Heading to the Heavenly Human Pavilion's Base Camp

After taking a bath, Lin Zichen came out of the bathroom looking refreshed.

Shen Qinghan's hands were so soft and gentle, the touch was incredibly comfortable, and every second of her careful care was a supreme pleasure.

"Isn't my cooking pretty good?"

Wearing only a dress, Shen Qinghan followed Lin Zichen at a leisurely pace, a hint of smugness on her face.

"Not bad, but it's still a bit lacking compared to mine..." Lin Zichen thought to himself, but nodded in agreement, saying, "Your skills are indeed excellent; I'm already quite captivated by them."

Shen Qinghan was overjoyed to have gained Lin Zichen's approval.

She walked around to stand in front of Lin Zichen, her peach blossom eyes sparkling with moisture, and suggested with a smile, "Then next time we take a bath, let's do it like we did before. You can scrub my back first, and then after I'm done, I can scrub yours. What do you think?"

"Deal!" Lin Zichen said without hesitation.

Without realizing it.

It's almost noon.

It's time for lunch.

Lin Zichen suggested going out to eat, but Shen Qinghan said it was too hot outside and she didn't want to sweat after taking a bath, so she suggested ordering takeout to eat at home.

If a normal person holds an umbrella, walks slowly, and eats in an air-conditioned restaurant, they generally won't sweat much.

But Shen Qinghan is not a normal person. She is prone to sweating. As long as she exercises even slightly or the temperature is a little high, she will be drenched in sweat.

What would you like to eat?

Lin Zichen took out his phone, opened the school app, clicked on the food delivery option, and held the screen in front of Shen Qinghan, asking her a question.

Looking at the unfamiliar interface on the screen, Shen Qinghan asked curiously, "What kind of food delivery platform is this? I've never seen it before?"

"This is the app of Shanhai University. It has a food delivery platform exclusively for the school, a mall for exchanging evolution resources, and all sorts of convenient functions."

"That sounds so convenient!"

"It's quite convenient; you can download it by scanning this QR code in the Student Handbook."

"I'll go next too."

Shen Qinghan picked up her phone and scanned the QR code to download the app.

Lin Zichen reminded him, "You haven't said what you want to eat yet."

"I'm fine with anything, I'll order the same thing as you."

"Then I'll order braised chicken with potatoes."

After Lin Zichen finished speaking, he checked the box for the braised chicken and potato rice on the page and ordered two servings for 50 yuan.

A single serving costs 25 yuan; food delivery these days is ridiculously expensive... He couldn't help but mutter to himself as he looked at the payment notification on his phone.

At this moment, Shen Qinghan, who was standing next to her, said, "The school app sells fresh vegetables, rice, meat, and even basic necessities like cooking oil and salt. Why don't we buy our own groceries and cook for ourselves from now on?"

"That's a good option."

Lin Zichen agreed without hesitation.

If you can cook for yourself, do so as much as possible; it's best to order takeout less often.

Of course, this is all predicated on having decent cooking skills.

Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan's culinary skills are already superb; everything they make tastes delicious.

One is pure cheating; you can learn it just by watching a video.

One reason is that she learned to cook from her mother since she was a child, and with practice, she naturally became skilled.

After dinner.

After resting for a while and feeling that he had digested the food, Lin Zichen began to temper his body.

It's the skin that's being tempered; it's Second Skin Tempering.

The Second Skin Tempering Skin Tempering far more difficult than the first.

It took Lin Zichen more than two hours to complete the second tempering of the skin on his entire right hand.

Moreover, the tempering process is quite painful and consumes more qi and blood.

In contrast, the first time he tempered his right hand, it only took him a little over half an hour to complete the tempering.

Most importantly, there was little pain during the tempering process; it was just a slightly burning sensation, not really painful.

Do you have a sewing needle?

Lin Zichen looked at Shen Qinghan beside him and asked.

He needed a sharp needle to test the strength of the Second Skin Tempering. He remembered that Xu Meng had prepared a treasure chest for Shen Qinghan, which contained all sorts of tools.

Shen Qinghan was lying on the bed looking at her phone, her two fair and slender legs swinging back and forth, quite eye-catching.

Upon hearing Lin Zichen mention needing a sewing needle, she immediately put down her phone and said:

"Yes, I'll go get it for you now."

After saying that, she quickly found a box and handed it to Lin Zichen. Inside the box were more than a dozen sharp sewing needles.

She asked Lin Zichen, somewhat puzzled, "What do you need a sewing needle for?"

"Used to prick your hands."

"Difficult to handle?"

"Hmm, it's prickly. Let's test the strength of my skin."

Lin Zichen gave an explanation, then picked out the sharpest sewing needle from the small box and forcefully stabbed it into his right hand.

That was too sudden.

Shen Qinghan was startled and let out an "Ah!" before instinctively shrinking back.

Lin Zichen was amused by her reaction. "It's not like it's pricked your hand, why are you reacting so strongly?"

"Whether it's a needle in my hand or not, the way you suddenly and forcefully stabbed me without any warning is enough to startle anyone!"

After saying that, Shen Qinghan said with a dissatisfied look, "It's easy for you to talk when you're not the one suffering!"

Lin Zichen smiled and said nothing more, his gaze fixed on his right hand.

At this moment, there was an extremely sharp sewing needle pricking the skin on the back of my hand, but it couldn't pierce the skin at all; it only pressed a small indentation into the skin.

"My God, such a sharp sewing needle, and it was used so hard, yet it couldn't even pierce the back of your hand! You're practically invulnerable!"

Shen Qinghan's face was full of disbelief, astonished by the strength of Lin Zichen's skin.

Lin Zichen explained, "The skin on my right hand has already undergone Second Skin Tempering, so this level of strength is normal."

"This Blood Tempering Technique is amazing! It makes me want to become Pure-Blood Human Path."

Shen Qinghan said with an envious look.

If there were a choice to become stronger without Gene Fusion, then probably very few people in the world would choose to undergo Gene Fusion.

After all, the thought of fusing genes from other organisms into one's own body is disgusting.

"It's not entirely due to the power of the Blood Tempering Technique; my own abilities also play a part. If someone else were to practice the Blood Tempering Technique, they probably wouldn't achieve the same results as me."

Lin Zichen spoke the truth without any modesty, lest Shen Qinghan act rashly and also leave the Evolution Academy to follow the Pure-Blood Human Path.

With a 21% Gene Fusion compatibility, joining the Heavenly Human Pavilion and following the Pure-Blood Human Path would be a huge waste, too irrational, and completely unnecessary.

Most importantly, Shen Qinghan's physical strength is not outstanding; following the path of Pure-Blood Human Path lead to certain death.

That's how it seems, at least for now.

[You are pricking the back of your right hand with a sewing needle. The skin toughness of the back of your right hand increases by +1...]

For the next half minute or so, Lin Zichen kept pricking his hand with a sewing needle.

The more you stab, the faster it gets.

The more you stab, the harder you pull.

Even after the sewing needle bent, the skin remained completely unharmed.

The skin on his right hand, Second Skin Tempering, was so tough that it was practically impervious to blades and spears.

After testing skin resilience.

Lin Zichen quickly got up and went into the kitchen to test the next attribute of his skin—heat resistance.

He turned on the gas stove and placed his right palm on it to burn.

Soon, a large number of numerical prompts appeared in the Void.

[You are burning your right palm with fire. Your right palm's heat resistance +1 +1 +1 +1 +1...]

When it first started burning, there was no burning sensation at all.

It wasn't until more than a minute later that a noticeable burning sensation gradually appeared, and I felt a bit of pain.

"The tempering effect of this Blood Tempering Technique is truly powerful. With the blessing of the Biological Attribute [Use-Disuse Evolution], I will be able to achieve Sanctification of the Flesh sooner or later."

Lin Zichen murmured to himself, slightly excited.

In the time that follows.

Lin Zichen sat cross-legged on the floor of the room, focusing intently on refining his skin a second time.

The tempering process is a bit slow. It basically takes about half an hour to stop and rest, eat something to recover the energy and blood consumed during tempering.

Around 4 p. m., my phone, which was lying to the side, vibrated.

I picked up my phone and saw that it was a message from Liu Chuanwu on WeChat.

[Dean Liu: Zichen, have you registered at Shanhai University yet?]

[Zichen: I arrived this morning.]

[Dean Liu: How's your deluxe private dormitory that I prepared for you?]

[Zichen: It's good.]

[Dean Liu: Are you free now? If so, would you like to come over to the Heavenly Human Pavilion's Base Camp? I can show you around and introduce you to the other members.]

[Zichen: I'm free.]

[Liu Chuanwu: Okay, wait for me downstairs at the dormitory. I'll arrange for someone to pick you up. You've just arrived at school and aren't familiar with the area yet, so I don't want you to get lost.]

[Zichen: Dean, I'm not in my own dorm right now. I'm in my childhood friend's dorm, Central Garden Building 8, Dormitory 603. ]

[Liu Chuanwu: Then I'll have someone pick you up from Central Garden Building 8.]

[Zichen: Okay, I'll go downstairs now.]

After replying to the message, Lin Zichen looked at Shen Qinghan beside him and said, "The Dean of the Martial Arts Academy invited me to visit the Heavenly Human Pavilion's Base Camp. I'll be going out for a bit."

"Oh, go ahead."

Shen Qinghan responded.

At this moment, she is selecting seasonings on the school's food delivery app, preparing for cooking in her dormitory in the future.

Lin Zichen put on his shoes, pushed open the door, and took the elevator to the dormitory building.

Afterwards, he walked to a tree in front of the building, stood there playing on his phone, and silently waited for the people from the Heavenly Human Pavilion to arrive.

After standing there for a short while, a guy with dyed blond hair, a muscular build, and somewhat handsome looks walked past him with a nonchalant attitude.

The blond-haired man recognized him as the Top Scholar of College Entrance Exam had joined the Heavenly Human Pavilion, and immediately walked up to him with great interest, saying, "I know you, you're Lin Zichen, the second- Top Scholar of College Entrance Exam from Nanjiang Province, the one who joined the Heavenly Human Pavilion!"

Lin Zichen looked up at the sound, politely said "Hello," and quickly looked down to continue looking at his phone, not wanting to chat with the blond-haired man any longer.

However, the blond guy was very outgoing and stopped moving, starting to chat with himself. "To be honest, I really admire you. To be able to give up the Gene Fusion Path and devote yourself to the Pure-Blood Human Path, whose future is still uncertain."

"I genuinely admire you, not being sarcastic."

"I've always believed that whatever research path you take, as long as the starting point is good, you should be encouraged, not ridiculed."

"I'm a freshman this year, just like you, but I'm from Capital City. My home is very close to Capital University, and I used to wander around the Capital University a lot when I was a kid."

"There used to be a research institute at Capital University that Pure-Blood Human Path, but after more than 20 years of research, there was no progress, and the institute was eventually disbanded."

"As far as I know, only Mountain University still maintains the same research institute."

"I hope that Mountain University's Pure-Blood Human Research Institute can continue to thrive until one day it achieves groundbreaking results that will shock the world."

"My talkative nature has flared up again; I've rambled on quite a bit without realizing it. I'm getting back to it; I haven't finished unpacking my things in the dorm yet, so I'll be going now."

"I hope you achieve great things at the Heavenly Human Pavilion. Keep it up!"

As Huang Mao spoke, he gave Lin Zichen a thumbs-up gesture, then turned and walked into the high-end dormitory of the Evolution Academy, which was in the same building as Shen Qinghan's high-end dormitory.

Being able to live in the high-end dormitory of the Evolution Academy means that this blond guy is also a genius.

Moreover, he is a genius who ranks among the top in the entire province.

Otherwise, they wouldn't be qualified to live in this high-end dormitory building of the Evolution Academy.

"This person is really weird..."

Watching the blond-haired man's departing figure, Lin Zichen couldn't help but mutter this to himself.

This blond guy suddenly came up and started talking a lot on his own. After he was satisfied, he turned around and left without exchanging a single word with anyone.

This behavior is so strange; it makes you feel like a patient in a mental hospital.

Lin Zichen thought to himself, perhaps geniuses are all different from others from childhood to adulthood.

For example, Shen Qinghan has wet the bed since she was a child.

For example, the blond guy just now liked to chatter inexplicably with people, and it was the kind of chatterbox who only talked non-stop without any real interaction.

"Boom boom boom--"

Just then, the roar of a motorcycle engine rang out.

Lin Zichen looked in the direction of the sound and saw a mature woman in martial arts uniform riding a bright red motorcycle toward him.

The other person was very tall and slender with a beautiful figure and well-defined facial features, looking like a mixed-race child born from the union of Eastern and Western parents.

The motorcycle quickly stopped in front of Lin Zichen.

The beautiful, mature woman on the bus smiled brightly and asked him, "Hello, are you Lin Zichen?"

Lin Zichen: "Yes, it's me."

The mature woman's sexy voice said, "Let me briefly introduce myself first. My name is Song Yuyan. I am an instructor at the Martial Arts Academy and a researcher at the Heavenly Human Pavilion. I've come to pick you up and take you to the Heavenly Human Pavilion's Base Camp."

Song Yuyan?

Lin Zichen was very familiar with this name.

He had heard this name from the welcoming senior student when they were talking in front of the Student Combat Power Ranking that morning.

This Song Yuyan is none other than the second-place finisher in the Capital City Top Scholar of College Entrance Exam who joined the Heavenly Human Pavilion, embarked on the Pure-Blood Human Path, and then faded into obscurity.

While Lin Zichen was thinking about these things, Song Yuyan turned the motorcycle around and said to him, "Come on, sit behind me, I'll drive you there."

"Good."

Lin Zichen responded and, without wasting any time, climbed onto the back seat of the motorcycle, gripping the back of the vehicle with both hands, trying his best to avoid physical contact with Song Yuyan.

Once he was settled, Song Yuyan twisted the accelerator and drove off.

The two chatted intermittently on the way.

Song Yuyan was mainly doing the talking, while Lin Zichen was only responsible for responding.

"From now on, we're all members of the Heavenly Human Pavilion. I'll call you Zichen, and you can call me Sister Yan."

After saying that, Song Yuyan laughed and said, "Zichen, you're too handsome. You must have had a lot of girls chasing after you before, right?"

Lin Zichen: "It's alright."

"You're being a bit modest," Song Yuyan said with a smile. "Originally, the Dean was going to arrange for a senior to pick you up, but I heard you were the Top Scholar of College Entrance Exam in Nanjiang Province this year, and I was very interested in you, so I offered to pick you up myself. Aren't you happy to have such a beautiful and mature senior willing to come and pick you up?"

Lin Zichen: "I feel very honored."

Song Yuyan asked in confusion, "By the way, how come you, a student of the Martial Arts Academy, were just downstairs at the high-end dormitory building of the Evolution Academy?"

Lin Zichen: "My childhood sweetheart lives there, so I came over to visit her."

Song Yuyan smiled and said, "Tsk tsk, those who can live there are all geniuses among geniuses in the Evolution Academy. Your childhood sweetheart is quite something."

Lin Zichen: "It's alright."

Song Yuyan suggested with a smile, "Speaking of which, the high-end dorms at the Evolution Academy are much better than the shabby dorms at the Martial Arts Academy. Why don't you consider moving in with your childhood sweetheart?"

Lin Zichen: "We're already living together."

He felt there was no point in hiding the fact that he was living with Shen Qinghan; people would naturally find out eventually, so there was no harm in revealing it now.

"Wow, I was just saying it casually, I didn't expect you to already be living here. Young people these days are really something."

After finishing her sentence, Song Yuyan asked with a gossipy look, "Since you're living together, are you and your childhood sweetheart now boyfriend and girlfriend?"

Lin Zichen: "Yes."

Hearing this answer, Song Yuyan's face was full of envy. "That's so great! Unlike me, I'm almost thirty now and I've never even held a man's hand, let alone lived with one."

Lin Zichen smiled but remained silent.

This Song Yuyan is beautiful and has a sexy figure. If she really wanted to live with a man, she could have plenty of men lining up to choose from at the slightest snap of her fingers.

This statement is either from a seasoned player pretending to be innocent to lure men, or from a lesbian who is not interested in men and therefore has never been with one.

In short, it's impossible that she lacks charm.

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