Book 3, Chapter 139: Technique

After returning to the Arcane Palace, Chen Chuan took his time to think about everything. What Cao Guiqi had told him gave him a better idea of what was really going on.

The Third Limit was the peak of the human body, but the contact between the two worlds created a new path.

The two worlds getting closer was dangerous, but it brought about opportunities too.

Personally, Chen Chuan

wanted

to continue down this path, but as of now, he could only get his training resources from the government and big companies. However, this path offered a limited number of resources, and they lacked variety too.

He could also tell that Cao Guiqi was avoiding some topic. It might have been because there were certain things that he couldn’t say, which Chen Chuan could understand. He was sure that there were even greater secrets, which meant that there were more paths to take. It’s just that they were

difficult.

Chen Chuan couldn’t help but remember He Xiaoxing. His teacher didn’t train in Central City, so how did he get his training resources?

It was highly likely that He Xiaoxing had joined an organization, which probably belonged to the purity faction, in possession of a gap. Based on what he learned from Wen Tong, the purity faction wasn’t to be trifled with.

This seemed like a possible path, so he should try contacting them. But it was obvious that there would be a price to pay for those resources. Right now, he still didn’t know what was going on. He had yet to be summoned to defend the World Ring, so he should not be in a hurry to get the resources. At the very least, he should wait until Gao Ming got more information before making a decision.

Chen Chuan needed information from various sources to get a good understanding of the situation. It was only then that he would know which path to take.

Suddenly, he remembered something and walked to his training room, where he opened the cabinet and retrieved a glass tube. It had fluorescent liquid.

He had gotten it from Phantom Form. The assassin had kept it together with his other training medicine. Chen Chuan had done some research later, but failed to find anything similar on the market and Martial Valor University’s platform, which made him unable to identify it.

Now, he couldn’t help but wonder whether this was the “special medicine”.

There was a good chance that it was.

Phantom Form was no ordinary Third Limit martial artist. Not only did he have the skills of a resonator, but he also had his own resonator nest and supernatural being. Now that Chen Chuan thought about it, Phantom Form was a really talented man.

But no matter how talented Phantom Form was, he couldn’t have gotten all these things on his own. He definitely had someone supporting him. When Chen Chuan remembered the things he saw on the screen projected from the resonator nest that day, he believed that what he saw was a gap created by the two worlds’ contact.

If that were the case, the liquid could very well be the special medicine.

He just had to try it and see. Whether it was or wasn’t, he would be fine. He had his second self to absorb the damage, so he didn’t need to worry about it.

Still, he didn’t try it immediately.

He had only become a Third Limit martial artist around a month ago, and his mutated tissue was in a period of rapid growth. It was common after reaching a new limit, and there were no signs of the growth slowing down. Chen Chuan decided to consider drinking the liquid after it started slowing down, which was going to happen in a month or two. So, Chen Chuan put the liquid back into the cabinet.

He backed away and started to practice controlling his biofield.

Soon, Gao Ming contacted him. “I’ve spoken to Border Fusion. They’ve agreed to meet on the next day off at Across the World.”

“Thanks, Gao Ming,” Chen Chuan said.

Immediately after the call, the Resolution Department contacted him. The moment he answered, a young voice said, “Officer Chen, I’m Cai Mi, liaison officer of the Resolution Department’s special operations unit. I’m in charge of coordinating things with you. Feel free to call me Xiao Cai.”

When Chen Chuan was promoted to an official law enforcer, he had learned about the unit through the department’s platform. This unit didn’t have any hierarchy and was specially created to give the Third Limit martial artists a job title.

Each member had their own armored car and a personal liaison officer.

The liaison officer was in charge of communications and organizing information. If the department needed any member of the special operations unit, they would get in contact through them.

“Hello, Officer Cai. Did you call me because the department has a job for me?” he asked.

“That’s right. The department has been investigating a group known as the Viper Order. They’re suspected of smuggling Class B contraband goods. We don't have enough personnel to perform a raid, but the higher-ups have been trying to gather the people here and there. Since you have no tasks at hand, they'd like you to participate in it,” Cai Mi said.

Chen Chuan then received a document containing both pictures and descriptions about the Viper Order. It was a radical group that had split up from the Secret Python Cult.

They had been displeased with the Secret Python Cult turning to commercialization, so they created their own organization. As time went on, their operations changed, and by now, their activities had no ties to any cult or religion. They had become a criminal organization that moonlighted as a mercenary group.

Since their leaders were Third Limit martial artists, the Resolution Department did not have the manpower to wipe them off the map and just paid attention to their actions.

In reality, the Resolution Department had a lot of fighting power, but most of it was tied up protecting important government officials and certain city segments. They had to prevent more extreme things from happening.

Wei Wusheng’s case was classified as a security emergency that was below Third Class, since he did not target companies of senior government officials. That was why the Resolution Department could only mobilize a limited amount of manpower to take him down, and Wei Wusheng was able to kill so many people. This meant that the people supporting Wei Wusheng knew which lines they couldn’t cross.

But the Viper Order already met the criteria for a Third Class Security Emergency. They were considered a target that the Resolution Department should attack the moment they mobilized enough manpower.

After reading everything in the document, Chen Chuan said, “Please inform me when the department sets up the raid.”

“Alright. Once the department has decided on the plan and time, I’ll immediately contact you and send a car to pick you up,” Cai Mi promised.

After the call, Chen Chuan returned to his training. By now, through repeated practice, he had become familiar with the three models Jiang Tian had given him.

In just two days, he learned to switch between the models the moment he thought about them. They were rather simple, so he could make them look like his real biofield.

This would be enough against martial artists who didn’t care much about biofields, but could they even pose a threat to him?

Jiang Tian had said that the really strong Third Limit martial artists had no weaknesses, which meant that they were skilled at changing their biofields as well. The ones Chen Chuan wanted as opponents were these people.

This meant that he was still far from ready.

Now that he got familiar with the models, he needed to practice observing and discerning between them. That was why he used his hologram resource points and summoned Hongfu to train with him.

Hongfu could create all sorts of biofields based on Chen Chuan’s requests, be they weak or strong. After reaching the Third Limit, his daily hologram resource points allowed him to buy eight hours per day. Hence, he spent two days familiarizing himself with and mastering the three biofields techniques.

When he felt that he had learned all that he needed, he went to Jiang Tian again and asked him about what he should do next.

Jiang Tian tested him to make sure that he had mastered the three models, then said, “You can now try learning some of the more complicated models.

“I’ll direct you to a platform where you can buy them. You can also adjust and construct your own models, since as long as you can deceive your opponent and hide your true strength, everything goes.

“I won’t be able to teach you much else. You need experience for this, but I can give you some personal anecdotes.”

“I’d love to hear them,” Chen Chuan said.

“Biofields contain a lot of information, like your emotions, willpower, physical condition, and mutated tissue’s activity level.

“Once you’ve accumulated enough experience and have seen more biofields, not only will you be able to understand your opponents through this, but to also figure out your own strengths and weaknesses by comparing your biofield to other people’s. After that, you’ll be able to correct your own path.

“Aside from this, let me tell you about the strongest technique for a contest in biofields.”

There’s a strongest technique?

Chen Chuan was quite surprised.

Based on his experience, there was no such thing as the strongest when it came to martial arts, only what was most suitable to a person. He didn’t believe that there existed a technique that could defeat all others.

“The strongest technique you can use when you’re in a biofield contest is this: Revealing to your opponent that they have no means of surpassing you. If they learn everything about you and can even see your weaknesses, but have no way of doing anything about it, they’ll feel unparalleled despair.

“There is no stronger blow than this one in a fight. It’s so heavy that it will sometimes crush your opponent’s confidence in one fell swoop, and they’ll lose the courage to fight against you.

“Once you’ve become strong enough, you will not only not need to hide your real biofield, but you’ll be able to release it without fear.”

Chen Chuan pondered over this before nodding.

It sounded crude, but Mr. Jiang was right. This could indeed be considered a technique. After all, you could only tell whether you were stronger or weaker than your opponent by comparing yourself to them, and you needed to be able to figure out your opponent before you could manipulate your biofield properly.

For that, Chen Chuan needed to become proficient with changing his biofield, or he would just be doing it blindly, and his opponent might end up finding out everything about him.

But once he got strong enough and could crush his opponents’ spirits with his biofield alone, he wouldn’t need to fight against people who weren’t as strong as he was. He could just use his biofield to snuff out their will to fight.

“Thank you, Mr. Jiang. I think that’s a really useful technique,” Chen Chuan said sincerely.

Jiang Tian was pleased that Chen Chuan understood what he was saying. “I’m glad you think it’s useful. Honestly, at this point, I don’t have any more suggestions left for you. If you get any insights in the future, don’t forget to discuss them with me.”

“Of course.”