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Chapter 1416: Living towards death, Grandmaster: Zhou Chen!
"Da da, da da..."

In the early morning, the sound of horse hooves could be heard on the official road.

Zhou Chen rode his horse, swaying along the official road. It was just dawn and there were few people on the road.

Last night he had a free talk with the old gentleman in the pavilion for most of the night, chatting about everything from the books of sages to the current system of the Qing Kingdom, and even poetry and songs.

The old gentleman was indeed a truly learned man, but he was half drunk and lost his composure. He said many things he shouldn't have said, and finally fell into a deep sleep. Even when he fell asleep, his sleep was not very restful.

However, today, the old gentleman got up early before daybreak, saying that it was most convenient to travel in the early morning. So Zhou Chen said goodbye to him in the pavilion and wished him success in the imperial examination.

Passing by a teahouse beside the official road, he was about to stop to buy something to eat, but when he reached into his pocket, he realized what was happening.

When I said goodbye to the old gentleman today, I secretly stuffed the only two silver ingots I had left into the old gentleman's box. Now he has no silver or copper coins left, only silver notes.

It’s hard to get change for the banknotes in this small teahouse.

He touched his stomach and found that he could still bear it, so he patted the horse's back gently and moved forward again. There was a county town a few miles ahead, and the horse needed to be fed.

It took us half an hour to reach the county town after walking a few miles slowly and without haste.

The county town was not big, so Zhou Chen found an inn nearby. He didn't care about the environment and asked the waiter to pull his horse over to feed it. He then went into the inn and ordered food.

He was not in a hurry. By the time he finished eating and feeding the horse, it was already noon. The sun was high in the sky and he felt a little lazy. So he did not continue on his journey. He rested for another two hours in the inn and set off again in the evening after replenishing his supplies.

I walked and stopped along the way, and saw all kinds of people on the road. I saw rich people living in luxury, and I also saw refugees who were forced to leave their homes and beg for food along the way...

Zhou Chen, who has lived for so many years, is no longer the kind of person who feels compassion for the world, but even so, he still feels sad when he sees the tragic scene that is too unbearable to look at.

It wouldn't matter if he didn't see it, but if he did, he would still try his best to help.

Along the way, several hundred taels of silver were easily spent.

After a few more days, Zhou Chen finally arrived at Dongshan Road, but he did not go to Dadongshan immediately.

Since he had come to Dadong Mountain, he naturally had to go to the Fan Mansion in Danzhou to take a look. Fan Xian had not yet gone to Kyoto at this time, and was still in the Fan Mansion expecting the red-armored knight to come and pick him up to Kyoto.

Although he and Fan Xian were not the same type of "time travelers", their common point was that they were both modern people with modern social ideas, and could barely be considered fellow countrymen, so he still had some expectations for Fan Xian.

As the ancestral home of Si Nanbo, Fan Mansion is quite famous in the local area. Zhou Chen only asked two people and found out the approximate location of Fan Mansion.

The gate of Fan Mansion faces the street. Zhou Chen led the horse and walked into the street. Then he saw Fan Mansion at the end of the road and the figure sitting at the gate of Fan Mansion.

"Da da, da da, da da."

Soon, Zhou Chen approached the Fan Mansion, but he did not stop. He stared at Fan Xian who was sitting on the steps for a while.

Fan Xian, who was sitting on the steps, supported his chin with his hand, and looked ahead expectantly. Then, he saw Zhou Chen walking towards him.

Fan Xian, with lifeless eyes, suddenly sat up and looked at Zhou Chen curiously, because he found that the handsome guy leading the horse had been staring at him as if he knew him, but he was sure that he did not know this man.

Seeing the other party getting closer, Fan Xian stood up and was about to ask, but the other party suddenly changed direction and passed in front of him, leaving only his back.

When the words were on the tip of his tongue, Fan Xian was stunned. It took him a long while to react.

"What's weird??"

Zhou Chen gave a mischievous smile and left without looking back.

He just came to Danzhou for a special visit and had no intention of getting to know Fan Xian. Since he had already met him, there was no need to stay any longer.

As for getting to know Fan Xian, let's wait until we get to Kyoto.

When he was approaching Fan Mansion, he did not see Wu Zhu, but he knew that Wu Zhu must be nearby protecting Fan Xian. As a biochemical robot, his breath was different from that of normal humans. If he wanted to hide, it would not be easy to find him.

It is now the second year of the Qingli period. Fan Xian is about sixteen or seventeen years old. In a year or so, he will go to Kyoto, so he must break through to the Grandmaster level as soon as possible.

After leaving Danzhou, Zhou Chen went straight to Dadong Mountain.

Dadong Mountain is not an uninhabited place. After Zhou Chen arrived at his destination, he first found a farmer nearby and left his horse at the farmer's home.

This horse was carefully selected by him. It accompanied him all the way from Kyoto without any accidents. He was reluctant to throw it away, but he had to go to Dadong Mountain to practice and could not take it with him, so fostering it in a farmer's home was the best option.

After settling the horse, Zhou Chen walked towards Dadong Mountain. Dadong Mountain was originally a giant mountain, but tens of thousands of years ago, a nuclear explosion caused half of the mountain to be destroyed, forming the current Dadong Mountain.

Only half of the peak remains, and it is still quite shocking when viewed from afar.

There is a Qing Temple on Mount Dadong, so there are people on the mountain. Zhou Chen came here just to practice and break through, and didn't want to contact anyone, so he relied on his superb martial arts and spent a few days finding a remote place on the mountain where he could stay temporarily and was not easily discovered.

After settling down, Zhou Chen began to practice. Soon he could clearly feel that the energy here was stronger than that in Kyoto. According to this energy level, it would definitely be beneficial to his practice.

After a few days, he clearly felt that his true Qi, which had not been improved for a long time, had actually improved slightly, which made him very happy.

So he patiently practiced in seclusion in Mount Dadong.

Time flies, and time passes by unknowingly.

Half a year has passed since Zhou Chen entered Dadong Mountain to practice in seclusion, winter has passed and spring has arrived.

Zhou Chen, who was sitting cross-legged on the trunk of a huge tree, slowly opened his eyes and let out a long breath.

Half a year later, he hit a bottleneck again. His inner energy no longer improved, as if a bottle was already full of water and could not hold more.

He had already reached the limit of the ninth rank. If he wanted to go further, he had to break through to the Grandmaster level. But it was not so easy to break through to the Grandmaster level.

"It's time. The time is right, the place is right, and the people are right. We have the right place, but the time is uncertain. As for the people, it depends on our own judgment and luck."

Zhou Chen's eyes were full of determination. There was no point in continuing to drag things on like this. Now his condition in all aspects had reached its best, and it was the best time for a breakthrough.

In the next few days, Zhou Chen did not practice anymore, but relaxed for a few days and adjusted his state.

Seven days later, inside the cave, Zhou Chen sealed the entrance of the cave. He didn't know what would happen during the breakthrough process, so he had to ensure a quiet and safe environment first.

"let's start!"

Zhou Chen sat cross-legged and began to strive for the Grand Master realm according to his own method of calculation.

The four great masters in Joy of Life have different ways of breaking through. Ku He practiced the Tianyi Dao mental method, which emphasizes the unity of man and nature. This way of breaking through is more mysterious and difficult to master, so it is not Zhou Chen’s main consideration.

It can be said that Si Gu Jian relied on his ultimate murderous intent and extremely strong spiritual power to transform himself into a killing god. With his incomparable sword intent, he forced a breakthrough and reached the supreme realm of grandmaster.

Ye Liuyun, because of his battle with Wu Zhu, imitated Wu Zhu's body movements and fighting style, and finally relied on his extraordinary comprehension to comprehend the Liuyun Sanshou and finally broke through to the Grandmaster realm. He is also the only one among the four great masters who broke through to the Grandmaster realm without relying on the temple secrets, but his fighting power should be the weakest among the four great masters.

In the end, Emperor Qing had his meridians burst by the powerful true qi. He was almost unable to move for several months and even lost his hearing, vision and smell. During the breakthrough process, he suffered great physical and mental torture and finally broke through to the grandmaster level.

Judging from the breakthrough methods of the four great masters, in order to become a grand master, both physical and mental standards must be met, especially in the spiritual aspect, which must be far beyond ordinary people and have absolute faith. This kind of faith cannot be described in words, and only the person involved can truly understand it.

The breakthrough method Zhou Chen chose was to work on both the physical and mental aspects simultaneously. His spiritual attribute had reached sixty, which was several times more than that of ordinary people. Even compared with the grand masters, he did not think he was worse than them. It was just that in terms of physical and true energy, he could not give full play to the advantages of spiritual power.

After entering the state, Zhou Chen frantically absorbed the nuclear radiation energy in the air, inhaled it into his body in the form of 'energy from heaven and earth', and formed true energy.

The amount of true Qi exceeded the limit of the meridians in his body and slowly got out of control, destroying the meridians in his body. He endured the severe pain and continued to absorb nuclear radiation energy, causing the meridians in his body to be damaged more and more seriously.

This is the breakthrough method that draws on the domineering true Qi, using the true Qi to burst the meridians, forcibly changing the meridians and bones of the body, and transforming oneself into an inhuman direction.

This process is extremely painful, but Zhou Chen has experienced countless pains before. When he was detoxifying the fire and cold poison, he had to break bones and remove poison, and reshape his body, so he is absolutely professional in enduring pain.

I don’t know how long it took, but gradually, Zhou Chen felt as if he had lost control of his body. He could not hear any sound, smell any smell, or see anything. He seemed to be in endless darkness.

But the strong spiritual power made him clearly understand that he was still alive and as long as he was alive there was hope.

Just when he felt that he was about to collapse, he quickly communicated with the system and directly added points to his physical fitness.

When he came to this world, he had a total of fifteen attributes. He had previously created his own skills, which added eight points of spirit. Now he has seven attributes left.

After adding a little bit of physical strength, the pain he felt was alleviated a little, and then he became ruthless again and continued to absorb the "energy of heaven and earth" to strengthen the true energy in his body.

Just as my physical strength had improved and my meridians had recovered a little, they were burst again, and a new round of severe pain came.

He gritted his teeth and added a little more physical strength, then continued the previous operation, repeating this several times.

During this process, he could not feel the passage of time at all, nor did he know what his current condition was.

If someone was in the cave, they would find that Zhou Chen had completely turned into a bloody man. He no longer looked like a human and was extremely scary.

The sun rose and set, repeating over and over again. After five days, Zhou Chen on the ground had long been motionless, as if he had become a dead person. However, if you get closer, you will find that he is still breathing, but it has become extremely weak.

Two days passed in a blink of an eye. Suddenly, Zhou Chen, who had been motionless for a long time, trembled with his tightly closed eyes. Then a strong wind blew up in the whole cave. Countless "energy of heaven and earth" in the air rushed into Zhou Chen's body frantically.

This process lasted for a long time until Zhou Chen opened his eyes.

"boom!"

The entrance of the cave that had been sealed by Zhou Chen exploded, but Zhou Chen did not move at all, he just stared.

"Finally, it's done."

Like a child who has just learned to speak, the voice is awkward, dry and incoherent.

But Zhou Chen's eyes were filled with excitement. In just a few days, he had experienced life and death many times. Finally, he found a balance between the terrors of life and death, combined his spiritual strength and physical strength, and reached the realm of the supreme grandmaster.

"Live towards death, live towards death, and only when you are in danger of death can you be reborn."

In order to break through to the Grandmaster level, in addition to his own deduction, the role of the system was indispensable. Fortunately, he had the habit of saving attribute points in the past. He saved enough attribute points to allow him to repeatedly jump on the edge of death and finally break through.

Of course, this was also within his calculations. He did not have the temple secrets, nor did he have Ye Liuyun's understanding, but he had his own golden finger, which was why he had the confidence to break through to the Grandmaster level.

He even has one last step. Even if he fails to break through this time and dies, he still has a system item, which can reopen the card and give him another chance to revive.

But if that happened, he would have to start over again, which was full of uncertainties. By then, he might not have the courage to break through again amidst the terror of life and death like he did this time.

Zhou Chen had to admit that even after living for a long time, he was still afraid of death. He was still far from reaching the state of hearing the truth in the morning and being willing to die in the evening.

The system is the basis for his breakthrough, and reopening the card is the basis for his survival, both are indispensable.

But no matter what, he finally won the bet. He had been planning for more than four years since he came into this world, and today, he finally succeeded.

Feeling the unprecedented power in his body, even if he was number one in the world in the Lotus Tower, he was still far from what he is now.

He truly realized that the Grand Master was not a human being.

From today on, he is.

Grandmaster——Zhou Chen!