Crossing Over (Please Vote)

Over a month later.

Fang Xing was walking down the street when his steps suddenly slowed.

He had returned to the same station platform from that day.

After a month of emergency repairs, the ground was now level, the buildings orderly, and pedestrians flowed like a tide. Compared to before, it was like heaven and earth.

It was hard to believe that just over a month ago, this place had been a devastated battlefield that had caused more than a thousand casualties.

Happy Home District.

Fang Xing opened his door and could not help complaining, "Something like this happened, yet there's no compensation at all. The landlord won't even lower the rent..."

He opened a boxed meal, wolfing it down as he checked his contacts.

Seeing that Gu Yun still had not contacted him, his heart could not help sinking.

But Fang Xing also knew that, as merely a sparring partner, he truly had no standing to comfort her. Besides, she did not need his comfort.

If he really wanted to comfort her, he would have to revive Gu Renwang. Anything else would be superfluous.

Believe in her. She'll pull through on her own.

Fang Xing sighed, washed up briefly, and fell straight into bed.

The next day.

Early morning.

With a sense of anticipation, he immediately looked at the Attribute Panel:

Name: Fang Xing

Age: 16

Occupation: Martial Artist

First Realm: Skin and Flesh (Skin Refinement: 84/100)

Military Body Boxing Twelve Forms: 1/100 (Proficient)

Great Dragon Stance: 13/100 (Proficient)

Gate of Heavens: 100/100 (Location Successful)

At that instant, the mirror-shaped symbol in Fang Xing's mind suddenly blazed with light!

Some inexplicable information surfaced, letting him know that he had gained the ability to travel to another world!

As long as he activated it, he could cross over!

Fang Xing's eyes shifted as he looked at the bottom of the attribute list:

Gate of Heavens (Charging)

"Even the capture Progress Bar is gone? I thought it would directly capture the next world, or that I'd have to stay in another world for a full hundred days before I could return..."

"I didn't expect that once the Progress Bar was complete, I'd directly gain round-trip access to a world... I just wonder when the capture of the second world will begin..."

Still, this was good too. Otherwise, if he had to remain in the Other World for a hundred days before returning, he truly did not know how he would cover it up.

Fang Xing took a deep breath and took out the tools he had bought one by one.

A Drone, an Air Detection Device, Poison Test Strips, a Selfie Stick, and a pet cage containing several White Mice...

He was already wearing the Basic Nano Protective Suit. Apart from that, there was his most important equipment: his weapon.

After calming himself, he pulled a black rod out from under his bed... No, it was an Electric Baton.

He simply could not afford a Laser Gun. This RT700 Electric Baton was already the most suitable weapon he could find, and he had paid for it with the sweat of hard labor.

Fang Xing picked up the Electric Baton. It was roughly seventy centimeters long, with a suitable thickness and weight that made it easy to handle.

Most importantly, when he pressed the button, a burst of electrical sparks immediately sprang from its tip!

Crackle!

"According to the seller, its standard current can directly knock down even an elephant... And that's only its standard function."

"Besides that, this Electric Baton has been modified to shoot electric currents from its tip... The range is short, but it can still catch someone off guard."

He tucked the Electric Baton at his waist, let the Nano Suit cover his entire body, then picked up his backpack and packed the supplies away in categories.

"According to the information from the Gate of Heavens, it seems I can only cross over immediately. I can't open a portal or anything... The Selfie Stick is useless."

He sighed, then moved his thoughts.

One, two, three...

After silently counting to three, a mass of silvery-white radiance appeared before his eyes.

The radiance instantly swallowed him...

Inside the bedroom, Fang Xing was gone.

Barbaric Jungle.

A lizard monster with two heads suddenly raised them, only to see a flash of silvery-white lightning.

Crack!

The next moment, an electric current streaked through the air and turned it into charred remains.

"I seem to have been... overly cautious."

Fang Xing looked at the Two-Headed Lizard's corpse, which was only the size of a palm, without removing his Nano Suit.

"I really crossed over..."

At that moment, he rapidly surveyed his surroundings while checking the way back.

"Hmm... I can teleport back, but there's a delay of around three seconds. What a pity... I can't use it to escape instantly. That's one lifesaving trump card gone."

Fang Xing frowned slightly, then released the Drone and switched on the Air Detection Device.

As the instrument analyzed the air, the results soon appeared.

"Nitrogen is the main component, oxygen is at twenty-two percent, rare gases make up 1.2 percent, and there's another 0.0001 percent of completely undetectable components? But there are generally no toxic or harmful gases..."

Fang Xing looked at the White Mice in the nearby cage, still lively and energetic. After hesitating briefly, he opened his Nano mask.

"Mm, I can breathe normally. The air is very fresh..."

By then, the Drone had also transmitted images of the surrounding area. A Barbaric Jungle lay before him like green jade, with a river flowing gently through its center like a jade ribbon.

In an open area, a beast resembling a Wild Boar was running.

It was more than six or seven meters long, like a small mountain, with six tusks growing side by side. Even more astonishingly, those tusks, which resembled ivory, seemed to emit a mysterious blood-red glow.

"A Transcendent species? And it seems there's more than one..."

Fang Xing's eyes lit up. "Looks like this world is rich in resources... Set it to automatic patrol mode."

After thinking it over, he immediately set the Drone to automatic patrol mode and assigned it the tasks of mapping the nearby terrain and searching for other life forms.

"To be safe, none of these technological products can ever be brought back to the world of the Blue Star Federation."

Fang Xing silently made up his mind.

Though he had made many preparations, there was no telling whether these products had backdoors or something similar.

Therefore, the best approach was not to test human nature and simply assume that they did!

If he left these items in the Other World forever, there would be no chance of them connecting to the internet after his return, uploading data, and leaking secrets!

"Sigh... A technologically advanced world really is troublesome."

"Even if I obtain some resources here, it won't be easy to sell them right away..."

After all, Fang Xing was just an ordinary student. How could he explain suddenly obtaining so many strange things? Or even a sudden explosion in wealth?

"I need a channel for obtaining cash and anonymous accounts... A channel for selling large quantities of supplies..."

"No matter how I calculate it, I still can't avoid dealing with the Black Market."

Fang Xing sighed as he searched the map scanned by the Drone for a suitable place to establish a campsite.

Choosing such a location required knowledge. It had to be close to a water source, yet also safe.

He had taken similar classes before, so this was easy enough for him.

Half an hour later, Fang Xing brought over river water, poured it into a pot, and slowly brought it to a boil as he watched the roasted bird and grilled fish over the fire.

Naturally, he had caught those foods along the way. Small animals seemed unusually abundant in this forest.

Of course, the river was not safe either. During a fleeting glance from the Drone, he seemed to have spotted a Giant Python Shadow more than ten meters long swimming through a stretch of the river downstream...

Because the conditions were primitive, Fang Xing made use of whatever was available, first roasting a bird and grilling fish. The fish in the river were huge, with a single one measuring over half a meter long. Their bones were sturdy and dense, so he also made Fish Soup.

There were also berries and mushrooms casually picked from the nearby Bush Cluster...

After finishing the meal, Fang Xing did not start eating. Instead, he first took out the Poison Test Strips and tested everything one by one.

"Mm, there's nothing wrong with the bird or fish..."

"The mushrooms are fine too. Damn... These berries are actually poisonous?"

Looking at the results on the test strips, Fang Xing felt somewhat conflicted. "Looks like I can't eat my first meal in this Other World... I'll just go back later and order takeout again..."

"But if I want to make use of this world's resources, I'll have to try them sooner or later. I'll follow the process... After the test strips come the White Mice!"

He took some fish and bird meat and fed them to the White Mouse pioneers first.

As explorers of a new world, these White Mice were true vanguards, taking plenty of risks for Fang Xing.

After waiting half an hour, Fang Xing saw that the White Mice that had eaten the meat showed no abnormalities. He nodded. "I'll observe them for another day... Tomorrow, I'll try feeding them the berries too. I wonder how strong the poison is? It could be useful for destroying the evidence..."

"After setting up control groups for observation, I can bring back a little food and find a chance to taste-test it near the school Infirmary..."

Watching the White Mice eat meat and drink soup, Fang Xing became a little hungry himself. Unable to wait for takeout, he silently munched on the biscuits he had brought along. Even the water he drank was bottled water he had brought himself.

"I have to say, this meat smells pretty good... Just the scent makes me hungrier."

After eating and drinking his fill, he stood up and habitually assumed the Great Dragon Stance.

The Proficient Level Great Dragon Stance was the foundation of Fang Xing's current martial arts progress. He could not slack off for even a single day.

"Huh?"

This time, he clearly felt that something was different.

"Is it an illusion? If my Great Dragon Stance were only at Beginner level, I might not be able to sense it... But I do feel like my Qi-Blood is circulating more actively?"

With a thought, Fang Xing immediately looked at the Attribute Panel:

Great Dragon Stance: 14/100 (Proficient)

"My stance proficiency increased by another point? But didn't it just increase yesterday? In the past, it took two or three days for Great Dragon Stance proficiency to increase by one point..."

"The Qi-Blood circulation might be an illusion, but the data on the proficiency panel can't be wrong..."

Fang Xing seemed to realize something as he gazed at this land with a hint of greed.

At that moment, the mountains and water seemed to possess a different kind of allure in his eyes.

"I've heard that cultivation speeds vary between different planets... Some treasured places in the universe are even filled with Cosmic Energy, allowing cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds each day... Many Federation universities have been built in such Cosmic Secret Realms."

"This place may not compare to a Cosmic Secret Realm... But its Cosmic Energy is clearly more abundant than that of Chuying Star?"

"Cultivating martial arts in this Other World actually comes with a bonus?"

"What secrets are hidden here...?"