The Empress’s Gigolo

Chao Rong jogged along the sidewalk in Wuji City, sweating while admiring the scenery on both sides of the road.

Even if it had already been a week, his excitement hadn’t diminished at all.

He was born in a small town in Northeast China and enlisted in the police academy. Due to his excellent physical fitness and extraordinary mind, he was among the best in the academy. After graduating, he was posted at the criminal police detachment of his hometown.

If it wasn’t for a particular person, it wouldn’t have been impossible for Chao Rong to enter the Interpol Corps given his performance at that time.

After returning to his hometown, everything was smooth-sailing for him in his police unit. He successively cracked several major cases, was awarded two first-class merits as well as three second-class merits, and was promoted to vice captain at the age of 30.

At the same time, his childhood sweetheart became his wife.

Chao Rong was leading a pretty good life.

If everything progressed smoothly, he should have been able to get promoted to captain within ten years. After that, he could only depend on luck and opportunity to progress further.

Such accomplishments were already considered outstanding for a person from an ordinary family.

However, all of this changed four years ago when Chao Rong was drafted to undergo training in the province.

He originally didn’t pay much attention to the training, but after attending, he realized that it was different from the past.

[Martial Arts No. 327]. This was what he obtained during training.

One year later, the country began to implement the [Fifteenth Set of Initial Stage Cultivation].

The era of nationwide cultivation was officially introduced.

Thanks to Chao Rong’s excellent physical fitness and talent, he managed to break through the boundary which obstructed countless people and attained the level of Black class, lower grade. It was only then that he discovered another name for this level, which was called the Man Wheel level.

The current classifications were Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow. A strong adult male would naturally belong to the Yellow class.

The next tier would be the Black class.

After reaching the Black class, Chao Rong was very clear about his own strength. He could at least deal with four of his past selves with guns.

He had even asked about how strong the Earth class was, but had never heard about anyone attaining that level.

He wondered if there were any Earth class experts in this world.

If he could already possess such strength at the Black class level, wouldn’t an Earth class expert be beyond human?

After attaining the Black class level, Chao Rong had two paths he could take.

The first was to enter the Executive Armed Forces Bureau, which was still in the middle of being established, and directly take up the position of Deputy Bureau Chief.

The other path was to join a new department called the Armed Forces Command and move to Wuji City.

After brief consideration, Chao Rong chose the latter.

Apart from being able to gain more exposure to more martial arts as a member of the Armed Forces Command, he would also be spending most of his time training and would rarely be sent on missions. This way, he would be able to progress faster.

It was also because of the extremely mysterious Wuji City that ordinary people had been talking about.

Chao Rong immediately knew that he had made the right decision when he arrived at the city a week ago with his wife and five-year-old son.

Wuji City was an orderly, yet strange, city.

The city was full of monks, priests, warriors wearing traditional Han Chinese clothing or ancient costumes, experts from the army, and members of the Armed Forces Command like him.

At the same time, Chao Rong discovered another name for this city from those people: Central City.

Like the political center of Beijing and the economic center of Shanghai, this city would be the future center of martial arts. Unlike the other two cities, this would be the center of the entire world’s martial arts experts.

Only those who met a certain level of strength could move their families here, and they would be allocated a home that was 140 square meters.

Other than the staff, who were ordinary people selected from the best, and members of government agencies, no matter how rich or powerful someone was, he or she could never become a member of this city.

This alone made Chao Rong identify himself with the city.

Even if he became the director of the Armed Forces Bureau, he would still be a human confined within a small city.

However, it was completely different here. Everyone around was like him; they were the most outstanding people in China.

In the future, this would be the center of the entire world.

Just from the people that Chao Rong knew, ranging all the way from elementary school classmates to colleagues to other elites he met during training, he himself was the only one who made it here. He belonged to an entirely different world than them.

Although there was currently only a population of several thousands of people here and the entire city still looked pretty empty, the situation would change from year to year. After 10 years, it would be completely different.

Thoughts raced in Chao Rong’s head as he jogged. At the same time, he greeted those he met along the way.

After turning a corner, he reached the main road. This was Area C, which was located very close to the center of Wuji City. According to some people, this was within the premises of the second ring.

From this point forward, there were almost no residences. There were only various government agencies, military departments, public squares, stadiums, hospitals, bustling commercial areas, and hotels.

The reason why the word “almost” was used was because there was a strange place to his left across the road.

Along the road was a row of high-rise buildings that hadn’t opened yet. They included hotels, shopping malls, supermarkets, movie theaters, and a “Dayao” martial arts center.

Behind these buildings was a commercial street, a park, an arena, and also a villa area.

The reason why Chao Rong found this place strange was that even though there were very few people in Wuji City, almost all of the land in the third ring was already in use. The buildings that were located in Area C were the exception and had been unused the entire time. However, there were people cleaning up the place occasionally.

He heard a rumor that this area was private.

This piece of news made him speechless. Who could own such a large area in Wuji City? He ran around the city on purpose, and this section wasn’t small. It occupied an area of five square kilometers of land.

This was Wuji City, not some small desolate city. How could anyone own such a large private area?

Chao Rong also deliberately asked some colleagues in the Armed Forces Command and concluded that this area was indeed privately owned.

Apart from him, almost everyone else was also curious about who could own such an area in the city. However, no one knew who it was.

There were rumors that the owner of this area was the boss of the “Dayao” martial arts center.

After cultivation was introduced nationwide, Chao Rong read about this martial arts center online and saw a few videos about it. What made him extremely surprised was that there were many Man Wheel experts in those videos. At that time, he simply felt that the strength they displayed was terrifying. After all, a layman would only see the thrill of something, whereas a professional would see the skill of it. Even though he wasn’t strong at the time, he found it extraordinary.

It wasn’t until he attained the Man Wheel level two years later that he understood what those things in the video meant.

However, when he arrived in the city and asked more about Area C, he heard an even more shocking rumor: there were Earth Wheel experts in the Dayao martial arts center!

Chao Rong was shocked by this piece of news. According to his knowledge, the top expert in the Armed Forces Command was only at the Black class, upper grade. It was said that he was previously a master of martial arts and had attained the Black class seven years ago. Even so, he was only at the upper grade of the Black class at the moment.

(The upper, middle and lower grades of the Heaven, Earth and Black classes are equivalent to that of the Spirit Wheel, Earth Wheel and Man Wheel levels.)

He didn’t know if this was true, but it would be too shocking if it was.

The Armed Forces Command didn’t even have one Earth class expert, yet a martial arts center actually had so many of them.

This also made Chao Rong more curious about the identity of the boss of this martial arts center.

Chao Rong, who was still running, suddenly felt a little strange. There seemed to be more people on this road today.

Although this was within the second ring, there were usually less than 20 people within 100 meters, so it wasn’t normally crowded.

There seemed to be twice as many people at the moment, and many of them were simply standing against the wall as if they were waiting for something.