Chapter 114: Differences
After chiding Liu Yi, Liu Ruhai turned and looked at Chen Heng.
His attitude towards Chen Heng was much better, and his expression softened.
"Yi Yi's big brother told me about you; you seem to be a good lad."
He stretched out his hand and patted Chen Heng's shoulder, seeming quite friendly.
"Our School has three stages. Now that you are at Body Forging Completion, you can directly go to the Third Stage and start to cultivate our School's Solid Rock Body Forging Technique.
"However, you just came over today, so it might not be suitable.
"How about this," Liu Ruhai smiled as he continued, "just rest today and become familiarized with your surroundings. In a few days, this old man will personally train you. How does that sound?"
Chen Heng did not have any objections and obediently nodded, not seeming arrogant at all.
Liu Ruhai nodded in satisfaction before waving his hand, and a woman came up to take Chen Heng away.
The woman was named Liu Qimei, and she was Liu Ruhai's most junior disciple. She also had Body Forging Completion cultivation.
Following this, she brought Chen Heng around.
In the next few days, Chen Heng went around with her and had a look around the Solid Rock School.
Only after some time passed did Liu Ruhai officially pass the Solid Rock School's core Body Forging Technique to Chen Heng.
Even though it was also the Solid Rock Body Forging Technique, compared to the one that Liu Yi had given him, this one was more complete and had many extra details.
It was evident that this was the true, complete version, and what Liu Yi had given him before was just the simplified version.
In this respect, Chen Heng showed incredible talent.
Compared to the other disciples, his performance was extraordinary. His progress was incredibly fast, making Liu Ruhai, who was secretly observing, feel dumbfounded.
However, for Chen Heng, he felt that this was only natural.
After all, he had been cultivating this for decades in the simulation world.
During those decades, Chen Heng had been cultivating every day and night, and he was incredibly familiar with this Body Forging Technique.
Now that he had returned to the real world, he just had to re-cultivate this Body Forging Technique; it was not a big deal.
Unless he had a reason to, he would not purposefully hide his skills; that was why he did not cover up his progress.
After all, others thought that he was an incredibly talented genius, so this would not be surprising.
However, it was evident that his performance was a bit too shocking. Liu Ruhai sighed every day and night, feeling that Chen Heng had still come late.
If Chen Heng had come a few years earlier, he might have been able to condense a Martial Body soon and become a Martial Body level martial artist.
The Martial Body Realm was a higher stage than Body Forging Completion.
Within the Solid Rock School, there were not that many people at Body Forging Completion, much less Martial Bodies.
Chen Heng only smiled and did not say much else when he heard what Liu Ruhai said.
Based on the Solid Rock Body Forging Technique, if one wanted to condense a Martial Body, one would have to at least cultivate to the first step.
After completing the first step and reaching the second step would they create a Solid Rock Body.
In the simulation world, Chen Heng had reached this point.
After coming back to his real body, he most likely would not face any obstacles before reaching the second step.
All obstacles and bottlenecks on the way would just be a walk in the park to him.
Of course, Liu Ruhai did not know about any of this.
Right now, he just thought that he had picked up a treasure.
In the following period of time, everything gradually settled down.
Chen Heng diligently cultivated every day, putting in abnormal amounts of effort.
In the simulation world, he had been incredibly hardworking as well; he would get up before dawn every day to train.
He was incredibly humble and polite to others in the School, and he got along with everyone he came across. He did not act arrogantly at all because of his cultivation or talent.
As time went on, Chen Heng became more and more used to the Solid Rock School.
Time continued to pass.
One day, Chen Heng walked out of the martial arts establishment—this was the first time he had gone out after two or three months.
He normally stayed within the martial arts establishment to cultivate and did not take the initiative to go out.
The reason he went out this time was because someone had invited him to participate in a martial artist gathering.
Most of the people participating were members of the local Schools, and they were true martial artists.
Those who did not have at least Body Forging Completion cultivation did not have the qualifications to participate in this gathering.
In other words, there would not be any weaklings in this gathering; everyone was someone with value.
That was why Chen Heng had agreed to go to this gathering.
Even though he had understood the surrounding situation through the people around him, it was still not enough.
Through the martial artists of other Schools, he could gain much more information.
There were people walking about everywhere, making the atmosphere seem quite lively.
Not too far away, there was a small alley that no one walked into.
It was quite a bustling street, but there was an old-looking small alley here.
Seeing this, Chen Heng felt quite curious.
Right now, he was at the heart of the city, the more flourishing place.
Under normal circumstances, there shouldn't be any old structures, let alone an entire small, old alley.
Chen Heng could not help but wonder why it had not been demolished yet.
"What are you looking at?" Liu Qimei asked out of curiosity.
"It's not much," Chen Heng shook his head before asking, "Why is there an old alley over there?"
"Old alley?" Liu Qimei looked quite confused.
She looked over at the direction that Chen Heng was pointing in and became even more confused, "I don't see anything; isn't that just an empty plot of land?"
"An empty plot of land?" Chen Heng stared in surprise.
Liu Qimei nodded but mused to herself, "But what you're saying is right, why is there an empty plot of land in such a bustling area like this? It's quite strange."
She rubbed her chin, feeling quite confused.