History books have long established the different levels of martial arts practitioners.

They are respectively: Martial Apprentice, Martial Artist, Martial Master, Grand Martial Master, and Grandmaster.

Each realm is further divided into nine ranks, with the first rank being the lowest and the ninth rank being the highest.

In the martial arts apprentice stage, one trains their muscles and bones, develops a sense of qi, condenses qi and blood, and begins to use internal energy to strengthen specific parts of the body.

Martial artists, on the other hand, must open their dantian, condense their inner energy, and master basic martial arts techniques, so that they can release energy outwards for a short time, such as by striking with fist wind, or by emitting sword energy, saber energy, etc.

The other realms were not explained in detail, the reason being that one should not be overly ambitious.

Because most people find it difficult to become a martial artist in their lifetime, let alone reach other realms.

Take his graduating class of high school students, for example. To this day, no one has been heard of successfully opening their dantian, condensing their inner energy, and becoming a martial artist.

The Martial Apprentice realm cannot be considered a true martial artist; it is merely a preparatory stage for becoming a martial artist. Its core is to hone the body and refine the qi and blood.

Only by condensing 100 units of Qi and Blood can one have the opportunity to become a martial artist.

However, the words "dantian shattered" dealt Chen Mo a fatal blow.

"As soon as a cheat code appeared, it blocked my path as a martial artist. Who exactly destroyed my dantian?"

"Those who obstruct my path are my mortal enemies! No matter who it is, I will retaliate in kind."

The dantian is the cornerstone of martial arts; without a dantian, one cannot become a martial artist.

The foundation for becoming a martial artist is to reach the ninth rank of martial apprentice, have a blood and qi value of 100, circulate the cultivation technique, steam the blood and qi, transform it into internal energy, open the dantian, and condense the internal energy vortex within the dantian. Only in this way can one become a true martial artist.

Now that his dantian is shattered, his internal energy leaks out as soon as it enters it. How can he possibly condense an internal energy vortex in his dantian?