By the time Qin Shi and Yu Weiwei returned to the National Guest House, the sky was already turning light.
The night was filled with many waves and changes.
Ying Lin, who represented the Ying family to infiltrate Heng Province, was abandoned, along with the blood debt on Nanhuang Daoist School. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novel•fire.net
Consider it as drawing a half-perfect conclusion for the death of Second Brother Shen Changyuan, many years ago.
Meanwhile, the grand expansion movement in Heng Province was unfolding in full swing.
At the commendation ceremony the next day, it was once again presided over by the Tai Monarch, who issued important statements.
He hoped that all major universities would actively respond, urging outstanding students to throw themselves into the furnace of the grand expansion movement and continuously temper themselves, becoming pillars of the nation.
In the final segment, Qin Shi was specially called to the stage.
The script he was to read was written overnight by Holvren.
This inheritor of the Nanhuang Daoist School, the first-place winner of the Top 100 Contest, faced a dense swarm of drones. In front of many residents of the Central City, he spoke in a high-pitched and rhythmic tone, expounding the "passionate enthusiasm" of a genius youth.
"...I am Qin Shi from the Tai’an Metropolitan Area, standing here today, filled with overwhelming passion. When the baton of history is handed to our generation, ’How to use our youthful selves to build the future of Dongxia’ becomes a question every youth must answer in this era.
Here, I wish to take the ’three commitments’ as a vow and encourage myself and you, my fellow students..."
In the Tai’an Metropolitan Area, Chen Ruofu and Fang Butang sat in a large conference room, watching the broadcast before them.
Both of them looked at Qin Shi in his crisp student uniform, his face exuding confidence, like the rising morning sun.
The two old foxes automatically ignored the official clichés they were so tired of hearing.
They focused more on the significance of Qin Shi publicly appearing in the Central City.
"It seems that Lord Governor also recognizes little Qin’s potential, otherwise, he wouldn’t have arranged for him alone to make the speech."
Chen Ruofu was very gratified that after so many years, the Tai’an Region finally produced an outstanding genius youth, who openly stepped onto the main stage of the Central City.
It was certainly not easy!
Looking back, it was mainly the students of the Central City who enjoyed the most concentrated educational and cultivation resources in Heng Province.
The enrollment slots for the Four National Universities, the top project registration channels, were almost entirely dominated.
Those that trickled down to other administrative districts were extremely rare.
"Little Qin is too dazzling, surpassing everyone, with no peers to match." Fang Butang remarked with emotion.
The public’s perception is sharp; if a genius from the Central City were forced to stand next to Qin Shi, they would only be overshadowed.
The Tai Monarch offered the Divine Crystal as a reward, giving Qin Shi a chance to showcase his talents, which was also intended to tell the youths of the Central City:
Anyone who thinks they can compete with Qin Shi, feel free to try.
The fact proved that once the Limit-Breaking Road of the Old Martial Sect was completed, ordinary geniuses were no match.
"Old Chen, how do you think little Qin compares to Yu Li?" Fang Butang had been holding back for a long time before finally posing the question.
"I’m not sure. That boy Yu Li, I know a bit about him. He walks the New Martial path but doesn’t stick to genres. Military martial, biomimicry, extreme, various advanced martial arts textbooks are all mastered and wielded, ultimately forming his own unique specialized domain and a ’True Lan Yun Flow Skill’ that towers over his peers!"
Chen Ruofu sighed, objectively evaluating without simply elevating Qin Shi.
Yu Li was among the new generation, the most prominent Scorching Sun level.
Besides being a disciple of Lian Yixing, and holding the halo of one of the first ten outstanding disciples.
He maintained the record of being the youngest Specialized Level Martial Artist and was admitted through special recruitment by the Four National Universities.
Since his debut, he had no defeats, winning successive battles, securing the first place by a wide margin in the Star Cup youth group points.
The weight of his strength needs no further emphasis, it was firm and substantial.
"Power Body. Indeed, little Qin still lacks this step! Breaking through to the specialized domain for little Qin would be as easy as eating and drinking."
Fang Butang remembered this and couldn’t help but frown.
The two most difficult steps in the specialized domain are one, extracting the ’characteristics’, and two, forging the Power Body.
"The ’Cosmic Furnace Secret Manual’ of the Nanhuang Daoist School is claimed to be the strongest Power Body inheritance in Dongxia, capable of pushing the power body’s progress to one hundred percent!"
Fang Butang watched the youth projected on the television, seemingly seeing the future of the Tai’an Region in him.
"The inheritance of Elder Zhang isn’t so easily accepted. The ’Cosmic Furnace Secret Manual’ of the Nanhuang Daoist School, the reason it can push the power body’s progress to one hundred percent and perfectly develop potential, lies in a special method."
Chen Ruofu seemed to know more about the inside story, and not optimistically said:
"Have you heard of the unity of man and machine? The ’Cosmic Furnace Power Body’ of Nanhuang Daoist School actually utilizes the power of a King Level Divine Machine for flesh sublimation. This is a path that deviates from orthodoxy, a ’dark path’, and so far, only Elder Zhang was successful on it."
Fang Butang couldn’t understand how divine machines and mortal bodies could merge?
"Old Fang, you don’t know: a King Level Divine Machine is already a spiritual being. If the operator and the divine machine are exceptionally compatible, after prolonged matching, the mortal body becomes tainted by the divine machine, and the vitality of flesh would significantly improve... the highest research institute has conducted related experiments."
Chen Ruofu, with an expression of "I’m very professional", explained proudly to Fang Butang:
"Several academicians have analyzed why King Level Divine Machines are rare? Because they aren’t purely mechanical creations. They not only require heavenly light but also rare materials smelted together, power cores infused, and the conditions are exceedingly stringent.
The moment a King Level Divine Machine is born, it’s akin to life forming, condensing a faint consciousness similar to a newborn infant.