parentshiftbook Chapter 2 Beast Meat
Chapter 2 Beast Meat
Chen Lie, who was lost in thought, paid no attention to anything that was happening in the classroom.
When the bell rang to signal the end of get out of class, Wang Hui came to Chen Lie's side and patted him on the shoulder.
"Chen Lie, what are you daydreaming about? School's over, want to go to the virtual reality arcade and play a couple of rounds?"
Chen Lie stood up, shook his head, and said, "I'm not going. I'm going home."
"Hey, wait a minute! The blood energy test results from the martial arts gym we went to the day before yesterday are in. I'll get them for you."
As he spoke, Wang Hui handed Chen Lie a paper report.
Chen Lie took the report, glanced down, and saw a set of data on the paper.
Name: Chen Lie
Bone age: 17 years
Qi and blood value: 0.93 calories
Strength: 2.89 jun (43.35 kg)
As Chen Lie walked out of the school, he saw his bone age of 17 on the report and a thought struck him: "I... I'm really back..."
In his previous life, his martial arts talent was not outstanding, only average. As a result, his Qi and blood value only broke through to 1 three months before the college entrance examination.
Even though his family spent a fortune buying him all sorts of expensive supplements, he barely managed to get into an ordinary martial arts university in the province. At the age of twenty-one, he finally became a first-level martial artist.
In just a few years of martial arts training, he consumed several times the resources of his sister, almost emptying the family's wealth and turning them from a wealthy family into one heavily indebted.
"In this life, Duan will not be like that!"
Chen Lie murmured to himself that the Blue Star he lived on was merely a planet in an extremely insignificant and remote star system under the jurisdiction of the Central Galaxy Empire.
The Central Galactic Empire, founded on military might, boasts an army that traverses the cosmos, subjugating all demons and barbarians. Its reign is long and prosperous, and its military fortunes are thriving. Its vast territory encompasses tens of thousands of inhabited planets.
Although Blue Star is a planet under the jurisdiction of the Central Galactic Empire, the extent of its martial arts civilization is less than one ten-thousandth of that of Blue Star. This is because Blue Star is too remote and has only ventured into interstellar space in the last hundred years or so, which is the initial stage of its martial arts civilization.
In his previous life, Chen Lie's martial arts cultivation had reached the ninth-level Grandmaster realm, enough to roam freely in the starry sky, so he was fortunate enough to witness a colorful corner of the Central Galaxy Empire.
In his previous life, he had served as a steward in the library of the martial arts academy in Tai'a Star Province, one of the ten major star provinces of the Central Galaxy Empire, where he was responsible for organizing various martial arts classics.
In his mind, there was also martial arts knowledge that the Central Galaxy Empire had been ahead of Blue Star for countless millennia. Compared with the advanced martial arts civilization of the Central Galaxy Empire, Blue Star's martial arts were practically in an uncivilized, primitive stage.
Those who can enter the Tai'a Star Province Martial Arts Training Academy, even if they are just ordinary students, are all outstanding talents from various planets. The top students of the Martial Arts Training Academy can be called cosmic-level geniuses.
Chen Lie, because of his memories from his previous life, is qualified to stand on the same starting line as these geniuses.
It is no exaggeration to say that in the path of martial arts, he only needs to put in a little effort to make even the strongest martial arts genius on Earth look up to him.
Following the route he remembered, Chen Lie returned home.
Pushing open the door, Chen Lie walked into the room, and the first thing he did was look around at the arrangement of the appliances and furniture.
"It's still the same as I remember it."
Chen Lie took two steps forward and saw his younger sister, Chen Xingyao, curled up on the sofa, watching experts on TV analyze martial arts.
"Chen Lie is back? Dinner's almost ready, go wash your hands first."
Chen Lie turned around and saw a young woman wearing an apron. This was his mother, Feng Yuelan.
He probably hasn't seen his mother in seventy years, right?
"Oh, I understand, Mom."
Chen Lie suppressed his complicated emotions, went to the bathroom to wash his hands, and when he came out, he saw that his sister Chen Xingyao was already waiting at the dinner table.
Mother Feng Yuelan served the dishes and rice to the table one by one, then took off her apron and sat down herself.
"Chen Lie, have you gotten the results of your blood energy test at the martial arts school last time?" Feng Yuelan asked.
Chen Lie said, "Got it, 0.93 calories."
Upon hearing this, Feng Yuelan immediately said, "Still 0.93? Mom remembers your blood energy test result at school last month was already 0.93 calories, right?"
Chen Lie simply nodded and hummed in agreement.
At this moment, Chen Xingyao, who was eating, suddenly put down her chopsticks and looked at Chen Lie, saying, "You're too useless, aren't you? It's been almost a month, and your Qi and Blood haven't increased by even 0.01 calories. You're a senior high school student, and your Qi and Blood value is about to be surpassed by me, a freshman."
"Mom, I think we should let Chen Lie give up martial arts and study humanities instead."
Feng Yuelan immediately glared at Chen Xingyao and scolded, "Shut up, Yaoyao! How dare you talk to your brother like that?"
Chen Xingyao curled her lip, unconvinced.
Feng Yuelan looked at Chen Lie with some worry in her eyes, but said calmly, "It's okay. Your father and I have discussed it and we're going to buy you some exotic beast meat. Exotic beast meat is very helpful for increasing blood energy. Although the effect is not as good as 'blood energy essence', it won't cause any health problems."
Upon hearing this, Chen Xingyao immediately said, "Beast meat? It must be very expensive, right? I heard from my classmates that a pound of beast meat now sells for almost 20,000 star coins, and it's extremely scarce. Even if you have money, you might not be able to buy it."
"It's not that exaggerated. Ask your dad to pull some strings and buy ten catties to send over this time," Feng Yuelan said.
Regarding strange beasts, if Chen Lie doesn't consider his experiences from his previous life, he has never seen one alive.
About seventy years ago, when Earth had just come into contact with interstellar civilization and acquired martial arts knowledge, strange beasts appeared.
When the alien beasts appeared on Earth, they destroyed more than a dozen human cities and killed millions of people. Later, the army was dispatched and quickly suppressed the alien beasts.
At first, the people of Blue Star believed that the strange beasts were a gift from heaven.
Because the flesh and blood of exotic beasts are very precious, ordinary people can improve their blood and qi by eating them, and if it is the flesh and blood of a high-level exotic beast, even martial artists will benefit greatly from eating it.
However, as time went on, the beast tide grew stronger and stronger, and some beasts even began to appear that could threaten the lives of grandmaster-level martial artists.
Until twenty years ago, the high command of humanity on Earth finally took the alien beasts seriously and began to continuously mobilize troops and build defenses to resist their invasion.
According to news reports, strange beasts are constantly emerging from the ground in Kunlun Ruins, located in the northwest of Earth.
As the alien beasts grew stronger and became more difficult to hunt, their flesh and blood became extremely scarce and priceless on the market. Ten pounds of alien beast meat would cost at least tens of thousands of star coins, even with connections, which was almost half the savings of a moderately well-off family.
"But my brother and I are still too low in terms of blood and qi. Wouldn't it be too wasteful to eat the meat of a strange beast so early?"
"I heard that only when your Qi and Blood value exceeds 3 can you barely absorb the energy from the meat of a strange beast," Chen Xingyao said.
Feng Yuelan sighed. She knew all too well that it would be a waste to feed her child the meat of strange beasts, but with the college entrance examination just around the corner and her son's blood and qi values still not reaching 1, she couldn't help but be anxious.
At this moment, Chen Lie looked up and said, "Mom, don't rush to buy the beast meat. I want to try it again."
"Alright then, let's eat first."
Feng Yuelan nodded in agreement with Chen Lie, but she made up her mind that if Chen Lie's blood energy value still couldn't break through in the next test, she would buy the beast meat no matter what.
After finishing his meal, Chen Xingyao lay back down on the sofa in front of the TV and watched experts analyze martial arts.
"Yaoyao, how much health do you have?"
Chen Lie walked over to the sofa and asked Chen Xingyao a question.
Chen Xingyao didn't even look up before saying, "0.91 calories, what's wrong? Did you get a shock when I told you during dinner that your Qi and Blood value is about to surpass yours? You never usually care about my Qi and Blood value."
Chen Lie nodded. Chen Xingyao was only 15 years old, but her Qi and Blood value had already exceeded 0.9. If not one in ten thousand, then one in a thousand.
Because martial arts training on Earth usually begins around the age of fourteen. Before that, the muscles and bones in the body are not fully developed, and the body cannot withstand high-intensity training.
One can only begin training after the age of fourteen, but one cannot train too intensely at the beginning, as it may cause physical damage and prevent one from becoming a martial artist in the future.
For men and women in this age group, the Qi and blood value generally does not exceed 0.3. Because they cannot exercise too much, the rate of increase in Qi and blood is extremely slow.
"I have a body-strengthening technique here that is very helpful in improving blood and qi. Come on, let's go to the training room and I'll teach you."
"You?" Chen Xingyao glanced at Chen Lie with disdain and shook her head, saying, "Come on, instead of wasting your time, you should hurry up and raise your Qi and Blood value."
Look how worried you've made Mom! Monster meat is completely unsuitable for our stage of development; buying it would be a waste.
Chen Lie shook his head. His blood energy was too low, and in his sister's eyes, he was "insignificant and his words carried little weight," so his sister naturally didn't take his words seriously.
His decades-long travels through the starry sky in his previous life taught him many things: the strong can speak softly and make people deaf and dumbfounded, while the weak can shout themselves hoarse and be ignored.