Martial Arts Space

It had to be said, Jiang Fan's luck was truly good.

In this market, seeing a living exotic beast was already extremely difficult! Encountering one that was both alive and at death's door was harder still!

Yet he had run into both of those things.

More coincidentally, he happened to know the Scorpion-tailed Wolf's fatal weak point.

It was as if fate had brought every piece together by chance, allowing him to pick up such an enormous bargain in the end.

The Mysterious Seal's unlock progress had already reached 98.9%. After killing the Scorpion-tailed Wolf, it directly hit 100%—truly an unexpected delight!

It could be unlocked now!

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Jiang Fan left the exotic beast trading market.

When he reached the street corner, he hesitated for a moment, then suddenly turned around and headed toward the Inner City.

Half an hour later, Jiang Fan appeared outside the ground-floor shops of an office building.

The sign above one of them read, "Thunder Martial Hall"!

The moment Jiang Fan entered, the girl at the front desk, Bingbing, immediately greeted him.

"Xiao Fan, you're here!"

Jiang Fan nodded.

"Sister Bingbing, is A-Ming back yet?"

Bingbing smiled.

"He hasn't gotten out of school yet..."

Halfway through speaking, she suddenly looked surprised.

"Huh? Why didn't you go to class today?"

Lei Ming and Jiang Fan were both students at Jiangcheng Third High School. Not only were they classmates, they were desk mates as well.

It was still morning. Lei Ming was at school, so why was Jiang Fan here?

Jiang Fan awkwardly rubbed his nose and inwardly muttered.

I was careless!

Usually, he came to see Lei Ming after school. But because he had been seriously injured last night, he had not gone to school.

He had not reacted just now and casually asked the question. When Bingbing questioned him in return, he did not know how to answer for a moment, so he could only brush it off.

"Oh, there's something going on at home today..."

However, Bingbing clearly had no intention of getting to the bottom of it. She merely nodded with a smile.

"Do you want me to open a training room for you?"

Thunder Martial Hall not only offered martial arts tutoring classes, but also opened separate training equipment rooms to the public.

To help their children pass the martial arts examination smoothly and improve their grades, many high school students' parents would take them to various martial halls for extra lessons after school.

By paying here, they could not only receive extracurricular martial arts training, but also rent private training rooms to practice in.

A training room that cost money was far quieter than a school's communal training room!

"Alright, thank you, Sister Bingbing!"

Bingbing waved her hand, smiling at the corners of her eyes.

"Hey! Why be so polite?"

"You and A-Ming are brothers. The boss said that whenever you need one, we'll open one for you!"

After saying that, perhaps afraid Jiang Fan would feel burdened, Bingbing added.

"Besides, it's the middle of the day right now. There's hardly anyone around, and they're all empty!"

Jiang Fan nodded.

In less than a minute, Bingbing had arranged a training room for Jiang Fan.

"All set. Go on, Training Room 7. The password is 48673268. There's no time limit!"

"Alright, thank you, Sister Bingbing!"

After thanking the young lady at the front desk, Jiang Fan headed down the corridor toward the training rooms.

He was very familiar with this place and did not need any directions at all.

He arrived at the training room, entered the password, opened the door, turned on the lights, then shut the door and locked it from the inside.

After completing that series of actions, Jiang Fan swept his gaze over the various pieces of equipment in the training room. He touched none of them and instead sat down cross-legged!

The Mysterious Seal had just indicated that the unlock progress was 100%. He had to find a private space and unlock it as quickly as possible!

As someone from Earth, Jiang Fan had a strange capacity for accepting things like cheat abilities!

He had already cut ties with the Jiang Family, so he would not go back!

Aunt's Home did not offer enough privacy either, so it was not suitable for him to go there.

After thinking it over, Thunder Martial Hall was the only place he could come to.

Jiang Fan closed his eyes, and an exquisite seal immediately appeared before him.

Unlock progress: 100%. Unlock?

Jiang Fan silently answered in his heart, Unlock.

His vision blurred, and he instantly appeared in a void-like space.

Jiang Fan swept his gaze around. White mist filled the surroundings, dreamlike and illusory.

And he seemed to be standing in the middle of an arena!

What was this?

Before Jiang Fan had time to think further, a voice came from all directions.

"Basic assessment begins!"

"10... 9... 8... 7..."

Martial Practice Space?

Wait! He was not ready yet!

Before Jiang Fan could cry out, a black shadow flashed before his eyes. A sharp pain tore through his chest, and his consciousness instantly returned to his body in the training room.

This was... dying?

That feeling just now—was that what death felt like?

Had he been killed by a creature in that space?

Thinking of this, Jiang Fan broke out in a cold sweat.

Although dying in that space would not truly kill him, and his consciousness would still return to reality—

But... if that had happened in reality, would he not have been dead before he could even react?

Since transmigrating into this High-Martial World, Jiang Fan had inherited the original owner's memories. He knew that exotic beasts ran rampant in this world, that humanity had always been resisting their incursions into the human world, and that the war on the front lines was extremely fierce.

But all of that had come from textbooks or hearsay!

People like them, ordinary people who had yet to awaken, had never been qualified to witness a real battle!

Yet that instant just now had allowed him to personally experience the brutality of combat.

This truly was a slaughter where either you died or I perished!

For Jiang Fan, who had never experienced life and death, there was a moment when he wanted to retreat. But in the next instant, he gritted his teeth and sat cross-legged in the training room once more.

His uncle Ma Jiang had gone out of the city to hunt exotic beasts for his sake, and whether he was alive or dead remained unknown!

Although Jiang Fan had found out the other party's target, he was still nothing but an ordinary person and could not help at all!

For the first time, he felt the cruelty of being ordinary!

If... he had the ability, could all of this have been avoided?

Wasn't it just dying one more time? Let's do it!

He wanted to see exactly what was inside!