“Ah~~”
The instinctive exclamation had just escaped his lips when Chen Yue was choked by the surging water inside the water puppet. In a flurry, just as he was about to grab something, the feeling of the surrounding water swirling changed, and he had already passed through the water puppet, exposed in the upper air at an altitude of over ten thousand meters, and was falling rapidly downward.
His thoughts seemed to freeze in an instant and stopped for a moment.
It was as if a bone-chilling cold had invaded his marrow. Chen Yue's hands and feet turned cold, and that was the fear originating from the depths of his soul.
This... was an altitude of ten thousand meters...
Did she want to get rid of him?
There was no time for him to think too much. In the next second, his body was falling rapidly like a meteorite. The howling wind filled his ears, and it felt as if countless small knives were cutting his skin, causing a burning pain.
Chen Yue's mind went blank. In this extreme situation, he had lost the ability to think. Everything around him gradually became dim and distant. In the world, there was only a suffocating paleness left.
After an unknown period of time, a sudden warm current pulled Chen Yue's sanity back. At the same time, the sensation in his body also returned. It was as if he had been dragged from the mortal world into hell. The intense pain immediately occupied all his nerve cells. However, what was encouraging was that there was also a warm current flowing everywhere in his body from an unknown source, nourishing every cell.
What a familiar feeling...
Suddenly, a strong force came from various parts of his body such as his arms, thighs, and waist. It not only reversed the falling trend but also pulled him upward at high speed.
At this time, Chen Yue noticed that there were rope-like streams of water winding around various parts of his body.
After realizing this, Chen Yue immediately dismissed the suspicion that Venia had ill intentions, and his heart suddenly relaxed.
After being pulled up for nearly a hundred meters, his body felt cool, as if he had entered the water. Chen Yue immediately knew that Venia had pulled him back.
In the next moment, Chen Yue appeared on the back of the water puppet in a rather embarrassed manner.
Sprawling his limbs out without any grace, Chen Yue lay on his back on the water puppet, his eyes slightly narrowed, breathing slowly.
Surprisingly, Venia didn't show any surprise at all. Instead, she looked at Chen Yue with great interest.
After a while, his breathing became steady.
“How do you feel?”
“Okay.” After saying this, Chen Yue forcefully exhaled a hot breath from his chest and stood up. “Mentor Venia, please give me some guidance.”
Although there had been no explanation before such a situation occurred, during that critical moment, the warm current that flowed into his body made Chen Yue suddenly recall the warm current that had flowed into his body when he was in the out-of-body state while practicing the seventh posture of the “Health Preservation Formula” on his way to the Free Capital. It was exactly the same feeling.
This realization made him immediately judge that this wasn't a prank or an attempt to harm him, but a prelude, a prelude to the real training. In this way, the act of asking him to summon the frozen rabbit earlier could also be explained. In Chen Yue's view, the source of that power was the frozen rabbit.
After figuring this out, he even changed his address and officially entered the role of a trainee.
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“It seems that you've understood. I like this address.” Venia said slowly. “Well, you're not wrong. This was just a small test to determine the content of the following training. You didn't change much in your expression before and after being suddenly frightened, which shows that you have good psychological quality. And after being pulled up, you didn't rush to question angrily, which means that you can distinguish priorities and have strong adaptability. Good. I'm quite satisfied with your performance. You're a very interesting little guy.”
“Little guy...” Chen Yue was a bit depressed because, judging from her appearance, Venia was only in her twenties or thirties and wasn't much older than him.
“Among the apostles I've trained in the past three thousand years, your performance in the first test is undoubtedly excellent. However, this is just the beginning...” Speaking of this, Venia suddenly stopped and looked at Chen Yue, whose face was flushed red as if he had been choked by something, with some confusion. “What's wrong with you?”
“Cough~ cough~” After coughing vigorously a few times, Chen Yue finally caught his breath. However, the look he gave Venia was extremely strange...
Three thousand years. Didn't that mean that this woman, who didn't look much older than him, was at least three thousand years old? And according to the habit of women generally liking to halve their age when talking about it, then Venia would be...
Thinking of this, Chen Yue's gaze trembled a little. Such data was really beyond imagination for Chen Yue, who had always lived on Earth before. At the same time, he remembered the introduction of apostles by Ling Yue'er.
Almost endless life... How tempting it was.
Somewhat strangely flicking her fingertips, Venia continued, “The result of the test is good, but I don't want you to become complacent. To become a powerful apostle, just having intelligence isn't enough. What's also needed is indomitable perseverance and the courage to face life and death.”
“I won't let you disappoint me.” Chen Yue said firmly.
“Then, the real training begins.” Venia said. “For the first step of the training, first of all, I want you to understand—the power source of apostles. And this is also the most basic and core part of all the basic training.”
Closing his eyes and thinking for a while, Chen Yue said slowly, “Do you mean the warm current that flowed into my body at the moment of life and death?”
“You felt it?” Venia asked in surprise. When she saw Chen Yue nod without hesitation, shock rose in her heart once again. Originally, being able to show a calm and rational state of mind in the first test was already quite good. But being able to feel that power just once could only mean an almost terrifying talent.
“You... are excellent.” Saying this a bit dejectedly, Venia glared at Chen Yue. “Yes, that's our power source. Its source is... Wait, what else have you thought of?”
Seeing that Chen Yue had an attentive look as if listening carefully, with his brows slightly furrowed as if thinking about something, Venia instinctively wanted to know how much he had inferred from this single test.
“Well, just two points.”
“Still... two points...” Venia stammered.
Looking at Venia a bit strangely, in Chen Yue's view, he had experienced it once in the out-of-body state and again when manipulating the flying beast. With these two experiences before, having some insights wasn't strange. How could he have thought that few beginners could enter that out-of-body state, and few beginners could master the discarded skill of domestication like he did.
Although he had doubts, Chen Yue still clearly stated his thoughts: “First, this power seems to come from the familiar spirit. Second, only at the moment of life and death can this power be triggered. Of course, without enough information, I can't be sure whether it can be triggered 100% every time.”
“For an apostle, any familiar spirit is a treasure that can never be fully explored in a lifetime.” Venia muttered.
Chen Yue immediately showed a pensive look.
“I'm hit.” Calming down, Venia looked at Chen Yue with a bit of ill intention. “I think you can start the training directly. During the following process, what you need to do is to constantly feel that power. Only when you can actually feel it will you enter the next step of training.”
Chen Yue nodded extremely firmly. He could already guess how miserable the following training would be...
“The goal this time is...” Venia had a devilish smile. “To fall vertically for five hundred meters.”
Chen Yue's face changed drastically. Before he could say the word “oppose,” the space under his feet disappeared, and his body fell again. His intermittent and chaotic voice drifted away and was blown away by the fierce wind without a trace.
Looking at Chen Yue, who was rapidly shrinking below, a smile appeared on Venia's lips.
“Interesting little guy.”
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