Cultivating Immortality: I Have a High-Martial World

Chapter 66: Is using divine sense to test reaction speed considered cheating?

"That's right. Lin Chen's strength was still somewhat lacking, and getting involved with that thing too early would be more harmful than beneficial to him..."

"But now it seems that after reaching the Martial Master level, Lin Chen's physical fitness has almost reached the standard."

Wang Lishan smiled; Lin Chen always managed to bring him such wonderful surprises.

"However, before that... Lin Chen, you should go to the training room to test your accurate physical fitness."

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen had a certain guess in his mind.

Soon, we arrived at the martial arts training room.

Lin Chen was testing his physical fitness in front of the instrument.

"Strength 5080kg...Peak speed 51 meters per second!"

Without a doubt, Lin Chen has reached the Martial Master level in terms of both strength and physical fitness.

Looking at the data on the instrument, Wang Lishan finally smiled with relief.

"Not bad, both strength and speed... meet the standard."

Lin Chen's heart stirred slightly upon hearing this, and he asked:

"Uncle Wang, that thing you were talking about... can I take a look at it now?"

"Haha, don't rush! Before that... we need to test your neural reaction speed again."

Wang Lishan led Lin Chen to a special instrument.

"Neural reaction speed?"

Lin Chen was slightly puzzled.

"That's right. No matter what level of martial artist you are, physical fitness is just the foundation. Besides that, your reflexes and combat intelligence are also very important..."

Wang Lishan activated the instrument and gestured for Lin Chen to sit down.

"Imagine this: in the middle of battle, a monster charges at you at breakneck speed. Even if your physical abilities are up to par, if you don't react in time, you'll be smashed to pieces!"

"However, neural reaction speed is difficult to measure concretely, and the standards often differ at different levels."

Wang Lishan adjusted the standard on the instrument to the beginner martial arts master level.

"You will soon enter a virtual space specifically designed to test your neural responses... Do your best to avoid all threats."

After saying that, Wang Lishan turned on the switch.

Immediately afterward, Lin Chen's gaze shifted.

Under Lin Chen's five senses, he was no longer in the training room, but in a dense primeval forest.

It's so realistic that even the scent of grass and trees and the rustling sound of wind blowing through the leaves are clearly audible.

"Is this what virtual space is?"

Lin Chen's eyes widened; this was the first time he had ever encountered such a novel thing.

"Xiao Chen, the test will begin soon. Stones will be shot at you rapidly and irregularly from all directions, and you need to dodge them as much as possible..."

Suddenly, Wang Lishan's voice came from beside him, which made Lin Chen certain that he was still in the laboratory.

"Wow, this virtual space is quite interesting!"

Lin Chen's heart stirred slightly, and he immediately released his divine sense.

In an instant, this dreamlike virtual space was laid bare before Lin Chen's eyes.

"With divine sense, one can see both this virtual space and reality...?"

As he was pondering this, a pebble shot toward him at a speed of 50 meters per second.

With his divine sense fully activated, Lin Chen easily dodged the flying stone as if it were in slow motion.

But this is just the beginning.

Immediately afterwards, more and more stones were shot at him.

One, ten, a hundred...

The speed is getting faster and faster!

Stones could fly from any direction, from any strange angle.

They surrounded Lin Chen in a dense, inescapable net.

At the same time, Wang Lishan's voice rang in his ears.

"Xiao Chen, don't let your guard down! They're just stones in the illusion now..."

"But on the battlefield, they are enemies attacking from all sides!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen's expression hardened, and then his divine sense swept over the surrounding area for several feet like a tidal wave.

"It seems tricky, with no way to dodge... but there are gaps between each stone, providing room to maneuver!"

Lin Chen thought to himself that, under his divine sense, the stones on all sides seemed to have opened up.

Whenever the stone was about to hit Lin Chen, he was able to quietly dodge it.

And just like that, ten minutes passed...

After he dodged the last stone, a voice suddenly came from the other side saying that he had passed the test.

Immediately afterwards, the virtual space disappeared, and he returned to the training room.

"How was it? Did I do a pretty good job?"

Lin Chen turned around and smiled.

However, what came into his view were the expressions of Wang Lishan, Wang Xinyu, and Li Nian, as if they were looking at a monster...

"Uh, but I dodged them all... the reaction shouldn't be that big, right?"

Lin Chen scratched his head.

"That's so perverted..." Wang Xinyu's face flushed slightly.

"Is this a monster?" Li Nian's eyes widened.

Even Wang Lishan was stunned and said:

"Lin Chen, how did you do that? You dodged them all!"

Lin Chen felt a little guilty, unsure whether using his divine sense constituted cheating.

"Uncle Wang, is it really that hard to dodge them all?" he asked.

"Nonsense! I'm not exaggerating when I say... in the entire Great Xia Kingdom, there's no one who can get a perfect score in nerve reaction speed!"

Wang Lishan's voice was rather loud. After a while, he added:

"Except for you, kid..."

Actually, this is not hard to imagine.

Because the test measures neural reaction speed, it assesses reactions within the same realm.

For example, even if you are a martial artist with the fastest reflexes, you still cannot pass the test for a martial arts master.

Correspondingly, even a Martial Venerable or Martial King would not be able to completely evade such an all-around attack...

Of course, if it's outside the battlefield's coverage area, that's a different story.

"Uh, actually I just used the power of a cultivator's divine sense..."

Lin Chen had mentioned divine sense before, but even Wang Lishan and the others probably didn't expect that divine sense could have such wonderful uses.

After hearing about the effects of divine consciousness, Wang Xinyu was astonished.

Wang Lishan stroked his chin and asked:

"What if... all martial artists possessed divine sense? Within the range of divine sense, wouldn't they no longer be afraid of enemy attacks?"

"That's not the case. Divine sense only allows one to detect the source of an attack in advance, but if the reaction is too slow, it might not work..."

Lin Chen shook his head.

In addition to the blessing of divine consciousness, his own nerve response was also at an extremely high level.

However, in close combat, divine sense does indeed have a cheat-like effect.

In the cultivation world, most cultivators, if attacked at close range by enemies in battle, are often unable to dodge due to insufficient physical strength, but their divine sense can detect it in advance.

Of course, this excludes those techniques that can block divine sense or special spells.

Even so, the emergence of divine sense has brought about a huge change to the combat system of the Great Xia martial arts!

Wang Lishan quickly realized this.

His eyes were shining at that moment.

"What if every martial artist possessed divine sense... wouldn't that mean casualties would be greatly reduced in battles against demonic beasts?"

"Strictly speaking, that's indeed the case!"

Lin Chen replied.

So Wang Lishan made a few more phone calls, preparing to establish another research team to study spiritual consciousness as soon as possible.

Among the first batch of cultivators trained by the Great Xia Kingdom, some have already reached the second level of Qi Refining.

But without a doubt, they are still far from being able to project their divine sense outwards.

Lin Chen then provided Wang Lishan with a thousand spirit stones and the hundred spirit testing stones he had acquired.

With these resources, the country can quickly train hundreds more cultivators with wood-elemental roots.

The most urgent task is to cultivate spirit herbs and various other spiritual medicines.

After Wang Lishan finished dealing with his business, Lin Chen couldn't help but ask:

"Uncle Wang, that thing you're talking about..."

Distracted by the surprise brought by divine sense, Wang Lishan almost forgot about the matter.

He stopped being coy and took out a thumb-sized piece of flesh from the nanobag, handing it over.

This flesh and blood is unlike anything ordinary; although it is blood-red, it also has a faint golden hue.

It looked as if it were covered with a layer of golden light, like a finely carved jade treasure.

"This is... the flesh and blood of a demonic beast!"

(End of this chapter)