In the evening, the Chen family ate together.

Chen Yingying suddenly said, “Brother, my progress is too slow if I just stay in East Lake City. I want to go to the otherworld and improve through actual combat.”

Previously, when she had gone to the trial grounds, Chen Yiming had taken the opportunity to test his new moves. As a result, Chen Yingying had not gained much from it.

At this moment, many human warriors had occupied the graveyard in the otherworld. This was a huge development that could not be ignored.

It had only been half a day since the news was broadcasted in the morning, but the topic was already widely-discussed.

The main beneficiaries of the trial grounds were the warriors. If they occupied a large piece of new territory in the otherworld, the martial arts disciples could also join in.

“Cough, cough…”

Mother Chen was drinking soup. When she heard Chen Yingying’s words, she choked.

The city wall had been knocked down in East Lake City and the other cities in Jiangnan province. This meant that the era of wilderness in Jiangnan province was over.

Mother Chen could not understand why she insisted on going to the dangerous otherworld and put herself at risk.

Chen Yiming continued to eat calmly, but he thought to himself, “How stupid. She doesn’t know how to pick a suitable time to mention it.”

Chen Yiming could guarantee her safety, and Father Chen had always supported her unconditionally.

Therefore, Father Chen quickly explained, “In the afternoon, Professor Huang analyzed the situation within 1,000 kilometers of the human stronghold.

The powerful creatures from the otherworld that are a threat have already left. The danger level has even decreased to a level that is not as dangerous as the average wilderness on the blue planet.”

Mother Chen patted her chest and retorted, “That won’t do either. Isn’t it enough to be a warrior? Yingying, once you’re a little older, you can already find a job as a teacher in a martial arts academy and live a stable life.”

Father Chen continued, “There are also different levels in the warrior realm.

The experts have mentioned that if one loses their motivation to improve, it won’t take long for their martial arts progress to be wasted. When one gets older, there’s still a chance that their cultivation level will decrease.”

Mother Chen didn’t think much of it and said, “Different levels in the warrior realm? Can it increase one’s lifespan? Or can it make one free from suffering and illness?”

These words made Father Chen unable to refute her.

It was indeed unheard of for a warrior to increase his lifespan after reaching a high level.

On the contrary, most of them had internal injuries.

Therefore, in the warrior realm, one would usually not live to the end of their lifespan.

Chen Yingying, who was at the dining table, had an anxious expression on her face. It was obvious that Father Chen had been rebutted by Mother Chen.

Seeing this, Chen Yiming knew that only he could save his sister.

He coughed and reminded her, “It’s very important to build a foundation in the warrior realm. Your lifespan will increase by two to three times when you break through to the master realm.”

“…”

“…”

Father Chen, Mother Chen, and Chen Yingying looked at each other.

One’s lifespan would increase after breaking through to the master realm?

No one had ever stood up to publicize this in the news, broadcasts, research results, and so on. This was a secret that belonged to the upper echelons of the martial arts world.

Chen Yiming continued, “That’s why I insisted that the two of you use the diluted miracle blood to improve your physique.”

…

In the blink of an eye, a month had passed.

Compared to before, Jiangnan province had fallen silent. All the attention was focused on the new territory occupied by humans from the otherworld.

Chen Yiming had mentioned that the master realm could increase one’s lifespan, so Mother Chen had no reason to stop Chen Yingying from going to the otherworld to train.

Increasing one’s lifespan by two to three times was not considered immortality, but the attraction was still something that could not be ignored.

In the morning, in the forest by the river outside East Lake City, there was a hammock tied to two tree trunks.

A young man was lying in a hammock that swayed left and right in the wind, basking in the warm autumn sun.

Chen Yiming was playing the game again.

He controlled the spiritual figure in the inscription realm and caused a massacre in the otherworld. He had completely transformed into a gamer and even intended to rely on the spiritual figure’s ability to revive indefinitely to destroy the otherworld.

However, because of existences like the 10,000-meter-long corpse, he had no choice but to investigate an area before starting to fight the otherworld creatures. He did not dare to be reckless.

At some point, his phone suddenly rang.

Chen Yiming snapped out of his daze. It didn’t feel good to be interrupted in the middle of a game.

If not for the fact that his phone number was a secret and that everyone who knew about it was in a high position, he would have hung up when it rang.

He pressed the accept button, and Wang Ronghui’s panicked voice sounded from the phone. “Something big has happened in the no man’s land in the southwest. Elder Zhang, who was in charge of guarding the place, was ambushed by an unknown creature. He’s seriously injured and on the verge of death.”

The Elder Zhang that Wang Ronghui mentioned was one of the two martial masters in the Daxia Kingdom.

Before Chen Yiming’s rise, it was the two martial masters from the south and north who had stabilized the overall situation in the Daxia Kingdom.

However, there was suddenly bad news.

Chen Yiming agreed to make a trip there and hung up.

Wang Ronghui had already arranged for a military plane to take off immediately after he arrived at the airport in Jiangnan City.

“To be able to severely injure a martial master, it must be an existence at the level of the inscription realm. Could it be revenge for killing the treants?

Or could it be that the spiritual figure has been going overboard recently and it knows that it can’t win, so it used other space-travel passages to take revenge?”

Chen Yiming thought to himself.

He had no choice but to think so. After all, the martial master, Elder Zhang, was already at an old age. There had been no problems for so many years, but something had happened at this time.

Just as he fell into a deep thought,

suddenly,

“How dare you! I’m impressed!”

The sect master’s ring on his finger suddenly emitted a spiritual thought. It crossed the barrier between different languages and clearly expressed what it wanted to say.

“…”

Chen Yiming was stunned.

The imprisoned female spirit actually took the initiative to communicate with him. He was a little confused.

“I’m from outer space!”

Another spiritual thought came from the ring.

Alien?

An image appeared in Chen Yiming’s mind.

At the same time, he realized that the secret contained in the ring had probably far exceeded his expectations.

Chen Yiming fell silent.

He suddenly realized that the ring had reacted at this moment instead of earlier.

It was difficult to believe that there was no deeper reason for this.

Perhaps the female spirit felt threatened and became anxious.

Not long after,

“Run! Try your best to escape deep into space. The black tide is about to descend on this planet.”

The female spirit suddenly sent out this strange message.

Black tide?

Could it be the ghosts born from the corpse?

Did he create a huge problem by digging it out?

Other than this, Chen Yiming couldn’t think of anything else that could be referred to as the black tide.

The 10,000-meter-long corpse was originally buried deep in the mysterious space underground. Did the treants have the ability to kill the ghosts in that space? Did they have the ability to dig out the corpse?

Thoughts raced through Chen Yiming’s mind.

There were mysterious symbols on the treants’ bodies, so they were undoubtedly at the inscription realm. They must have been stronger than he was back then.

The treants that were stronger than him did not dig out the corpse. Instead, they took the risk and gathered most of their strength deep underground.

Now that he thought about it, it was probably not as simple as him having the good luck to launch a sneak attack successfully.

He thought for a moment and asked, “Escape? How? Do I just go into outer space with my physical body?”

Initially, he did not have much hope that he would get a response. However, perhaps because the female spirit was really anxious or for some other reason, she told him: at the level of the inscription realm, one could fuse with the power of nature.

After his physical body entered outer space, as long as he mastered the corresponding techniques, he could continuously fuse with and detach from the power of nature, moving quickly through space.

Chen Yiming’s eyelids twitched. “That’s great! Teach me that technique. I’ll set off after I master it.”

However, “…” The female spirit in the ring suddenly stopped responding.

After waiting for a few minutes, there was still no response.

Chen Yiming laughed at himself. “As expected, it’s not that simple. How can the female spirit really be that stupid?”

He had intended to trick the female spirit, but his plan to obtain the technique first had failed. The other party had not fallen for it.

He waited for another 10 minutes.

He knew that it was useless to be anxious, so he temporarily held back from asking the female spirit more about the black tide.

Chen Yiming set off for Jiangnan City.

…

The military plane landed at the Chengdu Airport in Sichuan province.

The martial master, Elder Zhang, who was severely injured and on the verge of death, was currently recuperating in his villa.

Chen Yiming alighted from the military plane. A female officer was in charge of receiving him.

The other party looked to be in her mid-twenties. She walked with power, but she did not lose her feminine beauty and figure. Her military uniform was bulging at the chest.

He quickly sized her up from head to toe and returned to his nonchalant self.

The female officer asked seriously, “Should we go straight to the scene of the incident or go to Elder Zhang’s villa first?”

Facing the stern-looking female officer, Chen Yiming knew that business was more important. He said, “Let’s go to Elder Zhang’s place first.”

“Understood,”

the female officer replied tersely, then turned around and waved at a military vehicle.

Taking advantage of this short break,

Chen Yiming swept his gaze across the airport and realized that most of the people were looking at the military plane.

Their eyes were filled with anticipation, envy, and passion.

Some people did not even pay attention to the road ahead. They bumped into people or obstacles and fell to the ground in a sorry state.

Chen Yiming spread out his spiritual power and sensed that there were words representing Jiangnan province printed on the fuselage of the military plane behind him.

These words were the focus of attention for most of the people in the airport.

Soon, the military vehicle stopped in front of them.

Chen Yiming and the female officer entered the backseat together.

The military vehicle was an off-road vehicle, and the back seat was quite spacious. There was a rack placed on the back of the front seat, and a few bottles of mineral water were placed on it.

“Do you have enough space?”

Chen Yiming turned to look at their legs. Through her dark green pants, he felt a soft and bouncy texture.

Although his figure was considered well-proportioned, it still depended on who he was being compared to. In reality, his physique was much stronger compared to ordinary people.

Therefore, once he sat down, he occupied more space than a normal person.

This caused the female officer to raise her legs slightly and place them against Chen Yiming’s legs. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to sit down.

“I’m fine.”

The female officer waved her hand and closed the door. She said to the soldier driving, “We can set off now.”

Chen Yiming nodded his head.

He had openly taken advantage of her. Since the other party did not care, he would sit as comfortably as possible.

…

The military vehicles drove along the streets of Chengdu City.

Although both were provincial cities, the number of people in Chengdu city was clearly not on the same level as in Jiangnan City.

From some of the recruitment billboards, it could be seen that the standard requirements for ordinary martial arts training centers were a few levels lower. This represented the difference in quality of martial arts between the two provincial cities.

“Why did so many people turn to look at us when we got off the plane?”

Chen Yiming was puzzled, so he turned to ask the female officer.

The female officer paused for a moment. “Maybe it’s because there’s a symbol from Jiangnan province printed on the plane.”

“What’s so special about that symbol?”

Chen Yiming’s interest was piqued.

This situation was not normal. There was no grand reception prepared beforehand.

Of course, before he boarded the plane, he had specially instructed Wang Ronghui not to do anything troublesome and let him keep a low profile.

The female officer looked embarrassed and said awkwardly, “In secret, people in Chuan province rarely call it Jiangnan province anymore. Instead, they call it the ‘elite region’.”

Hearing this, Chen Yiming understood why the female officer was feeling awkward.

The term ‘elite region’ clearly separated Jiangnan province from the other provinces of the Daxia Kingdom. It was also related to his suggestion to block the border of the province.

Compared to Jiangnan province, Chuan province was much closer to one of the martial masters. It was also the frontline of the no man’s land in the southwest, so it originally had a higher status.

This huge fall in its status had happened in just a year. No wonder she didn’t want to tell Chen Yiming about it.

After that, the people in the military vehicle fell silent. Chen Yiming didn’t say anything, and the female officer was the same.

When they passed by a fruit shop,

Chen Yiming suddenly realized that the others would usually bring a gift. It wouldn’t be good for him to visit the severely injured Elder Zhang empty-handed.

Therefore, he called for the soldier to stop the car.

He opened the door and got out of the car, then went to the fruit shop to buy a box of fruits and had them wrapped up as a gift.

…

The military vehicle drove for nearly half an hour and finally arrived at a villa.

The security around the villa was very high. Even the soldiers standing guard were not weak. They were all warriors.

The door to the villa was wide open, and there were many people who had come to visit. There were people in military uniforms, plain clothes, and training robes.

The female officer led Chen Yiming to the entrance to register.

Many people stood up when they saw Chen Yiming enter the hall. The noisy hall suddenly fell silent.

Zheng Hong came over to welcome him and said with a smile, “You’re too polite. We’re already very relieved to have you come. You didn’t have to bring a gift.”

“It’s alright. I can’t possibly come empty-handed, right?”

Chen Yiming said casually as he handed over the fruits.

When the mediation team was established, Zheng Hong was the representative sent by the martial master, Elder Zhang.

Now, he was in charge of taking care of everything. Clearly, Zheng Hong had the highest status among his peers, and he was also the person Elder Zhang favored the most.

At this moment, Zheng Hong waved at the corner of the hall and shouted, “Qingqing.”

A young, beautiful, long-legged girl immediately walked over quickly and took the fruits from Zheng Hong.

Zheng Hong introduced her to Chen Yiming. “This is Elder Zhang’s youngest granddaughter, Zhang Qingqing.”

“Hello, Uncle Chen!”

Zhang Qingqing greeted him.

Chen Yiming’s expression changed slightly.

Uncle Chen?

I’m not that much older than you!

Do you know how many people worship me? Shouldn’t I be your idol?

A middle-aged woman in the crowd also had a change in expression and glared fiercely at Zhang Qingqing.

Zheng Hong looked embarrassed and quickly said, “Don’t mind her. It was a slip of the tongue.”

Chen Yiming waved his hand.

Naturally, he would not hold it against a little girl. That would be too ungentlemanly.