Li Yingzi walked over to them with a puzzled expression. "What are you talking about?"
They looked at each other, and as if they had been friends for years, they spoke at the same time. "It's nothing. We're just talking about our university days."
"Your university days have just started. What 'past' are you talking about?"
Li Yingzi glared at Meng Chao before she turned to Lin Chuan. Her tone softened a little as she said, "Lin Chuan, at that time, I had just joined the university to teach, and I didn't know how to polish a raw gem like you, which was why you were a nobody during your university days. Only after you graduated and went through a lot of hardships did you show your brilliance. Now that I think about it, I'm the one who let you down.
"At that time, if you had a veteran lecturer like Cold-blooded Jiang Ming guiding you, perhaps you would have obtained even greater strength and more glory a long time ago. You wouldn't have to spend most of your time in the wild as a vanguard at the frontlines and get injured every few days."
"How could that be?"
Lin Chuan could not help but laugh. "I'm only who I am today because you taught me. As for getting injured, it's normal, and I'm already used to it.
"Speaking of which, I was just a poor boy who came out of a public renting house. I had to compete with many rich people in the martial arts course, and my life was really difficult. It's all thanks to you and Mr. Gu's help that I managed to graduate through many difficulties." Now that my life is a little better, I often think about how I should repay you. Your beast soul fusion is becoming more mature, and you're also a project that the martial arts course is heavily supporting, so I don't have a lot of room to interfere with it. But coincidentally, Project 1024 is the product of you and Mr. Gu's blood, sweat, and tears. I'm very sincere about helping you. "
Lin Chuan and Meng Chao cast expectant gazes at Li Yingzi.
Li Yingzi thought about it for a long time before she finally nodded. "Alright, I agree. I believe that Mr. Gu will definitely be delighted when he hears this news!"
From that day onwards, Lin Chuan became a brand new experimenter for Project 1024.
He often formed a two-person hunting squad with Meng Chao and roamed the most dangerous places in Shattered Starlake. While he performed healing and recovery training, he taught Meng Chao a lot of the secrets of using spirit energy and practical survival skills in the wild.
Lin Chuan's fighting experience was even greater than Gu Jianbo and Li Yingzi, who stayed in the university all year.
Meng Chao naturally benefited a lot from his guidance.
Meng Chao relied on the memories from his previous life and occasionally had a flash of inspiration when he asked some questions. He also used his Celestial Flying Path to solve the problem, which also gave Lin Chuan a lot of inspiration. Sometimes, he felt as if he had been enlightened.
In Lin Chuan's own words, "I really don't know how your junior brother's brain works. I'm not even thirty yet, but in front of you, I always have the feeling that the younger generation will surpass the older. You're practically a monster!"
The two of them trained together, and the speed at which they grew was much faster than when they trained alone. Soon, they became inseparable. Sometimes, when they were excited about killing, they would camp in Shattered Starlake and listen to the monsters' howls around them. They could really talk excitedly through the night in their tents, and the more they talked, the more they got along with each other. They felt that the other person was practically another version of themselves in the world.
Two weeks passed without anyone noticing.
Lin Chuan's progress in cultivating 1,024 branch meridians to heal his damaged organs was very smooth.
He and Gu Jianbo were both Heaven Realm superhumans. Their long-distance conversations stirred up a storm of thoughts, and it caused the Ultimate Style's cultivation system to change rapidly. It was getting closer to the perfected Ultimate Style based on the memories from Meng Chao's previous life.
And Lin Chuan did as he said. While the internet was unobstructed, he seized the time to go online and promote the benefits of the Ultimate Style on his social media accounts and livestreams.
He was different from many of the internet celebrities who received money to promote their products. He did not exaggerate the effects of the Ultimate Style, nor did he hide the flaws and immaturity of the Ultimate Style. He only recorded his healing progress and cultivation experiences truthfully.
His realistic attitude and his slightly melancholy, handsome face made the effect of promoting the Ultimate Style much better than just boasting at the top of his lungs.
Based on the information Gu Jianbo sent from the rear, more famous companies and investors became interested in the Ultimate Style.
The Supernatural Tower also agreed to let Agricultural University's martial arts course set up an Ultimate Style Experience Area in the Supernatural Tower and put a batch of Ultimate Style cultivation cabins inside so that a large number of superhumans could try this brand new cultivation system.
Fengshui Medical Center, a famous private hospital in Dragon City, also started working together with Agricultural University's martial arts course. They tried to use the Ultimate Style to treat the withered main meridians and stimulate the broken-star superhumans' fighting strength.
Most of the superhumans who awakened on the battlefield in Dragon City were broken-star superhumans. This was an unimaginably large cake. Even if they just added a little cream to it, it would be enough for the newly born Ultimate Style to explode.
In this life, the Ultimate Style's rise to power was one hundred times faster than in Meng Chao's previous life. By the looks of it, before long, it would sweep through all of Dragon City and completely change the course of the war.
And to Meng Chao, there was an additional benefit.
Every time Lin Chuan did a livestream, he would invite him to be his assistant so that he could demonstrate the ingenuity of the Ultimate Style. While he spoke, he did not hide his admiration for Meng Chao.
Because of the netizens' love for Meng Chao, Meng Chao somehow gained some fame with his identity as the Weeping Reaper's assistant.
His achievements in killing the Will o 'the Wisp Dragon and stopping the blood-red rat horde were calculated, and he was awarded the Daily Star of the east lake base once. He entered the sights of even more powerful fighters.
Shao Jianqing, Xu Sheng, and Han Xing, the three specially recruited students, were just like Wu Wu. They were interested in the Ultimate Style and often came to look for Meng Chao and Lin Chuan to train together. They were not really close friends, but at the very least, when they saw each other in a canteen with five thousand people, they could sit at the same table and eat.
Meng Chao recommended the Ultimate Style to Shao Jianqing again in hopes that her father, Thunder God Shao Zhengyang, would acknowledge it.
But Shao Jianqing told him that her father was an upright and plainspoken person, and he was especially harsh to his family. If he recommended the Ultimate Style through smuggling, it might have the opposite effect.
Besides, General Shao and a few of the Deity Realm elites who joined the northern offense were planning a major operation targeting Raging Waves. They wanted to kill the Apocalyptic Beasts lurking in the depths of Raging Waves, so they definitely did not have the time to pay attention to the Ultimate Style.
However, once the northern offense came to an end, the freshmen from the alliance of the five universities and Dragon City University would hold an inter-university tournament.
It was just like the tournament between the freshmen from Agricultural University's martial arts course and monster controller course. It was a tournament with a long history.
This year, there were five specially recruited students from Dragon City University's fighting courses, and there were four specially recruited students from the alliance of the five universities. If it was a five-on-five fight, the alliance of the five universities would be short of one person.
Shao Jianqing invited Meng Chao to join her team and said that it was the highest standard tournament for the freshmen from the fighting courses in Dragon City's universities. If Meng Chao could stand out in the inter-university tournament with the Ultimate Style, the Ultimate Style would naturally enter the eyes of powerful fighters like her father, Thunder God Shao Zhengyang.
Meng Chao had been interacting with Lin Chuan recently, and he felt that his fighting strength had increased by leaps and bounds. His confidence had swelled up, and he wanted to fight against the elites from Dragon City University. Naturally, he agreed to it.
But he was a little worried.
Based on what Shao Jianqing said, the humans had returned to the northern offense's rhythm. Even though they ran into some trouble after the storm, they were still slowly but firmly moving forward toward the final victory.
Victory was just around the corner, or else, it would have been impossible for them to organize an inter-university tournament.
Meng Chao had seen it over the month after the storm, and that was what he had seen.
Even though they were a little flustered in the beginning, the indomitable humans managed to get through it. They rebuilt their bases, built fortresses, killed monsters, set up railroads, and scouted and mined mines.
Now, a few of the military railroads had already extended to Shattered Starlake. Armored vehicles with heavy railway guns could reach the center of Shattered Starlake through the railroads, and the destructive artillery could roar in the depths of Graveyard Forest and Raging Waves.
But this was slightly different from the ending Meng Chao remembered from his previous life.
Was it because he spread the Ultimate Style and harvested the Blood Flower sclerotia that it created a butterfly effect that allowed Dragon City to turn the tables?
Meng Chao was not certain.
After all, the Ultimate Style had just been born, so its area of influence and strength were not great. Many of the superhumans had only dabbled in it, and it was especially so for the veteran fighters who had been fighting in Graveyard Forest for a long time. They had not had the time to return to the east lake base to try the cultivation cabins for the Ultimate Style.
The Blood Flower's evolution was not a secret. Through Ning Shewo, Meng Chao learned that the monster research center had discovered this strange parasitic lifeform a long time ago, and they had started a series of research on it.
The Blood Flower sclerotia he harvested had definitely increased the progress of their research by a few percentage points, but it was not enough to completely turn the tables.
Meng Chao did not know whether the northern offense would run into any new changes.
But Lin Chuan had already recovered, and he was about to return to the depths of Graveyard Forest to start a new round of fighting.
During the last few days they spent together, they racked their brains and taught each other all the knowledge they thought they could help each other.
Lin Chuan heard that Meng Chao had already cleared fourteen main meridians and was thinking about a second killing move that placed more emphasis on distance and crowd control.
He taught Meng Chao the Thousand Moon Slash, which made him famous. He also suggested that Meng Chao add two chains to Surging Lightning's hilt so that it could turn into a dual-wielding chain saber.
"My Flame Wing Spear is made from a superbeast's spine. It can be divided into nineteen segments, and they are connected by chains. In truth, it's a chain spear with an attack range of dozens of meters. When necessary, I can also connect them together to form a spear," Lin Chuan told Meng Chao.
"Chain-type weapons are very difficult to learn, but once you master them, your attack trajectory will be unpredictable, and the angles will be difficult to predict. You'll also have great power.
"If you want to learn chain-type weapons, you'll have a really high requirement for your fingers' senses and control. You have to control the chains like how a musician plays the zither. Only then will you be considered to have mastered the essence of chain-type weapons.
"Coincidentally, your suboccupation is a harvester, and you've always placed a lot of emphasis on training your hands. Besides, you've cleared all the branch meridians in your fingers, so your senses and control over your fingers are ten times that of a normal martial artist. You're the most suited to learn chain-type weapons.
"Thousand Moon Slash is a skill I've been practicing ever since I became a superhuman. I've also thought of a lot of new variations to it, and it helped me push my way from Earth Realm to Heaven Realm like a hot knife cutting through butter.
"But as my realm increased, it gradually became no longer suitable for me and Flame Wing Spear. I'll teach it to you, and I hope that you'll continue developing it!"
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