Hundred Days Foundation Establishment

Chu Ke did not go sleep in V's room that night. Though he could have sampled the technological services of the world of 2077, the air quality was what it was. Whether indoors or outdoors, Chu Ke felt somewhat uncomfortable.

Rather than bother purifying it with Fundamental Forces, he might as well return to his own little box to sleep.

At six the next morning, David, still asleep, was awakened by a phone call.

"Hello... Oh, Brother Chu." David rubbed his bleary face, looking utterly drowsy. "Are we heading over already? It's only six."

He had been too excited the night before, like a child before a school trip. But he had not expected the rent on his home to expire, leaving him unable to get inside. He could only crawl in through the ventilation duct, and the washing machine had also been shut off for nonpayment, leaving him unable to wash his filthy clothes.

After spending half the day finishing his usual washing up, David only searched online for a while about the knowledge Brother Chu had told him to look into. Having gained a preliminary understanding of what kung fu was, he could no longer resist his drowsiness and went to sleep.

"The morning is the foundation of the day. You're already past the best age for martial arts. You can only achieve something through greater diligence."

"I'm giving you fifteen minutes. I want to see you here, or forget about training."

Chu Ke's urging voice echoed in his ears, and David barely roused himself enough to slap his face.

"Brother Chu, I'll be right there!"

That was right. Even Brother Chu had gotten up early to teach him martial arts. He could not slack off! With that thought in mind, David quickly washed his face, casually tossed his old school uniform onto the floor, changed into the uniform his mother wore, and skipped out the door.

If Chu Ke used Fundamental Forces to hear what David was thinking right now, he would probably laugh.

The kid was still too young. Though Chu Ke had gone to bed late last night, he could freely adjust the flow of time in his own world. Sleeping for a full twelve hours until he woke naturally was effortless, not to mention that an existence like him did not need sleep at all.

Chu Ke stood outside Viktor's Clinic from yesterday and casually scanned the boy running toward him from a distance with a smile on his face using Fundamental Forces.

Forget personal privacy. David could talk to an existence like Chu Ke about retaining personal privacy once he was capable of pinning Chu Ke down in a fight.

The weak stood naked before the strong.

"Hm?"

After examining David's memories, Chu Ke's expression became somewhat strange.

According to the plot, David should have met Lucy, his fated girlfriend, near the plaza.

Yet after scanning his memories, Chu Ke found that no white-haired figure had ever appeared in his sight.

To be fair, Chu Ke thought highly of this pair. A girl like Lucy, so wonderful that she seemed not to belong in this world, paired with a boy like David, willing to devote everything to those he cared about—they were quite well matched.

After briefly checking David's timeline, Chu Ke discovered that because of himself and the others, the two had just barely missed each other. But as fate would have it, they would still meet later.

Then it did not matter. Chu Ke waved at David, who had run all the way here. The boy had not yet installed enough cyberware, so his body was still rather weak. He was now bent over with his hands on his legs, panting heavily.

"Very good. Fourteen minutes and seven seconds. Not bad," Chu Ke praised.

Given David's physical condition, it would take him at least fifteen minutes to run here from where he lived. Arriving ahead of time counted as a huge burst of potential.

"Ha..." David wiped the sweat dripping down his chin and grinned. "Hehe, I'm actually pretty fast."

Now Chu Ke could not hold it in anymore. That line brought back some unpleasant memories that began attacking him.

Damn it. Sooner or later, he would return to his original world and stab the screenwriter twice. Oh, right. Adam Smasher could get stabbed twice too.

"Tsk, where's V?" Chu Ke remembered calling him. Why had he not come yet?

Chu Ke casually stretched out a hand, opening a spatial rift and pulling a completely naked body out of it.

"Ah! Fuck!" V let out a piercing shriek as Chu Ke held him suspended in midair by the back of his neck. "Brother Chu, I was wrong!"

"A shemale sleeping naked? You deserve to die!"

Feeling as if his eyes had been contaminated, Chu Ke slapped him back through the rift. "One minute. Get dressed and come out on your own."

Meanwhile, David had already started bleeding from the nose.

Youth meant vigorous blood and energy, especially for a virgin like David, who had just finished intense exercise.

After V came out dressed, Chu Ke took out a small box.

"Let's go. We'll train inside."

"Inside? It's so small. How do we get in?" David asked cluelessly.

"Why does this look like an urn? That's really lucky," said V, the transmigrator, who recognized what it was.

"Watch your wording. It doesn't look like one. It is an urn," Chu Ke corrected. "It contains an Absolute Infinity multiverse of universes that I created. We're going to one of the universes with a faster time flow. The ratio inside is 1:2400, meaning that if we spend one hundred days inside, only one hour will pass outside."

"That's incredible!" V was already impatient. "Like the Hyperbolic Time Chamber from Dragon Ball?"

Chu Ke grabbed one of them in each hand and took a single step into one of the universes within the box.

Lush green grass covered the land. It was an endless plain, modeled after the Superflat world in My World, truly infinite in size.

David's jaw was practically about to hit the ground. He had never even seen a movie this sci-fi in Braindance!

"Stop staring. Let's begin." Chu Ke kicked out, positioning each of their feet fifteen degrees outward and one and a half shoulder widths apart. "We'll start with stance training."

"We're starting just like that?" V asked curiously.

"Mhm. Since both of you have some cyberware in your bodies, we'll start with internal cultivation to avoid problems. David can first try practicing external cultivation. V's cybernetic modification level is too high, so we'll deal with that later."

With that, Chu Ke conjured a small bamboo stick from thin air and began correcting their stance according to the methods he had deduced.

"Good. Stand like that for a hundred days first."

"Ah!?" x2 "Don't worry, I'm here. During that time, your stamina will only be depleted to ninety percent, so you won't collapse from exhaustion. And after the hundred days are over, I'll weaken your sense of time during this period. You'll only feel as though a short time has passed, but these hundred days will still be a bit grueling. That will depend on your willpower."

With Chu Ke supporting them, they did not need to eat and would maintain their most basic stamina. All that remained was to temper their willpower. After the hundred days were over, their sense of time would be weakened, just like in a dream.

That was Chu Ke's solution. It would grant them a double exercise of spirit, will, and body without leaving them with the disorienting feeling of having been separated from the world for ages.

"The main problem is that I probably can't last a hundred days!" V wailed, and David nodded in deep agreement.

"Isn't that why I'm here?" Chu Ke flashed a bright smile. "Never heard of Hundred Days Foundation Establishment?"

Chu Ke took out a timer. "This timer will only run while both of you are holding the horse stance at the same time. You can only leave after it has run for 2,400 hours."

"David, think about how powerless you felt back then. Think about the people you want to protect."

"As for V, David, you'll be responsible for supervising him. After all, the condition for that timer to run is that you both hold the horse stance at the same time."