Although he was only ranked second to last among the 10,000 finalists after the audition, and the chances of successfully advancing to the bottom ten seemed quite slim, Shi Xiaoling didn't care much.

For him, the ranking is not important, the opportunity to learn the real ancient martial arts is the most important thing. What's more, the stipend he received here was much higher than the salary of working in the library.

It was only after all the 10,000 finalists came to the secret training base in Ganquan that they really understood the general content of this "National Longevity Improvement Plan".

Put simply, these people will receive the complete system of training necessary to travel through time and space. The instructors at the base will weed out the laggards at any time based on their performance, until the last one selects the candidates who are truly qualified to participate directly in the "National Life Expectancy Improvement Program".

The so-called "National Life Expectancy Improvement Plan" is actually to take a time machine to travel through time and space to the Bright Moon Continent two thousand years ago to find a special health secret, and bring it back to the Star Continent for development and research.

“...... As long as you can bring back this health secret smoothly, you will make a great contribution to all the people of the Star Continent, and you will be the eternal hero of the Star Continent......"

This is the impassioned mobilization slogan of Chief Instructor Cai of the training base to all the trainees who are about to undergo training.

Most of the 10,000 trainees were somewhat indifferent to Chief Instructor Cai's impassioned mobilization speech, and for these young people who grew up in a materialistic modern society, it was better to move them than to become so-called national heroes, or to become idols who were admired by others and gained fame and fortune.

In addition, there are many people who are quite excited about the opportunity to travel through time and space on a time machine.

It's just that, where is the Bright Moon Continent? What was the situation of the Bright Moon Continent two thousand years ago? What health secrets are so important that the Star Continent's highest-tech time and space machine needs to be used to carry it out? What is the situation of the elites selected from the military and police bodies that were sent out ten years ago?

Almost all of the trainees had one question after another in their minds. The same is true for Shi Xiaoling.

However, unlike most people, he who worked in the library had seen the name of the Bright Moon Continent when he was collecting ancient martial arts materials, and vaguely knew that this was an ancient continent that was somewhat similar to the shape and environment of the Star Continent, but it existed on another planet.

According to the information he saw, the Bright Moon Continent more than 2,000 years ago was a very ancient continent that admired martial arts, and there were many martial arts geniuses who had been prominent on that continent for a while. In addition, at that time, due to the continuous wars in the Mingyue Continent, there were many boys and girls, and many men had wives and concubines, which was very different from the current social situation.

As a lover of ancient martial arts, Shi Xiaoling naturally yearns for the Bright Moon Continent. However, he didn't know much about that ancient continent, let alone what the current situation of the Bright Moon Continent was.

The training content in the daily history class of the training base is about the Bright Moon Continent two thousand years ago, and the instructor who taught the lecture did not mention the current situation of the Bright Moon Continent. Although many students asked, the instructor did not know anything about it, and just asked everyone to focus on the content of the class.

In the days that followed, the 10,000 finalists began systematic training at a secret training base in Ganquanzhou.

To Shi Xiaoling's surprise, there were not many subjects and time involved in ancient martial arts training in the real training course, and the instructors of the training center spent most of their time teaching them to familiarize themselves with the civilization history of the Mingyue Continent about two thousand years ago, telling them what outstanding people there were in that era, what sensational events there were, and all kinds of customs and customs on the Mingyue Continent at that time.

After the training of these history and humanities courses, the trainees must also do a lot of targeted adaptation training through time and space, and be monitored by medical staff at any time to monitor various physical indicators.

Once it is found that someone's physical indicators are abnormal during the training cycle, and they may not adapt to the long-distance journey of time and space, then the person will be ruthlessly eliminated.

There are a lot of medical researchers in the training base, and these medical personnel test the physical bodies of the finalists who participate in the training quite frequently, and almost every day they have to take the blood of these trainees for laboratory tests, and often let these trainees insert needles of various sizes into their bodies and turn over and over in some strange large instruments to do various tests.

Many students are comfortable with boring history lessons and a lot of physical adaptation training, but they are quite disgusted by the endless medical examinations every day, thinking that they are guinea pigs who are used for human medical tests.

For this reason, many people often use excuses to avoid these medical examinations, and some even have conflicts with the relevant medical personnel because of this.

However, the instructors of the training base are very resolute on the side of the medical staff, and clearly tell everyone that the testing and research work of these medical personnel is very important, and their testing and research on the students' bodies is also an important part of the "National Longevity Improvement Plan", and all the finalists must cooperate unconditionally, otherwise they will be ruthlessly eliminated.

There are many finalists who voluntarily quit because they don't want to be guinea pigs for this kind of medical test research, and there are also some who often use physical discomfort to avoid complicated medical tests.

Every day at the training base passed in the midst of these repeated learning, testing, and training.

Only in addition to these trainings and medical monitoring, if there is extra time, the instructor will come up with some teaching materials about ancient martial arts for everyone to observe and learn, so that the finalists who are the most successful can have certain self-defense skills after crossing to the Bright Moon Continent, so that they can better complete the task.

Some of these textbooks were collected by Shi Xiaoling a long time ago, and some of them were something he had never seen before. But regardless of whether Shi Xiaoling had seen it or not, almost all ancient martial arts required cultivators to have enough True Yuan in order to truly exert their power.

But where does the true element come from? Why is it difficult to practice even from the most basic **?

This question has always plagued Shi Xiaoling, and it is also the main purpose of his eagerness to participate in this "National Longevity Improvement Plan".

The instructor who personally demonstrated these ancient martial arts materials to all the students was named Zhou Jie, and Shi Xiaoling had not only heard his name for a long time, but also fought him in a fighting competition, but of course he was defeated.

Shi Xiaoling knew that Zhou Jie had been the undifferentiated fighting champion in the Mingyue Continent for many years, and he had never imagined that he was also one of the special training instructors of this "National Longevity Improvement Plan".

Zhou Jie only demonstrated part of the ancient martial arts skills for many students in one of the few open classes, and gave a brief explanation of the essentials of the exercises, and then let everyone practice by themselves.

Although it was just a simple demonstration and explanation, Zhou Jie still showed amazing strength, his fists and feet were almost indestructible everywhere he went, and the wooden stakes and bricks and stones used for practice were destroyed in an instant under Zhou Jie's fists, and all the students were stunned and frightened.

Shi Xiaoling was very excited in his heart, he had also practiced many of Zhou Jie's moves, but the power was completely different, and it was completely incomparable. He was almost certain that Zhou Jie must have practiced to become a true element, otherwise these martial arts would never have exerted such great power.

Shi Xiaoling once asked Zhou Jie how to practice the true yuan, but Zhou Jie was vague, just saying that let everyone learn the method of practice first, and it will naturally come to pass.

This made Shi Xiaoling puzzled, he has studied ancient martial arts for many years, and has learned a lot of routine skills, and he has been practicing the true yuan according to the ancient recipes, but he has never achieved anything, just to make his body stronger.

If it was said that if he persisted, he could cultivate a powerful True Yuan, Shi Xiaoling didn't believe it in his heart. But since Zhou Jie taught everyone to practice ancient martial arts, why didn't he tell everyone how to practice Zhenyuan? Is it really not time yet?

It was only three months later that the secret of Zhenyuan was finally revealed, but by this time a full 5,000 people had been eliminated from the base.

Among the remaining 5,000 students, Shi Xiaoling ranked 4,999th, still the penultimate one, but because everyone's rankings were kept secret and it was strictly forbidden to communicate with each other, except for themselves and some related instructors, it seemed that not many people knew the specific ranking of Shi Xiaoling.

Shi Xiaoling was very glad that he survived the first three months and was not eliminated, although he was ranked last when he was initially shortlisted, but with his enthusiasm for ancient martial arts and his yearning for the Bright Moon Continent, Shi Xiaoling was very devoted to every day's training course, and never avoided complicated physical testing like many people.

Life at this secret training base is rather boring, with little to no entertainment, and although everyone has a separate room, cameras are placed in every corner of the room to monitor the movements of the people inside.

At some point, Shi Xiaoling also felt that he was really just a test subject, like a guinea pig, being manipulated by doctors, nurses and instructors every day, and then the scientific researchers hiding in the shadows analyzed his various situations and reactions.

If it weren't for the fact that he could see a lot of multimedia materials of Shi Xiaoling's long-awaited ancient martial arts here, maybe he would have given up or been eliminated like many boring students.

Fortunately, three months later, Shi Xiaoling finally learned the secret about Zhenyuan, and surprisingly, it was not the instructor who was responsible for teaching martial arts that told him this secret, but Tang Zhishu, a beautiful doctor who came to take blood for Shi Xiaoling every day to do various medical tests.

Although she is a professor, this Dr. Tang is not very old, and Shi Xiaoling guesses that she is about the same age as herself, but she never dares to ask.

There are many students who have been eliminated because they have offended the doctor in charge of their own body monitoring, and although Shi Xiaoling is always at the bottom of the ranking, he does not want to be eliminated at all.

In his opinion, the boring life in the secret base is not much different from his usual work as a librarian in the capital, the daily class training is like going to work before, and the adaptive training for the time and space journey is like fitness and practice, but there is a lot more physical laboratory monitoring.

Although the female doctor who is responsible for monitoring Shi Xiaoling's physical data is usually not smiling, she is an out-and-out beauty. Even if you wear a wide white coat all day long, you can still feel the graceful figure of this Dr. Tang.

It is already a kind of luck to be a guinea pig in the hands of such a beautiful doctor, and Shi Xiaoling is quite fortunate to be this in his heart.