Chapter 910: Chapter 910

"Mister is really amazing, Brother Hao Yi, you didn’t see that scene, wow... It really was like seeing an ’Angel’ in the Relic of the Bygone Days. For a moment there, I was wondering if he really was an angel,"

The delicate and fair fingers of the girl tapped rapidly on the smartphone screen as she typed out her message, "Or is it that Martial Arts can reach this stage later on? Will I be able to do so as well?"

Looking at the message that had been sent, Lin Chichi placed the phone screen-down on her lap and watched the streets fly by through the car window.

At this moment, she was on her way to the World Tree headquarters in Yika.

Her original work task was to go to Rodan to investigate the tripartite governance situation.

After the Blood Sun incident, she had sustained severe injuries, and so Wu Lan took charge and gave her a month off, putting that mission on hold.

Then there was He Ao’s involvement as a special advisor to the World Tree reform, a matter so important that the publicity department couldn’t do nothing. But at that moment, the Research Institute’s publicity department just happened to need someone working in Yika.

She saw the message in the work group and, offering herself up for the task, Wu Lan couldn’t resist her enthusiasm and agreed to let her take it on.

However, Wu Lan didn’t put all the responsibility on her; she was simply to move around freely, recover in peace, and just gather some information on the aftermath of the Blood Sun incident. The publicity department of the Research Institute would send someone over later.

So in fact, she was still in a semi-vacation status.

But because of this external publicity mission, she had obtained some permissions to enter and leave the World Tree Yika headquarters freely and to contact the staff of Yika’s Research Institute.

She now was to report to the World Tree Yika headquarters and input her registration information first.

Although theoretically, her ’teacher,’ He Ao, was the head of the Yika headquarters, the heart of the entire storm, and with this relationship, some issues might be resolved with just a greeting.

But she didn’t want to expose this relationship too much.

She was well aware that ’Minister He’ accepted her as a disciple on account of Brother Hao Yi’s reputation; she herself didn’t have the Talent or the foundation that could compare with Sister Elfia at all.

The fact that she could worship ’Minister He’ and learn the power of Martial Arts was already an enormous stroke of luck. If she were to flaunt this teacher-disciple relationship, it would not only tarnish Minister He’s reputation, but also hurt the efforts Brother Hao Yi had made for her.

As the taxi turned a corner, her phone vibrated once.

The girl immediately lifted the phone to look at the message interface, only to see a promotional advertisement text message.

The girl’s willowy brows knitted together; she pressed and held the message, adding the sender’s number to the blacklist.

Just then, a new message popped up on her phone,

Mr. Hao Yi: "I don’t know, but if you work hard, maybe you’ll have a chance?"

The girl’s furrowed brows relaxed at this, and a slight smile appeared on her face. She swiftly entered the messaging interface and typed enthusiastically, "I’m working very hard. I just finished the assignment Mister gave us. That introductory Fist Technique, I practiced it twenty times!"

"Very impressive /Smile,"

A smiling emoticon came from the other side followed by another question, "How do you feel about Martial Arts?"

Lin Chichi typed these words into the input box, pondered a bit, then continued typing, "It seems to be a completely different method of advancement from the Talent Sequences, and it’s very tough, requiring persistent effort day and night."

After a moment of silence, without waiting for a response, she continued to type,

"But Mister teaches very well, he’s really great when it comes to teaching,

"When he was teaching us Qi Induction, he didn’t tell us when the right time for Qi Induction had come. Instead, he led us into a rehearsal process at the perfect moment,

"Just let yourself relax, and follow his words step by step. I originally thought I was far from achieving it, but as I followed his words, I unconsciously completed Qi Induction,"

"Moreover, his words seem to have a kind of magic. While listening to him talk about Martial Arts knowledge, it feels easier to absorb, and my mind becomes more agile in following his thoughts."

She clicked send, paused for a moment, then quickly typed into the input box, "It’s as if my brain has been illuminated."

After she sent this series of messages, there was no immediate reply from the other end, unsure if they were pondering her message or if her last ’metaphor’ had caused them to chuckle.

However, Lin Chichi was not impatient. She just held her phone, staring at the chat box, quietly waiting.

A moment later, the reply came, "Could it be the place’s influence? Maybe the location where you listened to the lecture has some special amplifying effects for Martial Arts Training?"

Reading the reply, Lin Chichi first froze for a moment, then seemed to fall into some recollection. After quite a while, she scratched her head and replied,

"It seems so, after leaving the Martial Arts Hall, my mind doesn’t seem as sharp, and many previously clear insights into Martial Arts have become muddled."

Then she paused and continued to type,

"However, the teacher himself must also have some sort of ’magic’. After he left, I had my senior sister, Elfia, explain some points I found difficult,

"But it didn’t seem as profound as when the teacher explained them. Just a slight hint from him, and I could feel a clear change.

"Perhaps it’s also possible that the teacher is just that formidable? Maybe he has a deeper understanding of the key points of the knowledge?

"Indeed, the teacher is really formidable. I feel that I can learn a lot from him,

"I have always heard of his legends in the Research Institute, and I originally thought legends were already amazing, but after seeing him in person, I found he might be even more incredible than the most outrageous legend."

The girl continued to type quickly, then sent an ’offering flowers’ emoji, "Thank you, Mr. Hao Yi. Without you, I would never have the chance to meet such a remarkable person up close, let alone have the opportunity to take him as my teacher."

"It’s because you met the criteria to become an apprentice,"

This time, the reply came quickly, "Maintain seriousness and diligence, that’s the best."

After sending the message, she hugged her phone to her chest, a slight smile curving her lips.

The vehicle slowed to a stop, and Lin Chichi lifted her gaze to the towering buildings outside the window.

The taxi had reached its destination.

Lin Chichi quickly pulled out cash to pay the fare, then bid farewell to ’Mr. Hao Yi,’ ending the chat.

The bright sunshine spilled across the wide plaza in front of the building, revealing the path ahead.

The statue that stood in the plaza had been completely cleared away.

Lin Chichi lowered her head to glance at the ground, and between the cracks in the flooring, she could vaguely see streaks of deep red—perhaps the still-soiled earth, or maybe something else.

According to the forward reports sent by Wu Lan, the ’teacher’ had once slain the leader of the Yika Republic’s World Tree branch and the leader’s followers here.

The recounting by those in the know said that on that day ’blood covered the entire plaza, and everyone was silent, not daring to speak loudly.’

It was said that the blood of a C-level Transcendent had soaked the ground beneath this plaza, and even after cleanup, you could still see the dried bloodstains between the cracks of the tiles, and perhaps even shreds of decaying flesh.

While there might be some exaggeration in these information stories, the teacher’s reputation inside the World Tree seemed indeed to be more about ’awe.’

Just as Lin Chichi was looking down at the ground tiles, a loud shout came from the distance.

Lin Chichi lifted her head and saw a neatly dressed woman quickly approaching her, none other than ’Song Xiao’, who had once protected her.

Lin Chichi watched excitedly as Song Xiao approached, hastening her steps to meet her.

"Chichi, you’re alright, that’s truly wonderful."

As the two got close, Song Xiao looked at the lively and adorable girl in front of her, surveying her from head to toe, a weight in her heart seemingly lifted as she finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

Lin Chichi smiled and did a spin in front of Song Xiao, her floral dress swaying, "See, I’m jumping around alive and well, right?"

Then she peered at Song Xiao, "By the way, Song Xiao sister, what brings you here? Didn’t you return to Central Earth?"

"I’m here to pick you up; as for returning to Central Earth, that’s a bit complicated,"

Song Xiao let out a light chuckle, signaling Lin Chichi to walk with her towards the building, while slowly explaining,

"Weren’t you missing before? And then not long after Mr. Hao Yi came looking for you, the Yika Republic started the evacuation.

"The Research Institute there also temporarily terminated my task. Normally, I should have awaited orders back in Central Earth, but with a shortage of hands for the evacuation here, Miss Yan Yue, who is responsible for the evacuation logistics, specifically called me and asked if I would join the evacuation escort team.

"I didn’t think too much and agreed right away. During the evacuation, we even ambushed many of Daybreak’s villains with the Transcendents who came over from Central Earth,

"After arriving at Rodan, I joined the local branch of the Research Institute directly, in charge of maintaining order,

"After the Blood Sun incident ended, I followed back to Yika because there was a shortage of people here."

"Song Xiao sister, you did a lot of good deeds. The people of Yika will definitely remember you."

Lin Chichi nodded in admiration.

"It wasn’t much really,"

Song Xiao smiled shyly, "The key is that Minister He organized things well. Our tasks were almost risk-free, even the most dangerous Daybreak villains’ attack on the convoy was safely dealt with because we were well-prepared."

Then she paused, glanced at the vehicles moving on the streets around them and the passing crowd, and spoke with a hint of emotion,

"With such a terrifying event, such a massive movement of people, such an extensive scope of rescue and evacuation, if Minister He weren’t here, even as a Transcendent, I might have perished in the chaos,

"The people who are still walking and laughing in this city might only be a few percent that could have survived that horrifying disaster."

Her voice lowered slightly as she turned to Lin Chichi with a smile, "So Minister He is truly amazing. It is a consensus among the World Tree members and Research Institute members I have encountered that he is almost like granting us a new life, so everyone sincerely admires and is grateful to him."

Lin Chichi looked up at the busy traffic around her.

If it weren’t for that perfect evacuation, this country might have been destroyed in chaos before ’K’ descended to slay that Angel.

Mister is indeed amazing.

"Speaking of which, Yika isn’t completely stabilized now,"

Song Xiao looked at the young girl beside her. "Do you still need a guard?"

Lin Chichi raised her hand and waved it through the air, creating a whooshing sound with her fist, "I’m considered to have survived a great disaster, and now I’m quite formidable. There’s no need to specially arrange someone to protect me."

Song Xiao took a look at Lin Chichi’s movements. She couldn’t directly gauge Lin Chichi’s strength, but she could generally tell that Lin Chichi indeed seemed to possess transcendent power.

She breathed a sigh of relief and watched Lin Chichi’s playful face, slowly smiling, "Chichi, I feel like you’ve become much more cheerful?"

Lin Chichi was stunned for a moment.

"I can’t quite put it into words,"

Song Xiao thought for a bit, "It’s just that I feel like you seem much more cheerful and relaxed than before."

Lin Chichi’s gaze paused as she looked up at the bright sun in the sky. Unconsciously, the silhouette of someone standing before the doorway of an old-style train emerged in her mind.

That figure stood there, like the warm sun of winter, bringing warmth that dispelled the cold.

Eventually, the girl looked down, her hands clasped behind her back, smiling, "Perhaps it’s because I got close to the sun? When sunlight shines on a person, it naturally makes them warm and cheerful."

"You’re talking so mystically, you little thing."

Song Xiao watched Lin Chichi with a laugh.

"Because I really did have a sun get close to me, letting me feel the light."

Lin Chichi shook her head lightly and smiled sweetly.

The sunlight fell evenly upon her, reflecting a serene warmth.

Here, a dozen hours behind Yika, the flowing evening breeze brushed across the moonlit sea, and He Ao, controlling Mr. Hao Yi’s clone, set down the cellphone in his hand.

As he had guessed, the anomaly that came in response to his ’Martial Arts Teaching’ wasn’t confined to the courtyard where the Martial Arts Hall was located; it was happening to him as well.

It seemed he had acquired a ’Martial Arts Teaching’ passive ability that could, to some extent, enhance the comprehension of those he taught and reduce the difficulty of their Martial Arts Training.

This ability wasn’t presented as information in his mind like the Talent Sequences’ abilities were, so he had to figure it out for himself.

He then looked down at the scattered drafts on the table.

They were his first drafts for the Martial Arts Introductory Fist Technique.

The evening wind gently caressed the sea surface, causing slight ripples to sway peacefully.

Sitting under a gloomy and overcast sky, watching the rippling water and seated on a small stool, a young man in black clothes quickly lifted his fishing rod.

With the long fishing line being pulled out from under the water’s surface, an empty hook emerged from the bottom.

The young man glanced at the empty hook, shook his head, and cast it further out into the water.

From afar, the sound of light footsteps as a little boy with a straw hat ran to the riverbank. He sat on a protruding rock upstream and took out a little bamboo rod for fishing, casting the hook into the water.

The tranquil river flowed gently, with a soft serpentine path from upstream to downstream.