High-level martial arts: Starting with a heart of steel, stats crush everything.

"..."

Geng Lianhu narrowed his eyes and looked Chen Mo up and down.

"Hey kid...are you hiding something from us?"

"I've been feeling suspicious about you. I'm warning you, you're not allowed into the Abyss Rift right now!"

Upon hearing Geng Lianhu's first words, Chen Mo felt a chill run down his spine, but then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"How could that be? I just came out for some fresh air. What would I be doing in the Abyss Rift?"

"I have an assessment tomorrow, I'm going back to rest after getting some fresh air."

"Goodnight, Dean Geng, Governor Qiu, and Principal Shi. I'm leaving now."

Chen Mo tried to slip away after he finished speaking, but Geng Lianhu grabbed him by the collar.

"Did I tell you to leave? Since you're here, that's perfect. Come with us to the research center."

"I heard from the stone lion that you carried the Abyss Demon and did a flying throw, didn't you?"

Geng Lianhu grinned. He was extremely curious about this matter. If it weren't for the assessment tomorrow, he would have dragged Chen Mo out tonight to ask him about it.

Now that's great, this kid has come to us all by himself instead of sleeping, how could he possibly let such an opportunity pass by?

"Uh..." Chen Mo's gaze was somewhat evasive. He could only hope that Chu Tianhua could provide a reasonable explanation.

Ideally, it would be something with a wildly imaginative plot, capable of fooling all these masters.

...

At the Mountain City Research Center, Chu Tianhua, who was racking his brains over how to replicate the internal structure of energy batteries, was pushed forward.

"Why are you bothering me in the middle of the night?"

Chu Tianhua was somewhat annoyed. He always felt that the structure of the energy battery was not complicated, but it just couldn't be replicated.

Once they can replicate it, they will have many more ways to deal with the Abyss.

"This kid did something truly earth-shattering."

Geng Lianhu led Chen Mo to sit on the sofa, patted Chen Mo on the back and told him to speak.

Chen Mo didn't say anything; he had no idea how to bring it up.

"This kid carried the Abyss Demon and launched it with a flying throw, the kind with the power of a nuclear bomb."

"Pfft!" Chu Tianhua spat out his coffee before he could even swallow it, staring blankly at Chen Mo in front of him.

"You're a level six martial artist, right?"

"Even the Great Demons of the Abyss start at the thirteenth-level Grandmaster level. How did you manage to withstand that?"

"Leaving aside the weight of the Abyss Demons, the toxins they emit alone could kill you."

"How did you do that?"

Chu Tianhua immediately felt wide awake; Chen Mo's energizing effect was even better than caffeine.

Hmm, next time I'm tired, I'll call this kid over to perk me up.

"I... I don't know either. I was pushed to the limit, and it seems like my mental energy underwent some kind of change..."

"But when I tried it again later, I found that my mental energy had returned to normal. It seems that some kind of condition needs to be triggered?"

"Mental power...it's actually a mutation in mental power!"

Chu Tianhua's previously puzzled eyes cleared up; Chen Mo's words seemed to have opened his mind.

"Chu Chi, come here!"

Upon hearing Chu Tianhua's summons, Chu Chi emerged from a dark corner like a summoned beast.

"I originally planned to study this phenomenon thoroughly before publishing my findings."

"But I never expected that a second case of mental power mutation would appear around me."

"What!?" Geng Lianhu and the others stood up abruptly. This old monkey Chu Tianhua was actually hiding something from them.

"Relax, don't be so tense, it's not a bad thing."

Chu Tianhua knew how much Geng Lianhu and Qiu Wushuang valued Chen Mo, so their reaction was normal.

If the Great Xia Grandmaster Academy didn't value Chen Mo, they wouldn't have sent Geng Lianhu, a humanoid nuclear weapon capable of destroying a nation, to pick him up.

"Let me show you."

Chu Tianhua waved his hand at Chu Chi, and Chu Chi's eyes lit up with white light.

The teapot in front of Chen Mo and the others floated up, swung twice in mid-air, and then fell back to the ground.

"I always believed that spiritual power couldn't only have the effect of healing, and I was only convinced of this after I discovered this child, Chu Chi."

"To be precise, this is not a mutation of mental power, but rather an application of mental power."

"To use mental power through a specific method, thereby gaining some wondrous abilities."

"This ability can be called a superpower or Nen ability."

"Currently, Chu Chi is the only example; Chen Mo's abilities still need further evaluation."

Chu Tianhua paused for a moment, then shifted his gaze to Geng Lianhu.

"Old Geng, I need to discuss something with you."

"What good nonsense can you possibly spout, you old monkey?" Geng Lianhu rolled his eyes. Once this old man starts talking properly, he's definitely up to no good.

"I can provide the Great Xia Grandmaster Academy with funding for a whole year, which is 300 billion."

"What you need to do is very simple."

As he spoke, Chu Tianhua pointed to Chen Mo, who was fiddling with a floating teapot.

"Lend me this kid for a year, and I'm sure I'll find the true way to use spiritual power within him!"

"No, we won't lend it. Besides, Chen Mo isn't the property of our Great Xia Grandmaster Academy. You should ask him about this."

Geng Lianhu shook his head. Although they valued Chen Mo, it was not their business what Chen Mo wanted to do or where he wanted to go.

At most, I'll offer some advice.

"How so? I'll provide you with unlimited cultivation resources. Come to Shanghai."

Chu Tianhua knew that the best way to win over these martial artists was with unlimited resources.

With unlimited resources, even the least talented people can make rapid progress.

"Really?" Chen Mo's eyes lit up, while Geng Lianhu's heart skipped a beat.

"Of course, as long as you can name it, I can provide it to you in unlimited quantities."

Chu Tianhua is very confident about this.

He has no other great abilities in his life, except that he is rich!

So much money that you can't spend it all, enough to burn as firewood.

"I want energy fluid, twenty tons."

"I'm thinking of taking a bath with energy fluid; maybe that will energize the steel marrow."

Chen Mo didn't stand on ceremony and immediately asked for twenty tons of energy liquid.

"..."

The entire reception room fell silent, and everyone looked at Chen Mo with puzzled expressions.

"Say it again?" Chu Tianhua even doubted that he had heard the wrong unit.

Did he hear 20 grams as 20 tons?

"What's wrong? Twenty tons of energy liquid?"

Chen Mo didn't know what he said wrong. This thing shouldn't be that precious, right?

For a top figure like Chu Tianhua.

"..." Silence, deathly silence.

Everyone fell silent, except for Geng Lianhu, who couldn't hold back his laughter after a long time.

"Old monkey, aren't you pretty capable?"

"Chen Mo has already made his demands, so why don't you agree?"

"Hahahahaha!"

Geng Lianhu thought that Chen Mo was making unreasonable demands to reject Chu Tianhua.

That's actually what everyone thinks.

Chen Mo himself felt that the conditions were already quite good; he could bring back a huge amount by going to Black Cloud City in the Deep Abyss.

If those grandmaster-level Abyss warriors hadn't returned, he wouldn't have tried to freeload off Chu Tianhua.