Chapter 123: Chapter 123

“Take off your shirt.”

Facing the demand of the senior instructor, Yi Chen had no choice but to comply.

After unbuttoning the last button and removing his shirt, a physique unlike that of an ordinary man was revealed, with the scars of newly formed flesh filling in the space over his chest particularly noticeable.

Beili suddenly drew a slender teaching whip and lashed it across Yi Chen’s side abdomen.

A whipping would normally have someone rolling and hopping in pain, but Yi Chen’s expression was somewhat strange.

The external oblique muscle that the whip hit showed a slightly indented shape, then slowly filled back out as if it were being inflated.

Then, she struck several other parts of Yi Chen’s body, all of which exhibited similar phenomena, even in some areas where there should have been no muscle, were filled with small muscle-like tissues.

After an unknown amount of time, the sensation on his back finally disappeared,

and when a sweat-drenched Yi Chen turned his head back, he saw the Instructor Beili smiling as she placed Old Lady Ji’s finger into her exhibition cabinet, as if nothing had happened.

Without lingering, he immediately met up with Jin outside of Cesimani and left together.

When Yi Chen crossed the arch bridge and returned to the street district, he suddenly knelt on one knee, his palm covering his wildly beating heart.

the creaking sounds of plant roots spreading through his blood vessels to the inner wall of his heart, forcibly stabilizing the rhythm of his heart, began to slowly retract. If not for the control of his heartbeat by the plant, he would have surely been exposed by Instructor Beili.

Jin, concerned only about the swollen pouch on her shoulder, showed no suspicion of Yi Chen’s abnormality.

“Hurry up, the meat will spoil if we don’t get it processed soon.”

“Jin… My temporary heart seems to be failing; I need to rush to the hospital. Why don’t you go back first, and I’ll find you once I’ve dealt with my injury.”

Jin shrugged her shoulders; her interest in a brand new weapon surpassed her concern for Yi Chen, and she quickly disappeared into the streets.

Yi Chen also slowly got up, his forehead covered in cold sweat.

Instead of going directly to Omphalo-Centric-Academy, he used a public telephone on the roadside to make an appointment with Professor Qian Bosen.

The content of the conversation was simple; Professor Qian Bosen could tell that Yi Chen had something shady to discuss with him, and only said one sentence over the phone.

“Your clothing is almost due for maintenance, let’s talk about other things later.”

After hanging up, Yi Chen headed straight for the “Street District-Underlayer,”

slipping into Chasm Street, hidden and full of various ‘illegal’ shops, he returned to the corner of the street where the Nameless Tailor Shop stood.

Upon climbing the second floor staircase,

the secret door of the Clothing Room opened a crack, clearly left ajar for Yi Chen.

As he stepped in, the secret door immediately shut.

Professor Qian Bosen had arrived ahead of him and was chatting casually with the tailor Ivan in the cramped Clothing Room.

As Yi Chen arrived, Ivan, the shop owner, came forward with a cane, touching the fabric with one hand.

“Has it been damaged to this extent in less than a year of wearing?”

“I apologize… The damage from the last mission was too severe. If not for Mr. Ivan’s craftsmanship, this garment would probably not be wearable by now.”

“Bring me some ‘Gentleman’s Skin’ that matches your outfit; I will help you repair it.”

Professor Qian Bosen stood silently at the rear, an owl perched on his shoulder, inspecting Yi Chen, whose essence had transformed.

“Has your physique improved? It seems the missions provided by Cesimani are quite effective for you… Tell me, what’s so crucial that it can’t be discussed at the academy, and you need to meet with me privately?”

Yi Chen nodded, and in the region of his heart, there was a ripple of movement as some living thing slowly surged up his throat.

Quickly! A black umbilical cord emerged from his mouth, as if alive, automatically wrapping around his arm.

At the sight of the umbilical cord,

both the former grand tailor Ivan and the knowledgeable Professor Qian Bosen paused for a moment.

“This is… a Relic of life attribute!”

Yi Chen made no attempt to hide anything, and he told the entire detailed process of his investigation, including the ‘Lost Holy Embryo’ he had kept hidden from Instructor Beili.

Upon hearing that Yi Chen chose to help the Patient with Open Source and obtained the Relic,

Mr. Ivan first showed a smile, “White Eagle, I wondered why you suddenly took an interest in accepting students… Such a student, Zion would be hard-pressed to find another like him in decades, if not a hundred years.”

Professor Qian Bosen didn’t respond to his old friend, but instead placed a hand on Yi Chen’s shoulder,

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