Hanshui City, No. 1 Middle School, Lin Ye put on his schoolbag and walked out of the school gate.
He is a senior high school student, which is the most demanding admission season. Every student is fighting for his or her future at this time.
However, since the Qin and Han Kingdom unified the Blue Water Star ten years ago and became the only remaining country on the Blue Water Star, the Qin and Han Kingdom has carried out educational reforms.
The period of compulsory education has been extended from nine years to twelve years, which means that compulsory education ends only after the college entrance examination.
At the same time, physical education classes were changed into martial arts classes. Not only did the class hours increase, it became an important subject that was no less important than Chinese, mathematics, physics and chemistry. The things taught made the students complain bitterly.
It's nothing, it's just that martial arts classes are too tiring. After each class, I'm either skinned or at least exhausted.
What's even more perverted is that martial arts classes not only involve physical exercise, but also theoretical knowledge. That knowledge is extremely profound and is extremely bad for students who have poor academic performance and fail in math, physics, chemistry, biology and Chinese.
However, even so, few students give up martial arts classes.
Ten years ago, not long after the Qin and Han dynasties unified the Blue Water Planet, a spacecraft from a cosmic civilization landed on the Blue Water Planet.
At that time, the Qin and Han dynasties did not hide this news, but directly announced it to the whole world, declaring the existence of cosmic life.
It was also from that time that the people of Blue Water Star knew for sure that they were not alone in the universe, and that they were not even ranked among the cosmic civilizations.
Over the past ten years, with the official popularization of science by the Qin and Han dynasties, and with cosmic forces coming to Blue Water Star to establish companies, the people of Blue Water Star also learned about the basic situation of the universe.
In the entire universe human alliance, academic qualifications and martial arts are the two most important paths and also the paths with the brightest future.
The students are very young and may not have figured out what they want, but they are not idiots. Having been bombarded with a large amount of information since childhood, they know very well what is important enough not to give up easily.
Not to mention, the two paths of academic qualifications and martial arts represent not only wealth and power, but also strength and longevity, which are things that even they desire extremely.
"After the national reform, there is a huge demand for talents in all aspects. Even if you can only get into an ordinary university or a professional school, you can live a good life in the future."
"This is a bonus brought by the times, and an opportunity brought by the Blue Water Planet's entry into cosmic civilization."
"But if possible, it's better to take one of the two paths of academic study or martial arts. These are the two brightest paths." Lin Ye jogged home, thinking to himself.
"I'm not bad at liberal arts and science, but I'm not good either. I'm just passing. There's not much hope for me to pursue academic qualifications. I can't catch up with those academic geniuses and top students. If I compete in knowledge, I'm destined to enter only an ordinary university or a professional school after the college entrance examination."
The forestry industry is well aware of its strengths and weaknesses.
"On the contrary, I have some talent in martial arts."
In the entire senior year of the No. 1 Middle School in the city, Lin Ye was ranked in the top 50 in martial arts, and this result was enough for him to be admitted to a good martial arts university.
"In the past ten years, Qin and Han have built one hundred martial arts universities. The first ten are of one level, the next sixty are of another level, and the last thirty are of another level."
"If I can achieve the limit of a mortal before the martial arts college entrance examination, I can be admitted to even the top ten martial arts universities!"
Lin Ye is not far from the limit of mortals, but he is not sure whether he can complete it before the college entrance examination and achieve the limit of mortals.
After all, the limits of mortals cannot be achieved just by your hard work.
That is the limit of human strength, with one jump of six or seven meters, one leap of thirty or four feet, and the arms having a force of a thousand pounds!
It requires effort and resources, both are indispensable.
Otherwise, your body will collapse before you reach the limits of a mortal.
This was also the reason why Lin Ye was worried. His family was neither good nor bad, and he belonged to the ranks of ordinary people. He could not buy those high-nutrition, high-energy, and high-value foods for a long time. This made him lag behind in martial arts and he could only stay in the 50th place in the city's No. 1 Middle School.
The sadness on his face disappeared when Lin Ye arrived downstairs of his house.
He would not bring these troubles back home because he knew that his parents had done their best and the rest he wanted to pursue was up to him, and he was not the kind of person who would complain about himself.
"Try your best to pursue it, how far you can get depends on luck!" Lin Ye made up his mind. If he really couldn't get into the top ten martial arts universities, with his current martial arts strength, he could also be admitted into the 60 middle-ranked martial arts universities.
On a tall building in the distance, sixty-three-year-old Zhou Wen was sitting in a luxurious box with the Second Soul.
"Old Zhou, you came all the way from the Life Evolution Bureau just to see me. You seem to have a very easy job as the director." The second soul joked.
"No, this isn't your first time back since you left, so I have to come and greet you, otherwise you'll scold me for not being a good friend." Zhou Wen said with a smile.
Zhou Wen, who was fifty years old and looked old ten years ago, entered the virtual world of the universe through virtual devices in the past ten years. He practiced martial arts with the help of the virtual world. Now he has reached the second level of the mortal realm, his lifespan has greatly increased, and he has regained his youth. Now he looks like a strong man in his thirties.
"It makes you feel like I've been away for a long time." The second soul said casually.
"You guys, you meet me in the virtual world every day, what's the difference between me leaving and not leaving?"
Zhou Wen showed an embarrassed smile. When the Qin and Han Kingdom joined the Universal Human Alliance, they witnessed the power of the cosmic civilization and the misery of the primary civilization. They understood more and more how lucky they were to have received the help of the second soul before joining the alliance.
In particular, the identity of a formal member of the Second Soul Wilderness Alliance is of great importance in the entire God-Slaying Universe.
The Qin and Han states, fully aware of their own weakness, naturally clung to the Second Soul's thighs for protection.
This is how the uninterrupted contact with the second soul for ten years came about.
They did this because they knew that the second soul would not be angry about this.
In order to hold on to the thigh, they have done careful research and analysis.
"Okay, let's talk about business." The second soul picked up the tea on the table.
"I came here this time for serious business."
"You know about the genius war in the God-Slaying Universe."
Zhou Wen nodded. He could hear about this event that shocked the entire human alliance every day in the virtual world. He also wondered if the people of the Blue Water Star could participate in this genius battle, but the Qin and Han Kingdom did not make many achievements in martial arts. The martial arts that were passed down today were still the inheritance up to the third level of the mortal realm that he had acquired through a transaction with the second soul, as well as the inheritance purchased from the virtual world over the years.
This is the reality, so Zhou Wen just thought about it and didn't have too many extravagant hopes.
But now, after hearing the Second Soul talk about this, he couldn't help but feel a little excited.
"Our alliance is holding a genius battle to recruit truly extraordinary talents." The second soul said slowly, and Zhou Wen hurriedly listened carefully, memorizing every word in his heart.
"However, the universe is vast, civilizations are numerous, and their levels of development vary widely."
"Even if you have extraordinary talent, if you don't get training, you can't compare to a peer with ordinary talent from a medium civilization."
The second soul said solemnly: "What the Wild Alliance wants is strong people, strong people with potential."
"He has no potential to become a god. Even if he performed well in the early stage because of the great training he received, he is not what the Wilderness Alliance needs."
"The genius battle is a test of both combat power and potential."
Zhou Wen was delighted, as this was undoubtedly giving these elementary civilizations an opportunity.
If we only compare combat power, more than 90% of the primary civilizations have no chance of success. They will be 100% squeezed out by the strongest group of primary civilizations and the talents cultivated by the middle civilizations.
The resources they possess are so different that it is difficult for the former to compete with the latter in the early stages.
But if we compare purely in terms of potential, that may not be the case.
Even if the geniuses of medium civilization still have a certain advantage in potential due to genetics, they will not be able to completely monopolize the battle of geniuses. Those peerless evildoers who have not received sufficient training will break through the siege in the potential assessment.
Even though the number of people will be small, it is countless times better than just assessing combat power.
The second soul continued, "The Genius Battle will be held in the virtual world, and any citizen of the universe can participate."
"And each primary civilization will have three recommended places, and can directly participate in the formal assessment."
The second soul looked at Zhou Wendao.
"Although the Qin and Han dynasties were only a newly emerged, primary civilization, they also had this power."
"You can recommend three people to participate in the official battle of the genius battle."
“No need to go through the extremely brutal qualifying rounds.”
“That’s why I came here.”
The second soul's eyes changed, revealing a stern look.
"Many people in the universe know about the relationship between Qin and Han and me, and they know how much I favor and help you."
"If the people you choose participate in the official battle and fail to make it past the first round, that would be a slap in my face."
"Then I have to consider whether Qin and Han are still worthy of my assistance."
Zhou Wen paused, feeling a chill in his heart.
What would have become of the Qin and Han dynasties if they had lost the protection of the second soul? There have been countless examples in the universe of how not many primitive civilizations could walk out of such a quagmire and continue to grow stronger. Most of them fell into the quagmire and eventually perished, with the people in the civilization becoming slaves or being completely swallowed up by other civilizations.
Zhou Wen never wanted the Qin and Han dynasties to fall into such a situation.
The pressure suddenly fell on Zhou Wen.
He also knew that the Second Soul and the Qin and Han Kingdoms once had a relationship of mutual assistance and a transaction.
The second soul was able to return to the Wilderness Alliance, the Qin and Han Kingdom was able to unify the Blue Water Star, and received many gifts. Its strength immediately rose above the ranks of the weakest elementary civilizations.
After that, the close cooperative relationship between the two parties ended.
Later, they asked the second soul for help and wanted to hold on to its thigh.
Although the second soul did not refuse, the Qin and Han countries have always been very clear that it is impossible for a person to protect others without any relatives or friends.
The protected person needs to show his own value and demonstrate his worthiness to be protected.
Zhou Wen took a deep breath.
“Mr. Lin, I understand, Qin Hanguo will not let you lose face!”
The change in tone showed Zhou Wen's determination at the moment.
"Yeah." The second soul nodded, but his eyes looked at Lin Yejia.