A girl with a pretty face, looking rather frail, placed her hand on the stone tablet, her eyes filled with tension.
"Zhou Xue, Metal Element, High-Grade Spirit Vein!"
Upon hearing the instructor's confirmation, the girl named Zhou Xue finally breathed a slight sigh of relief, a flicker of joy appearing on her delicate face.
Her family was one of the main houses of the Imperial City Commerce Association. If it got out that she only had a Mid-Grade Spirit Vein, it would be a great loss of face.
This spirit vein test was extremely important—being found to have a low-grade vein would not only disgrace her family but also cost her their resource support.
Zi Yun smiled at her and said, "Xue'er, well done."
"Thank you, Instructor!"
Zhou Xue's eyes sparkled with delight.
A group of students stared at Zi Yun's alluring figure, secretly swallowing their saliva.
In these youthful, innocent years, encountering an instructor with such stunning looks and a killer body was nothing short of deadly.
That bastard An Xiang, their homeroom instructor, hadn't done a single decent thing. The one thing that actually satisfied them was that he had promoted Zi Yun to assistant homeroom instructor. Because of this move, their hatred for An Xiang had lessened quite a bit.
"Wang Junli, Earth Element, High-Grade Spirit Vein!"
"Yue Qing, Light Element, High-Grade Spirit Vein!"
"..."
The Long-Bearded Instructor's voice grew more astonished with each announcement.
There were already over a dozen students, and they were all High-Grade Spirit Veins!
Was the Special Recruitment Class really this terrifying?
"My turn."
Xu Qianqian finished chewing the candy in her mouth, patted her hands together, and said.
Looking at the delicate, cute little girl, the Long-Bearded Instructor also smiled. "Alright."
The moment she pressed her hand onto the tablet,
a dazzling light appeared. The cylindrical stone tablet was flooded with fire-element spiritual energy, turning it a bright red and looking quite ferocious.
"This, this..."
All the students present were shocked.
After testing hundreds of people, this was the first time they had encountered such a situation.
The Long-Bearded Instructor's eyes seemed to glow. "Xu Qianqian, Fire Element, Top-Grade Spirit Vein! Not bad, not bad—this year's class actually has a Top-Grade Spirit Vein!"
He remembered the last time a Top-Grade Spirit Vein appeared was two years ago. He never thought another one would show up now.
Everyone was stunned. No one had expected that this delicate, cute, and pink little girl would possess such terrifying talent.
Xu Qianqian remained calm and collected, pulling another piece of candy from her pocket and popping it into her mouth.
She wasn't impressed by the result at all. Back then, her father had dreamed of the Xu family's rise and spared no cost to marry her mother—all for the sake of the spirit vein. If she weren't a Top-Grade Spirit Vein, her father would probably be furious enough to explode.
"Liu Yu, Dark Element, Top-Grade Spirit Vein!"
The Long-Bearded Instructor's face flushed red.
Another Top-Grade Spirit Vein.
Two top-grade vein students in the same year—across the entire history of the Eastern Profound Academy's branch campus, that was a rare occurrence.
Liu Yu looked indifferent, casting a sneering glance at the other students.
He had known the result long ago because he had already tested himself earlier.
"Wang Xian'er, Wind Element, High-Grade Spirit Vein!"
"Yan Kui, Thunder Element, Top, Top, Top-Grade Spirit Vein!"
Just then, the Long-Bearded Instructor's impassioned voice rang out again, his tongue nearly tripping.
Liu Yu's expression shifted as he stared incredulously at the stone tablet glowing with purple light.
The massive cylindrical tablet, enveloped in purple spiritual energy, looked like a giant purple eggplant, with arcs of lightning surging across it.
"Heh, just a Top-Grade Spirit Vein—nothing to show off about."
Yan Kui shook his hand, looking at Liu Yu with a disdainful grin.
"You..."
Liu Yu's eyes turned icy. He hadn't expected this big, dark fellow to also be a Top-Grade Spirit Vein.
"My turn."
Zhang Qi pressed his unbroken hand onto the tablet.
Everyone held their breath, staring at the cylindrical tablet with anticipation.
Not disappointing their expectations, as the biggest troublemaker in the Special Recruitment Class, Zhang Qi's spirit vein grade was equally impressive. A green glow rose up.
"Zhang Qi, Wood Element, Top-Grade Spirit Vein!"
The Long-Bearded Instructor suppressed his excitement, his voice trembling as he spoke.
By now, there were already four promising students with Top-Grade Spirit Veins.
These would all be key training targets for the Eastern Profound Academy.
"My turn."
A cool-looking girl with blue hair placed her hand on the tablet.
In an instant, the entire stone column seemed to freeze, a layer of white frost forming, displaying a magnificent ice-blue color.
"An Odd Spirit Root!"
The Long-Bearded Instructor was slightly surprised. He hadn't expected another student with an Ice Element spirit vein.
And... it was also Top-Grade!
"Instructor, I'm done testing!"
Qiansui said calmly.
The Long-Bearded Instructor snapped back to reality and quickly announced, "Qiansui, Ice Element, Top-Grade Spirit Vein!"
After saying this, even he was stunned.
There were now five Top-Grade Spirit Veins! In the history of the Eastern Profound Academy branch campus, this was unprecedented.
And not just that—of the over forty students, the rest were all High-Grade Spirit Veins.
Was the Special Recruitment Class really this terrifying?
The Long-Bearded Instructor's face flushed red. He knew that the Eastern Profound Academy branch campus in the Dongling Empire would likely shock the main campus six months from now!
Liu Yu let out a cold snort.
He had thought his Top-Grade Spirit Vein would let him stand above the crowd.
But he hadn't expected that these few brats were all Top-Grade too. In an instant, his unique sense of superiority vanished completely.
They were all still on the same starting line.
"Excellent! The results of this test are absolutely terrifying. Hahaha—if the dean finds out we've produced so many geniuses, I wonder how happy he'll be."
The Long-Bearded Instructor laughed heartily, his usually stern face unable to contain his smile.
"Instructor, I haven't tested yet."
At that moment, Ye Tian's voice slowly came through.
The Long-Bearded Instructor looked at this young man, who had a clean-cut appearance but kept a low profile, and said, "Alright, come give it a try."
Ye Tian stepped forward.
The students of the Special Recruitment Class all looked at Ye Tian with teasing expressions.
They were quite hostile toward this guy, who had reported in much later than them.
"Guess what spirit vein this halberd-wielding guy has?"
Yan Kui looked at Zhang Qi and asked.
Zhang Qi had fought Ye Tian before and still had a vivid memory of his strange blue flames.
"It should be a High-Grade Spirit Vein, I think."
These Special Recruitment Class students had all reached the Spirit Gathering stage standard before turning eighteen, so their spirit veins were generally decent. The few Top-Grade ones were even at the mid-Spirit Gathering stage.
Ye Tian, being in the early Spirit Gathering stage and lagging a step behind them, should probably be a High-Grade Spirit Vein.
"High-Grade? That's boring," Liu Yu said arrogantly.
Houzi curled his lips, muttering under his breath, "Tch, still showing off! Did a High-Grade Spirit Vein sleep with your ancestors or something!?"
Xu Qianqian sucked on her candy and said with a smile, "Not necessarily."
Others might not know, but she understood—this guy had a Waste Spirit Vein.
In the Ancient Continent, there were examples of people who couldn't cultivate spirit veins and chose body training instead. The gap wasn't obvious in the early stages, but once they reached the Spirit Gathering stage, whether they had a spirit vein or not made all the difference.
Ye Tian placed his hand on the tablet.
"No reaction?"
The students exchanged puzzled looks.
In an instant, a blue flame erupted, engulfing the entire tablet.
A dazzling blue light, radiant as the sun itself, forced everyone in the training ground to instinctively shut their eyes.
"What is this?!"
The trainees were baffled.
The long-bearded instructor's face flushed crimson, his body trembling like a sieve, his voice quaking.
"A divine-grade spirit vein!!"
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
shall grant"] ["Inscribing the glory of our race upon tombstones"] ["All that is threatened, I shall protect"] How his younger sister sees her brother: A brother who only makes eye contact once a day, mostly fading into the background as he tinkers with who-knows-what in his room all day. Their life paths should have remained largely separate. Until one day. Su Qi created an equipment card for his never-met "online girlfriend." His sister fell into silent contemplation upon receiving the "white stockings." [Card can be upgraded] [Upgrade by fulfilling any of the following conditions] [Condition ①: Consume one hundred higher-tier cards] [Condition ②: Complete one 'Heart-Pounding Adventure'] What constitutes a Heart-Pounding Adventure? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Beginner Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to admire it.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Easy Level): Equip the card, invite 'Su Qi' to touch it, and analyze the equipment's texture.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Entry Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to...] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Challenge Level): Freely combine the words 'Brother' 'Out' 'Brother' 'Me' 'Please' into a complete sentence...] "Please help me analyze both teams' mistakes in this match, brother..." His sister exhaled in relief—surely... surely there couldn't be anything more difficult? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Suicide Mission Level): Sneak a peek at the names of the galgames in 'Su Qi's' hidden E-drive folder]
