Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

Three days after Wang Chen attended the Taiwu Light Students' Reunion, he received a very special gift.

A hundred kilograms of ultra-low temperature frozen meat!

And the person who sent him the gift was none other than Zhao Rongcheng. In the message, this duke's son calmly stated that the gift was an apology from the Twin Lion Brotherhood.

So Wang Chen didn't refuse—refusal would mean a stance of non-reconciliation, and he had no grievance with the Twin Lion Brotherhood. It was best for everyone if they kept out of each other's way from now on.

Interestingly, when he defrosted some of the meat and cooked it, he found that it tasted exactly the same as the best, most life-energy-rich meat he had eaten at the reunion.

Out of curiosity, Wang Chen specifically asked Zhao Rongcheng about it.

The latter told him that this was meat from the Five-Colored Deer, a rare mutated creature with extremely stringent growth conditions, found on only a few ecological stars.

If you didn't have special channels, you couldn't buy this meat online.

However, Zhao Rongcheng offered to help Wang Chen order some if he needed it.

And he wouldn't charge Wang Chen any markup.

Wang Chen thought it over and decided to expand the favor he owed a bit more.

The quality of the Five-Colored Deer meat was excellent, being high-energy food, and it was of great benefit to his training in the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Method.

Without the help of someone like Zhao Rongcheng, Wang Chen really had no way to obtain it.

He couldn't possibly go shopping for it on the black market, could he?

Besides, not only was it exorbitantly priced, but it was also very easy to get scammed.

Even with Zhao Rongcheng's help, Wang Chen still had to cover the cost of buying the deer meat by himself, forcing him to rack his brains to make money.

Fortunately, thanks to verification by Sun Xinhong and two other classmates, and with assistance from Tang Mo, Wang Chen's reputation for customizing Body Skills quickly spread through the academy.

Then more students came to him hesitantly, allowing Wang Chen to stabilize this avenue for earning money.

With 1,110,000 introduced to him by others and 1,000,000 from those who came on their own, the prices he set scared off most people, but there were always some willing to take a gamble who didn't care about the cost.

None of them were disappointed!

During the whole long holiday, besides sticking to his daily training, Wang Chen spent most of his time on private tutoring.

Since the Twin Lion Brotherhood no longer caused trouble, and Wang Chen was the top combatant for the Exceptional Insight Club, this business thrived, bringing him a constant stream of enormous Star Currency.

But Wang Chen used most of this Star Currency to buy Five-Colored Deer meat—he bought as much as he could get!

He was willing to pay a premium without hesitation.

With the nourishment from this high-energy food, Wang Chen's training progress with the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Method skyrocketed, boldly breaking through the fifth layer by the end of the holiday!

Wang Chen's strength thus soared once again.

As soon as the long holiday ended, Ming Mei returned to the First Military Academy and was inseparable from Wang Chen once more.

But intriguingly, Tang Mo, who had been quite close to Wang Chen for the past two months and had also been learning Body Skills from him, managed to become best friends with Ming Mei, against all expectations!

Wang Chen was baffled, because Ming Mei hadn't liked Tang Mo before, and could even be said to have disliked her.

Yet in just a few days after returning from the holiday, they became inseparable besties, much to everyone's surprise.

Of course, Wang Chen had no desire to delve into the secrets between the women.

Because matters of love and relationships were just embellishments to life for him; his true pursuit was the ultimate peak of this world.

Yet, to others, having the company of two beautiful women made Wang Chen the target of envy and jealousy!

Neither Tang Mo nor Ming Mei had ever lacked suitors since entering the academy.

But none had managed to win their hearts.

Now it seemed Wang Chen had won both, which truly made others envious and resentful!

But whether it was envy or curses of resentment, they didn't affect Wang Chen in the slightest, nor was anyone brave enough to challenge him.

Because the status of a C-level War Professional was something countless people could only dream of!

And the outside uproar didn't affect Wang Chen at all; he was fully immersed in his studies for the second academic year.

Whether it was knowledge or strength, both grew day by day with time.

Another year passed in the blink of an eye.

As the students of the Imperial First Military Academy went on vacation again, tensions along the Holy Light Empire's borders suddenly escalated, with frictions with the Alliance intensifying.

Actually, calling it sudden was inaccurate, for signs had been emerging over the past year and the upper echelons of the Empire had long since begun to prepare for the arrival of large-scale interstellar warfare.

The most notable indication was the skyrocketing price of Energy Blocks!

A year ago, a standard Energy Block was priced around a thousand Star Currency on the market, but today it was around eighteen hundred, sometimes even approaching the two-thousand mark.

Almost doubled!

It's important to know that Energy Blocks are strategic materials, heavily supplied to the civilian market, but the Empire has always tightly controlled production and pricing, forbidding dramatic market speculation.

Such a situation now couldn't be due to the Empire losing control.

As a result, even the grassroots populace sensed the breath of war.

The stock prices of companies related to the war industry soared!

"I've already cleared the holdings of Flashstar Energy..."

In the academy dormitory, dressed lightly, Ming Mei nestled against Wang Chen, joyfully browsing a holographic screen as she said, "Made more than triple profits!"

Wang Chen handed her a cherry, smiling, "A reward for you."

"Nom!"

Ming Mei bit into it, playfully licking Wang Chen's fingers, her glance back filled with charm, "Thank you, dear."

After living together for almost a year, this little girl had nearly turned into an enchantress!

Thankfully, Wang Chen was now in a sage-like state and wasn't seduced: "Let's consider this the end of it, we shouldn't speculate any further during this period to avoid being slaughtered by the big players."

A year ago, Wang Chen had, at Ming Mei's suggestion, handed part of his earned tuition over to her for investment.

Mainly in the form of stock trading.

Because Ming Mei knew Wang Chen needed a huge amount of Star Currency to buy high-energy food, she wanted to help him earn more.

Although Ming Mei's personal combat ability was weak, her intuition was extremely keen, and she even had the superpower of foreseeing the future—though only for very short periods.

Initially, Ming Mei suffered some losses in the ever-changing Empire stock market, losing over a million Star Currency.

But this tuition was not wasted; after mastering the ropes, she achieved victory after victory in the stock market, especially in the recent boom, making a fortune.

But excess is as bad as deficiency, and Wang Chen didn't want his girlfriend completely caught in the bottomless pit of the financial market.

Because war was coming!

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First update is here.