Jiang Fang

Instructor Jiang Fang's figure was nothing like in the original work—full breasts, wide hips, slender waist.

Instead, she was a short-haired girl with a slightly slender build. This was much better.

After all, women would only affect the speed at which I drew my blade...

"I heard you use a saber. Bring it and come outside with me."

"Yes." Xu Feng immediately took his Blood Shadow Saber, slung it across his back, and followed Jiang Fang out.

"Come, Xu Feng... Use your saber techniques to spar with me. I won't use strength or speed beyond yours!"

"Yes, Instructor." Xu Feng drew his Blood Shadow Saber.

"Attack!" Jiang Fang ordered.

"Yes!"

Xu Feng lunged forward like lightning, his clean and decisive perfect-level saber technique slashing diagonally toward Jiang Fang.

Jiang Fang's curved saber in her right hand did not move. She merely moved her left hand, yet struck later and arrived first.

Clang!

The instant her left-hand curved saber touched Xu Feng's Blood Shadow Saber, Xu Feng felt a strange sensation of having nowhere to exert his strength.

Before he could withdraw his saber, the blade light had brushed past his neck and retracted.

He was not at all surprised that his attack had been blocked.

If Jiang Fang did not even possess this level of skill, what right did she have to be an instructor at the Elite Training Camp?

However, Xu Feng had also seen through some of it. If she wanted to test his saber technique, there was no need to block his attack and "counterkill" him right from the start.

Because apart from showing that she was impressive and Xu Feng was weak, it served no real purpose in testing his actual level.

What Jiang Fang had done was clearly meant to establish her authority—or perhaps it was not quite that, but simply a display of her strength.

After all, who among those able to enter the Elite Training Camp was not an exceptional genius?

Geniuses were proud, and some even refused discipline, so a necessary display of strength still had to be made.

"Your use of strength is far too rigid. Although you understand the exertion method of the Nine Heavens Thunder Blade, you do not know how to apply it flexibly or adapt to circumstances. I used strength almost equal to yours just now, so why did it produce such an effect? Think carefully about it yourself."

Jiang Fang looked at Xu Feng, who had risen from the ground, and shook her head.

"Again."

Ten minutes later, Jiang Fang shouted sharply at Xu Feng, who had been deep in thought.

"Yes."

Xu Feng answered and once again raised his Absolute Shadow Battle Saber to attack.

"Enough. We'll stop training here today. Think carefully about the flexible application of the first three levels of the Nine Heavens Thunder Blade. Tomorrow, we'll continue learning the later saber techniques."

After sending Xu Feng flying for the third time and waiting ten minutes for him to think, Jiang Fang saw the eager expression on his face but set down her battle saber.

"For us martial artists, training is not merely about saber techniques. More importantly, it is about the body. The body is the foundation of everything. Come with me."

Without waiting for a response, Jiang Fang left the training hall first and pushed open the door to a room along the corridor.

The room beyond the door was roughly one hundred and fifty square meters, with not a single window in sight.

The walls, floor, and everything else in the room were made of an unknown alloy mixed with yellow and black, giving it a very unusual feel.

On the wall opposite the entrance was a neat array of buttons, with different numbers clearly displayed beneath each one.

"This is a Gravity Room, excavated from the Ancient Civilization Ruins. Its maximum gravity can reach one thousand times that of Earth.

"Training in the Gravity Room allows its gravitational force to act on every part of the body—your muscles, bones, blood vessels, internal organs, all the way down to your cells, even your molecules and atoms!"

Jiang Fang explained with a hint of pride on her face.

"Gravity Room."

Xu Feng's eyes lit up with anticipation.

"So, inside the Gravity Room, especially under your own limit of gravity, even if you merely stand still, every cell in your body is subjected to gravitational force, resisting it and consuming energy. The effect is far better than ordinary training.

"Of course, the results are even better if you train alongside it!

"You could say that two hours a day under limit gravity would make a day of your training more than ten times faster than normal!"

Jiang Fang continued her explanation.

"Starting today, every morning, you will first receive one to two hours of guidance from me. Then, in this Gravity Room, you will cultivate genetic energy while digesting the knowledge I teach you.

"At night, you can continue training here, or you can seek advice from Situ Huan and the others about Psychic Master cultivation. Although they may no longer compare to you now, their experience is still richer than yours.

"Your physical fitness should be at the intermediate Warlord level. Hmm, ten times gravity, then. It should be close to your limit."

As Jiang Fang spoke, she quickly pressed one of the many buttons on the wall and turned it several times.

Buzz—

An invisible force instantly enveloped every part of Xu Feng's body. His vision went black, and he dropped straight to his knees. His heartbeat boomed like pounding drums, while the sound of blood flowing through his veins was like a rushing river. Everything was so clear.

"Haha, how does it feel?"

Seeing Xu Feng suffer, Jiang Fang wore a gloating smile.

Xu Feng struggled to stand, his face somewhat pale and his body swaying as though he might collapse. With difficulty, he said,

"I just feel incredibly heavy all over. My heartbeat feels awful, and it's hard to breathe. Every part of my body hurts. Even the battle saber on my back seems to weigh over two thousand kilograms now."

"Mm, that's exactly the effect. Take your time getting used to it, kid!"

Before they parted, she also explained some things about Points to Xu Feng.

"Xu Feng, you're new here, so you currently have 0 Points and rank last."

"Your ranking number is odd, so for the first twenty-eight days of this month, on odd-numbered dates, you will go with the other students to the Wilderness Zone to hunt monsters and earn Battle Points."

"On even-numbered dates, you will remain at the training camp to study and train properly. I'll guide you then."

"Yes, Instructor." Xu Feng nodded.

Jiang Fang finished speaking with a smile, turned, and left, no longer paying any attention to Xu Feng, who was barely standing in the Gravity Room.

"Damn it!"

Xu Feng cursed inwardly. He forced himself to stay upright, drew the Absolute Shadow Battle Saber from his back, and slowly swung it as though in a movie's slow motion. At times, he leaned on the long saber and struggled to steady himself while recalling and pondering Jiang Fang's earlier guidance.

By evening, when Xu Feng emerged from the Gravity Room, he was soaked through, looking as bedraggled as though he had just climbed out of water. That night, Xu Feng sat in the study and checked his laptop.

After returning today, he found two more unread emails in his inbox. Xu Feng opened the top one first.

"Student Xu Feng, congratulations on officially joining the Elite Training Camp."

"Your ranking this month is 181st. You may use the Ancient Civilization Gravity Room for 1 hour and the Trial Room for 1 hour."

"This is your first month at the training camp. You have one additional privilege to undergo a Trial Tower assessment, which will not count toward your Trial Room usage time."

"Please make reasonable use of resources, improve your strength, and strive for a higher ranking!"

"If you rank among the bottom three for a cumulative total of three times, you will be eliminated!"

"For specific resource allocation details, please see the attachment."

Xu Feng did not care about these resources at all. He casually skimmed through the attachment, closed the email, and opened the other one.

During my first month at the training camp, I have a privilege to take one Trial Tower rank assessment, Xu Feng thought.

A Trial Tower rank assessment was a privilege every student newly admitted to the training camp had during their first month.

The time consumed by a Trial Tower assessment did not count toward the allotted time quota. For example, Xu Feng only had one hour in the Trial Room in July.

Yet Xu Feng might spend forty minutes on the Trial Tower rank assessment, making a total of one hour and forty minutes.

Some people took a long time for this rank assessment, while others took less.

In other words, as long as Xu Feng had the ability, he could make full use of those one hundred minutes and sprint toward a higher rank.

Moreover, he was the only new student in July, so Xu Feng could freely choose any day between noon and 1 p.m. to undergo the rank assessment.