Dawn of a New Era - Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Elder Brother’s Aspirations

Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
“Brother! Brother! How are you?”

“Quickly wake up, I won’t anger you intentionally again in the future.”

“Quickly wake up!!!”

“Brother! Brother…Father, mother… Quickly come in, big brother has fainted.”

Chen Shouyi opened his eyes, and the crying face of his younger sister entered his vision. His eyes widened and hurriedly sat up in his sister’s embrace. “What happened? Why did you enter?”

“Brother, didn’t you know you just fainted?” Chen Xingyue had a face of regret as tears flowed down her face.

Only now did he remember that before he fused with the ‘Book of Knowledge’, he had been standing. After he entered that mysterious space, his body suddenly lay down in the external world.

After thinking clearly, he glanced at his younger sister who seemed different from the norm today. He suddenly discovered that she wasn’t as unlikeable as he had thought.

He compared his scrawny arms and exhibited the fact that he was strong. He said something that even he wouldn’t have believed. “Don’t speak blindly, how could I faint? My body condition is excellent. Maybe it is because today is the first day of the class, and I still haven’t gotten used to it.”

In order to strengthen his tone, he continued, “In any case, I was just too sleepy.”

He didn’t wish to let his younger sister know about the matter regarding the Book of Knowledge.

It was a pity that basically no one believed in his explanation. After his parents rushed over, the matter grew more and more out of hand. The restaurant quickly closed and he was instantly sent to the hospital for a full body checkup. In the end, there naturally were no problems. Moreover, no traces of the Book of Knowledge could be found in his body.

This caused Chen Shouyi to completely relax.

After returning to the car, Chen Shouyi mumbled, “Didn’t I say that I was fine, there’s no need to go to the hospital.”

“Shut up.” Mother Chen had an unkind look on her face. “How do you know that you are fine? If you are fine, why would you faint? You better go to the big hospital in Zhonghai City for a thorough check-up in the future.”

“I think Shouyi must be lacking nutrition. Look at how skinny he is. If I go out with him, I wouldn’t even have the face to say that I’m a restaurant owner.” said Chen Dawei who was driving.

Chen Shouyi touched his body, feeling his bones. This matter made one thing clear to him. It seemed like in the future, he must never enter the Book of Knowledge during daytime.

…

When they returned to the restaurant, it was already eight-thirty at night.

At this time, it was naturally impossible for the restaurant to continue doing business.

Chen Shouyi and his younger sister helped Mother Chen, Jiang Fen, to clean the area up. Chen Dawei returned to the kitchen and began to cook dinner for the family.

When the cooking was done, there was a table full of dishes.

Chen Shouyi glanced at the meat and vegetables in his bowl. He didn’t say anything and began to eat.

“This is for you.” Chen Xingyue passed a piece of spare ribs to his bowl. She felt somewhat embarrassed as she did so.

Chen Shouyi was somewhat moved. Sometimes, his younger sister was truly not that unlikeable.

“Siblings should act like this. In the past, when you guys kept quarreling, what appearance did it constitute? Your elder brother has a weak body and he is bad at studies. In the future, you have to assist him more, so you should stop angering him,” Mother Chen spoke with gratification in her heart when she saw the loving scene between the siblings.

“Mother, I know it!” Chen Xingyue blushed as she hurriedly spoke.

Chen Shouyi felt complicated when he heard this, not knowing whether to feel joy or sadness. In his mother’s eyes, was he really that useless?

But when compared to his genius younger sister whose light shone brilliantly, he was truly ordinary. Since he was young up until now, he had never had any outstanding results or memories of him getting awards. He even had to retrace his memories back to when he was attending kindergarten.

But at that time, each of the children seemed to have many awards.

“Father, mother, I still have yet to tell you guys about a piece of good news!” Chen Xingyue finally couldn’t hold it back after waiting for so long.

“What good news?” Chen Dawei placed down the wine cup in his hand and asked with anticipation.

“I received a recommended slot from the Capital Martial Academy!”

“What?” Mother Chen had a look of joy on her face. “Truly, my obedient daughter! Why didn’t you say it earlier? If I knew about this, we would have gone to a good restaurant to celebrate.”

“It’s not too late to go tomorrow.” Chen Dawei laughed.

Right now, the martial path was already the norm in society.

Even just a martial apprentice could easily obtain an average to higher-level income in a martial training institute or middle and elementary schools.

There was no need to mention the number one school in the entire country, the Capital Martial Academy. Most of the martial practitioners who graduated from there received invitations from the government.

“Father, Mother, there’s no trouble. Even if I didn’t have the recommended slot, I have the confidence to pass the Martial Apprentice Test. We can celebrate at that time,” Chen Xingyue confidently spoke.

…

His parents had a gratified look on their faces, and Chen Xingyue was glowing with high spirits.

An atmosphere of celebration and joy filled the dinner table.

Chen Shouyi also forced himself to smile and spoke words of congratulations. The originally tasty food now became as tasteless as wax.

He knew that he was jealous of his younger sister. From the time when they were young up until now, her glow was simply too bright.

She was beautiful and highly intelligent, and she was also extremely talented in the martial path.

Regardless of studies or martial training, it was effortless for her.

This made him always feel that he was the one who was being neglected in the family. This feeling was especially strong at this moment. He was like a dog with its fur removed, lonely and miserably shrinking back to his corner. He could only watch with envy at the shiny fur of those from the same species.

After eating dinner, Chen Shouyi took a bath and returned to his bedroom with a worried look on his face.

He lay on his back but kept on tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

After lying down for a while, he suddenly sat up on his bed. He had a dumbstruck look on his face like he suddenly recalled something. He then hurriedly jumped down from his bed and moved into a stance, beginning to practice the optimized Thirty-six Stances of Body Training.

Through these twenty years, the martial path had been rapidly developed. There were all sorts of methods to train the body, and this Thirty-six Stances of Body Training was circulated by the country’s Martial General Office after they assembled and refined the cultivation arts from the Other World’s warriors, traditional martial arts training, India’s yoga techniques, as well as human biology research. They took the strong points from each system and removed the weakness, producing the Thirty-six Stances of Body Training that was of the highest standard.

Now, this was already the third edition. Its effect was even better than the first two.

Although he was naturally skinny, in truth, his muscles were in a picturesque order. They were as tight as steel wire, and the six packs on his abdomen could easily be seen.

Compared to twenty years ago, anyone with such a physique could have easily become a top-rate athlete of the country.

For example in terms of strength, although he only had 10.4 in attributes, he could easily bench-press 110 kg and squat 200 kg.

At the same time, he only needed 10.2 seconds to run a hundred meters.

But when compared to the standards of martial practitioners, males had to achieve 9.5 seconds in 100-meter race and bench press 200 kg; the disparity was simply too great. This was merely one’s body quality. Other than this, there was an even tougher cold weapons test.

…

Chen Shouyi started his training based on his memories. After his knowledge was optimized, the memories of the thirty-six stances were extremely deep in his mind, like they were imprinted by steel, branding into his consciousness. It felt like he had practiced the thirty-six stances countless times before.

The unfamiliar moves all became extremely smooth when he practiced them for the second time. During the third one, there was no need for him to intentionally adjust his posture, and he could smoothly continue with the stances.

Very soon, he discovered the differences between the optimized version and the standard version. The optimized version involved all the muscles in his body, and the consumption of energy was much greater.

Originally, he could do ten times with a single breath before he would feel completely fatigued.

But now, he could only do four times of the optimized version, and he would be completely drained.

Not only so, but he also discovered that occasionally, when he speeded up through the motions and when the stances flowed perfectly together, there would be a numbness akin to an electric shock produced in his body. This feeling was extremely strange like there was a current of warmth circulating through his body, causing his body temperature to increase.

Hot droplets of sweat unceasingly fell from him. When Chen Shouyi gritted his teeth and finished the fifth session, his entire body was completely drained. He could no longer endure and sat down on the ground.

He summoned the Book of Knowledge and his attributes soon appeared in his mind.

The Thirty-six Stances of Body Training improved from (Elementary: 5) to (Elementary: 12). It went up by a total of seven points.

In the darkness, his eyes glowed brightly, and he couldn’t help but clench his fist tightly. Only by doing so could he suppress the impulse to roar and vent his emotions.

“Now that I have the Book of Knowledge, I will also become a genius that’s the same as my younger sister in the future.”

As the hotblooded aspirations of his heart surfaced, the feeling of fatigue in his body dissipated. After a short rest, he dragged his weary body up and practiced the thirty-six stances three more times, all the way until he couldn’t even move his fingers anymore. Only then did he lie down on his bed. He was so tired that he couldn’t even bother to bathe. His head sank into his pillow as he fell into a deep sleep.