Martial Arts: My Apprentices’ Training Returns Tenfold

Lu Zhen transmigrates to Republican-era Jinmen and inherits a Bajiquan martial arts school on the verge of bankruptcy.

Creditors are at the door, his disciples have all run off, and the Green Bamboo Gang next door wants protection money. Worst of all, warlord Murong Fei has his eye on the property and sends a monster transformed with implanted armor, the “Iron Demon,” to wreck the place.

His golden finger comes online: a daily settlement panel that rewards every drop of sweat, for hard work never goes unrewarded.

But his real trump card is the bond between master and disciple: when a disciple trains, they gain 2 proficiency points, while the master gets 20 for free. The harder his disciples work, the more invincible their master becomes.

From taking in a headstrong gang enforcer at the docks to having a rich young master kneel outside the woodshed for three days and nights, begging to become his disciple, Lu Zhen leads a group of troublesome kids through an age of foreign armored fighters, Japanese onmyoji, and warlord conflicts, carving out a path in blood with Bajiquan.

His fists crush armored fighters, his palms shatter yin and yang. The martial arts school's sign goes from “Rundown Nobody” to “Bajiquan Grandmaster,” while Lu Zhen's gaze has already passed beyond Jinmen, toward the Chinese dragon veins stolen by a Japanese grand formation.

When he stands with his seven disciples amid the snowstorms of the northern frontier, facing the deadly formation laid by seven Japanese onmyoji, Lu Zhen glances back at the ragtag disciples who once seemed hopeless and gives a laugh.

“Stay close to your master. Once this battle is over, we'll go home for the New Year.”

A fiery coming-of-age story, hardcore traditional martial arts, and the fate of the nation.