Chapter 10

After leaving Liangshan Marsh at night, Itō Sei looked at the money he had left in his hand, and realized he had no place to stay. With no other choice, he had to resort to his old methods to solve his living difficulties, as this city in this world seemed to be full of delinquents.

With almost no effort, he found a few delinquents smoking and chatting in what appeared to be a park. Itō Sei walked straight toward them, and his arrival clearly caught the attention of the delinquents, who slowly surrounded him.

"Kid, you've got some nerve to come to our turf," one of the delinquents with yellow hair said, taking a harsh drag on his cigarette before throwing it aside and looking at Itō Sei with disdain.

"Heh, you delinquents..." Itō Sei shook his head, finding that delinquents always seemed to have an inflated sense of self-importance.

Clearly, Itō Sei's demeanor angered the delinquents, who angrily shouted and began to attack him. However, they had clearly met their match.

Itō Sei suddenly moved close to the yellow-haired delinquent, twisting his body and exerting force. With a sudden "thud," the yellow-haired delinquent was sent flying. Itō Sei didn't stop there; using his shoulder and one leg as a pivot, he swept the others with his other leg, knocking them down. He then quickly got up and finished them off, rendering them unable to fight.

"Alright, now let's talk," Itō Sei said, clapping his hands. "I'm robbing you, hand over your money."

"Ah... ah..." the delinquents groaned, with the yellow-haired one glaring at Itō Sei and saying fiercely, "You'll regret this, you messed with us, the [Twilight of the Gods], and you'll regret it."

"Oh? So what? Now you're my meat, so stop the nonsense and hand over the money," Itō Sei said with a mocking tone, then sternly.

With no choice, the delinquents took out all the money they had and handed it to Itō Sei. Itō Sei looked at the money in his hand, nodding in satisfaction that he had solved his accommodation problem for the next few days. As for the [Twilight of the Gods], Itō Sei thought it might be interesting if they came after him. He remembered that the story began with them and Bai Bingjian. If...

Having made up his mind, Itō Sei stayed at an inn near Liangshan Marsh and began his training for the night.

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The next morning, Itō Sei arrived at Liangshan Marsh early.

"You're here early, young man," Nigetsu Shizuo said, seeing Itō Sei while training Bai Bingjian.

"Good morning, Mr. Nigetsu," Itō Sei greeted politely, then found Ma Jianxing, who was holding a camera with a lecherous look on his face. Ma Jianxing was Itō Sei's main teacher at Liangshan.

"Good morning, Master Ma," Itō Sei said respectfully as he approached Ma Jianxing.

"Oh, you're here," Ma Jianxing put away the small camera and stood up, saying to Itō Sei, "I remember you practice your family's martial arts, right?"

"Yes, Master Ma," Itō Sei nodded.

"Come, let's spar and see how you're doing," Ma Jianxing nodded and gave the instruction.

"Yes," Itō Sei responded seriously, getting into a fighting stance. Bai Bingjian and Nigetsu Shizuo stopped their training and prepared to watch the match or game. Other idle people also came out, such as Misaki Kureha, Apacha, Kishin Shizuki, and Fuurinji Miharu.

"Go ahead," Ma Jianxing said, standing there.

"Yes," Itō Sei responded, and with a burst of energy, he lunged forward, throwing a straight punch at Ma Jianxing. However, the gap between them was clearly huge. Ma Jianxing easily dodged with minimal effort, and the same went for the following moves. No matter how Itō Sei attacked, Ma Jianxing just dodged, narrowly avoiding each attack, demonstrating a high level of martial arts.

"That's enough," Ma Jianxing quickly jumped back, putting some distance between them.

"Yes, Master Ma," Itō Sei stopped his attack and took a few deep breaths to recover.

"Wow, that's amazing!" Bai Bingjian finally exclaimed, having been holding back his admiration. Yesterday, when they had practiced together, Itō Sei didn't seem that impressive, but today, watching Itō Sei spar with Master Ma Jianxing, he realized the gap was so large, which hurt his fragile heart.

"Hmm, not bad. Your foundation is good, and your martial intuition is also good. You have a certain level of action prediction, but your body is very weak. You can see that many of your movements are hindered by your body, but overall, it's not bad," Ma Jianxing commented, seeing through Itō Sei's abilities at a glance.

He identified Itō Sei's biggest problem since his rebirth—his physical condition. Although Itō Sei was using medicinal baths to improve, the time was clearly too short, and achieving this level was already impressive.

"Let's start with strengthening your body," Ma Jianxing nodded.

"Yes," Itō Sei agreed readily, as he had come here to be trained.

"Let's start with horse stance," Ma Jianxing said, assigning Itō Sei a basic training exercise. Although it was basic, the training intensity at Liangshan Marsh was clearly superhuman, and thus Itō Sei's days of hardship began.

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"That's the new disciple?" Fūrinji Hayato, an elder of Liangshan Marsh, who had returned at some point, looked at Itō Sei, who was doing training, and asked Ma Jianxing.

"Yep," Ma Jianxing nodded.

"How is he?" Fūrinji Hayato asked.

"A sudden appearance, like he came out of nowhere," Ma Jianxing knew what Fūrinji Hayato was asking about—Itō Sei's character and background. As experts, they had various channels to gather information.

"Ah," Fūrinji Hayato nodded, saying nothing. He would continue to observe. After all, as long as he was at Liangshan Marsh, he wouldn't cause much trouble.

"But his qualities are quite good, he'll make a good sparring partner for Bingjian," Ma Jianxing said with a lecherous grin.

"Ha ha..." Fūrinji Hayato also laughed unscrupulously.

At that moment, Itō Sei, unaware that he was being schemed against, continued to endure the superhuman training.

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