229: Chapter 229 Ideas for Action

When Chen Moxuan's consciousness recovered again, before his eyes was a lush green meadow.

In the distance, the faint whistling of fists breaking through the air could be heard from someone practicing.

"This is..."

Chen Moxuan muttered to himself, searching his mind for memory fragments from before his last crossing back.

At that time, he had just come out of the Spirit Gathering Secret Realm and went to visit the Principal of Henghuo Martial Arts School.

At the Principal's place, relying on the Mental Energy that had significantly increased after the Awakening of the Heart-Phase Dao Seed, he cracked the Spirit-Eroding Blood Curse on the spot.

Afterward, he hurriedly checked the appearance of this world's Zhang Qing and then found an open space to wait for the Otherworld Torrent to forcibly pull him back.

He hadn't gone anywhere else after that.

It seemed he was still within the campus of Henghuo Martial Arts School.

The moment the memory returned, Chen Moxuan suddenly turned his head, his gaze sweeping behind him.

"No one?"

Confirming there was no one behind him, Chen Moxuan breathed a sigh of relief.

According to Lei Wanjun, he had grabbed Chen Moxuan's back shoulder at the instant he was pulled back, using a Divine Ability in an attempt to stop him.

As a result, he was swept away together by the Otherworld Torrent.

[Otherworld Walker] involves the simultaneous crossing of body and Soul. Since Lei Wanjun stayed on that side, it was normal that he didn't appear behind him.

What Chen Moxuan worried about was instead that a perfectly fine Lei Wanjun might still be behind him.

If that happened, Chen Moxuan would have to suspect whether every world he crossed into via [Otherworld Walker] was actually a parallel world branched off from the original world.

He would just be taking his memories and body to continue acting in a world copied from the original template.

Just like a backup save in a game.

Fortunately, that wasn't the case.

But this also created a problem: while Chen Moxuan was active in the Martial Arts World, time continued to flow normally here.

This meant that during this period, Lei Wanjun had completely disappeared from this world.

Chen Moxuan had no way to verify what kind of impact this would have.

"Regardless, I need to find a way to get the world heart as soon as possible."

Chen Moxuan thought to himself.

He had been unconscious for over a month; excluding the time balanced between the two worlds, he could probably stay active on this side for thirty-three days this time.

Also according to the Law of time balance between the two worlds, after crossing over here, he had to stay for a full thirty-three days before he could go back.

Although time was much more abundant than before, he was still completely clueless about how to obtain the world heart.

If Chen Moxuan could not get the world heart within these thirty-three days, he would have no further chance to repair Lei Wanjun's Origin.

The sooner he got the world heart, the more at ease he would be.

After all, Chen Moxuan hadn't contracted any Sloth Demon.

"So... where should I start?"

Chen Moxuan stroked his chin, his brow furrowed in deep thought.

His biggest problem now was that because his strength had improved too quickly, his knowledge and experience lagged far behind, severely out of sync with his own power.

After all, counting only the time in this world, just a week ago he was still a high school martial arts student in the Blood Accumulation Realm.

He was worrying because he couldn't afford the registration fee for the Martial Arts Exam.

The so-called Eight Great Provinces were essentially cradles for nurturing large numbers of low-level Martial Artists.

Although the population base was larger than the Thirty-Two Base Cities, there were many ordinary people who hadn't even reached the Blood Accumulation Realm and hadn't entered the path of martial arts.

The Eight Great Provinces were located in safe areas far from the front lines, protected layer by layer by the three defensive lines built by the Thirty-Two Base Cities. Compared to other cities, traces of foreign races were rare, so few experts were stationed there.

None of the Grade A martial arts universities in the Great Xia Kingdom had established campuses in these Eight Great Provinces.

In the Eight Great Provinces, Tiangang Realm Martial Artists were already considered rare combat assets, and Martial Arts Grandmasters in the Spirit Ascension Realm were exceedingly rare.

Not to mention that Dongchang City, where Chen Moxuan was located, wasn't even the provincial capital of Jiangnan Province.

Looking at the entire Great Xia Kingdom, the martial arts level of Dongchang City was undoubtedly in a very backward and marginal position.

Having stayed in such a closed environment for a long time and never having stepped out of this small world, Chen Moxuan's cognitive limitations were predictable.

Using the Blue Star from Chen Moxuan's previous life as an analogy, he was now equivalent to a prospective college entrance examinee born in a small county town.

Except for having a certain level of Martial Skills, his understanding of the overall layout of this world was quite shallow.

Moreover, he was an orphan with no background to speak of and no solid interpersonal relationships.

Before his first crossing and the Fusion of memories, his class teacher Ma Jingyuan, who valued him quite highly, was only a Martial Artist at the Perfection of the Qi Control Realm.

And he only met Principal Li and Zhong Quandao of Tianshu Academy after he began to stand out.

Principal Li was only an Early Stage Tiangang Realm Martial Artist; at his level, there was a high probability he wouldn't have any contact with a rare item like the world heart.

Zhong Quandao, as a deacon of Tianshu Academy, backed by the great mountain that was Taichu Martial Mansion, might know the whereabouts of the world heart.

Furthermore, through Zhong Quandao, he might even be able to connect with Taichu Martial Mansion and then contact Saint Lu, who had a close relationship with Lei Wanjun.

However...

"He didn't even leave any contact information?"

Chen Moxuan sighed helplessly.

Thinking back, when he returned from the Spirit Gathering Secret Realm, Zhong Quandao, who was supposed to escort him to Tianshu Academy, was urgently recalled due to a sudden accident involving the Dean.

Zhong Quandao had left a Jade Slip, informing Chen Moxuan that he could travel from Dongchang City to Taichu Martial Mansion on his own at any time within two months. He included a route map and arranged for people to meet him along the way.

Other than that, he only said that if he could get away early, he would come to escort Chen Moxuan again, leaving no other information.

In other words, to contact Zhong Quandao, he either had to spend some time traveling to Taichu Martial Mansion himself or wait here for Zhong Quandao to arrive.

Chen Moxuan still remembered that route; according to a normal itinerary, it would take at least ten days to half a month.

Even if he could fly there now, flying was generally prohibited in many parts of the Great Xia Kingdom.

When Zhong Quandao left the message, Chen Moxuan was still a Martial Artist at the Perfection of the Qi Control Realm. Naturally, he wouldn't have expected Chen Moxuan to be able to fly a few days later, nor would he have made arrangements for him regarding air rights.

A Martial Arts Grandmaster of unknown identity like Chen Moxuan, if he flew around randomly, would very likely be considered a suspicious person by the local Punishment Army.

Not only would it be extremely time-consuming, but it could also expose his true cultivation level and attract the attention of old monsters from foreign races.

The lack of contact information was actually due to Zhong Quandao's negligence.

As a member of the Traditional Martial Arts Sect, he rarely used things like mobile phones, preferring to communicate using the communication arrays inscribed within the tianshu mysterious mirror.

He only remembered that Chen Moxuan had received a tianshu mysterious mirror, but he forgot that Chen Moxuan hadn't yet gone to Taichu Martial Mansion to formally activate it.

Aside from the most basic functions, Chen Moxuan couldn't use the tianshu mysterious mirror to communicate with him at all.

But even if he spent over ten days rushing to Taichu Martial Mansion, he wouldn't necessarily learn the whereabouts of the world heart.

"The matter of contacting Saint Lu through Taichu Martial Mansion... can only be put aside for now as there is no way to attempt it."

"But... if Senior Lei has been out of contact for several days, is it possible that Saint Lu might take the initiative to come looking for him?"

Chen Moxuan vaguely remembered Lei Wanjun mentioning that he had arrived early under Saint Lu's arrangement, before the news of Chen Moxuan being classified as a Proud Sun Grade Genius had spread.

Because the higher-ups were deliberately suppressing the news, it would take three to five days to spread.

Lei Wanjun had come to Chen Moxuan's side as a Dao Protector before the news spread, to prevent Chen Moxuan from being harmed by Human Race traitors or foreign race spies.

If Saint Lu tried to contact Lei Wanjun later without success, he might come looking directly.

However, waiting idly was not in Chen Moxuan's nature.

"In that case, I can only try starting with the Lei Family."

Chen Moxuan recalled Lei Wanjun's instructions and took out the qiankun bag Lei Wanjun had given him from his robes.

Then, he sent his Mental Energy inside to search through it.