Special Recruitment Eligibility

Special Recruitment Eligibility

Starry Sky Fighting Net, personal space.

Li Yuan's consciousness body had just returned.

With a rustle, countless rays of light gathered together, condensing into the figure of a young girl dressed in ancient green robes.

"Guardian Yuan, congratulations on entering the Blue Star Youth Ranking. Your status tier within the Starry Sky Fighting Net has been elevated." The girl in green smiled faintly. "Starting today, I am your exclusive intelligent customer service assistant on the Starry Sky Fighting Net, at your service throughout. You may give me a name."

"Exclusive intelligent customer service assistant?" Li Yuan was slightly stunned.

The AI intelligence of this era was already highly advanced.

As far as Li Yuan knew, one usually had to top up a certain amount on the Starry Sky Fighting Net and purchase many additional services before receiving an exclusive intelligent customer service assistant.

He had not expected that merely entering this so-called Blue Star Youth Ranking would grant him one as well.

"Xiaoyu," Li Yuan said directly. His Smart Ring Watch was also named Xiaoyu.

No favoritism.

"Xiaoyu is delighted to serve you." The girl in green bowed slightly, looking pure and innocent.

"I want to view the Blue Star Youth Ranking and its ranking criteria," Li Yuan said directly.

"Yes." The girl in green waved her slender hand, and a projected light screen appeared before Li Yuan.

It contained a great deal of text, along with various videos and images.

Li Yuan quickly understood.

"The Blue Star Youth Ranking is compiled by the Starry Sky Fighting Net. Anyone who reaches 500 points in Gold Rank is eligible to enter." Li Yuan mused inwardly. "Rumor has it that the forces behind the Starry Sky Fighting Net are the Seven Star Alliance, the Three Martial Halls, and the various major nations... It serves both as a high-intensity tempering ground for Martial Arts Technique and as a way to select martial arts geniuses."

Now, it seemed the rumors were true.

"The Blue Star Youth Ranking purely evaluates Martial Arts Technique." Li Yuan nodded slightly. "That makes sense. Selection through the Starry Sky Fighting Net basically consumes no additional resources, so it is easy to carry out."

"If it evaluated both Martial Arts Technique and physical aptitude, wouldn't that just be the college entrance examination?" Li Yuan could not help but smile.

Whether it was humanity as a whole or an individual nation, all would spare no effort in selecting technological talents and martial arts geniuses... The college entrance examination was the largest-scale form of comprehensive evaluation.

The Starry Sky Fighting Net, meanwhile, was a single-category selection based on Martial Arts Technique.

"The Blue Star Youth Ranking covers all of Blue Star, and the rankings are reset every September 1..." Li Yuan continued reading.

"Any youth who has not turned eighteen by the September 1 cutoff each year is eligible to enter the following year's Blue Star Youth Ranking."

Li Yuan immediately understood that not everyone on the Blue Star Youth Ranking was a minor.

The oldest entrants might be nearly nineteen.

For example, someone born on September 2.

But likewise, if one truly was a martial arts genius and reached 500 points in Gold Rank at fourteen or fifteen, they could potentially remain on the Blue Star Youth Ranking for four or five consecutive years.

"By that calculation, this edition of the Blue Star Youth Ranking was updated less than a month ago?" Li Yuan thought. "And in less than a month, 4,684 people have already made the list?"

That was only across Blue Star.

Looking across the seven planets of human civilization, how many people would make the list?

And after another year, by next August, how many more would there be?

These were merely the martial arts geniuses emerging on Blue Star within a single year.

"Anyone who can reach 500 points in Gold Rank will not be inferior to me in Martial Arts Technique." Li Yuan shook his head slightly. "At Guanshan District No.1 High School, my Martial Arts Technique can now be considered unrivaled."

"But looking across the entire world? It is nothing remarkable." Li Yuan calmed down.

He could feel how insignificant he truly was.

The world really was vast.

"Still, the road must be walked step by step. At least I have already made the list." Li Yuan suddenly smiled again. "There are only forty-seven people in all of Jiangbei Province, including me. Most of them are probably second- or third-year high school students."

Jiangbei Province had over a million third-year high school students.

At least in terms of Martial Arts Technique, Li Yuan had already surged into the forefront among those million students.

A year ago, Li Yuan would never have dared imagine that he could achieve such results.

After reading through all the information.

"Rank rewards?" Li Yuan's gaze landed on the final page, and his eyes lit up slightly.

—Rank rewards (before turning eighteen):

1. Reach 500 points in Gold Rank: reward of 50,000 Blue Star Coins.

2. Reach Meteor Rank: reward of 500,000 Blue Star Coins.

3. Reach Bright Moon Rank: reward of 20 million Blue Star Coins.

—Rank rewards (ages eighteen to thirty):

1. Reach Meteor Rank: reward of 10,000 Blue Star Coins.

2. Reach Bright Moon Rank: reward of 200,000 Blue Star Coins.

3. Reach Eclipse Rank: reward of 5 million Blue Star Coins.

"That is really outrageous." Li Yuan muttered to himself. "A reward of 20 million Blue Star Coins?"

Twenty million!

An ordinary person would have to work for a hundred years before having any hope of earning that much.

But Li Yuan had to admit that the difficulty was indeed immense: one had to reach Bright Moon Rank before turning eighteen.

If one was past eighteen, then even reaching Bright Moon Rank would only bring a reward of 200,000 Blue Star Coins.

"Forget Bright Moon Rank. Even reaching Meteor Rank before eighteen is probably difficult." Li Yuan shook his head and casually asked, "Xiaoyu, how many people on the Blue Star Youth Ranking have reached Meteor Rank so far?"

"As of today, there are forty-four." Xiaoyu, the girl in green, said. "However, the specific list cannot be disclosed."

Li Yuan nodded.

When he had tried checking earlier, he had discovered that he could only see general statistical data from the ranking.

But the detailed list? Who exactly had entered the Blue Star Youth Ranking?

That could not be checked.

"Perhaps it is a form of protection." Li Yuan thought. "In a sense, everyone who makes the list is a future martial arts powerhouse, but they have yet to grow."

Though a great deal of information could also be found through school examination scores, college entrance examination results, and the like from various countries...

The difficulty of gathering information through the two methods was clearly not on the same level.

"Rewards." Li Yuan looked at the three rank rewards on the page, deep in thought.

"Bright Moon Rank? That is too far away, somewhat unrealistic."

"But Meteor Rank?"

"My birthday is August 29. I still have around eleven months to temper my Martial Arts Technique."

"Even if I cannot reach it before the college entrance examination, it does not matter. I can keep working after it."

"As long as I reach Meteor Rank, I will receive a reward of 500,000 Blue Star Coins." Li Yuan set a goal for himself.

He was filled with anticipation and motivation.

Because this was a goal he truly had hope of reaching.

As long as he charged to 1,000 points in Gold Rank and then passed the Promotion Tournament, he could become Meteor Rank.

"Let's match a few more rounds." Li Yuan could not resist clicking "Rank Match."

Six minutes later.

"Lost!"

"Lost!"

"Three matches in a row. Every opponent had over 600 points, and I actually lost them all." Li Yuan returned to his personal space, feeling rather helpless.

Not only had he failed to gain points, he had instead dropped back to 491.

Li Yuan also calmed down.

"It seems 500 points truly is a threshold. With my current strength, my win rate against opponents below 500 points can exceed 80%." Li Yuan reviewed today's battles. "Against experts with 500 points, especially those above 600 points, my chance of winning is less than 30%."

"This shows that I am still far from being able to run rampant in Gold Rank with my Martial Arts Technique."

If he could not even become nearly undefeated in Gold Rank, yet wanted to charge into Meteor Rank?

That was basically the dream of an idiot.

The gap between every rank level on the Starry Sky Fighting Net was enormous, virtually impossible to cross.

"Xiaoyu, dropping below 500 points will not affect my reward, right?" Li Yuan asked.

"It will not."

"Blue Star Coin rewards are issued based on your historical highest result." The girl in green smiled. "The 50,000 Blue Star Coin reward will be sent directly to your bank account after the unified review on Monday."

"Good." Li Yuan nodded.

As the largest game in the Virtual Network, and one endorsed by the authorities, the Starry Sky Fighting Net was trustworthy.

"Exit." With a thought from Li Yuan.

He left the Virtual Network.

He walked out of his room.

"Brother, come eat some apples. I cut them for you." His younger sister, Li Qianqian, called from the sofa.

"Sure." Li Yuan smiled. "Watching a projection? What show is this?"

"Brother, it is not a film or television drama. It is a documentary, Exploration of Luo Bu Hai Star Realm. It is about our country's first explorer entering Luo Bu Sea for the first time back then..." His younger brother, Li Muhua, quickly explained, reciting the details like a treasured collection.

"Oh?" Li Yuan nodded, sat down, and watched the documentary with his brother and sister while eating an apple.

The interior of the Star Realm was highly unusual, and many technological devices would fail.

On top of that, countless Star Realm Creatures roamed about, with danger lurking at every turn... Over the decades, human civilization had constantly fought there, but there was still not much recorded footage or information concerning the depths of the Star Realm.

"These explorers are all martial artists. A cliff dozens of meters high, and they can leap up it so lightly." Li Muhua could not help saying.

"Without the strength of a martial artist, wouldn't entering the Star Realm be courting death?" Li Yuan smiled. "Besides, they are no ordinary martial artists."

At the very least, their physical fitness had to exceed level 20!

After watching the documentary for half an hour, Auntie came out of the master bedroom and urged them to go to sleep.

After washing up, Li Yuan returned to his room.

Li Yuan was not in a hurry to tell Auntie that he had reached 500 points in Gold Rank.

"I will wait until both sums of money have actually arrived." Li Yuan stood barefoot in his room.

"I spent the entire day in the Virtual Network."

"I cannot slack off on the Basic Cultivation Method."

"I will first practice the Rock Cultivation Method for two hours, then practice the Great Sun Starry Sky Sutra." Li Yuan quickly made his decision.

For Li Yuan, being able to eat something with his younger brother and sister and watch a projected show was already a rare chance to relax.

There were no shortcuts in martial arts cultivation.

It was nothing more than day-after-day accumulation.

Late at night.

When Li Yuan got up after three in the morning and quietly left home for school.

At the Martial Arts Hall of Jiangbei Province.

The intelligent system and the staff on duty had already received an inconspicuous document awaiting review.

"Blue Star Youth Ranking, 2042–2043 edition. Ranked entrant [4684], name 'Li Yuan,' registered residence 'Guanshan District, Jiang City, Jiangbei Province'... Please conduct a comprehensive assessment of this individual within ten days and confirm whether he possesses eligibility for special recruitment as a martial arts student."

(End of chapter)