Book 4, Chapter 264: If I Want To Train, I Need To Go To The Merged Space

Senior Yu and Senior Guo were both delighted. If Lu Fang became a Third Limit martial artist, not only would he possess true strength, but he would also become a Central City citizen the moment he applied for it. Then, they could make their martial arts school legal.

Lu Fang could also help them with their training, so their chances of reaching the Third Limit would increase.

Lu Fang was busy experiencing all the differences in his body when he heard a chime from his Realm Pass. When he saw the ID, he immediately answered it, and Chen Chuan’s voice came through, “Congratulations, Lu Fang.”

“You’re back?” Lu Fang asked with some excitement.

“I’ve been back for a day, but I didn’t bother you because I was worried that you’d get distracted. Do you remember the breathing technique I taught you? Use it to recover,” Chen Chuan said.

“Alright. Thank you!” Lu Fang said seriously.

He was indeed grateful toward Chen Chuan. Without his medicine, he wouldn’t have reached his current state. Chen Chuan had always been helping him too, so now that he had reached the Third Limit, he could finally help him back.

After the call, Senior Yu asked in admiration, “That was Chen Chuan, wasn’t it?”

“Yes.” Lu Fang nodded.

Senior Guo was impressed, but there were a lot more emotions in his heart than just that. “Chen Chuan is a martial arts master now. He should be the most impressive out of all of those who graduated from Yangzhi City’s Martial Valor University. Yet even with his current status, he never forgot to help you. It looks like he really is someone who values friendship and is deeply sentimental.”

Senior Yu nodded. Right now, Chen Chuan was the benchmark of Yangzhi City’s Martial Valor University. A lot of his former juniors and peers had called him to say that they wanted to introduce some of their own juniors to Central City for him to take care of them. They also mentioned Chen Chuan somewhere in the conversation. It was likely because they were motivated and affected by him. Senior Yu had a feeling that in the future, more graduates from Yangzhi City’s Martial Valor University were going to come to Central City.

Senior Guo patted Lu Fang’s shoulder. “Let’s go back, Lu Fang. We need to celebrate!”

“Yes! Also, we have to tell our juniors and students about this news so that they share our joy too!” Senior Yu said in excitement.

***

Chen Chuan transferred the screen’s authority to Nian Qian and went to his study. After calling Chang Dong, he received a report of the situation at the branch. Everything had been normal during the month he was gone. The only news was a telegram he forwarded to him. Apparently, it was a thank you letter from the headquarters.

This was another form of thanks from Shannan Road’s Chang Shuyu. After he reported it to the headquarters, they were bound to thank Chen Chuan for his cooperation.

While the thank you letter itself was useless, it could increase his evaluation points within the purity faction and give him more deciding power. Some members would also be more inclined to work or trade with him once he had higher evaluation points, or to aid him.

After hearing about this, he nodded in understanding and said that he was going to focus on training for some time. This was a heads-up for Chang Dong. After that, Chen Chuan asked Gao Yanjun to come over and prepare the ingredients and nutritional fluids for him.

Before noon, he received the ingredients from the municipal government. After Gao Yanjun assessed them and saw that they were fine, he decided to throw himself entirely into training.

His team had come back over the past few days, so he had given them access to the Fu-Mu Entity’s resources for training, while he went to his personal training room and threw himself into something similar to the isolated training in the old era.

From the beginning of February to the end of March, he never stepped out of his manor. His focus was solely on training.

His effort paid off. After nearly two months of training, he picked up two more moves from the Fist of the Vast Sky and the Blinding Blaze. He had also strengthened the foundations of the other moves he had learned.

Every move from the two techniques was a complete set of offensive and defensive manoeuvres.

For example, the Fist of the Vast Sky’s every move required a certain set of mutated tissue. No matter what move a practitioner used, they could deliver a stronger strike than what their foundation implied. If a practitioner used it along with the Blinding Blaze, their mind and body would become one, and their power would become even greater.

Once a practitioner could chain all the moves together, they became even more efficient in using their mutated tissue and mental energy. The amount of mutated tissue and mental energy they could use would also be higher. Naturally, this meant that their fighting power would increase as well. The more moves they learned, the greater the effect became.

Before, Chen Chuan needed around a month to pick up one move. Now, in less than two months, he had managed to gain such results. The main reason behind this was because he had no lack of ingredients and nutritional fluid. The Veshahan artifact also helped a lot.

Whenever he practiced a move, he burned a lot of energy. If he could replenish it and his body could sustain the continuous training, it was only natural that his training progress would speed up.

At the end of the day, resources were king.

Most of the martial arts masters in the new era gained their power by having a large logistics system supporting them.

In the old era, the conqueror generals also needed an entire country to help them. Only the martial arts masters who stayed permanently in the merged space didn’t need such support, but there were few of them. They also happened to be the group of people whose lives went catastrophically wrong the most often in the old era.

Chen Chuan took a moment to inspect himself. After repeated training, his mind and body had grown significantly stronger. His second self had improved as well.

After Chen Chuan fought against a few martial arts masters, his second self had reached the Third Limit, but the progress started slowing down after that. His second self clearly needed more time to reach the level of a martial arts master, but if Chen Chuan fought against suitable opponents, his second self’s improvement would speed up.

At this point, Chen Chuan had practically finished using up all the ingredients and medicine he had stored up. What he had left was just the ingredients the municipal government had to provide for him every month. While they were sufficient for getting around, they couldn’t keep up with the large amount of energy he burned during training.

After some thinking, he decided that it was time for him to go to the merged space.

He had read up on this before. If martial arts masters went to the merged space, they had two places to go. The first option was to head to the merged space’s military or apply to defend the World Ring. While stationed there, they would have to provide combat support.

The military was in charge of killing the merged space creatures in the area. Anything other than mega creatures were much easier to kill with artillery and explosives, but the government did send dedicated teams into the depths of the merged space to hunt. This meant that martial arts masters with them could get fresh ingredients every day.

Those stationed at the World Ring got even better benefits, though they needed to sign a contract that bound them to the place long term, which made it difficult to leave. The higher-ups could also send them to other places to provide support at any moment, such as what had happened to Wan Yunshan.

The second option was for the martial arts master to head into the depths of the merged space to hunt on their own. They couldn’t just pick whatever place they liked, though. They had to first get confirmation from the military and the government, then work together with them to get assigned an area as their hunting ground.

Of course, if he had no competition and wasn’t worried about making enemies, he could expand his hunting zone.

For example, after the imperial body was sent packing from Jibei Road’s merged space, Yao Zhiyi was in charge of defending the military stationed in the merged space, so he wasn’t going to come out to compete with Chen Chuan for prey. So, if he chose this method, all of Jibei Road’s vast merged space could become his hunting ground.

The choice was clear.

After ending his training for the day, Chen Chuan submitted his application to go to the merged space to the Department of Administrative Affairs and the National Martial Artists Council. The application to the Department of Administrative Affairs was just part of formalities, because it was normal for martial arts masters to go to the merged space. Those who chose to stay long-term in Central City were the rare ones.

As for his work? The deputy directors could take care of it. All he needed to do was to make sure he assigned everyone’s tasks properly before he left.

The National Martial Artists Council usually also only wanted to know where the martial arts master wanted to go. If he stayed within the space assigned to him, they wouldn’t interfere with his actions.

His application went through within just a day.

Nian Qian’s annual leave was almost over, so Chen Chuan wasn’t in a hurry to go to the merged space. He intended to wait for a few more days before getting ready to leave. He could use the time to get his affairs at home and at the Defense Bureau sorted.

On the twenty-seventh of March, Chen Chuan went with his family to the mooring point to see Nian Qian off as he boarded his airship to leave. Then, he went back to pack up. At 4:30 p.m. the next day, he said goodbye to Yu Wan, Nian Fuli, Nian Mo, and Nian Lu. With Dawncall by his side, he grabbed his suitcase, took the elevator, and went to the underground tunnel located at the very bottom of the manor.

There was an SUV built specifically to travel through the tunnel waiting for him. After around ten minutes, he reached the merged space.

There was a small fort and sentry tower at the exit. An elite squad stood guard, and there was a mooring tower nearby too. Since they had been notified ahead of time, an airship was already on the mooring tower.

Chen Chuan parked the SUV at the parking lot. Once he came out, the commander immediately shouted, “Salute!”

The soldiers saluted him.

Chen Chuan returned it.

Another military officer walked over, saluted him again, and said, “Director Chen, we’ve gotten the airship ready, as you requested. We can set off at any moment. Would you like to leave now?”

Chen Chuan nodded. “Let’s go. We should head to the military base first.”

Before he ventured deep into the merged space, he was going to visit Yao Zhiyi. He had gotten some clues about what he had asked last time. If they were useful, Chen Chuan might be able to wrap up an old case.

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