109 Entering the Insect World

After Miao Xinyue agreed to be his disciple, Ning Shi had one more disciple in the game system.

[Fourth disciple Miao Xinyue/ Inner Thoughts/ skill impartation.]

[Miao Xinyue: That’s great. I’ll definitely become stronger if I can become senior Ning Shi’s disciple. Senior Ning Shi is just like Teacher Taozi, both benefactors in my life. I wonder what kind of anime character he likes. I’ll cosplay one day and give him a surprise.]

Ning Shi turned off the Inner Thoughts skill and used skill impartation.

[Do you want to spend 200 reputation points to upgrade Miao Xinyue’s transformation level to Tier 2? Yes, no?]

[Do you want to spend 300 reputation points to upgrade Miao Xinyue’s transformation level to Tier 3? Yes, no?]

…

[Do you want to spend 600 reputation points to upgrade Miao Xinyue’s transformation level to Tier 6? Yes, no?]

After the awakening competition started, Ning Shi’s reputation points soared and were basically endless.

Although the reputation points cost of teaching the transformation skill was relatively high, Ning Shi still spent 2000 reputation points in one go to raise the impartation of the transformation skill to Tier 6 for Miao Xinyue.

After thinking about it, he realized that Bajiquan was also of great help to her, so he continued to impart the skill to her.

[Do you want to spend 100 reputation points to teach Miao Xinyue Bajiquan Tier 1? Yes, no.]

[Do you want to spend 50 reputation points to upgrade Miao Xinyue’s Bajiquan to Tier 2? Yes, no.]

…

[Do you want to spend 100 reputation points to upgrade Miao Xinyue’s Bajiquan to Tier 5? Yes, no.]

With that, he spent 500 reputation points to teach Miao Xinyue the Tier 5 Bajiquan.

Seeing that Ning Shi had accepted Miao Xinyue as his disciple, Chen Wei was quite delighted and said teasingly, “Let’s say this first, the three of us are different. I don’t want to be one generation lower than Shitou.”

Ning Shi laughed and said mockingly, “Just you? I’m not even willing to take you in even if you want to be my disciple!”

“Xinyue, hurry up and settle the withdrawal procedures. Give me your ID card information, and I’ll inform the school administration office. You can go straight to the school’s registration,” Ning Shi said meaningfully, “I’ve already taught you what I should so cultivate quickly. I’m going out for some time. I’ll check your cultivation when I come back.”

Miao Xinyue was confused by Ning Shi’s words. She didn’t understand. However, seeing that he didn’t want to say more, she didn’t ask.

Now that the company’s troubles were resolved and he had accepted Miao Xinyue as his disciple, Ning Shi did not plan to return to school.

He had contacted Hu Changjun in the car earlier. Old Hu told him to fly to Beijiang City where someone would be waiting at the airport.

Ning Shi couldn’t be bothered to buy a plane ticket either. He simply found a place where there was no one, turned into a war insect, and flew to the Beijiang Airport.

Three hours later, he appeared at the Beijiang Airport. He saw a tall young man holding up the name “Ning Shi” and walked over.

“Hello, I’m Ning Shi.”

The young man quickly put down the sign and saluted, “Hello, Principal Ning! I am Li Zishan, a correspondent from the Beijiang Army 578th troop!”

A trace of puzzlement flashed in Li Zhishan’s eyes. He noticed that Ning Shi hadn’t walked out of the airport, but came from outside.

However, the discipline of a warrior made him not ask too much.

“Principal Ning, please follow me. The car is in the parking lot.”

Ning Shi followed Li Zhishan and got into a tall and sturdy military vehicle.

With the roar of the engine, the military vehicle left the airport and slowly left the airport highway. It left the main road and drove toward a deserted land.

“It’s faster if we drive in a straight line,” Li Zhishan explained, “We will reach a special road for material transportation that the troops have specially built later.”

After the car jolted for more than ten minutes in the wasteland, they arrived on a wide and flat transportation road.

Then, they drove along the transportation road for almost two hours.

Only then did Ning Shi vaguely see a large group of buildings ahead.

With Ning Shi’s vision, he should have been able to see everything clearly even from a long distance. Yet, the buildings in the distance were always blurry as if they were shrouded in a faint mist.

Ning Shi understood that this was the world boundary. The reason behind his blurred vision was probably the blurry effect caused by the folding of space.

As the car drove closer, a 1000-meter-long wall entered his sight. Inside the wall were blue and white buildings. This was the base of the army in the realm.

Its main purpose was to prevent trespassers from entering the world boundary, as well as train the soldiers within and ensure logistics.

Passing through the army encampment, Ning Shi finally saw the world boundary for the first time.

It was like a glass passage that had been expanded hundreds of times. Here, the sense of spatial fragmentation was unusually strong.

Where the two worlds met, they were clearly separated by the world boundary.

Li Zhishan reminded, “Principal Ning, you must not touch these spatial boundaries. These are the ‘scars’ left behind when the world boundary was formed. They have a powerful spatial fragmentation ability. Any object that touches the boundary will be cut.”

Ning Shi’s imagination ran wild, “The boundary is so long, probably more than 20000 meters in total. Can we use its cutting ability to create items?”

“We can’t. The boundary is the foundation of the world boundary. We can’t touch it frequently, or it will easily cause the world boundary to fall.”

Ning Shi nodded to show that he understood. He did not say anything more and walked straight into the world boundary.

In an instant, Ning Shi felt dizzy as if he was watching the stars shifting. It was similar to the feeling he had when he took the teleportation array in the World of Moen.

After his vision recovered, the first thing Ning Shi saw was a row of towering and spectacular city walls.

The city wall was a thousand meters tall. Standing at the base of the wall and looking up, the wall felt like a towering mountain.

The city walls were 1000 meters tall and 10000 meters wide. This was the capability of Yunmeng Kingdom’s infrastructure. It was too powerful!

After Ning Shi verified his identity at the entrance of the city wall, he entered.

Only then did he know that the city wall was 50 meters thick and there were many rooms inside. The troops guarding the world boundary all lived in the city wall.

There were a total of three rows of such walls!

As Li Zhishan walked, he introduced the situation inside the world boundary to Ning Shi, “There are 200000 elite troops stationed at the world boundary. Added to the troops stationed within the national borders, that’s a total of 400000 soldiers.”

“Every 15 km, we will build a row of city walls. The facilities inside the city walls are very advanced, and the soldiers usually rest in the inner rooms. Training is usually done in the open space between the city walls or back in the world boundary. This is the gym, this is the canteen, and that is the reading room…”

Li Zhishan walked as he spoke, leading Ning Shi to Room 502 on the fifth floor of the second row of city walls.

“Chief! Principal Ning Shi has arrived!”

A middle-aged man with a straight figure, thick eyebrows, a wide mouth, and a square face stood up. He walked forward and held Ning Shi’s hands with both hands as he said, “Principal Ning Shi, welcome to the border. I’m the commander of the Beijiang Army, Ou Jianjun. Please sit!

After Ning Shi greeted him, he sat down. Since his mission was done, Li Zhishan went out, closing the door of the office.

Ou Jianjun made a cup of tea for Ning Shi and said, “Principal Ning, Old Hu has told me why you’re here. Please reconsider. After all, the insect world is very dangerous.”

“The metal-devouring insects that are wreaking havoc in our world and have already annihilated two countries are only the lowest level of cannon fodder in the insect world. Up until now, we’ve only explored the territory of the insect world near the world boundary a few times. We’ve also sent elite troops to explore deeper, but none of them returned. Among the warriors who died in the insect world, some of them were experts who had reached Tier 9.”

“To be honest, when Old Hu told me that you wanted to go to the insect world, I had straight out refused. You’re still young and are the pillar of the country. You’re the leader of the strength-type awakeners. Many strength-type awakeners in the army respect you and are grateful for your extreme body-forging method. It’s not wise for you to enter the insect world so rashly, which is why I don’t agree.”

Ning Shi had long been thirsty after flying all the way. He disregarded the temperature of the tea and drank it in one gulp.

Then, he replied to Ou Jianjun’s good intentions, “Commander Ou, I dared to enter the world boundary because I’m confident. Chief Hu Changjun didn’t agree to it at first as well, but I sent him a video to show him my new ability, and he ultimately agreed.”

“Your correspondent, Xiao Li, will probably report to you later. When he came to pick me up, I didn’t come from inside the Beijiang Airport, but from outside. That’s because I didn’t take a plane, I flew here by myself.”

With that, Ning Shi transformed into a war insect in the office.

Ou Jianjun had been fighting with the insects day and night, and his body had a stress reaction. When he saw the war insect, he almost attacked Ning Shi instinctively.

After holding back his impulse, Ou Jianjun looked at the 2 cm war insect before him and clicked his tongue in wonder.

“Principal Ning, I didn’t expect you to have awakened a transformation-type ability. The idea of transforming into an insect is just genius! This idea is good! It’s worth at least 1000 merit points!”

Ning Shi transformed back into his main body and drank another cup of tea.

“This is my secret. I hope Commander Ou won’t spread it.”

Ou Jianjun had just been inspired by Ning Shi and was quite pleased. He laughed heartily, “Don’t worry, I swear on my military career that I will definitely keep this a secret. However, your idea of turning into an insect will greatly improve the investigation ability of the troops, so I still have to give you merit points.”

“Since you can become a war insect, I won’t stand in your way and will agree for you to enter the insect world,” Ou Jianjun’s expression became serious, and he seriously warned, “That being said, Principal Ning, although you can turn into an insect and mix into the swarm of insects, you have to act within your means and be careful. I will be here waiting for your triumphant return!”