High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

Chapter 175 Nanjiang University

The five words Lin Qingxue sent had no prefix, no greeting, and no emoticons.

The message was sent 30 seconds ago.

Song Chen stared at those five words for a long time, and suddenly remembered that girl.

They kept in touch after the college entrance exam, but because he was focused on killing monsters, they didn't talk much.

Song Chen knew that Lin Qingxue had gone to Nanjiang University, one of the best martial arts universities in Nanjiang Province, but it couldn't compare to Tianhai University, a top university in the Great Xia Dynasty.

There's something between them that's hard to explain.

After hesitating for a moment, Song Chen started typing.

"Yes, I'm back."

Click send.

The "typing is happening" message on the screen stayed lit for a long time.

It was intermittent, sometimes on, sometimes off, sometimes on again.

The final message came.

"I'm at Nanjiang University, do you... have some free time?"

Song Chen did not reply immediately. He sat in the councilor's private cabin, and outside the window, the city walls of Anning City were getting smaller.

The spaceship has taken off and is heading north.

His original plan was to travel all the way to the northern border, level up to the fifth rank in the wilderness, and then go to the capital.

To the north, the Mongolian Plateau, Siberia, the Arctic—that was the direction he had chosen.

He typed two words.

"have."

Then he stood up, walked out of the cabin, and went to the command center.

Han Duo was checking the flight path map on the tactical screen when he saw him enter, and immediately stood up straight. "Associate Song."

"Change course".

"Where to?"

"Nanjiang Base City".

Han Duo did not hesitate at all.

"Yes."

He turned and gave the driver an order.

"Adjust flight path, target Nanjiang base city, full speed ahead."

The spaceship traced an arc in the air, changing direction from north to southeast.

Namjang Base City is the capital of Namjang Province.

It's about 800 kilometers from Anning City, and at this spaceship's speed, it will take half an hour.

Song Chen stood in front of the panoramic porthole of the command cabin, looking down at the wilderness rushing past.

Half an hour later, the spacecraft entered the airspace of Nanjiang Base City.

Looking out the porthole, Nanjiang Base City was more than three times larger than Anning City.

The city's buildings are densely packed yet orderly, and the streets are bustling with people.

Nanjiang University is located in the southeast corner of the city, and its campus covers about 5% of the entire base city. In a base city where land is extremely valuable, this is already an extremely luxurious configuration.

Song Chen unleashed his Eye of Truth, his S-level mental ability scanning range covering the entire city.

Nanjiang University, and then the martial arts training hall was chosen.

Hundreds of psionic fluctuations were active simultaneously, first-order, second-order, and third-order, and his mental energy filtered through these fluctuations.

They quickly found Lin Qingxue, whose Qi and blood had reached around 7 points, a significant improvement.

She is training now.

Song Chen turned around: "The spaceship doesn't need to land, I'll get off myself."

Han Duo was taken aback: "Councilor Song, isn't this inappropriate?"

"There's nothing wrong with it."

Han Duo shut his mouth and nodded.

The hatch opened.

Song Chen jumped directly from a height of three thousand meters.

Wings of Gale unfurled, passing through the clouds and landing on a quiet street in the southeast corner of Nanjiang Base City.

It's three streets away from Nanjiang University.

He didn't want to be too conspicuous, so a parliamentary-owned spaceship landed at the entrance of Nanjiang University, with a hundred guards lined up, all of whom addressed him as "Councilor Song".

The scene was too noisy; he just came to see her.

Song Chen walked on the streets of Nanjiang Base City.

He was still wearing that black martial arts uniform, with faint, indelible traces of the Earth Dragon King's bloodstains on the lapel.

The Tianjun Blade is carried on the back of the body, with the hilt protruding above the right shoulder.

Passing martial artists would glance at him, but no one recognized him.

The video of Qinghu Base City spread throughout the Great Xia Dynasty, but in the video, he was soaked in blood and his body was wrapped in golden-purple lightning.

The boy in front of me, walking quietly down the street with a knife on his back, doesn't seem like the same person.

The main gate of Nanjiang University consists of two stone-carved knife-shaped tablets, one on each side, with the knife tips pointing upwards and the university's motto engraved on the blade: "The blade comes from water, but does not break from mountains."

Song Chen didn't go through the main gate; he climbed over the side wall and landed in the shadow of a small bamboo grove.

The Eye of Truth locked onto Lin Qingxue's location: the southeast corner of the campus, the third martial arts training hall, second floor, training room seven.

He walked over.

The Third Martial Arts Training Hall is a four-story gray building with mottled traces of psionic training on its exterior walls.

As Song Chen walked through the gate, the corridor was paved with dark, non-slip flooring, and the walls were covered with photos and biographies of outstanding graduates from Nanjiang University throughout the years.

He didn't look. He went up the stairs to the second floor and walked to the door of the seventh training room.

The door is made of translucent psionic glass, allowing you to see the outline of the interior from the outside.

She's there.

Training Room 7.

Lin Qingxue stood at the edge of the training mat, holding a water bottle in her hand, while a video was playing on the screen.

"Live footage of the Level 3 Beast Tide in Qinghu Base City: A Mysterious Warrior Breaks Through the Formation Alone."

She has watched the video countless times.

The person in the scene leaps off the city wall, and golden-purple blade energy explodes in the beast tide, slicing a fifth-tier upper-level bladed dragon lizard from head to tail with a single strike.

The comment section has been flooded with comments, with the most upvoted one being: "The number one genius of Great Xia".

Every time she sees those words, she flips the screen over, then flips it back a while later.

"Watching Song Chen again?"

My roommate, Zhou Xiaoman, peeked out from the side, holding a bag of potato chips.

Lin Qingxue swiped her finger across the screen, and the video paused.

The image shows a person frozen in profile, having just wiped the blood off their knife, wearing a dark gray martial arts uniform and with cold, hard facial features.

"It's none of your business."

Zhou Xiaoman moved closer to her, glanced down at the screen, and the image froze on that profile.

"What, you used someone's profile picture as your screensaver?"

Lin Qingxue's ears turned red instantly. She flipped her phone over and placed it face down on her lap, then picked up her water glass and took a sip.

The water was cold, but the heat on the tips of my ears hadn't gone down.

Zhou Xiaoman plopped down next to her, making a clattering sound as the bag of potato chips rustled.

"Qingxue, tell me the truth, do you like Song Chen?"

Lin Qingxue did not speak.

Zhou Xiaoman counted on her fingers: "The number one genius of Great Xia."

"Eighteen years old, fourth rank, first-class combat hero, single-handedly fought through a third-rank beast tide, killed a fifth-rank beast king with a single strike, and is also handsome. Although there is blood on his face in the video, you can tell he has good looks."

"How many girls in the entire Great Xia wouldn't like someone like that? It's normal for you to like him, what's there to be shy about? I like him too."

Lin Qingxue put down the water glass and circled her finger around the rim of the glass.

"I know him."

Zhou Xiaoman stopped eating the potato chips at her lips.

"What did you say?"

"We were high school classmates."

Zhou Xiaoman opened her mouth, and a potato chip fell between her fingers, but she didn't pick it up.

"You know Song Chen? Qingxue, why have you never mentioned him?"

You wouldn't believe me even if I told you.

Zhou Xiaoman opened her mouth, wanting to refute, but found that she really wouldn't believe it.

Lin Qingxue, mid-stage of Tier 1, with a Qi and Blood value of 7, is a freshman majoring in Water-based Supernatural Abilities at Nanjiang University.

Song Chen, a fourth-tier cultivator, killed a fifth-tier upper-level cultivator; he is the number one genius of Great Xia.

These two people are worlds apart.