CHAPTER 375: CHAPTER 168: BREAKING FREE FROM THE PAST SHACKLES, ONLY TODAY DO I REALIZE THAT I AM ME_2

He had just seriously offended those foreigners last month.

Especially that group of Black Ghosts; they had marked him as their number one assassination target.

If he recklessly ran off abroad at this time, he might find that as soon as his front foot landed, his back foot would be set for a funeral feast.

Do they really think that just because I’m the number one Grandmaster, I can withstand bullets? They’re seriously overestimating Grandmasters and underestimating the lethality of firearms! Forget Grandmasters; even if Great Grandmaster Zhang Sanfeng himself showed up, facing a gun, his life would be over, and he’d ascend to the heavens on the spot.

Zhang Beixing was quite speechless at this group of silly netizens.

To stop these people from coming up with similar ideas for him, Zhang Beixing simply clarified his future intentions in the comments section.

"After today, I will begin a period of seclusion to break through and to implement everyone’s suggestions. My friends, we’ll meet at the pinnacle someday!"

Zhang Beixing did not specify how many days this "someday" would be.

In any case, looking at the two notebooks he had filled during this period, he reckoned that creating his ultimate skill and breaking through to Great Grandmaster would definitely take a while. The workload was simply enormous.

Over the past month, he had recorded well over a hundred different martial arts. Even after eliminating those with the same origin, like Original Style Tai Chi and Wudang Tai Chi, over fifty styles remained. Although Zhang Beixing’s Mental Attribute had now been raised to 110, enhancing his intuitive understanding and learning ability, fully mastering all these martial arts would still require a significant amount of time.

Where should I seclude myself when the time comes?

Zhang Beixing pondered. He definitely needed to find a quiet, undisturbed place for his seclusion. Shi University was absolutely out of the question.

Even before he became the number one Grandmaster, he was pestered by so many junior brothers and sisters whenever he visited Shi University. Now that Zhang Beixing had fought his way across the country and become the top Grandmaster, if he returned to Shi University, those junior brothers and sisters would probably trample down his dormitory door.

Home wasn’t ideal either. Even before he had challenged the entire country, he had become a hot topic at their village’s information hub. If he went back for martial arts training, those people would likely invent daily excuses to visit his parents, disturbing his peaceful cultivation.

Do I have to retreat to a remote forest for seclusion, just like I did two months ago? Tsk, this needs some serious thought!

Zhang Beixing was deeply absorbed in thought, looking out the window.

Just then, Chen Rourou, who was sitting beside him and watching his frowning contemplation, scooted over. She flashed a peace sign and took a selfie with him, then started fiddling with her phone.

Shortly after, she created a brand-new Douyin account.

[Douyin Name: My Master, Zhang Beixing; Chen Rourou’s Martial Arts Training Journal]

[Douyin Bio: My master is Zhang Beixing. I am Chen Rourou, 15th-generation true disciple of Yue Family’s Continuous Fist, the most talented youngster of the Chen Family in Northern River Province, and a senior medical student at Shi University. I previously challenged martial arts schools across the country with my master. Current record: 5 losses, 10 draws, 21 wins! This account only records my personal daily life, my martial arts training, and my training sessions with my master. No collaborations, no accepting new disciples, no idle chat—fully devoted to martial arts training!]

After setting up her profile and using the selfie as her avatar, Chen Rourou quickly posted a few videos of Zhang Beixing’s previous dojo challenges and her own daily martial arts training. Next, she uploaded a ranking list she had created during her downtime onto Douyin. She also tagged Zhang Beixing, commented in his comment section, and contacted people like Teacher Liu to boost her interactions.

This series of moves, leveraging Zhang Beixing’s current popularity, unsurprisingly caused Chen Rourou’s newly created account to explode with traffic in no time. People flooded Chen Rourou’s account homepage. First, they were attracted by her posts about daily life with Zhang Beixing. Then, they noticed a graphic post Chen Rourou had pinned—a ranking list. Intrigued, many clicked on it.

They found that, like Zhang Beixing, Chen Rourou had also produced her own ranking list.

However, Chen Rourou’s list was for those below the level of Grandmaster.

[Great Xia’s Ranking Below Grandmaster]

[First Place: Yue Family’s Continuous Fist: Liu Pan]

[Second Place: Northern Sect’s Eight Pieces of Brocade of Chen Family, Northern River Province: Chen Hongguo]

[Third Place: Hang City’s No-limits Fighting: Chen Hegao]

[Fourth Place: Northern Sect’s Eight Pieces of Brocade of Chen Family, Northern River Province: Chen Fenghua]

[Fifth Place: Yue Family’s Continuous Fist: Chen Rourou]

[Sixth Place...]

It had to be said, like master, like disciple.

Chen Rourou and Zhang Beixing were cut from the same cloth.

In the ranking list she provided, the top few places were all occupied by people who had good relationships with both Zhang Beixing and Chen Rourou herself.

It was blatant favoritism!

Upon seeing the list she had created, comments poured in:

"Righteous! This girl is so damn... No, I mean, this ranking list is so damn righteous!"

"Hey, commenter above, you’d better be talking about the list!"

"Holy cow! When did Brother Dan get such a pretty disciple? Wow, she’s absolutely gorgeous!"

"That rascal Zhang Beixing isn’t playing fair! We treat him like a brother, and he goes playing mind games, secretly taking such a beautiful girl as a disciple without a word! And he kept her hidden all this time! The bond has faded, man, the feelings have definitely faded!"