Chapter 6: Training

Training

He read through some pages of the book and was greatly impressed. Now, he understood the power classification and this made him open his mouth wide in awe. He still didn't know if he should believe all that he read.

So through cultivation, one could gain superhuman powers? He liked the sound of that. He wondered why they didn't cultivate on earth or it would have been easy to obliterate those damned zombies.

He didn't know where those shitty monsters came from. It didn't look like the result of a biological virus. They just appeared in their world all of a sudden. Like he was told, they detected a spatial anomaly, like a portal and that something was coming through it.

Then he suddenly felt that perhaps the zombies were not a product of crazy scientists but creatures that came from another world. Maybe a parallel world. He was slowly accepting there were many universes out and that even this world he was in would have a different world parallel to it.

Why he crossed over to this world, he doesn't know. But he believes God gave him another chance to live again and do something greater with it. He looked around and recalled all those people he saw, the children, then his parent and sisters.

After thinking about them, he stood up from the bed. With palms fully open and raised, he threw himself to the ground into a push-up position. But the hand was too weak.

Once he landed to the ground, he smashed his head on the floor.

Ouch!

By the time his face would be raised. A large swell could be seen on his forehead and it was red. He touched it and it hurt a lot. How was he going to explain to his mom why he looked like this. Why his head looked like it was smashed with an hammer.

Resisting the urge to rub and there was no ice pack to place on it to reduce the pain, he could only endure it. Then he went back into the push-up position.

Since he was a child, he couldn't do more than seven push-ups. He took a rest for five minutes. Then he continued. Like that he did more than four set of seven push-ups.

Sweating like he just came out of a pool, he left his room to go take his bath. He couldn't let his mom or sisters, especially Bai Meixue see him. He was afraid of her.

He got to the bathroom, took a shower and left. He rushed back to his room and laid in it. Then he began to think and to a point where he began to smile.

He could imagine himself flying like superman, running like flash and transforming into a colossal, muscular, colored being like the hulk. God had really surprised him with all these.

As he was thinking, he didn't know when he drifted off to dreamland.

- Evening -

Knock!

Someone knocked on his door. Bai Chen's eyes abruptly opened. He jumped down and went to open it. Then his mother and older sister came in. "Son, were you reading or sleeping?" she asked with a smile. Bai Chen scratched his head. "Well, I was reading. When I was done, I went to sleep" he replied.

"Why's your head swollen? You rolled about in bed and smashed your head on the wall?" Bai Meixue asked in a mocking tone. Bai Chen just looked on without refuting. This showed he agreed with what she said.

"Xue'er, leave your little brother alone. Let him be. Son, come with me. It's time for dinner. You slept really long. Did you do anything stressful?" she asked in a concerned tone. "No. Mom." he said with a smile.

Bai Ling nodded with a smile. "Come with me. Let's go eat then" with a arm put around his neck, she brought him to the dining room.

Seated on the dining table, he said "Mom, I would like to start training tomorrow." His mom's eyes shone with surprise. "You want to start training tomorrow? What for? You are still young to be training. You should still be my good little boy before those academy guys come and take you away from us." she said.

Bai Chen smiled. "Mom, I am still your good little boy. I just want to be ready when they come so I could be qualified to join them. I am trying to prepare myself for what lies in front of me. I want to be physically strong so I wouldn't be at a disadvantage when I duel others in a test. I guess that could be part of their tests mom." he replied.

"... Okay. And how do you want to accomplish that?" she thought for a while before she asked. "Well, you don't need to worry about that mom. I know a way." he said with a smile. "And what way would a five-year old boy like you know? Huh?" Bai Yun asked mockingly.

What was this little boy saying. It was like she should hit him. Bai Meixue only smiled, it seems her brother was beginning to develop awareness of so many things.

Bai Chen didn't say anything else. He only looked on and thought of where he could practice that no one would see him. Bai Ming was silent throughout as his family said one or two things about what Bai Chen said.

But then, he asked. "How would you like us to support you?" he asked. "Dad, I need weights. With weights, I would be able to build my body very quickly. They provide more room for growth" he replied.

His family looked at him. Their son seemed to be becoming too intelligent. Was this their son? Of course yes except the soul in the body of their adorable child had been replaced by the soul of a veteran soldier from another world.

Bai Chen knew he was taking things pretty fast. But he had no choice. But he knew that even if he started exhibiting things that their child does not usually do, they would still see him as their son.

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