Dawn of a New Era - Chapter 6

Chapter 6: Memory Space

Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
After dinner, Chen Shouyi flew back to his bedroom at top speed.

After racking his brains and completing today’s homework, he took out a wooden sword he had stashed under his bed and began to practice piercing attacks again and again. However, maybe it was because his talent was truly inferior, but he still couldn’t find the point of harmonization between all the muscles of his body.

As for consulting his genius younger sister, that was impossible. He would never do that in his lifetime.

As an elder brother, he had his own pride. He would never lower his head to his younger sister.

Even if the training was ineffective, he continued to train for an hour. But even so, his sword techniques were still ranked at (ungraded), there were no improvements at all.

Chen Shouyi suddenly felt that life was always unfair. Why would there be clever people and foolish people? There were some people innately born with talents for sport, yet some were born as clumsy as a rock. His sister was one such example. Usually, he didn’t see her working hard, yet she could effortlessly dominate her peers and was soon about to be a martial apprentice.

He felt a little dispirited in his heart. But when he thought of the ‘Book of Knowledge’ in his body, the haze in his mind seemed to be swiftly dispelled by the blazing sun. He was filled with motivation.

Now, he possessed the ‘Book of Knowledge’.

His Accumulated Energy had already reached 0.2.

If he started to count from last evening, when he had chosen to optimize his ability, to now which was 10 pm, his Accumulated Energy had increased by 0.12 after close to thirty hours. It meant that for every twenty-four hours, he would accumulate 0.1 energy.

As long as ten more days passed, he would be able to optimize something again.

His eyes glowed with a bright luster!

Next, he exhausted all the energy in his body and practiced two sets of his usual routine, a total of eight times for the Thirty-six Stances of Body Training.

After resting for a while, he went to shower before lying on his bed.

He summoned the Book of Knowledge and entered the space filled with grey mist again.

He curiously contemplated the surroundings. Although he had come in once before, everything here still made him feel an exceptional sense of novelty.

He glanced at the small tree in the center. Very soon, he saw the knowledge fruit representing the Thirty-six Stances of Body Training. The fruit actually grew larger, from the size of a sesame seed to the size of a green bean.

Filled with an intense curiosity, he glanced at the top-layer that had a leaf representing his memories today.

The memories today were extremely ordinary. It was like he was watching a boring and long movie with him as the main character. There were no climax points and complicated plots, and neither were there happiness, sorrow, parting, nor reunion. Without even love and hatred, it was as calm as a cup of tasteless plain water.

Yet, Chen Shouyi watched it with relish. It was like examining his life from another perspective.

Maybe it was because he was too engrossed.

He felt his surroundings changing. He suddenly discovered that he was back in the classroom.

On the rostrum, the middle-aged balding mathematics teacher was detailedly explaining a complicated geometry question with gusto to the point where his saliva splattered everywhere. Chen Shouyi discovered that despite only less than ten hours had passed, he who had already understood this geometry question discovered that his understanding was already somewhat shaky.

He endured his curiosity about this memory space. He closely listened and could finally say to have understood it once more. After that, he couldn’t help but begin to glance left and right.

But at the next moment, he discovered to his surprise that he basically had no way to control his body.

“Is this because memories couldn’t be changed?” He silently mused.

“I wonder if I can change an angle?” Just when he thought of this, he discovered that he had already separated from his body and was currently staring at the classroom from above.

He was now like an invisible specter, floating in the air a few meters off the ground. No one could sense his existence.

Maybe, what he was seeing now originated from his original memory. Now, he could only see half the space in the class and one-third of the students. Other than these, the other areas were filled with black fog.

It was unknown why, but the black fog caused his heart to tremble with fear. It was like there would surely be great danger if he entered them.

Chen Shouyi didn’t have any thoughts of risking it. He instantly retracted his gaze and continued floating in the classroom.

Under the cover of books, some people were sneakily reading comics under their desks, some were napping, and some were snacking when the teacher wasn’t paying attention.

He felt like a god, staring at the multitude of lives.

As he floated around, he gradually discovered that his behavior wasn’t restricted by anything in this memory space. He then grew increasingly bolder and unbridled.

In fact, he was now directly looking at scenes of springtime underneath the skirt of a female student which he could only glance from afar before. This behavior was something he had never dared to imagine in the past. But now, he simply did it without thinking twice.

But after seeing too many of the same scenes, his curiosity was sated and Chen Shouyi began to feel extremely bored.

Chen Shouyi continued floating around. All of a sudden, his body accidentally collided into a student in a passageway. At this moment, an unimaginable thing occurred. His consciousness rapidly entered the student’s body.

“Ai..”

He felt shocked in his heart. He discovered that he could actually feel the body of this student. This was an extremely familiar yet also unfamiliar feeling. It was extremely wondrous.

He instantly retreated. Next, he tried to enter the bodies of others and discovered that he really could enter.

Next, he continued testing this out by entering the bodies of others. In the end, he discovered that he could enter the bodies of anyone.

Some bodies gave him a comfortable feeling, some made him feel awkward (females). Some made him completely uncomfortable.

For example, the balding middle-aged teacher, Teacher Sun. His body made him feel a pain in his chest and shortness of breath. A strong smell of cigarettes filled his nostrils, and there seemed to be a block of phlegm lodged at the back of his throat

“That’s true, Teacher Sun’s lungs have always been bad. He coughed frequently.”

…

As he continued fumbling with this newfound ability, Chen Shouyi discovered he could even control the flow of time in this memory world, or even cut off a certain segment in it.

A sudden bold thought appeared in his mind.

Very soon, the scene changed.

This scene was the scene of the martial class conducted by the physical education teacher in the afternoon.

“The Bow Stance Pierce is the most basic sword technique, as well as the most frequently used one. If you learn it well, your mastery of sword techniques would instantly increase by 50%. Does everyone know who the vice president of the martial association in Dongning City is?”

The class monitor Zhang Xiaoyue instantly spoke, “Its Zhou Shaofeng.”

Chen Shouyi who was floating in the air involuntarily glanced at Zhang Xiaoyue. Just earlier, he had just peeked at the springtime scene underneath her skirt.

“That’s right. As the saying goes, a move is enough to overwhelm the world. Two years ago, Zhou Shaofeng precisely depended on the Bow Stance Pierce that he had trained to perfection to kill two barbarian warriors who had come to Earth through a concealed wormhole. From the start to the end, he only used a single move – the Bow Stance Pierce.”

Ever since Earth was fused with the Other World, countless spatial wormholes were produced on Earth. These wormholes were either large or small in size. Large wormholes could stretch for several tens of kilometers, and small wormholes might be so small that they were microscopic.

Some were located in the sky at low altitudes, and some were deep beneath the ground. The former would instantly be discovered when they appeared, but the latter would remain concealed. It was extremely tough to discover them. There would frequently be experts from the barbarian race of the Other World using these concealed wormholes to sneak into Earth, gathering information or conducting an absolutely unrestrained massacre.

Naturally, there were even more wormholes in outer space. However, they were like death zones for people of the Other World. They would die the instant they came out from them.

“Now, everyone, watch me demonstrate a standard Bow Stance Pierce!” the teacher spoke. After that, he took a wooden sword and walked toward one of the rubber models.

“I was waiting for this sentence of yours!” Chen Shouyi mused silently.

He moved and rapidly entered the body of the physical education teacher.

A moment later, an incomparable sense of power arose involuntarily from the depths of his heart.

“Is this the body of a martial apprentice?”

He could feel powerful heartbeats in it, and the muscles also contained a terrifying explosive force.

After that, he instantly retracted his wandering thoughts because the demonstration was about to start.

‘He’ stood before the model, neither in a T-stance nor an Eight-stance. His muscles were limp and relaxed, but as he lifted the sword, the entirety of the muscles in his body started to operate.

Because it was a demonstration, the teacher’s movements were extremely slow; he did his best to allow all the students to watch clearly. This also caused Chen Shouyi to be able to sense the exquisite operation of all the muscles in his body even more.

As he stepped out, strength began to gather from the foot. It rapidly flowed upward bit by bit, increasing constantly.

Like a whip, even when one flicked it gently, the tail of the whip was able to produce a sonic boom. When the strength flowed to his arm, he felt a sense that he had to unleash it no matter what. If he didn’t unleash it with the sword pierce, his inner organs would suffer a heavy impact.

At the next instant, he struck heavily at the rubber model’s head with the sword pierce.

The powerful force caused the heavy rubber model to hit the ground head first. At the same time, it shifted a meter away due to the impact and trembled violently.

“This feeling is too wondrous. His body felt like a well-structured machine that he could control as he will. When would I be able to reach this stage?” Chen Shouyi sighed in his heart.

Next, the teacher demonstrated two more times continuously, one slow and one fast, before telling everyone to practice.

Luckily, this place was his memory space, and he could control things easily.

He immediately caused time to flow back. In the memory space, that ‘poor’ teacher continued to repeat his demonstrations again and again.

Again and again, Chen Shouyi carefully experienced the feeling when his body generated force. Until after several hundred times, the experience became deeply entrenched in his memories. In fact, he even had a feeling that he had known this long ago. Even when he closed his eyes, he could clearly recall the wondrous sensation when the entirety of muscles in his body was harmonized perfectly.