rpbooks Chapter 449 - 411: Reforming the Cultivation Technique
Chapter 449 - 411: Reforming the Cultivation Technique
The expression on everyone’s face in the council hall changed.
It was obviously a frame job, but no one dared to voice their doubts. After all, their entire story about losing the national treasure was a lie.
Who knew if the thief who stole the national treasure actually had evidence of their lie?
Besides, if they angered someone who could slip in and out of The Royal Palace without a trace, completely undetected by the Guardian and international arbiters, their lives would be forfeit.
The council hall fell silent, as if empty. Kenny knelt on the floor, head bowed, saying nothing. His fingers, resting on his lap, clenched the fabric of his long robe.
’This is definitely their doing!’
On the high platform, the King of Karthos’s face was as dark as a sky before a thunderstorm.
A sharp THUD echoed through the hall.
The royal scepter, a symbol of his authority, struck the floor hard.
The sound seemed to pierce right through Kenny’s heart, making it seize with fear.
"Arrest the suspect immediately! Open the borders!"
Just as the plane carrying Aurora Sinclair and Alvin Morgan landed on Veridian soil, the King of Karthos received an unsigned letter.
It contained the locations where the other national treasures were hidden.
The King of Karthos immediately dispatched his men and, sure enough, they recovered all the remaining national treasures.
Subsequently, Xavier Marsh was taken into custody by The International Martial Arts Bureau on suspicion of stealing the national treasures of Karthos.
The party that reported him was The Royal Family of Karthos.
***
CRASH—
The desk in Caleb Winslow’s room slammed to the floor.
The man kneeling before him flinched, his heart pounding with fear.
"Useless fool! Where are they now?"
"They’ve... likely already returned to Veridia."
’I really underestimated them,’ Caleb Winslow hissed, his voice strained as if forced through clenched teeth.
The man cautiously raised his head and asked, trembling, "About... Lord Marshall..."
Caleb Winslow’s gaze was ice-cold. ’Useless trash doesn’t deserve to live,’ he said, his face devoid of expression.
The man immediately bowed his head.
"Clean up our loose ends."
"Yes, sir!"
「A few days later.」
Xavier Marsh "committed suicide" in the custody of The International Martial Arts Bureau, thus sealing his guilt.
Aurora Sinclair watched the news report, her gaze turning bone-chillingly cold.
She locked herself in her room for a full day, causing Alvin Morgan and the Morgan brothers to worry.
The next morning, Aurora Sinclair finally opened her door, holding Ditto Miles in her arms.
"Morgan, come with me to The Martial Alliance."
Alvin Morgan met her gaze, raised a hand to stroke her hair, and asked softly, "Have you worked things out?"
"Yes..."
That very day, in her capacity as a Guardian, she announced a reform of the Basic Boxing Skill at a high-level meeting of the Veridian Martial Alliance.
Aurora Sinclair renamed the Positive Order Boxing Technique to the Body Refining Boxing Technique.
She mandated that The Martial Alliance promote the Body Refining Boxing Technique nationwide, replacing the Basic Boxing Skill. It was to be a required practice for everyone, regardless of age or gender.
Everyone had to start from the first level. Only after passing an exam could they proceed to the second.
The criteria for passing were proficiency in the technique of each level and reaching a specific value in personal body Strength.
At first, no one in The Martial World understood the point of this reform. However, given Aurora Sinclair’s status and power, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and implement it.
Soon after, The Morgan Group launched a new Martial Force Tester to complement the new Body Refining Boxing Technique.
In addition to measuring Punching Power and Punch Speed, this new tester also measured body Strength and a body attribute.
Strength was easy enough to understand, but the "body attribute" left everyone completely baffled.
This led some to mock it as a gimmick The Morgan Group had created purely for profit.
When people tried it out, the body attribute function failed to produce any data whatsoever.
This continued until the third month of the rollout of the Body Refining Techniques and the new Martial Force Tester, when a review from a Martial Arts enthusiast went viral online.
[After 3 Months, I Finally Figured Out How The Morgan Group’s New Martial Force Tester Measures Body Attributes!]
The post didn’t give away the answer immediately. Instead, it began with a detailed log of the author’s physical data over three months of practicing the Body Refining Boxing Technique and using the new tester.
Because the original poster recorded his progress daily, the data clearly illustrated his body’s transformation.
His initial strength was Great Warrior Sixth Rank, with a Level Three body Strength score of 362. But by practicing the Body Refining Boxing Technique, both his Combat Power rank and body Strength had been steadily increasing.
After two months, his strength reached Great Warrior Ninth Rank. And while his body Strength was still Level Three, the numerical score had climbed to 395.
To add credibility, the poster noted that he had tested himself several times on both the new and old machines. The Punching Power and Punch Speed values were nearly identical, as was his rank. However, the attribute field remained blank.
Then, three weeks later, while practicing as usual, the poster suddenly felt an indescribable energy.
He immediately went to test himself. This time, the new machine registered his strength as that of a martial master.
The poster was naturally overjoyed. To be certain, he used an old tester, but it only returned an error message.
The poster was baffled. He rushed to The Martial Alliance for certification, but every single machine there also displayed an error.
He tried nearly every machine in the building, but they all produced the same error.
The Martial Alliance had him undergo other evaluations, all of which he passed with ease.
However, without a valid reading from a tester, he couldn’t receive his martial master certification.
The poster wasn’t discouraged, though. He was convinced the Body Refining Boxing Technique was helping him improve, so he continued to practice diligently every day.
Gradually, he found his awareness of that strange energy growing stronger, especially when he was practicing the Body Refining Boxing Technique.
On a whim, the poster put on the new tester’s wireless gloves and performed the Body Refining Boxing Technique. To his surprise, this time, it measured his body attribute.
The reading was: Water.
The post didn’t immediately go viral, but it turned out many other Martial Artists were having the exact same experience.
They too had felt a strange energy. The new testers registered them as martial masters, while all the old ones errored out.
When they tried the poster’s method, they were all able to successfully measure their own body attribute.
However, the attributes weren’t all Water; there was also Earth, Gold, Fire, Wood...
And so, the post’s popularity skyrocketed. It went viral in just a few hours, sparking a massive debate online.
Watching more and more people online sense the Power of Heaven and Earth and successfully measure their body attributes, Benjamin Morgan was in high spirits. "Seeing is believing," he said. "It’s about time those arrogant, self-proclaimed martial arts geniuses were taken down a peg."
Previously, when Aurora Sinclair had The Martial Alliance introduce the Body Refining Technique, most Martial Artists had remained on the sidelines, scornful.
After all, this technique was replacing the universal Basic Boxing Skill.
’How good could a technique that anyone can practice really be?’
Later, when the new Martial Force Tester developed by their boss was released, these same people gossiped behind their backs, claiming the only reason The Martial Alliance’s leadership reformed the technique was to line the pockets of The Morgan Group with dirty money.
They even hired armies of internet trolls to flood the consumer protection agency with complaints, accusing The Morgan Group of false advertising just to discredit the new tester.
’Once the number of Martial Artists in the world explodes, let’s see how those people can maintain their sense of superiority.’
Benjamin Morgan pushed up his glasses, a smirk on his face as he stared at the computer screen, his fingers flying across the keyboard.
Beside him, Dean Morgan instinctively took two steps back. ’There’s something terrifying in Mr. C’s eyes today,’ he thought.
’Is it because he ranked last among the four of us in strength a few days ago?’
Just as he was wondering, Beta Morgan’s voice drifted in from the next room, full of complaint.
"Why are my attributes still Vitality and Wood?!"