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Chapter 79 Another Grandmaster!
The entire playground fell into absolute silence for half a minute.
Everyone, including the military clerks, the mech guards, and the reporters crowding outside the cordon, were frozen in place, completely dumbfounded.
How is this possible?!
Even a D-rank civilian soldier can become a third-tier grandmaster.
A B-rank general of the Shang Dynasty, a peerless genius commanding three thousand soldiers.
He went in as a martial artist, but came out... a ninth-level martial master?!
This guy didn't even touch the hairs of a Grandmaster, not even an ordinary Grandmaster. He was a full two major realms lower than those commoners.
The truth is, Chu Tianhe did indeed serve as a subordinate general in the Yin Shang dynasty. However, he fundamentally lacked the desire to cultivate immortality and seek the Dao!
In the bustling city of Chaoge during the Shang Dynasty, he was completely blinded by fine wine, power, and flattery.
For the past six months, he has only cared about being a lackey of the incompetent King Zhou, enjoying wealth and luxury in brothels and entertainment venues.
Even if King Zhou had truly bestowed upon him the royal body-tempering technique, he wouldn't have been able to endure the hardship of systematically cultivating it.
Even more tragically, just as disaster was about to strike, he was thrown into death row for taking the blame for someone else!
That dark and damp death cell not only robbed him of his freedom but also thoroughly eroded his martial arts courage. The fear he felt on the guillotine at the end further cracked his resolve.
This ninth-level martial artist's progress was even due to the rich spiritual energy in Chaoge City, which passively "marinated" him like pigs being fed!
……
"No...this can't be, the instrument is broken. This damn machine is definitely broken!"
On the viewing platform, Chu Tianhe's father, Chu Qingtian, turned from a flushed face to a grimace, looking as if he had swallowed a dead fly.
He roared out of control, gripping the railing with both hands, veins bulging.
I can't believe it! The dragon that the Chu family has nurtured with all their resources is actually a four-legged snake that can only lie in the mud!
But as the head of a powerful family, he reacted quickly, immediately forcing himself to raise his voice in an attempt to save face.
"Creation's power is contained within. Yes, it must be creation's power that is contained within!"
Chu Qingtian argued loudly, his voice sounding somewhat fierce but actually weak.
"My son Tianhe cultivates the immortal techniques of the mythical realm. Some people need time to digest such a heaven-reaching creation."
"Your military's shoddy equipment is too low-end; it can't detect the true origin of the Great Dao within my son's body at all."
These words were spoken.
The heads of the powerful families present exchanged glances. Although they didn't say anything on the surface, the mockery and skepticism in their eyes were impossible to hide.
Is the divine object concealing itself?
You're kidding me!
Just now, weren't Zhao Qiang and that E-level commoner also cultivating the methods from the Mythical Secret Realm? How come their beams of light shot straight into the sky?
The data from the test chamber is an irrefutable fact. This kind of instrument can even clearly measure the background of an S-class powerhouse, so how could it fail to measure a mere kid like you?
Chu Tianhe's grandfather, the old man who was stroking his beard and laughing just a second ago, now had his smile completely frozen.
His hand holding the cane was trembling slightly, as if he wanted to disappear into a crack in the ground.
Shame!
The Chu family has lost all face today, a disgrace that has lasted for a century!
Standing in front of the test chamber, Chu Tianhe stared at the glaring words "Ninth-Rank Martial Master" and felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
He panicked.
He knew all too well how pathetic he looked in death row.
If he can't salvage the situation today, he, the eldest son of the Chu family, will definitely be relegated to obscurity and become a laughingstock for the whole world.
"Wait a moment!"
Chu Tianhe turned around, his face pale, but as if grasping at the last straw, he hysterically shouted at the military's high-ranking officials.
"Although my cultivation level is not outwardly apparent, I brought back a cultivation technique."
"It's the 'Nine Revolutions of the Mysterious Bird Technique' from the Shang Dynasty royal family of Chaoge City!"
"This is a supreme body-tempering method that directly leads to the immortal body. I can hand it over to the nation; how many merit points could I get for that?! I would be making an indelible contribution to human civilization!"
This statement came out.
The military clerks on the reviewing stand lit up, whispered among themselves, and then nodded solemnly.
"Young Master Chu is right. The Nine Revolutions of the Mysterious Bird is a royal secret manual, and its strategic value is indeed immeasurable. This technique alone is enough to earn a first-class merit!"
Hearing the official endorsement from the military.
Chu Tianhe's grandfather's old face, which was as stiff as orange peel, finally looked somewhat better.
The heads of the surrounding powerful families quickly followed suit, bowing respectfully.
"Oh dear, Old Master Chu, the cultivation method is the most important thing! Young Master Chu has sacrificed his own cultivation time, putting others before himself, to steal such a supreme secret manual for the country!"
"Exactly, an eighteen-year-old ninth-level martial artist would be considered a top genius in the main world. We can't expect too much from them."
These words sound like flattery, but anyone can hear the perfunctoriness in them.
A ninth-level martial artist is quite good.
But compared to the aura of a B-rank subordinate general who comes out of an SSS+ level mythical dungeon, this is... pitifully weak!
Just as Chu Tianhe was forcibly using his cultivation technique to save face and preparing to use the excuse of stepping down from the testing platform...
"Next up, Liu Ming."
Following the announcement from the military commander.
A boy wearing a faded old tracksuit, with an unremarkable appearance and even looking somewhat malnourished, walked out from the back of the line.
Chu Tianhe paused in his steps.
He knows this person.
Liu Ming comes from an entirely ordinary family.
Before entering the secret realm, he didn't even have the money to buy a bottle of the lowest-level Qi and Blood potion, and he was often looked down upon and ridiculed by Chu Tianhe and his gang of rich kids.
Liu Ming's starting position was merely that of a stable boy who raised horses on the border of Xiqi.
Liu Ming ignored Chu Tianhe's complicated gaze, took a deep breath, and placed his hand on the testing monument.
"boom--"
It was as if a small sun had exploded at the bottom of the test chamber.
That beam of light was no longer blue.
Instead, it carried a faint hint of purple-gold color and, with an overbearing and unreasonable attitude, directly smashed through the barriers of martial arts masters and grandmasters.
A beam of light shot into the sky, even making the isolation glass on top of the test chamber buzz!
Finally, to everyone's horrified gaze, the timeline froze at a breathtaking mark.
[Fourth-Tier Grandmaster!]
The entire venue erupted in cheers!
If the third-tier grandmasters were just now in a state of boiling excitement, then the fourth-tier grandmasters at this moment are in a state of utter madness!
"My God... a fourth-tier Grandmaster!!"
"What on earth did Liu Ming do in the secret realm?! Did he eat the elixirs of immortals like they were food?"
The heads of those powerful families on the viewing platform have truly gone mad this time.
Even the military clerks who usually considered themselves aloof jumped up from their seats.
It's important to know that those who emerge from dungeons and immediately become sixth-tier grandmasters are almost all veteran S-rank powerhouses with a strong foundation.
For a student like Liu Ming, with such a weak foundation, to reach the fourth level within a year, his potential is simply terrifying at an abyss level!
"If this kid could cultivate peacefully in the main world of Earth for a while longer, and with some resources allocated to him..."
"It's unimaginable. Perhaps before he turns thirty, he could become a seventh- or even eighth-tier Grandmaster, a peerless war god capable of suppressing the fate of a nation!"
"Get out of the way, all of you, get out of the way!"
The head of the largest financial family in Jiangnan, a third-level grandmaster with gray hair, actually unleashed his protective aura and knocked away the guards along the way.
He didn't even glance at Chu Tianhe, who was standing in the middle of the road, and rudely pushed him aside.
He jogged up to Liu Ming with a big smile and handed him a purple-gold business card with both hands.
"Young Master Liu. No, General Liu!"
"I am the chairman of the Wang Group. With just a word from you, the entire Wang Group's resources will be unconditionally directed towards you!"
Immediately afterwards, school leaders and high-ranking military officials swarmed forward like a swarm of locusts crossing a river.
They surrounded that ordinary boy who was once looked down upon by everyone, as if he were the center of attention.
And this moment.
Chu Tianhe was pushed out of the center circle by the crowd and stood alone in place.
He looked at Liu Ming, who was fawned over and worshipped by countless important figures, and then looked at his own pitiful "ninth-level martial artist" score.
The immense sense of loss was like a series of poisoned blades, relentlessly strangling his already fragile self-esteem.
His proud B-rank status and the glory he boasted about as a lieutenant general shattered into countless shards of glass in the face of absolute power.
Chu Tianhe stood there, completely and utterly reduced to a forgotten background figure.
……
In a corner on the outermost edge of the playground.
Teacher Wang, who had just finished searching, was panting and wiping the sweat from her forehead.
"Hey, you two little rascals, I've been looking everywhere for you!"
Teacher Wang finally found Lin Yuan and Liu Hao behind a shady flower bed.
He rushed over, grabbed Lin Yuan's wrist, his eyes filled with worry and concern.
"Quick, come with me, it'll be your turn soon!"
Looking at Lin Yuan's calm face, Teacher Wang was afraid that the child would feel inferior because of the incredible data he had seen, so she comforted him repeatedly.
"Lin Yuan, don't be afraid."
"The teacher knows you drew a crow at the start. In that chaotic, supernatural realm, just surviving makes you the number one hero in the entire school!"
"No matter what the test results are, even if it's zero, even if they're not even a martial artist!"
Don't take it to heart!
Teacher Wang patted his chest and said with absolute certainty.
"The teacher risked his reputation to beg the principal and the military. You have a good academic foundation and are smart. We won't practice martial arts; we'll do logistics, become staff officers, and conduct rear-area warfare research!"
"With a teacher around, we will definitely not let your talent go to waste."
Listening to Teacher Wang's heartfelt and sincere concern.
Lin Yuan, who had been concealing his aura and suppressing the Dao Integration Realm power—enough to destroy half of the Blue Star—deep within his demon core, had been keeping his presence hidden.
A warm feeling welled up in my heart.
He turned his head and looked at Liu Hao, who was standing to the side.
At this moment, Liu Hao was wrapped up tightly in an extremely large black military trench coat, and even wearing an exaggerated hood.
Because beneath his trench coat lay a terrifying two heads and four arms that had been spawned by the "fire date"!
If Liu Hao goes to the test chamber now...
The burst of blood energy and the terrifying foundation of physical sainthood would probably shatter the glass of the entire test chamber in an instant.
The two exchanged a glance.
Liu Hao's two heads, hidden inside his trench coat, twitched simultaneously.
Lin Yuan, on the other hand, raised his eyebrows slightly.
This is a peerless demon immortal who even the Tongtian Sect Master could only suppress with nine layers of seals in order to barely maintain the appearance of a "ninth-level grandmaster"!
If they go for the test now...
That scene wouldn't just be a "shout-out," but rather the sounding of the highest-level doomsday air defense alarm on Earth.
"Cough cough."
Lin Yuan coughed lightly twice, forcibly suppressing the smile on his lips, and reached out to support Teacher Wang's slightly trembling arm.
"Teacher Wang, thank you for your trouble."
"Let's go test it."