Traveling

Chen Cheng did not stay in Great Capital for long. The next day, he took the association membership card issued by the Martial Arts Association and a subsidy card for promoting martial arts, then left Great Capital.

In Wu Cai's words, the card was a bit of living money for him. As for the association member status, it meant that when he visited various sects again, he would no longer need to rack his brains for an excuse to come calling.

Because aside from sponsors who had spent a great deal of money, only Grandmaster martial artists could obtain membership.

And for a Grandmaster to come to one's own sect to exchange pointers and discuss the Dao was surely something every sect hoped to see.

The biggest reason Chen Cheng was in such a hurry—even declining the Martial Arts Association's invitation to stay for the New Year—was that he had discovered there were only a little over six months left before he was struck dead by a truck in this life.

Chen Cheng suspected that the time limit for this Ascension might be the moment of his death by collision, and that his Ascension Task this time was likely to study martial arts and step into the legendary realm of Dan Embrace.

Although his progress had already been fast enough, reaching Grandmaster in just over a month, only he himself knew the truth.

His improvement had relied entirely on the fact that his physical body had already been tempered by Battle Aura. Otherwise, even with cheats, it would have taken him several years.

But upon reaching the realm of Dan Embrace, his powerful body could no longer serve as a shortcut, because Dan Embrace was no longer merely an elevation of the flesh—it had reached the level of the spirit.