“The source of life?”

  Under the massage of the water flow, Chen Yue, who had recovered some energy, asked. There was a bit of excitement on his face. He understood that from the moment he touched that green light ball, a brand-new world had officially opened up to him.

  Previously, he was just an outsider standing outside the hall of apostles, with no chance to enter. But now, this door had opened.

  “Throughout our lives, we need energy for eating, sleeping, walking, fighting, and so on. Even for small actions like blinking and frowning, energy is consumed. Have you ever thought about where this consumed energy comes from? And where does the energy from the food we eat and the various elemental energies we absorb go?” Seeing Chen Yue showing a thoughtful expression, Venia smiled and continued.

  “The origin and destination of these energies is the source of life. There is a source of life in every person's body, which sustains a life. Without it, we would be just a thinking stone.”

  After pondering for a moment, Chen Yue nodded, agreeing with Venia's statement. Although according to the theories of his previous life, it couldn't be explained this way, but this world had its special rules. Therefore, it wasn't surprising that there would be a concretized source of life.

  “Ordinary people muddle along and can't touch the source of life in their entire lives. After their lifespan ends, the source of life dissipates. However, professionals are different, and we apostles are even more special among the special.”

  Speaking of this, Venia's voice rose: “Magicians and fighters below the seventh rank only cultivate the surface energy existing in the body. Only from the seventh rank can one be qualified to touch the source of life. And we apostles, from the very beginning, cultivate the life force of the source of life.”

  “Life force is the most essential energy. The stronger it is, the longer the lifespan.”

  This was easy to understand. After Venia explained for a while, Chen Yue understood.

  Magic and fighting spirit are both surface energies existing in the body. Although these energies are the ones that have been transformed from the energy of the source of life to adapt to the physical body, there is no superiority or inferiority when compared. At most, they are just different in attributes. This is like the difference between petroleum, gasoline, and diesel. Although they are refined from petroleum, only gasoline and diesel can be really put into use.

  Magic and fighting spirit both possess strong destructive power. Although cultivating life force doesn't have much destructive power, it can increase lifespan, which is incomparable to magic and fighting spirit.

  So apostles have such a long lifespan, but their combat effectiveness is not strong. They mainly rely on familiar spirits. And the lifespan of low-rank magicians and fighters is not much higher than that of ordinary people. Only after reaching the seventh rank does the lifespan increase significantly.

  In this regard, apostles have a great advantage.

  Longevity is such a great temptation for people with a lifespan of only a hundred years. At least at this moment, Chen Yue's heart was stirred.

  “You have already touched the source of life. Starting from tomorrow, we can conduct the next step of training.” Venia said with a smile.

  “Mentor Venia, I have a question.”

  “Go ahead.”

  “How many days did it take for the fastest other apostle to touch the source of life?” Taking a deep breath, Chen Yue said slowly.

  After a moment of silence, as if hesitating about something, Venia said after a long while: “Three months.”

  “Thank you.” Chen Yue said contentedly and soon fell into a deep sleep.

  It only took him 11 days. This result was enough.

  With her delicate eyebrows slightly furrowed, Venia looked at Chen Yue's sleeping handsome face with some worry: “I hope this child won't become proud because of this. Was it right to tell him the truth?”

  ...

  The next day, after seeing Chen Yue's performance was still the same, Venia, who had been worried all night, breathed a sigh of relief.

  “For apostles, the most important thing is the cultivation of the source of life. You should still remember the process of summoning the familiar spirit. The first impact was directed towards the source of life. The stronger it is, the greater the impact you can withstand, and correspondingly, you can summon a more advanced familiar spirit. So, the second step of the following training is this.” After letting Chen Yue understand the training plan for the next step, Venia didn't say much more. However, she didn't tell him the specific cultivation process. She just asked him to get familiar with it until he could perceive the source of life at any time.

  This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.

  In the past ten or so days, although the extreme training would stop, generally speaking, the water puppet had been flying towards the distance. Chen Yue was not familiar with the geography of the Tianye Empire and didn't know where he was at this moment.

  Another seven days passed, and Chen Yue finally reached the point where he could perceive the source of life at any time. He no longer needed to deliberately put himself in a life-and-death situation. Compared with other apostles, this was another miracle. But Venia had become numb and didn't say much.

  Gradually, what appeared in front was no longer mountains and forests, but a deep blue, merging with the sky at the distant edge.

  “The sea?”

  “Next, we are going to sea.” In response to Chen Yue's doubt, Venia nodded to confirm.

  On a small hill outside a city by the sea, the two landed.

  Stepping on the solid ground, Chen Yue had an unusually reassuring feeling. Presumably, anyone who had been in the air for nearly twenty days would have such a feeling.

  “That's the city in front. We are going to take a ship from the harbor there and go to sea. Take this.” As she spoke, Venia threw over a golden badge engraved with a bleeding thorn and inlaid with a circle of purple gold. At first glance, one could feel a bone-chilling coldness rushing towards them.

  “This is the family crest of a small family in the Free Capital. It's useful when entering the city. Put it on first and take off your apostle badge. Temporarily, don't wear that thing.” As if a bit troubled, Venia put away her apostle badge.

  During this journey, Chen Yue had already seen her professional badge. There were five huge colorful diamonds engraved on it, which made Chen Yue take a deep breath.

  A fifth-order apostle.

  The ranks of apostles are different from those of other professionals. For other professions, the seventh rank is the watershed. Once this threshold is crossed, the strength will increase by leaps and bounds. Although fifth-order professionals in other professions are powerful, they are not invincible.

  However, the combat effectiveness of apostles depends on their familiar spirits. The fifth order represents that the highest level of the familiar spirit can be upgraded to the fifth order. Coupled with the star level, the strength is far beyond that of other professionals of the same rank.

  Just taking Venia as an example, if her water spirit is upgraded to the fifth order, plus the star level, it will have the strength of the ninth order. It would be easy to sweep across the entire continent. Of course, the higher the star level of the familiar spirit, the hundreds of times increase in the difficulty of upgrading the level. For thousands of years, Venia's water spirit has only just reached the third order, but its strength is already no less than that of other seventh-order professionals.

  This is still the strength that Venia has currently revealed. Just think about it and you will know that she couldn't have summoned a four-star familiar spirit from the beginning. So there must be low-star familiar spirits. It is easier for low-star familiar spirits to upgrade their levels. Although their strength is definitely not as good as that of the water spirit, added together, conservatively estimated, Venia's strength is definitely around the eighth order of other professionals.

  It is estimated that the number of professionals above the eighth order in the entire Tianye Empire can be counted on one hand, which shows how powerful she is. If such a person doesn't conceal her identity, it will be enough to cause an earthquake in any city.

  Even for Chen Yue, who is only a first-order apostle, if he doesn't take off his apostle badge, it will cause a sensation. Not to mention Venia.

  Very simply, Chen Yue changed into the badge of this small family. He couldn't help but feel a sense of unease. It was a good thing to have a noble identity, but being watched like a monkey was definitely unacceptable.

  When entering the city, seeing that the two didn't have professional badges, a city guard wanted to come up and collect taxes. But being pulled by a captain, he stopped.

  After whispering a few words in his ear, several city guards immediately cast 敬畏的目光 and didn't dare to come forward again. And what they were looking at was the newly changed badges on the two's chests.

  A small family? Seeing this scene, the corners of Chen Yue's mouth couldn't help but curl up. That was in Venia's eyes, right?

  It seemed that this badge was also a bit troublesome. Since the problem of entering the city was also solved, the two quickly put away the badges. Chen Yue took the badge in his hand and had a thought. He didn't return it to Venia.

  The identity of an apostle was too eye-catching. If he used this badge, he could solve a lot of troubles...

  Venia seemed to have completely forgotten about this matter and didn't even mention it. At the beginning, she took it out and didn't intend to take it back.

  Chen Yue's performance also satisfied her. He wasn't a pedantic person. Invisibly, Venia's evaluation of Chen Yue was a little higher.

  At the harbor, countless ships were docked.

  The two walked among them. However, disappointingly, no one could meet Venia's requirements.

  She was going to take Chen Yue to a place called Ming Mountain Island.

  However, after asking most of the crew, no one knew there was such an island.

  “It's strange. I clearly came here two hundred years ago. Why doesn't anyone in East Sea City recognize the way?” Quite puzzled, Venia frowned slightly.

  Chen Yue's eyes darkened, and he staggered and almost fell to the ground. Looking at Venia, he exclaimed, “East, East Sea City?”

  “Yes. What's wrong?”

  “But, this is clearly South Asia City...” Quite speechless, Chen Yue pointed to the side. Two people dressed as crew members were chatting, and the words “South Asia City” occasionally popped up in their sentences.

  Venia exclaimed, and what she said was collapse.

  “Ah, South Asia City is in the south of the Tianye Empire, thousands of miles away from East Sea City.”

  ...

  “How could the deviation be so big.” Chen Yue said helplessly.

  “Cough...” Venia's face turned slightly red: “I get lost easily.”

  His mouth opened wider and wider. Chen Yue stared at Venia, who showed a rare shy look, in astonishment. Could it be that this extremely powerful, knowledgeable powerhouse and deacon of the Apostle Association was actually someone with no sense of direction?

  ...