Celestial Human Diagram

Chapter 295 - 27: School Begins

Chen Chuan checked his Realm Token and found that large corporations and banks both offered safe deposit box services.

However, the rates from large corporations were quite expensive. The minimum term was one year, the insurance coverage started in the five figures, and a security deposit several times that amount was required upfront. It was enough to make anyone balk.

As for smaller storage companies, their security was unreliable. Setting aside the risk of external robberies, it was hard to guarantee there wouldn’t be an inside job.

So, he contacted Wubei through his Realm Token. "Brother Wu, do you know a suitable place where I can store these things temporarily?"

Wubei thought for a moment and said, "Brother Chen, if you trust me, why not leave them with me? I have a storage room that I usually just use for miscellaneous things. My apartment complex has security patrols 24 hours a day, so there shouldn’t be any problems."

Chen Chuan considered it and agreed it was a good idea. "Alright, I’ll leave the items with you for now. I’ll move them once I find a more suitable place."

After they settled on the plan, he started dealing with the items. Since there was a large quantity, he couldn’t take it all in one trip. He simply contacted Old Qi to bring his car over, loaded everything up, and transported it all to the storage room Wubei had prepared.

He packed all the medicine usable by Second Limit practitioners into a bag and took it with him. These drugs, combined with the strange tales he had previously contained, should be enough to support his Fighter training for quite a while.

He also kept the stack of documents, planning to take them back and read through them slowly.

Teacher Wu had left behind his training records from his time at the Second and Third Limits. This was an incredible asset, in some ways even more valuable than the medicine.

Medicine could be bought, but these records were a Fighter’s personal chronicle. They weren’t something you could just purchase. If Teacher Wu hadn’t intended from the start to teach students in the future, this material would never have existed. After all, if it were leaked, he would have no more secrets from others.

After returning to the school, he spent the following days holed up in his dorm, training and poring over the documents.

He was actually lacking when it came to Fighter theory, only knowing a few key pieces of information.

In truth, it couldn’t be helped. Due to the Upper Layer’s deliberate restriction of information channels, students at Yangzhi Wuyi didn’t even know about the Mutated Organization in the early stages, let alone understand these concepts.

Besides, the study period at Yangzhi Wuyi was actually very short; by their second year, students began studying off-campus. In the early stages, students had to focus their primary energy on combat training. Many would never even reach the Second Limit, so understanding this material early on was useless and a waste of time.

Even after graduation, unless one became an instructor or intended to pursue higher levels of fighting, there was no need to understand it.

Now, with these documents, he could finally fill that gap in his knowledge.

He Xiaoxing had once told him that the First Limit to the Third Limit was essentially a single, continuous whole. From Teacher Wu’s notes, this indeed seemed to be the case. There were no distinct barriers between them; it all depended on whether your Mutated Organization could grow to that extent.

Talent was more important than he had imagined. From the perspective of a Fighter, it seemed a person’s future upper limit was decided the moment they were born.

Therefore, this stage wasn’t about how to break through one’s limits, but about how to better arrange and utilize one’s own Mutated Organization.

However, the issues involved were quite complex. How to properly guide the growth of a Mutated Organization was a science in itself.

Teacher Wu was very professional, exploring the topic in depth from both a technical and theoretical standpoint. He also periodically added supplements to his earliest entries, likely because he had gained new insights later on.

When studying under He Xiaoxing, the usual method was to have him perform an action first and then figure out the reasoning behind it on his own. It was a highly targeted approach, but many of the techniques felt impossible for an ordinary person to accomplish.

Teacher Wu was different. He explained the key points of training from the perspective of an ordinary person. If one person could use his method, then most people could. They were two completely different styles.

Chen Chuan cross-referenced what he read with what he had learned, feeling he had gained a great deal. There were some things he knew to be true but couldn’t articulate as thoroughly as Teacher Wu. So, whenever he read a passage that clearly and accurately expressed the thoughts in his own mind, he felt a sense of clarity and satisfaction.

After carefully reading through the section on the First to the Second Limit, he focused on the changes and key points of the transition from the Second to the Third Limit.

Based on the descriptions, he compared them to his own state and figured he had previously been in the latter half of the Second Limit.

Now that his Second Self had fused with him, his physical fitness had doubled, and the strength and growth rate of his Mutated Organization had also doubled. Of course, none of this manifested physically. Neither his body nor his Mutated Organization showed any external changes; they looked exactly the same as they had before the Fusion with his Second Self.

Teacher Wu had detailed teaching plans for students at every stage. Through these, Chen Chuan also learned what he should be paying attention to and what aspects of his training he needed to strengthen.

None of this training involved extra medicine or equipment. It relied solely on technical exercises that allowed students to self-correct and strengthen their own Mutated Organization. It was as accessible as it could possibly be.

Perhaps it was this long-term cycle of teaching, research, and feedback that allowed Teacher Wu to accumulate such rich experience, which later enabled him to create the Empty Practice system. It was just a pity he was never able to complete it.

Chen Chuan found the techniques and movements very enlightening. Unlike him, a practitioner of the Circulation Technique, most students only had a partially Mutated Organization, and many teaching methods were developed to target those specific areas.

Teacher Wu did not approve of this method. He believed that training this way only prematurely exhausted a student’s potential in a one-sided pursuit of combat power, making it harder to advance to higher levels. He believed that overall coordination was the most important thing.

And according to the data he had compiled, although students who underwent traditional reinforcement training were stronger in the short term and quickly became combat-ready...

...unless they were blessed with innate talent, they would almost always stagnate after reaching a certain threshold, forced to rely on Implants to make up for their deficiencies.

But students taught using the methods summarized by Teacher Wu possessed far greater potential for growth, and the data in his records supported this theory.

Reading this, Chen Chuan deeply agreed. Coordination and holism were concepts he had always valued, and this training method was one he could actually adopt.

The notes also contained descriptions of the distinct reactions and characteristics of the Mutated Organization at various stages of training. This would allow him to clearly track his own progress and identify any abnormalities, which was extremely useful.

The next step was to familiarize himself with and master these techniques as quickly as possible.

「Ten days flew by in a flash.」

After the last rest day of January, the date was February 1st, the official start of the term at the Central Hospital. It was on this day, at around eight in the morning, that Chen Chuan discovered a host of new course listings had suddenly appeared on the academy platform section of his Realm Token.

He checked and saw that all the new listings were public courses. The instructors were not from the Jibei Dao Wuyi General Hospital, but from the Supreme Headquarters.

After reading the descriptions, he understood. Every year, the Supreme Headquarters in the Capital would dispatch a group of outstanding lecturers to the various Central Hospitals to teach. These courses were free to attend, but they didn’t offer the detailed, in-depth instruction of one-on-one teaching.

Because these were public courses, they weren’t displayed on the platform before the term began. Teacher Wu had previously used this information gap to create anxiety.

Just then, a notification appeared on his Realm Token: "Student Chen Chuan, welcome to the new semester. You have a mandatory graded project this semester. Please select an advisor in this field within three days. If you wish to waive this requirement, please attach a statement of explanation. Failure to make a selection will result in a deduction of evaluation points."

Chen Chuan took a look. Every student at the academy had evaluation points, which were linked to their assessment scores, semesterly review levels, and academy-assigned commissions.

Students with high scores enjoyed more educational resources, while those whose scores fell below a certain level would be expelled. No wonder Tan Zhi had been so keen on guiding him that day, all for the sake of a single point.

As he was browsing, a voice sounded from his Realm Token. "Is this Student Chen Chuan?"

Chen Chuan couldn’t see the caller, only that the message was coming from the school’s administration. He replied, "Yes, it is."

"If you’re not busy right now, please come to the Special Dispatch Office on the seventy-second floor."

Chen Chuan said he would. He thought for a moment, tidied himself up, then left and took the elevator up to the seventy-second floor. As the elevator doors opened, a man was walking toward him.

He was a man in his forties with a touch of gray at his temples and an air of mature elegance. He seemed to be about to take the elevator, but as he passed Chen Chuan, he glanced at him and said with a smile, "You must be Student Chen Chuan?"

Chen Chuan replied, "I am. And you are, Teacher?"

The man smiled. "I’m Ling Jianxing, an assistant in the Principal’s Office. You can call me Assistant Ling. The Central Hospital is very happy to have an outstanding student like you."

Hearing his name, Chen Chuan’s heart stirred. He said, "Thank you, Teacher Ling."

Assistant Ling stared into his eyes. "Hmm, have you seen me before, Chen?"

Chen Chuan nodded. "I think I saw Teacher Ling and scenes from your past speeches while browsing the platform. I just wasn’t sure a moment ago."

Assistant Ling smiled. "Is that so? Chen, if you have any suggestions, please don’t hesitate to bring them to me. Well then, I wish you success in your studies."

After speaking, he stepped into the elevator. Just then, a voice came from his Realm Token:

"Wu Ruo hasn’t contacted us in over ten days. We’ve checked, and the last person to see him was this student, Chen. He likely targeted this student. Now that he’s disappeared, could it be related to him?"

Assistant Ling said playfully, "Perhaps."

"Perhaps?"

Assistant Ling turned around. The elevator doors were slowly closing in front of him. He watched Chen Chuan’s retreating figure and said, "I’ll keep an eye on him."

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