Chapter 55: River Flow Becomes Sea

"Teacher...!"

A faint shout transmitted into the ears, the sound like being covered by a blanket, like hearing a sound underwater, muffled and dazed.

"Teacher!"

The sound grew a little louder, and a person's calls kept coming from beside the ear.

"Teacher!!!"

"Wake up quick!!!"

".... Haah!"

Zhang Jie jerked awake, and what came into view was Weiniya's worried little face, and a rag constantly wiping water on his face... no, that's not right.

It should be a towel.

Zhang Jie felt his brain as if it had crashed, standing dazed in place, his mind full of the last scene before he fainted.

"I actually got attacked by a basin of pig blood?"

He had a face full of question marks, completely unable to understand what he had just experienced.

Seeing Zhang Jie's dazed look, Weiniya's little face turned even paler.

"It's over, it's over..."

"The teacher was choked stupid by pig blood!"

Weiniya exerted all her strength, desperately shaking Zhang Jie.

Zhang Jie felt the world spin, as if his neck were about to be shaken off.

"Stop stop stop!"

Zhang Jie finally came to his senses; Weiniya's face lit up with delight as she rushed into his arms and wailed...

After a conversation, Zhang Jie learned that when Weiniya found him, his face had already been soaking in that basin of pig blood for nearly ten minutes.

At least Zhang Jie counts as a martial arts genius with a strong physique; otherwise, anyone else would likely already be a corpse.

Damn it, the last inheritor of the martial arts almost drowned in a basin of pig blood; if this got out, people would die laughing.

As Zhang Jie thought, his face suddenly changed; he hurriedly pushed Weiniya away and vomited a large mouthful of unknown liquid.

Although he didn't know if what he vomited was pig blood, Zhang Jie felt much better overall.

Weiniya beside him quickly brought a cup of water for Zhang Jie to rinse his mouth, then carefully wiped his mouth.

"All right, all right, all right... I'm fine."

Seeing Weiniya's attitude like treating a child, Zhang Jie helplessly waved his hand.

Weiniya withdrew her hand; although she said nothing, her worried gaze kept fixed on Zhang Jie.

Just as Zhang Jie was about to say something, he suddenly glanced out and saw that the basin that had originally held pig blood far away was empty.

"No... not empty, it had turned into slightly murky water!"

"Weiniya, did you pour out the pig blood in this basin?"

"Huh? No?"

Weiniya looked at the water in the basin with a dazed expression, scratching her head in confusion.

"When your face was soaking in it back then, it was blood."

Ignoring Weiniya's slightly offensive remark, Zhang Jie recalled the sharp, bone-splitting pain when his fingers had entered the pig blood earlier, the memory still fresh.

"Could it be that something went wrong inside my body?"

With a thought, Zhang Jie's inner energy instantly circulated, and this let him clearly perceive the difference.

Previously, his energy had flowed like a river; now it became even more turbulent, continually gathering toward his abdomen, faintly showing a tendency to become a sea.

"River Flow Becomes Sea!"

Zhang Jie's heart was greatly astonished; River Flow Becomes Sea is a sign of entering the fifth level of the second stage of martial arts, the Great Sea—hadn't he just broken through not long ago?

"How could that be?"

"Could it be...?"

Zhang Jie seemed to understand something, glancing at the half-excavated wild boar thoughtfully.

After River Flow Becomes Sea, transforming the sea-like energy into blood-energy allows entry into the third stage of martial arts; an ordinary talent usually needs nearly thirty years of arduous training to reach the Blood-Energy Refining Spirit stage.

And he is about to step into the third realm of martial arts at the age of twenty-one!

It is said that the Martial Arts Divine Ability Realm is extremely difficult; only by exhausting the utmost of martial arts can one succeed.

Zhang Jie looked at his hands and muttered.

"If that's really the case, then seizing the legendary Martial Arts Divine Ability is not impossible!"

Thinking of this, Zhang Jie instantly filled with excitement, while Weiniya, seeing her teacher alternate between doubt, silence, and wild joy, became even more certain that her teacher had definitely been addled by the pig blood.

"By then, should we put the teacher in neurology or respiratory?"

Weiniya wore a worried expression; she was about to persuade the teacher to return to the enclosed area for treatment, but didn't expect Zhang Jie to pull her up first.

"Weiniya! Pack up! The teacher wants to verify some things!"

"Come with me quickly!"

Weiniya, dazed, was pulled by her teacher to pack up, opening her mouth several times but stopping...

In the end, she chose to give up...

And a hundred li away on the other side, the sinister qi men's hunting squad was speeding across the wilderness in vehicles—three cars total, two normal off-road vehicles and one modified pickup truck, with an unknown device covered in black cloth placed at the rear.

Three people sat in the pickup truck; among them, a newly added hacker substitute held a tablet, on which a red dot appeared conspicuously.

"Boss, we've found the target's prosthetic signal."

"Beep beep beep!"

The signal sounded again, this time a larger dot.

"Boss! The Beast King's biological signal has also appeared!"

"Which way should we go first?"

The sinister-looking man pondered for a moment, glanced at the Beast King engine on the car's rear seat, and decisively decided to go kill the Beast King first.

"The Beast King rarely shows up, and moreover, the mating season has just ended—the Beast King is weak right now, so this is the perfect chance!"

"As long as we kill the Beast King, the guarding position should be taken over!"

The vehicle changed direction, speeding along the Beast King's biological coordinates.

"As for those two... we'll deal with them after killing the Beast King!"

"I must avenge Xiao Mei (the Mechanical Sword Girl)!"

After uttering a heart‑touching simp remark, the man clenched the mechanical curved blade in his palm, greed and ambition flashing in his eyes.

With the Beast King engine, he is absolutely sure he can kill the Beast King!

(Guess right, second bonus chapter incoming!)

(May I ask how the male lead died in the second simulation? Why did Weiniya get cyber psychosis? See which adoptive father has a rich imagination!)

(By the way, you definitely won't guess this simulation's ending; guaranteed to be exciting, hehe~)