stjorthotic Chapter 4 Soul Space
Chapter 4 Soul Space
Jiangzhou, where Chen Zheng lives, has a permanent population of over nine million, is divided into more than twenty urban districts, and has a radiation range of over six hundred kilometers, making it a very prosperous city.
In terms of education, twelve years of compulsory education are implemented, and they begin to come into contact with cultivation in high school as their physical development is complete.
Of course, due to differences in physique, personality, comprehension, and learning ability, not everyone can cultivate and become a martial arts master.
Therefore, high school is also a period of streaming.
Chen Zheng had only average talent in cultivation since childhood, but he excelled in rune classes and was admitted to Jiangzhou University, one of the four top martial arts universities in Jiangzhou, as a liberal arts student.
In this world where martial arts flourish, many professions are related to the extraordinary.
Some top figures in certain industries may not be particularly strong, but even a martial saint at the pinnacle of power would not dare to underestimate them and would even treat them with great respect.
Time slipped away as Chen Zheng flipped through his memories. By the time he came to his senses, the bus had already stopped at the gate of Jiangzhou University.
Jiangzhou University has a very large campus.
Chen Zheng entered from the south gate and walked along the main road for almost twenty minutes before reaching the first fork in the road.
The road signs indicate three directions: Martial Arts Department, Rune Academy, and Materials Science and Engineering Department. The buildings extending out in each direction seem to stretch endlessly, like a city within a city.
On both sides of the main road grows a mutated tree species called "Hemlock," with dark silver bark, which is said to have been transplanted from a fragment of a certain plane.
This plant can absorb free energy from the high altitude and transform it into purer spiritual energy for people to absorb.
Therefore, each hemlock tree is a miniature purification node, and when thousands of trees are connected together, the energy concentration of the entire campus is twice as high as that of the outside world.
This is a basic application of the rune matrix, somewhat similar to the immortal cultivation formations in Earth's legends, but also different.
After walking for more than half an hour, Chen Zheng finally arrived at the Rune Academy's office building, a seven-story gray-white building.
The building's exterior walls are embedded with more than a dozen huge energy monitoring screens, which display the concentration, flow, and loss rate of psionic energy in various areas of the campus in real time.
The data refreshes every three seconds, with dense numbers and arrows flowing across the screen, making it dizzying to look at.
Six auxiliary buildings extend from both sides of the main building, which are the teaching buildings for the six departments of Structural Theory, Spiritual Path Foundation, Rune Literature, Energy Dynamics, Earth Vein Science, and Applied Array Formation.
Further away are several independent laboratory buildings and training bases, where students can be seen entering and exiting.
Today is the last day for school registration, and the hall is very crowded.
"Chen Zheng, you only arrived on the last day too." As he spoke, a young man with glasses and delicate features approached.
Chen Zheng shrugged: "Otherwise, there's nothing to do if you come early."
The young man's name was Jiang Mo. He and Chen Zheng were both students in Class 9 of the Rune Academy. They had gotten along quite well during their first semester of freshman year.
As they were talking, the two arrived at a sign-in machine. Jiang Mo reached out and touched his personal terminal on the machine, and his personal information immediately popped up on the screen.
Next up is Chen Zheng.
Chen Zheng, Class 9, Freshman Year, Department of Runes, Student ID 64019852.
Fingerprint confirmation.
Energy ripples confirmed.
Room 502, Building D, Dormitory.
After the two finished registering and signing in, Jiang Mo was about to say something when he suddenly looked out of the hall and exclaimed in surprise, "Oh no, it's the class monitor, Chen Zheng. I'm leaving first."
As he spoke, Jiang Mo lowered his body and slipped towards the side door under the cover of the people around him.
As soon as Jiang Mo disappeared, Chen Zheng smelled a faint jasmine fragrance, and a very beautiful girl with long white dress and black hair appeared in front of him.
Most importantly, this girl has a great figure; she has a slender waist, but her breasts are full and round like a melon...
Li Tang looked around, then asked Chen Zheng, "Chen Zheng, where's Jiang Mo?"
"He ran away as soon as he saw you, class monitor, heading that way." Chen Zheng pointed towards the side door, showing no remorse for betraying his friend.
"Damn it!" Li Tang stomped her foot, her chest trembling, and hurriedly chased after him.
After completing the registration, Chen Zheng turned and walked out of the office building. As he headed to his dormitory, he activated his attribute page with a thought.
I was too busy before and didn't have time to study it carefully.
Chen Zheng's gaze swept over the data of the human body, then paused on the unique talent, All-Spirit Plunder, and then looked at the soul space below.
"What is a soul space? Is it a different kind of storage space?"
Chen Zheng switched his consciousness and carefully sensed it, discovering that both bodies could vaguely perceive a space deep within their souls, about the size of a stand.
If this is indeed a storage space, and both the human and abyss beings can use it, then resources from the two worlds can be shared.
"There are too many people around here, I'll try again when I get back to the dorm."
Martial arts and rune studies are very private, so the dormitories at Jiangzhou University are all single rooms, and each department occupies a large area just for the dormitory area.
Building D, 5th floor, Dormitory No. 2.
Although the dormitory is a single room, the bed, desk, and wardrobe only take up a quarter of the space, making it more than 60 square meters, which is very spacious.
The sun shines brightly outside the window, revealing the canopy of the hemlock trees and the gray-white exterior of the Rune Academy's main building.
Chen Zheng lived in this dormitory last semester. He didn't bring his bed sheets and blankets back after washing them. Today, when he registered, he only brought a backpack with clothes.
Chen Zheng placed the backpack on the table, switched to his Abyss form, and picked up a stone.
The stone disappeared silently and appeared in the soul space. At the same time, Chen Zheng's consciousness switched back to his human body, and with a thought, the stone appeared in his hand.
A smile appeared on Chen Zheng's face.
The soul space can connect the two worlds, so that when the abyss body hunts monsters, the extraordinary resources encountered can be used by the human body.
Similarly, resources from the human world can also help the Abyss Body grow rapidly.
For example, directly purchasing large quantities of flesh and blood... uh, no way. This idea was rejected by Chen Zheng as soon as it came to mind.
The reason is simple: no money.
Let's put that issue aside for now.
Chen Zheng focused his attention on himself. Compared to the simple and brutal plundering ability of the Abyss Body, his Myriad Spirits Plundering Talent was more complex.
Currently, all we know is that it can plunder the pure medicinal power from spiritual herbs and the active elements from extraordinary minerals to enhance itself, but the effects are still unclear.
It seems I need to try a different herb.
Thinking about it, Chen Zheng began to sort out his assets.
His personal terminal balance of new crystal coins is 1500 yuan, which is his living expenses for this month.
The purchasing power of currency in the new era is similar to that on Earth. The average salary for ordinary people is between three thousand and ten thousand yuan. Rice costs three yuan per kilogram, and meat costs about ten yuan per kilogram.
Because both brothers attend martial arts university, Chen Zheng and Chen Ye only receive 1,500 yuan per month for basic living expenses.
However, at Martial Arts University, the new crystals are only for daily living expenses; students' cultivation resources mainly come from school points.
School personal points account: 18 points.
"It's only 18 PM, that's a bit low."
Chen Zheng frowned slightly.
In terms of value, 1 school point equals 100 yuan, and the points are obtained from four sources: martial arts quota, academic performance, grade ranking, and task rewards.
The points for martial arts quotas are distributed monthly based on the student's level, with 12 points as the base for a level 1 martial artist, increasing by 2 points for each subsequent level.
For example, Chen Zheng is a level four martial artist, and he has 18 points per month, which were just transferred to his personal account during the report.