ACultivator'sCampusLife

Chapter 73 The Unbridgeable Gap

Lu Yao was smart. He had already understood what Li Jiang said.

Since ancient times, people would die for riches, just as birds would for food. Likewise, most martial artists would choose to scramble for rare practices or resources.

Even those hypocrites would stop being sanctimonious and expose their greedy nature.

If the practice was extraordinary, even some senior, experienced practitioners and cultivators, who had been stuck in a bottleneck for a long time, would risk their reputation to join the scramble regardless of their dignity and status.

As the saying went, it was a crime for an innocent man to possess precious jade.

Lu Yao's practice was the one for cultivation, and it was also the top practice in the cultivation of Body Refining Phase.

With regard to refining the human body, there were very few practices that could compare to the one Lu Yao was cultivating.

Lu Yao dared to show his rare practice in his usual battles and sparring because he had the protection of Li Jiang, who was resourceful and had lived for countless years.

Other than the Mixed Spirit King Kong Skills and the Leaf Picking Technique, when Lu Yao encountered troublesome problems, Li Jiang always had other more magical practices to help him through his troubles, such as the nameless practice which enabled him to hold his breath and control his heartbeat.

Lu Yao did not work hard on those practices because of Li Jiang's order. Li Jiang explained that those were all easy spells and were not impressive at all. When Lu Yao's strength increased in the future, he would naturally understand the tricks. Now, he only needed to cultivate the most basic and promising practice.

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However, Buick was different. And they had no idea whether or not he could make up his mind to completely give up all of his martial arts skills and start from scratch.

Even if he could do it, how long would it take him to cultivate the Mixed Spirit King Kong Skills to an ideal level? For example, if he wanted to reach the Ru Dao Realm of the Body Refining Phase like Lu Yao, how long would it take?

After all, not everyone had Lu Yao's exceptional luck and talent.

If Buick was unable to enter the Ru Dao Realm of the Body Refining Phase, then it meant he would give up his last hope of becoming a practitioner of martial artists.

Therefore, Li Jiang had enough reason to hesitate.

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Lu Yao was almost sleepless that night. This was the first time he couldn't fall asleep since he had the operation.

He thought about everything that could happen in the future. For example, if Buick refused to give up his skills, what method should Lu Yao use to persuade him?

And, if Buick was willing to give up his skills but was unable to reach the realm he had longed to reach, how would Lu Yao encourage him and comfort him?

Furthermore, what if Buick was willing to give up his practice, and he could also reach the realm as everyone expected, but this brought him a disaster and placed his life in danger? Then how would Lu Yao face it?

Lu Yao thought of all kinds of things thousands of times.

But no matter how many times he thought about this, he could not come to an effective conclusion.

Every time Lu Yao got emotional and distracted, Li Jiang would be able to feel it.

Perhaps this was the feeling of being so close to each other.

However, although Li Jiang was able to sense it, he was indeed unable to help Lu Yao.

Only Lu Yao could help himself.

This was Lu Yao's internal demon. He had to rely on himself to overcome it, just like he had done many times before. Only then could he make progress.

Although Li Jiang had no way to make a decision for Lu Yao, he could give Lu Yao some suggestions.

Without destruction, there could be no construction. This was Li Jiang's opinion.

After thinking about it for a while, Lu Yao felt that Li Jiang's words made a lot of sense.

Once figuring this out, all he needed to do was to persuade Buick.

This was the most important part of Lu Yao's decision. If he failed, everything else would be a lost cause.

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"Brother Buick, are you interested in having a simple sparring session today?" The next day, after school, Lu Yao came to the martial arts school and pulled Buick to the training room.

"Sure, I couldn't ask for more!" Buick was a martial arts enthusiast. Although he knew his conditions best, he could not refuse because it was rare for Lu Yao to make such a proposal. Therefore, he instinctively agreed.

Wang Ping had been the one who understood their thoughts the most, but when he heard Lu Yao's proposal, he couldn't help but frown.

He wanted to stop this match in which Buick was definitely going to lose, but when Lu Yao looked over to stop him, Wang Ping hesitated.

Wang Ping hesitated because he was in a dilemma. He knew Lu Yao's abilities and had confidence in him, and he also worried about Buick's physical conditions.

"Brother Wang, as the referee, you have to umpire the match between me and Brother Buick today!" Before Wang Ping could express his opinion, Lu Yao had already asked him to be the referee.

"I..." Wang Ping hesitated.

"What's wrong with you? You are a grown man! Why are you so hesitant? You don't look like a soldier at all!" When Buick saw Wang Ping being like this, he directly came over to hold his hand and dragged Wang Ping towards the training room.

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"Alright, I'll be your referee." At this time, Wang Ping was already standing in a special fight cage arena made of iron. He pulled Lu Yao and Buick's arms and said, "Now the rules: You can't hit each other on the back of the head or the crotch area. The other parts can be hit. You get one point for hitting the other party in the head or chest, and two points for knocking him down. When the game is over, the scores will be added together and then the one who has higher scores wins. Of course, if you get knocked off in the game, there is no need to count the points..."

"Alright, we are already familiar with the rules. You don't have to continue talking nonsense. Just let the match start!" Buick could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart.

Wang Ping wasn't worried about this, so although Buick urged him again and again, he still looked at Lu Yao who was standing opposite him.

Lu Yao gave a few eye signals with confidence as if he was saying, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

When everything was ready, Wang Ping shouted, "Play!"

Although Buick agreed to have the match, he was very aware of his physical conditions. Therefore, he did not use all his strength to win like he had done in the previous match.

Lu Yao's goal was not to win, but to use this match to attract or persuade Buick to make a choice voluntarily.

The two of them continued to circle around the other, constantly looking for opportunities.

Lu Yao slowly began to try to attack. As they moved and time passed, he started to show his weakness.

Buick had practiced through actual combats. He was quite familiar with the necessary skills to seize opportunities.

Whenever Lu Yao showed a sign of weakness, Buick would always be able to hit him with a punch.

It was a pity that because of his current conditions, Buick could only unleash seventy to eighty percent of his strength, which was about 150 kilos.

This kind of strength was enough to kill a common man. However, it was far from enough to hurt Lu Yao.

Facing Buick's powerful punches, Lu Yao didn't dodge. He took all of them head-on. Moreover, he didn't use any of his spiritual power. He relied only on his body to resist the attacks.

The more Buick fought, the more shocked he became. He had never thought that a man could resist so many attacks.

Buick thought that even though he was unable to reach his pinnacle again after being injured, it shouldn't be a problem for him to survive a hundred moves before losing to Lu Yao. Buick had this confidence because he had practiced martial arts for a long time and accumulated much experience over these years.

Buick didn't have an undeserved reputation. He earned his nickname, Prairie Man Bear, by constantly fighting with his large pair of strong palms.

There used to be a rumor among the nomads in Shuangta City.

There were three powerful creatures on Shuangta's grassland.

Wolves were the third strongest.

Bears were the second.

The Prairie Man Bear ranked the first.

Wolves were social animals and always appeared in groups on the grassland, so in the eyes of the nomads, wolves were among the most powerful animals of the grassland.

Bears generally wandered in the mountains and forests, and they rarely appeared on the grassland, but the ones on Shuangta's grassland were an exception.

From time to time, there would be bears here, so the nomads here regarded bears as powerful creatures that they could not afford to offend.

However, in the eyes of the nomads, the bravest and strongest creature on Shuangta's grassland was Buick, the Prairie Man Bear.

This was not because Buick would hurt them. On the contrary, Buick was their protector. He could not be defeated by anything on Shuangta's grassland.

He single-handedly captured the wolf kings and killed ferocious bears with his two fists many times. He had saved the lives and assets of countless nomads.

However, when he joined the army later, only his legend remained on Shuangta's grassland.

However, even someone as strong as Buick did not expect Lu Yao to be so powerful. Lu Yao never took the initiative to exert force, and every time Buick hit his body, Lu Yao never used any technique to diminish the force exerted by Buick.

Instead, Lu Yao relied only on his strong body to endure the attack.

Everyone who practiced martial arts knew that under such circumstances, unless the difference in strengths between the two sides was large enough, Lu Yao would be courting death by doing so.

But now, Lu Yao was fighting in this way to create miracles over and over again.

Through this simple fight, the difference in strengths between the two of them had been infinitely magnified.

If it was anyone else who fought with Buick like this, Buick would feel like this was a great insult to him.

Because it was a great insult to any martial artist if they had been invited to be in a battle and then be fooled by the other party in such a way.

However, Buick had known Lu Yao for a long time. He knew that Lu Yao was not that kind of person, so no matter what, Buick would not feel any anger.

"Forget it, Brother Lu Yao. I admit defeat. The gap between you and me is not big, but unbridgeable. That's all for today!" Buick understood what had happened on the field and suggested ending the match.

After Buick finished speaking, Lu Yao also stopped moving and he stood opposite Buick, quietly looking at him.