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In the training field, Zhou Chen was punched several meters away by his coach, crashing heavily onto the mat. He stared blankly at the ceiling, completely dazed. 💝✋ ❻➈ᔕ𝒽𝓊𝐱.Ćⓞм ♜🎯Google Search Reading

"Can you still stand up?" The burly coach withdrew his fist and asked coldly.

Zhou Chen tried to move his body, but ultimately couldn't get up. He said weakly, "I have no strength left..."

The coach snorted coldly and turned to walk towards the locker room without looking back.

That's all for today's lesson. Don't be late tomorrow.

Zhou Chen was completely exhausted and collapsed on the ground like a lump of mud.

After being discharged from the hospital yesterday, he felt it was necessary to improve his combat capabilities over the next five days in preparation for the upcoming undercover mission.

For example, combat skills.

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If Fina hadn't been controlled by her "lover" beforehand, leading to lust and a lapse in vigilance; if his extraordinary ability hadn't burned away the lustful insects, causing Fina to lose her mind; if it hadn't been for his unexpected sneak attack... without these factors, he would have been no match for Fina at all.

Even if ten of them were combined, they would only face certain death against Fina at her peak.

Even without using her extraordinary abilities, Fina could still manipulate him at will and slowly torture him to death with her masterful killing skills.

So, the first thing he did after being discharged from the hospital was to go to the training department to learn practical combat techniques.

For every ascendant, combat skills are a compulsory course, tied to their own life. They must at least master any fighting technique, barely reaching the passing grade, in order to have a better chance of survival when they go out into the world.

Not to mention someone like him who is constantly on the verge of death in every mission; if he didn't have some skills, he would die in the line of duty in no time.

The consequence of learning martial arts is what we see now: being beaten so badly that we are covered in bruises.

After discussing it with his coach, Zhou Chen shifted his focus to improving his body techniques, emphasizing his explosive power and speed.

His extraordinary ability is like a debuff, continuously damaging the mind of those affected until their source energy is completely burned away. Therefore, the longer the battle drags on, the more advantageous it is for him.

Once the Azure Flame takes effect, the enemy will be left with very low health, making them easy prey.

However, the downside is that experienced sublimators won't give him that opportunity.

Just like Fina Blanche, under normal circumstances, with that strange movement technique, she would be able to take him down before the Azure Flame takes effect—or even take him down several times over.

Therefore, speed and explosiveness become especially important at this time: if you come close, I'll run; if you're exhausted, I'll burst into action; if you're affected by the Azure Flame, I'll find an opportunity to launch a sneak attack and backstab you...

Simply put, it's about kiting and guerrilla warfare, avoiding direct confrontation whenever possible, maximizing the use of rolling, dodging, and sliding, playing it safe and sneaky, just like a "Souls-like" player. ⑥⑨ⓢⓗⓤⓧ .⃝ⓒⓞⓜ

However, while the idea was good, it all became worthless when faced with an opponent of extraordinary strength.

Throughout the day, Zhou Chen was chased all over the training field by the coach in order to practice his movement techniques. No matter how hard he tried, he could never escape the coach by more than three steps. The coach stuck to him like a leech, and every time he was caught, he would get a good beating.

The thought of the other party's incredibly violent training methods, as well as their undisguised ferocious killing intent and terrifying power during battle, made Zhou Chen, who was lying on the ground, shudder.

He's a devilish coach...

However, as terrifying as it may seem, the other party's teaching level was undoubtedly top-notch. In just one day, they ruthlessly taught Zhou Chen the techniques for generating power in all his muscles, resulting in a considerable increase in strength, speed, and explosiveness.

There's no way around it. It's just like those authors who write books: they're used to being laid-back and can't write anything all day long. But if there's a deadline and someone who'll beat the author's head if they don't submit their work, then all authors will be scared of their own talent.

They mean roughly the same thing.

In order to avoid getting beaten up, Zhou Chen displayed a learning talent that surprised even himself.

In addition to teaching him hand-to-hand combat and movement techniques, the coach also gave him a few hours of weaponry lessons—after all, a chainsaw is, in a sense, a cold weapon.

In short, the day's training was very fruitful.

The price I paid was this body covered in bruises.

After lying on the ground for a while, Zhou Chen slowly got up, took a shower, changed into clean clothes, left the training department, and took the elevator to the thirteenth basement level.

This is the Alchemy Department.

According to the room number on the course information, Zhou Chen found the classroom for introductory alchemy. To his surprise, even though it was already past eight o'clock, the classroom was almost full, with fifty or sixty scholars sitting in their seats waiting for the class to start.

He quickly found an empty seat, then rummaged through his bag for a vial filled with milky white liquid, uncorked it, and drank it all in one gulp.

This is nutrient solution. Now that he has some money, Zhou Chen bought all the nutrient solution he needed for the next month in one go, so that he wouldn't be short of money and unable to afford food in the future.

In any case, ensuring you have enough to eat is the most important thing.

After drinking a vial of nutrient solution, he smacked his lips, feeling his weak strength slowly returning, but he was still very hungry after more than ten minutes.

So he drank another tube, and then another.

After three tubes of nutrient solution were administered, his hunger was finally subsided.

Zhou Chen knew exactly what was going on: because the training had exhausted his physical strength, his body needed to replenish more nutrients.

Looks like I'll have to buy some more nutritional supplements, just in case it affects my development. I don't want to have to digest myself...

With that in mind, Zhou Chen ordered twenty tubes of nutrient solution at an internal price on the Stars Club's internal app. He was even lucky enough to receive a 2,000 yuan voucher, so he only spent 158,000 yuan in the end.

After paying, he closed his eyes to meditate and rest. A dozen minutes later, the alchemy teacher walked into the classroom, and the previously noisy classroom instantly became quiet.

Soon after, the lesson began.

The young professor spoke eloquently on the podium:

"This lesson will begin with the basics of alchemy. First of all, the fundamental rule of alchemy is 'you can't have everything'; to gain something, you must pay a price."

If you've ever watched an alchemy experiment, you'll see that after each alchemy process, a lot of residue and waste appears; that's what's known as the "cost."

However, it would be a grave mistake to think that the price of alchemy is something so simple—organs, flesh, soul, and even the elusive concept of fate, everything in the world can become the price of alchemy.

Of course, that field is still far beyond your reach; you should be thanking your lucky stars that you can even refine a stable alloy.

"Next, I'll talk about the history of alchemy..."

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