Luo Feng’s April ranking was 68th, so in May he could only go to the wilderness area to hunt monsters on even-numbered days, while odd-numbered days were spent staying in the training camp.
On the afternoon of 1 May, around 4 p.m.
The elevator doors on the first floor of Nine Heavy Tower opened with a “ding”.
“Mm, yes. Luo Feng, your current blade technique specialisation path is very promising. You have just entered the second realm of blade technique. What you need to do now is stabilise this realm until it reaches full mastery,” Jiang Fang said as she walked out of the elevator together with Luo Feng, Janet, and two other students.
Luo Feng nodded thoughtfully. “Yes, teacher, I understand.”
“Work hard,” Jiang Fang encouraged with a smile.
After leaving the entrance of Nine Heavy Tower, Jiang Fang headed back to her residence, while Luo Feng, Janet, and another Chinese youth also prepared to return to the student residential area.
“Janet.”
“Janet.”
A series of calls made Luo Feng, Janet, and the others stop and turn around.
A blond young man with a rather gentlemanly temperament, Candice, quickly rushed out from the first floor hall, smiling as he looked at Janet. “Janet, are you free tonight? If you are, let’s have dinner together.”
Luo Feng glanced at him and thought to himself that it was just another guy chasing a girl.
There were very few female students in the elite training camp, so naturally many people pursued them.
“Oh, sorry. I already made plans to have dinner with Junior Brother Luo Feng tonight,” Janet smiled sweetly and directly linked her arm with Luo Feng’s left arm.
Candice’s expression froze.
Luo Feng also paused slightly.
“Senior sister,” Luo Feng looked at Janet. She was indeed very beautiful, with an excellent figure and extremely fair skin, almost like an angel. During class, she had hinted several times and even directly invited him out, but he had always refused. Yet she never gave up.
Western girls were indeed bold.
But he already had Xu Xin.
“Janet!” Candice’s tone carried anger.
“Sorry, Candice,” Janet smiled, then walked away arm in arm with Luo Feng.
Watching the two disappear around the corner, Candice’s expression turned ugly. At that moment, another man walked out from the first floor hall, William.
“Candice, I told you but you did not believe me. Now everyone in the training camp knows Janet is interested in Luo Feng. She even took the initiative to invite him. It is much easier for girls to pursue guys. Maybe they have already slept together. Why are you still chasing her?” William said unhappily.
“Shut up!”
Candice clenched his fists, his face dark.
Female students in the training camp were already rare, and beautiful ones even rarer. Since Janet entered the camp, many male students had set their sights on her, and Candice was one of them. Not only because of her appearance, but also because if he married a War God level wife, his future status in the Bolinas family would greatly improve.
“Luo Feng just happens to share a teacher with her. They are together all the time. It is normal for them to get involved,” William shrugged. “Instructor Jiang Fang usually only accepts Chinese students, and female students from other regions. Male students from the EU simply cannot become her disciples.”
“I do not believe I cannot win her over,” Candice narrowed his eyes, a cold light flashing.
Anger burned in his heart.
If it were any ordinary student competing with him, Candice would have his ways. He was already a fourth year student, ranking around 40th, and he was considered talented. He believed that by his fifth year he could reach around the top 20.
Ordinary students were nothing to him.
“Luo Feng, competing with me for a woman,” Candice said coldly.
“Endure. Endure.”
News of Luo Feng signing a contract with the Extreme Martial Arts Dojo had already spread among major countries and organisations. Candice knew very well that Luo Feng would become a core figure in the dojo in the future. Even the Bolinas family would have to think carefully before offending someone like that.
So he could not use forceful methods.
“Hmph.”
He could only swallow his anger. Endurance was a necessary skill for a family heir.
“Fair competition then. Janet will be mine,” Candice said silently.
…
After turning the corner, Luo Feng and Janet separated.
“Senior sister, I already have a girlfriend,” Luo Feng said helplessly. In terms of appearance, Janet was indeed more beautiful than Xu Xin, and in terms of talent, she was also an extraordinary genius.
“So what if you do? Even if you are married, I can still take you away,” Janet smiled, then turned and left. “Junior brother, I will not give up.”
Luo Feng rubbed his forehead.
Good heavens.
How did he end up with such a senior sister?
He shook his head. “Forget it. I still have almost two hours before dinner. I should go back and study my blade technique.”
He immediately returned to Jiangnan Pavilion and entered the underground training chamber.
For Luo Feng, the elite training camp was a sacred place to improve strength. It provided the best training paths, expert guidance, and even simulated gravity rooms and specialised blade training rooms, allowing maximum improvement.
Studying blade techniques, refining movement, controlling force, and comprehending the Nine Thunder Blade.
Every other day, he would also go to the wilderness area to hunt monsters personally.
Every day was full and meaningful.
And Luo Feng had one clear goal, to reach a combat power multiplier of 12 before 1 August. Although this goal was extremely difficult, the contract itself showed that even reaching it within the year would already earn rewards. That alone proved how hard it was to reach 12 within just three months.
No matter how hard it was, he had to try.
All he could do was make every day count and improve every single day.
…
Time passed quickly as he immersed himself fully in martial arts.
Before long, it was July.
July was extremely hot, but the nights were cool.
Inside Luo Feng’s quiet chamber in Jiangnan Pavilion.
A stick of incense was lit, its fragrance calming the entire room. Luo Feng wore a loose silk robe, sitting cross legged with palms facing upward, absorbing cosmic energy and refining it into genetic energy to strengthen his body.
Countless cells in his body worked like factories, absorbing cosmic energy through mitochondria and converting it into genetic energy.
The genes inside his cells were also undergoing extremely subtle changes during this process. Small changes accumulated over time. Eventually, the human body could transform from something fragile into something stronger than steel, even as tough as diamond.
That was the wonder of the human body.
After a long while, Luo Feng opened his eyes.
“It is already July.”
“In a flash, it is already July.”
August would be the month of the life and death adventure.
Every year in January and February, training camp students were allowed to return home. In the other ten months, nine were relatively safe, either in the training camp or in the heavily monitored Wilderness Area City 1001. During those months, deaths were rare.
The only dangerous month was August.
August was the month of life and death trials. All students would leave the training camp, board aircraft, and be sent to a dangerous location for one month of survival trials.
Even for ordinary warriors, the death rate in the wilderness was already high.
For elite students, only through life and death tempering could they truly grow. Therefore, the camp deliberately set August as a month of survival trials. Even so, there was still nearly a 10 percent death and elimination rate.
“August’s life and death trial. Now it is already 1 July.”
“I still have one month. But my combat power multiplier is only 8.96. The gap to 12 is still huge.”
Luo Feng frowned slightly.
In truth, his progress over these two months had been astonishing.
His blade technique, Thunder Break, had fully formed its own style. The second realm, specialisation, was nearly perfected, and even Instructor Jiang Fang kept praising him.
His movement technique had also stabilised to perfection.
The only weakness was that he still could not master the fourth level of the Nine Thunder Blade. Despite improved force control, he simply could not break through.
His trial tower level in May was 3.0. At that time, he could not even survive 10 seconds in stage A of the third floor. Only later, after his movement stabilised and blade technique improved slightly, did he barely reach 3.1 by the end of May.
In June, he only reached 3.2 by month end.
Thus his combat power multiplier was 8.96.
In summary, he had not broken through stage A of the third floor in these two months. Even Instructor Yang Hui, a War God teacher, had a trial tower level of only 3.2. Reaching this level was already impressive.
Luo Feng’s greatest advantage was his force output technique.
The Nine Thunder Blade was known as the number one force amplification technique in the world.
Other SS or S rank techniques, even when fully mastered, might only reach 3 to 4 times force amplification.
But the Nine Thunder Blade at full mastery could reach 7 times. Luo Feng was already at 2.8 times, stronger than many senior students.
Although he was not fully satisfied with himself, his reputation in the training camp had grown significantly. In May, he ranked 56th on the Black Dragon ranking. In June, he climbed directly to 48th, entering the top 50. Candice, meanwhile, was only 40th in June.
However…
For Luo Feng, the greatest improvement in these two months was still his physical strength.