Kyoto, First Martial Arts Research Center.
Everything seemed unchanged.
Time seemed to have hit a pause button, returning to the second before Lin Chen had time traveled.
Wang Xinyu's eyes widened, her lips slightly parted, as she stared blankly:
"What just... happened?"
She looked at Lin Chen in front of her in shock.
Lin Chen had been standing there all along, never disappearing.
But the Lin Chen who was just in an old robe holding a gun had changed his stance.
The whole person was no longer standing but crouching.
With his left hand holding a chair and his right hand gripping a wooden table that had appeared from nowhere.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye...
"I'm back..."
Lin Chen realized he had returned to Blue Star and first instinctively glanced at the countdown on his left arm.
167 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds.
Time reset, and he would stay on Blue Star for the next seven days.
Lin Chen straightened his body and put down the wooden table and chair in his hands.
He looked back, but the wooden bed was nowhere to be seen.
"Hmm? That bed also touched me, but it didn't travel with me... was it too large?"
Lin Chen quickly thought, gaining new insights into his ability to traverse between worlds.
"How did you do that just now?"
Wang Xinyu's voice trembled slightly; everything that happened had already surpassed her understanding.
Was it an illusion?
But how could a seventeen-year-old boy awaken an Illusionary Martial Spirit?
Lin Chen looked at Wang Xinyu in front of him and explained:
"I told you, I have the ability to travel between two worlds!"
"For you, it might have been just a moment... but for me, I already spent seven whole days in the Cultivation Realm."
To further convince Wang Xinyu, Lin Chen handed over the items he had on him one by one.
Nine I-3 Type Stamina Potions, six of which were already empty.
A Y-3 Shield with a scratch cut into it, and a New Energy Pistol with only two bullets left.
Seeing all this, Wang Xinyu was once again shocked.
At this moment, she was ninety-nine percent convinced of what Lin Chen had said earlier.
Because no one in this world could achieve all this in such a short time!
The extra chair and wooden table could be explained by spatial abilities, but how to explain the emptied magazine and consumed potions?
The only explanation could be what Lin Chen had said before.
He spent seven days in another world, while time in this world was paused.
How could one describe this feeling?
It's like a pair of scissors cut Lin Chen from the river of time, allowing him to spend seven days outside it.
Then seamlessly pasted him back, without a single gap.
Wang Xinyu paused for a moment, then looked up at the corner of the ceiling.
There were four all-encompassing cameras without blind spots...
If the human eye couldn't see it, would the cameras have captured everything just now?
Wang Xinyu quickly went to the computer and pulled up the recent surveillance.
But even when the playback was slowed down to see 0.01-second details...
She still couldn't see how it all happened.
Wang Xinyu took a deep breath and said to Lin Chen:
"Lin Chen, do you mind if I make a phone call first?"
Lin Chen slightly shook his head, saying:
"Go ahead, I was always going to report this ability to the country."
Wang Xinyu's face lit up with joy, and she dialed a private number on her wrist communicator.
"Hello, Commander Wang... I need to seriously tell you something, I'm not joking..."
Lin Chen listened quietly on the side.
He knew who Wang Xinyu referred to as Commander Wang, which was one of the reasons he sought her out.
In his mind, information about Wang Xinyu slowly surfaced:
The youngest Deputy Director of the First Martial Arts Research Institute, with significant papers published in major scientific journals.
Coming from a family with military martial arts tradition, with three generations of family members serving as commanders in the Martial Artist Military Region.
The person on the other end of the phone should be her father, the Great Xia Martial Venerable Wang Lishan.
Besides, Wang Xinyu's research direction was related to the "Martial Realm."
What is the Martial Realm?
It refers to places where powerful demon beasts live, existing at alternate space nodes on Blue Star.
Demon beasts and alien races appear from various martial realms to attack the human race, while powerful martial artists guard each martial realm.
The Cultivation World Lin Chen traveled to has some similarities to the martial realm in a sense.
That's why he found Wang Xinyu, knowing she specializes in similar research, making it easier to believe.
After a while, Wang Xinyu hung up the phone and said to Lin Chen:
"Lin Chen, within ten minutes, an official team from Great Xia will come to inquire about certain matters."
"Before that, can I ask you a few questions?"
Lin Chen nodded slightly, indicating she could go ahead.
Wang Xinyu's face immediately lit up with a smile. As a Level 1 researcher specializing in martial realms, she was extremely curious about the "Cultivation World" Lin Chen mentioned!
It was akin to a massive treasure trove waiting for her to explore.
She activated the recording function on her wristband and asked:
"My first question is... apart from you, do you think others could travel with you to that Cultivation World?"
Lin Chen shook his head slightly and said:
"I don't think so, because even I can't control this ability... once seven days are up, I automatically travel to that world."
"Of course, you could try. If others can travel with me, I would be very willing."
Wang Xinyu nodded and continued to ask:
"Then, can you describe that Cultivation World in detail?"
"According to you, you've already spent fourteen days in that world... you should have a basic understanding by now."
"Of course, I'm most interested in... what resources of that world do you think would be useful to the human race?"
Wang Xinyu asked the key question, as the resources and situation of the Cultivation World would undoubtedly be of great interest to the Great Xia government.
Lin Chen had long prepared for this question, and thus spoke eloquently.
"The Cultivation World is vast, I suspect even larger than Blue Star..."
"Based on my current understanding, the technological level in the Cultivation World is very backward, somewhat like the ancient times before the Old Epoch in history books..."
"Currently, in that world, I belong to a cultivation sect called the Changchun Sect, the strongest member of that sect seems to be at the Core Formation Stage, which I don't yet know what martial realm it corresponds to..."
After briefly introducing the intelligence about the Cultivation Realm, Lin Chen took out a Spirit Stone from his pocket and handed it over.
"This is a Spirit Stone, containing special energy called Spiritual Energy, which might be of interest to you..."
"Currently, I've discovered that Spiritual Energy in that world greatly aids martial cultivation, where practicing in Spiritual Energy might accelerate martial artists' cultivation speed by several times or even tenfold."
"In addition, there is also Spiritual Food..."
With each sentence Lin Chen spoke, Wang Xinyu's heart raced faster.
She seemed to see a massive treasure.
Cultivators, Magical Treasures, Spiritual Energy, Spiritual Food...
She could already imagine the immense impact the Cultivation World would have on the Great Xia and even the entire Blue Star!