Chapter 26

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

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At first, Su Hei also found it strange.

His strength had a value of 298,000. Thus, under normal circumstances, if he wanted to withstand the weight for a long time, the most he could endure was 30,000 pounds of gravity.

It was a little abnormal for him to withstand 100,000 pounds of continuous gravity. He wondered, “Could it be that I’m also a legendary cultivation genius?”

However, on second thought, he had as many as 14 Class talents and could manipulate the four basic Elemental powers.

It was logical that he could withstand the weight of a value that was half of his combat strength.

But the others were still dumbfounded by Su Hei’s endurance.

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The first day of gravity training quickly ended.

After eight hours of training, everyone was already panting from exhaustion. Many of them even crawled out of the gravity training ground.

“We have eight hours of training every day. In the future, we will also have other types of training.”

“When will this all end?”

“Even a week feels long to me, not to mention a month!”

“My legs are crippled. If I do this again tomorrow, I’ll have bowlegs.”

“But honestly speaking, I feel that my strength has increased.”

“That’s right. Me too. I just don’t know how much it’s increased.”

“Why don’t we go and test our combat strength together?”

“Let’s go!”

At the thought that their combat strength had increased, many people instantly perked up and rushed to the testing area excitedly.

Wang Dong quickly sidled over to Su Hei.

“Su, should we go too?” he asked.

“I feel that I’m several times stronger than I was in the morning. I think that I can even fight Li Hua.”

Just as he finished speaking, Li Hua held onto Jiang Jinyu and appeared from the side.

“Do you want to go over to the combat arena to spar?” she asked.

Upon hearing that, Wang Dong shuddered. He quickly grinned at her.

“No, no. That’s okay. I was merely joking. I will forever be your follower!” he promised.

Su Hei chuckled.

“Your strength should have increased by about 300 pounds,” he told Wang Dong.

Wang Dong, Li Hua, and Jiang Jinyu were stunned to hear that.

“How do you know?” they asked.

Su Hei froze.

He had subconsciously looked at the system screen just now, so he had an answer. However, he could not say this to them.

He could only awkwardly chuckle.

“Actually, I’ve been hiding my other identity from you. I’m the successor of the Daoist Sect that’s located in Hydra Mountain, so I can tell the changes in your strength by doing a simple calculation with my fingers.”

The three of them looked at Su Hei and rolled their eyes.

“It’s been a long day. Call the rest of Senior Class One. I’ll treat everyone to dire beast meat, and we’ll eat the meat that is of the highest level!”

Su Hei smiled awkwardly and quickly changed the topic.

Sure enough, Wang Dong became energetic at the mention of food.

“You said it!”

“Hua, Jinyu, I’ll leave the two of you in charge of getting Su to the canteen. I’ll get the other fellows over now.”

Without waiting for Su Hei to speak, Wang Dong used a speed that they had never witnessed before during his physical education exams and disappeared in a flash.

“Looks like this meal will leave a hole in your wallet,” Li Hua commented.

She smacked her lips and pulled Jiang Jinyu with her, walking toward the canteen.

Su Hei smiled and quickly followed them.

“Leave a hole in my wallet?” thought Su Hei.

“That won’t be possible.”

Normal members of the City Defense Team had a limit of 50 pounds of dire beast meat per day, and the meat was from those low-level Savage dire beasts. If they overeat, they would have to pay for the rest of the expenses themselves.

For the people who held leadership positions, from section leader upward, they had an unlimited supply of Savage-level dire beast meat. In addition, they had a limit of 50 pounds of Spirit-level dire beast meat.

The price of that meat was the same as the prices on Earth. One pound of low-level Savage beast meat was equivalent to the price of one pound of wagyu beef meat.

Moreover, the dire beast meat could convert to energy really quickly. Once a martial artist ate the meat, it would instantly be digested. Therefore, martial artists had no problem eating hundreds of pounds of meat per day.

Everyone envied the section leaders for having an unlimited supply of dire beast meat.

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After dinner, Su Hei returned to his single dormitory room.

As soon as he sat down, he awakened the system.

The system interface displayed Su Hei’s combat strength. Once again, the value of his combat strength had changed.

“308,000. My basic strength has increased by 20,000,” muttered Su Hei.

He was over the moon. Su Hei knew that this was the result of having absorbed the stats of over 300 people.

If his combat strength increased by 15,000 a day, that meant that after a month of boot camp, his combat strength would become 450,000!

It was enough for him to have a breakthrough to become an intermediate-level martial artist.

But, of course, Su Hei understood one thing.

Today was their first day of gravity training, so everyone’s strength had increased tremendously. As their gravity training sessions increased, the changes would gradually slow down.

However, Su Hei still felt contented.

Among the recruits, and among the entire City Defense Team, there was no one who could grow at a speed as he did.

Not even the commander.

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In the following week, all the recruits repeated the gravity training over and over again.

Many people chose to enter a higher gravitational field area. Nothing could deter them from becoming stronger.

Those who had gotten injured during training gritted their teeth and continued with their training.

During this period, Cao Guangning kept contacting Xu Weicheng in private.

“I’ve used up all the Spirit dire beast meat so that I can form close relationships with my team. I have only Savage dire beast left today.”

At the corner of the training ground, Cao Guangning stood beside the wire net fence. He was pushing a flatbed truck that had a small mountain of dire beast meat—weighing about 1,000 pounds—on it.

Xu Weicheng was not interested in all this.

He impatiently asked, “How are you doing in the City Defense Team? Does Su Hei still have outstanding performance?”

At the mention of this, Cao Guangning’s expression instantly darkened.

“He’s already entered the 15x gravity field area today. As for me, I’ve only just put on a 10,000-pound training suit. Moreover, I’m the last of the five team leaders to do so,” he said grouchily.

“Right now, all of the recruits are saying that I’m the weakest among the team leaders. After boot camp ends, they will elect a section leader to be captain. I’m the least likely to be elected!”

Xu Weicheng frowned, and he looked at Cao Guangning with a confused look on his face.

For the past week, he had been selling the dire beasts’ meat and using the money earned to buy potions for Cao Guangning. That way, Cao Guangning could increase his strength.

But Cao Guangning could not even beat the other three section leaders, not to mention Su Hei.

“Could it be that this lad is just a good-for-nothing? He is powerful only in appearance, but in reality, he is inwardly weak,” mused Xu Weicheng.

“Have I chosen the wrong person?”

But now that things had come to this, he had no other choice.

Due to Su Hei’s outstanding performance in the recruit camp, the martial arts academy made an exception and allowed Class D to be promoted to become an elite class. Moreover, they even had the thought of switching Class D to become Class C.

When that happened, he would become a teacher of Class D!

At the thought of this, Xu Weicheng was seething with anger.

“I’ll think of a way to get you some better potions. Focus on your training.”

“According to past precedence, the recruits will have a new recruit mission after next week. At that time, I will follow you secretly. I’ll think of a way to dispose of Su Hei and those three annoying section leaders!” he informed.

A vicious glint flashed in Cao Guangning’s eyes after he heard that.

“Don’t worry, Mr. Xu. I won’t let you down,” he reassured.

“I’ve already broken through to the Perfected Realm today, but no one knows about it. When the time comes, I’ll strike a fatal blow to them! It’ll be a big shock to all of them, for sure!”

“Good!” said Xu Weicheng.

He stared at Cao Guangning in satisfaction before reaching out to grab the flatbed truck from the latter.

“You should quickly head back before anyone notices you were gone,” he advised.

Cao Guangning nodded. The two of them turned their backs on each other and quickly disappeared into the night.