After returning to his dormitory, Chen Lie rested for the night.
Early the next morning, Chen Lie received a notice in the class group chat telling all freshmen to report to their classroom, so he headed to the Martial Way Department's 17th Martial Arts Class. Hundreds of freshmen had gathered inside. In the month or so since he had joined the department, the class had grown from five hundred students to nearly seven hundred. In other words, this single class alone had gained over a hundred freshmen during that time.
"Brother Chen? You're here!"
The three students from Heavy Rain Star were chatting with others in the classroom when they spotted Chen Lie. Hou Yutan immediately greeted him.
Chen Lie nodded with a brief acknowledgment. He had not seen the three of them for over half a month, and their cultivation had advanced again. Qiao Xuanxi was the strongest, having reached the late stage of the second-order roaming qi realm, while Hou Yutan and Nie Cheng had both reached the middle stage of the roaming qi realm.
Their progress did not surprise Chen Lie. After all, they were among the finest talents on all of Heavy Rain Star, and their aptitude was beyond question. Ordinary geniuses generally needed more than six months to advance from a ranked martial artist to the third-order qi accumulation realm, but the very best talents on a planet could complete that journey in roughly three months.
"Brother Chen, how's your comprehension of the five elements intent coming along?" Hou Yutan asked.
"I've finished comprehending the five elements intent. I'm working on my first martial dao true intent now."
"That's pretty fast. We joined the Martial Way Department almost a month before you, and I'm only on my second martial dao true intent. Still, I've started