Chu Wen, Specially Recruited Student of Xinhang Martial University

"Auntie Li Xin's property notarization transferred all of her current assets to you, Sister Yuan."

"Auntie Li Xin was Zhang Yong's mother, and Zhang Yong was Teacher Lu's student..."

A month after enrolling, Chen Dai finally found the time to methodically handle Li Xin's funeral arrangements.

Yuan Lan cradled her belly as she looked through file after file on the optical computer, her face solemn.

Though the assets were not much, she could not understand why this woman she had never met had done such a thing.

"Li Xin raised Zhang Yong by herself too." Seeing the confusion on Yuan Lan's face, Chu Wen added, "Since she gave it to you, accept it."

After bustling about for quite some time, everything was finally settled.

Yuan Lan erected a monument for Li Xin and understood her intentions.

For a woman in this world, raising a child alone until adulthood was unimaginably difficult. All the more so when she had three children. Fortunately, her maternal family could lend some support, and the Lu Family was not heartless either.

Sitting on a bench outside the property notarization office, Chu Wen squeezed Chen Dai's shoulder and frowned slightly.

"Why are your injuries so severe? Was your shoulder dislocated before?"

This was the first time Chu Wen had seen Chen Dai in the month since school began. He had originally planned to visit Chen Dai after enrolling, but he had not expected something to happen so soon.

Sure enough, from the first moment he had seen Chen Dai three days ago, he had noticed something was wrong.

Chen Dai had never taken the initiative to mention it, so Chu Wen had not pressed him. Now that the matter was settled, it was only natural to ask.

"It's nothing... I hurt myself during training..."

Riiip~!

"Hey, Brother Wen~!"

Seeing Chu Wen tear open the clothing on his back, Chen Dai hurriedly covered his right shoulder.

A chill entered Chu Wen's eyes—

A deeply sunken palm print was plainly visible!

The outline of the palm seemed faintly poised to spread outward, carrying traces of a special combat technique!

Someone had clearly done this deliberately, making sure the injury could not fully heal for a long time!

"Who did this?" Chu Wen stared at the uneasy Chen Dai. When the other man remained silent, he sighed. "I promise you, I won't go silence them directly."

Only then did Chen Dai stammer, "Even if I tell you, Brother Wen, it won't help. It was done by a senior student from Xinhang Martial University."

"Our Jiangnan Martial University is living under someone else's roof now. We've already been demoted into Xinhang's Jiangnan Martial Division. The old principal died in the battle for Jiangnan Base City... Without a War God, naturally no one would stand up for the Jiangnan Martial Faction."

"Some of the original teachers died, others were crippled... The Jiangnan Martial Faction was naturally carved up very quickly."

"But a few classmates and I refused to accept it... so we formed the Jiangnan Society. Only... doing that angered those Xinhang seniors..."

Chen Dai did not dare meet Chu Wen's gaze. He had damaged Jiangnan Martial University's dignity. Perhaps, in his heart, only Jiangnan Martial University was where he belonged; Xinhang would always belong to someone else.

Chu Wen understood the whole story. He also knew Chen Dai was indeed rather dim-witted. Starting a club like this in someone else's school—was that not a provocation...?

Still, since the Jiangnan Society had been approved, it meant some teachers had also put in effort. Both sides had anticipated this.

The teachers of Jiangnan Martial University also hoped to obtain some of Xinhang Martial University's resources.

The teachers of Xinhang Martial University probably wanted their own students to feel some sense of crisis as well, which was why they allowed these students to fight it out.

The atmosphere of martial arts truly had to be forged through struggle. Things were already exceptionally mild within the school.

Back in the wilderness, Chu Wen had seen no fewer than ten thousand martial artists' corpses, if not one hundred thousand. If the scattered flesh was counted too, there would be no way to tally them at all.

Martial artists did not fight? Then they would be killed by demon beasts!

If they did not even dare fight, then they should not become martial artists!

Demon beasts would not show mercy!

As for whether it had been a normal spar or a deliberate trap, the nature of the two was completely different.

"Brother Wen, it's my own fault. My skills were inferior..." A trace of unease showed on Chen Dai's face. "And besides, you're already a social martial artist. You're not the same as us."

"Brother Wen, don't investigate in private and go looking for trouble with them..."

"They're still student martial artists, and they're the proud sons of Xinhang Martial University."

"Not to mention that you haven't even graduated yet, Brother Wen. Even if you had graduated before, your diploma would still be from Jiangnan Martial University..."

"Our Jiangnan Martial University can't pick a fight with Xinhang. This is purely my own problem."

Chen Dai kept heaping the blame onto himself, terrified that Chu Wen would stand up for him. If one of Xinhang Martial University's prodigies were truly injured, it would become a huge matter. Prison would be the least of it!

Thinking of what had happened to Zhang Yong before, Chen Dai feared that another vicious incident might occur.

Chu Wen sent a file from his optical computer to Chen Dai and smiled. "Take a look on your optical computer."

Chen Dai opened it with some doubt. When he saw the information Chu Wen had sent, his face immediately went blank.

Xinhang Martial University?

Special recruitment list?!

[Comrade Chu Wen possesses extraordinary talent, with strength advancing by leaps and bounds, and a Return to Simplicity-level Burning Blade Technique...]

[Now recommended by Chaos Martial Arts Hall for special admission into Xinhang Martial University for two years of study...]

Above it were stamped a whole series of encrypted seals. From Chaos Martial Arts Hall to Xinhang Martial University, there was even the Jiangnan Martial Faction's notarization seal. Departments without seals had added electronic signatures instead!

From the principal to the Martial Arts Office, even the Research Office had signed!

Unanimously approved!

"This..."

"Xinhang Martial University, special recruitment? Brother Wen?"

Chen Dai's scalp went numb, and tears even welled up in his eyes.

"Brother Wen, I knew your talent shouldn't have been cast out..."

Chu Wen comforted him, "Enough. What's a grown man crying for? Can you explain it properly now? How exactly were you injured?"

The worry on Chen Dai's face vanished completely, replaced by excitement.

"Xu Wenliang. A third-year senior at Xinhang Martial University."

"They say he's a third-year, but he should actually be a fourth-year. It's just that his family pulled strings to let him repeat a year and mooch some more resources."

"He only has the strength of an intermediate warrior himself, but his family counts as a martial arts family. They have some connections, and he learned some combat techniques. He can handle even intermediate warriors with ease. It's only natural that I couldn't beat him."

Knowing that Chu Wen did not understand how the conflict had begun, Chen Dai explained, "Whenever a club is established, as long as it fulfills the martial university's requirements, it receives extra resources. The Jiangnan Society is Jiangnan Martial University's... no, the Jiangnan Martial Faction's only means of fighting for our own interests."

"After all, those Xinhang Martial University clubs refuse to recruit students from the Jiangnan Martial Faction. Deep down, they look down on us."

"And once the Jiangnan Society was established, it naturally moved their cheese."

As Chen Dai said this, his eyes filled with defiance.

"Those geniuses from the Nine Martial Universities didn't come help when Jiangnan Base City fell, did they? It was Jiangnan Martial University's teachers and students who risked their lives..."

"These geniuses only dare hide in a place like this. What Nine Martial Universities! All they know is how to bully people."

Perhaps because Chu Wen had returned, Chen Dai spoke with far more force now. He truly had the temperament of a child.

Seeing this, Chu Wen said, "Most official martial artists recruited by Chaos Martial Arts Hall and Galloping Martial Hall spend ten months of every year in the wilderness, almost constantly hunting demon beasts."

"They were also proud sons who came from the Nine Martial Universities. All that can be said is that the people you ran into are only fit to become cannon fodder in the future."

Chen Dai did not understand Chu Wen's explanation, only nodded repeatedly. "Right, someone like Xu Wenliang, repeating a year just to mooch resources, is such a waste!"