Chapter 150: Iron Fist Hwarang (2/2)

Tsinghua University and Beijing University were the two most well known universities in China. So when Wang Chao took a step onto campus, he had been able to see the pleased faces of all the students there.

“A university has so many clubs, how youthful it is.”

As Wang Chao walked across the campus, he had felt the atmosphere of the place and absorbed it in to feel completely at ease as if his spirit was ready to be set free and fly away.

He had never gone to university before, and all of his impressions of it had been from the stories he had heard while in high school. “Taekwondo is now an Olympic event, so it should be very popular in university. With Li Wanji doing a good job with all of the universities in S province, I wonder how Beijing University is doing.”

Wang Chao had been pretty engrossed in this thought.

He had worked at the Taekwondo dojo for wages before, but as traditional practitioner of martial arts, he had a bias against it, believing Taekwondo to be a performance type of martial arts with no substance.

But on the other hand, he had seen the business model of Taekwondo, and how it was a prosperous type of business.

In the end, no matter how well he was able to fight or how decent his skill was, he still had to go to the Taekwondo dojo to earn his meal.

Whatever the case, if food could not be earned from it, then it was not worth doing.

Eating and having clothes were the most essential factors to life.

Whatever school or sect that could keep up with the modern times would be entrenched the hearts of many and would be passed on. There was no such thing as a school or sect that could resist that tide of change.

Arriving at the gymnasium of the university, the Taekwondo poster had caught Wang Chao’s eye. With a gleam of it, he was able to learn of the exact location.

“Hai! Hai! Hai!”

A series of enthusiastic voices could be heard from across a rather wide open space. Many male and female university students could be seen donning a white uniform while kicking high up into the air with their legs again and again with power.

Needless to say, the uniforms each student wore was quite good-looking.

Several black-belt wearing men and women could be seen giving advice to a group of members.

“Not like that, your kick was too low. You’d want to kick at the chest level at the very least. Junior, you should learn to practice the fundamentals in ligament strengthening on your own time. Here, take a look at my demonstration. Hold this board above your head.”

At that moment, a voice could be heard to Wang Chao’s ear. It had not been too far away, and Wang Chao could hear a female instructor giving pointers to a male student on how to practice his kicks.

As a demonstration, this female had strode forward and rotated her body before abruptly flying into the air. Her body turned a complete 360 degree turn before her leg came flying down. With a smattering crack, the leg had split the wooden board the other student had been holding over his head. Finally, she gracefully landed back on the ground. The entire sequence had been beautiful, clean, marvelous, and wonderful.

“Since when did Cao Jingjing have a skill like that?”

It had only taken one eye for Wang Chao to see the similarities between this girl and Cao Jingjing, but with two eyes, he was able to take a closer look and realize that she was indeed the class president of his high school career, Cao Jingjing. Although it was said that a woman would undergo a drastic transformation at the age of 18, her aura was not something that would change.

Wang Chao’s intuition was very sharp and would naturally be able to recognize her.

As a former ultra-hired help of a Taekwondo dojo, Wang Chao was very familiar with the movement and style of Taekwondo. This had been the extremely difficult “Hurricane Kick”, a move that shared some similarities to the movements in gymnastics. To kick while in midair required a strong waist and an equally strong ligament in the legs to be able to dish out something of this calibre.

Needless to say, without training the waist and legs, then tearing the ligaments would only be natural.

“Our senior is amazing.”

“She is.”

“She’s awesome!”

Cao Jingjing’s kick had been marvelous beyond marvelous and had conquered the eyes of all the students there. Practically everyone in the room had a look of admiration on their faces–excluding Wang Chao of course.

“Very good, Jingjing. Your kicks are already on par with a third-degree black belt. When will you be taking your promotion tests?” A 27-28 year old looking male instructor clapped Jingjing on the shoulder.

“Jingjing, you’re already the prettiest girl in our faculty. But with that kick just now, who knows how many more people will come chasing? Every week, there’s already a dozen or so roses by our dorms for you.” One of the more beautiful looking female students spoke as she walked towards Jingjing.

“That’s enough from you, let’s eat lunch.” Cao Jingjing teased the student. “I haven’t practiced the Hurricane Kick enough.. Some of the harder kicks are still impossible for me to do. In these days, pulling a ligament is easy to do, I’d better start strengthening them.”

“Cao Jingjing!” At that moment, Wang Chao gave a shout out before walking over.

Turning her head around, when Cao Jingjing saw Wang Chao walk over, her eyebrows knitted together to scrutinize him. After a while, her eyes began to brighten in joy, “Are-aren’t you Wang Chao? What are you doing here, aren’t you working?”

“I haven’t been doing business for some time now, I’ll be studying in Beijing as well. I got a phone call from your dad recently, so I decided to come see how my old classmate was doing.”

“You’ll be studying in Beijing?”Cao Jingjing wasn’t one to have any misgivings for a classmate like Wang Chao, but when she heard that he would be here from now on, she was astonished.

Wang Chao’s academic records was practically a total mess. She knew that much.

“Jingjing, is this your classmate?” The girl next to Cao Jingjing asked.

“Yes, he’s my old highschool classmate.” Cao Jingjing replied to her before asking, “Ah, Wang Chao, which school will you be studying at?”

“The Central Party School over at Lotus Root Pond. But I’ll only be there for a short two months.”

“Central Party School?” Cao Jingjing and her friend both gasped. Even the male instructor had looked to Wang Chao after hearing those three words.