I Am A Prodigy

Chen Qi looked at Ye Lingchen. “Our resources are very scarce now. Where are we going to get the resources if we set up a martial arts school? I’m not even going to talk about whether the students will be taught well enough to kill the enemy. How will we comfort their relatives if they died in battle?

“Also, if you want to set up a martial arts school, where will you get your qualifications and how will you convince the public?”

Three questions were asked in one go.

Every question was extremely difficult to solve and could be considered three fatal flaws.

Ye Lingchen wanted to assert that he could be self-sufficient without relying on the resources provided by the Warrior’s Department.

He could grow herbs, teach Kungfu, and earn enough money to appease their relatives. After all, the things on Miracle Island were all well ahead of their time, and it was not that difficult for Ye Lingchen to make money.

However, such an action was far too eye-catching, and judging from the general trend of things, he may well be captured for dissecting and study.

That…was a definite possibility!

After all, it had everything to do with the survival of mankind. If Ye Lingchen could be sacrificed in exchange for a good outcome, other countries would certainly look at Ye Lingchen that way even if the Warrior’s Department did not think so.

For the time being, he still had to keep a low profile and wait to establish the school with his own strength. That was the virtuous way.

“Do you want me to participate in the prearranged battle?” Ye Lingchen asked.

“Yes, this kind of prearranged battle is also called the International Martial Arts Tournament,” Chen Qi smiled and said. “If you can win first place in the warrior tournament, then China will certainly get the most training resources. Then you’ll have the resources to build your school. If you get first place, you’ll have the qualifications, and we’d be confident enough to speak on your behalf.”

Ye Lingchen asked, “Not everyone will be participating in the International Martial Arts Tournament, right?”

“Of course not.” Chen Qi shook his head. “Its purpose is to compare the potential of each country’s next generation. Five contestants under the age of twenty-five will be sent to participate.”

The age of 16 was the best time to start martial arts. 16 to 25 years old was the peak period of martial arts development because the early stage of martial arts training was to temper one’s body. If one passed the age of 25 without cultivating one’s inner force, then there was no longer any hope of learning martial arts unless a miracle happened.

One would have boundless potential if one could enter the innate stage before the age of 25, since 35 and below was the most suitable age for innate martial artists to cultivate. If a person still did not manage to reach the innate stage at 35 years old, that person would no longer have the chance to do so.

Ye Lingchen cocked his brow. “Under twenty-five years old? First place is in the bag then. I’ll take this up.”

Chen Qi scoffed, “Don’t think too highly of yourself. You think you’re that great just because you’re an innate stage warrior? It’s a remarkable feat for you to reach this point at the age of twenty, but your opponents may be twenty-five years old. How far do you think you’ll go if I give you another five years?

All countries will be rushing to get first place this time. They’ll send the strongest people, each of whom are prodigies. This is a five-year difference we’re talking about. These five years are the golden period of martial arts training and you’ll even have to face warriors from Buff Island. Do you still feel that confident?”

It was…slightly disheartening.

The cultivation environment and resources of Buff Island are very rich without even thinking about it, and the strength is naturally very high among the same age group.

“There is some pressure, but it shouldn’t be a big problem,” Ye Lingchen murmured.

Chen Qi rolled his eyes and did not want to speak any more.

Feeling a little fed up about everything, he walked while saying, “The tournament is held in June every year. There are less than two months left, so you’d best be getting ready.”

Ye Lingchen looked at the man’s rear figure, then suddenly thought of something, and called out, “Deputy Director Chen, Director Xiang still owes me a hundred merit points. Please remind him.”

Chen Qi staggered slightly. 100 merit points was not a small amount. How could Xiang Guocheng owe him so much? ‘Just ignore it, I didn’t hear anything. I’ll just quickly leave…’

After cultivating for an entire night, Ye Lingchen began to take a look around the pavilion.

The structure of the training ground was slightly beyond Ye Lingchen’s expectations.

The training ground was divided into small rooms, each of which became a separate training field. It was complete with many things, such as electromagnetic waves, which were used to stimulate spirit stones and prompt them to emit more spiritual power at a quicker pace. In that way, it would increase the concentration of spiritual energy in the training room. Aside from that, the inner alchemy of the Void Realm’s creatures were also used to create a training room with environments such as water, fire, and gravity.

Such a special training room was of great help to a martial artist’s cultivation and was an eye-opener for Ye Lingchen.

However, merit points were required to practice in the training room.

Ye Lingchen then went to the teaching classes.

Classes were where martial artists were taught how to do basic Kungfu, tactics, and skills to attack the enemy. Such things are obviously useless for Ye Lingchen, since he was considered to have some privileges. Inside the classroom, he managed to glean some information about the Void Realm. The concept of the Void Realm immediately became more concrete in Ye Lingchen’s mind.

No one could tell exactly what the Void Realm was. It could be regarded as a foreign world, but there were some fundamental differences.

The fact was that the Void Realm could affect Earth. It could produce earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. Even the mutations of many animals on Earth were affected by the Void Realm.

Ye Lingchen then found out that China had more than one Hell’s Gate. There were actually four: one each in Capital, Xiangjiang, Hong Kong, and Westside.

In addition, China had recorded a total of 26 appearances of Hell’s Gates. The other 22 manifested for only a short time and caused great damage before disappearing.

There was also a sun within the Void Realm, and life was almost the same as on Earth. Some people even boldly speculated that the Void Realm was actually part of Earth and was at least the same planet, albeit separated for some reason. How then, could one explain such similarities?

Energy such as electric energy and magnetic energy would lose its effects in the Void Realm or perhaps even cease to exist. The only energy that was present and usable was spiritual energy!

In fact, spiritual energy was also infinitely useful and could seamlessly replace all of Earth’s energy.

As far as mankind’s current knowledge stood, the Void Realm was an extremely complete world and the area within it may be unimaginably big. It also had a complete ecological chain, and there were also animals and plants in addition to blue-skinned human beings.

The animals in the Void Realm were called monsters because of their extremely high combat strength and the ability to manipulate spiritual energy. When their strength reaches the innate stage, they were able to condense the essence of spiritual energy in their bodies, making it similar to the myth of Earth’s monster pills, which the Warrior’s Department named the Demon Core.

The Demon Core was also a rare and precious item. It contained the essence of a monster, but as of yet, its current development limited its use only in the training room.

The monsters’ bodies could also be used as a material for weapons.

Human beings were still too weak, for their understanding of the Void Realm was particularly poor even after so many years.

Of course, the possibility that some important information had been deliberately redacted could not be ruled out. He is a little eager to try and see what the Void Realm really was. Perhaps he had to explore it himself…