“You’re recommending someone to me?”
The burly man known as Ninth Junior Brother to Hall Master Wan looked surprised and placed his combat saber aside, pondering, “Have you returned from the Ruins Star Realm, Wan disciple?”
The Ruins Star Realm was a star realm in the southern seas of Xia Country, also a Second Level Star Realm, but far less famous than Rob Sea.
Wan Qinghe had been adventuring in the Ruins Star Realm for a long time.
“Yes.”
“I’ve been back for over half a year and forgot to mention it to Ninth Junior Brother,” Hall Master Wan said with a smile: “I have returned to Jiang City and now I am the Hall Master of a Fifth Level Martial Hall.”
Ninth Junior Brother not knowing his current situation did not surprise Hall Master Wan.
Their master was one of Xia Country’s top Martial Path powerhouses, possessing not just the ability of Flying Heaven but could also be considered one of Kunlun Martial Arts University’s ‘cornerstones.’
Hall Master Wan was lucky to be accepted as a nominal disciple back in the day.
The burly man in the video, however, was a direct disciple.
In terms of age, Hall Master Wan was a year older than the burly man and had entered the university a year earlier, but according to the rules, all nominal disciples must call direct disciples ‘Senior Brother.’
The distinctions between nominal disciples and direct disciples were crystal clear.
The gap in status was enormous.
Moreover, with many years passed, the gap in their strengths had grown even wider, and they had not interacted much in nearly a decade.
“Wan disciple, you should know that even though I am the ‘Eight Institutes’ vice president, I’m only in charge of teaching. The inspection trip to Jiangbei Province was not led by me.”
“I’m not directly responsible for recruitment; at most, I offer suggestions,” the burly man said carefully: “If his martial arts talents and strengths are not outstanding enough, he won’t pass the school’s final review.”
He subconsciously thought that Hall Master Wan wanted to use his influence, and he wasn’t too keen on it.
Nor did he want to strain their relationship.
After all, when he’d just been accepted by their teacher, Hall Master Wan had helped him quite a bit.
“Haha, rest assured, Ninth Senior Brother,” Hall Master Wan revealed a smile: “I don’t mean to trouble you, on the contrary, I truly wish to recommend a promising talent to you.”
“The one I’m recommending is seventeen and a half, and his Martial Arts Skills have already reached Third Stage Perfection,” Hall Master Wan quickly said: “Yesterday, he broke into the top 1000 of the Blue Star youth rankings.”
“Moreover, his spiritual power talent is extremely high, I estimate he can already compare to 13th or 14th Level Martial Artists,” Hall Master Wan finished in one breath.
He laid out all of Li Yuan’s strengths.
“Oh?” The burly man showed a hint of surprise: “From what you say, this youngster indeed sounds outstanding.”
“No, that’s not right.”
The burly man suddenly expressed doubt: “Wan disciple, based on what you said, he has the potential to aim for Starfire University. Why seek me out?”
“Does he have a physical disability? Missing an arm or legs?” Ninth Senior Brother inquired: “Or are there other defects?”
“Senior Brother is perceptive,” Hall Master Wan said with a wry smile: “He has not awakened his Martial Spirit.”
“So that’s it,” the burly man understood instantly.
Martial Spirit was one of the most important indicators to measure martial arts talent, if not the most important.
This could be glimpsed from how much it factored into the college entrance exam scores.
“This kid, based on what you say, may not find it too difficult to spend hundreds of millions of Blue Star Coins to become a Prime Warrior with some extra resources,” said the burly man: “But without a suitable High Rank Cultivation Method, forget about becoming a Flying Heaven Warrior in the future, it would be difficult to even break through Level 25.”
“It is difficult,” agreed Hall Master Wan.
Yet Hall Master Wan silently muttered that Ninth Senior Brother really set his sights high, mentioning Level 25 when Hall Master Wan himself hadn’t reached Level 25 yet.
But Wan understood that Ninth Senior Brother was only a step away from becoming a Flying Heaven Warrior.
“With such high mastery of techniques and strong spiritual power, logically, as long as the compatibility exceeds 80%, he would have the hope of sensing Cosmic Origin Power through a Cultivation Method,” the burly man frowned: “His age is also approaching the limit… There’s a ninety-nine percent chance that our human civilization’s seven major High Rank Cultivation Methods don’t suit him.”
“If he wants to achieve great success in the future, he must create a High Rank Cultivation Method that suits himself,” the burly man said with a hint of regret in his voice.
The burly man’s vision was indeed high.
He knew very well that to date, the human civilization’s seven major High Rank Methods were mostly developed by Flying Heaven Warriors, even those at the very pinnacle, through their personal experience and repeated experiments, gradually summarizing them over time.
Creating a High Rank Cultivation Method, even if it was the most basic one tailored only to himself, would be extremely difficult for a Prime Warrior.
Throughout the entire human civilization, such genius individuals were also rare.
“Yes, it’s very difficult,” Hall Master Wan acknowledged the difficulty of creating one’s own Cultivation Method: “But he truly is a promising seed, at least there’s a great hope for him to become a Prime Warrior.”
“A Prime Warrior?” The burly man pondered for a moment: “Here’s what we’ll do, Wan disciple. Send me his detailed information.”
“I’ll speak to Teacher Fan Jin for you and ask him to pay attention to this matter.”
“Teacher Fan Jin? Is he the visiting teacher coming to Jiangbei this time?” Hall Master Wan’s eyes lit up.
Fan Jin was one of the teachers who had taught Hall Master Wan in the past.
“Hmm, there are eight teachers organizing the inspection trip to Jiangbei, one from each of the Eight Institutes,” the burly man said with a smile: “You also know that Jiangbei Province is one of the provinces where Kunlun Martial Arts University recruits the largest number of students.”
Hall Master Wan couldn’t help but nod.
The five renown schools of Xia Country, each year, recruit about two thousand students each, a total of ten thousand.
Out of which, about five hundred are recruited in Jiangbei Province alone, with Kunlun Martial Arts University recruiting more than 300 of them.
However, those who make it to the special training list don’t exceed 15% of the admitted students.
“As long as the kid is as you say, with decent Martial Arts Skills and spiritual power, he should have no problem getting on the special training list,” the burly man didn’t finish his thought.
“Thank you for the trouble, Ninth Senior Brother,” said Hall Master Wan.
He disconnected the communication.
“Li Yuan.”
“I have done all I could for you,” Hall Master Wan sighed inwardly: “I hope you can seize this opportunity.”
After a moment of thought.
Hall Master Wan sent a message to Xu Bo.
…
In the daytime, just after one in the afternoon.
After lunch, Li Yuan arrived outside Xu Bo’s office, the door was open.
“Teacher, you were looking for me,” Li Yuan stood at the doorway.
He had just received Xu Bo’s V-Chat message and came straight away.
“Come in first,” Xu Bo stood by the window.
He was gazing at the cherry blossoms that were gradually blooming along the sides of the road outside.
Every year, in March and April, it was the time when Jiang City’s cherry blossoms bloomed and attracted people from all over the country to visit and play.
“You’ve entered the top one thousand of the Blue Star Youth Rankings, haven’t you?” Xu Bo looked at Li Yuan, “Your progress is faster than I expected.”
“Teacher knows?” Li Yuan was slightly surprised.
He had only tried the advancement match after two in the morning.
“News from Starfire Martial Hall,” Xu Bo said and then roughly told Li Yuan about Lord Wan contacting Kunlun Martial Arts University.
“A dean from Kunlun Martial Arts University?” Li Yuan held his breath.
Martial Arts University is incomparable to an ordinary cultural university.
As far as Li Yuan knew, one had to at least be a Prime Warrior to hold a position in any ordinary Martial Arts University.
A dean? Definitely a big shot.
“I’m not sure who it is, but Lord Wan really has you in mind.”
“For this invitation event, the observer from Kunlun Martial Arts University will probably come to assess you specifically,” Xu Bo instructed, “Prepare well and seize the opportunity.”
“The student understands,” Li Yuan said solemnly.
He immediately realized this was a rare opportunity.
Perhaps, if he just demonstrated his strength normally, he could get an invitation for special training from the top five prestigious schools.
But with additional attention, it would naturally be easier.
“What a pity,” Xu Bo suddenly sighed a little.
“Teacher, what is it?” Li Yuan asked, puzzled.
“I just think, if you had awakened your Martial Spirit and had the bonus of Spiritual Nature, you might have even had a chance at Starry Sky University or Starfire University,” Xu Bo said, looking at Li Yuan with quite a bit of regret.
“The top three global elite martial institutions?” Li Yuan smiled, something he had never dared to think about.
The top three global elite martial institutions only recruited around a thousand people worldwide each year.
Based on exam results, only the top ten in the whole province had a certain guarantee of entry.
Li Yuan’s initial goal was just the top five prestigious schools.
…
As time went by day by day, Li Yuan’s life continued in a straight line of three points.
Aside from studying cultural classes in the morning.
The rest of the time, Li Yuan devoted himself to cultivating his Fist Technique and Spear Technique, hoping to make a complete breakthrough in his Spear Technique.
Before long, it was March 13th.
Inside Martial Arts Room 4011.
“Skills are interconnected.”
“Unity of body and mind, I feel that the strength in my body runs uniformly and reaches perfection,” Li Yuan thought to himself, “I’ve even started to uncover deeper levels of strength in my body.”
“The might of my Spear Technique is also constantly improving.”
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! The long spear in Li Yuan’s hand changed unpredictably, darting with thrusts, whips, uplifts, and horizontal cuts.
“Bang~”
“Bang~” “Bang~” The giant sandbag hanging in mid-air in the Martial Arts Room, weighing a thousand kilograms, kept bursting with dull sounds.
This training sandbag was replaced by Li Yuan a month ago at his own expense to better facilitate his training.
“Solid Rock Spear Technique, the five major killing moves, I’ve completely mastered them and truly engraved them into my bones,” Li Yuan’s eyes shone brilliantly as he handled the long spear with endless variations, as if it had merged with him.
“But…”
“I still can’t fully master the first move of the Stellar Spear Technique, ‘Stellar Illumination,'” Li Yuan kept trying.
The might of his Spear Technique continued to improve.
But for several days now, the Spear Technique skill on the Divine Palace panel was still stuck at Third Stage 99%.
“The Divine Palace panel doesn’t give any hints.”
“But I have a feeling,” Li Yuan’s eyes were bright: “I’m getting more and more proficient with this move, and if I keep practicing like this, I’ll soon have complete control over the first technique.”
Li Yuan had a premonition that once he mastered it perfectly, that would be the time his Spear Technique would step into the Fourth Level.
It’s not about slow progress, but the lack of hope.
“Beep— Beep—” Suddenly, a sound arose.
“Master, your sister ‘Li Qianqian’ is urgently trying to reach you,” the assistant AI’s voice rang out.
“Urgent contact?” Li Yuan was startled and immediately sheathed his spear and said, “Connect.”
Whoosh~
A holographic screen formed, showing Li Qianqian’s small oval face, full of anxiety, with tears swirling in her eyes.
Judging by the background, she seemed to be standing in a corner of a corridor.
“Brother!” Li Qianqian cried out as soon as the communication connected.
“Qian Qian, what’s the matter?” Li Yuan’s voice was low: “What happened? Don’t panic, tell me slowly.”
“Rob Sea!”
“So many people have died in the Rob Sea Star Realm, the war has escalated,” Li Qianqian’s voice trembled with tension: “The country has already issued a Second Level war alert. Our teacher just spoke of it in class.”
“Second Level war alert?” Li Yuan’s pupils shrank.
The flames of war had been at a Third Level alert for the past half a year.
Moreover, just two days ago, he had video called his uncle, and the war in the Rob Sea Star Realm was about to end, wasn’t it?
The war hadn’t ended yet, but had escalated?
“I just tried to call Dad, and it said he wasn’t in the service area,” Li Qianqian was extremely anxious: “I called Mom, and she didn’t pick up either.”
“Brother!”
“You don’t think Dad is in trouble, do you?!”