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Chapter 458: Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty-four: The Sorrow of the People

Every member of the Tang Clan practices martial arts, and only the most outstanding ones are chosen to train in the First Cultivation Ground as selected proteges. However, all clan members, from scholars to idle rich kids, are required to reach at least the Foundation Building stage.

This requirement means that even the most unimpressive descendant of the Tang Clan must reach the peak of the Mortal Realm. With the advantage of the Heavenly Pathway Technique, even a novice would be many times stronger than an average civilian martial artist. Add to that a well-nourished and physically robust body, thanks to a balanced diet and the use of Spiritual Food, and the disparity in combat power becomes even more significant.

However, the difference between the clan’s educational institution and the Martial Hall lies in their seven academic disciplines: miscellaneous studies, mathematics, agriculture, medicine, metallurgy, martial arts research, and political economics.

Students of the institution are required to choose one or several specializations from these academic disciplines, in addition to their cultivation practice. Although this multitasking could slow down their progress slightly compared to those training in the First Cultivation Ground, most of them manage to enter the Mortal Realm by the age of twenty.

The number of students of the institution considerably exceeds the number of proteges in the First Cultivation Ground. The graduates of the Martial Hall are first to serve the leaders of the sub-clans and then serve the clan’s offspring as family retainers. The shortage of graduates caused by this distribution system is a lingering problem. The Tang Clan alone has more than two hundred sub-clans, along with a vast number of clan members and proteges. Even if the thousands of orphans they recruit each year were trained into martial artists, they would still be far from enough.

The reality, however, is that only one in a thousand commoners can become a protege in the Martial Hall, and this is with the Foundation Building stage being delayed until the age of thirteen or fourteen. If a scion of the Tang Clan dared to delay Foundation Building until such an age, he would likely be punished regardless of his status within the family.

Such a situation forces the young masters of the Tang Clan, who have just established their households, to fight their own battles, as the commoner martial artists they recruit are rarely of any substantial use. With only basic skills and a weak realm of power, they are incapable of holding their own against formidable opponents, causing the young masters to suffer harm and bear grudges.

anyone else can, but recognizing a problem is not in

Clan Head Tang Zhi feels obligated to provide an answer to this dilemma. “Regarding the shortage of martial artists within the clan, the recent influx of refugees in Chengzhou, which numbers over three hundred thousand, could possibly provide a solution. After removing non-combatants, almost everyone among these refugees is a martial artist. Their integration should

which precedes formal martial arts training, must be completed by individuals themselves. Innate talent and commitment determine the time required for this stage. But when compared to the privileged children who can complete foundation building within five years, very few

apprentices in the martial halls can only have incorrect actions corrected and their progress pushed by the Instructor. The actual foundation building process is still up to the apprentices themselves. During the ancient times, martial arts were not well-documented. Some martial artists treated simple

other words, if a commoner can read, he can buy an ordinary Mortal-level martial arts manual and complete foundation building himself. But in reality, most martial artists are more willing to pay tuition fees to martial halls for foundation building rather than learning to read and studying on their

be able to bear all kinds

under such circumstances, with all these examples before them, even if a prospective youth appears in the second generation, they would still need to solve the problem of obtaining food and warmth first. With the bizarre trend of early marriage among

like a curse, relentlessly trailing most commoners and keeping them in misery, with

it, but that he thinks that the clan has already done everything it can by widely distributing Mortal-level martial arts manuals, setting up numerous martial halls, and recruiting many orphans. But

skills through decades of arduous training

of generation after generation of effort. Still, the weakness of commoners is due to the repetition of tragic cycles from

of these issues that he believes ruling over commoners is far