Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

The bathroom was filled with steam and mist.

Accompanied by the sound of a splash, the hot water in the bath suddenly exploded, and a figure leapt out, landing in front of the mirror cabinet.

Wang Chen, completely naked, stared at himself in the mirror.

His height had increased by a few centimeters again, his body proportions had reached the perfect level, his skin looked as if it had just been replaced with a new set, showing no blemishes and glowing with a translucent white light.

Yet, the muscles and bones beneath his skin were like they were forged from steel, inconspicuous but containing terrifying power.

Heavenly Dragon Vajra Method, seventh level!

With the aid of the third genetic enhancement's modifications and improvements to his physique, Wang Chen advanced this Body Refinement cultivation technique to the seventh level, almost catching up to the level of his original self in the Haotian Realm.

This was something Wang Chen never expected before retraining the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Method.

Although the Starry Seas Realm lacked any spiritual energy, the upper limit of this major world was extremely high, allowing humans as intelligent beings to repeatedly break their own limits.

Wang Chen suspected that if he continued to cultivate like this, he would sooner or later reach the realm of sanctification of the flesh.

The prerequisite is the matching supply of resources.

But he was also very aware that the third genetic enhancement was his current limit.

Even though the Empire possessed the technology for the fourth and even fifth genetic enhancements, for Wang Chen, there was no need for further enhancement.

Because the path he had taken was completely different from others!

Excessive pursuit can be detrimental.

Even if the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Method could be retrained to the seventh level, Wang Chen did not think he had gained capital to do whatever he wanted in this world.

Because there were powerful high-tech weapons that could cause harm and even fatal blows to his body!

Therefore, to become stronger, he must explore potential from the spiritual energy side.

The limit of the mind is far higher than that of the physique!

Taking a deep breath, Wang Chen extinguished the shining brilliance in his eyes, then changed into a clean set of clothes and left the bathroom.

As soon as he arrived in the living room outside, the doorbell rang.

The indoor holographic screen suddenly lit up, showing the image of the visitor outside.

Wang Chen frowned but nevertheless went over to open the door.

Standing outside were a middle-aged man and a young woman, both dressed in Imperial Army uniforms, the former with the rank of colonel, and the latter as a captain, presumably in roles such as secretary assistant.

The problem was, Wang Chen did not know these two at all, instinctively sensing that troublesome visitors had arrived.

"Captain Wang Chen."

The middle-aged colonel smiled slightly and said, "I am Luke from the staff department, and this is my assistant Jenna. We have something we would like to discuss with you. Is now convenient?"

Without a change in expression, Wang Chen replied, "Hello, Colonel, please come in."

Trouble comes uninvited, and those who come with goodwill rarely show up; for Luke, a colonel from the staff department, to actively come knocking, it certainly was no small matter!

After the three sat down in the living room, Wang Chen originally wanted to brew a pot of tea or coffee to entertain the guests, but Jenna quickly took over the task.

Wang Chen didn't mind and directly inquired about the purpose of their visit.

Colonel Luke handed Wang Chen a document.

The first page had the word "Top Secret" labeled on the paper document!

Although surprised, Wang Chen patiently and carefully read through this confidential document.

And the content of the document was exactly about the prison break that occurred six months ago at the TK043 Space Fortress.

This incident was undoubtedly a disgrace to the Seventh Rapid Response Fleet stationed at TK043, reportedly causing significant impact within the fortress and chaos within the fleet as well.

Many junior and mid-grade officers were subjected to rigorous scrutiny!

Wang Chen was lucky to not have been involved because he was in the lab assisting Professor Chen and others in superpower research.

But even so, he could still feel the shock the prison break had caused to the Seventh Fleet!

Time might smooth over everything, but Wang Chen did not know how the Empire's military upper echelon dealt with it, nor what kind of price the Seventh Fleet had paid.

After finishing his collaboration with the X6 laboratory research team, when he returned to the fleet camp, everything seemed calm.

Unexpectedly, however, the matter was not over and had even found its way to him!

Through this confidential document, Wang Chen learned quite a few top-secret details.

It turned out the escapees from the heavily guarded fortress prison half a year ago mostly belonged to the rebel forces.

Many of them were originally part of the Seventh Rapid Response Fleet!

The rebel forces had existed within the Empire for hundreds of years, and the Stars Alliance, which was the current adversary of the Empire, was actually once a rebel force, but because it was not eliminated in time, it grew stronger and split, leading to the situation today.

With the alliance's precedent, the Empire is extremely strict about internal rebel forces, especially those sympathizers of the alliance within the Imperial Army, who are definite key targets for suppression.

As for why so many "traitors" of the Seventh Rapid Response Fleet were imprisoned in the fortress prison, there was no explanation or notes in the document.

In short, through the diversion tactics of the star pirates and internal collaboration, these imprisoned rebels escaped.

Once the Seventh Rapid Response Fleet realized they had fallen for the deception, they immediately spared no expense to conduct a manhunt.

Some of the escapees were caught or killed, but there were others who managed to flee to an ecological experimental star with the help of the star pirates, where they hid.

When the Seventh Rapid Response Fleet sent elite forces to eradicate them on this planet, it resulted in several crushing defeats, failing to achieve the objective and suffering significant losses.

Out of over a dozen special-commission ground warfare teams deployed, less than a tenth returned alive!

The severe losses once again shocked the fleet's high command, leading to a comprehensive investigation around this ecological experimental star.

The investigation results were even more astonishing.

It turned out this ecological experimental star had long become a secret base for star pirates and rebel forces. They had established a base underground on the planet to oppose the Empire.

Normally, with the Empire's power, destroying a planet would be effortlessly easy.

But the situation on this ecological experimental star was extremely special; using the Planet Annihilator Cannon was too costly and the consequences too severe, yet sending soldiers down was useless against enemies hiding deep underground.

This placed the Seventh Rapid Response Fleet in a difficult situation!

The matter had already alarmed the Empire's upper echelon; if the Seventh Rapid Response Fleet couldn't resolve it swiftly, they would bear all the consequences, and the entire high command might be cleansed thoroughly.

Then branded as "incompetent"!

Under such circumstances, the fleet's staff department thought of Captain Wang Chen.

They hoped to utilize Wang Chen's superpowers to solve this major problem.

Wang Chen's astonishing performance on the Safety had long caught the fleet high command's attention, regarded as their last hope!

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PS: The New Year is indeed too busy, the updates have been unstable, please forgive me, hopefully by the third day things will return to normal, sweating.