Dawn of a New Era - Chapter 15
Chapter 15: Talent
Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
Chen Shouyi couldn’t help but think of himself in the place of the test-takers. He didn’t know if he would pass it, but he discovered he could actually do it better than the previous test-takers. His body was much nimbler than them and his basic steps could be unleashed perfectly according to his will and desire.
The robot would always have a slight period of pause before it attacked, it wasn’t invulnerable.
As long as one ensured their body could maintain high-speed movement at every instant and didn’t pause for too long, they could easily approach the robot.
“Next, no. 120, Chen Xingyue. Your test has commenced.”
Chen Xingyue immediately stood up.
“Don’t be nervous, you will be able to do it for sure!” Chen Shouyi consoled.
“You can do it!” Lu Shuyuan and Zhang Qianru also encouraged her.
“Mn!” Chen Xingyue nodded heavily and walked toward the platform.
She didn’t hesitate. She drew in a deep breath and entered the response zone.
“Test begins.”
Chen Xingyue took the wooden sword and advanced to the edge of the robot’s attacking zone. She slowly moved around constantly. The two mechanical arms of the robot also slowly followed her movements.
Chen Shouyi’s stare was fixed on his younger sister. This was the first time he was seeing his sister in combat. Thus, he also felt nervous for her.
At this moment, Chen Xingyue suddenly sprang into action. She lightly took a step into the attack zone of the robot.
The mechanical arms instantly moved, and the long spear pierced toward her rapidly. The mini sonic-boom caused a whistling sound to ring out.
As she was prepared, her body shifted slightly to the side, allowing her to easily avoid the long spear. After that, her speed increased abruptly. Following the direction of the spear strikes, she slanted her body and began to evade swiftly.
Her body was tiny and when she ran, her upper body leaned close to the ground. She was simply like a spirit cat that was sprinting forward.
The moment the long spear was pulled back, Chen Xingyue continued advancing!
At this moment, the wooden sword of the robot also stabbed over.
Chen Xingyue, who was moving at high speed, seemingly could divine the future. Her body rolled toward the left, escaping the sword by a hair’s breadth.
Chen Shouyi perspired cold sweat as he watched, but he soon discovered that her movements were all premeditated. In fact, Chen Xingyue must have simulated the exact response from the robot countless times in her heart. She attacked when the long spear of the robot was drawn back and was preparing for the next attack. This coincidentally turned out to be the dead angle of this robot.
With a direct and efficient roll, her body reverted from motion to stillness. She stood up again and a wooden sword pierced out like lightning, aiming for the robot precisely at this moment.
“Pak!” A sound rang out.
The wooden sword exploded, and the robot instantly stopped moving.
“Passed!”
“Yeah!” Upon hearing the result, the two young maidens immediately jumped up excitedly.
Chen Xingyue heaved a sigh of relief. She tossed the broken wooden sword and turned as she walked down the platform.
When she passed by Chen Shouyi, her face was still calm as she worked hard to act nonchalant.
However, she ultimately was just a young teenager. When facing her classmates, she could no longer contain her joy. Her lips split into a grin and after that, she hugged them and leaped about in joy, venting the excitement in her heart.
…
After Chen Xingyue told the joyous news to her parents, their group went to a pretty high-tier restaurant to celebrate.
“Elder brother Shouyi, what is your WeChat number? Let me add you.” When waiting for the dishes to be served, Zhang Qianru at the side suddenly spoke up.
“Let me add you too. In the future, we can chat!” Lu Shuyuan blushed as she spoke.
“I don’t use WeChat,” said Chen Shouyi.
He discovered that the two good friends of his younger sister seemed to be overly passionate. This made a virgin like him that rarely interacted with women feel somewhat unable to adapt.
The two of them didn’t really believe this. In this year and age, how could there still be anyone in their world not using WeChat?
“My elder brother is using an old phone, and it cannot support the new version of WeChat.” Chen Xingyue explained at the side. “My mother controls him very strictly.”
“Then, Xingyue why is your phone a new model one?” Zhang Qianru asked in puzzlement.
Chen Xingyue’s expression froze as she silently mused. “(This is a special reward for me. My elder brother’s performance has always been very ordinary in the past, so he naturally wouldn’t have such a reward.)”
However, such words naturally couldn’t be said out directly, so she had to use an excuse.
But even before she thought of what to say, Chen Shouyi laughed as he replied.
“I don’t really have any needs. Usually, I devote my time to studying. To me, as long as a phone could make a phone call, it is already good enough.”
Chen Xingyue’s thoughts were complicated as she glanced at her elder brother. Maybe it was because she was already too used to her elder brother being mediocre, she basically didn’t discover his transformation during this period. He seemed to have become more confident. Even when facing girls, he wouldn’t blush at the slightest pretext and throw her face!
After lunch, they returned to their homes respectively.
When the cab reached their door, after they got down, Chen Xingyue called out to Chen Shouyi.
“Brother wait. I have something I want to ask you.”
“What’s the matter?” Chen Shouyi turned his head, discovering to his bewilderment that Chen Xingyue seemed to be hesitating to say something.
This wasn’t like the usual her.
“Brother, you…have you already become a martial apprentice long ago?”
With regard to his younger sister’s question, Chen Shouyi felt somewhat baffled. “Are you dreaming? How can I be a martial apprentice?”
“In that case, has your ‘enter meditation to train the body’ already refined the muscles of your entire body?”
Chen Shouyi was startled and instantly felt puzzled. “How did you know?”
Indeed, the muscles in his entire body had been trained and refined, but the refinement process was merely a counterfeit version. He was still extremely far-off from achieving the true flesh refinement. But even so, this already brought him much benefit. It made him much more relaxed to train in the sword, and it was also easier for him to grasp the basic steps. Sometimes, his actions would naturally be used even without needing him to think about them.
At the same time, this also caused his Perception to increase by 0.5, reaching 10.8.
After that, Chen Shouyi simply listened as Chen Xingyue explained.
…..
So this was the case, he finally understood. But this wasn’t the effect of him ‘entering meditation’. Or to better put it, his counterfeit version of muscle refinement still couldn’t produce this effect.
The reason why he could do so was because he frequently used his consciousness to enter the body of his tuition teacher. As time passed, his muscles would imitate hers for each of his movements.
However, it was naturally a good thing to explain such a matter to his younger sister. After a bit of hesitation, Chen Shouyi glanced at the surroundings and spoke in a low voice, “It’s somewhat different from what you imagined. This place isn’t the right place to tell you this. Let’s return home first.”
Luckily, after they returned home, their parents were still busy. They merely excitedly asked some questions and allowed them to go back to their rooms.
Very soon, the two of them came to their living room.
“There’s a secret I wanted to tell you long ago, but I couldn’t find the chance to.” Chen Shouyi organized his words silently in his heart before he spoke.
He naturally wouldn’t tell his sister about the Book of Knowledge. After all, this item was extraordinary. The fewer people who knew this, the better.
“What secret?” Chen Xingyue became extremely curious seeing how mysterious her elder brother was acting.
“I discovered a trick to ‘entering meditation to train the body’. It’s due to this trick that I could easily train the muscles in my entire body.”
As the sound of his voice faded, Chen Xingyue’s eyes were wide open, filled with disbelief.
Chen Shouyi was startled. He had never seen such an expression on his younger sister’s face before.
But he soon regained his calm. After that, he described the scenes he saw from using the optimized ‘enter meditation to train the body’.
If this was the optimized ‘Thirty-six Stances of Body Training’, he completely wouldn’t dare to reveal it. After all, the changes to the ‘thirty-six stances’ after optimization were simply too great. He couldn’t muddle things through by saying stuff like he found an ancient training manual.
The ‘Thirty-six Stances of Body Training’ was the crystallization of intelligence from the researchers of the national martial general office after conducting relevant experiments in several thousands of laboratories throughout the globe.
No matter how intelligent someone was, even if they used their entire life, it was impossible to improve the ‘Thirty-six Stances of Body Training’ the national martial general office has created, let alone an ordinary person like him.
But ‘entering meditation to train the body’ was different. The optimized version, with regards to the specific movements, was completely the same. To enter meditation, the actions needed were basic. Only after entering meditation could one train their muscles using their subconscious thoughts. All of this was a type of metaphysics concept.
“It’s that simple?!” After listening, Chen Xingyue’s mouth was wide open.
“Simple? No. It is not simple at all.” After thinking about it, Chen Shouyi instantly rejected this. During this period, he had been searching for the meditation experiences of others and he had seen the concept of using subconscious thoughts of the mind to train one’s muscles. No matter how stupid he was, he also understood how great the effect of the optimized version of ‘entering meditation to train the body’ from the Book of Knowledge was.
Its optimization wasn’t so simple on the surface.
“Firstly, your meditation has to be extremely deep. At that time, you can even control your subconsciousness and know what muscle groups you want to train.”
“It’s like sword techniques…” Chen Shouyi suddenly didn’t know how to describe it.
“Reversing the original habits of humans!” Chen Xingyue suddenly thought of this.
“Right, that’s precisely the case. With regards to the normal perception of the body, your subconsciousness would automatically become aware and perceive the entire outline of your body. But this method is forcibly reversing the perception and makes you perceive the contours instead.” Chen Shouyi spoke.
Chen Xingyue had a face filled with shock. This was much more difficult than reversing the exercise habits of humans. After all, exercise habits could be directly observed. Although it was difficult, as long as one put in the effort and slowly changed them, they would be able to do so. But for ‘entering meditation’, this was a completely abstract and ethereal concept.
Very soon, another puzzling question surfaced in her heart. Chen Xingyue directly asked, “Elder brother, in that case, how did you learn this?”
Chen Shouyi felt his old face turning red after he heard this. After that, he put a calm look on his face and replied, “Maybe, this might be my talent. I could innately control my subconscious thoughts since birth.”
Upon seeing her skeptical younger sister leaving, Chen Shouyi finally heaved a sigh of relief.
It was really a stressful thing to be doubted and questioned by an intelligent younger sister.
How good would it be if she was a little more stupid?
