Luo Feng has always wished for his parents to be able to take a break and enjoy the sunlight and good food in peace.
“Feng” Luo Hong Guo walked towards Luo Feng after finishing his shower, “Dad has something to tell you.”
“What?” Luo Feng looked at his father.
Luo Feng laughed a bit, “It’s like this, Feng. I never asked you what your plans you had for after high school graduation. Could you tell me?” Luo Hong Guo rarely talked about these kinds of matters with his son because he didn’t want to pressure him. He knew that his son worked very hard and has performed very well.
Right when Luo Hong Guo said this, Gong Xin Lan’s cooking movements started to slow down a bit. Luo Fengs parents really cared for their son’s future.
“Dad, I was thinking like this.”
Luo Feng added, “According to my grades, I’m sure that getting into ‘Jiang-Nan’s number one military academy’ wouldn’t be difficult. Now that I have earned the dojo’s ‘Elite’ title, I would be raised as an officer in the military academy. Mom and Dad can enter into the family section of the military.”
There were also different tiers in the military.
China, of course, recruited soldiers. However, regular soldiers didn’t receive much. However, for a young man holding the title of ‘Elite’ and getting into ‘Jiang-Nan’s number one military academy’, would have intellect and strength. The country would surely focus on such people and give their families a home.
For the family of an officer, the conditions would be tens of hundreds of times better than this cheap, rented home.
“Then what if you can’t get in that number one military academy?” Luo Hong Guo said, “Feng, don’t give yourself too much pressure.”
“There are two main military academies in Jiang-Nan city. If anything goes wrong in your exams and you are unable to get into the best academy, there is absolutely no problem with going to the second one.” Luo Feng clearly understood his grades: normally, he can score around 50 points higher than the average Bachelor. For the second military academy, he only has to reach the average.
In the tests today, there are only two types: Bachelors and Specialists. There is also only one dividing line. Those above that line are Bachelors, and those below are Specialists.
“In the second military academy, having the title of ‘Elite’, I would also be nurtured as an officer. There wouldn’t be too much of a difference in treatment.” Luo Feng laughed.
To become a Bachelor…
Only two out of ten people could do it.
However, for a high school student, only one out of a thousand people could achieve the title of ‘Elite’.
“Yup, if you got the confidence then that’s great. However, Feng, don’t give yourself too much pressure. Me and your mom just need a stable life, that’s all.” Luo Hong Guo nodded his head slightly, “This kid, just gives himself too much pressure.”
“Not at all.” Luo Feng laughed, “I don’t really have much pressure. Since I’m young, I just have a bit more energy and motivation.”
Luo Feng says that out loud, but in his heart: “Mom, Dad, brother, after my exams, you will soon be able to enjoy a good life. After I achieve the rank of ‘Fighter’, you guys won’t have to live so bitterly.”
“Hurry and get the bowls and chopsticks and move the dishes onto the table. Dinner is ready!” Gong Xin Lan laughed and urged.
“Aight.” Luo Hong Guo laughed and stood up to get the bowls and chopsticks.
“The vegetables smell great!” Luo Feng sniffed the pot and helped carry the dishes.”
“I smell the smell of roasted meat, yay~~~” Luo Hua shouted excitedly and moved his wheelchair towards the table.
A family of four, enjoying their time.
Volume 1 Chapter 4: Luo Feng’s skill
After dinner, Luo Feng’s mom and dad brought Luo Hua to walk outside while Luo Feng went to tutor.
Around 6 PM, the sky was already about to become completely dark.
“This tutoring job will have to be on hold soon.” Luo Feng was like a leopard, flexibly moving through the alleys. There was a dead end in front, but Luo Feng’s entire body flew in the air. He jumped over two meters high, lightly tapping the top of the wall with his left hand, and fell into the next alley.
Sprinting was his warm up before tutoring.
At this time, Luo Feng’s speed was 15 meters per second, or 54 km/hour, which wasn’t even his top speed. However, it was able to serve its purpose as warm up.
[Light panting]
“One more month until exams, and then I will be able to put tutoring on hold. I earned twenty thousand dollars during this half year of tutoring.” Having the title of ‘Elite’, it was easy for him to find a tutoring job, teaching someone the basics.
The salary was 100 dollars per hour.
For five days a week, he taught for one hour a day. In other words, his monthly salary would be around 2000 dollars.
“Dad works hard all day and only earns around 2-3 thousand dollars a month. I just tutor for an hour and earn so much more than him… This is the difference between a normal person and someone with a title! If I am able to become a ‘Fighter’, then the difference would be shocking!” Luo Feng looked ahead of him and saw a cargo truck blocking the road.
However, Luo Feng didn’t slow down at all. He suddenly jumped up to a height of 2-3 meters high and then ran two steps on the side of the wall. He then dropped back down and continued running forwards.
After that──
Luo Feng has already ran to the outer part of a quiet residential area.
“Here is where Mom and Dad should be living.” Luo Feng stopped and eyed the area in front of him. The density of the homes in the area was lower and there were man-made pools. There were tons of foliage and every floor of each building had its own garden, even the higher floors.
Other than the tall residential homes, there were also villas.
Know that──
As of now, there are a total of six major bases in China, which are the six major cities. Each city has an astonishingly large population. For example, Jiang-Nan city’s population is nearly 200 million. Naturally, there is very little land. Things like villas are very rare and expensive. The large mansions that take up even more space cost an enormous amount of money.
“I’m going to #1801 of the 18th building” said Luo Feng to the guardsman outside the area.
“Wait a moment” The guardsman pressed a video-telephone number and shot the camera at Luo Feng. A voice from the video-telephone said, “It’s Feng, let him in”
“Alright sir” The guardsman let him in.
……
One hour later, Feng walked out the area.
“Yup, done with tutoring. Now I’ll go to the dojo and see if there has been any increase in my strength.”
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The ‘Dojo of Limits’, the largest dojo on earth created by the strongest fighter ‘Hong’.
There are dojos scattered all around the world.
[Di]
Luo Feng entered the dojo after scanning his student identification card at the door.
One ‘Dojo of Limits’ is like an entrenched gigantic monster: the area it covers is even larger than a high school. The main gate of the dojo is big enough to let ten cars in. Inside the dojo, there were three large silver-white structures with an airship-like style.
“Brother!*”
*This brother is one used in respect, not blood related. All the “brothers” for the rest of the chapter will be like this too.
“Greetings Brother”
On the lawn of the interior of the Dojo were large amounts of dojo members. These members saw Luo Feng’s ‘Elite’ identification on his chest and respected him.
Inside the dojo, the three structures were separated by level: one for the beginner members, one for the intermediate members, and one for the elite members.
The elite member building’s first and
second floors are large teaching halls, large enough to hold a few thousand people. The teachers of the dojo taught in this hall. There were around 30-40 thousand members of this particular dojo.
You can only become a member of the dojo starting from the age of 16. After the age of 30, you are prohibited from coming back to the dojo, since you will be wasting valuable teaching resources.
There were a couple hundred ‘elite’ students, most being around 20 years old.
However, Luo Feng was only 18.
“Greetings Brother”
Luo Feng walked along as he heard people greet him. He entered the third floor of the elite building, which only elite members could enter.
The third floor was a couple hundred meters long and wide; a large training center. At this time, there were a couple dozen people.
“Crazy*”
*Not the “mad” kind of crazy. This is just a nickname incorporating the Feng of Luo Feng (crazy = Feng Zi)
“Hey, come Crazy.”
As he entered the large training center, all of the ‘elite’ members warmly greeted him.
“Brother Wang, Brother Yang, Sister Li” Luo Feng happily shouted back. As he looked at these people, his heart warmed. These few dozen people were all over 20 years of age. Of course, the elite members of the ‘Dojo of Limits’ of Zhi An section weren’t just these people. In total, there were over a hundred of them, but most of them were too lazy to come since there isn’t a teacher to teach.
The only people who would come to the training center are those who are poor and without anywhere else to train.
The rich people all have their own individual training center.
So──
Almost all of these people live in cheap rental homes. Since they are all categorized as poor people, they naturally formed a clique. Luo Feng’s nickname of ‘Crazy’ came from the time when he consecutively challenged and defeated three rich elite members out of anger.
“I wonder how much my strength improved from the last half month of training.”
Luo Feng walked towards the ‘Fist Strength Tester Machine’ at the corner of the training hall, where there were two of them side by side. Whether you were a beginner, intermediate, or an elite member, you had to test the strength of your punch. Even the test to become a ‘Fighter’ has strength* tests.
*All strength tests refer to fist strength.
Luo Feng took in a deep breath and completely relaxed his body. Suddenly, his gaze concentrated. His body tensed, like a lazy lion getting ready for action. His spine tensed like a bow string. His feet supported his waist, which strengthened Luo Feng’s right fist. His punch was like a cannonball, shooting across an arc──
[DA]
Luo Feng’s fist smashed against the machine.
The machine shook violently.
Soon enough, a number appeared on the machine’s screen── “809 kg”
“Not bad, crazy. Got past the 800 kg milestone” A man with a height taller than 1.9 meters who was a bit lean yet buff laughed and clapped. This buff man had a savage scar on his face.
“Brother Yang” Luo Feng laughed, “when compared to you, this is nothing. Brother Yang, could you help me turn on the ‘Speed Tester Machine’?”
“Brother Yang, named Yang Wu, is currently ranked top three within the elite members in the ‘Dojo of Limits’. If it wasn’t for his speed, he would’ve cleared the ‘Fighter Preliminary Exams’ a long time ago.
For an elite member to become a fighter.
He has to pass two exams──
The first exam is the ‘Fighter Fitness’ exam, or the Prospective Fighter exam. Once you pass that, you have proved that your fitness level has reached the standard of a ‘fighter’. At this time, you have become a ‘Prospective Fighter’.
The second exam is a ‘Fighter Combat’ exam.
Just having the body fitness doesn’t grant you the privilege of becoming a fighter. Only by defeating an actual monster in an actual fight will you be able to achieve the title of ‘Fighter’.
“Testing speed? Alright.” Yang Wu laughed as he walked towards the machine and turned it on.
[KA]
The machine turned on and lighted up.
Luo Feng adjusted his breathing and stood on the track, which was 60 meters long. Close to the speed testing machine was a speed testing region.
Luo Feng exploded forwards!
[WHOOSH]
In a blink of an eye, Luo Feng has accelerated to his maximum speed. His feet pedaled with strength, increasing his sprinting power. His body was like an arrow leaving a bow and flying across the runway, bringing along with him a gust of wind. Luo Feng flew past the speed testing region. After that, he naturally slowed down and stopped.
“How fast?” Luo Feng laughed as he walked towards the machine.
“Heh, crazy, looks like you improved a bit since last time. Not bad, not bad” Brother Yang, with a face of astonishment, looked at the number displayed on the speed testing machine, “Come look for yourself”
Luo Feng looked over to the machine and the number displayed was── “23.8 m/s”
“Not bad”
Luo feng wasn’t that happy though, since there were three parts to the Fighter Fitness exam, or the ‘Prospective Fighter’ exam: Strength, speed, and reaction speed. For reaction speed, Luo Feng was naturally gifted and has barely reached the level that a fighter requires.
However──
In the prospective fighter exam, the passing mark for strength is ── 900 kg!
For speed, the passing mark is── 25 m/s! Or 100 meters every 4 seconds.
Volume 1 Chapter 5: Different Choices
“The stronger you get, the harder it is to improve” Luo Feng contemplated, “For me to raise my speed from 23.8 m/s to 25 m/s would probably take around one year. For my strength to improve from 809 kg to 900 kg would probably take even longer. I would probably have to wait until after I get into college to achieve the title of ‘Fighter’.”
“If, if… I enter a coma again, my body fitness level might reach what a ‘Fighter’ requires”
Of course, this kind of coma isn’t one you enter when someone beats you unconscious, but when you enter one from an extremely painful headache.
Luo Feng has a headache disorder.
Every so often Luo Feng gets a headache. However, he is usually able to bear with the pain until it passes. Occasionally, it would hurt so much that he would enter a coma.
Luo Feng has entered a coma twice so far.
When Luo Feng was 8 years old and his brother’s legs were crushed by a car, he was so sad that he got a headache. At the same time, his heartbeat started to rapidly rise and his blood circulation speed rose to an alarming rate. Soon after he felt like his heart was about to beat out of his chest, he entered a coma.
Another time was when Luo Feng was 12 years old and his mother was re-hospitalized. Afraid of losing his mother, Luo Feng panicked and got an extremely painful headache. Like before, his heartbeat rapidly rose and he entered a coma.
After two comas, Luo Feng’s family frequently brought him to the hospital for check ups. However, no illness was identified. Even in this age, the brain is still a mystery to medicine.
“However, the two comas have increased my body strength by many times” Luo Feng anticipated, “8 years old, 12 years old, after I woke up from the comas, my strength, speed, and reaction speed clearly improved. Because of this, I was able to skip right past the ‘Intermediate’ exam in the dojo and achieve the ‘Intermediate’ title. Thanks to my genes, I was able to achieve the ‘Elite’ title at the age of 17″
“If I enter a coma again, I bet my strength would increase even more!”
A coma is actually a symptom caused by your body to protect itself, so it isn’t entirely a bad thing.
“My head would hurt until its limit and my heartbeat would speed up until its limit”
Luo Feng lowered his head and looked at the watch on his wrist. This
watch had a ‘Pulse meter’ function.
“Even after sprinting like crazy, my heart beat wouldn’t go above 120 times a minute” Luo Feng watched his watch, “If I can reach a rate of 200 times a minute, then that would be great” The premonitions of a coma is an extremely bad headache and a super high pulse.
However──
No matter how hard he exercised, he couldn’t get his heartbeat to the rate which a coma would require.
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Within the dojo training hall, scar faced Yang Wu, stood in front of the ‘Fist Strength Tester’ machine. However, he didn’t seem very serious; he simply punched the tester a few times with both hands. A repeated [PENG!] [PENG!] [PENG!] sounded as he punched the machine. Soon after that, a few numbers were displayed on the screen.──”956kg, 912kg, 936kg, 981kg……”
Yang Wu punched a couple dozen times in one breath before stopping.
Luo Feng, who was watching on the sidelines, couldn’t help but admire. His full power could only amount to 809 kg, but Brother Yang could unleash a flurry of fists with such power. For all of them to just pass the 700 kg mark would already be plenty.
“Brother Yang, if only one of my full-power punches could be as strong as one of your random ones, then that would be great” Luo Feng laughed.
“You, ” Yang Wu walked towards Luo Feng and laughed as he hit him on the shoulder, “you’re only 19 this year, or 18 right now. When I was your age, I was only an intermediate member. With the rate at which you’re improving… you would achieve the body fitness level required for the rank of ‘Fighter’ within two years for sure. Heh, a 20 year old fighter, how envious.”
Luo Feng laughed.
The dojo only recruited students from age 16 to 30 because this is the period where one grows the fastest. This means that a person could enter the rankings more quickly and lead to even greater strength in the future. Luo Feng became an elite member at the age of 17, which many admired.
“Oh yea, Crazy, you got high school exams right? What’re ya gonna do after them?” Yang Wu laughed.
“I will have to prepare for military academy” Luo Feng let out a small laugh, “the average person becomes a basic level officer in the normal army. However, I should be able to get into the Special Forces after graduation without a problem.”
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