Whoosh!
The little electric scooter left the comrcial street, speeding towards West State University.
Bai Mo sat in front, enjoying the cool breeze.
Star Belly sat at the back, with one paw holding an ice cream cone and the other holding a grilled sausage.
Lick the ice cream.
"Yummy yummy!"
The ice cream Master bought is delicious!
Take a bite of the sausage.
"Yum yum!"
The sausage Master bought is tasty!
Its big tail behind it was rolled around a newly acquired taekwondo flyer.
It's bringing the flyer back to Fox Mountain to study the moves with the brothers.
...
The morning had barely passed halfway, and the sun was blazing.
On the playground, students were training to march in step, each one sweating profusely.
"One two one!"
"One two one!"
In the nearby shade, Bai Mo, Master Chong, Huang Peng, and others divided up the freshly delivered bubble tea.
Bai Mo picked up a snow-top coffee and helped Star Belly, who sat in his lap, with a milk tea pudding.
Pop!
The straw went in, a sip, refreshing!
"Cool!"
"Ha ha ha."
Star Belly sat in Master's lap, resting its head against Master's chest, sipping the straw happily.
The group chatted about amusing events during military training.
"...I heard Xue Yong actually did a good deed yesterday!
He went patrolling around campus late at night and caught a thief."
Huang Peng spoke, amazed.
In his impression, Xue Yong was never this dedicated.
Master Chong snorted.
"Who knows?
Could have stumbled upon it going for a midnight pee."
The crowd chuckled.
Master Chong noticed the taekwondo flyer wrapped in Star Belly's tail.
"What's the Immortal Beast carrying?"
Knowing the milk tea it was drinking was bought by the elder, Star Belly generously stretched out its tail, handing over the flyer.
Master Chong took it and glanced at it.
"Taekwondo tutoring class, 400 bucks per session, small class... Not cheap!
The bubble tea we're having isn't even 100 bucks in total."
Star Belly looked at the flyer, then at the milk tea it held, stunned.
"Hm?"
So expensive?
Could it be that taekwondo is really impressive?
Huang Peng smacked his lips beside it.
"Not worth it!
My cousin got bullied at school and was sent by his mom to learn taekwondo.
Studied for a sester."
Everyone looked at Huang Peng.
"Did it help?"
Huang Peng grinned.
"He showed high kicks to those bullies and got beaten up even worse."
Everyone laughed.
Bai Mo glanced at the taekwondo flyer.
"This stuff seems quite fancy.
But if practiced consistently for years, with strong talent, it should be useful.
If ordinary people practice casually and sporadically, it's probably not much help."
Star Belly nodded, understanding taekwondo... Expensive, not impressive, useless!
Definitely can't compare to the Alchemy Master Fist of Fox Mountain... Of course, that's normal. Fox Mountain's fists are undoubtedly the best!
The conversation continued, and Master Chong suddenly pointed at the playground.
"Haha, look, they're about to teach the students sothing real!
Military Boxing!"
Star Belly looked at the playground and saw students, led by the instructor, starting to pose with various boxing moves.
Is this impressive?
"Military Boxing has so gymnastics elents, mainly for fitness.
But... if practiced well and used skillfully, it can be very powerful!"
Star Belly's eyes lit up!
"Huh?"
Very powerful?
And... this boxing is taught on the playground, so no fee to learn, does that an... it can sneak a lesson?
A glint appeared in Star Belly's fox-like eyes!
Foxes are cunning!
Though Military Boxing surely isn't as powerful as Alchemy Master Fist, it's free, so no harm in learning. Once mastered, it can teach the brothers back at Fox Mountain!
Star Belly made up its mind, smirking slyly.
It looked up at Master, gesturing.
"Yummy yummy! Yum yum yum!"
Seeing Master wave a hand, "Go play."
It leapt out from Master's embrace, focusing on the students' motions on the playground, listening to the instructors' commands, and mimicked a move!
On the playground, the class nearest the shade had an instructor with a slightly hoarse voice shouting loudly.
"All of you, assu forward step punch!"
Whoosh!
The students punched in unison, their clothes making sound.
But their movents weren't synchronized, so quick, so slow.
Their stances weren't uniform, steps various, punches high and low.
The instructor shouted reprimandingly.
"Can't rember the techniques?
"Right punch rotates out from the waist! Understand what rotating out ans?
"Palm down, left punch retracts to the waist, while stepping.
"Are you all eighty years old?
"Where's your coordination gone?"
...
The most frustrating thing is getting scolded.
The most enjoyable thing is watching others get scolded.
Bai Mo, Master Chong, and the group watched amusedly from the shade.
"It's not their fault, really.
"Just ordinary folks, not Martial Dao geniuses, how could they learn so fast?"
Bai Mo spoke while watching his apprentice.
Seeing the little guy furrow its brows, staring at its paws, unsure which to punch or retract, and hadn't understood how to punch, rotate, or how to step.
Seeing its feet, it hadn't worked out the forward step.
Bai Mo smirked.
Star Belly is among the apprentices, the one with very ordinary Martial Dao talent, even quite a dunce when learning!
Back when it learned Alchemy Master Fist, it took tons of effort! Still hasn't fully grasped it.
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