After dinner, Mom and Dad took little brother Luo Hua downstairs for a stroll, while Luo Feng himself headed off to his tutoring job.
Around six in the evening, the sky was already on the verge of complete darkness.
“This tutoring gig will have to end soon, too,” Luo Feng mused, darting through the narrow alleys like a leopard—agile and swift. He reached a dead end, but with a single leap, he soared over two meters high, lightly brushing the top of the wall with his left hand, exerting just enough force to propel himself into the next alley.
This hurried run served as an excellent warm-up before tutoring.
Luo Feng maintained a speed of 15 meters per second, equivalent to 54 kilometers per hour. This wasn't his absolute limit, but it was perfect for warming up.
Hoo! Hoo!
“The college entrance exams are only a month away, so I’ll stop tutoring for now. Still, tutoring these past six months earned me twenty thousand yuan.” It was only last year that he had earned the title of ‘Advanced Trainee,’ which made it much easier to secure this tutoring job teaching a young boy basic movement techniques.
The pay was 100 yuan per hour.
He taught five days a week, one hour every evening. That meant his monthly salary was just over 2,000 yuan.
“Dad works hard all day and brings home only two or three thousand a month. In just one hour of tutoring, I earn more than him… this is the difference between an ordinary person and an Advanced Trainee from a martial arts gym! If I could become a true ‘Warrior,’ the difference would be staggering.” Luo Feng’s eyes sharpened. A delivery truck was turning around in the alley ahead, completely blocking the path.
But Luo Feng didn't slow down. Mid-stride, he suddenly pushed off the ground, leaping two or three meters high, then tapped the alley wall twice before soaring down again to continue his furious pace.
A moment later—
Luo Feng arrived outside a quiet, secluded residential compound.
“This is where Mom and Dad belong,” Luo Feng stopped, gazing at the tranquil complex. The residential density here was low; it featured man-made pools, abundant flora and fauna, and even high-rise buildings boasted sky gardens on every floor.
Besides the high-rises, there were also townhouses.
It was important to remember—
Currently, Huaxia had only six major bases, which meant six major cities! Each city housed an astonishing population; Jiangnan City alone had nearly 200 million residents. Naturally, land was extremely scarce. Structures like ‘stacked villas’ and ‘townhouses’ were rare and incredibly expensive. And ‘detached villas,’ which required even more sprawling acreage, necessitated the payment of massive luxury taxes.
“I’m heading to Building 18, Unit 1801,” Luo Feng told the compound security guard when he reached the gate.
“One moment.” The guard pressed a button on the intercom. Immediately, a nearby camera focused on Luo Feng, and the voice of the resident from 1801 came through the speaker. “It’s Little Luo, let him in.”
“Certainly, sir.” The security guard instantly granted access.
…
An hour later, Luo Feng walked out of the compound.
“Alright, tutoring is done. I’ll head to the gym to see if my strength has improved recently.”
The Ultimate Martial Arts Gym, the largest martial arts institution on Earth, founded by the world’s strongest man, ‘Hong.’
Various martial arts gyms were scattered across the globe.
Beep! Luo Feng swiped his trainee card at the main entrance and entered the gym grounds.
An Ultimate Martial Arts Gym occupied an area so vast it felt like a gigantic monster crouching there, larger than a high school. The main entrance was wide enough for ten cars to pass through side-by-side. Inside the grounds stood three colossal, silver-white buildings, shaped like three spaceships.
“Senior Brother!”
“Good morning, Senior Brother.”
On the paths and lawns within the compound, numerous gym trainees were present. Upon seeing the Advanced Trainee badge hanging on Luo Feng’s chest, every single one greeted him with deep respect.
Inside the gym, the three giant buildings housed the teaching centers for Junior Trainees, Intermediate Trainees, and Advanced Trainees, respectively.
The first and second floors of the Advanced Trainee building contained massive lecture halls, each capable of holding several thousand people. The gym’s instructors conducted their lessons here. The total number of trainees across the entire Ultimate Martial Arts Gym was around thirty to forty thousand.
One could only become a gym trainee at the age of 16, and they were forbidden from using teaching resources after turning 30.
The total number of Advanced Trainees at this specific gym was only about a hundred. Most of them were in their twenties.
Luo Feng, however, was only 18 years old.
“Good morning, Senior Brother.”
Listening to the respectful calls all the way, Luo Feng entered the third floor of the Advanced Trainee building—a section reserved exclusively for advanced members.
The third floor featured a large training hall, spanning a hundred meters long and wide, where about a dozen people were currently present.
“Madman.”
“Madman’s here.”
As soon as he entered the expansive hall, these dozen or so Advanced Trainees greeted him enthusiastically.
“Brother Wang, Brother Yang, Sister Li,” Luo Feng called out with a smile, feeling a surge of warmth looking at this group of older seniors. All of them were over twenty; Luo Feng was naturally the youngest. Of course, the Yian District Ultimate Martial Arts Gym had more than just these dozen Advanced Trainees—the total number exceeded a hundred. But generally, without scheduled lessons, most trainees couldn't be bothered to show up.
Unless they were poor and lacked a place to train, they wouldn't frequent the gym’s training hall.
Those from wealthier families usually had their own dedicated private training rooms.
Therefore—
These dozen or so trainees almost all lived in subsidized rental housing. Because they shared the commonality of being poor, they naturally stuck together, forming a small clique. Luo Feng had earned the nickname ‘Madman’ after angrily defeating three wealthy Advanced Trainees in consecutive matches the previous year.
“After training for half a month, I wonder how much my strength has improved.”
Luo Feng walked toward the ‘Punch Force Testing Machine’ located in the corner of the hall. Two of these machines were lined up there; testing punch force was mandatory for the Intermediate Trainee Assessment, the Advanced Trainee Assessment, and even the Warrior Assessment.
“Inhale, exhale!”
Luo Feng slowly took a deep breath, allowing his entire body to relax. Suddenly, his gaze sharpened. He moved like a sluggish lion erupting without warning; his spine instantly tensed like a drawn bowstring. Power generated from his feet traveled through his waist and hips, transmitted by his spine. Luo Feng’s right fist shot out like a cannonball, tracing an arc—
Thump! Luo Feng’s right fist slammed into the punch target of the testing machine.
The target shuddered violently.
The screen of the punch force tester immediately displayed the numbers— “809g.”
“Madman, not bad! Tsk tsk, you finally broke the 800-kilogram mark,” a tall, lean, muscular man, nearly two meters in height, clapped and shouted, a vicious scar visible on his face.
“Brother Yang,” Luo Feng smiled. “I’m still far behind you. Brother Yang, could you please power up the ‘Speed Tester’ for me?” Yang Ge, whose name was Yang Wu, ranked among the top three Advanced Trainees at the Ultimate Martial Arts Gym. His only weakness was speed; otherwise, he would have passed the ‘Quasi-Warrior Assessment’ long ago.
For an Advanced Trainee to become a Warrior, they needed to pass two assessments:
The first was the physical fitness assessment for Warriors, known as the ‘Quasi-Warrior’ assessment. Passing this meant their physical conditioning met the standard required to become a Warrior. At this stage, they were considered a ‘Quasi-Warrior.’
The second assessment was the ‘Warrior Combat Assessment.’
Possessing only physical conditioning was not enough to qualify as a Warrior; one only earned the title of ‘Warrior’ after succeeding in actual combat against a monster.
“Test speed? No problem.” Yang Wu grinned and walked over to the track nearby, activating the speed tester.
Click!
The speed tester powered on, and the camera light illuminated.
“Hoo, hoo.” Luo Feng adjusted his breathing and stood on the track, which was sixty meters long. The area near the speed tester was the measurement zone.
Luo Feng suddenly exerted all his strength!
Swish!
In almost the blink of an eye, Luo Feng accelerated to his maximum speed. His legs powerfully pushed off, generating intense forward momentum that sent him rocketing along the track like an arrow leaving a bow. Creating a rush of wind, he zipped through the measurement zone. Luo Feng naturally decelerated afterward and stopped.
“What was it?” Luo Feng asked, walking over with a smile.
“Tsk tsk, Madman, you’ve improved even since last time. Not bad, not bad,” Brother Yang said with surprise, looking at the number displayed on the speed tester screen. He called out loudly, “Come look for yourself.”
Luo Feng walked over and saw the figure on the screen: “23.8m/s.”
“It’s okay.”
Luo Feng wasn’t overly pleased internally. The physical fitness assessment for Warriors, the ‘Quasi-Warrior Assessment,’ consisted of three tests: Strength (punch force), Speed, and Neurological Response. Luo Feng was naturally talented in neurological response and had just barely reached the required standard for a Warrior.
But—
For Strength (punch force), the passing threshold for the ‘Quasi-Warrior Assessment’ was—900 kilograms!
For Speed, the passing threshold for the ‘Quasi-Warrior Assessment’ was—25 meters per second! That meant running 100 meters in four seconds.
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