Chen Shouyi slept until the afternoon, and after waking up, all his fatigue disappeared, leaving him feeling refreshed.

He dressed and glanced at the bulky telephone on his desk, feeling a sudden urge. He walked over to the desk, picked up the receiver, and dialed Bai Xiaoling's office number.

The call was quickly connected.

"Hello, who is this?"

"I'm Chen Shouyi, I need information on the spatial passage around the Safe Zone!" said Chen Shouyi.

Given the recent events, the spatial passage in the lower city is clearly no longer an option. Currently, he is training with the Horizontal Training Thirty-Six Styles, which require a high demand for Original Force. On Earth, its effects are incredibly weak, so he'll have to choose another location.

"Ah, General Manager Chen, when do you need it?"

"It would be best if I can get it today."

"Alright, I'll handle it immediately!"

Chen Shouyi hung up the phone and went to the kitchen to cook some noodles for a simple lunch.

Not long after he finished eating, Bai Xiaoling, sweating profusely, delivered a thick stack of documents.

After seeing Bai Xiaoling off, Chen Shouyi returned to his bedroom.

The information had already been organized.

The spatial passages closest to the Safe Zone were placed at the front, with the nearest one being only eight kilometers away. It was marked with a danger level of high risk, higher than the medium risk level of the one in the lower city.

Of course, that was in the past; now, that passage is at least disaster-level.

In general, anything related to deities was basically marked as disaster-level, and such passages were generally not open, guarded heavily by troops.

He looked at the information on this passage.

The opposite side seemed to be at the bottom of an abyss, dark and damp, without any light whatsoever. According to the description in the document, many Martial Artists had explored it, but most never returned.

Chen Shouyi glanced at it briefly and put the documents aside.

Not to mention this passage being extremely dangerous, the mere darkness was something he couldn't bear.

He was going to the other world to train, not to be tortured.

Chen Shouyi picked up another document, glanced at it, and set it aside again. The exit of this passage was located above a large lake, and he didn't want to go there to swim.

It wasn't until the third one that things started to look promising.

This one was situated in a Gobi Desert, marked with a danger level of low risk, about twenty-five kilometers away from the Safe Zone.

Chen Shouyi's eyes lit up at the sight, his mind made up that this was the one.

It was close, and most importantly, safe!

In such a barren place like the Gobi, Barbarians were unlikely to reside in large numbers, and where there were no Barbarians, there would be no deities paying attention.

Ever since his encounter with a deity yesterday, which scared him half to death, he had been skittish.

In regard to such unpredictable entities, he now stayed as far away from them as possible.

Though the conditions might be harsh, he wasn't planning to reside there, but just using it as a training ground.

...

In the evening, his sister finally returned from school, dressed in Martial Arts Academy training attire, looking energetic and dashing. She immediately asked Chen Shouyi, "Brother, where did you go yesterday? Why didn't you make a call?"

"Went too far in the other world forest and got lost," Chen Shouyi casually made up an excuse.

Chen Xingyue didn't think much of it and said with some excitement, "In a few days, we're also going to have training in the other world!"

"Which other world?" Chen Shouyi asked.

"The spatial passage at the old campus, all the advanced classes will be going there for half a month of training!" Chen Xingyue replied.

Chen Shouyi relaxed upon hearing it was the passage affiliated with the Martial Arts Academy.

The Martial Arts Academy was generally built near safe spatial passages for convenient training purposes.

And since the Jiangnan Martial Arts Academy had been established for almost twenty years, continuously using this passage for training Martial Artist Apprentices, it was naturally safe.

He smiled and asked, "Do you want me to accompany you?"

"What's the point of you going? There's no danger, it's just a training base!" Chen Xingyue said, pursing her lips. She wasn't a little kid who needed parents to accompany her everywhere.

The last time at the funeral home was an exception; it was indeed quite frightening. But if he went again this time, she, as a top Martial Artist in the academy, would lose face.

...

The next morning, after breakfast, Chen Shouyi rode his bicycle out.

On the road, trucks loaded with large amounts of furniture flowed endlessly, as if it were a mass relocation. After asking around, Chen Shouyi learned these were residents from the vicinity of the spatial passage in the lower city.

The City Government's efficiency was very high; in just a day, they decisively relocated the surrounding residents.

Chen Shouyi watched as one truck after another drove by, feeling inexplicably heavy-hearted. Ever since the anomaly, the balance between the two worlds began to break, and the peace of the past vanished.

He hoped Hedong wouldn't end up like Pingzhou!

If it did, regardless of them winning or losing, it would be a huge disaster.

He looked away, gently pushed his bicycle, and it shot forward like an arrow.

...

This spatial passage was located at the foot of a mountain on the edge of a small town.

After showing his credentials, Chen Shouyi smoothly entered the spatial passage.

As soon as he entered, he spat out a mouthful of sand.

Here, the wind howled, and sands flew everywhere.

"Damn, a sandstorm!"

He quickly controlled the wind, calming the airflow and shaking off the sand all over his body.

Looking at the sky covered with a gray-yellow hue, with dried, twisted trees lying scattered in the sand, some trees even had trunks ten to twenty meters thick, like walls.

Not far away, a massive and eerie skeleton lay in the sand. A few rib bones, seven to eight meters long, stood in mid-air like arched pillars, remaining unmoved regardless of how the wind blew.

Chen Shouyi was deeply shocked.

If such a creature were still alive.

Unless he underwent Giant Transformation, he would have to steer clear.

This place used to be a forest.

Primitive or not!

In the other world, there was no such thing as non-primitive forests.

He somewhat regretted choosing here.

Safe it might be, but the environment was really harsh. Apart from scattered bushes, it looked desolate.

He looked towards the bizarre rocky Gobi, preparing to check it out, at least to seek shelter from the wind.

The saying about sightlines being deceptive. The Gobi looked close but was actually far away; Chen Shouyi walked for more than ten minutes before finally arriving.

Upon approaching, Chen Shouyi realized.

This wasn't just a Gobi desert but a series of stone mountains.

After years of weathering, the mountain forms were riddled with holes like they had been eaten by bugs. Some of these holes were as small as a fist, while others were as large as multi-story hallways, appearing quite majestic.

As the wind blew past here, it sounded like ghosts wailing.

He walked up and quickly climbed into a wind-sheltered cave, where there was no wind at all.

He dusted himself off, and with a thought, the wind started to howl as the thick layer of sand on the ground was quickly blown clean.

He placed his backpack down, sat on an outcropping rock, and sighed lightly as he watched the sandstorm.

"I'll settle here for today. If it remains like this, tomorrow I'll choose another spot!"

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