Setting Off for the Elite Training Camp to Find Hong!

"I did it!"

"From now on, I can use this method to exploit the bug with any feeding item that consists of information, like secret techniques."

Chen Yi quickly flipped through the contents of the Abyss-Stilling Sea-Subduing Diagram. This Guidance Technique was also enormously significant to him.

Guidance Techniques were the most important part of cultivation.

They had always commanded high prices on Earth, too.

Now that he had the Abyss-Stilling Sea-Subduing Diagram, just how rapid would his cultivation be?

I need to make the most of the next few days and cultivate. There are a lot of competitors in the Elite Training Camp, and getting better cultivation resources won't be easy.

Also...

Cloud raising Hong is important too!

"Only through a Guidance Technique can one develop a formidable physique."

That was a piece of common knowledge among Earth's martial artists.

Investing in attack techniques and weapon techniques was all for the sake of turning one's strength into greater combat power.

But...

Investing in a Guidance Technique could directly increase one's strength!

Through the Cloud Raising Mirror, Chen Yi saw that Luo Feng had already begun cultivating a Guidance Technique.

So he decided to try out his new Guidance Technique as well.

He had also done his daily training beforehand, exhausting his body as much as possible before attempting to cultivate.

As soon as he began cultivating,

the cosmic energy around him converged toward his body.

The Five Hearts Toward Heaven Cultivation Method was used to sense cosmic energy, while a Guidance Technique directed that energy to increase the cells' appetite.

Under Chen Yi's perception, the cosmic energy

slowly formed a diagram of mountains and seas, condensing and compressing into a current of energy that flowed beneath his skin, irrigating and nourishing every cell.

It feels... all right?

As Chen Yi thought this, he guided the energy through his limbs and body, feeding every cell little by little. Absorbing cosmic energy was a very comfortable sensation.

The cells throughout his body were quickly filled, as though they had "eaten their fill."

And so...

Following the Guidance Technique's instructions, Chen Yi increased the purity of the energy transformed by the diagram of mountains and seas. Once it was purer, he could guide it into the "mouths" of his cells by force.

It was like the cells didn't want to eat anymore, but he was stuffing food into them anyway.

Of course, that was only a metaphor.

In reality, there was much more to it, because even when force-feeding the cells, he had to ensure they could absorb the energy smoothly without suffering internal injuries.

Just as that pure energy tried to force its way into the cells of his flesh, a tearing pain arose wherever it flowed.

"Hiss~"

Chen Yi's eyes went wide in an instant.

He gritted his teeth and endured the pain. It hurt badly now, but he could keep going.

He had already chosen the Guidance Technique.

It was his own choice, too. No matter how much it hurt... Chen Yi wouldn't regret it. He kept cultivating, feeling that he could still bear it.

This continued for dozens of minutes.

When the energy was forced into the cells of Chen Yi's internal organs, his eyes rolled back at once.

He immediately stopped cultivating...

He felt that if he kept forcing himself to endure it, he might pass out from the pain!

"Phew~"

"Phew~"

Chen Yi gasped for breath.

Though it had only been a few dozen minutes, this Guidance Technique was more efficient than those available on Earth.

That made sense.

It couldn't have a maximum effect ten times as great while also requiring ten times as long to cultivate.

The effort and reward wouldn't be proportional in that case...

"I feel like... my strength has increased." Chen Yi clenched his fists and moved his body a little. He didn't know whether the feeling was an illusion.

He found Chen Weilong's fist strength tester in the training hall.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"3,564 kg!"

"3,571 kg!"

"3,542 kg!"

"It's increased by about eighty or ninety kilograms since my last test!"

"This effect..."

Chen Yi was pleasantly surprised. At this rate, he would only need a few days to reach the physical fitness of an Advanced Warrior.

And then...

His spirit reader strength would reach the Intermediate War General level.

"Exploiting the bug really is powerful!"

"It lets me skip the lottery entirely."

"How's Luo Feng doing?"

Chen Yi was curious.

He turned his consciousness toward him.

He saw that

Luo Feng was in his own training hall, his training clothes likewise soaked with sweat. He had just reached the point where he could no longer endure cultivating the Abyss-Stilling Sea-Subduing Diagram.

Chen Yi remembered that Luo Feng had started cultivating before he did. He had started earlier and finished later, enduring for roughly ten minutes longer than Chen Yi.

After finishing his cultivation,

Luo Feng likewise felt that his strength had increased considerably. But when he tested it again, the fist strength tester

displayed:

a strength of around "5,450 kg"!

Compared to his last test, Luo Feng had improved by a little over two hundred kilograms. The difference wasn't solely due to the effect of willpower on how long they could cultivate the Guidance Technique.

There was also the difference made by the treasure, the Vortex Energy Bead.

Before this, Luo Feng had relied on the Vortex Energy Bead that Chen Yi had fed him. By placing the bead in water and bathing in it every day, he could slowly increase his cells' base appetite.

That was also why Luo Feng could cultivate the Guidance Technique for longer.

On top of that, Chen Yi's willpower was indeed somewhat inferior to Luo Feng's, which was why there was such a large difference after a single cultivation session.

"The Vortex Energy Bead."

"I've drawn one, but Luo Feng has already been using his for a long time, while I only drew mine recently..."

That morning,

Luo Feng had learned that he had qualified for the Elite Training Camp, completing a three-star objective and giving Chen Yi a chance at a three-star lottery draw.

He had drawn the Vortex Energy Bead Chen Yi had dreamed of obtaining.

In addition, Luo Feng's meeting with Xu Xin the previous night had completed a one-star objective, "Run into Xu Xin by chance," giving Chen Yi another chance at a one-star lottery draw.

In the one-star draw, Chen Yi had once again obtained Qian Shui Mosquito Blood, but not much time had passed since he last used it, so he couldn't use it.

Among the possible rewards for the draw granted by the three-star objective,

the Vortex Energy Bead, which Chen Yi valued most, had a 77% chance of being drawn, while "spirit reader talent" was no longer on the list.

As for the rewards in the draw,

only things the Cloud Raising Mirror considered valuable to Chen Yi, its "mirror master," were placed in the prize pool. The probabilities were also arranged according to how important and valuable they were to him.

The less important an item was, the lower its probability.

Once its value fell below a certain point, it wouldn't appear at all... Luo Feng's ordinary clothes, for example, were also his belongings, but they wouldn't appear in the prize pool.

Chen Yi already had Luo Feng's spirit reader talent and couldn't acquire another, so the corresponding draw option had naturally disappeared.

The same went for the Abyss-Stilling Sea-Subduing Diagram.

Chen Yi had already obtained it from Luo Feng, and a second copy of a Guidance Technique had no value, so it would no longer be an option in future draws.

There was one other point worth mentioning.

When a draw chance was obtained, its probabilities and available items were locked in, so there was no point in hoarding draw chances.

Chen Yi had already changed his clothes.

Holding the Vortex Energy Bead in his hand,

he headed for the bathroom, intending to increase his cells' appetite a little more today.

Several days passed in succession.

The day to enter the Elite Training Camp arrived.

Over the past few days, Chen Weilong had, unusually, stopped taking on missions and taken leave instead... He had stayed home the whole time, occasionally giving Chen Yi pointers on close-combat techniques.

On this day,

a fighter jet landed in the residential compound for military families.

Whoosh~

The hatch opened.

Yang Hui, a War God and one of the Elite Training Camp's instructors, stepped out and headed straight for the Chen family home...

Yang Hui saw that the young man who came to the door looked exactly like the person in the photograph.

So he said,

"Hello, you're Chen Yi, right?"

Chen Yi nodded. When he saw Yang Hui, he felt a little excited. Setting off for the Elite Training Camp... meant he would have a chance to meet Hong and bind him as his second cloud-raising target.

When the time came, he could simply disguise himself as a "system."

Using some treasures and resources, he would be able to directly guide Hong, the strongest person on Earth, into doing certain things!

"Set off for the Elite Training Camp and find Hong!"