Chapter 159 The World Changes Color (6200, Fourth Update, Seeking a Monthly Pass~)

*G吱!*

Accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of twisting metal, Su Zhou, stepping on a specially made steel plate, lifted a super-giant barbell that had clearly been refined, using the most standard clean and jerk posture. Although the process looked somewhat strenuous, and it could even be said that it was the first time anyone had seen Su Zhou looking so serious, it was obvious that twenty tons was not his full strength.

This giant barbell weighed a full twenty tons. Even if it was forged from special spirit iron and refined with spirit-artifact-level methods, the plates on both sides were nearly two thousand *Yuan Rinren* in volume, approximately one cubic meter of high-density metal blocks. After lifting it, one could see that Su Zhou's feet sank noticeably downwards, as the entire stadium floor caved in slightly.

"Th-this, this student... are you... alright?"

The supervising professor on the side was trembling with fear. He wanted to ask Su Zhou if he wanted to put it down, but he was afraid that Su Zhou was at his limit and that his question would affect Su Zhou's state and cause him to get injured.

"I'm fine, still okay."

But as a result, he saw that Su Zhou even had the leisure to start rotating the barbell—just like ancient martial generals wielding long staffs and spears. The entire barbell was spun into a fan, creating a fierce wind on the entire testing platform!

"This thing can even be spun?!"

Instantly, the platform cleared. Almost all the testing students who were still watching the show were shocked and ran off the stage. The supervising professor next to him was so frightened that he erected a spirit shield—if this twenty-ton iron block came over at this speed, people would be gone in an instant!

In fact, Su Zhou knew in his heart: "The force of about twenty tons is about the same as a tentacle whipping down from the Demon Emperor, but it is still not as strong as the force of the Demon Emperor's *Panlong* true body slapping down—but I am not using my full strength now."

"If I were to fight the Demon Emperor after advancing to the Transcendent Stage, even if he borrowed the power of the Divine Tree, I could still carry the *Medu* Blade and confront him head-on, directly knocking down his *Panlong* true body, instead of using any roundabout tactics."

At the same Transcendent Stage, he was stronger than the Demon Emperor.

After confirming this, Su Zhou stopped and forcibly stopped the huge barbell that was spinning—a clear sound of cracking joints could be heard.

But in the next instant, the injuries on his body recovered. The supervising professor, who thought something was going to happen and was preparing to call the medical team, thought he had heard a hallucination.

"I lost!" *Guan Wanjing*, who had watched the entire process, suddenly felt his vision go black: "This monstrous strength is no less than that of large-scale engineering equipment!"

This genius, who was the most talented in Hongzhou besides Su Zhou and could be ranked among the best in the country, had his face full of bulging muscles, and his expression was somewhere between a smile and a grimace: "What a monster, is he cheating?!"

*Guan Wanjing* was now truly convinced. Others couldn't tell, but he, whose physical body was also extremely powerful, understood that to be able to spin a barbell weighing more than twenty tons in place with a body of just over a hundred kilograms, instead of being thrown away by centrifugal force, required not only perfect control, but also an extremely large amount of spiritual energy, with a total output far greater than twenty tons!

What did this prove? It proved that Su Zhou could now perfectly control his Transcendent Stage power! And this was only after less than half a year.

Weightlifting was just a small part of the process. As Su Zhou casually put the barbell down, causing the surrounding ground to shake like a small earthquake, almost all the spirit-testing procedures were completed.

Only the last part remained, which was also the most important part of the spirit test: the actual spirit test.

At this moment, *Zheng* Country Central Television happened to be, or rather, had received relevant instructions, and specifically focused its camera on the Hongzhou testing ground, with Su Zhou as the center of the view.

The two hosts were also explaining: "The actual spirit test, as the name implies, is a test to detect the actual spirit attributes and functions of various cultivators."

"What was shown before was only a byproduct of spiritual energy permeating the human body... the true power of spiritual energy is about to be revealed!"

"Look, in the center of the camp, there is a spirit artifact that looks like a searchlight. This is the 'Spirit Guidance Instrument' produced by the Tiandu Comprehensive Research Institute, which can guide the characteristics of a cultivator and reveal the true power of their spiritual energy."

"Let's return to the testing ground with the camera... the Spirit Guidance Instrument is taking effect, and the first tester has already revealed their characteristics!"

In that instant, audiences across the country who were watching the spirit test exclaimed—because regardless of which local television station, online broadcast, or Central Television, brilliant spiritual light phenomena appeared on the screen!

It could be seen that, with the blessing of the Spirit Guidance Instrument, the seemingly colorful spiritual lights of each of the cultivators being tested began to rapidly evolve into their essence.

In an instant, the center of the entire testing ground was filled with surging red flames and light blue waves, deep green wood energy and deep yellow thick earth. The almost materialized waves of spiritual energy impacted the surrounding atmosphere, rubbing obvious marks on the ground!

All kinds of spiritual energy, more realistic and shocking than movie CG, affected the real world, creating a vast flash of spiritual light—some people had flames burning around them, completely evaporating the surrounding moisture, while others were surrounded by raging winds, and their entire bodies floated slightly!

Each cultivator's spiritual energy, under the blessing of the Spirit Guidance Instrument, displayed almost otherworldly phenomena. Without a doubt, the greater the range of influence of the otherworldly phenomenon, the higher the score. The best of the testing students could even influence a vast area with a radius of twenty meters centered on themselves, while ordinary students could only influence a few meters at best.

But even so, it was already quite amazing.

Until this moment, all cultivators finally showed their fundamental difference from ordinary people... the otherworldly phenomena displayed by their spiritual energy itself was a representation of transcendence.

Of course, there was also a test-taker from Haizhou who did not show such an obvious spiritual energy essence. Even under the effect of the searchlight-like Spirit Guidance Instrument, his spiritual energy only became thicker, spreading around him like mist, covering a range of more than thirty meters... Although it seemed that it had no characteristics, his spiritual energy was very dense, far more terrifying than that of a normal cultivator!

Or rather, this was his spiritual energy characteristic.

The characteristics of spiritual energy were not that complicated. The West classified them with the four elements and aether, and *Zheng* Country also had different classifications such as the Five Elements and the Four Symbols, but in essence, it was all a general summary. In most cases, even the person himself did not know the essence of his spiritual energy.

If every human cultivated, their spiritual energy characteristics would be different. Some people had increased appetites after awakening and could eat ten meals a day. This was a characteristic. Some people had bright minds after awakening and could quickly learn more than a dozen languages. This was also a characteristic.

Heaven has endowed me with talents for eventual use. If one was not successful in combat, then perhaps one had a special talent in alchemy or drawing talismans. However, because of various reasons, only characteristics leaning towards combat could be guided and displayed... Perhaps one day in the future, there would be an instrument that could directly test the characteristics that humans were good at, and determine the most suitable development path for a person at birth.

But whether the birth of such an instrument was good or bad, no one could make a conclusion at this time.

Now, standing in the center of the testing ground, receiving the guidance of the Spirit Guidance Instrument, was *Shao Qiming*.

It could be seen that his white spiritual energy, under the blessing of the strong spiritual light emitted by the Spirit Guidance Instrument, instantly transformed into a warm and carrying a trace of strong vitality, white light, which was exactly the same as the light of the Wisdom Fruit.

This kind of light was judged to have excellent healing and plant affinity, which immediately caused a burst of whispers and delighted expressions from the surrounding professors who were watching.

No matter when, talent in healing was always the most popular and relatively scarce, especially if one wanted to explore and adventure in some wild areas where medical facilities were not perfect. A physician with built-in healing abilities was undoubtedly the core requirement for building a team.

"And not only healing abilities, but also a strong light characteristic..."

A certain academy professor pushed up his glasses, his joy was almost written on his face: "A good seedling!"

The two geniuses from the *Zheng Yi* Academy also received guidance. The female student with the fierce gaze did not show any otherworldly phenomenon, but it was obvious that the other students waiting for the test were a little dizzy, as if their spirits had been shocked—this kind of undetectable soul talent was even more surprising to the audience.

The round-faced male student had extremely rare compound attributes. It could be seen that his spiritual energy was constantly changing and transforming, sometimes wind, sometimes fire, sometimes metal, sometimes earth, like a kaleidoscope... the Five Elements and Four Symbols rotated, it was truly colorful.

*Guan Wanjing* was in front of Su Zhou in line. When he was being tested, he turned his head and glanced at Su Zhou, but found that the other party seemed to be in a daze, staring at the tumbling dark clouds above his head. For a moment, this muscular fitness enthusiast did not react to why Su Zhou would be in a daze at such a serious and exciting time.

"Wait, could it be?"

But when he showed a powerful earth attribute phenomenon that was enough to make the soil and stones within a radius of more than thirty meters around him move and rise, or even float in mid-air as if anti-gravity, and went offstage to receive praise from his school's teachers, *Guan Wanjing* vaguely guessed Su Zhou's thoughts.

Su Zhou was not paying attention to *Guan Wanjing*'s gaze at this time. He was just staring at the dark clouds in the sky.

Those eyes, which could see through most of the spiritual energy flow, were distinguishing the invisible veins in the dark clouds.

The Spirit Guidance Instrument, to put it bluntly, was to condense the surrounding spiritual energy and project it within a small area, forcibly raising and magnifying the spiritual energy of the relevant Transcendents—its original prototype was a coercive manifestation magic item to detect some invisible units, so its shape looked like a searchlight. After the modification, it could magnify the details of the spiritual energy being irradiated, presenting otherworldly phenomena.

Su Zhou, who was already Transcendent and could create otherworldly phenomena on his own, was of too high a level compared to this instrument. In addition, with the Perfect Body not leaking spiritual energy, he did not show his spiritual energy essence under the irradiation of the Spirit Guidance Instrument like other test-takers.

For a time, the audience who were watching Central Television were a little confused. They originally thought they could see Su Zhou, the guy who had brought them several surprises or shocks before, give them another surprise.

No one thought that Su Zhou under the Spirit Guidance Instrument was just like an ordinary person, without showing any spiritual energy characteristics.

However, they saw that Su Zhou seized an opportunity and then raised his hand towards the cloudy sky.

*Boom*—a deafening thunderclap exploded!

The cameras at the Hongcheng testing ground, which had been specially strengthened with electromagnetic shielding, flickered for a moment, and then, amidst the excited shouts of the filming personnel, turned upwards.

On the screen, one could see the cloudy, dark-clouded sky of Hongcheng in June, and the two armed helicopters that had been hovering above as a warning, but were now retreating urgently.

"Wind, rise!"

Just after the two armed helicopters retreated, Su Zhou shouted lightly. In that instant, dazzling cyan-blue lightning began to flash around him, as if echoing the tumbling black cumulonimbus clouds in the sky!

*Boom!* Another louder rumble—Hongcheng in June was originally cloudy and rainy, with dark clouds filling the sky, but at this time, for some reason, the sky suddenly darkened, and a strong wind rose!

For a time, the wind and clouds surged, and the sky and earth changed color. Between the layers of black clouds, there were cyan lightning snakes darting, and then erupting!

And in the midst of the huge thunder, a voice that was clearer than the thunder sounded!

"Lightning, come!"

The right hand, raised high, fell as decisively as a conductor's baton, and the intense spiritual light wrapped around it, which was almost materialized, poured out towards the empty center of the field in that instant. A thick beam of lightning fell from the sky with a bang, following Su Zhou's order!

*Buzz!*

For a time, all the electronic devices in the entire testing ground malfunctioned, and only the camera that had been specially prepared for shock resistance from the beginning was still operating normally.

Therefore, it filmed the scene of the thunder falling from the nine heavens and striking the center of the field!

*Boom!*

After the initial explosion, the strong current even ignited the dust in the surrounding air out of thin air, creating a huge impact. Even on the insulated ground, there was a huge current affecting everything within a radius of a dozen meters, and bright flames directly ignited the lawn, lighting up the fire.

Then... came the torrential rain!

*Crash*—warm rain fell, this was a characteristic of the South, summer's boiling water rain.

And just as this sudden rain, which was not reported by any weather forecast, extinguished the flames in the center of the field, the sound of the rain also awakened all the shocked viewers.

"Summoning lightning... summoning wind and rain!" A middle-aged man was dumbfounded: "Transcendent power, can actually do such a thing?!"

"Is this really the power of a student who has just started cultivating?!"

"This is not at the same level as before, this is too strong! It's simply like those legendary immortals!"

"Incredible, incredible!"

Instantly, almost all the viewers who were watching Central Television were shocked by this terrifying power to varying degrees, and some even muttered to themselves: "If he can summon lightning and rain on a cloudy day... then what's the difference between him and the God of Thunder?"

"Level, Transcendent realm!"

"He's not Awakening Stage, but Transcendent Stage!"

This scene was not only being watched by the people of *Zheng* Country.

Transcendent organizations all over the world were constantly paying attention to each other's stage for showing their strength.

The spiritual energy test after the *Zheng* Country's Saint Election was undoubtedly like a military parade, showing their strength and foundation.

"This is not something that ordinary Transcendents can do."

On the other side of the distant world, across the ocean, somewhere in the American Federation.

Inside a pure white conference hall, two old white men stared at the lightning falling from the sky on the big screen in front of them and couldn't help but sigh in unison: "The Transcendent realm at eighteen? Summoning lightning? Where did the thirty-six saints of *Zheng* Country find such a monster? This is simply the Thunder God of the present world."

"Even with a built-in brain chip, starting semi-autonomous cultivation from the age of three, it is very difficult to advance to the Transcendent Stage at the age of eighteen... What's more, the 'assisted cultivation system' is far from successful."

After the sigh, there was silence. One of the old men, wearing a monocle, shook his head slightly and sighed: "It seems that they will have another terrifyingly strong high-end combat force... I really hope they will be stupid, jealous of talent, and force this genius out..."

"Don't think about it, even if one person is stupid, there will always be someone among the thirty-six saints who is not stupid. Anyway, the chaotic world is coming, it's good if he's strong, everyone is busy, we just need to adhere to isolationism."

Coincidentally, in a secret hall of the Europa Union, several top Transcendents, who appeared in holographic projections, exchanged and discussed and came to the same conclusion.

"This is a threat... a threat that will emerge in the future, an extremely powerful threat. But this has nothing to do with us. The chaotic world is coming, no matter how strong they are, they will not have the energy to care about other things."

"In the next twenty years, everyone in the world will have to adapt to the world changes brought about by the gradual rise of the demon tide."

"Add the name 'Su Zhou' to the highest level of the watch list—of course, don't bother him, we just need to watch him."

Similar decisions appeared in every organization of Transcendents in all countries.

Strangle him? Please, the highest Transcendent level in the world today is only the Transcendent level, and their strength is not necessarily stronger than this eighteen-year-old young man. Strangle him? Who strangles whom is not certain, not to mention that most countries now have a lot of troubles to deal with. Where do they have the time to care about the emergence of a genius in other countries? No matter how shocking it is, they can only watch and only pay attention.

Even those large mysterious organizations hidden in the dark and existing across countries were shaken by this.

"Such an existence has appeared in *Zheng* Country?"

North America, the snowy Alaskan ice field, the new *Lian Dao* Society headquarters built under the permafrost let out a young exclamation: "'Zhou Su' is three years younger than me, and he's already at the Transcendent realm?! I didn't expect that there would be someone more talented than me!"

Beside him, a voice that seemed to be full of smiles sounded: "Leader, then, should we think of a way?"

"Fool, what way are you thinking of? The organization suffered heavy losses in Shan Country before. The previous leader and most of the elite organization members all sacrificed because of the failure of the ritual... What else can you think of? I'm not even Transcendent yet, and by the time I'm Transcendent, this guy doesn't know how many spiritual organs he'll have condensed."

The young voice reprimanded his subordinate a little disappointedly, and he made a decision decisively: "Give up."

"In *Zheng* Country, all organization members, all enter deep diving state... We should have done this long ago, now, we have a ready-made excuse."

Southeast Sea, under an island that is not marked on the map.

"Well, withdraw the organization's center of gravity in southern *Zheng* Country—move it to the Southeast Asian branch."

The seven leaders of the *Jiang Ling* Society, who never showed their true faces and communicated across electronic screens, were quickly making various decisions: "The experimental materials of the 'Celestial God Factor' were frustrated, it seems to be in the south? Could the mysterious martial artist who destroyed the evil ghost also be a hidden trump card from *Zheng* Country?"

"Very likely, they are all strong men who suddenly appeared... The *Tang* family's actions are actually very secret, they can be said to be done without anyone knowing, if anyone can find out the clues, it can only be the official *Zheng* Country."

"Never mind, *Zheng* Country is now showing off its Transcendent military power in such a high-profile way, perhaps they are planning to take the opportunity to clean up a wave of internal hidden dangers."

"Don't confront them head-on, we will fully shrink—only when the chaotic world comes will we have our stage to play on!"

And at the moment when the leaders of all the Transcendent organizations made their decisions, Su Zhou withdrew his hand.

His right hand, which guided the lightning, looked scorched black, causing many people to exclaim in surprise. The professional medical team at the Hongcheng testing ground had already rushed out, preparing to rescue the 'seriously injured' Su Zhou.

However, after a few seconds, with the sound of cracking, one could see pieces of scorched carbon flakes peeling off, and new flesh and blood was reborn and restored, forming silently. A strong, powerful, brand-new arm appeared in front of everyone who was paying attention to Su Zhou!

"Ultra-fast regeneration!"

"He actually has fast regeneration ability!"

"This self-healing power, even dragon blood can't explain it?!"

"Why explain it? It's not like it's an asset of unknown origin, is it difficult to explain why his talent is good?"

"Good, good!" At this time, *Zhang Qingyun*, the Dao Saint who had returned to Tiandu, was also watching the Central Television broadcast with bright eyes, even with a hint of fanaticism. He praised loudly: "Such regeneration power at the same level is the best talent!"

"The road ahead is promising, the road ahead is promising!"

As for why Su Zhou had such a talent—why care about this? He had it, that's it. The affairs of Transcendents don't need to be so clear to others!

Although he didn't know how many people behind the camera were exclaiming and praising him, and how many people were changing their plans and ideas because of him.

Su Zhou, who was now standing in the center of the testing ground, felt that it was natural.

Because, this was precisely the purpose of him showing his talent.

To stir the world with his own power—this was the privilege that belonged only to the strong.

And Su Zhou was working hard in the direction of 'true strongman'.

"Yala, the era of miracles and strife has arrived."

"I am not a coward, nor do I want to be a brave man."

Turning around, leaving the Spirit Guidance Instrument that had stopped operating behind him, Su Zhou communicated with Yala, who was smiling silently, in his heart. He said calmly: "I want to lead this era, and make it and the whole world the way I want it to be."

At this moment, Su Zhou walked off the testing platform.

Above the high sky, dark clouds were spreading, thunder was rolling, and a torrential rain was pouring down, bringing a tidal wave of rain.

The vast world changed color because of one person.

After writing this chapter, I found that there is still one chapter at the end of this volume to summarize the results of the Saint Election and choose a school... but all the plot is finished.

Tomorrow's update may be a little late, because some readers have reported that they have to stay up late to update at dawn every day... Then I will update every morning? Or noon?

Anyway, there are too many explosive updates today, it is estimated that I will sleep a little longer