First Month Rankings (1) [Seeking Follow-up Reads!]

"This is the Gravity Room, a Gravity Room discovered in an ancient civilization ruin."

Jiang Fang introduced it to him.

Ren Ze saw that the walls, floor, and everything else here were made of a mysterious-looking alloy interwoven with yellow and black.

Jiang Fang began operating the controls beside them.

"Your physical fitness is at the intermediate War General level. Nine times gravity should be suitable."

As she spoke, Jiang Fang rapidly pressed one of the increase buttons, and the numbers on the display kept changing—

—2, 3, 4, 5...

Bzz...

An invisible force instantly enveloped every part of Ren Ze's body.

The gravity value quickly rose from 8 to 9. Ren Ze's vision went dark, and he nearly dropped to his knees. His heartbeat thundered like a drum, while the sound of blood rushing through his veins was like a flowing river. Everything was exceptionally clear.

"How does it feel?"

Jiang Fang looked at Ren Ze.

After taking a while to adjust, Ren Ze barely managed to straighten up. His face was pale, and his body swayed unsteadily. "My whole body feels heavy. My heart is extremely uncomfortable, it's hard to breathe, and every part of my body hurts."

The Blood Shadow War Blade on his back now weighed over a thousand jin under nine times gravity.

But carrying such weight was nowhere near as painful as having his blood vessels and internal organs subjected to nine times gravity.

"Do you know how important a Gravity Room is to a martial artist?"

As expected of a War God, Jiang Fang could still speak and laugh calmly under nine times gravity.

"The Gravity Room's pull acts on every single part of you. Your muscles, bones, blood vessels, internal organs, down to your cells, even your molecules and atoms!"

Jiang Fang continued, "Gravity is everywhere, so naturally, it acts upon the tiniest details."

"So inside a Gravity Room, especially when you're at your own gravity limit!"

"Even if you stand still without moving, every cell in your body is being subjected to gravity, resisting gravity, and consuming energy! The results are far better than any amount of ordinary training."

"Of course, combining it with a Guidance Technique will produce even better results! You could say that two hours a day under extreme gravity will make your daily training ten times faster than normal!"

Ren Ze's eyes lit up. My Yijin Jing is already about twice as efficient as the Guidance Technique included with the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade manual. Maybe my physical fitness will break through to the War God level in less than three months.

"However, there's only one Gravity Room."

Jiang Fang continued, "So the higher a student's ranking, the more time they can use it."

"The 'Gravity Rooms' replicated by Earth's scientists have a range of only one to three times gravity. In other words, they can only go as high as three times gravity. But this one ranges from one to one thousand times gravity! The closer you are to your own limit, the better the results."

"So, Ren Ze, since you're new, on even-numbered days in October, you'll follow the other students to the Wilderness Zone to hunt monsters! Earn battle merit points."

"On odd-numbered days, you'll stay at the training camp and study and train properly. Especially your foundation in blade techniques."

Jiang Fang instructed him.

"Yes, Teacher."

Ren Ze nodded.

That entire day, Ren Ze practiced basic blade techniques under Jiang Fang's guidance. In her words, "What you lack right now is a foundation. Don't aim too high. Build your basics first."

As a new student, Ren Ze was ranked 183rd—the very last place.

This month, he only had one hour in the Gravity Room. Once that time was used up, he could only train in the Gravity Rooms replicated by Earth's scientists.

Three times gravity was still better than nothing.

The next day, Ren Ze followed the other students to the Wilderness Zone roughly three hundred kilometers away from the training camp. There stood a monster city—City 1001. This designation had personally been chosen by 'Hong,' the founder of Hongning Base City.

All students had to hunt monsters in this monster city.

Moreover, a dedicated satellite monitored City 1001.

The training camp had ironclad rules—

Anyone caught privately trading monster materials, giving monster materials to other students, or helping them increase their battle merit points would be expelled.

Anyone caught killing another student would be executed!

Squelch!

The Blood Shadow War Blade swept past, sending the head of a wild bull the size of a heavy truck flying.

Ren Ze was like a fish in water within the Wilderness Zone city.

Back when he had trained his movement techniques, he had done so amid herds of beasts. Other students worried about being surrounded and attacked by monster hordes, but he did not care in the slightest.

As a result, Ren Ze hunted monsters with remarkable efficiency and earned battle merit points at an equally remarkable rate.

Even among monster hordes at the War General level, none could withstand his Variable-Speed Lingbo Micro-steps. No matter how many monsters there were, he dared to charge straight in.

At this point, Ren Ze no longer cared much about keeping his identity as a Psychic Master secret.

Having another trump card was good, but setting aside Psychic Power for now to train his blade techniques and strengthen the fundamentals of his body was also fine. Psychic Power could indeed be put aside for the time being.

Ren Ze thirsted for knowledge, desperately absorbing everything the training camp had to offer. Whether in physical fitness, blade techniques, or every other aspect, he made tremendous progress.

This rate of improvement was far faster than muddling through cultivation alone in the past!

This was the benefit of having a good teacher's guidance!

It was just like the enormous difference between figuring out Lingbo Micro-steps on his own back in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils and improving under Wu Yazi's guidance!

At the main entrance of the Elite Training Camp.

Ren Ze had just returned from the Wilderness Zone. After dealing with the monster materials he had harvested, he walked while looking up at the enormous Black Dragon sculpture.

His gaze slowly searched through the names engraved on the Black Dragon's scales.

Before long, he found his own name—"No. 138 Ren Ze (561001)."

"Hey, Ren Ze, you're back!"

It was Shi Jiang and Zhao Ruo, the senior fellow students who lived with him in Jiangnan Pavilion, greeting Ren Ze.

"Zhao Ruo, Senior Brother Shi Jiang, you're back too?"

Ren Ze turned around, saw the two of them, and greeted them as well. "Senior Brother Shi Jiang."

Both Zhao Ruo and Shi Jiang were from Jiangnan Base City, so they could be considered half-fellow townsmen of his.

Although Ren Ze usually focused solely on cultivation and did not like socializing, they lived under the same roof, and both of them had good personalities. Naturally, they got along well.

Zhao Ruo had short hair and a petite figure. Her only flaws were her rather dark complexion and small eyes.

She had entered the Elite Training Camp through selection from the Basic Training Camp last year. At present, she ranked in the lower half of the student body.

Shi Jiang was just over 1.7 meters tall. Though he was very thin, he gave off an impression of great strength.

It was as if his entire body had been forged from steel. His eyes were reserved, but the occasional gleam that burst forth from them was enough to make one's heart tremble.

He had been sent over by the government military in 2053, joining the Elite Training Camp two years before Zhao Ruo.

Among the Elite Training Camp students, he could consistently rank in the top twenty.

This month, he was currently ranked sixteenth. He was also one of the leading figures in the China student faction within the training camp.

Zhao Ruo looked up at the student rankings on the Black Dragon sculpture and said to Ren Ze, "Did you forget that you're supposed to call me Senior Sister? I joined a year before you, and my ranking is higher than yours! You'll have to call me Senior Sister from now on, understand?"

Ren Ze merely chuckled without answering.

This little girl wants me to call her Senior Sister? Keep dreaming!

Beside them, Shi Jiang silently glanced at the student rankings before smiling. "That's enough, Junior Sister Zhao Ruo. Junior Brother Ren Ze has already reached rank 138 in his first month. If you don't work harder, it'll only take him a month or two to catch up to you."

Zhao Ruo was undoubtedly somewhat afraid of Shi Jiang. Whenever he became serious, his bearing was intimidating.

According to Instructor Jiang Fang, excluding physical fitness, those students ranked in the top twenty had combat power amplification levels already approaching those of high-level War Gods.

At that moment, another group of students entered. Most were white, with a few Black students mixed among them. Leading them was a young man with the aura of a vampire and the typical features of a European.

"Hey, isn't this Ren Ze? Oh my, how impressive! You actually climbed to rank 138!"

One of them, a young man with slightly curly short blond hair, said in a mocking tone.

The speaker was named William. He came from the European Union and was currently ranked 142nd, so his strength was not particularly impressive.

However, despite the gentle smile he always wore, he was the most sinister one of them all. He loved tricking new students into gambling in the Challenge Room, then humiliating them to the fullest after winning.

Previously, he had deliberately wanted to challenge Ren Ze. But before he had the chance, he witnessed Ren Ze's mysterious movement technique in the Wilderness Zone and immediately stopped bringing up the challenge.

The young man with the vampire-like aura was Li Wei's cousin, Candice Polenas—the first heir of the Polenas Family, one of the HR Alliance's nine great families and a top family in the European Union. His strength also placed him among the top fifty in the training camp.

Because of this, a large group of European Union students usually gathered around him in the training camp.

"Today is already the twenty-sixth. There are only two days left until this month's rankings close. It seems it'll be difficult for you, Ren Ze, to break into the top hundred in your first month."

Candice smiled. "Still, reaching rank 138 in your first month after joining the training camp is already a very good result! How about it? Do you want to join my Polenas Family? You can name whatever terms you want."

Candice's expression and manner were the very model of a European nobleman, but there might not have been much sincerity in those words.

Ren Ze smiled faintly. "I appreciate your kind offer, but there are still two days left. Until the final deadline, who knows what the final result will be?"

The Elite Training Camp's monthly student rankings were the best opportunity for students to display their potential and strength to the entire world!

Every top global power had personnel specifically assigned to closely monitor changes in the student rankings.

For a new student to enter the top hundred in their first month was an especially remarkable achievement.

Since the Elite Training Camp had been established, only three newcomers had managed it. Two later became high-level War Gods, while the other had now become an existence beyond the War God level.

"Haha, then I wish you the best of luck. Try to enter the top hundred in your first month!"

Candice said with a smile. He then politely nodded to Shi Jiang in greeting before leaving with his group.