“Xiao Yun, it’s dangerous in there. You must not act alone just because you’re stronger than others. It’s best to move with the group!”
“Don’t be too competitive. Be careful not to get into trouble! We have such great talent; we just need to cultivate properly. There’s no need to compete with them…”
Li Qingyun was packing his bags while his parents nagged him incessantly.
He didn’t find it annoying. No parent would wish for their child’s ill health.
Others envied Li Qingyun’s talent, but his parents worried about him being too outstanding.
Li Qingyun smiled and said, “It’s okay, I know what I’m doing. I won’t provoke powerful demonic beasts lightly.”
“Also, be careful of the people going in with you. They might be jealous of you, so they might stab you in the back!”
“Alright, I’ll remember that!”
“And also, and also…”
…
After nagging for the entire morning, Li Qingyun finally got to drag his suitcase out the door.
His status had changed. He was now a nationally protected genius, with dedicated vehicles and planes for transport.
Besides him, the other few individuals with extraordinary talent received similar high-level treatment.
Chu Yang didn’t treat them as treasures, but Wang Zhicheng was unwilling to let these geniuses, these rare treasures of Xia Country, be neglected.
Li Qingyun touched his waist, feeling a bit speechless.
He had several grenades and two pistols at his waist. They would also be equipped with a sniper rifle.
These were mandatory items arranged by the higher-ups. Although he was sure these conventional weapons wouldn't pose much of a threat to the thick-skinned demonic beasts, since they were provided, he might as well carry them.
They might cause some damage to weaker demonic beasts.
Today was not the day for the trial, but Chu Yang required them to be in place a day in advance.
Luo Xiaowei had also found others to help manage the qualification appraisal stones.
It wasn’t until the afternoon that everyone in the small group, received by Xue Qianwei, arrived at Xiong Miao’s headquarters.
Chu Yang was already waiting for them there.
Upon seeing Chu Yang, the previously noisy group instinctively fell silent and stood at attention.
Chu Yang was now in the late stage of Void Returning. Even without deliberately displaying it, he exuded a powerful aura.
He observed everyone with his Insightful Eyes and nodded with satisfaction.
Since the ideological education he gave them that day, everyone had entered a mode of closed-door cultivation.
Li Qingyun, being the most talented, was currently in the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, naturally with the help of a top-grade spirit stone, but it was also inseparable from his own effort.
The old Daoist Bai Nianchen was still in the early stage of Foundation Establishment. As someone with a natural Dao physique, he had accumulated decades of cultivation before activating his physique. His current realm was quite stable.
Wang Teng, however, was interesting. The cultivation realm for body refiners was different from others.
It still started from Qi Refining, but after Qi Refining, it progressed through Tendon Strengthening, Bone Forging, Blood Refining, Marrow Cleansing…
Wang Teng had now broken through to the early stage of Tendon Strengthening, but his realm was not yet stable; he must have broken through recently.
The reason for his rapid progress was naturally Wang Teng’s application of financial power. After the rewards for qualification appraisals were announced, many individuals with superior qualifications appeared daily, each receiving a mid-grade spirit stone. Wang Teng, on the other hand, paid double the market price to acquire them.
Among those with superior qualifications, there were always some who were short on money.
Then Wang Teng used over a dozen mid-grade spirit stones to charge from Qi Refining all the way to Tendon Strengthening.
His expression was now extremely arrogant, and he frequently cast disdainful glances at Meng Zibin.
As if to say, "Little brat, can you compete with me?"
But this did not affect Meng Zibin’s contempt for him. In Meng Zibin’s opinion, using money to buy spirit stones was just a shortcut!
Meng Zibin had pushed himself to the late stage of Qi Refining, but his realm still needed some time to stabilize.
As for the others, Luo Xiaowei, by relying on the spirit stones earned from working for Chu Yang, combined with the spiritual energy emanating from the spirit stone mine, had forcefully pushed himself to the late stage of Qi Refining.
With medium talent, the gap between him and these exceptionally gifted individuals became apparent.
However, the weakest in strength was not Luo Xiaowei, but Qin Xiaoxiao. She had started cultivating later than the others present. She used her spirit stones and cultivated tirelessly to reach the mid-stage of Qi Refining.
Chu Yang looked at them and said, “It seems you’ve all taken my words to heart and haven’t been slacking off these past few days. I asked you to come a day early because there are some things I need to tell you.”
As everyone looked confused, Chu Yang waved his hand.
Instantly, everyone froze in place, stunned.
In their minds, an extremely uncomfortable scene appeared.
They saw the entire Blue Star shrouded in darkness, with dimensional rifts appearing in the sky.
Humanoid creatures with horns on their heads emerged from the rifts, shouting unintelligible languages excitedly before commencing a massacre of helpless humans.
They could shake the earth with a wave of their hands and summon storms and lightning.
Humanity’s pride, nuclear weapons and missiles, were easily crushed by them, leaving them unharmed.
Human cities and buildings were reduced to ashes in an instant.
Rivers of blood flowed, and desperate cries of anguish were heard everywhere.
The technological civilization accumulated over millions of years vanished overnight.
…
The vision lasted only half a minute, but everyone’s faces turned pale, their legs went weak, and they all slumped to the ground.
Qin Xiaoxiao, who had poorer emotional control, even clutched her head and screamed, crying hysterically!
Everyone gasped for breath, but still felt a lingering sense of suffocation.
Even Bai Nianchen, with his calm demeanor, had trembling hands and vibrating pupils.
Li Qingyun also muttered blankly, “What were those monsters…”
Xue Qianwei was very curious about what these people had seen to become so terrified.
But Chu Yang wouldn’t let her see, which made her very displeased!
Chu Yang did not find their reaction exaggerated.
What they had just seen was the doomsday scene that the system had shown him three years later.
He said calmly, “What you just saw is what will happen in three years. And those creatures with horns on their heads, I’ve tentatively named them the Outer Realm Evil Race. They might be looking for a suitable place to live, or they might simply enjoy slaughtering us. In either case, it means they are humanity’s eternal enemies!”
Li Qingyun quickly asked, “How strong are they?”
Chu Yang uttered two cold words: “The strongest can rival an Immortal Emperor! And there is more than one!”
Everyone’s faces turned even paler.
What level was an Immortal Emperor? Above ordinary Immortal Realm experts were Immortal Kings, and above Immortal Kings were Immortal Emperors!
However, Chu Yang smiled at them and said, “But my expectation for you is Immortal Emperor!”