Battle Through the Heaven (斗破苍穹)

Fights Break Sphere

Episode 4

It's like this. Inside this ring, I have a

top-notched fighter who was my mother's teacher.

I usually enter this ring to train.

I think your mind got muddled from the burn.

It's true. Let me tell you that inside this ring, there's a very huge mountain and waterfalls.

There's all kinds of medicines in there. Seriously, I'm not lying to you.

I'll even tell you that inside my earrings, there's an earring sprite. You believe it?

No, Xun Er. I'm not joking around.

I'm serious.

I don't believe it. If you don't want to say it, then don't.

I also don't want to know anymore how you became so good.

But I do believe you are gifted by the heavens.

You will eventually make everyone admire you.

Xun'er, for so many years, I have lived in a muddleheaded manner.

Don't worry. I won't ever be like that again.

Good thing you were always here to accompany me.

When I was little, my health wasn't so good.

Each night, someone would come to my room and transfer his energy to me,

help warm my vital channels.

He caused himself to be full of sweat.

Who would you say that was?

I . . .

Father said that once you're awake, go to the inner courtyard to find him.

Okay

Father

Why did you take this?

Because...it's an Earth Rank Fight Technique.

Sky, earth, black, and yellow; the universe is vast and chaotic.

Why didn't you get a Sky Rank Fighting Technique?

Sky Rank Fighting Technique... I was afraid that I...

What are you afraid of?

Father, what's wrong?

What you took is the Three Thousand Thunder Movement.

It was initially a Sky Rank Fighting Technique. Because it's just half, so it got demoted to an Earth Rank.

The other half is currently in the hands of Blood Sect, the underling of Soul Hall.

I really didn't know that.

Is that so?

Why did you take this?

You went to get an Earth Rank Middle Grade Fighting Technique at the darkest area of the Fighting Technique Pavilion,

Why?

I . . .

Does your master coveting for this Sky Rank Fighting Technique?

Master? What master?

I'm just lucky.

Luck?

In one month's time,

you've reached Fight Qi Skills Level 7

Your Fight Qi whirl was congealed in a very solid manner. You also did the Eight Extreme Collapse well.

Today, you were even able to break the seal

and obtained a remnant scroll of a Sky Rank Fight Technique.

For so many good luck to end up with one person,

Don't you think it's strange?

Who's teaching you martial arts?

Son,

it's fine if a person is incapable,

but he cannot lack moral character.

Get up. Let me see what you're made of.

Father

Eight Extreme Collapse!

A technique of the Star Fall Pavilion.

Your mother didn't teach you that martial arts.

Mother never taught me,

but she did leave me something.

Keep this matter a secret.

Did you hear me?

Yes

Father, you gave me a good scare.

It's you who almost scared me to death.

Increasing one's Fight Qi Skills by 7 stages to become a Fight Qi Practitioner within a month.

Your Eight Extreme Collapse almost killed me.

How about it? Have you decided on this training path?

I've thought about it already.

I want to enter the Jia Nan Academy.

I want to get stronger. I want to defeat Nalan Yanran.

I want my revenge.

I want all those who bullied us

to pay the price.

The path to cultivation is long.

You will never know what can happen in the next moment.

You've grown up. Change your hairstyle.

You're leaving soon.

I will pass to you the truth principle passed down for generations in our Xiao Family, okay?

Father

When you're facing someone you can't defeat, run.

Jia Nan Academy is the top academy in the whole Fight Qi Continent.

It was created by Fight God thousands of years ago.

Every year, chosen outstanding students from all over Fight Qi continent will travel far

to Jia Nan for advanced training.

To take revenge for mother, to seek justice from the five great clans,

and for the 3-year agreement with Nalan Yanran,

going to Jia Nan to learn is a first step that I must take.

I set out full of happiness, but who would have thought

that just walking into the gates of Jia Nan Academy would be very difficult.

Stay closer to me. All of you, keep up!

Prepare to set up camp and eat.

Energy badge is the monetary unit here in Jia Nan Academy.

Inside the academy, if you want to improve your food, refine or obtain medicinal pellets,

or improve your skills inside special cultivation rooms, you all will be using these.

On the first month, each one will get 10 mei. If you lose it,

you can only be a beggar while inside the academy.

After you pass through the Black Domain Forest in front,

it will be the academy already. Our academy has a tradition.

All freshmen must undergo a smelting trial.

You all are on your own from here.

Entering the forest for the smelting trail is also your first lesson upon entering the academy.

You have to think of a way to get through here.

There will be teachers secretly keeping watch of you.

That's so strange. She leaves just as she sees fit.

That's right. Smelting trial?

Don't know what's inside this forest.

Are you okay?

- Are you alright? - He fell so badly.

There are magical beasts inside.

There are magical beasts within the academy?

What can we do?

You're fine. Take your time and tell us. Who hit you?

Upon getting in, there were older students who suddenly stole my energy badge.

They said that freshmen deserve to be beaten and stolen from.

This is the smelting trial. If they want to steal it, they could have just done so. Why must they still hit me?

It's fine... How many are they? What Fight Technique did they use?

I . . . I didn't even see anything

and before you know it, I'm flying out of there.

Where's Hao Tian?

Oh, no! Hao Tian said that he's having diarrhea.

Back against back!

Let's go.

Are you okay? Anything wrong?

What are you doing? What do you want?

Give it to me. Take it.

Do you know who I am?

I've got people watching my back.

They're people from the Academy.

Once we arrive in the academy,

we'll fiercely tell on you guys!

- Bro, let's talk in an amicable manner. - Hand it over!

- Tell on me? - No...

Lad, take out your energy badge.

I've got nothing. Nothing?

What are you doing?

Run!

Eight Extreme Collapse!

Hurry!

Let's run!

- It was so dangerous today. - That's right. So scary.

Such bad luck. Each year, I come here,

and each year I end up going home.

I'm not learning anymore. I'll just go back and do business.

This is the third time already.

For the first two, my energy badges got all stolen away.

I got forced to drop out.

In passing through the Black Domain Forest,

1/3 of freshmen will get eliminated.

Even if we're able to pass the smelting trial,

if all your energy badges have been stolen,

having no food to eat and no means to exchange for medicinal pellets,

and the difficulty level of cultivation is so high, even an iron man will collapse from exhaustion.

Also, after a month, 1/3 will get eliminated again.

What you mean is that among us,

there are only a small portion that will truly stay in Jia Nan Academy?

Just one little portion? How come it's like this?

Aren't you a alchemy student? Do you also need to fight?

I...only have a Stage 2 Fight Qi Skills.

Stage 2 Fight Qi Skills? How did you get in then?

Was it really like what you said earlier that your family got connections?

I...was just scaring them then.

I knew about medicinal formulas. There no formula that I don't know about.

Hence, I was a special recruit.

But the academy will choose the best Fight Practitioner.

Every batch, they would eliminate 2/3 of the freshmen.

In the best school,

of course, only the best Fight Practitioner can get in.

What do you mean by that?

Who the heck are you?

My parents once joined the great war with the Soul Hall.

All didn't return.

Since I was little, I followed my uncle

and grew up in a mercenary group within the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

I've been a magical beast hunter for 7 years.

Only this year did I get into the academy.

What's the use of being loyal and brave? Won't we still get bullied by these seniors?

Other than stealing our energy badges and spending them,

they don't really care if we can survive it.

Everyone, don't despair.

We all are future Fight Practitioner.

We're just starting. What's the use of abandoning oneself to despair?

What Xun Er said is right.

We mustn't resign ourselves to adversity.

Who said that freshmen must lose to the seniors?

Anyway, when you encounter a stronger opponent,

I have never seen a Fight Practitioner who will just sit by and wait for death.

Since the academy was built, I have never heard

of freshmen defeating the seniors.

That was then, this is now.

It wasn't easy for us to get to where we are now.

Now, either we go home dejected, or...

let's give it a try.

Let's give it all we've got!

What if we fail? Isn't that just suffering in vain?