Socially anxious people transmigrate to another world; living in seclusion is too difficult.

After a long and tiring journey, Su Yang and his companions had passed through many small towns over the past few days without stopping to rest. When they passed through the first small town, the town's appearance was no different from that of Qingfeng County and Jiahe City. Finally, when they passed through a large city called Xinzhong City, the three of them stopped and entered the city to rest.

According to Lin Anlan's introduction, this new central city is the last large city of a certain size before reaching the capital, and it is also the last barrier protecting the capital. During past wars, the armies of various countries were stopped when they reached the new central city. Therefore, it is also a heroic city of the Tianyun Empire, and countless heroes who defended the country came from here.

The carriage traveled along the streets of the new city, where blacksmith shops and martial arts schools could be seen everywhere. Every so often, there was a fighting ring surrounded by many spectators, and on the ring, you could see two strong young men fighting.

"Is this new central city bigger than Qingfeng County?" Su Yang asked unconsciously, looking at the scene before him.

"No, not really. Any place that can be called a prefecture is quite large. This new central city is probably far from being a prefecture," Lin Anlan replied, sticking his head out and looking around.

"The people here seem to be quite martial, why is that?"

Lin Anlan looked in the direction Su Yang was pointing and then explained, "New Central City is also a city of heroes. The main force of the empire is stationed here year-round, and many heroes have emerged here in the past. For this reason, everyone here admires force. Apart from abiding by the basic laws of the empire, force is the absolute rule here. Even the Court of Penal Codes has not dared to set up a branch here."

Su Yang understood and continued driving the carriage forward. Soon they arrived at an inn. After parking the carriage, the three of them took off their luggage and entered the lobby one by one. They booked three single rooms. With Su Yang's current savings, it wouldn't be a problem to find two single rooms for himself and Lin Anlan, let alone Tang Wan, who was a wealthy young lady. However, Tang Wan insisted on paying for all three rooms, also in order to get closer to Su Yang as soon as possible.

After putting away their luggage, the three met in the lobby as agreed and went out together. Since they were resting, they naturally wanted to have a good meal and get a good night's rest. However, being unfamiliar with the area, Su Yang didn't know where to go for a while. Fortunately, Lin Anlan had been to Xinzhongcheng before, so under her guidance, the three of them went to a small restaurant.

Despite the unassuming decor of this small restaurant, the food was truly delicious. Even Tang Wan couldn't stop praising it. Perhaps Tang Wan was genuinely trying to get closer to Lin Anlan, or perhaps the food put Lin Anlan in a great mood, because the two of them started chatting animatedly at the table, and the atmosphere was much better than before.

After a satisfying meal, the three left the restaurant and strolled around the streets. Firstly, Lin Anlan suggested they check out the various arenas, and secondly, it was only noon, so there wasn't much to do back at the inn. Most importantly, Su Yang was eager to see the place in New Central City where they could practice elemental power.

After watching a series of arenas, Su Yang lost interest. The fighters on these arenas did not use elemental power; they relied purely on personal strength and skill in hand-to-hand combat. If this were a world without elemental power, Su Yang might have been interested, but unfortunately, in this world, elemental power was the only way. Su Yang deeply understood this, so he suggested going to other places.

After walking a short distance, the three arrived at the elemental power training ground that Lin Anlan had mentioned. Upon entering the gate, they found themselves in a spacious area with many stone walls that divided the space into numerous compartments. Su Yang, somewhat puzzled, asked, "Can these stone walls withstand the impact of elemental power?"

"You don't know this, do you? These stone walls are made of drowned stones. Unless you are a high-level or super high-level elementalist, the elemental power of an ordinary person will be absorbed by the stone walls. Even if they cannot be completely absorbed, their power will be greatly reduced and they will not harm people."

"There are such stones? Wouldn't they be invincible on the battlefield?"

"This kind of stone is only useful when it appears in large quantities; it is completely useless when taken to the battlefield alone."

The three chatted as they walked in. When they passed a small hut, someone called out to them, "Hey, you have to pay to use the training ground." This person was the gatekeeper of the training ground, in charge of collecting fees.

"What's the price now?" Lin Anlan stepped forward to negotiate.

"A single room now costs two silver coins and can be used for one hour," the man replied.

"The price hasn't gone up," Lin Anlan muttered, then took out six silver coins from her pocket and handed them to him, saying, "I need three single rooms."

The gatekeeper took the silver coins, turned around and went into the room, taking out three wooden plaques with the room numbers marked on them. Perhaps because there were many people practicing today, Su Yang took the plaque and saw that it said "sixty-seven". Lin Anlan and Tang Wan's were sixty-eight and sixty-nine respectively. Following the directions, the three of them passed through rows of rooms and finally arrived at their own rooms.

This training room was also peculiar, with all six sides made of drowned stone. The door to the room was also a stone door, presumably made of drowned stone as well. The stone door was quite heavy and could not be opened by human power alone. Therefore, the three of them used elemental power to strengthen it and quickly opened the stone door, thus entering the room.

After entering the private room and closing the stone door again, the room was immediately plunged into darkness, but fortunately it was relatively clean, presumably because it was cleaned daily. Just as Su Yang was wondering how to practice without any light source, a bright red light shone into his private room through the gaps in the stone wall. This light came from Lin Anlan's private room next door.

Su Yang slapped his forehead, feeling incredibly stupid. When using elemental power, light would naturally be generated, so Su Yang quickly got into the zone. His primary goal was to find a way to raise the level of his earth element. He had a bit of OCD and felt uneasy unless the mental tree notice board showed 100%.

After settling down, he first used the B-grade elemental bracelet to practice, and then combined it with the knowledge he had learned at Qingfeng Academy to continuously enhance the purity and strength of the earth element. He soon felt that his practice was effective, and his sense and connection with the earth element had become stronger. It was a pity that the floor of this private room was made of drowned stone, otherwise Su Yang could have directly tested his skill ideas from the past few days.

"It's a pity that I've already thought of things with special properties, such as quicksand and dust, and things like insects causing earth vibrations, but I haven't been able to experiment with them."

Su Yang stopped training and was sighing when a flash of inspiration struck him: "Isn't this Drowned Stone just a stone, only a special one? With the earth element in it, as long as it's used properly, there's nothing that can't be deconstructed, right? Even diamonds are different because of their molecular structure and the strength of carbon-carbon bonds, right? Since elemental particles are even more mysterious than molecules and atoms, they can definitely be used to change the structure of these stones."

Without hesitation, Su Yang picked up a small piece of the broken drowned stone from the ground by the dim light, and then tried to use his knowledge of chemistry and physics to dissect it.

As expected, with the continuous invasion of the earth elemental Yi Zi, the Drowning Stone in Su Yang's hand made a "crack" sound and gently shattered, then turned into nothingness, slowly drifting into the air with the black light emitted by the earth elemental Yi Zi, and then turning into scattered sand and falling down.

"Wow, that really works! Then earth element skills will be easy to handle. Earth has so many landforms and so much science about rocks and the earth, so we can combine them at will, right?"