Chapter 4: Su Chen Starts the Test, Inner Strength Erupts, Shocking the Entire Audience

"The Saintess wanted to test your talent, so she gave you a ground-level cultivation technique, ’Divine Shadow Step.’ You tried cultivating it, and due to the exquisite inner strength from the Nine Yang Divine Skill within you, you actually mastered it." "The training simulation has ended, the system is saving the progress and calculating rewards..." What’s going on? Just when it was getting interesting, it disappeared. Su Chen couldn’t help but want to complain, but suddenly, he felt a special power enter his body, like a powerful True Qi, filling him with strength, and his mind was filled with a strange influx of information, seemingly about a cultivation technique. "This is... the Nine Yang Divine Skill." Su Chen suddenly realized that it now seemed as if he had limitless inner strength within him, and he could release it at any time. Then he made a slip of the foot, and it seemed like another cultivation technique emerged in his mind. "It’s exactly the ’Divine Shadow Step’ from the Cultivation World just now." Su Chen’s eyes filled with ecstasy; initially, he thought he was just reading a novel, but he never expected that the rewards obtained from the infinite Cultivation World could be transferred to himself. This is truly incredible. "Ding, the reward calculation is complete, and the host has now learned the Nine Yang Divine Skill and Divine Shadow Step. However, compared to you in the Cultivation World, the host only received partial rewards for now. Currently, the host has learned only the first five levels of the Nine Yang Divine Skill, and the Divine Shadow Step is only at the beginner level. Once your counterpart in the Cultivation World advances the Nine Yang Divine Skill to the ninth level and becomes stronger, the host can receive more rewards." "Partial rewards? Well, that works too..." Feeling the abundant power in his dantian, Su Chen was very satisfied at this moment. After all, this is just a planet called Blue Star Five, naturally incomparable to the vast and limitless cultivation world in the virtual realm, so receiving partial rewards is sufficient. If it were too heaven-defying, accidentally destroying the entire planet would be bad. "Since today’s simulation has ended, I’ll go back for the talent test. I wonder, now that I’ve mastered the Nine Yang Divine Skill, what level can I reach?" Su Chen couldn’t help but look forward to it, so he quickly returned to the field. "Look, look, that clown is back again... how does he have the face to return?" "Is he back to make a fool of himself? Haha..." "Anyway, everyone has to be tested; this guy can’t escape today. He’s definitely getting expelled..." Those gloating voices rang out again instantly. Su Chen didn’t pay attention to them; he calmly walked towards the testing machine in front of him. When Su Chen stood in front of the machine, the testing machine prompted him. "Step 1: Strength test, please punch the shield in front of you with full force..." "Full force?" Looking at the shield in front of him, Su Chen felt that if he used his full force now, concentrating all the inner strength of the Nine Yang Divine Skill on his fist, he feared he might blow up the testing machine with a single punch. "I better not, just use one-third of the strength." Su Chen thought for a moment, then began channeling his inner strength, concentrating a portion in his palm, then forming it into a fist. Due to the overwhelming inner strength of the Nine Yang Divine Skill, Su Chen didn’t realize at that moment that gusts of wind were already swirling around his fist. Others didn’t see this scene, but as a prospective Martial Artist, Instructor Ling Yue suddenly blinked her pretty eyes. "What, releasing inner strength... isn’t that something only a true Martial Artist can achieve?" Ling Yue opened her small mouth in shock. She wasn’t sure if she had seen it correctly. After all, even she couldn’t achieve that. To know, she was an elite prospective Martial Artist who could deliver a punch reaching a thousand kilograms and a speed exceeding 20 meters per second. "Boom..." After concentrating a portion of the inner strength of the Nine Yang Divine Skill on his fist, Su Chen solidly punched the shield in front of him. The shield trembled intensely, making a sound louder than any before, drawing all the surrounding gazes, including the students from other classes currently testing, who looked over in utter shock. Then the testing machine emitted a sound. "Punch force: 650 kilograms, great, next, please enter the machine to test speed and nerve response." "650 kilograms... not bad, not bad." Su Chen secretly rejoiced, then walked in expressionlessly. But outside, the students were in an uproar. "What, 650 kilograms? How is that possible? Li Kang, who has always been the best in the class, only has a strength of 480 kilograms. Is the machine broken..." "It might be, but what was with that loud noise just now?" "This kid... no... this can’t be possible? How could I, Zhang Weidong, be surpassed by a loser..." Looking at the still-clear numbers on the testing machine, Zhang Weidong gritted his teeth; he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He had already decided to give Su Chen a lesson immediately and personally shatter this lie. The mature and charming Instructor Ling Yue watched Su Chen, who had already entered the machine, with disbelief in her elegant eyes. "The machine can’t possibly be broken, but how could Su Chen progress so quickly? Unless he was hiding his strength before..." A few minutes later, Su Chen emerged from the machine. ```