Chapter 2 - Whose youth is not passionate

At the entrance of Pearl Academy, a young man in a casual green shirt is staring at the school entrance with anticipation. As the music of the academy's class bell sounded, the gate of the academy opened, and a group of young men and women rushed out of the gate.

Looking at the group of young men and women rushing out of the gate of the academy, the youth in the green shirt flashed with envy in his eyes. Soon this envy was hidden away, after his vision was focused onto the crowd and began searching.

After a while, the boy's eyes brightened. He rushed towards a long-haired girl in a purple dress and handed over a bunch of flowers and said, "Man Man, this is for you."

The girl paused, her skin is white and smooth, as if milk was poured over. When she raised her head to look at the teenager, her beautiful appearance immediately caused all of the surrounding boys and girls to lose their brilliance. Using the phrase a goose amongst a group of chickens to describe this situation is inappropriate, but just having this girl stand here can actually cause the surrounding boys and girls to lose their youthful brilliance.

*Note: A goose amongst a group of chickens is a Chinese idiom which describes someone who stands out

Even if her face still looks a little pale, her perfect figure already has the outlines and curves, one can imagine how she will be dazzling in a few years. The entire college recognises her, Zhen Man, the number one beauty in Pearl City.

Zhen Man looked at the young man who she deeply loves but did not take the flowers from the young man's hand. Instead, there was a moment of silence for exact ten seconds before softly saying, "Di Jiu, I just crossed the warrior realm today. I will leave the Ji country soon, you take care of yourself, and if are fated we shall meet again."

Di Jiu's hand trembled, and the bunch of flowers fell off from his hands and scattered on the ground.

How could he not understand the meaning of Zhen Man's words? He knew that with Zhen Man's martial arts aptitude, she would leave Ji country sooner or later, but he didn't expect it to be so soon. Practicing martial arts, as long as you enter the warrior real, before the age of twenty, you can leave Ji country and travel towards the Luyuan Empire.

He just completed the 16-year-old martial arts test yesterday, and he still failed. Not only Zhen Man know about this news, the entire Pearl City probably knows about it.

"I'm sorry!" Zhen Man lowered her head and said three words in a low voice, sighing secretly in her heart, and walked far away soon after bypassing Di Jiu.

It's not that she didn't give Di Jiu a chance. She had waited for Di Jiu, but unfortunately Di Jiu still failed his third martial root test. In fact, even if Di Jiu had passed the test with an martial root that's below average, she wouldn't have had to leave the Ji country so soon.

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Whether it is Ji country or the YaLun continent where Ji country is located, martial arts are flourishing . Although the level of science and technology here is very high, but only martial arts practice is dominant here. The purpose of all scientific and technological talents is to serve martial arts, and the ruler of any country here must be a martial arts expert.

To learn martial arts in the YaLun continent, you must have a martial arts root. Without a martial arts root or have yet to appear, no matter how hard you work, it will only strengthen the body, and you cannot become a true martial arts expert.

There isn't an exact time for the appearance of a martial root as it varies from person to person.There are a few age levels where martial roots are tested, the first test is taken before they're 5. If a martial root is present during this stage then that martial root is considered to be excellent.

If the first test showed that there was no sign of a martial root, it does not represent that they are not able to practice martial arts. There are still some people whose martial root appears at the age of twelve. However if a martial root has still yet to be appear at the age of 12 then they must take the final test at the age of 16.

If at the age of sixteen there is no martial root in the test, it means that you cannot practice martial arts. The entire YaLun continent has not heard of the emergence of a martial root after the age of 16.

Di Jiu has been extremely smart since he was a child, and was once known as the number one prodigy in the country. His father, Di Shan, place the responsibility of maintaining the prosperity of the Di family's martial arts on Di Jiu.

There is a saying that the higher your hopes are, the greater the disappointment . In the first test, Di Jiu didn't have martial root. Without a martial root, it represents he won't be able to practice martial arts.

Seeing that people of the same age are working hard to learn martial arts, and the companions who were the same as him, gradually leaving him behind. Di Jiu can only devote all his energy into studying. He believes that his martial arts will definitely come out, but It will just come out relatively late.

Ji country's education is not just theoretical knowledge, but a combination of real-world technology and theory. Before the age of twelve, Di Jiu spent eight years to almost finish what others required 20 to 30 years to learn. He even designed a new type of aircraft.

However, at the second test at the age of twelve, Di Jiu still had no martial root.

At this time, not only Di Jiu, but Di Jiu's father was anxious. Di Jiu also completely lost his interest in continuing to learn about technological education. He used to work hard to learn about science and technology, just to use the time where others use to practice martial arts instead. Now that he has been tested twice in a row without a martial root, where would he find the mood to study?

Di Jiu's father told Di Jiu not to worry. There was a third martial roots test when he reaches 16.

But Di Jiu didn't want to continue trying out his luck and waiting, he began to study medicine.

In YaLun continent, scientific and technological talents are worthless and have the lowest status, but the status of medicine is second only to martial arts. If you can make achievements in the medical path, it will be more respected than the general martial arts powerhouse.

Di Jiu did not study medicine because the status of medicine was second only to martial arts, he was worried that he would still have no martial arts when he was tested for the third time at the age of sixteen.

Ji country's medical master Xue Tuo said that the top medical masters can use means to allow martial artists without martial roots to practice. Di Jiu's study of medicine is to leave himself a path to retreat. In case when he is sixteen years old, he still has no martial root, he wants to open a martial arts path for himself through his own medical skills.

He hadn't told anyone this kind of remarks, because once such remarks were uttered, they would only make people laugh.

A medical master who can practice without martial roots is an existence that is countless times more noble than the king, and the entire YaLun Continent does not necessarily have a way. What Xue Tuo said was only an legend.

The Di family was originally extremely wealthy, and Di Shan was the number one god of war and the number one general in the country. Di Jiu is the only son of Di Shan, is there any medical books that he can't have?

In four years, Di Jiu had read almost all the medical books available to the Di family, and even became the disciple of Ji country's Xue Tuo, Wan Chuan, Fang Xilin and other great physicians as teachers. In addition, Di Jiu is already extremely smart, and he has studied medicine for four years, and his medical skill is even higher than that of several major physicians.

When Di Jiu was 15 years old, he fell in love with a girl, named Zhen Man, the number one beauty in the Pearl City of Ji country.

When he first saw Zhen Man, Di Jiu loved Zhen Man to his bones. Whether it is because of the love of the young man, or because Zhen Man is so beautiful, from the moment he saw Zhen Man, he could never forget Zhen Man again.

Di Jiu, who didn't even tell his father about the purpose of learning medicine, told his father what he liked about Zhen Man, and he hoped that his father could go to the Zhen family's house to arrange marriage.

Although Di Shan had six sons, all five of his sons died serving the king, leaving only Di Jiu. Don't say that Di Jiu has always been competitive and studious, even if Di Jiu fights every day, as long as he has taken a liking to a girl his dad will personally visit their family and arrange a marriage.

Di Shan was the best of the country, controlling more than 70% of the army of the country. It can be said that it is an existence below one person and above ten thousand people. He personally went to Zhen's family to arrange a marriage, which can be said to have given enough face.

Faced with Di Shan's courtship, the Zhen family neither agreed nor refused, but said that the children should get along first.

Zhen Man also neither refused nor accepted Di Jiu's pursuit, but she walked a little closer than usual.

In a blink of an eye, when Di Jiu arrived at the age of 16, his worries became reality. At the age of 16, Di Jiu's third martial arts test results was still null.