Chapter 26: Chapter 23 President
Next.
Zhu Qianqian mentioned some precautions to Lin Yuan about using the Virtual World Cabin Slot.
Then she respectfully exited the room.
“Virtual World Cabin Slot…”
Lin Yuan carefully observed it for a while and then lay down inside.
Hum——
A slight fluctuation swept over.
Lin Yuan only felt a slight tingling on his skin,
and then he heard a voice by his ear, “Replication complete, please connect to the Virtual World.”
“Welcome to the assessment world.”
Lin Yuan opened his eyes and saw a stern-looking man watching him.
“Assessment world?”
Lin Yuan immediately tried to feel his own body.
The strength of his physical body, the circulation of Yuan energy within, and the spiritual strange force inside the Niwan Palace in his mind.
All were no different from his body outside.
“The Cosmic Human Alliance is truly formidable…”
Lin Yuan was secretly shocked by such perfect replication, which meant he had no secrets at all.
“No.”
“The Door to the Myriad Realms has not been replicated.”
Lin Yuan seemed to think of something and concentrated his mind to the depths of his mind.
The place where the Door to the Myriad Realms should stand was empty.
“Even the Cosmic Human Alliance can’t replicate the Door to the Myriad Realms?”
“Or is it that they can’t detect the existence of the Door to the Myriad Realms at all?”
Lin Yuan let out a sigh of relief and couldn’t help but speculate.
“Evolver, please choose your assessment scenario,” the stern-looking man suddenly spoke from not far away.
No sooner had he spoken,
various scenes floated up before Lin Yuan.
There were vast deserts with endless sands, forests dense with ancient trees, and cities with towering buildings…
“The desert then.”
Lin Yuan casually chose one.
“Scene confirmation complete,” the stern man gestured with a wave of his hand.
The surrounding environment changed in an instant, and Lin Yuan found himself in the middle of a desert, with endless sand and scorching temperatures.
“Based on the energy fluctuations in the evolver’s body, the assessment will start directly from the first rank.”
“First is an opponent of the first rank first segment. You only qualify for the next assessment if you defeat him.”
“Understood?”
The stern man looked at Lin Yuan with calm eyes.
“Understood.”
Lin Yuan nodded.
Whoosh.
The stern man disappeared.
Not far away, large swathes of sand quickly gathered, forming a humanoid figure.
This was a tall man with dark skin and a fierce black horn growing on his forehead.
“Die.”
The black-horned man didn’t say another word and charged towards Lin Yuan.
“He’s a bit faster than the average Grandmaster, no threat to me,” Lin Yuan said, expression unchanged.
According to the stern man’s instructions, the assessment would go from weak to strong, the first opponent’s strength was at the first rank first segment, and only by defeating him could he face the second segment opponent.
Crack.
The black-horned man suddenly stopped, his gaze quickly dimming, and his body turned back into sand and dispersed.
Lin Yuan was standing at the same spot, without having moved an inch.
Facing an opponent far weaker than himself, the fastest way to defeat him was to use Spiritual Martial Arts.
With the ‘spiritual’ strength of Lin Yuan’s Free and Unfettered Realm, he could crush the opponent’s spiritual soul in an instant.
Sigh.
The sand gathered again.
This time, Lin Yuan’s opponent was still the black-horned man.
However, this time the black-horned man had a stronger aura, almost reaching the level of Grandmaster Peak.
Yet.
Whether it’s a Grandmaster,
Or a Great Grandmaster.
To Lin Yuan, they were merely a glance away.
Just like that.
Within a few breaths,
he was facing the ninth opponent.
The opponent was still the black-horned man.
But compared to the previous eight, this black-horned man had a profound look in his eyes, and after forming, he didn’t immediately attack Lin Yuan.
“A pathway of evolution like a spiritual master?”
“This time I have specifically strengthened my soul defense, your spiritual attack, I can nullify sixty percent of it,”
a cruel smirk appeared at the corner of the black-horned man’s mouth.
Though he was a lifeform simulated by massive amounts of data, he also had basic emotions, and anyone would feel unsettled being instantaneously crushed eight times.
“Die.”
After speaking, the black-horned man charged at Lin Yuan again.
But in the next moment,
Crack.
A slender right hand, unbeknownst to him, had grasped his neck and then twisted it hard.
“Who told you that I only have mental attack methods?”
Lin Yuan shook his head slightly.
For evolvers who follow the Martial Tao evolutionary path, the most fundamental aspect was always the physical body, as for the psychic powers? They were merely forces born from a powerful physical body.
“You, you aren’t a mental master or some such type of evolver?”
The man with the black horn couldn’t believe it and soon turned into yellow sand once again.
Mental masters and similar types of evolvers possess bizarre mental attack methods,
but indeed, they have a shortcoming in their physical capabilities; even if some powerful mental masters consume genetic medicine to cultivate both evolutionary paths, it’s very difficult to entirely eliminate this disadvantage.
…
Evolver’s Association.
Zhu Qianqian stepped out from the assessment room and returned to her workstation.
“I wonder at which rank Mr. Lin’s evolver stage will be set.”
Zhu Qianqian was quite curious, staring intently at the display screen in front of her.
Out of respect for the privacy of evolvers, the combat scenarios that occur during assessments are not allowed to be disclosed to the public.
Therefore, even internal staff like Zhu Qianqian were unable to watch the specific content of the assessments.
They could only determine the final assessment result for an evolver by the number of light columns that lit up on the screen, indicating how many levels the evolver had passed.
“Little Zhu, did that Mr. Lin go in already?”
Zhu Qianqian had just sat down not long ago when the president of the Evolver’s Association came over.
There was no need for the president of the Evolver’s Association to pay attention to an evolver’s assessment.
But Lin Yuan was not only an evolver but also a second-tier citizen.
A second-tier citizen, even without holding an official position, would have a status not much lower than the president.
Moreover, this second-tier citizen was someone the president of the Evolver’s Association had never heard of, which is why he had made a special trip. He planned to meet him after the assessment and establish a relationship.
No matter the reason, getting on good terms with a second-tier citizen was definitely not a mistake.
“Ah? President.”
Zhu Qianqian immediately stood up nervously and stammered, “Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin has already gone in.”
“Don’t be nervous.”
The president of the Evolver’s Association was in a good mood.
“Alright.”
Zhu Qianqian composed herself and sat down at her post again.
“Little Zhu, what do you think, which rank will Mr. Lin be set at?”
The president of the Evolver’s Association also became interested and casually asked.
“Mr. Lin is a second-tier citizen, since he has come to register, he must have first-order strength, right…”
Zhu Qianqian cautiously said.
For ordinary people, becoming an evolver is extremely difficult.
But in the eyes of high-ranking citizens, there are many ways, the simplest being to buy a bottle of genetic medicine and take the ‘Genetic Warrior’ evolutionary path.
Even though Genetic Warriors have significant weaknesses, are not very promising, and rely heavily on external support,
they are undoubtedly evolvers as well.
“Correct.”
The president of the Evolver’s Association nodded slightly.
He also believed that Lin Yuan certainly had first-order strength and was not an unranked evolver.
High-ranking citizens are likely to be evolvers, but many weaker evolvers remain first-tier citizens.
“In my opinion, Mr. Lin’s final assessment will be in the first-order second to third segment…”
The secretary following the president spoke.
This guess made the president of the Evolver’s Association nod again.
It’s not difficult for high-ranking citizens to become evolvers, but it is a barrier to becoming a powerful evolver.
And that barrier lies between the first-order third and fourth segments.
Out of the twelve segments at first-order, every three segments form a bottleneck, and to go from third to fourth segment requires not only effort and dedication but also a certain level of talent.
High-ranking citizens may possess exceptional abilities in other aspects, thus contributing to human civilization and gaining recognition from the Goddess of Wisdom.
But talent in evolution… that is something money can’t buy.
Using genetic medicine can indeed force an upgrade, but it comes with a risk of death, and high-ranking citizens are unlikely to joke about their lives.
“Zhang has made a good point.”
The president of the Evolver’s Association looked approvingly at his secretary.
Zhu Qianqian, listening on the side, had no objections.
Even though she had a good impression of Lin Yuan, strength is strength.
“Let me know when Mr. Lin’s assessment is over.”
The president of the Evolver’s Association was about to leave.
It was at this moment, on the display screen in front of Zhu Qianqian, the first light column suddenly lit up.
“It seems Mr. Lin has started his assessment.”
Seeing this, the president of the Evolver’s Association suddenly did not want to leave and decided to sit down and wait for Lin Yuan’s assessment to end.
In the president’s view, Lin Yuan’s strength was at most at first-order third segment, which required passing just three levels.
However, what happened next made the president of the Evolver’s Association freeze.
The display screen showed that right after the first light column lit up, the second one lit instantly.
Then came the third.
The fourth.
The fifth.
…
All the way to the twelfth.
It was almost within a few breaths’ time.
All twelve light columns were illuminated.
And by this time, the president of the Evolver’s Association had not yet fully sat down.
“Is this the twelfth segment?”
Zhu Qianqian’s eyes widened, and the president next to her was also surprised.